Induction of superconductivity by strong electric field

It is shown that strong electric field perpendicular to the surface of a solid with free charges creates the surface inhomogeneous superconducting state with critical parameters depending on the surface electrical potential only.The critical temperature and magnetic field of the surface inhomogeneous state can be high in the strong electric field.     

Surface superconductivity induced by an external electric field

A theory of surface superconductivity induced by an external electric field in superconducting semimetals, metals and semiconductors is presented. It is shown that the inhomogeneous surface superconducting state deeply penetrates into the bulk of the sample. The dependence of the critical surface temperature and magnetic field on the external electric field is calculated.     

The critical parameters and structure of the surface superconducting state induced by external electric field

Electric field perpendicular to a surface of superconducting semiconductor or semimetal induces superconducting transition at temperature and in magnetic field higher than in the bulk. The magnetic moment and structure of the inhomogeneous surface superconducting state are calculated. All parameters depend on direction of magnetic field, magnitude of electric field, and temperature.     

Electric control of emergent magnonic spin current and dynamic multiferroicity in magnetic insulators at finite temperatures

Conversion of thermal energy into magnonic spin currents and/or effective electric polarization promises new device functionalities. A versatile approach is presented here for generating and controlling open circuit magnonic spin currents and an effective multiferroicity at a uniform temperature with the aid of spatially inhomogeneous, external, static electric fields. This field applied to a ferromagnetic insulator with a Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya type coupling changes locally the magnon dispersion and modifies the density of thermally excited magnons in a region of the scale of the field inhomogeneity. The resulting gradient in the magnon density can be viewed as a gradient in the effective magnon temperature. This effective thermal gradient together with local magnon dispersion result in an open-circuit, electric field controlled magnonic spin current. In fact, for a moderate variation in the external electric field the predicted magnonic spin current is on the scale of the spin (Seebeck) current generated by a comparable external temperature gradient. Analytical methods supported by full-fledge numerics confirm that both, a finite temperature and an inhomogeneous electric field are necessary for this emergent non-equilibrium phenomena. The proposal can be integrated in magnonic and multiferroic circuits, for instance to convert heat into electrically controlled pure spin current using for example nanopatterning, without the need to generate large thermal gradients on the nanoscale.     

An Analog of the Kubo formula for conductivity of spatially inhomogeneous media in spatially inhomogeneous electric fields

The average densities of currents and charges induced by a weak electromagnetic field in spatially inhomogeneous systems at a finite temperature are calculated. The Kubo formula for the electrical conductivity tensor is generalized to spatially inhomogeneous systems and spatially inhomogeneous fields. The contributions containing electric fields and derivatives of the fields with respect to coordinates are separated. It is shown that semiconductor quantum wells, wires, and dots can be treated as spatially inhomogeneous systems.     

Rochelle salt in an inhomogeneous electric field

The parameters of the hysteresis loop in the ferroelectric Rochelle salt were investigated using a sample with two pairs of electrodes: measurement electrodes and the side ones. It has been shown that the difference between the potentials of the measurement and the side electrodes (generating an inhomogeneous electric field) leads to gradual decay in time t of the remanent polarization P_r. The time required for the hysteresis loop to disappear in the inhomogeneous electric field (not parallel to the ferroelectric axis) decreases with temperature increase from 44±3 h at – 9°C to 2.3±0.1 h at 21.9 °C. On the other hand, the crystal placed for a sufficiently long time simultaneously in the measuring electric field and in the constant inhomogeneous one may finally exhibit a stationary hysteresis loop with a reduced remanent polarization and the unchanged coercive field. It has been shown that the crystal as a whole does not have to be polarized perpendicularly to the ferroelectric axis in order for its hysteresis loop to be reduced.     

Converse flexoelectric effect in the SrTiO3 single crystal

The converse flexoelectric effect in the SrTiO₃ single crystal as a response of inhomogeneous strain (bending strain) to an applied electric field has been studied. The temperature dependence of the effect in the temperature range of 77–450 K has been obtained.     

The correlation of inhomogeneous broadening and the efficiency of data locking in optical echo processors

The formation of responses of stimulated photon echo and the efficiency of data locking under the action of a spatially inhomogeneous electric field on a resonance medium are analyzed. It is shown that the action of a spatially inhomogeneous electric field on a resonance medium between the first and second excitation laser pulses leads to the reversible destruction of the phase memory of the medium, which manifests itself in a change in the time-frequency correlation of inhomogeneous broadening. The possibility of controlling the efficiency of data locking by varying the gradient of an external nonuniform electric field is considered.     

Longitudinal focusing and cooling of a molecular beam

A neutral polar molecule experiences a force in an inhomogeneous electric field. This electric field can be designed such that a beam of polar molecules is exposed to a harmonic potential in the forward direction. In this potential the longitudinal phase-space distribution of the ensemble of molecules is rotated uniformly. This property is used to longitudinally focus a pulsed beam of ammonia molecules and to produce a beam with a longitudinal velocity spread of 0.76 m/s, corresponding to a temperature of 250 mu K.     

压电诱导型声光调制器中的电光效应

本文通过解压电效应的基本方程,应用一维近似理论,结合边界条件,得出压电共振晶体中电场是不均匀的,它将导致“电光栅”的产生。“电光栅”与“声光栅”可以相互耦合,产生“高次光栅”。压电诱导声光(PESD)调制器中的一次电光效应更有助于对入射光束的衍射和调制。实验结果证实本文结论。 关键词：     

Numerical method for hydrodynamic modulation equations describing Bloch oscillations in semiconductor superlattices

We present a finite difference method to solve a new type of nonlocal hydrodynamic equations that arise in the theory of spatially inhomogeneous Bloch oscillations in semiconductor superlattices. The hydrodynamic equations describe the evolution of the electron density, electric field and the complex amplitude of the Bloch oscillations for the electron current density and the mean energy density. These equations contain averages over the Bloch phase which are integrals of the unknown electric field and are derived by singular perturbation methods. Among the solutions of the hydrodynamic equations, at a 70 K lattice temperature, there are spatially inhomogeneous Bloch oscillations coexisting with moving electric field domains and Gunn-type oscillations of the current. At higher temperature (300 K) only Bloch oscillations remain. These novel solutions are found for restitution coefficients in a narrow interval below their critical values and disappear for larger values. We use an efficient numerical method based on an implicit second-order finite difference scheme for both the electric field equation (of drift-diffusion type) and the parabolic equation for the complex amplitude. Double integrals appearing in the nonlocal hydrodynamic equations are calculated by means of expansions in modified Bessel functions. We use numerical simulations to ascertain the convergence of the method. If the complex amplitude equation is solved using a first order scheme for restitution coefficients near their critical values, a spurious convection arises that annihilates the complex amplitude in the part of the superlattice that is closer to the cathode. This numerical artifact disappears if the space step is appropriately reduced or we use the second-order numerical scheme.     

基于电场数值加权的跨介质元胞共形新技术

针对时域有限差分法处理跨介质元胞现有共形技术中存在误差大、平行方向未被包含等问题, 提出一种利用电场数值加权法来进行跨介质元胞共形计算的新算法. 该算法不再对介电常数ε做加权平均处理, 而是根据中值定理对时域有限差分法真正的求解分量电场强度进行权值选择, 并将权值乘入积分路径中. 该方法同时考虑了跨介质安培环路元胞与跨介质法拉第环路元胞对结果带来的不连续影响, 而且对介质界面与元胞中场分量的各种位置关系均能应用, 通用性强、精度高且易于实现. 利用介质填充圆波导作为数值模型来进行理论数值计算和仿真验证, 比较不同共形方法的二维TE模式的特征根与理论值的偏差以及由共形技术所带来的各向相异性. 数值结果表明, 本文所提出算法求得的特征根最接近理论值, 而且造成的各向相异性更小, 从而验证了该算法在处理跨介质元胞时的有效性. 关键词： 时域有限差分 电场数值加权法 二维TE模式 跨介质元胞     

Interwell excitons in a lateral potential well in an inhomogeneous electric field

The luminescence of interwell excitons in double quantum wells based on GaAs/AlGaAs semiconductor heterostructures (n-i-n structures) in a lateral trap prepared with the use of an inhomogeneous electric field was studied at helium temperatures. A rather strong and inhomogeneous electric field occurred in the depth of the heterostructure when a current passed through the contact between the conducting tip of a tunneling microscope and the heterostructure surface to the bulk region containing a built-in gate. Because of the Stark shift of energy bands in the electric field, the photoexcited electrons and holes are spatially separated in neighboring quantum wells by a tunnel-transparent barrier and are bound into interwell quasi-two-dimensional excitons. These excitons have a dipole moment even in the ground state. Therefore, electrostatic forces in the inhomogeneous electric field cause the excitons to move in the plane of quantum wells toward the maximum field region and eventually accumulate in the lateral trap artificially prepared in such a way. The maximum trap depth achieved through the inhomogeneous electric field was 13.5 meV, and its lateral size was about 10 μm. It is shown that, in the traps prepared in this way, photoexcited interwell excitons behave with increasing concentration at sufficiently low temperatures (T=2K) in the same fashion as in the lateral traps caused by large-scale fluctuations of the random potential. At concentrations exceeding the percolation threshold, the interwell excitons condense into the lowest energy state in the trap.     

Temperature and current density distributions at spark plasma sintering of inhomogeneous samples

We analyze the effect of inhomogeneity in the properties of a material on the conditions of obtaining thermoelectrics by spark plasma sintering. Inclusions localized and distributed over the volume of materials with different values of electric and thermal conductivities are considered. It is found that the presence of macroscopic inhomogeneities changes the current density distribution in the cross section of the sample being sintered. It is shown that inhomogeneity in the properties of materials during sintering do not substantially affect the temperature field in the sample at the macroscopic level, but change the current density distribution profile. The ranges of variation of the current density in the regions with inhomogeneous electric and thermal conductivities are determined for various types of macroscopically inhomogeneous inclusions and their distribution. The applicability of various models for describing spark plasma sintering is considered.     

电场不均匀性对外场中负离子光剥离的影响

用蒙特卡罗方法研究了不均匀外场中氢负离子的光剥离.模拟结果显示出电场的不均匀抑制了光剥离截面和相应调制函数的振荡.光剥离截面的高能部分比阅值附近部分对电场的不均匀性更为敏感.结後果对纯电场和平行电场与磁场两种情形均适用.     

Pair production in an electric field applied for a short time

An expression is obtained for the probability of pair production in a homogeneous electric field applied for a short time and a constant inhomogeneous magnetic field when both fields have the same direction. The dependence of the probability is investigated for short and long times of application of the electric field.     

On the possibility of sorting ortho and para water molecules during diffusion in nanopores

The possibility of spatial sorting of ortho and para water molecules at filtering water vapor in a nanoporous medium is justified. Three factors are indicated, which in combination can cause sorting: Knudsen character of motion of molecules in nanopores, inhomogeneous surface electric fields in pores, and water molecule sorting over rotational states in an inhomogeneous electric field, recently implemented in experiments with molecular beams.     

Nonlinear interaction of electron beam with magnetized warm plasma

The nonlinear interaction of electron beam with inhomogeneous semi-bounded collisional magnetized warm plasma under external static magnetic field has been studied. The second-harmonic generation at the beam entrance into the plasma is considered. This process leads to an increase in the amplitude of the electric field in the inhomogeneous region and, in turn, to higher absorption.     

Observation of collective modes of ultracold plasmas

Applying a radio-frequency electric field to an expanding ultracold neutral plasma leads to the observation of as many as six peaks in the emission of electrons from the plasma. These are identified as collective modes of the plasma and are in qualitative agreement with a model of Tonks-Dattner resonances, electron sound waves propagating in a finite-sized, inhomogeneous plasma. Such modes may provide an accurate method to determine the time-dependent electron temperature.     

On atomic analogue of Landau quantization

We have studied the physics of atoms with permanent electric dipole moment and nonvanishing magnetic moment interacting with an electric field and inhomogeneous magnetic field. This system can be demonstrated as the atomic analogue of Landau quantization of charged particles in a uniform magnetic field. This Landau-like atomic problem is also studied with space-space noncommutative coordinates.