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A novel type of exciton-phonon bound state -- interlayer polaron -- in a double-layer two-dimensional semiconductor with transition metal dichalcogenides as an example, is predicted. In these systems the interaction of the interlayer…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-06 M. A. Semina , M. M. Glazov , E. Ya. Sherman

Cooling a mechanical mode to its motional ground state opens up avenues for both scientific and technological advancements in the field of quantum meteorology and information processing. We propose a multi-parameter optimization scheme for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-19 Neelesh Kumar Vij , Meenakshi Khosla , Shilpi Gupta

Strong coupling between light and matter occurs when the two interact strongly enough to form new hybrid modes called polaritons. Here we report on the strong coupling of both the electric and magnetic degrees of freedom to an ultrafast…

The coupling of magnons and plasmons offers a promising avenue for hybrid quantum systems, facilitating coherent energy and information transfer between magnetic and charge excitations. However, existing mechanisms often depend on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Pieter M. Gunnink , Alexander Mook

The phonon Hall effect conventionally describes the generation of a transverse heat current in an applied magnetic field. In this work, we extend the effect to hybrid light-matter excitations and demonstrate theoretically that phonon…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-22 Omer Yaniv , Dominik M. Juraschek

We consider the process of cooling of a heavy particle beam in a co-moving electron beam of low temperature guided by a solenoidal magnetic field. This paper summarizes the main results of theoretical studies of this process conducted by…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-06-02 Yaroslav S. Derbenev

Ultrastrong light-matter coupling opens exciting possibilities to generate squeezed quantum states and entanglement. Here we propose a way to achieve this regime in superconducting hybrid nanostructures with ferromagnetic interlayers.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Mikhail Silaev

We develop a theoretical model for polarization-selective phonon pumping induced by magnon-phonon coupling in a ferromagnetic/non-magnetic acoustic bilayer structure, focusing on the effects arising from a misalignment between the magnetic…

We investigate cooling of a vibrational mode of a magnetic quantum dot by a spin-polarized tunneling charge current, exploiting the interaction between the magnetization and the vibration. The spin-polarized charge current polarizes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-03 J. Brüggemann , S. Weiss , P. Nalbach , M. Thorwart

A scheme is presented to optimize the optomechanical cooling of mechanical resonator in instability regime. Based on the stability analysis, we uncovered a distinct bistable effect of photons and phonons, which can be used to realize a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 Wen-Zhao Zhang , Wen-Lin Li , Jiong Cheng , Qingxia Mu

Polaritons enable the resonant coupling of excitons and photons to vibrations in the application-relevant super high frequency (SHF, 3-30 GHz) domain. We introduce a novel platform for coherent optomechanics based on the coupling of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Alexander S. Kuznetsov , Diego H. O. Machado , Klaus Biermann , Paulo V. Santos

Subwavelength arrays of atoms trapped in optical lattices or tweezers are inherently susceptible to deformations: Optomechanical forces produce lattice distortions, which, in turn, modify the optical response of the array. We show that this…

We study a hybrid semiconductor-optomechanical system, which consists of a cavity with an oscillating mirror made by semiconducting materials or with a semiconducting membrane inside. The cavity photons and the excitons in the oscillating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 Sai-Nan Huai , Yu-Long Liu , Yunbo Zhang , Yu-xi Liu

Exciton-polaritons are mutually interacting quantum hybridizations of confined photons and electronic excitations. Here we demonstrate a system of optically guided, electrically polarized exciton-polaritons ('dipolaritons') that displays up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Itamar Rosenberg , Dror Liran , Yotam Mazuz-Harpaz , Kenneth West , Loren Pfeiffer , Ronen Rapaport

We propose using a phonon pumping mechanism to transfer heat from a cold to a hot body using a propagating modulation of the medium connecting the two bodies. This phonon pump can cool nanomechanical systems without the need for active…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Claudio Chamon , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Liliana Arrachea , Rodrigo B. Capaz

We show how to entangle two cavity-magnon polaritons (CMPs) formed by two strongly coupled microwave cavity and magnon modes. This is realized by introducing vibration phonons, via magnetostriction, into the system that are dispersively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Xuan Zuo , Zhi-Yuan Fan , Hang Qian , Rui-Chang Shen , Jie Li

Doppler and sideband cooling are long standing techniques that have been used together to prepare trapped atomic ions in their ground state of motion. In this paper we study how these techniques can be extended to cool both radial modes of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-11 P. Hrmo , M. K. Joshi , V. Jarlaud , O. Corfield , R. C. Thompson

Halide perovskites show unusual thermalisation kinetics for above bandgap photo-excitation. We explain this as a consequence of excess energy being deposited into discrete large polaron states. The cross-over between low-fluence and…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-07 Jarvist Moore Frost , Lucy D. Whalley , Aron Walsh

Strong coupling between two quanta of different excitations leads to the formation of a hybridized state which paves a way for exploiting new degrees of freedom to control phenomena with high efficiency and precision. A magnon polaron is…

Molecular polaritons are the optical excitations which emerge when molecular transitions interact strongly with confined electromagnetic fields. Increasing interest in the hybrid molecular-photonic materials that host these excitations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-26 Raphael F. Ribeiro , Luis A. Martínez-Martínez , Matthew Du , Jorge Campos-Gonzalez-Angulo , Joel Yuen-Zhou