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We propose to measure the superradiance effect by observing the current through a semiconductor double-dot ststem. An electron and a hole are injected separately into one of the quantum dots to form an exciton and then recombine…

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The superconducting diode effect (SDE) is a key nonreciprocal phenomenon with broad relevance for superconducting electronics. Using time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau simulations, we predict and quantify a superconducting diode effect arising…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-18 Axel J. M. Deenen , Dirk Grundler

Spins of charge carriers, paramagnetic centers, and nuclei in semiconductor structures are known to be oriented if circular-polarized light is shined upon the structure. This is due to transfer of angular momentum from photons to various…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Kirill Kavokin

We present a proposal for achieving light-induced superconductivity using exciton polaritons - hybrid light-matter particles of excitons (bound electron-hole pairs) and microcavity photons. In contrast to previous theories of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Kenneth Choo , Olivier Bleu , Meera M. Parish , Jesper Levinsen

It is shown that spin Hall effect creates uniform spin polarization of electrons in semiconductor with a linear in the momentum spin splitting of conduction band. In turn, the profile of the non-uniform spin polarization accumulated at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. L. Korenev

We study the stationary surface photocurrent in 2D electron gas near the helium surface. Electron gas is assumed to be attracted to the helium surface due to the image attracting force and an external stationary electric field. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. V. Entin , L. I. Magarill

It is shown that a homogeneous non-equlibrium spin-polarization in semiconductor heterostructures results in an electric current. The microscopic origin of the effect is an inherent asymmetry of spin-flip scattering in systems with lifted…

We show that with the help of spin-orbit coupling, nonlinear light-matter interactions can efficiently couple with spin and valley degrees of freedom. This revealed spin photogalvanic effect can generate the long-time pursued intrinsic pure…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-19 Ruixiang Fei , Xiaobo Lu , Li Yang

A bicircular light (BCL) consists of left and right circularly polarized lights with different frequencies, and draws a rose-like pattern with a rotational symmetry determined by the ratio of the two frequencies. Here we show that an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Yuya Ikeda , Sota Kitamura , Takahiro Morimoto

Recently, it has been proposed that a mechanism for the appearance of non-equilibrium superconductivity in a resonantly driven semiconductor with repulsive interband interactions exists.~\cite{Goldstein_PRB15} The underlying microscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 S. Porta , L. Privitera , N. Traverso Ziani , M. Sassetti , F. Cavaliere , B. Trauzettel

Entrainment of limit cycles by chaos [1] is discovered numerically through specially designed unidirectional coupling of two glow discharge-semiconductor systems. By utilizing the auxiliary system approach [2], it is verified that the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-06-18 Marat Akhmet , Ismail Rafatov , Mehmet Onur Fen

The spin-galvanic (inverse Edelstein) and inverse spin-Hall effects are calculated for a hybrid system that combines thin superconductor and Rashba-metal layers. These effects are produced by a nonequilibrium spin polarization which is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-03-17 A. G. Mal'shukov

Driving a conventional superconductor with an appropriately tuned classical electromagnetic field can lead to an enhancement of superconductivity via a redistribution of the quasiparticles into a more favorable non-equilibrium distribution…

We develop a theory of the nonlinear optical responses in superconducting systems in the presence of a dc supercurrent. The optical transitions between particle-hole pair bands across the superconducting gap are allowed in clean…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-29 Linghao Huang , Jing Wang

We theoretically discover possible dc-current induction and high-harmonic generation from photodriven chiral fermions in B20-type semimetals irradiated with circularly polarized light as nonlinear optical responses with several…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-24 Yuya Ominato , Masahito Mochizuki

We study a transverse electron-hole focusing effect in a normal-superconductor system. The spectrum of the quasiparticles is calculated both quantum mechanically and in semiclassical approximation, showing an excellent agreement. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-15 P. Rakyta , A. Kormanyos , Z. Kaufmann , J. Cserti

We show that the sign of the circular photogalvanic effect can be changed by tuning the radiation frequency of circularly polarized light. Here resonant inversion of the photogalvanic effect has been observed for direct inter-subband…

High harmonic generation (HHG) in solids reflects the underlying nonperturbative nonlinear dynamics of electrons in a strong light field and is a powerful tool for ultrafast spectroscopy of electronic structures. Photo-carrier doping allows…

A novel method is proposed to measure the Purcell effect by observing the current through a semiconductor quantum dot embedded inside a microcavity. The stationary current is shown to be altered if one varies the cavity length. For the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. N. Chen , D. S. Chuu , T. Brandes

We present a microscopic theory of the equilibrium polariton condensate state of a semiconductor quantum well in a planar optical cavity. The theory accounts for the adjustment of matter excitations to the presence of a coherent photon…

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