1202.1070 (S. A. Jafari)

Nonlinear optical response in gapped graphene    [PDF]

S. A. Jafari

We present a formulation for the nonlinear optical response in gapped
graphene, where the low-energy single-particle spectrum is modeled by massive
Dirac theory. As a representative example of the formulation presented here, we
obtain closed form formula for the third harmonic generation (THG) in gapped
graphene. It turns out that the covariant form of the low-energy theory gives
rise to a peculiar logarithmic singularities in the nonlinear optical spectra.
The universal functional dependence of the response function on dimension-less
quantities indicates that the optical nonlinearity can be largely enhanced by
tuning the gap to smaller values.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.1070