Formation, stability, and highly nonlinear optical response of excitons to intense light fields interacting with two-dimensional materials

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Autori principali: Molinero, Eduardo B., Amorim, Bruno, Malakhov, Mikhail, Cistaro, Giovanni, Jiménez-Galán, Álvaro, Ivanov, Misha, Picón, Antonio, San-José, Pablo, Silva, Rui E. F.
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author Molinero, Eduardo B.
Amorim, Bruno
Malakhov, Mikhail
Cistaro, Giovanni
Jiménez-Galán, Álvaro
Ivanov, Misha
Picón, Antonio
San-José, Pablo
Silva, Rui E. F.
author_facet Molinero, Eduardo B.
Amorim, Bruno
Malakhov, Mikhail
Cistaro, Giovanni
Jiménez-Galán, Álvaro
Ivanov, Misha
Picón, Antonio
San-José, Pablo
Silva, Rui E. F.
contents Excitons play a key role in the linear optical response of 2D materials. However, their significance in the highly nonlinear optical response to intense mid-infrared light has often been overlooked. Using hBN as a prototypical example, we theoretically demonstrate that excitons play a major role in this process. Specifically, we illustrate their formation and stability in intense low-frequency fields, where field strengths surpass the Coulomb field binding the electron-hole pair in the exciton. Additionally, we establish a parallelism between these results and the already-known physics of Rydberg states using an atomic model. Finally, we propose an experimental setup to test the effect of excitons in the nonlinear optical response
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spellingShingle Formation, stability, and highly nonlinear optical response of excitons to intense light fields interacting with two-dimensional materials
Molinero, Eduardo B.
Amorim, Bruno
Malakhov, Mikhail
Cistaro, Giovanni
Jiménez-Galán, Álvaro
Ivanov, Misha
Picón, Antonio
San-José, Pablo
Silva, Rui E. F.
Optics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Excitons play a key role in the linear optical response of 2D materials. However, their significance in the highly nonlinear optical response to intense mid-infrared light has often been overlooked. Using hBN as a prototypical example, we theoretically demonstrate that excitons play a major role in this process. Specifically, we illustrate their formation and stability in intense low-frequency fields, where field strengths surpass the Coulomb field binding the electron-hole pair in the exciton. Additionally, we establish a parallelism between these results and the already-known physics of Rydberg states using an atomic model. Finally, we propose an experimental setup to test the effect of excitons in the nonlinear optical response
title Formation, stability, and highly nonlinear optical response of excitons to intense light fields interacting with two-dimensional materials
topic Optics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16647