• 文献标题:   Giant Faraday rotation induced by the Berry phase in bilayer graphene under strong terahertz fields
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YANG F, XU XD, LIU RB
  • 作者关键词:   faraday rotation, berry phase, bilayer graphene, thz nonlinear optic
  • 出版物名称:   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   1367-2630
  • 通讯作者地址:   Chinese Univ Hong Kong
  • 被引频次:   11
  • DOI:   10.1088/1367-2630/16/4/043014
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

High-order terahertz (THz) sideband generation in semiconductors is a phenomenon with physics similar to that of high-order harmonic generation but in a regime of much lower frequency. Our previous paper [1] found that the electron-hole pair excited by a weak optical laser can accumulate a Berry phase along a cyclic trajectory under the driving of a strong elliptically polarized THz field. Furthermore, the Berry phase appears as the Faraday rotation angle of the emission signal under short-pulse excitation in monolayer MoS2. In this paper, the theory of the Berry phase in THz extreme nonlinear optics is applied to biased bilayer graphene with Bernal stacking, which has similar Bloch band features and optical properties to monolayer MoS2, such as the time-reversal related valleys and the valley contrasting optical selection rule. However, the biased bilayer graphene has much larger Berry curvature than monolayer MoS2, which leads to a large Berry phase of the quantum trajectory and in turn a giant Faraday rotation of the optical emission (similar to 1 rad for a THz field with frequency 1 THz and strength 8 kV cm(-1)). This surprisingly big angle shows that the Faraday rotation can be induced more efficiently by the Berry curvature in momentum space than by the magnetic field in real space. It provides opportunities to use bilayer graphene and THz lasers for ultrafast electro-optical devices.