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We examine the high-frequency differential conductivity response properties of semiconductor superlattices having various miniband dispersion laws. Our analysis shows that the anharmonicity of Bloch oscillations (beyond tight-binding…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Yuriy A. Romanov , Lev G. Mourokh , Norman J. M. Horing

Achieving Bloch oscillations of free carriers under a direct current, a long-sought-after collective many-body behavior, has been challenging due to stringent constraints on the band properties. We argue that the flat bands in moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Ali Fahimniya , Zhiyu Dong , Egor Kiselev , Leonid Levitov

We study nonlinear wave phenomena in coupled ring resonator optical waveguides in the tight coupling regime. A discrete model for the system dynamics is put forward and its steady state nonlinear Bloch modes are derived. The switching…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-10-24 P. Chamorro-Posada , P. Martín-Ramos , J. Sánchez-Curto , J. C. Garcia-Escartin , J. A. Calzada , C. Palencia , A. Durán

We show that GHz acoustic waves in semiconductor superlattices can induce THz electron dynamics that depend critically on the wave amplitude. Below a threshold amplitude, the acoustic wave drags electrons through the superlattice with a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-06-11 M. T. Greenaway , A. G. Balanov , D. Fowler , A. J. Kent , T. M. Fromhold

Tunable oscillatory modes of electric-field domains in doped semiconductor superlattices are reported. The experimental investigations demonstrate the realization of tunable, GHz frequencies in GaAs-AlAs superlattices covering the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Kastrup , R. Hey , K. H. Ploog , H. T. Grahn , L. L. Bonilla , M. Kindelan , M. Moscoso , A. Wacker

We fabricate a microscale electromechanical system, in which a suspended superconducting membrane, treated as a mechanical oscillator, capacitively couples to a superconducting microwave resonator. As the microwave driving power increases,…

In two recent Letters [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 046806; Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 057408], Hirakawa et al. investigate the emission of coherent terahertz (THz) radiation from optically excited superlattices. The authors interpret the spectra of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Lisauskas , N. V. Demarina , E. Mohler , H. G. Roskos

We investigate the electronic Bloch oscillation in bilayer graphene gradient superlattices using transfer matrix method. By introducing two kinds of gradient potentials of square barriers along electrons propagation direction, we find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-01 Hemeng Cheng , Changan Li , Tianxing Ma , Li-Gang Wang , Yun Song , Hai-Qing Lin

We analyze theoretically the spin dynamics of exciton-polaritons and photons during their Bloch oscillations in a one-dimensional microwire. The wire geometry induces an energy splitting between the longitudinal and transverse electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-30 Hugo Flayac , Dmitry Solnyshkov , Guillaume Malpuech

The stable precession region in the spintronic oscillator with an in-plane magnetic tunnel junction is very narrow under small external fields, restricting its applications such as for microwave generators. Here we show that this region can…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Zhu Zhifeng , Deng Jiefang , Fong Xuanyao , Liang Gengchiau

We have employed Bloch-wave engineering to realize submicron diameter ultra-high quality factor GaAs/AlAs micropillars (MPs). The design features a tapered cavity in which the fundamental Bloch mode is subject to an adiabatic transition to…

It is well known that oscillations at the electron plasma frequency may appear due to instability of the plasma sheath near a positively biased electrode immersed in plasma. This instability is caused by transit-time effects when electrons,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Y. Bliokh , J. Felsteiner , Ya. Z. Slutsker

Under a perfect periodic potential, the electric current density induced by a constant electric field may exhibit nontrivial oscillations, so-called Bloch oscillations, with an amplitude that remains nonzero in the large system size limit.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-04 Yankang Liu , Yohei Fuji , Haruki Watanabe

Laser diodes with optical feedback can exhibit periodic intensity oscillations at or near the relaxation-oscillation frequency. We demonstrate optoelectronic oscillators based on external-cavity semiconductor lasers in a periodic dynamical…

In a semiconductor superlattice with long scattering times, damping of Bloch oscillations due to scattering is so small that convective nonlinearities may compensate it and Bloch oscillations persist even in the hydrodynamic regime. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 L. L. Bonilla , M. Álvaro , M. Carretero

The experimental device for generation of undulator radiation in terahertz wavelength region by use of undulator on ferromagnets is created. The device is based on a beam of a microtrone with the energy 7.5 MeV. The radiation wavelength is…

In the absence of an applied magnetic field, a spin-torque nano oscillator(STNO) with a tilted polarizer is studied using numerical simulation of the associated Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert-Slonczewski equation. We find considerable enhancement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 R. Arun , 1 R. Gopal , V. K. Chandrasekar , M. Lakshmanan

We report the experimental realization of a new kind of optical lattice for ultra-cold atoms where arbitrarily large separation between the sites can be achieved without renouncing to the stability of ordinary lattices. Two collinear…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-07-14 L. Masi , T. Petrucciani , G. Ferioli , G. Semeghini , G. Modugno , M. Inguscio , M. Fattori

We demonstrate an ultralow-noise microrod-resonator based laser that oscillates on the gain supplied by the stimulated Brillouin scattering optical nonlinearity. Microresonator Brillouin lasers are known to offer an outstanding frequency…

We propose to synchronize Bloch oscillations in a double phase-slip junction by modulating the gate voltage rather than the bias voltage. We show this is advantageous and the relatively small a.c. modulation of the gate voltage gives rise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Janis Erdmanis , Yuli Nazarov