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Author Shah, Jagdeep; Pinczuk, A.; Gossard, A. C.; Wiegmann, W.
Title Energy-loss rates for hot electrons and holes in GaAs quantum wells Type Journal Article
Year 1985 Publication Phys. Rev. Lett. Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. Lett.
Volume 54 Issue (up) Pages 2045-2048
Keywords 2DEG, GaAs/AlGaAs, heat flow, electron-phonon, hole-phonon, carrier-phonon, interactions
Abstract We report the first direct determination of carrier-energy-loss rates in a semiconductor. These measurements provide fundamental insight into carrier-phonon interactions in semiconductors. Unexpectedly large differences are found in the energy-loss rates for electrons and holes in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells. This large difference results from an anomalously low electron-energy-loss rate, which we attribute to the presence of nonequilibrium optical phonons rather than the effects of reduced dimensionality or dynamic screening.
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Author Shah, Nayana; Pekker, David; Goldbart, Paul M.
Title Inherent stochasticity of superconductor-resistor switching behavior in nanowires Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Phys. Rev. Lett. Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. Lett.
Volume 101 Issue (up) Pages 207001(1 to 4)
Keywords superconducting nanowires, phase-slip, self-heating effect, temperature profile
Abstract We study the stochastic dynamics of superconductive-resistive switching in hysteretic current-biased superconducting nanowires undergoing phase-slip fluctuations. We evaluate the mean switching time using the master-equation formalism, and hence obtain the distribution of switching currents. We find that as the temperature is reduced this distribution initially broadens; only at lower temperatures does it show the narrowing with cooling naively expected for phase slips that are thermally activated. We also find that although several phase-slip events are generally necessary to induce switching, there is an experimentally accessible regime of temperatures and currents for which just one single phase-slip event is sufficient to induce switching, via the local heating it causes.
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Author Minaeva, Olga; Bonato, Cristian; Saleh, Bahaa E. A.; Simon, David S.; Sergienko, Alexander V.
Title Odd- and even-order dispersion cancellation in quantum interferometry Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication Phys. Rev. Lett. Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. Lett.
Volume 102 Issue (up) 10 Pages 4
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Abstract We describe a novel effect involving odd-order dispersion cancellation. We demonstrate that odd- and even-order dispersion cancellation may be obtained in different regions of a single quantum interferogram using frequency-anticorrelated entangled photons and a new type of quantum interferometer. This offers new opportunities for quantum communication and metrology in dispersive media.
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Author Anthore, A.; Pothier, H.; Esteve, D.
Title Density of states in a superconductor carrying a supercurrent Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication Phys. Rev. Lett. Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. Lett.
Volume 90 Issue (up) 12 Pages 127001 (1 to 4)
Keywords Usadel, superconducting nanowire
Abstract We have measured the tunneling density of states (DOS) in a superconductor carrying a supercurrent or exposed to an external magnetic field. The pair correlations are weakened by the supercurrent, leading to a modification of the DOS and to a reduction of the gap. As predicted by the theory of superconductivity in diffusive metals, we find that this effect is similar to that of an external magnetic field.
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Author Beck, M.; Klammer, M.; Lang, S.; Leiderer, P.; Kabanov, V. V.; Gol'tsman, G. N.; Demsar, J.
Title Energy-gap dynamics of superconducting NbN thin films studied by time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Phys. Rev. Lett. Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. Lett.
Volume 107 Issue (up) 17 Pages 4
Keywords NbN thin film, energy gap dynamics
Abstract Using time-domain terahertz spectroscopy we performed direct studies of the photoinduced suppression and recovery of the superconducting gap in a conventional BCS superconductor NbN. Both processes are found to be strongly temperature and excitation density dependent. The analysis of the data with the established phenomenological Rothwarf-Taylor model enabled us to determine the bare quasiparticle recombination rate, the Cooper pair-breaking rate and the electron-phonon coupling constant, λ=1.1±0.1, which is in excellent agreement with theoretical estimates.
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