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We show that light scattering from an ultracold gas reveals not only density correlations, but also matter-field interference at its shortest possible distance in an optical lattice, which defines key properties such as tunneling and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 Wojciech Kozlowski , Santiago F. Caballero-Benitez , Igor B. Mekhov

Brillouin light scattering is an established technique to study magnons, the elementary excitations of a magnet. Its efficiency can be enhanced by cavities that concentrate the light intensity. Here, we theoretically study inelastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Sanchar Sharma , Yaroslav M. Blanter , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

A discrete analogue of the dynamical (Kapitza) trapping effect, known for classical and quantum particles in rapidly oscillating potentials, is proposed for light waves in modulated graded-index waveguide lattices. As in the non-modulated…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-27 Stefano Longhi

The band gap, a key concept in solid-state physics, is traditionally explained by the Bragg diffraction of electron waves in the periodic potential of a crystal. Although widely accepted, this framework raises fundamental issues in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-28 Koichi Kajiyama

Nonlinear effects in emission and absorption spectra of gaseous systems are considered. It is shown that level splitting can be detected spectroscopically even if it is below the Doppler width. Conditions for distinguishing interference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Ya. Popova , A. K. Popov , S. G. Rautian , R. I. Sokolovskii

We study quantum squeezing and entanglement of gap solitons in a Bose-Einstein condensate loaded into a one-dimensional optical lattice. By employing a linearized quantum theory we find that quantum noise squeezing of gap solitons, produced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Ray-Kuang Lee , Elena A. Ostrovskaya , Yuri S. Kivshar , Yinchieh Lai

Optical parametric process occurring in a photonic band-gap planar waveguide is studied from the point of view of nonclassical-light generation. Nonlinearly interacting optical fields are described by the generalized superposition of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jan Perina , Concita Sibilia , Daniela Tricca , Mario Bertolotti

Light propagation in a nonlinear optical medium is nonreciprocal for spatially asymmetric linear permittivity. We here examine physical mechanism and properties of such nonreciprocity (NR). For this, we calculate transmission of light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-29 Dibyendu Roy

The system of coupled discrete equations describing a two-component superlattice with interlaced linear and nonlinear constituents is revisited as a basis for investigating binary waveguide arrays, such as ribbed AlGaAs structures, among…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Kyriakos Hizanidis , Yannis Kominis , Nikolaos K. Efremidis

The photon spectrum from electrons scattering on multiple laser pulses exhibits interference effects not present for scattering on a single pulse. We investigate the conditions required for the experimental observation of these interference…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-04-13 Anton Ilderton , Ben King , Suo Tang

We study the dc photocurrent induced by linearly polarized light in a multiband Dirac-electron system, focusing on the organic conductor $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$. Utilizing perturbation theory, we predict the dependence of shift current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 Keisuke Kitayama , Masao Ogata

In this theoretical paper, we investigate coherence properties of the near-resonant light scattered by two atoms exposed to a strong monochromatic field. To properly incorporate saturation effects, we use a quantum Langevin approach. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Benoît Grémaud , Thomas Wellens , Dominique Delande , Christian Miniatura

Bragg diffraction of an atomic wave packet in a retroreflective geometry with two counterpropagating optical lattices exhibits a light shift induced phase. We show that the temporal shape of the light pulse determines the behavior of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Enno Giese , Alexander Friedrich , Sven Abend , Ernst M. Rasel , Wolfgang P. Schleich

We study optical wave manipulations through high-index dielectric metalattices in both diffractionless metasurface and diffractive metagrating regimes. It is shown that the collective lattice couplings can be employed to tune the excitation…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-03 Wei Liu , Andrey E. Miroshnichenko

Creating crystal bilayers twisted with respect to each other would lead to large periodic supercell structures, which can support a wide range of novel electron correlated phenomena, where the full understanding is still under debate. Here,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-08-01 Rui Tian , Yue Zhang , Tianhao Wu , Min Liu , Yong-Chang Zhang , Shuai Li , Bo Liu

We numerically investigate the light beam propagation in periodic waveguide arrays which are elaborately modulated with certain structures. We find that the light beam may split, coalesce, deflect, and be localized during propagation in…

We study active array imaging of small but strong scatterers in homogeneous media when multiple scattering between them is important. We use the Foldy-Lax equations to model wave propagation with multiple scattering when the scatterers are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Anwei Chai , Miguel Moscoso , George Papanicolaou

We found an amazingly simple general "all-band" intensity profile of bandgap (Bragg) solitons for arbitrary parameters of spatially-periodic nonlinear systems, similar to those of multi-frequency stimulated Raman scattering, in particular…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-21 A. E. Kaplan

Nonlinear optical phenomena are typically local. Here we predict the possibility of highly nonlocal optical nonlinearities for light propagating in atomic media trapped near a nano-waveguide, where long-range interactions between the atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-08 Ephraim Shahmoon , Pjotrs Grisins , Hans Peter Stimming , Igor Mazets , Gershon Kurizki

Bloch waves and Bloch band of Bose-Einstein Condensates in optical lattices are studied. We provide further evidence for the loop structure in the Bloch band, and compute the critical values of the mean-field interaction strength for the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Biao Wu , Roberto B. Diener , Qian Niu