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Keldysh nonequilibrium Green's function method is utilized to study theoretically the spin polarized transport through a graphene spin valve irradiated by a monochromatic laser field. It is found that the bias dependence of the differential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Kai-He Ding , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Jamal Berakdar

We present continued development of laterally graded multilayer mirrors (LGMLs) for a telescope design capable of measuring linear X-ray polarization over a broad spectral band. The multilayer-coated mirrors are used as Bragg reflectors at…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Herman L. Marshall , Norbert S. Schulz , David L. Windt , Eric M. Gullikson , Eric Blake , Dan Getty , Zane McInturff

We introduce stripe-like quasi-nondiffracting lattices that can be generated via spatial spectrum engineering. The complexity of the spatial shapes of such lattices and the distance of their almost diffractionless propagation depend on the…

We theoretically investigate the interaction of an ultrastrong femtosecond-long linearly polarized optical pulse with AB-stacked bilayer graphene. The pulse excite electrons from the valence into the conduction band, resulting in finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Pardeep Kumar , Thakshila M. Herath , Vadym Apalkov , Mark I. Stockman

Physics beyond the Standard Model may give rise to first-order phase transitions proceeding via the nucleation of vacuum bubbles, whose subsequent collisions generate gravitational waves (GWs). Their detection would open the possibility of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-03 Katarina Trailović

The gravity due to a multiple-mass system has a remarkable gravitational effect: the extreme magnification of background light sources along extended so-called caustic lines. This property has been the channel for some remarkable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nicholas J. Rattenbury

We show both theoretically and experimentally that the magnetization density accompanying ultrafast excitation of a semiconductor with circular polarized light varies rapidly enough to produce a detectable THz field.

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Nastos , R. W. Newson , J. Hübner , J. E. Sipe , H. M. van Driel

Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beam has orbital angular momentum (OAM). A particle trapped in an LG beam will rotate about the beam axis, due to the transfer of OAM. The rotation of the particle is usually in the same direction as that of the beam…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-15 Yang Li , Lei-Ming Zhou , Nan Zhao

Optical gyrotropy, the lifting of degeneracy between left and right circularly polarized light, can be generated by either time-reversal or chiral symmetry breaking. In the high-$T_c$ superconductor La$_{2-x}$Ba$_x$CuO$_4$ (LBCO), gyrotropy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-10 J. Orenstein , Joel E. Moore

Topological singularities are ubiquitous in many areas of physics. Polarization singularities are locations at which an aspect of the polarization ellipse of light becomes undetermined or degenerate. At C points the orientation of the…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-24 L. De Angelis , F. Alpeggiani , L. Kuipers

We propose a feasible scenario to directly polarize a relativistic electron beam and obtain overall polarization in various directions through a filter mechanism for single-shot collision between an ultrarelativistic unpolarized electron…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Yuhui Tang , Qianyi Ma , Jinqing Yu , Yinren Shou , Xuezhi Wu , Xueqing Yan

Hyperbolic and quasi-flat isofrequency contours (IFCs) are used for beam canalization and can be created by tilted Dirac points in photonic systems. Dirac points in microcavities are generated by the combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Olha Bahrova , Jiahao Ren , Feng Jin , Rui Su , Guillaume Malpuech , Dmitry Solnyshkov

The orientation and ellipticity of terahertz (THz) polarization generated by two-color strong field not only cast light on underlying mechanisms of laser-matter interaction, but also play an important role for various applications. We…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-17 Yuan Gao , Yizhu Zhang , Kaixuan Zhang , Ziyang Gan , Tian-Min Yan , Yuhai Jiang

The edge diffraction of a homogeneously polarized light beam is studied theoretically based on the paraxial optics and Fresnel-Kirchhoff approximation, and the dependence of the diffracted beam pattern of the incident beam polarization is…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Aleksandr Ya. Bekshaev

We study the propagation of a linearly polarized laser beam in the external transverse magnetic field taking into consideration the vacuum polarization by arbitrary spin particles. Induced ellipticity of the beam are evaluated using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. I. Kruglov

A novel DC and AC driving configuration is proposed for semiconductor superlattices, in which the THz AC driving is provided by an intense bichromatic cw laser. The two components of the laser, usually in the visible light range, are near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ren-Bao Liu , Bang-Fen Zhu

Interfaces formed by correlated oxides offer a critical avenue for discovering emergent phenomena and quantum states. However, the fabrication of oxide interfaces with variable crystallographic orientations and strain states integrated…

In general relativity (GR), gravitational waves (GWs) propagate the well-known plus and cross polarization modes which are the signature of a massless spin-2 field. However, diffraction of GWs caused by intervening objects along the line of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-12 Charles Dalang , Giulia Cusin , Macarena Lagos

Powerful laser-plasma processes are explored to generate discharge currents of a few $100\,$kA in coil targets, yielding magnetostatic fields (B-fields) in excess of $0.5\,$kT. The quasi-static currents are provided from hot electron…

In gravitational microlensing, binary systems may act as lenses or sources. Identifying lens binarity is generally easy especially in events characterized by caustic crossing since the resulting light curve exhibits strong deviations from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 A. A. Nucita , F. De Paolis , G. Ingrosso , M. Giordano , L. Manni