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We seek for the optimal strategy to infer the width $a$ of an infinite potential wells by performing measurements on the particle(s) contained in the well. In particular, we address quantum estimation theory as the proper framework to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Ilaria Pizio , Shivani Singh , C. M. Chandrashekar , Matteo G. A. Paris

We describe studies on the nanoscale transport dynamics of carriers in strained AlN/GaN/AlN quantum wells: an electron-hole bilayer charge system with large difference in transport properties between the two charge layers. From electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-17 H. Condori Quispe , S. M. Islam , S. Bader , A. Chanana , K. Lee , R. Chaudhuri , A. Nahata , H. G. Xing , D. Jena , B. Sensale-Rodriguez

In this work, we investigate the scattering of massless plane scalar waves by the high dimensional noncommutative Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black hole. We use the partial wave approach to determine the scattering and absorption cross…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-23 Mao-Yuan Wan , Chen Wu

The effect of the photoinduced absorption of terahertz (THz) radiation in a semi-insulating GaAs crystal is studied by the pulsed THz transmission spectroscopy. We found that a broad-band modulation of THz radiation may be induced by a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-08-24 A. S. Kurdyubov , A. V. Trifonov , I. Ya. Gerlovin , I. V. Ignatiev , A. V. Kavokin

We report a comprehensive theoretical analysis of the instability achievable by using phase modulation spectroscopy to lock a terahertz local oscillator to an absorptive reference consisting of the rotational transition of molecules at room…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 W. F. McGrew , James Greenberg , Keisuke Nose , Brendan M. Heffernan , Antoine Rolland

We have studied CR lineshape of terahertz-light-induced current in InAs quantum wells in tilted quantizing magnetic fields. We have observed dramatic modification of the lineshape with increasing of in-plane component of magnetic field as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. A. Emelyanov

In a recent Letter [Appl. Phys. Lett. 82, 1015 (2003)], Williams et al. reported the development of a terahertz quantum cascade laser operating at 3.4 THz or 14.2 meV. We have calculated and analyzed the gain spectra of the quantum cascade…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. -C. Lee , A. Wacker

Based on the quantum transport equation for the electron-phonon system, the absorption coefficient of sound (acoustic phonons) by absorption of laser radiation in cylindrical quantum wires is calculated for the case of monophoton absorption…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Nguyen Quoc Hung , Nguyen Vu Nhan , Nguyen Quang Bau

The electromagnetic spectrum in the terahertz frequency region is of significant importance for understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies and stars throughout the history of the universe and the process of planet formation.…

We show that additional features can emerge in the linear absorption spectra of homonuclear diatomic molecules when the ions are described quantum mechanically. In particular, the widths and energies of the peaks in the optical spectra…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2015-03-26 A. Crawford-Uranga , D. J. Mowbray , D. M. Cardamone

Terahertz waves hold immense potential across diverse fields, including healthcare monitoring, biomedical imaging, precision navigation, high-speed communication, security screening, industrial quality control, and space exploration.…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-13 Yifan Zhao , Shahed-E- Zumrat , Szu-An Tsao , Mona Jarrahi

We suggest a method for calculating electronic spectra in ordered and disordered semiconductor structures (superlattices) forming double quantum wells (QW). In our method, we represent the solution of Schr\"odinger equation for QW potential…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-13 Piotr Garbaczewski , Vladimir A. Stephanovich , Grzegorz Engel

Temperature dependence of intersubband transitions in AlN/GaN multiple quantum wells grown with molecular beam epitaxy is investigated both by absorption studies at different temperatures and modeling of conduction-band electrons. For the…

We study the spectral properties of electron quantum dots (QDs) confined in 2D parabolic harmonic oscillator influenced by external uniform electrical and magnetic fields together with an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) flux field. We use the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-26 Sameer M. Ikhdair , Majid Hamzavi , Ramazan Sever

We have theoretically investigated nonlinear free-carrier absorption of terahertz radiation in InAs/AlSb heterojunctions. By considering multiple photon process and conduction-valence interband impact ionization (II), we have determined the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 J. C. Cao

We present microscopic calculations of the absorption spectra for GaN/Al(x)Ga(1-x)N quantum well systems. Whereas the quantum well structures with the parabolic law of dispersion exhibit the usual bleaching of an exciton resonance without…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-03 L. O. Lokot

We develop a modal method that solves Maxwell's equations in the presence of the linearized hydrodynamic correction. Using this approach, it is now possible to calculate the full diffraction for structures with period of the order of the…

Optics · Physics 2013-11-15 Avner Yanai , N. Asger Mortensen , Uriel Levy

We recently demonstrated orders of magnitude enhancement of two-photon absorption (2PA) in direct gap semiconductors due to intermediate state resonance enhancement for photons of very different energies. It can be expected that further…

We investigate theoretically polygonal quantum rings and focus mostly on the triangular geometry where the corner effects are maximal. Such rings can be seen as short core-shell nanowires, a generation of semiconductor heterostructures with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Anna Sitek , Llorenç Serra , Vidar Gudmundsson , Andrei Manolescu

Electron capture times in a separate confinement quantum well (QW) structure with finite electron density are calculated for electron-electron (e-e) and electron-polar optic phonon (e-pop) scattering. We find that the capture time…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 K. Kalna , M. Mosko , F. M. Peeters