Unifying semiclassics and quantum perturbation theory at nonlinear order

D Kaplan, T Holder, B Yan - SciPost Physics, 2023 - scipost.org
Nonlinear electrical response permits a unique window into effects of band structure
geometry. It can be calculated either starting from a Boltzmann approach for small …

Light-induced electronic polarization in antiferromagnetic Cr2O3

X Zhang, T Carbin, AB Culver, K Du, K Wang… - Nature materials, 2024 - nature.com
In a solid, the electronic subsystem can exhibit incipient order with lower point group
symmetry than the crystal lattice. Ultrafast external fields that couple exclusively to electronic …

Fermi-Dirac staircase occupation of Floquet bands and current rectification inside the optical gap of metals: An exact approach

O Matsyshyn, JCW Song, IS Villadiego, L Shi - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We consider a model of a Bloch band subjected to an oscillating electric field and coupled to
a featureless fermionic heat bath, which can be solved exactly. We demonstrate rigorously …

Intrinsic Fermi-surface contribution to the bulk photovoltaic effect

L Gao, Z Addison, EJ Mele, AM Rappe - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
We study the Fermi surface contribution to the nonlinear DC photocurrent at quadratic order
in a spatially uniform optical field in the ultraclean limit. In addition to shift and injection …