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Light-amplified Landau-Zener conductivity in gapped graphene monolayers: a simulacrum of photo-catalyzed vacuum instability

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.04206v2
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 10:29:58 GMT
Title: Light-amplified Landau-Zener conductivity in gapped graphene monolayers: a simulacrum of photo-catalyzed vacuum instability
Authors: Selym Villalba-Ch\'avez, Oliver Mathiak, Reinhold Egger and Carsten M\"uller
Abstract summary: Interband transitions of electrons in a gapped graphene monolayer are highly stimulated near the Fermi surface when a strong constant electric field is superposed in the plane of the flake. We consider this phenomenon equivalent to the Franz-Keldysh effect, paying particular attention to the regime where the photon energy linked to the fast-oscillating field is just below the graphene gap.
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Abstract: Interband transitions of electrons in a gapped graphene monolayer are highly stimulated near the Fermi surface when a high-frequency electric wave of weak intensity and a strong constant electric field are superposed in the plane of the flake. We consider this phenomenon equivalent to the Franz-Keldysh effect, paying particular attention to the regime where the photon energy linked to the fast-oscillating field is just below the graphene gap, so that the quantum transitions still occur through tunneling effects while being facilitated by the one-photon absorption channel. In the considered parameter regime the photo-catalyzed current linked to the described setup is shown to exceed the one driven by the strong field solely by several orders of magnitude. Conditions to relieve the impact of the field's finite extension are discussed, and a formula for the residual current density is derived. The robustness of our assessment supports the viability of detecting this phenomenon in graphene, thus providing a simulation of the dynamically-assisted Schwinger mechanism in QED.

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