Field-induced barrier transparency of Bloch waves in tight-binding lattices
Abstract
A rectangular potential barrier for a Bloch particle in a tight-binding lattice is shown to become fully transparent by the application of a strong ac field with appropriate amplitude and frequency. Such a curious phenomenon bears some connection with the field-induced barrier transparency effect known for freely-moving particles scattered by an ac-driven rectangular barrier; however, for a Bloch particle transparency is not related to a resonant tunnneling process across the cycle-averaged oscillating potential barrier, as for the freely-moving quantum particle. The phenomenon of field-induced transparency is specifically discussed here for photonic transport in waveguide arrays and demonstrated by full numerical simulations of the paraxial (Schr\"{o}dinger) wave equation beyond the tight-binding approximation.
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@article{arxiv.1102.0387,
title = {Field-induced barrier transparency of Bloch waves in tight-binding lattices},
author = {Stefano Longhi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.0387},
year = {2015}
}