Resonant second-harmonic generation as a probe of quantum geometry

P Bhalla, K Das, D Culcer, A Agarwal - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Nonlinear responses are actively studied as probes of topology and band geometric
properties of solids. Here, we show that second harmonic generation serves as a probe of …

Dominance of Extrinsic Scattering Mechanisms in the Orbital Hall Effect: Graphene, Transition Metal Dichalcogenides, and Topological Antiferromagnets

H Liu, D Culcer - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The theory of the orbital Hall effect (OHE), a transverse flow of orbital angular momentum
(OAM) in response to an electric field, has concentrated on intrinsic mechanisms. Here …

Quantum kinetic theory of nonlinear optical currents: Finite Fermi surface and Fermi sea contributions

P Bhalla, K Das, A Agarwal, D Culcer - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The quantum kinetic framework provides a versatile method for investigating the dynamical
optical and transport currents of crystalline solids. In this paper, starting from the density …

Topological electromagnetic effects and higher second chern numbers in four-dimensional gapped phases

YQ Zhu, Z Zheng, G Palumbo, ZD Wang - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Higher-dimensional topological phases play a key role in understanding the lower-
dimensional topological phases and the related topological responses through a …

Certain aspects of quantum transport in zigzag graphene nanoribbons

S Pratap, S Kumar, RP Singh - Frontiers in Physics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
We have investigated the Fano factor and shot noise theoretically in the confined region of
the potential well of zigzag graphene nanoribbon (ZGNR). We have found that the Fano …

Electrically tunable nonlinear Faraday ellipticity and rotation in WTe

V Pandey, NT Dasari, SG Reddy, P Bhalla - The European Physical …, 2024 - Springer
There has been considerable interest in the nonlinear optical phenomenon in recent years,
particularly in two-dimensional materials. Here, we study the optical polarization quantities …

Magneto-optical conductivity and giant Faraday-Kerr rotation in Floquet topological insulators

M Shah, MQ Mehmood, YS Ang, M Zubair, Y Massoud - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We study the surface state-dependent magneto-optical properties of an ultrathin Floquet
topological insulator (FTI) under the influence of an external perpendicular magnetic field in …

Nonlinear Landauer formula: Nonlinear response theory of disordered and topological materials

K Kawabata, M Ueda - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The Landauer formula provides a general scattering formulation of electrical conduction.
Despite its utility, it has been mainly applied to the linear-response regime, and a scattering …

Second harmonic helicity and Faraday rotation in gated single-layer

P Bhalla, H Rostami - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
A single layer of the 1 T′ phase of WTe 2 provides a rich platform for exotic physical
properties such as the nonlinear Hall effect and high-temperature quantum spin Hall …

Photon-modulated linear and nonlinear anomalous Hall effects in type-II semi-Dirac semimetals

JN Chen, YY Yang, YL Zhou, YJ Wu, HJ Duan… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Two-dimensional semi-Dirac materials, with quadratic dispersion in one direction and linear
dispersion in the orthogonal direction, provide a route to formation of the Chern-insulating …