Lightwave-controlled electron dynamics in graphene

Autor: Heide Christian, Higuchi Takuya, Ullmann Konrad, Weber Heiko B., Hommelhoff Peter
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: EPJ Web of Conferences, Vol 205, p 05002 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2100-014X
DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201920505002
Popis: We demonstrate that currents induced in graphene by ultrashort laser pulses are sensitive to the exact shape of the electric-field waveform. By increasing the field strength, we found a transition of the light–matter interaction from the weak-field to the strong-field regime at around 2 V/nm, where intraband dynamics influence interband transitions. In this strong-field regime, the light-matter interaction can be described by the wavenumber trajectories of electrons in the reciprocal space. For linearly polarized light the electron dynamics are governed by repeated sub-optical-cycle Landau-Zener transitions between the valence- and conduction band, resulting in Landau-Zener-Stuckelberg interference, whereas for circular polarized light this interference is supressed.
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