https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2020-100509-8
Regular Article
Graphene under bichromatic driving: commensurability and spatio-temporal symmetries★
Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC,
28049
Madrid, Spain
a e-mail: tobias.stauber@csic.es
Received:
21
October
2019
Received in final form:
3
December
2019
Published online: 3 February 2020
We study the non-linear current response of a Dirac model that is coupled to two time-periodic electro-magnetic fields with different frequencies. We distinguish between incommensurable and commensurable frequencies, the latter characterized by Ω2 = (p∕q)Ω1 with co-prime integers p and q. Coupling the (effective) two-level system to a dissipative bath ensures a well-defined long-time solution for the reduced density operator and, thus, the current. We then analyze the spatio-temporal symmetries that force certain current components to vanish and close with conclusions for directed average currents.
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