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We present a precise calculation of spatially-indirect exciton states in semiconductor coupled quantum wells and polaritons formed from their coupling to the optical mode of a microcavity. We include the presence of electric and magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 J. Wilkes , E. A. Muljarov

The ability for optically active media to rotate the polarization of light is the basis of polarimetry, an illustrious technique responsible for many breakthroughs in fields as varied as astronomy, medicine and material science. Here, we…

We study experimentally and theoretically the temperature dependence of transverse magnetic routing of light emission from hybrid plasmonic-semiconductor quantum well structures where the exciton emission from the quantum well is routed…

A normally incident light of linear polarization injects a pure spin current in a strip of 2-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit coupling. We report observation of an electric current with a butterfly-like pattern induced by such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-19 Xiao-Dong Cui , Shun-Qing Shen , Jian Li , Weikun Ge , Fu-Chun Zhang

We report on microtube ring resonators with quantum wells embedded as an optically active material. Optical modes are observed over a broad energy range. Their properties strongly depend on the exact geometry of the microtube along its…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Ch. Strelow , C. M. Schultz , H. Rehberg , H. Welsch , Ch. Heyn , D. Heitmann , T. Kipp

The photoluminescence (PL) spectra of a two-dimensional electron system induced in a Be-delta-doped GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well (QW) with a back gate are measured. The electron density is controlled from 1 X 10^{9} cm^{-2} to 2.5 X 10^{11}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Yamaguchi , S. Nomura , D. Sato , T. Akazaki , H. Tamura , H. Takayanagi

We demonstrate that the multipoles associated with the density matrix are truly observable quantities that can be unambiguously determined from intensity moments. Given their correct transformation properties, these multipoles are the…

Two-dimensional organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite (2D-OIHP) quantum wells are emerging as promising light sources for quantum communication technologies, owing to their ability to generate polarization-encoded optical signals. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Shuyue Feng , Zijian Gan , Camryn J. Gloor , Wei You , Andrew M. Moran

The geometric Spin Hall Effect of Light (geometric SHEL) amounts to a polarization-dependent positional shift when a light beam is observed from a reference frame tilted with respect to its direction of propagation. Motivated by this…

We have investigated optical orientation in the vicinity of the direct gap of bulk germanium. The electron spin polarization is studied via polarization-resolved photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy unfolding the interplay between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Fabio Pezzoli , Andrea Balocchi , Elisa Vitiello , Thierry Amand , Xavier Marie

We have developed a novel technique for detection of spin polarization with a quantum dot weakly coupled to the objective device. The disturbance to the object in this technique is very small since the detection is performed through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Sunwoo Kim , Yoshiaki Hashimoto , Taketomo Nakamura , Shingo Katsumoto

We study optically single self-assembled quantum dots embedded within the wide quantum well of a mixed type quantum structure. We compare the steady state and pulsed photoluminescence spectra of these dots to those of previously studied…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 D. V. Regelman , E. Dekel , D. Gershoni , E. Ehrenfreund , W. V. Schoenfeld , P. M. Petroff

The polarisation of light is a powerful and widely used degree of freedom to encode information, both in classical and quantum applications. In particular, quantum information technologies based on photons are being revolutionised by the…

We suppose that linear optical polarization is due to multiple scattering in optically thick magnetized accretion disk around central black hole. The polarization degree is very sensitive to the spin of black hole - for Kerr rotating hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-10 N. A. Silant'ev , M. Yu. Piotrovich , Yu. N. Gnedin , T. M. Natsvlishvili

We investigate the ballistic motion of electrons and holes in III-V semiconductor quantum wells with spin-orbit coupling and a homogeneous in-plane electric field. As a result of a non-perturbative treatment of both of these influences,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Schliemann

A precise, accurate, and relatively straightforward in-situ method to measure and control the ellipticity of light resonantly interacting with an atomic vapor is described. The technique can be used to minimize vector light shifts. The…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-14 Derek F. Jackson Kimball , Jordan Dudley , Yan Li , Dilan Patel

We investigate in micro-photoluminescence experiments the dynamical nuclear polarization in individual InGaAs quantum dots. Experiments carried out in an applied magnetic field of 2T show that the nuclear polarization achieved through the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Urbaszek , P. -F. Braun , X. Marie , O. Krebs , A. Lemaitre , P. Voisin , T. Amand

New effective operators, describing the photons with given polarization at given position with respect to a source are proposed. These operators can be used to construct the near and intermediate zones quantum optics. It is shown that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander S. Shumovsky , Alexander A. Klyachko

The theory of a response of a two-energy-level system, irradiated by symmetrical light pulses, has been developed.(Suchlike electronic system approximates under the definite conditions a single ideal quantum well (QW) in a strong magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. I. Korovin , I. G. Lang D. A. Contreras-Solorio , S. T. Pavlov

The non-sinusoidal character oscillations appear in the transmitted, reflected and absorbed light fluxes when light pulses irradiate a semiconductor quantum well (QW), containing a large number of the equidistant energy levels of electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. G. Lang , L. I. Korovin , D. A. Contreras-Solorio , S. T. Pavlov