2019/03/18 by Christian Heide, Tobias Boolakee, Takuya Higuchi +2 · 51 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies #Carrier-envelope phase #Condensed matter physics #Electric field #Field (mathematics) #Graphene #Laser #Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications #Optics #Phase transition #Physics #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/ab13ce
published in New Journal of Physics 21(4), 045003 (IOP Publishing) · 12 pages, 3 figures. New J. Phys 2019
arxiv created 2019/03/18 · openalex publication_date 2019/03/27 · arxiv updated 2019/04/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
Ultrafast control of electron dynamics in solid state systems has recently found particular attention. By increasing the electric field strength of laser pulses, the light–matter interaction in solids might turn from a perturbative into a novel non-perturbative regime, where interband transitions from the valence to the conduction band become strongly affected by intraband motion. We have demonstrated experimentally and numerically that this combined dynamics can be controlled in graphene with the electric field waveform of phase-stabilized few-cycle laser pulses (Higuchi et al 2017 Nature 550 224–8; Heide et al 2018 Phys. Rev. Lett. 121 207401). Here we show new experimental data and matching simulation results at comparably low optical fields, which allows us to focus on the highly interesting transition regime where the light–matter interaction turns from perturbative to non-perturbative. We find a 5th order power-law scaling of the laser induced waveform-dependent current at low optical fields, which breaks down for higher optical fields, indicating the transition.