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The recent progress on (Si)GeSn optoelectronic devices holds a great promising for photonic integration on the Si substrate. In parallel to the development of bulk devices, the (Si)GeSn based quantum wells (QWs) have been investigated…

The advanced multijunction solar cell (MJSC) has emerged as a frontrunner in photovoltaic literature due to its superior photoconversion efficiency (PCE) owing to its complex fabrication procedure and high costs. This article aims to…

Quantum nanosystems involve the coupled dynamics of fermions or bosons across multiple scales in space and time. Examples include quantum dots, superconducting or magnetic nanoparticles, molecular wires, and graphene nanoribbons. The number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-01 D. Balamurugan , Peter. J. Ortoleva

Over the last two decades the organic solar cell community has synthesised tens of thousands of novel polymers and small molecules in the search for an optimum light harvesting material. These materials were often crudely evaluated simply…

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is an advanced simulation methodology for studies of manybody quantum systems. In this review, we focus on the electronic structure QMC, i.e., methods relevant for systems described by the electron-ion…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-08-16 Michal Bajdich , Lubos Mitas

Simulations of stochastic processes play an important role in the quantitative sciences, enabling the characterisation of complex systems. Recent work has established a quantum advantage in stochastic simulation, leading to quantum devices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-20 Farzad Ghafari , Nora Tischler , Carlo Di Franco , Jayne Thompson , Mile Gu , Geoff J. Pryde

Using time-resolved photoluminescence measurements, the recombination rate in an In$_{0.18}$Ga$_{0.82}$N/GaN quantum well (QW) is shown to be greatly enhanced when spontaneous emission is resonantly coupled to a silver surface plasmon. The…

Revealing the quantum regime of photovoltaics is crucial to enhancing the internal quantum efficiency of a double quantum dots (DQDs) photocell housed in a cavity. In this study, the performance of a quantum photovoltaic is evaluated based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Sheng-Qiang Zhong , Shun-Cai Zhao , Sheng-Nan Zhu

Modelling of photonic devices traditionally involves solving the equations of light-matter interaction and light propagation, and it is restrained by their applicability. Here we demonstrate an alternative modelling methodology by creating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Anton N. Vetlugin , Cesare Soci , Nikolay I. Zheludev

Drift-diffusion model is an indispensable modeling tool to understand the carrier dynamics (transport, recombination, and collection) and simulate practical-efficiency of solar cells (SCs) through taking into account various carrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-20 Xingang Ren , Zishuai Wang , Wei E. I. Sha , Wallace C. H. Choy

We analyze the performance of quantum annealing as a heuristic optimization method to find the absolute minimum of various continuous models, including landscapes with only two wells and also models with many competing minima and with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-25 E. M. Inack , S. Pilati

Self-consistent computations of the potential profile in complex semiconductor heterostructures can be successfully applied for comprehensive simulation of the gain and the absorption spectra, for the analysis of the capture, escape,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Ivan Safonov , Aleksey Shulika , Igor Sukhoivanov , Volodimir Lysak

The electronic states in a corner-overgrown bent GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well heterostructure are studied with numerical Hartree simulations. Transmission electron microscope pictures of the junction justify the sharp-corner assumption. In a…

We demonstrate coherent control of a quantum dot exciton using photocurrent detection with a sinusoidal reverse bias. Optical control is performed at low bias, where tunneling-limited coherence times are long. Following this step, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-13 J. H. Quilter , R. J. Coles , A. J. Ramsay , A. M. Fox , M. S. Skolnick

We analyze the dynamics of the molecular field incoherently pumped by the photoassociation of fermionic atoms and coupled by quantum tunnelling in a double-well potential. The relative phase distribution of the molecular modes in each well…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Miyakawa , C. P. Search , P. Meystre

In this work, we investigate the transport phenomena in compound semiconductor material based buried channel Quantum Well MOSFET with a view to developing a simple and effective model for the device current. Device simulation has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-14 Ehsanur Rahman , Abir Shadman , Sudipta Romen Biswas , Kanak Datta , Quazi D. M. Khosru

Motivated by the perspective of advanced time-series prediction and exploitation of Quantum Reservoir Computing (QRC), we explored the design and implementation of a Hybrid Photonic-Quantum Reservoir Computing (HPQRC) paradigm. It brings…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Oishik Kar , Aswath Babu H

As the precision frontier of astrophysics advances towards the one millimagnitude level, flux calibration of photometric instrumentation remains an ongoing challenge. We present the results of a lab-bench assessment of the viability of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-24 Sasha Brownsberger , Lige Zhang , David Andrade , Christopher Stubbs

Quantum wells constitute one of the most important classes of devices in the study of 2D systems. In a double layer QW, the additional "which-layer" degree of freedom gives rise to celebrated phenomena such as Coulomb drag, Hall drag and…

In this paper, we present a large signal and switching analysis for the Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor Laser (TL) to reveal its optical and electrical behavior under high current injection conditions. Utilizing appropriate models for…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-02-07 Iman Taghavi , Behzad Namvar , Mohammad Hosseini , Hassan Kaatuzian