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Coherent electronic transport through a molecular device is studied using non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. Such device is made of a short linear wire which is connected to para- and ferromagnetic electrodes. Molecule…

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Two emerging areas of research, attosecond and nanoscale physics, have recently started to merge. Attosecond physics deals with phenomena occurring when ultrashort laser pulses, with duration on the femto- and sub-femtosecond time scales,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-12-03 Marcelo F. Ciappina , Maciej Lewenstein

We investigate theoretically the balance of the static magnetic and the dynamical photon forces in the electron transport through a quantum dot in a photon cavity with a single photon mode. The quantum dot system is connected to external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Chi-Shung Tang , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We investigate the transport properties of a quantum wire of weakly interacting fermions in the presence of local particle loss. We calculate current and conductance in this system due to applied external chemical potential bias that can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-18 Marcel Gievers , Thomas Müller , Heinrich Fröml , Sebastian Diehl , Alessio Chiocchetta

It is well established that electronic conical intersections (CIs) in molecular systems can be induced by laser light, even in diatomic molecules. The emergence of these light-induced degeneracies leads to strong coupling among electronic,…

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We investigate laser-induced quantum interference phenomena in superradiance processes and in an ensemble of initially excited $\Lambda-$type closely packed three-level emitters. The lower doublet levels are pumped with a coherent laser…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Ni Cui , Mihai A. Macovei

The well-known ponderomotive force, arising from the interaction of matter and light, has critical implications across a broad range of fields from laser fusion and astrophysics to laser diagnostics and even pulsed-power experiments. This…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 James R. Young , Pierre-Alexandre Gourdain

Attosecond chemistry involves developing strategies to manipulate electronic coherent waves in molecules, which can influence the outcome of photoinduced reactions. While recent progress in this field calls for investigations of…

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We study theoretically the electron transport in a 1D conductor adiabatically connected to a superconducting and normal metal leads. In the case of non-interacting we show that ac voltage applied along with dc voltage modifies I-V curve…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. P. Aseev , S. N. Artemenko

The spin transfer torque is a phenomenon in which angular momentum of a spin polarized electrical current entering a ferromagnet is transferred to the magnetization. The effect has opened a new research field of electrically driven…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-07 P. Nemec , E. Rozkotova , N. Tesarova , F. Trojanek , E. De Ranieri , K. Olejnik , J. Zemen , V. Novak , M. Cukr , P. Maly , T. Jungwirth

We study the damping of molecular vibrations due to electron-hole pair excitations in donor-acceptor(D-A) type molecular rectifiers. At finite voltage additional non-equilibrium electron-hole pair excitations involving both electrodes…

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The nonlinear optical dynamics of nano-materials comprised of plasmons interacting with quantum emitters is investigated by a self-consistent model based on the coupled Maxwell-Liouville-von Neumann equations. It is shown that ultra-short…

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Among polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, pyrene is widely used as an optical probe thanks to peculiar ultraviolet absorption and infrared emission features. Interestingly, this molecule is also an abundant component of the interstellar…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Katherine R. Herperger , Jannis Krumland , Caterina Cocchi

The effective interaction between two classical nonrelativistic electrons (positrons) in the presence of intense electromagnetic radiation (one and two waves) is theoretically studied. Small relativistic corrections are taking into account…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 S. S. Starodub , S. P. Roshchupkin , V. V. Dubov

Controlled interaction of laser light with electron beams is fundamental for ultrafast electron microscopy and electron-based quantum optics, yet their direct coupling is forbidden in free space. Here we use longitudinally polarized light…

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We present a theoretical study of the the effects of off-resonant polarized optical fields on a ferromagnetic model system. We determine the light-induced dynamics of itinerant carriers in a system that includes magnetism at the mean-field…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-01 Christiane Scholl , Svenja Vollmar , Hans Christian Schneider

Reversible exchange of photons between a material and an optical cavity can lead to the formation of hybrid light--matter states where material properties such as the work function\cite{Hutchison_AM2013a}, chemical…

We investigate coherent electron dynamics in graphene, interacting with the electric field waveform of two orthogonally polarized, few-cycle laser pulses. Recently, we demonstrated that linearly polarized driving pulses lead to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-20 Christian Heide , Takuya Higuchi , Heiko B. Weber , Peter Hommelhoff