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A complete methodology, based on a two-scale asymptotic approach, that enables the homogenisation of elastic lattices at non-zero frequencies is developed. Elastic lattices are distinguished from scalar lattices in that two or more types of…

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Electrical transport in semiconductor superlattices is studied within a fully self-consistent quantum transport model based on nonequilibrium Green functions, including phonon and impurity scattering. We compute both the drift…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Wacker , A. -P. Jauho , S. Rott , A. Markus , P. Binder , G. H. D"ohler

Bloch oscillations (BO) in complex lattices with PT symmetry are theoretically investigated with specific reference to optical BO in photonic lattices with gain/loss regions. Novel dynamical phenomena with no counterpart in ordinary…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-01-08 S. Longhi

A numerical study of domain wall relocation during voltage switching with different ramping times is presented for weakly coupled, doped semiconductor superlattices exhibiting multistable domain formation in the first plateau of their…

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We report an experimental study of miniband magnetoconduction in semiconducting InAs/GaSb superlattices. For samples with miniband widths below the longitudinal optical phonon energy we identify a new superlattice magnetophonon resonance…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 R. S. Deacon , A. B. Henriques , R. J. Nicholas , P. A. Shields

We study the reflection of Bloch wavepackets at the interface of optical lattice possessing a shallow longitudinal out-of-phase refractive index modulation in adjacent waveguides. We show that the relation between the transmitted and…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-20 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Victor A. Vysloukh , Lluis Torner

We numerically investigate the effects of inhomogeneities in the energy spectrum of aperiodic semiconductor superlattices, focusing our attention on Thue-Morse and Fibonacci sequences. In the absence of disorder, the corresponding…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Enrique Macia , Francisco Dominguez-Adame

The exciton absorption coefficient is determined analytically for a semiconductor superlattice in crossed electric and magnetic fields, for the magnetic field being parallel and the electric field being perpendicular to the superlattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 B. S. Monozon , V. G. Bezchastnov , P. Schmelcher

We consider the spontaneous creation of a dc voltage across a strongly coupled semiconductor superlattice subjected to THz radiation. We show that the dc voltage may be approximately proportional either to an integer or to a half- integer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kirill N. Alekseev , Ethan H. Cannon , Feodor V. Kusmartsev , David K. Campbell

It has been found that periodically closely spaced vacancies on a graphite sheet cause a significant rearrange-ment of its electronic spectrum: metallic waveguides with a high density of states near the Fermi level are formed along the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 L. A. Chernozatonskii , P. B. Sorokin , E. E. Belova , J. Bruning , A. S. Fedorov

We numerically investigate the damping of Bloch oscillations in a one-dimensional lattice potential whose translational symmetry is broken in a systematic manner, either by making the potential bichromatic or by introducing scatterers at…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-04-13 Stefan Walter , Dominik Schneble , Adam C. Durst

Nonreciprocal transport is generally observed in superconductors in which time reversal and inversion symmetries are simultaneously broken. This effect, which may become one of the backbones for future superconducting electronics, arises…

We find the conditions for a rectification of electromagnetic wave in a lateral semiconductor superlattice with a high mobility of electrons. The rectification is assisted by a transition to a dissipative chaos at a very high mobility. We…

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Modern nanophotonic and meta-optical devices utilize a tremendous number of structural degrees of freedom to enhance light--matter interactions. A fundamental question is how large such enhancements can be. We develop an analytical…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-13 Zeyu Kuang , Lang Zhang , Owen D. Miller

We propose that the presence of a rotationally symmetric charge density wave (CDW) with the modulation of 4-lattice constant in high-$T_c$ superconductors is essentially responsible for an anomalous quasiparticle dispersion revealed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Zhou , Z. D. Wang

The electric losses in a bulk or film superconductor exposed to a parallel radio-frequency magnetic field may have three origins: In homogeneous vortex-free superconductors losses proportional to the frequency squared originate from the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-08-16 Ernst Helmut Brandt

We present evidence of the existence of a superdiffusive regime in systems with correlated disorder for which localization is suppressed. An expression for anomalous electrical conductivity at low frequencies is found by using a generalized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fernando A. Oliveira , Rafael Morgado , Alex Hansen , J. M. Rubi

A standard drift-diffusion model of space charge wave propagation in semiconductors has been studied numerically and analytically under dc voltage bias. For sufficiently long samples, appropriate contact resistivity and applied voltage -…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 I. R. Cantalapiedra , M. J. Bergmann , L. L. Bonilla , S. W. Teitsworth

A metamaterial with frequency dependent double negative effective properties is constructed from a sub-wavelength periodic array of coated rods. Explicit power series are developed for the dispersion relation and associated Bloch wave…

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