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Nanophotonic devices offer an unprecedented ability to concentrate light into small volumes which can greatly increase nonlinear effects. However, traditional plasmonic materials suffer from low damage thresholds and are not compatible with…

We propose and design a new type of nonlinear metamaterials exhibiting a resonant electric response at microwave frequencies. By introducing a varactor diode as a nonlinear element within each resonator, we are able to shift the frequency…

Optics · Physics 2009-08-25 David A. Powell , Ilya V. Shadrivov , Yuri S. Kivshar

Millimeter-wave superconducting devices offer a platform for quantum experiments at temperatures above 1 K, and new avenues for studying light-matter interactions in the strong coupling regime. Using the intrinsic nonlinearity associated…

Research on multimode optical fibers is arousing a growing interest, for their capability to transport high-power laser beams, coupled with novel nonlinear optics-based applications. However, when beam intensities exceed a certain critical…

Nonlinear dynamics govern a wide array of natural phenomena and are essential for understanding nonequilibrium behaviors in condensed matter systems. In magnetically ordered materials, magnons - the quanta of spin waves - exhibit intrinsic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-25 David Rohrbach , Zhuquan Zhang , Takayuki Kurihara , Keith A. Nelson

We report the synthesis, magnetic susceptibility and crystal structure analysis for NbB2+x (x = 0.0 to 1.0) samples. The study facilitates in finding a correlation among the lattice parameters, chemical composition and the superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Monika Mudgel , V. P. S. Awana , G. L. Bhalla , H. Kishan

We present a theoretical description of the nonlinear response induced by an elliptically-polarized terahertz beam normally-incident on intrinsic and extrinsic metallic armchair graphene nanorib- bons. Our results show that using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-27 Yichao Wang , David R. Andersen

Laser nitriding represents a versatile approach for tailoring the surface properties of metals. Up to now, its effect on the superconducting response of niobium nitrides remains largely unexplored. In this work, the nitriding process of…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-20 J. Frechilla , A. Frechilla , G. F. de la Fuente , A. Larrea , L. A. Angurel , E. Martínez

A superconducting metasurface operating in the THz range and based on the complementary metamaterial approach is discussed. Experimental measurements as a function of temperature and magnetic field display a modulation of the metasurface…

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Strong optical pulses at mid-infrared and terahertz frequencies have recently emerged as a powerful tool to manipulate and control the solid state and especially complex condensed matter systems with strongly correlated electrons. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-22 Daniele Nicoletti , Andrea Cavalleri

Recent experiments have demonstrated that the superconducting critical temperature may be improved in various metamaterial superconductor geometries. Here, we present the results of a study of tin-based metamaterial superconductors in the…

The 1-10 terahertz (THz) spectral window is emerging as a key region for plenty of applications, requiring not yet available continuous-wave room-temperature THz spectrometers with high spectral purity and ultra-broad tunability. In this…

Probing the dynamics of superconducting transitions induced by strong electromagnetic fields is vital to designing high power devices leveraging these materials. The development of high temperature superconductors (HTS) is particularly…

We consider a sub-wavelength periodic layered medium whose slabs are filled by arbitrary linear metamaterials and standard nonlinear Kerr media and we show that the homogenized medium behaves as a Kerr medium whose parameters can assume…

Optics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. Ciattoni , C. Rizza , E. Palange

Detection of the Higgs mode in superconductors using nonlinear terahertz spectroscopy is a key area of interest in condensed matter physics. We investigate the influence of disorder on the nonlinear terahertz response and the Higgs mode in…

Intense few cycle terahertz pulses exhibit complex non-linear behavior under interaction with heavily n-doped Si. Fast increase in the transmission of a 700 fs pulse (central frequency 1.5 THz) through the Si sample (low field transmission…

The results of determination of critical magnetic fields, magnetization curves and critical currents of niobium samples of different purity are presented. It is shown that ultrapure niobium near Tc is a superconductor of the first type and…

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Recent experiments demonstrate a "robust superconductivity phenomenon" in niobium-based alloys, where the superconducting state remains intact and the critical temperature ($T_c$) is largely unaffected by external pressure well above tens…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-23 Adam D. Smith , Wenjun Ding , Yogesh K. Vohra , Cheng-Chien Chen

Nonlinear couplings between photons and electrons in new materials give rise to a wealth of interesting nonlinear phenomena. This includes frequency mixing, optical rectification or nonlinear current generation, which are of particular…

Irradiation of the strong light on the material leads to numerous non-linear effects that are essential to understand the physics of excited states of the system and for optoelectronics. Here, we study the non-linear thermoelectric effect…

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