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Far-infrared and submillimeter-wave conductivity in electron-doped cuprate La_{2-x}Ce_xCuO_4
We performed far-infrared and submillimeter-wave conductivity experiments in
the electron-doped cuprate La_{2-x}Ce_xCuO_4 with x = 0.081 (underdoped regime,
T_c = 25 K). The onset of the absorption in the superconducting state is
gradual in frequency and is inconsistent with the isotropic s-wave gap.
Instead, a narrow quasiparticle peak is observed at zero frequency and a second
peak at finite frequencies, clear fingerprints of the conductivity in a d-wave
superconductor. A far-infrared conductivity peak can be attributed to 4Delta_0,
or to 2Delta_0 + Delta_spin, where Delta_spin is the resonance frequency of the
spin-fluctuations. The infrared conductivity as well as the suppression of the
quasiparticle scattering rate below T_c are qualitatively similar to the
results in the hole-doped cuprates.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures include
On the peak in the far-infrared conductivity of strongly anisotropic cuprates
We investigate the far-infrared and submillimeter-wave conductivity of
electron-doped La_(2-x)Ce_xCuO_4 tilted 1 degree off from the ab-plane. The
effective conductivity measured for this tilt angle reveals an intensive peak
at finite frequency (\nu ~ 50 cm{-1}) due to a mixing of the in-plane and
out-of-plane responses. The peak disappears for the pure in-plane response and
transforms to the Drude-like contribution. Comparative analysis of the mixed
and the in-plane contributions allows to extract the c-axis conductivity which
shows a Josephson plasma resonance at 11.7 cm{-1} in the superconducting state.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures include
Spectral origin of the colossal magnetodielectric effect in multiferroic DyMn2O5
The origin of the colossal magnetodielectric effect in DyMn2O5 [1] has been
an outstanding question in multiferroics. Here, we report the activation of the
electric dipole mode at 4-5 cm-1 in an applied magnetic field which fully
accounts for the CMD effect. We examine two alternative explanations of this
mode: an electromagnon and transitions between f-electron levels of Dy3+ ions.
The experimental and theoretical evidence supports the electromagnon origin of
the CMD effect.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PR
Delayed feedback control of self-mobile cavity solitons
Control of the motion of cavity solitons is one the central problems in
nonlinear optical pattern formation. We report on the impact of the phase of
the time-delayed optical feedback and carrier lifetime on the self-mobility of
localized structures of light in broad area semiconductor cavities. We show
both analytically and numerically that the feedback phase strongly affects the
drift instability threshold as well as the velocity of cavity soliton motion
above this threshold. In addition we demonstrate that non-instantaneous carrier
response in the semiconductor medium is responsible for the increase in
critical feedback rate corresponding to the drift instability
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