A comparative study of perturbative and nonequilibrium Green's function approaches for Floquet sidebands in periodically driven quantum systems
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| author | Gadge, Karun Merboldt, Marco Schüler, Michael Bange, Jan Philipp Bennecke, Wiebke Sentef, Michael A. Reutzel, Marcel Mathias, Stefan Manmana, Salvatore R. |
| author_facet | Gadge, Karun Merboldt, Marco Schüler, Michael Bange, Jan Philipp Bennecke, Wiebke Sentef, Michael A. Reutzel, Marcel Mathias, Stefan Manmana, Salvatore R. |
| contents | We compare two complementary theoretical approaches to compute and interpret Floquet sidebands in periodically driven quantum materials: a first-order perturbative approach (first-order perturbative Born approximation, PB1) and time-dependent nonequilibrium Green's functions (tdNEGF). Using graphene as a model Dirac system, we disentangle in pump-probe setups Floquet-dressed initial states, Volkov-dressed final states (also known as laser-assisted photoelectric effect, LAPE), and their interference. We quantify how photoemission matrix elements, polarization, incidence angle, and near-surface screening shape the momentum-resolved sideband intensity observed in tr-ARPES. PB1 yields an analytical expression for the momentum-dependent sideband intensity, and for graphene it captures the correct symmetry trends, such as the magnitude of the intensities when considering the interference between the Floquet and Volkov states and photoemission matrix elements. tdNEGF reproduces the full energy-momentum-resolved spectra, including hybridization gaps and spectral-weight redistribution. We find qualitative agreement between PB1 and tdNEGF once matrix elements are included; quantitative differences arise near hybridization regions and at specific angles where higher-order processes and self-energies are essential. Thus, for systems with simple band structures and away from these regions, the two approaches can be used in a complementary way. |
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| spellingShingle | A comparative study of perturbative and nonequilibrium Green's function approaches for Floquet sidebands in periodically driven quantum systems Gadge, Karun Merboldt, Marco Schüler, Michael Bange, Jan Philipp Bennecke, Wiebke Sentef, Michael A. Reutzel, Marcel Mathias, Stefan Manmana, Salvatore R. Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics We compare two complementary theoretical approaches to compute and interpret Floquet sidebands in periodically driven quantum materials: a first-order perturbative approach (first-order perturbative Born approximation, PB1) and time-dependent nonequilibrium Green's functions (tdNEGF). Using graphene as a model Dirac system, we disentangle in pump-probe setups Floquet-dressed initial states, Volkov-dressed final states (also known as laser-assisted photoelectric effect, LAPE), and their interference. We quantify how photoemission matrix elements, polarization, incidence angle, and near-surface screening shape the momentum-resolved sideband intensity observed in tr-ARPES. PB1 yields an analytical expression for the momentum-dependent sideband intensity, and for graphene it captures the correct symmetry trends, such as the magnitude of the intensities when considering the interference between the Floquet and Volkov states and photoemission matrix elements. tdNEGF reproduces the full energy-momentum-resolved spectra, including hybridization gaps and spectral-weight redistribution. We find qualitative agreement between PB1 and tdNEGF once matrix elements are included; quantitative differences arise near hybridization regions and at specific angles where higher-order processes and self-energies are essential. Thus, for systems with simple band structures and away from these regions, the two approaches can be used in a complementary way. |
| title | A comparative study of perturbative and nonequilibrium Green's function approaches for Floquet sidebands in periodically driven quantum systems |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14443 |