Nonadiabatic landau–zener–stückelberg–majorana transitions, dynamics, and interference

V Ivakhnenko, SN Shevchenko, F Nori - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Since the pioneering works by Landau, Zener, Stückelberg, and Majorana (LZSM), it has
been known that driving a quantum two-level system results in tunneling between its states …

Sub-cycle valleytronics: control of valley polarization using few-cycle linearly polarized pulses

Á Jiménez-Galán, REF Silva, O Smirnova, M Ivanov - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
So far, it has been assumed that selective excitation of a desired valley in the Brillouin zone
of a hexagonal two-dimensional material has to rely on using circularly polarized fields. We …

Ab initio study of ultrafast charge dynamics in graphene

QZ Li, P Elliott, JK Dewhurst, S Sharma, S Shallcross - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Monolayer graphene provides an ideal material to explore one of the fundamental light-field
driven interference effects: Landau-Zener-Stückelberg interference. However, direct …

Few-cycle optical pulses in negative index materials with dispersive permittivity and permeability

M Abémgnigni Njifon, CB Tabi… - Journal of the Optical …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Propagation of few-cycle optical pulses in nonlinear optical Kerr (cubic) and non-Kerr
(quintic) type metamaterials, exhibiting frequency-dependent dielectric susceptibility and …

Giant DC-like residual current generated by subcycle laser pulses

A Seith, F Evers, J Wilhelm - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
Experimental indications have been reported suggesting that laser pulses shining on
materials with relativistic dispersion can produce currents that survive long after the …

Valley-resolved interband excitation and emission in gapped graphene

H Cui, L Li, T Huang, J Li, P Lan, P Lu - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
We theoretically investigate the electronic dynamics in gapped graphene driven by a
bicircular field. The results indicate that the residual population on the conduction band is …

Bidirectional residual current in monolayer graphene under few-cycle laser irradiation

X Zhang, E Wu, H Du, H Guo, C Liu - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
By numerically solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation and semiconductor Bloch
equations, the light-induced residual current in monolayer graphene driven by a circularly …

Chirality reversal with the carrier-envelope phase: A next generation QTAIM interpretation

X Zhou, H He, G Hong, XP Mi, T Xu, H Früchtl… - Chemical Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Simulated circularly-polarized 10 fs laser pulses that induce a mixture of excited states are
applied to ethane. Additionally, the carrier-envelope phase (CEP) angle ϕ, that quantifies …

Giant DC Residual Current Generated by Subcycle Laser Pulses

A Seith, F Evers, J Wilhelm - arxiv preprint arxiv:2402.01490, 2024 - arxiv.org
Experimental indications have been reported suggesting that laser pulses shining on
materials with relativistic dispersion can produce currents that survive long after the …

Orientation dependence of residual current in graphene by few-cycle linearly polarized light

X Zhang, Q Zhan, C Liu - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The orientation dependence of residual current in graphene using linearly polarized light is
theoretically investigated by numerically solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation …