| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 205, 2019
XXI International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena 2018 (UP 2018)
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| Article Number | 05002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 3 | |
| Section | Semiconductors, Transition-Metals and Nanocrystals | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920505002 | |
| Published online | 16 April 2019 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920505002
Lightwave-controlled electron dynamics in graphene
Department of Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Staudtstrasse 1, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
* Corresponding author: Christian.Heide@fau.de
Published online: 16 April 2019
We demonstrate that currents induced in graphene by ultrashort laser pulses are sensitive to the exact shape of the electric-field waveform. By increasing the field strength, we found a transition of the light–matter interaction from the weak-field to the strong-field regime at around 2 V/nm, where intraband dynamics influence interband transitions. In this strong-field regime, the light-matter interaction can be described by the wavenumber trajectories of electrons in the reciprocal space. For linearly polarized light the electron dynamics are governed by repeated sub-optical-cycle Landau-Zener transitions between the valence- and conduction band, resulting in Landau-Zener-Stuckelberg interference, whereas for circular polarized light this interference is supressed.
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