Laser-assisted tunneling in a static tungsten diselenide WSe$_2$ barrier

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11737v1
• Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 08:16:44 GMT
• Title: Laser-assisted tunneling in a static tungsten diselenide WSe$_2$ barrier
• Abstract summary: We study the tunneling effect of Dirac fermions in a monolayer WSe$$ subjected to a static electrostatic barrier and irradiated by a linearly polarized laser field.<n>Results show that the laser field induces a rich Floquet sideband structure, whose number and strength increase with the driving parameter $$.<n>This technology allows for the development of new optoelectronic devices, including quantum filters and light-controlled nanoscale transistors.
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• Abstract: We study the tunneling effect of Dirac fermions in a monolayer WSe$_2$ subjected to a static electrostatic barrier and irradiated by a linearly polarized laser field. Within the Floquet formalism, the time-periodic driving is incorporated to derive analytical wave functions across the three regions of the system. By enforcing continuity conditions at the interfaces, we obtain the transmission and reflection coefficients, which are then used to evaluate the conductance via the Büttiker approach. Our results reveal that the laser field induces a rich Floquet sideband structure, whose number and strength increase with the driving parameter $α$. This leads to a significant suppression of transmission and provides an efficient mechanism to overcome Klein tunneling. Moreover, increasing the width of the irradiated region enhances the interaction between fermions and the external field, resulting in energy renormalization and the formation of Stark-like confined states. The interaction between several Floquet channels creates strong interference effects, which reduce the transmitted current even further. The results demonstrate that light-matter interaction allows for the dynamic control of quantum transport in WSe$_2$ materials. This technology allows for the development of new optoelectronic devices, including tunable quantum filters and light-controlled nanoscale transistors.

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