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We propose a method to construct a classical analog of an open quantum system, namely a single quantum particle confined in a potential well and immersed in a thermal bath. The classical analog is made out of a collection of identical wells…

Variational quantum algorithms hold the promise to address meaningful quantum problems already on noisy intermediate-scale quantum hardware. In spite of the promise, they face the challenge of designing quantum circuits that both solve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Akash Kundu , Stefano Mangini

By including elements of the density matrix formalism, the semiclassical ensemble Monte Carlo method for carrier transport is extended to incorporate incoherent tunneling, known to play an important role in quantum cascade lasers (QCLs). In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-17 Christian Jirauschek

The fast detection of terahertz radiation is of great importance for various applications such as fast imaging, high speed communications, and spectroscopy. Most commercial products capable of sensitively responding the terahertz radiation…

The generation and application of squeezed light have long been central goals of quantum optics, enabling sensing below the standard quantum limit, optical quantum computing platforms, and more. Intensity noise squeezing of bright…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-08 Sahil Pontula , Jamison Sloan , Nicholas Rivera , Marin Soljacic

We propose and evaluate a method to construct a quantum correlated twin atom laser using a pumped and damped Bose-Hubbard inline trimer which can operate in a stationary regime. With pumping via a source condensate filling the middle well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 M. K. Olsen , A. S. Bradley

A new family of 2-component vector-valued coherent states for the quantum particle motion in an infinite square well potential is presented. They allow a consistent quantization of the classical phase space and observables for a particle in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. L. Garcia de Leon , J. P. Gazeau , J. Queva

We present a systematic comparison of the results from our non-equilibrium Green's function formalism with a large number of AlGaAs-GaAs terahertz quantum cascade lasers previously published in the literature. Employing identical material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-20 David O. Winge , Martin Franckié , Andreas Wacker

Laser-induced ionization is a fundamental tool for the frequency conversion of lasers into spectral regions so far inaccessible, including both extreme ultraviolet and terahertz. The low-frequency currents induced by laser-driven ionization…

Within the framework of fractional quantum mechanics, an exact solution has been found for the energy spectrum of a quantum particle confined in a quantum well - a symmetric one-dimensional finite potential well. A simple graphical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Nick Laskin

Optical pumping of excited exciton states in semiconductor quantum wells is a tool for realisation of ultra-compact terahertz (THz) lasers based on stimulated optical transition between excited (2p) and ground (1s) exciton state. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-30 G. Slavcheva , A. V. Kavokin

A Schottky diode integrated into a terahertz quantum cascade laser waveguide couples directly to the internal laser fields. In a multimode laser, the diode response is correlated with both the instantaneous power and the coupling strength…

In this study, we propose and develop an enhanced three-dimensional coupled wave theory (3D CWT) to investigate the optical field behavior in photonic crystal surface-emitting terahertz quantum cascade lasers (THz-QCLs). By incorporating an…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-16 Mingxi Chen , Tsung-Tse Lin , Li Wang , Hideki Hirayama , Chiko Otani

We report on the engineering of broadband quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) emitting at Terahertz (THz) frequencies, which exploit a heterogeneous active region scheme and have a current density dynamic range (Jdr) of 3.2, significantly larger…

The enhanced terahertz radiation from a new photoconductive antenna (PCA) has been predicted by numerical simulation. Different from the conventional PCA, the proposed PCA has electrodes with sawtooth structures on the edge, which will…

Optics · Physics 2014-07-07 Jitao Zhang

Portable mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectroscopy and sensing applications require widely tunable, narrow linewidth, chip-scale, single-mode sources without sacrificing significant output power. However, no such lasers have been demonstrated…

Recently there is an increasing attention to electrically pumped room temperature sub-wavelength plasmon sources because of their various potential applications mainly in the integrated plasmonic field. In this paper, a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum…

Optics · Physics 2018-09-03 Hamed Ghodsi , Hassan Kaatuzian , Elahe Rastegar Pashaki

The field of topological insulators (TIs) is rapidly growing. Concerning possible applications, the search for materials with an easily controllable TI phase is a key issue. The quantum spin Hall effect, characterized by a single pair of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-21 Paolo Michetti , Jan C. Budich , Elena G. Novik , Patrik Recher

We propose a modified quantum annealing protocol, i. e., pulsed quantum annealing} (PQA), in order to increase the success probability by a pulse application during the quantum annealing process. It is well known that the success…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-18 Vasilios Karanikolas , Shiro Kawabata

We propose the use of dipolaritons -- quantum well excitons with large dipole moment, coupled to a planar microcavity -- for generating terahertz (THz) radiation. This is achieved by exciting the system with two THz detuned lasers that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-06 A. Seedhouse , J. Wilkes , V. D. Kulakovskii , E. A. Muljarov