99 research outputs found
Diffraction theory and focusing of light by left-handed materials
A diffraction theory in a system consisting of left-handed and right-handed
materials is proposed. The theory is based upon the Huygens's principle and the
Kirchhoff's integral and it is valid if the wavelength is smaller than any
relevant length of the system. The theory is applied to the calculation of the
smearing of the foci of the Veselago lens due to the finite wavelength. We show
that the Veselago lens is a unique optical instrument for the 3D imaging, but
it is not a ``superlens'' as it has been claimed recently.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figure
noise in variable range hopping conduction
A mechanism of noise due to traps formed by impurities which have no
neighbors with close energies in their vicinity is studied. Such traps slowly
exchange electrons with the rest of conducting media. The concentration of
traps and proportional to it noise exponentially grow with decreasing
temperature in the variable range hopping regime. This theory provides smooth
transition to the nearest neighbor hopping case where it predicts a very weak
temperature dependence
Propagation of waves in metallic photonic crystals at low frequencies and some theoretical aspects of left-handed materials
An analytical theory of low frequency electromagnetic waves in metallic
photonic crystals with a small volume fraction of a metal is presented. The
evidence of the existence of such waves has been found recently via experiments
and computations. We have obtained an exact dispersion equation for omega (k)
and studied the cutoff frequency omega_0 = omega(0) as a function of parameters
of the photonic crystal. An analytical expression for the permittivity epsilon
is calculated. It is shown, that if the crystal is embedded into a medium with
negative mu, it has no propagating modes at any frequency. Thus, such a
compound system is not a left-handed material (LHM). The recent experimental
results on the LHM are discussed.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
Imaging of Low Compressibility Strips in the Quantum Hall Liquid
Using Subsurface Charge Accumulation scanning microscopy we image strips of
low compressibility corresponding to several integer Quantum Hall filling
factors. We study in detail the strips at Landau level filling factors
2 and 4. The observed strips appear significantly wider than predicted by
theory. We present a model accounting for the discrepancy by considering a
disorder-induced nonzero density of states in the cyclotron gap.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
A Renormalization-Group approach to the Coulomb Gap
The free energy of the Coulomb Gap problem is expanded as a set of Feynman
diagrams, using the standard diagrammatic methods of perturbation theory. The
gap in the one-particle density of states due to long-ranged interactions
corresponds to a renormalization of the two-point vertex function. By
collecting the leading order logarithmic corrections we have derived the
standard result for the density of states in the critical dimension, d=1. This
method, which is shown to be identical to the approach of Thouless, Anderson
and Palmer to spin glasses, allows us to derive the strong-disorder behaviour
of the density of states. The use of the renormalization group allows this
derivation to be extended to all disorders, and the use of an epsilon-expansion
allows the method to be extended to d=2 and d=3. We speculate that the
renormalization group equations can also be derived diagrammatically, allowing
a simple derivation of the crossover behaviour observed in the case of weak
disorder.Comment: 16 pages, LaTeX. Diagrams available on request from
[email protected]. Changes to figure 4 and second half of section
Dielectric photonic crystal as medium with negative electric permittivity and magnetic permeability
We show that a two-dimensional photonic crystal (PC) made from a non-magnetic
dielectric is a left-handed material in the sense defined by Veselago. Namely,
it has negative values of both the electric permittivity and the
magnetic permeability in some frequency range. This follows from a
recently proven general theorem. The negative values of and
are found by a numerical simulation. Using these values we demonstrate the
Veselago lens, a unique optical device predicted by Veselago. An approximate
analytical theory is proposed to calculate the values of and
from the PC band structure. It gives the results that are close to those
obtained by the numerical simulation. The theory explains how a non-zero
magnetization arises in a non-magnetic PC.Comment: 11 pages 4 figure
The Effects of Disorder on the Quantum Hall State
A disorder-averaged Hartree-Fock treatment is used to compute the density of
single particle states for quantum Hall systems at filling factor . It
is found that transport and spin polarization experiments can be simultaneously
explained by a model of mostly short-range effective disorder. The slope of the
transport gap (due to quasiparticles) in parallel field emerges as a result of
the interplay between disorder-induced broadening and exchange, and has
implications for skyrmion localization.Comment: 4 pages, 3 eps figure
Thomas-Fermi-Poisson theory of screening for latterally confined and unconfined two-dimensional electron systems in strong magnetic fields
We examine within the self-consistent Thomas-Fermi-Poisson approach the
low-temperature screening properties of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG)
subjected to strong perpendicular magnetic fields. Numerical results for the
unconfined 2DEG are compared with those for a simplified Hall bar geometry
realized by two different confinement models. It is shown that in the strongly
non-linear screening limit of zero temperature the total variation of the
screened potential is related by simple analytical expressions to the amplitude
of an applied harmonic modulation potential and to the strength of the magnetic
field.Comment: 12 pages, 12 figure
Anomalous magnetophotoluminescence as a result of level repulsion in arrays of quantum dots
Selectively excited photoluminescence (SPL) of an array of self-organized
InGaAs quantum dots has been measured in a magnetic field up to
11T. Anomalous magnetic field sensitivity of the SPL spectra has been observed
under conditions for which the regular photoluminescence spectra is insensitive
to the magnetic field due to large inhomogeneous broadening. The anomalous
sensitivity is interpreted in terms of the repulsion of excited levels of the
dots in a random potential. A theory presented to describe this phenomena is in
excellent agreement with the experimental data. The data estimated the
correlation in the positions of excited levels of the dots to be 94%. The
magnetic field dependence allows the determination of the reduced cyclotron
effective mass in a dot. For our sample we have obtained
.Comment: 12 revtex preprint pages + 4 ps figures, uuencode
Optical properties of arrays of quantum dots with internal disorder
Optical properties of large arrays of isolated quantum dots are discussed in
order to interpret the existent photoluminescence data. The presented theory
explains the large observed shift between the lowest emission and absorption
energies as the average distance between the ground and first excited states of
the dots. The lineshape of the spectra is calculated for the case when the
fluctuations of the energy levels in quantum dots are due to the alloy
composition fluctuations. The calculated lineshape is in good agreement with
the experimental data. The influence of fluctuations of the shape of quantum
dots on the photoluminescence spectra is also discussed.Comment: 7 pages (twocolumn) LATEX, 6 Postscript figure
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