Nonperturbative Kinetic Description of Electron-Hole Excitations in Graphene in a Time Dependent Electric Field of Arbitrary Polarization
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Kinetic Equation
2.1. The Low-Energy Approximation
2.2. Order Parameter
3. Observables
4. Residual Currents
5. Numerical Analysis
6. Graphene as Active Medium
7. Tight Binding Model
8. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A. Perturbation Theory
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Smolyansky, S.A.; Panferov, A.D.; Blaschke, D.B.; Gevorgyan, N.T. Nonperturbative Kinetic Description of Electron-Hole Excitations in Graphene in a Time Dependent Electric Field of Arbitrary Polarization. Particles 2019, 2, 208-230. https://doi.org/10.3390/particles2020015
Smolyansky SA, Panferov AD, Blaschke DB, Gevorgyan NT. Nonperturbative Kinetic Description of Electron-Hole Excitations in Graphene in a Time Dependent Electric Field of Arbitrary Polarization. Particles. 2019; 2(2):208-230. https://doi.org/10.3390/particles2020015
Chicago/Turabian StyleSmolyansky, Stanislav A., Anatolii D. Panferov, David B. Blaschke, and Narine T. Gevorgyan. 2019. "Nonperturbative Kinetic Description of Electron-Hole Excitations in Graphene in a Time Dependent Electric Field of Arbitrary Polarization" Particles 2, no. 2: 208-230. https://doi.org/10.3390/particles2020015