  Photo-excitation in solids can trigger a cascade in which multiple
particle-hole excitations are generated. We analyze the carrier multiplication
cascade of impact excitation processes in graphene and show that the number of
pair excitations has a strong dependence on doping, which makes carrier
multiplication gate-tunable. We also predict that the number of excited pairs
as well as the characteristic time of the cascade scale linearly with
photo-excitation energy. These dependences, as well as sharply peaked angular
distribution of pair excitations, provide clear experimental signatures of
carrier multiplication.

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics