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Rate equation models are extensively used to describe the many-body states of laser driven atomic gases. We show that the properties of the rate equation model used to describe nonlinear optical effects arising in interacting Rydberg gases…

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In this paper we first derive a Coulomb Hamiltonian for electron--electron interaction in quantum dots in the Heisenberg picture. Then we use this Hamiltonian to enhance a Bloch model, which happens to be nonlinear in the density matrix.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-13 Brigitte Bidégaray-Fesquet , Kole Keita

Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor devices are currently one of the most promising platforms for realizing Majorana zero modes. Their topological properties are controlled by the band alignment of the two materials, as well as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 August E. G. Mikkelsen , Panagiotis Kotetes , Peter Krogstrup , Karsten Flensberg

Photocurrent acts as one of measurable responses of material to light, which has proved itself to be crucial for sensing and energy harvesting. Topological semimetals with gapless energy dispersion and abundant topological surface and bulk…

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The control of charges in a circuit due to an external electric field is ubiquitous to the exchange, storage and manipulation of information in a wide range of applications, from electronic circuits to synapses in neural cells. Conversely,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 Adolfo De Sanctis , Iddo Amit , Steven P. Hepplestone , Monica F. Craciun , Saverio Russo

Quantum entanglement phase transitions have provided new insights to quantum many-body dynamics. Both disorders and measurements are found to induce similar entanglement transitions. Here, we provide a theoretical framework that unifies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Qinghong Yang , Yi Zuo , Dong E. Liu

Increasing of electronic thermal conductivity of superconductor in the model with nontrivial density of states was considered. The electronic thermal conductivity K(T) of SC in the presence of external magnetic field was investigated. It…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 N. K. Fedorov

In polar semiconductors and insulators, the Fr\"ohlich interaction between electrons and long-wavelength longitudinal optical phonons induces a many-body renormalization of the carrier effective masses and the appearence of characteristic…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-10 Nikolaus Kandolf , Carla Verdi , Feliciano Giustino

Simultaneous occurrence of the Mott and band gap in correlated semiconductors results in a complex optical response with the nature of the absorption edge difficult to resolve both experimentally and theoretically. Here, we combine a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-16 Anna Galler , James Boust , Alain Demourgues , Silke Biermann , Leonid V. Pourovskii

Lattice mismatch in layered semiconductor structures with submicron length scales leads to extremely high nonuniform strains. This paper presents a finite element technique for incorporating the effects of the nonuniform strain into an…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 H. T. Johnson , L. B. Freund , C. D. Akyuz , A. Zaslavsky

The frequency-dependent conductivity is studied for both the one-dimensional Hubbard model and a model of spinless fermions, using a selection rule, the Bethe ansatz energy eigenstates, and conformal invariance. For densities where the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. P. Carmelo , P. D. Sacramento , N. M. R. Peres , D. Baeriswyl

We study theoretically the coherent nonlinear optical response of doped semiconductors with partially occupied subbands. When the Fermi energy of an occupied subband approaches the exciton level of an upper subband, the absorption spectrum…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 T. V. Shahbazyan , N. Primozich , I. E. Perakis , D. S. Chemla

We consider theoretically nonlinear effects in a semiconductor quantum well embedded inside a photonic microcavity. Two-photon absorption by a 2p exciton state is considered and investigated; the matrix element of two-photon absorption is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 A. A. Pervishko , T. C. H. Liew , V. M. Kovalev , I. G. Savenko , I. A. Shelykh

A rigorous evaluation of the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal effect for finite-size targets is performed within the path integral approach previously developed in ref. [4]. The bremsstrahlung rate in QED is expressed through a solution of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 B. G. Zakharov

A new approach to the Helmholtz spectrum for arbitrarily shaped boundaries and a rather general class of boundary conditions is introduced. We derive the boundary induced change of the density of states in terms of the free Green's function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Thorsten Emig

Exotic electronic states are realized in novel quantum materials. This field is revolutionized by the topological classification of materials. Such compounds necessarily host unique states on their boundaries. Scanning tunneling microscopy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Nurit Avraham , Jonathan Reiner , Abhay Kumar-Nayak , Noam Morali , Rajib Batabyal , Binghai Yan , Haim Beidenkopf

Electrodynamic properties of the graphene - magnetic semiconductor - graphene sandwich-structure have been investigated theoretically with taking into account the dissipation processes. Influence of graphene layers on electromagnetic waves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-31 Dmitry A. Kuzmin , Igor V. Bychkov , Vladimir G. Shavrov

Nucleation of the pair condensate near surfaces above the upper critical magnetic field and the pair-condensate enhancement/suppression induced by changes in the electron-phonon interaction at interfaces are the most known examples of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-18 Yunfei Bai , Libo Zhang , Xiaobing Luo , A. A. Shanenko , Yajiang Chen

Adsorption of small ligands on semiconductor surfaces is a possible route to modify these surfaces so that they can be used in biosensing and optoelectronic devices. In this work we perform density-functional theory calculations of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-01 Dennis Franke , Michael Lorke , Thomas Frauenheim , Andreia Luisa da Rosa

Using first-principles calculations, we investigate the photogalvanic effect in the Weyl semimetal material TaAs. We find colossal photocurrents caused by the Weyl points in the band structuure in a wide range of laser frequency. Our…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-04 Yang Zhang , Hiroaki Ishizuka , Jeroen van den Brink , Claudia Felser , Binghai Yan , Naoto Nagaosa