Ultrafast valley polarization of graphene nanorings

Here, we study theoretically electron dynamics of a graphene nanoring placed in the field of an ultrashort optical pulse. We describe the graphene nanoring within an effective model with infinite mass boundary conditions. For an optical pulse with a duration of just a few femtoseconds, the electron...

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Published in:Physical review. B 2022-10, Vol.106 (15), Article 155147
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