Coherent Control of Photocurrents in Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes

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1999-11-10

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9911151v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

12 pages in RevTex, 6 epsf figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.61.7669

Coherent one photon ($2 \omega$) and two photon ($ \omega$) electronic excitations are studied for graphene sheets and for carbon nanotubes using a long wavelength theory for the low energy electronic states. For graphene sheets we find that coherent superposition of these excitations produces a polar asymmetry in the momentum space distribution of the excited carriers with an angular dependence which depends on the relative polarization and phases of the incident fields. For semiconducting nanotubes we find a similar effect which depends on the square of the semiconducting gap, and we calculate its frequency dependence. We find that the third order nonlinearity which controls the direction of the photocurrent is robust for semiconducting t ubes and vanishes in the continuum theory for conducting tubes. We calculate corrections to these results arising from higher order crystal field effects on the band structure and briefly discuss some applications of the theory.

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