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Strong and weak coupling limits in optics of quantum well excitons
A transition between the strong (coherent) and weak (incoherent) coupling
limits of resonant interaction between quantum well (QW) excitons and bulk
photons is analyzed and quantified as a function of the incoherent damping rate
caused by exciton-phonon and exciton-exciton scattering. For confined QW
polaritons, a second, anomalous, damping-induced dispersion branch arises and
develops with increasing damping. In this case, the strong-weak coupling
transition is attributed to a critical damping rate, when the intersection of
the normal and damping-induced dispersion branches occurs. For the radiative
states of QW excitons, i.e., for radiative QW polaritons, the transition is
described as a qualitative change of the photoluminescence spectrum at grazing
angles along the QW structure. Furthermore, we show that the radiative
corrections to the QW exciton states with in-plane wavevector approaching the
photon cone are universally scaled by an energy parameter rather than diverge.
The strong-weak coupling transition rates are also proportional to the same
energy parameter. The numerical evaluations are given for a GaAs single quantum
well with realistic parameters.Comment: Published in Physical Review B. 29 pages, 12 figure
Role of anisotropy in the F\"orster energy transfer from a semiconductor quantum well to an organic crystalline overlayer
We consider the non-radiative resonant energy transfer from a two-dimensional
Wannier exciton (donor) to a Frenkel exciton of a molecular crystal overlayer
(acceptor). We characterize the effect of the optical anisotropy of the organic
subsystem on this process. Using realistic values of material parameters, we
show that it is possible to change the transfer rate within typically a factor
of two depending on the orientation of the crystalline overlayer. The resonant
matching of donor and acceptor energies is also partly tunable via the organic
crystal orientation.Comment: 6 pages, 8 figure
Biphonons in the Klein-Gordon lattice
A numerical approach is proposed for studying the quantum optical modes in
the Klein-Gordon lattices where the energy contribution of the atomic
displacements is non-quadratic. The features of the biphonon excitations are
investigated in detail for different non-quadratic contributions to the
Hamiltonian. The results are extended to multi-phonon bound states.Comment: Comments and suggestions are welcom
Ultra-short solitons and kinetic effects in nonlinear metamaterials
We present a stability analysis of a modified nonlinear Schroedinger equation
describing the propagation of ultra-short pulses in negative refractive index
media. Moreover, using methods of quantum statistics, we derive a kinetic
equation for the pulses, making it possible to analyze and describe partial
coherence in metamaterials. It is shown that a novel short pulse soliton, which
is found analytically, can propagate in the medium.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Comment on "Effects of spatial dispersion on electromagnetic surface modes and on modes associated with a gap between two half spaces"
Recently Bo E. Sernelius [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 71}, 235114 (2005)] investigated
the effects of spatial dispersion on the thermal Casimir force between two
metal half spaces. He claims that incorporating spatial dispersion results in a
negligible contribution from the transverse electric mode at zero frequency as
compared to the transverse magnetic mode. We demonstrate that this conclusion
is not reliable because, when applied to the Casimir effect, the approximate
description of spatial dispersion used is unjustified.Comment: 9 pages, minor corrections in accordance with the journal publication
have been mad
Coherent responses of resonance atom layer to short optical pulse excitation
Coherent responses of resonance atom layer to short optical pulse excitation
are numerically considered. The inhomogeneous broadening of one-photon
transition, the local field effect, and the substrate dispersion are involved
into analysis. For a certain intensity of incident pulses a strong coherent
interaction in the form of sharp spikes of superradiation is observed in
transmitted radiation. The Lorentz field correction and the substrate
dispersion weaken the effect, providing additional spectral shifts. Specific
features of photon echo in the form of multiple responses to a double or triple
pulse excitation is discussed.Comment: only PDF,15 page
q-Functional Wick's theorems for particles with exotic statistics
In the paper we begin a description of functional methods of quantum field
theory for systems of interacting q-particles. These particles obey exotic
statistics and are the q-generalization of the colored particles which appear
in many problems of condensed matter physics, magnetism and quantum optics.
Motivated by the general ideas of standard field theory we prove the
q-functional analogues of Hori's formulation of Wick's theorems for the
different ordered q-particle creation and annihilation operators. The formulae
have the same formal expressions as fermionic and bosonic ones but differ by a
nature of fields. This allows us to derive the perturbation series for the
theory and develop analogues of standard quantum field theory constructions in
q-functional form.Comment: 15 pages, LaTeX, submitted to J.Phys.
On the possibility of metamaterial properties in spin plasmas
The fluid theory of plasmas is extended to include the properties of electron
spin. The linear theory of waves in a magnetized plasma is presented, and it is
shown that the spin effects causes a change of the magnetic permeability.
Furthemore, by changing the direction of the external magnetic field, the
magnetic permability may become negative. This leads to instabilities in the
long wavelength regimes. If these can be controlled, however, the spin plasma
becomes a metamaterial for a broad range of frequencies, i.e. above the ion
cyclotron frequency but below the electron cyclotron frequency. The
consequences of our results are discussed.Comment: 10 page
Approximate solutions and scaling transformations for quadratic solitons
We study quadratic solitons supported by two- and three-wave parametric
interactions in chi-2 nonlinear media. Both planar and two-dimensional cases
are considered. We obtain very accurate, 'almost exact', explicit analytical
solutions, matching the actual bright soliton profiles, with the help of a
specially-developed approach, based on analysis of the scaling properties.
Additionally, we use these approximations to describe the linear tails of
solitary waves which are related to the properties of the soliton bound states.Comment: 11 pages, 9 figures; submitted for publicatio
Theoretical framework of entangled-photon generation from biexcitons in nano-to-bulk crossover regime with planar geometry
We have constructed a theoretical framework of the biexciton-resonant
hyperparametric scattering for the pursuit of high-power and high-quality
generation of entangled photon pairs. Our framework is applicable to
nano-to-bulk crossover regime where the center-of-mass motion of excitons and
biexcitons is confined. Material surroundings and the polarization correlation
of generated photons can be considered. We have analyzed the entangled-photon
generation from CuCl film, by which ultraviolet entangled-photon pairs are
generated, and from dielectric microcavity embedding a CuCl layer. We have
revealed that in the nano-to-bulk crossover regime we generally get a high
performance from the viewpoint of statistical accuracy, and the generation
efficiency can be enhanced by the optical cavity with maintaining the high
performance. The nano-to-bulk crossover regime has a variety of degrees of
freedom to tune the entangled-photon generation, and the scattering spectra
explicitly reflect quantized exciton-photon coupled modes in the finite
structure.Comment: 18 pages, 10 figure
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