微米气室铯原子自旋噪声谱

利用自旋噪声谱技术研究了无缓冲气体133Cs原子气室的自旋动力学和展宽机制.在宏观原子气室中,自旋弛豫速率失谐频率谱的线型为高斯分布;在空间局域较强的微米气室中,自旋弛豫速率失谐频率谱的线型为洛伦兹分布.实验测量得到的自旋弛豫速率失谐频率谱的展宽约4 GHz,明显大于宏观原子气室中约度强烈依赖于激光相对于原子共振跃迁的频率失谐;在微米气室中,由于较强的均匀展宽,总噪声的失谐频率谱中心处出现明显的凹陷.通过建立简化的物理模型来计算微米气室的展宽机制,在实验与理论中解释了原子的均匀展宽特性.     

Thermionic electron emission in the 1D edge-to-edge limit

Thermionic emission is a tunneling phenomenon, which depicts that electrons on the surface of a conductor can be pulled out into the vacuum when they are subjected to high electrical tensions while being heated hot enough to overtake their work functions. This principle has led to the great success of the so-called vacuum tubes in the early 20th century. To date, major challenges still remain in the miniaturization of a vacuum channel transistor for on-chip integration in modern solid-state integrated circuits. Here, by introducing nano-sized vacuum gaps (～ 200 nm) in a van der Waals heterostructure, we successfully fabricated a one-dimensional (1D) edge-to-edge thermionic emission vacuum tube using graphene as the filament. With the increasing collector voltage, the emitted current exhibits a typical rectifying behavior, with the maximum emission current reaching 200 pA and an ON-OFF ratio of 10³. In addition, it is found that the maximum emission current is proportional to the number of the layers of graphene. Our results expand the research of nano-sized vacuum tubes to an unexplored physical limit of 1D edge-to-edge emission, and hold great promise for future nano-electronic systems based on it.     

(110)-GaAs量子阱中光生载流子对电子自旋弛豫的影响

我们实验研究了(110)-GaAs量子阱中光生载流子对电子自旋弛豫的影响。通过测量量子阱的荧光寿命和光学吸收计算,我们能得到不同泵浦光功率下的带间吸收所产生的空穴浓度;相对应地,通过双色磁光科尔旋转技术,我们测量了该GaAs量子阱中电子自旋的动力学过程。结合两者,我们得到了电子自旋弛豫速率与空穴浓度的关系。实验结果表明电子自旋弛豫速率与空穴浓度呈线性依赖关系,验证了BirAronov-Pikus机制主导该体系的电子自旋弛豫。