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Photons are the elementary quantum excitations of the electromagnetic field. Quantization is usually constructed on the basis of an expansion in eigenmodes, in the form of plane waves. Since they form a basis, other electromagnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 M. Federico , V. Dorier , S. Guérin , H. R. Jauslin

We present a comprehensive theoretical description for an irradiation of an ultrashort light pulse normally on thin materials based on first-principles time-dependent density functional theory. As the most elaborate scheme, we develop a…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-31 Shunsuke Yamada , Masashi Noda , Katsuyuki Nobusada , Kazuhiro Yabana

Starting from the given passive particle equilibrium particle cylindrical profiles, we built self-consistent stationary conditions of the Maxwell-Vlasov equation at thermodynamic equilibrium with non-flat density profiles. The solutions to…

Topological manipulation of waves is at the heart of the cutting-edge metamaterial researches. Quadrupole topological insulators were recently discovered in two-dimensional (2D) flux-threading lattices which exhibit higher-order topological…

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We present a general theory for semiconductor polarons in the framework of the Froehlich interaction between electrons and phonons. The latter is investigated using non-commuting phonon creation/annihilation operators associated with a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-02-09 D. Obreschkow , F. Michelini , S. Dalessi , E. Kapon , M. -A. Dupertuis

A strategy for generating entanglement in two separated optomechanical oscillators is analysed, using entangled radiation produced from downconversion and stored in an initiating cavity. We show that the use of pulsed entanglement with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 S. Kiesewetter , R. Y. Teh , M. D. Reid , P. D. Drummond

Frontier orbitals, i.e., the highest occupied and lowest unoccupied orbitals of a molecule, generally determine molecular properties, such as chemical bonding and reactivities. Consequently, there has been a lot of interest in measuring…

Discrete-step walks describe the dynamics of particles in a lattice subject to hopping or splitting events at discrete times. Despite being of primordial interest to the physics of quantum walks, the topological properties arising from…

We study the hard-core bosons in one-dimensional (1D) interacting topological bands at different filling factors using exact diagonalization. At the filling factor $\nu=1$ and in the presence of on-site Hubbard interaction, we find no sign…

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Topological insulators represent unique phases of matter with insulating bulk and conducting edge or surface states, immune to small perturbations such as backscattering due to disorder. This stems from their peculiar band structure, which…

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We study geometrically thick perfect-fluid tori with constant specific angular momentum, so-called "Polish doughnuts", orbiting deformed compact objects with a quadrupole moment. More specifically, we consider two different asymptotically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-08 Jan-Menno Memmen , Volker Perlick

We find a solution of the wave equation in the paraxial approximation that describes the attosecond pulses with spatiotemporal helical structure in the phase and in the intensity recently generated by means of highly nonlinear optical…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-25 Miguel A. Porras

Fluorescence depletion microscopy techniques such as STED and RESOLFT require optical fields with a well-defined and spatially confined central intensity minimum to achieve sub-diffraction lateral resolution. Here, we present the design and…

Frequency blueshifting was recently observed in light pulses propagating on gas filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibers where a plasma has been produced due to photoionization of the gas. One of the propagation models that is adequate to…

Optics · Physics 2015-01-21 M. Facao , M. I. Carvalho

Topological corner state (TCS) and topological edge state (TES) have provided new approaches to control the propagation of light. The construction of topological coupled cavity-waveguide system (TCCWS) based on TCS and TES is worth looking…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-26 Aoqian Shi , Bei Yan , Rui Ge , Jianlan Xie , Yuchen Peng , Hang Li , Wei E. I. Sha , Jianjun Liu

Topological photonics shows considerable promise in revolutionizing photonic devices through the use of topological phases, leading to innovations like topological lasers that enhance light control. One of recent breakthroughs is reducing…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-16 Guangtai Lu , Yasutomo Ota , Satoshi Iwamoto

We conduct systematic studies of the optical characteristics of plasmonic nanoparticles that exhibit C2v symmetry. We analyze three distinct geometric configurations: an L-type shape, a crescent, and a split-ring resonator. Optical…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-24 Michael R. Clark , Syed A. Shah , Andrei Piryatinski , Maxim Sukharev

The control of physical properties of solids with short laser pulses is an intriguing prospect of ultrafast materials science. Continuous-wave high-frequency laser driving with circular polarization was predicted to induce a light-matter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-15 M. A. Sentef , M. Claassen , A. F. Kemper , B. Moritz , T. Oka , J. K. Freericks , T. P. Devereaux

We have analyzed the transmission properties of pulses through one-dimensional periodic structures in order to systematically explore the best conditions to achieve the maximum delay with the minimum possible distortion. In the absence of…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 O. del Barco , M. Ortuño

Light cone with the speed of light independent of its wavelength in vacuum has been known for long time. In the present work, we unveil that in a face-centered-cubic (fcc) lattice of dielectric spheres novel light cones can be created over…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-05 Takuto Kawakami , Xiao Hu