• 文献标题:   Waveform control of currents in graphene by chirped few-cycle lasers
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WU EH, ZHANG CJ, WANG ZS, LIU CP
  • 作者关键词:   coherent control, strong electromagnetic field effect, ultrafast phenomena
  • 出版物名称:   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   1367-2630
  • 通讯作者地址:   Chinese Acad Sci
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1088/1367-2630/ab74aa
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

The residual current density in monolayer graphene driven by an intense few-cycle chirped laser pulse is investigated via numerical solution of the time-dependent Schrodinger equation in the light-field-driven regime. Strikingly, it is found that a purely chirped laser pulse breaks the inversion symmetry in graphene, generating a residual directional current, which is absent for a Fourier-transform limited pulse (2017 Nature 550 224) and is attributed to the chirp-dependent Landau-Zener-Stuckelberg interference among different quantum pathways in the reciprocal space. Moreover, the directionality of such a current changes with laser chirp rate following a sine-functional way, which possibly provides a novel application in ultrafast photo-electronics based on two-dimensional materials.