Steve MacLean
University of Waterloo
28 Papers
33 Citations
Steve MacLean is an academic researcher from University of Waterloo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Graphene & Dirac equation. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 21 publications. Previous affiliations of Steve MacLean include Université du Québec.
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Papers
Time-dependent pair creation and the Schwinger mechanism in graphene
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the electron-hole momentum spectrum of intrinsic graphene submitted to a time-dependent external electric field and gave a physical description in terms of the timedependent Schwinger mechanism.
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Suppression of Multiphoton Resonances in Driven Quantum Systems via Pulse Shape Optimization.
Denis Gagnon,Denis Gagnon,François Fillion-Gourdeau,François Fillion-Gourdeau,Joey Dumont,Catherine Lefebvre,Catherine Lefebvre,Steve MacLean,Steve MacLean +8 more
TL;DR: This Letter demonstrates control over multiphoton absorption processes in driven two-level systems, which include, for example, superconducting qubits or laser-irradiated graphene, through spectral shaping of the driving pulse through differential evolution.
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Pseudospectral computational methods for the time-dependent Dirac equation in static curved spaces
Xavier Antoine,François Fillion-Gourdeau,Emmanuel Lorin,Emmanuel Lorin,Steve MacLean,Steve MacLean +5 more
TL;DR: Pseudospectral numerical schemes for solving the Dirac equation in general static curved space are derived using a new pseudodifferential representation of the DDE along with a simple Fourier-basis technique.
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Numerical quasiconformal transformations for electron dynamics on strained graphene surfaces.
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that electron wave packets can be focused by these local strained regions and the Dirac equation is solved via an accurate pseudospectral numerical method in the pseudo-Hermitian representation that is endowed with explicit unitary evolution and conservation of the norm.
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Efficiently parallelized modeling of tightly focused, large bandwidth laser pulses
Joey Dumont,François Fillion-Gourdeau,François Fillion-Gourdeau,Catherine Lefebvre,Catherine Lefebvre,Denis Gagnon,Denis Gagnon,Steve MacLean,Steve MacLean +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, an efficient parallelized algorithm was proposed to evaluate the Stratton-Chu diffraction integrals for incident fields of arbitrary temporal and spatial dependence. But this algorithm requires the use of the Hadamard finite part in the derivation of the physical optics approximation.
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