Multiphoton resonant excitations and high-harmonic generation in bilayer graphene

摘要

The microscopic theory of bilayer graphene nonlinear interaction with coherent electromagnetic radiation is developed. The Liouville-von Neumann equation for a single-particle density matrix in the multiphoton resonant approximation is solved. We consider low-energy excitations of a Fermi-Dirac sea with THz pump radiation. The obtained solutions disclose Rabi oscillations and resonant multiphoton excitations of a Fermi-Dirac sea in bilayer graphene. On the basis of numerical simulations we examine the rates of high-harmonic radiation at particle-hole annihilation in the field of a strong pump wave. We show that in the THz domain of frequencies one can achieve efficient generation of high harmonics with pump waves of moderate intensities.