scholarly journals Terahertz field enhancement via coherent superposition of the pulse sequences after a single optical-rectification crystal

2014 ◽  
Vol 104 (9) ◽  
pp. 091118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohsen Sajadi ◽  
Martin Wolf ◽  
Tobias Kampfrath
Keyword(s):  
Pulse Sequences ◽  
Field Enhancement ◽  
Optical Rectification ◽  
Coherent Superposition

scholarly journals Optical rectification and field enhancement in a plasmonic nanogap

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 732-736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Ward ◽  
Falco Hüser ◽  
Fabian Pauly ◽  
Juan Carlos Cuevas ◽  
Douglas Natelson
Keyword(s):  
Field Enhancement ◽  
Optical Rectification

Evaluation of pulse sequences used for magnetic resonance sialography

2001 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 276-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Sakamoto ◽  
T Sasano ◽  
S Higano ◽  
S Takahashi ◽  
T Nagasaka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Pulse Sequences ◽  
Magnetic Resonance Sialography

Scanning-tunneling spectroscopy on conjugated polymer films

2003 ◽  
Vol 771 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kemerink ◽  
S.F. Alvarado ◽  
P.M. Koenraad ◽  
R.A.J. Janssen ◽  
H.W.M. Salemink ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Polymer Films ◽  
Conjugated Polymer ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Field Enhancement ◽  
Direct Consequence ◽  
Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy ◽  
Tunneling Spectroscopy ◽  
Band Alignment ◽  
Scanning Tunneling ◽  
Order Of Magnitude

AbstractScanning-tunneling spectroscopy experiments have been performed on conjugated polymer films and have been compared to a three-dimensional numerical model for charge injection and transport. It is found that field enhancement near the tip apex leads to significant changes in the injected current, which can amount to more than an order of magnitude, and can even change the polarity of the dominant charge carrier. As a direct consequence, the single-particle band gap and band alignment of the organic material can be directly obtained from tip height-voltage (z-V) curves, provided that the tip has a sufficiently sharp apex.

Designing Generators of Poisson Pulse Sequences Based on the Additive Fibonacci Generators

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (12) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir N. Maksymovych ◽  
Oleg I. Harasymchuk ◽  
Marya N. Mandrona
Keyword(s):  
Pulse Sequences

MAGNETIC FIELD, PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT OPTICAL PROPERTIES IN A GaAs 9.0 P 1.0 QUANTUM DOT

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1178-1190
Author(s):  
A. JOHN PETER ◽  
Ada Vinolin
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Optical Properties ◽  
Quantum Dot ◽  
Field Strength ◽  
Magnetic Field Strength ◽  
Photon Energy ◽  
Nonlinear Optical ◽  
Binding Energies ◽  
Nonlinear Optical Properties ◽  
Optical Rectification

Simultaneous effects of magnetic field, pressure and temperature on the exciton binding energies are found in a 9.0 1.0 6.0 4.0 GaAs P / GaAs P quantum dot. Numerical calculations are carried out taking into consideration of spatial confinement effect. The cylindrical system is taken in the present problem with the strain effects. The electronic properties and the optical properties are found with the combined effects of magnetic field strength, hydrostatic pressure and temperature values. The exciton binding energies and the nonlinear optical properties are carried out taking into consideration of geometrical confinement and the external perturbations.Compact density approach is employed to obtain the nonlinear optical properties. The optical rectification coefficient is obtained with the photon energy in the presence of pressure, temperature and external magnetic field strength. Pressure and temperature dependence on nonlinear optical susceptibilities of generation of second and third order harmonics as a function of incident photon energy are brought out in the influence of magnetic field strength. The result shows that the electronic and nonlinear optical properties are significantly modified by the applications of external perturbations in a 9.0 1.0 6.0 4.0 GaAs P / GaAs P quantum dot.

Colloidal Plasmonic Nanostar Antennas with Wide Range Resonance Tunability

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodoros Tsoulos ◽  
Supriya Atta ◽  
Maureen Lagos ◽  
Michael Beetz ◽  
Philip Batson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Single Particle ◽  
Structural Complexity ◽  
Field Enhancement ◽  
Hot Electron ◽  
Structure Property ◽  
Plasmon Band ◽  
Gold Nanostars ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Particle Level ◽  
Spectrally Resolved

<div>Gold nanostars display exceptional field enhancement properties and tunable resonant modes that can be leveraged to create effective imaging tags or phototherapeutic agents, or to design novel hot-electron based photocatalysts. From a fundamental standpoint, they represent important tunable platforms to study the dependence of hot carrier energy and dynamics on plasmon band intensity and position. Toward the realization of these platforms, holistic approaches taking into account both theory and experiments to study the fundamental behavior of these</div><div>particles are needed. Arguably, the intrinsic difficulties underlying this goal stem from the inability to rationally design and effectively synthesize nanoparticles that are sufficiently monodispersed to be employed for corroborations of the theoretical results without the need of single particle experiments. Herein, we report on our concerted computational and experimental effort to design, synthesize, and explain the origin and morphology-dependence of the plasmon modes of a novel gold nanostar system, with an approach that builds upon the well-known plasmon hybridization model. We have synthesized monodispersed samples of gold nanostars with finely tunable morphology employing seed-mediated colloidal protocols, and experimentally observed narrow and spectrally resolved harmonics of the primary surface plasmon resonance mode both at the single particle level (via electron energy loss spectroscopy) and in ensemble (by UV-Vis and ATR-FTIR spectroscopies). Computational results on complex anisotropic gold nanostructures are validated experimentally on samples prepared colloidally, underscoring their importance as ideal testbeds for the study of structure-property relationships in colloidal nanostructures of high structural complexity.</div>

Engineering Electronic Structure to Protect Phase Memory in Molecular Qubits by Minimising Orbital Angular Momentum

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Maria Ariciu ◽  
David H. Woen ◽  
Daniel N. Huh ◽  
Lydia Nodaraki ◽  
Andreas Kostopoulos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Spin ◽  
Quantum Coherence ◽  
Quantum Information Processing ◽  
Pulse Sequences ◽  
Grover Algorithm ◽  
Ligand Shell ◽  
Information Strategies ◽  
Spin Qubit ◽  
Molecular Spin ◽  
The Impact

Using electron spins within molecules for quantum information processing (QIP) was first proposed by Leuenberger and Loss (1), who showed how the Grover algorithm could be mapped onto a Mn12 cage (2). Since then several groups have examined two-level (S = ½) molecular spin systems as possible qubits (3-12). There has also been a report of the implementation of the Grover algorithm in a four-level molecular qudit (13). A major challenge is to protect the spin qubit from noise that causes loss of phase information; strategies to minimize the impact of noise on qubits can be categorized as corrective, reductive, or protective. Corrective approaches allow noise and correct for its impact on the qubit using advanced microwave pulse sequences (3). Reductive approaches reduce the noise by minimising the number of nearby nuclear spins (7-11), and increasing the rigidity of molecules to minimise the effect of vibrations (which can cause a fluctuating magnetic field via spin-orbit coupling) (9,11); this is essentially engineering the ligand shell surrounding the electron spin. A protective approach would seek to make the qubit less sensitive to noise: an example of the protective approach is the use of clock transitions to render spin states immune to magnetic fields at first order (12). Here we present a further protective method that would complement reductive and corrective approaches to enhancing quantum coherence in molecular qubits. The target is a molecular spin qubit with an effective 2S ground state: we achieve this with a family of divalent rare-earth molecules that have negligible magnetic anisotropy such that the isotropic nature of the electron spin renders the qubit markedly less sensitive to magnetic noise, allowing coherent spin manipulations even at room temperature. If combined with the other strategies, we believe this could lead to molecular qubits with substantial advantages over competing qubit proposals.<br>

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