• 文献标题:   Angular-Dependent Klein Tunneling in Photonic Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHANG ZY, FENG Y, LI F, KONIAKHIN S, LI CB, LIU F, ZHANG YP, XIAO M, MALPUECH G, SOLNYSHKOV D
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
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  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.233901
  • 出版年:   2022

▎ 摘  要

The Klein paradox consists in the perfect tunneling of relativistic particles through high potential barriers. It is responsible for the exceptional conductive properties of graphene. It was recently studied in atomic condensates and topological photonics and phononics. While in theory the perfect tunneling holds only for normal incidence, so far the angular dependence of the Klein tunneling and its strong variation with the barrier height were not measured experimentally. In this Letter, we capitalize on the versatility of atomic vapor cells with paraxial beam propagation and index patterning by electromagnetically induced transparency. We report the first experimental observation of perfect Klein transmission in a 2D photonic system (photonic graphene) at normal incidence and measure the angular dependence. Counterintuitively, but in agreement with the Dirac equation, we observe that the decay of the Klein transmission versus angle is suppressed by increasing the barrier height, a key result for the conductivity of graphene and its analogs.