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Modulation-doped GaAs v-groove quantum wires (QWRs) have been fabricated with novel electrical contacts made to two-dimensional electron-gas (2DEG) reservoirs. Here, we present longitudinal photocurrent (photoconductivity/PC) spectroscopy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. I. Cade , M. Hadjipanayi , R. Roshan , A. C. Maciel , J. F. Ryan , F. Macherey , Th. Schaepers , H. Lueth

Photovoltaic effect of neutral atoms using inhomogeneous light in double-trap opened system is studied theoretically. Using asymmetric external driving field to replacing original asymmetric chemical potential of atoms, we create…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Wenxi Lai , Jinyan Niu , Yu-Quan Ma , W. M. Liu

We consider the effect of electron-electron interaction on the electron transport through a finite length single-mode quantum wire with reflectionless contacts. The two-particle scattering events cannot alter the electric current and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anders Mathias Lunde , Karsten Flensberg , Leonid I. Glazman

Theory of the Linear photogalvanic effect is developed for direct optical transitions between surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators. The photocurrent governed by the orientation of the polarization plane of light and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-10 N. V. Leppenen , L. E. Golub

We consider the coupling of the electromagnetic vacuum field with an oscillating perfectly-reflecting mirror in the nonrelativistic approximation. As a consequence of the frequency modulation associated to the motion of the mirror, low…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. P. F. Mendonca , P. A. Maia Neto , F. I. Takakura

We investigate the shapes of \gamma-ray pulsar light curves using 3D pulsar magnetosphere models of finite conductivity. These models, covering the entire spectrum of solutions between vacuum and force-free magnetospheres, for the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Alice K. Harding , Demosthenes Kazanas , Ioannis Contopoulos

The possibility of steady-state population inversion in a small sample of strongly driven two-level emitters like quantum dots (QDs) in micro-cavities, and its utilization towards amplification of light and acoustic waves is investigated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-01 Sumanta Das , Mihai Macovei

We investigate, experimentally and theoretically, polarization rotation effects in dilute photonic crystals with transverse permittivity inhomogeneity perpendicular to the traveling direction of waves. A capsize, namely a drastic change of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-12-04 Zhyrair Gevorkian , Arsen Hakhoumian , Vladimir Gasparian , Emilio Cuevas

A quantum dot spin LED provides a test of carrier spin injection into a qubit, as well as a means of analyzing carrier spin injection in general and local spin polarization. The polarization of the observed light is, however, significantly…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 C. E. Pryor , M. E. Flatté

We theoretically study the quantum interference induced photon blockade phenomenon in atom cavity QED system, where the destructive interference between two different transition pathways prohibits the two-photon excitation. Here, we first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 K. Hou , C. J. Zhu , Y. P. Yang , G. S. Agarwal

In this paper, we study the full conductance statistics of disordered one dimensional wire under the application of light. We develop the transfer matrix method for periodically driven systems to analyze the conductance of large system with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-03 Takuya Kitagawa , Takashi Oka , Eugene Demler

The photon vacuum polarization effect in curved spacetime leads to birefringence, i.e. the photon velocity becomes greater than (or less than) the speed of light depending on its polarization. We investigate this phenomenon in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Avtar Singh Sehra

This work focuses on understanding the nonlinear-optical response of a 1-D quantum wire embedded in 2-D space when quantum-size effects in the transverse direction are minimized using an extremely weighted delta function potential. Our aim…

Optics · Physics 2012-03-30 Shoresh Shafei , Mark G. Kuzyk

In our recent paper [1], we reported observations of photon blockade by one atom strongly coupled to an optical cavity. In support of these measurements, here we provide an expanded discussion of the general phenomenology of photon blockade…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. M. Birnbaum , A. Boca , R. Miller , A. D. Boozer , T. E. Northup , H. J. Kimble

Theory of optical absorption of linearly and circularly polarized light in surface and edge states in topological insulators is developed for a nonlinear in light intensity regime. The absorbance for surface states and the absorption width…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 N. V. Leppenen , L. E. Golub

Circularly polarized photons have the Berry curvature in the semiclassical regime. Based on the kinetic equation for such chiral photons, we derive the (non)equilibrium expression of the photon current in the direction of the vorticity. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-09 Naoki Yamamoto

Absorption and emission in inorganic bipolar solar cells based on low dimensional structures exhibiting the effects of quantum confinement is investigated in the framework of a comprehensive microscopic theory of the optical and electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-09 U. Aeberhard , U. Rau

Three related topics on the quantum-vacuum geometric phases in a noncoplanarly curved optical fiber is presented: (i) a brief review: the investigation of vacuum effect and its experimental realization; (ii) the sequence of ideas of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian Qi Shen

A theory of the circular photogalvanic effect caused by spin splitting in quantum wells is developed. Direct interband transitions between the hole and electron size-quantized subbands are considered. It is shown that the photocurrent value…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. E. Golub

On the base of the quantum kinetic equation for density matrix in plasma at the stimulated bremsstrahlung of electrons on ions, the nonlinear absorption rate for high-intensity shortwave radiation in plasma has been obtained within…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-07-15 H. K. Avetissian , A. G. Ghazaryan , H. H. Matevosyan , G. F. Mkrtchian