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In this study, we experimentally investigate the application of a transient signal with complex frequencies to the absorption and transmission of sound waves. Indeed, the emission of a wave with an exponentially varying amplitude in time is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Anis Maddi , Gaelle Poignand , Vassos Achilleos , Vincent Pagneux , Guillaume Penelet

Ideal absorption describes a particular means of optimizing light-matter interactions with a host of potential applications. This work presents new analytic formulas and describes semi-analytical methods for the design of electric or…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-08 Victor Grigoriev , Nicolas Bonod , Jerome Wenger , Brian Stout

Bose-Einstein condensation is a phenomenon well known for material particles as cold atomic gases, and this concept has in recent years been extended to photons confined in microscopic optical cavities. Essential for the operation of such a…

We investigate the nonlinear scattering dynamics in interacting atomic Bose-Einstein condensates under non-Hermitian dissipative conditions. We show that by carefully engineering a momentum-dependent atomic loss profile one can achieve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 S. Wüster , R. El-Ganainy

Recently, the photon absorption attracts lots of interest and plays an important role in a variety of applications. Here, we propose a valuable scheme to investigate the perfect photon absorption in a hybrid atom-optomechanical system both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Yang Zhang , Amjad Sohail , Chang-shui Yu

Utilizing the effect of losses, we show that symmetric 3-port devices exhibit coherent perfect absorption of waves and we provide the corresponding conditions on the reflection and transmission coefficients. Infinite combinations of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-04-23 O. Richoux , V. Achilleos , G. Theocharis , I. Brouzos

Lasers provide intense coherent radiation, essential to cool and trap atoms into a Bose-Einstein condensate or can alternatively drive the non-linear dynamics of high-order harmonic generation. Yet, these two fundamental processes remained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Philipp Stammer

We have observed Bose-Einstein condensation of an atomic gas in the (quasi-)uniform three-dimensional potential of an optical box trap. Condensation is seen in the bimodal momentum distribution and the anisotropic time-of-flight expansion…

We suggest graphene and a two-dimensional (2D) Weyl semimetal (WSM) as 2D materials for the realization of a broadband coherent perfect absorber (CPA) respecting overall PT-symmetry. We also demonstrate the conditions for mutually equal…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-16 Mustafa Sarisaman , Murat Tas

A dynamical correspondence is established between positively curved, isotropic, perfect fluid cosmologies and quasi-two-dimensional, harmonically trapped Bose-Einstein condensates by mapping the equations of motion for both systems onto the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 James E. Lidsey

We examine the absorption spectrum of electromagnetic radiation from excitons, where an exciton in the $1s$ state absorbs a photon and makes a transition to the $2p$ state. We demonstrate that the absorption spectrum depends strongly on the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Johnsen , G. M. Kavoulakis

Achieving the very special condition of perfect absorption (PA) in a complex scattering enclosure promises to enable a wealth of applications in secure communication, precision sensing, wireless power transfer, analog signal processing and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-02-09 Mohammadreza F. Imani , David R. Smith , Philipp del Hougne

Based on doubly detuned Raman transitions between (meta) stable atomic or molecular states and recently developed atom counting techniques, a detection scheme for sound waves in dilute Bose-Einstein condensates is proposed whose accuracy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ralf Schützhold

We demonstrate a way to coherently control light at the nanoscale and achieve coherent perfect absorption (CPA) by using epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) plasmonic waveguides. The presented waveguides support an effective ENZ response at their…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-29 Ying Li , Christos Argyropoulos

We study an atomic quantum dot representing a single hyperfine "impurity" atom which is coherently coupled to two well-separated Bose-Einstein condensates, in the limit when the coupling between the dot and the condensates dominates the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-05-12 Uwe R. Fischer , Christian Iniotakis , Anna Posazhennikova

We propose a new method to measure the absolute photon absorption cross section of neutral molecules in a molecular beam. It is independent of our knowledge of the particle beam density, nor does it rely on photo-induced fragmentation or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-31 Stefan Nimmrichter , Klaus Hornberger , Hendrik Ulbricht , Markus Arndt

We consider the nonlinear scattering and transmission of an atom laser, or Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) on a finite rectangular potential barrier. The nonlinearity inherent in this problem leads to several new physical features beyond the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-05 Lincoln D. Carr , Rachel R. Miller , Daniel R. Bolton , Scott A. Strong

We review and extend the theory of the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensation in weakly interacting atomic gases. We present in a unified way both the semiclassical theory as well as the full quantum theory. This is achieved by deriving a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. T. C. Stoof

One-particle reduced density matrix functional theory would potentially be the ideal approach for describing Bose-Einstein condensates. It namely replaces the macroscopically complex wavefunction by the simple one-particle reduced density…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-04-13 Julia Liebert , Christian Schilling

We investigate the coherence properties of an atomic beam evaporatively cooled in a magnetic guide, assuming thermal equilibrium in the quantum degenerate regime. The gas experiences two-dimensional, transverse Bose-Einstein condensation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yvan Castin , Ralph Dum , Emmanuel Mandonnet , Anna Minguzzi , Iacopo Carusotto