• 文献标题:   Time-domain quantum interference in graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   FILLIONGOURDEAU F, GAGNON D, LEFEBVRE C, MACLEAN S
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Quebec
  • 被引频次:   12
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.94.125423
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

The electron momentum density obtained from the Schwinger-like mechanism is evaluated for a graphene sample immersed in a homogeneous time-dependent electric field. Based on the analogy between graphene low-energy electrons and quantum electrodynamics (QED), numerical techniques borrowed from strong field QED are employed and compared to approximate analytical approaches. It is demonstrated that for some range of experimentally accessible parameters, the pair production proceeds by sequences of adiabatic evolutions followed by nonadiabatic Landau-Zener transitions, reminiscent of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism describing topological defect density in second order phase transitions. For some field configurations, this yields interference patterns in momentum space which are explained in terms of the adiabatic-impulse model and the Landau-Zener-Stuckelberg interferometry.