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We address the formation of optical surface waves at the very edge of semiconductor materials illuminated by modulated light beams that generate thermal waves rapidly fading in the bulk material. We find families of thresholdless surface…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Victor A. Vysloukh , Lluis Torner

We analyze the effect of circuit parameter variation on the performance of Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifiers (JTWPAs). Specifically, the JTWPA concept we investigate is using flux-biased nonhysteretic rf-SQUIDs in a…

In this paper, a dc Josephson junction between two singlet superconductors (d-wave and s-wave) with arbitrary reflection coefficient has been investigated theoretically following the famous paper [ Y. Tanaka and S. Kashiwaya 1996…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Gholamreza Rashedi

We report microwave spectroscopy of Josephson junctions chains made from an epitaxial Al/InAs heterostructure. The chains exhibit superinductance, with characteristic wave impedance exceeding $R_{Q} = \hbar/(2e)^{2}$. The planar nature of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Junseok Oh , Ido Levy , Tyler Cowan , Jacob Issokson , Archana Kamal , Javad Shabani , Andrew P. Higginbotham

We study the response of a semi-bounded one-component fully degenerate electron plasma to an initial perturbation in the electrostatic limit. We show that the part of the electric potential corresponding to surface waves in such plasma can…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Yuriy Tyshetskiy , Roman Kompaneets , Sergey V. Vladimirov

Programmable, intelligent surfaces can manipulate electromagnetic waves impinging upon them, producing arbitrarily shaped reflection, refraction and diffraction, to the benefit of wireless users. Moreover, in their recent form of…

We have detected the presence of very high intensity surface waves that are excited during plasma waveguided laser wakefield acceleration. Wakefield acceleration can be enchanced by the introduction of an ``all optical" plasma waveguide…

We investigate dynamics of Josephson vortex lattice in layered high T$_{c}$ superconductors at high magnetic fields. It is shown that the average electric current depends on the lattice structure and is resonantly enhanced when the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 A. E. Koshelev , I. S. Aranson

Josephson plasma resonance measurements under magnetic fields parallel to the CuO_2 layers as functions of magnetic field, temperature, and microwave frequency have been performed in Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+\delta} single crystals with doping…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 I. Kakeya , T. Wada , R. Nakamura , K. Kaodowaki

This presentation explores the various characteristics of a nonreciprocal, frequency-converting Josephson metasurface operating at millikelvin temperatures. Leveraging the unique properties of Josephson junctions, which support supercurrent…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-04 Sajjad Taravati

Exact calculations of transmission and reflection coefficients in surface randomly corrugated optical waveguides are presented. As the length of the corrugated part of the waveguide increases, there is a strong preference to forward…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Garcia-Martin , J. A. Torres , J. J. Saenz , M. Nieto-Vesperinas

We demonstrate that surface plasmons of a thin metal film interacting with a periodic array of nano-structures around it can be utilized to make bulk negative index metamaterials at visible spectrum with simultaneously negative permittivity…

Optics · Physics 2011-11-30 Muhammad I. Aslam , Durdu Ö. Güney

The planewave response of a linear passive material generally cannot be characterized by a single scalar refractive index, as directionality of energy flow and multiple wavevectors may need to be considered. This is especially significant…

Optics · Physics 2009-06-15 Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Josephson traveling wave parametric amplifiers enable the amplification of weak microwave signals close to the quantum limit with large bandwidth, which has a broad range of applications in superconducting quantum computing and in the…

Non-linear interactions between collective modes play a definitive role in far out of equilibrium dynamics of strongly correlated electron systems. Understanding and utilizing these interactions is crucial to photo-control of quantum…

We investigated transient optical responses in an optimally-doped high-Tc superconductor La2-xSrxCuO4 (x=0.15) by using 800-nm optical pump and terahertz probe spectroscopy. With increasing the photoexcitation intensities, the Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-03-15 Kaito Tomari , Ryusuke Matsunaga , Hiroaki Niwa , Dongjoon Song , Hiroshi Eisaki , Ryo Shimano

Resonant scattering of plane waves by a periodic slab under conditions close to those that support a guided mode is accompanied by sharp transmission anomalies. For two-dimensional structures, we establish sufficient conditions, involving…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-01 Stephen P. Shipman , Hairui Tu

In the framework of the debate on high-frequency gravitational waves (GWs), after a review of GWs in standard General Relativity, which is due for completness, the possibility of merging such a traditional analysis with the Hyperspace…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Christian Corda , Giorgio Fontana , Gloria Garcia Cuadrado

We propose and demonstrate a spatial partition method for the high-frequency photo-response of superconducting devices correlated with inductive and resistive changes in microwave impedance. Using a laser scanning microscope, we show that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-14 Alexander P. Zhuravel , Steven M. Anlage , Alexey V. Ustinov

Rectification phenomenon caused by the simultaneous breaking of time reversal and spatial inversion symmetries has been extended to a wide range of (quasi)particles and waves; however, the nonreciprocal diffraction, which is the imbalance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-30 Yoichi Nii , Kei Yamamoto , Masaki Kanno , Sadamichi Maekawa , Yoshinori Onose