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We report that the polarizations of sidebands emitted from bulk gallium arsenide (GaAs) driven by a strong terahertz (THz) laser while probed with a weak near-infrared laser can be viewed as interferograms from a Michelson-like…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-23 Seamus D. O'Hara , Joseph B. Costello , Qile Wu , Ken West , Loren Pfeiffer , Mark S. Sherwin

We propose a method based on the slice energy spread modulation to generate strong subpicoseond density bunching in high-intensity relativistic electron beams. A laser pulse with periodic intensity envelope is used to modulate the slice…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Zhen Zhang , Lixin Yan , Yingchao Du , Wenhui Huang , Chuanxiang Tang , Zhirong Huang

We numerically investigate the damping of Bloch oscillations in a one-dimensional lattice potential whose translational symmetry is broken in a systematic manner, either by making the potential bichromatic or by introducing scatterers at…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-04-13 Stefan Walter , Dominik Schneble , Adam C. Durst

Motivated by recent experimental findings for an organic superconductor, charge oscillations that emerge after a strong pulse of an oscillating electric field is applied are studied in electron systems in a superconducting phase on a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-06 Kenji Yonemitsu

We study the energy spectrum and the quantized Hall conductance of electrons in a two-dimensional periodic potential with perpendicular magnetic field WITHOUT neglecting the coupling of the Landau bands. Remarkably, even for weak Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Springsguth , R. Ketzmerick , T. Geisel

The manipulation of solid states using intense infrared or terahertz light fields is a pivotal area in contemporary ultrafast photonics research. While conventional circular polarization has been well explored, the potential of…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-08 Kotaro Ogawa , Natsuki Kanda , Yuta Murotani , Ryusuke Matsunaga

We consider the spectrum of a second-order elliptic operator in divergence form with periodic coefficients, which is known to be completely described by Bloch eigenvalues. We show that under small perturbations of the coefficients, a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-21 Sivaji Ganesh Sista , Vivek Tewary

The photovoltaic effect induced by terahertz radiation in a gated two-dimensional electron gas in magnetic field is considered theoretically. It is assumed that the incoming radiation creates an ac voltage between the source and gate and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-26 Maria Lifshits , Michel I. Dyakonov

An analytical formulation of a radially polarized laser pulse propagating in a homogeneous, magnetized plasma is presented using Lorentz force, continuity and Maxwells equations. Perturbation technique and quasi-static approximation (QSA)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Shivani Aggarwal , Dinkar Mishra , Saumya Singh , Bhupesh Kumar , Pallavi Jha

It is well known that oscillations at the electron plasma frequency may appear due to instability of the plasma sheath near a positively biased electrode immersed in plasma. This instability is caused by transit-time effects when electrons,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Y. Bliokh , J. Felsteiner , Ya. Z. Slutsker

The possibility of Bloch oscillations for a degenerate and superfluid Fermi gas of atoms in an optical lattice is considered. For a one-component degenerate gas the oscillations are suppressed for high temperatures and band fillings. For a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Rodriguez , P. Torma

The effect of the photoinduced absorption of terahertz (THz) radiation in a semi-insulating GaAs crystal is studied by the pulsed THz transmission spectroscopy. We found that a broad-band modulation of THz radiation may be induced by a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-08-24 A. S. Kurdyubov , A. V. Trifonov , I. Ya. Gerlovin , I. V. Ignatiev , A. V. Kavokin

We study the reflection of Bloch wavepackets at the interface of optical lattice possessing a shallow longitudinal out-of-phase refractive index modulation in adjacent waveguides. We show that the relation between the transmitted and…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-20 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Victor A. Vysloukh , Lluis Torner

High-power, continuously tunable narrowband terahertz (THz) sources are essential for advancing nonlinear optics, THz-driven material dynamics, and ultrafast spectroscopy. Conventional techniques typically impose a trade-off between pulse…

The terahertz (THz) generation in a dual-color field was investigated experimentally by precisely controlling the relative time delay $\tau$ and polarization $\theta$ of dual-color lasers, where the accompanying third-harmonic generation…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-07 Kaixuan Zhang , Yizhu Zhang , T. -M. Yan , Y. H. Jiang

In the modulated reheating scenario, the field that drives inflation has a spatially varying decay rate, and the resulting inhomogeneous reheating process generates adiabatic perturbations. We examine the statistical properties of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-28 Naoya Kobayashi , Takeshi Kobayashi , Adrienne L. Erickcek

Coherent, continuous-wave, and electrically tunable chip-scale terahertz (THz) sources are critical for emerging applications in sensing, imaging, spectroscopy, communication, space and quantum technologies. Here, we demonstrate a robust…

We study the Bloch dynamics of a quasi one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate of cold atoms in a tilted optical lattice modeled by a Hamiltonian of Bose-Hubbard type: The corresponding mean-field system described by a discrete nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Andrey R. Kolovsky , Hans Jürgen Korsch , Eva-Maria Graefe

We propose the use of dipolaritons -- quantum well excitons with large dipole moment, coupled to a planar microcavity -- for generating terahertz (THz) radiation. This is achieved by exciting the system with two THz detuned lasers that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-06 A. Seedhouse , J. Wilkes , V. D. Kulakovskii , E. A. Muljarov

In spintronic terahertz emitters, THz radiation is generated by exciting an ultrafast spin current through femtosecond laser excitation of a ferromagnetic-nonmagnetic metallic heterostructure. Although an extensive phenomenological…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-22 Francesco Foggetti , Peter M. Oppeneer