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Light-induced valley currents and magnetization in graphene rings
We study the non-equilibrium dynamics in a mesoscopic graphene ring excited
by picoseconds shaped electromagnetic pulses. We predict an ultrafast buildup
of charge polarization, currents and orbital magnetization. Applying the light
pulses identified here, non-equilibrium valley currents are generated in a
graphene ring threaded by a stationary magnetic flux. We predict a finite
graphene ring magnetization even for a vanishing charge current; the
magnetization emerges due to the light-induced difference of the valley
populations.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Microwave Response of V3Si Single Crystals: Evidence for Two-Gap Superconductivity
The investigation of the temperature dependences of microwave surface
impedance and complex conductivity of V3Si single crystals with different
stoichiometry allowed to observe a number of peculiarities which are in
remarkable contradiction with single-gap Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory. At
the same time, they can be well described by two-band model of
superconductivity, thus strongly evidencing the existence of two distinct
energy gaps with zero-temperature values Delta1~1.8Tc and Delta2~0.95Tc in
V3Si.Comment: Submitted to Europhysics Letter
Detecting Bose-Einstein condensation of exciton-polaritons via electron transport
We examine the Bose-Einstein condensation of exciton-polaritons in a
semiconductor microcavity via an electrical current. We propose that by
embedding a quantum dot p-i-n junction inside the cavity, the tunneling current
through the device can reveal features of condensation due to a one-to-one
correspondence of the photons to the condensate polaritons. Such a device can
also be used to observe the phase interference of the order parameters from two
condensates.Comment: 5 Pages, 3 Figure
Interaction of strongly correlated electrons and acoustical phonons
We investigate the interaction of correlated electrons with acoustical
phonons using the extended Hubbard-Holstein model in which both, the
electron-phonon interaction and the on-site Coulomb repulsion are considered to
be strong. The Lang-Firsov canonical transformation allows to obtain mobile
polarons for which a new diagram technique and generalized Wick's theorem is
used. This allows to handle the Coulomb repulsion between the electrons emerged
into a sea of phonon fields (\textit{phonon clouds}). The physics of emission
and absorption of the collective phonon-field mode by the polarons is discussed
in detail. Moreover, we have investigated the different behavior of optical and
acoustical phonon clouds when propagating through the lattice. In the
strong-coupling limit of the electron-phonon interaction, and in the normal as
well as in the superconducting phase, chronological thermodynamical averages of
products of acoustical phonon-cloud operators can be expressed by one-cloud
operator averages. While the normal one-cloud propagator has the form of a
Lorentzian, the anomalous one is of Gaussian form and considerably smaller.
Therefore, the anomalous electron Green's functions can be considered to be
more important than corresponding polarons functions, i.e., pairing of
electrons without phonon-clouds is easier to achieve than pairing of polarons
with such clouds.Comment: : 28 pages, 9 figures, revtex4. Invited paper for a special issue of
Low Temperature Physics dedicated to the 20th anniversary of HTS
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