Anomalous ultrafast all-optical Hall effect in gapped graphene

Motlagh, S. Azar Oliaei; Apalkov, Vadym

doi:10.1515/nanoph-2021-0227

Title: Anomalous ultrafast all-optical Hall effect in gapped graphene

Abstract

We propose an ultrafast all-optical anomalous Hall effect in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors of hexagonal symmetry such as gapped graphene (GG), transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). To induce such an effect, the material is subjected to a sequence of two strong-field single-optical-cycle pulses: A chiral pump pulse followed within a few femtoseconds by a probe pulse linearly polarized in the armchair direction of the 2D lattice. Due to the effect of topological resonance, the first (pump) pulse induces a large chirality (valley polarization) in the system, while the second pulse generates a femtosecond pulse of the anomalous Hall current. The proposed effect is fundamentally the fastest all-optical anomalous Hall effect possible in nature. It can be applied to ultrafast all-optical storage and processing of information, both classical and quantum.

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^[1]; Apalkov, Vadym ^[1]

Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA (United States)

Publication Date:: Wed Aug 18 00:00:00 EDT 2021

Research Org.:: Georgia State Univ., Atlanta, GA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division (MSE); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division (CSGB); National Science Foundation 9NSF)

OSTI Identifier:: 1980997

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-01ER15213; SC0007043; EFMA-1741691

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Nanophotonics (Online)

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: Nanophotonics (Online); Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 14; Journal ID: ISSN 2192-8614

Publisher:: de Gruyter

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; anomalous Hall effect; femtosecond pulse; graphene; laser pulse; pulse matter interaction; ultrafast process

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                    Motlagh, S. Azar Oliaei, and Apalkov, Vadym. Anomalous ultrafast all-optical Hall effect in gapped graphene.  United States: N. p., 2021. 
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                    Motlagh, S. Azar Oliaei, & Apalkov, Vadym. Anomalous ultrafast all-optical Hall effect in gapped graphene.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2021-0227

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                    Motlagh, S. Azar Oliaei, and Apalkov, Vadym. Wed .  
"Anomalous ultrafast all-optical Hall effect in gapped graphene".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2021-0227.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1980997.

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  abstractNote = {We propose an ultrafast all-optical anomalous Hall effect in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors of hexagonal symmetry such as gapped graphene (GG), transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). To induce such an effect, the material is subjected to a sequence of two strong-field single-optical-cycle pulses: A chiral pump pulse followed within a few femtoseconds by a probe pulse linearly polarized in the armchair direction of the 2D lattice. Due to the effect of topological resonance, the first (pump) pulse induces a large chirality (valley polarization) in the system, while the second pulse generates a femtosecond pulse of the anomalous Hall current. The proposed effect is fundamentally the fastest all-optical anomalous Hall effect possible in nature. It can be applied to ultrafast all-optical storage and processing of information, both classical and quantum.},

  doi          = {10.1515/nanoph-2021-0227},

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