Open AccessFloquet engineering of carbon nanotubes
Author(s) -
O. V. Kibis,
M. V. Boev,
V. M. Kovalev
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/2015/1/012063
Subject(s) - floquet theory , carbon nanotube , zeeman effect , electron , irradiation , condensed matter physics , materials science , atomic physics , molecular physics , physics , nanotechnology , magnetic field , quantum mechanics , nonlinear system
The Floquet theory for electrons in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) irradiated by a circularly polarized electromagnetic wave propagating along the CNT axis is developed. It is demonstrated, particularly, that the irradiation opens the gap between the conduction and valence bands of CNTs of metal type and lifts the degeneracy of electron states with mutually opposite angular momenta along the CNT axis. As a consequence, the optically-induced metal-insulator transition and the optical Zeeman effect appear in the CNTs. It follows from the theory that these light-induced phenomena can be observed in the modern experiments.