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Noise-enhanced chaos in a doped, weakly coupled GaAs/Al_{0.45}Ga_{0.55}As superlattice has been observed at room temperature in experiments as well as in the results of the simulation of nonlinear transport based on a discrete tunneling…

The static and high-frequency differential conductivity of a one-dimensional superlattice with parabolic miniband, in which the dispersion law is assumed to be parabolic up to the Brillouin zone edge, are investigated theoretically. Unlike…

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Weakly coupled semiconductor superlattices under dc voltage bias are nonlinear systems with many degrees of freedom whose nonlinearity is due to sequential tunneling of electrons. They may exhibit spontaneous chaos at room temperature and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Luis L. Bonilla , Manuel Carretero , Emanuel Mompó

Recently, polarons in the Peyrard-Bishop-Holstein model under DC electric fields were established to perform Bloch oscillations, provided the charge-lattice coupling is not large. In this work, we study this model when the charge is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 C. Herrero-Gómez , E. Díaz , F. Domínguez-Adame

Shot noise affects differently the nonlinear electron transport in semiconductor superlattices depending on the strength of the coupling among the superlattice quantum wells. Strongly coupled superlattices can be described by a miniband…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. L. Bonilla

We study entanglement dynamics in the nearest-neighbour fermionic chain that is subjected to both DC and AC electric fields. The dynamics gives the well known Bloch oscillations in the DC field case provided that the system size is larger…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-13 Devendra Singh Bhakuni , Auditya Sharma

Strong interaction among charge carriers can make them move like viscous fluid. Here we explore alternating current (AC) effects in viscous electronics. In the Ohmic case, incompressible current distribution in a sample adjusts fast to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Mykola Semenyakin , Gregory Falkovich

A model for charge transport in undoped, photo-excited semiconductor superlattices, which includes the dependence of the electron-hole recombination on the electric field and on the photo-excitation intensity through the field-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. I. Arana , L. L. Bonilla , H. T. Grahn

Tunable oscillatory modes of electric-field domains in doped semiconductor superlattices are reported. The experimental investigations demonstrate the realization of tunable, GHz frequencies in GaAs-AlAs superlattices covering the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Kastrup , R. Hey , K. H. Ploog , H. T. Grahn , L. L. Bonilla , M. Kindelan , M. Moscoso , A. Wacker

We study coherent dynamics of tight-binding systems interacting with static and oscillating external fields. We consider Bloch oscillations and Wannier-Stark localization caused by dc fields, and compare these effects to dynamic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Martin Holthaus , Daniel W. Hone

We study super Bloch oscillations of ultracold atoms in a shaken lattice potential, subjected to a harmonically modulated mean-field interaction. Usually, any interaction leads to the decay of the wave packet and its super Bloch…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-01-22 Elena Díaz , Alberto García Mena , Kunihiko Asakura , Christopher Gaul

Acoustic waves propagating through fluid media are significantly influenced by turbulence. This paper experimentally investigates the influence of underwater turbulence on the propagation characteristics of acoustic waves, revealing that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-14 Kai-Xin Hu , Yue-Jin Hu

The standard Bloch oscillation normally refers to the oscillatory tunneling dynamics of quantum particles in a periodic lattice plus a linear gradient. In this work we theoretically investigate the generalized form of the Bloch oscillation…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Qian-Ru Zhu , Shou-Long Chen , Shao-Jun Li , Xue-Ting Fang , Lushuai Cao , Zhong-Kun Hu

Acoustic fields effect steady transport of suspended particles by rectifying the inertia of primary oscillations. We develop a fully analytic theory that relates this steady particle motion to incident oscillatory (acoustic) flow and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-03 Xiaokang Zhang , Jake Minten , Bhargav Rallabandi

We discuss the mechanism and the conditions for the appearance of synchronized charge oscillations which have been observed experimentally and theoretically after strong photoexcitation of dimerized systems. In the Hubbard model with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-31 Kenji Yonemitsu , Philipp Werner

We theoretically show that conditions for THz gain and conditions for formation of destructive electric domains in semiconductor superlattices are fairly different in the case of parametric generation and amplification. Action of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Timo Hyart , Natalia V. Alexeeva , Ahti Leppanen , Kirill N. Alekseev

We investigate the electronic Bloch oscillation in bilayer graphene gradient superlattices using transfer matrix method. By introducing two kinds of gradient potentials of square barriers along electrons propagation direction, we find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-01 Hemeng Cheng , Changan Li , Tianxing Ma , Li-Gang Wang , Yun Song , Hai-Qing Lin

The nanomechanical single-electron shuttle is a resonant system in which a suspended metallic island oscillates between and impacts at two electrodes. This setup holds promise for one-by-one electron transport and the establishment of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-21 Michael J. Moeckel , Darren R. Southworth , Eva M. Weig , Florian Marquardt

We theoretically analyze the influence of magnetic field on small-signal absorption and gain in a superlattice. We predict a very large and tunable THz gain due to nonlinear cyclotron oscillations in crossed electric and magnetic fields. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-08 Timo Hyart , Jussi Mattas , Kirill N. Alekseev

Self-oscillations underlie many natural phenomena such as heartbeat, ocean waves, and the pulsation of variable stars. From pendulum clocks to the behavior of animal groups, self-oscillation is one of the keys to the understanding of…