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arxiv: 1110.4869 · v3 · pith:AFVQ2MFTnew · submitted 2011-10-21 · ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall

Giant optical nonlinearity of graphene in a strong magnetic field

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keywords grapheneopticalnonlinearitygiantmagneticmagnetizednonlinearstrong
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We present quantum-mechanical density-matrix formalism for calculating the nonlinear optical response of magnetized graphene, valid for arbitrarily strong magnetic and optical fields. We show that magnetized graphene possesses by far the highest third-order optical nonlinearity among all known materials. The giant nonlinearity originates from unique electronic properties and selection rules near the Dirac point. As a result, even one monolayer of graphene gives rise to appreciable nonlinear frequency conversion efficiency for incident infrared radiation.

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