Optical Nonlinearities by Massless Charge Carriers

The student will do theoretical work on how non-linear effects of frequency conversion emerge from the Compton effect between electrons photons and plasmons.

Graphene is a 2D lattice of carbon atoms that exhibits extreme physical properties like for example massless charge carriers. The project will explore how basic light-matter interactions are changing when occurring inside 2D materials like graphene. The student will do theoretical work on how non-linear effects of frequency conversion emerge from the Compton effect between electrons photons and plasmons.

Requirements:  Electromagnetism and Electrodynamics or EM fields; Quantum Physics 2 (Recommended courses are intro to Solid State Physics and/or Semiconductors)

Supervisor: Prof. Ido Kaminer and Yaniv Kurman