Modern light generation technology offers extraordinary capabilities for sculpting light
pulses, with full control over individual electric field oscillations within each laser cycle …

Electrons in two-dimensional hexagonal materials have an extra degree of freedom, the
valley pseudospin, that can be used to encode and process quantum information. Valley …

The interest in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs; MEy/2; M= transition metal; E=
chalcogenide, y= valence of the metal) has grown exponentially across various science and …

This review aims to provide an overview over recent developments of light-driven currents
with a focus on their application to layered van der Waals materials. In topological and spin …

We investigate theoretically the strong-field regime of light-matter interactions in the
topological-insulator class of quantum materials. In particular, we focus on the process of …

For gapped graphene, we predict that an intense ultrashort (single-oscillation) circularly
polarized optical pulse can induce a large population of the conduction band and a large …

We study theoretically nonlinear optical properties of graphene quantum dots placed in a
field of a short and strong linearly polarized optical pulse. We address the problem of high …

Analogous to charge and spin, electrons in solids endows an additional degree of freedom:
the valley pseudospin. Two-dimensional hexagonal materials such as graphene exhibit two …

So far, it has been assumed that selective excitation of a desired valley in the Brillouin zone
of a hexagonal two-dimensional material has to rely on using circularly polarized fields. We …

We study theoretically interaction of short optical pulses with triangular graphene quantum
dots. If such quantum dots have zigzag edges then there are in-gap degenerate edge states …