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First-principles study of the terahertz third-order nonlinear response of metallic armchair graphene nanoribbons
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First-principles study of the terahertz third-order nonlinear response of metallic armchair graphene nanoribbons

Yichao Wang and David R Andersen
Physical review. B, Vol.93(23), 235430
03/18/2016
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.235430
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.06027View
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Abstract

Phys. Rev. B 93, 235430 (2016) We compute the terahertz third-order nonlinear conductance of metallic armchair graphene nanoribbons using time-dependent perturbation theory. Significant enhancement of the intrinsic third-order conductance over the result for instrinsic 2D single-layer graphene is observed over a wide range of temperatures. We also investigate the nonlinear response of extrinsic metallic acGNR with |E_F|<<200 meV. We find that the third-order conductance exhibits a strong Fermi level dependence at low temperatures. A third-order critical field strength of between 1 and 5 kV/m is computed for the Kerr conductance as a function of temperature. For the third-harmonic conductance, the minimum critical field is computed to be about about 5 kV/m.
Physics - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

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