双横向电光克尔效应

理论分析了克尔(Kerr)介质在两个横向电场作用下的电光调制特性.并由此确定了具有双横向电光克尔效应的光学材料种类.采用折射率椭球方法分析可知,各向同性克尔介质和一些晶体在横向外加电场作用下,其电光相位延迟与外加电场幅值的平方成正比,与电场方向无关;而其电光双折射主轴方位角与外加电场的方向角成正比,与电场幅值无关,称这种电光调制特性为双横向电光克尔效应.理论分析结果表明,排除兼有泡克耳斯(Pockels)效应和电致旋光效应的材料,立方晶系432,m3m点群和六角晶系6/mmm点群的晶体以及所有各向同性光学介质具有双横向电光克尔效应.目前已有克尔常数较大的陶瓷玻璃材料研制成功,将有力地促进双横向电光效应在光学各领域中的广泛应用.     

基于F-P腔的极化聚合物的纵向电光调制

利用Fabry-Perot腔实现了置于腔内的极化聚合物电光薄膜的纵向电光调制,此模型中极化电场方向、调制电场方向均与通光方向平行.腔的精细因子大约为18(对1.3μm的光),膜厚度为1μm.实验所得调制深度在调制电场为1V/μm时为0.012%.其结果证实了利用Fabry-Perot腔实现纵向电光调制并利用其研究极化聚合物薄膜的可能. 关键词： 电光效应 激光束调制 光学聚合物 光学设备     

晶体的双参量调制及其应用

利用折射率椭球分析法,分析了某些具有多重光学效应的光学晶体在两个外场同时作用下的一些特有调制规律.结果表明,当晶体的折射率椭球方程的三个交叉项中只有一项x1x2不为零时,可以得到其外场诱导新主轴折射率及其主轴取向的简单计算式.据此可以揭示出某些晶体在两个外加电场同时作用下将具有双横向电光Pockels效应,例如ˉ6点群的电光晶体.但一般晶体在双横向应力作用下不具有与双横向电光效应类似的调制特性,其弹光双折射大小与其应力差成正比,其双折射主轴方向一般为固定值.在相互垂直的外加应力和电场同时作用下,某些晶体(例如ˉ43m点群晶体)的双折射大小与外加应力和外加电场的加权几何平均值成正比,且新折射率主轴旋转角由外加应力和外加电场的比值来确定.晶体的上述双参量调制特性对设计新型光学调制器或传感器具有重要指导意义.     

加偏置电场量子阱中的电光效应

利用量子力学中密度矩阵方法研究了加偏置电场的量子阱中电光效应的解析表达式,并以典型的GaAs量子阱为例进行了数值计算.研究结果表明,电光效应随偏置电场的增大和阱宽的减小而增强,通过调节阱宽和偏置电场的强度,在该系统中可以获得一个大的电光效应系数.     

硅材料的场致线性电光效应

从经典的极化理论出发,分析了直流电场、低频调制电场和光波电场共同存在时硅材料折射率的变化,从理论上揭示了场致线性电光效应的物理实质.以近本征硅材料为样品,采用金属-绝缘体-半导体样品结构,搭建了由塞纳蒙(Senarmont)补偿器改进成的横向电光调制系统.在硅材料空间电荷区内观测到显著的线性电光调制效应,系统的半波电压小于170 V,从实验上直接证实了硅材料中内建电场诱导的场致线性电光效应的存在.此外还观测到由克尔效应引起的二次电光凋制信号.以及由场致光整流效应引起的、随线偏振光的方位角的二倍余弦变化的电信号.实验结果与经典极化理论的预期完全一致,也间接证实了硅材料中场致线性电光效应的存在.     

电光晶体研究究进进展及其对称性性研研究

由电场引起的晶体折射率的变化称为晶体的电光效应,具有电光效应的晶体称为电光晶体。利用电光效应可以制作电光Q开关等重要光电器件。晶体的电光效应及其有效利用,均与其对称性密切相关。本文在综述电光晶体研究进展的基础上,推导了不同晶系中各晶类电光效应类型及其特点,并以电光Q开关的要求为例讨论了晶体的电光效应及其对称性之间的关系。从讨论结果得出:立方晶系Td-ˉ43m,三方晶系C3v-3m,四方晶系D2d-4ˉ2m,D4v-4mm和六方晶系D3h-6ˉm2,C6v-6mm点群中相应电光系数的横向或纵向效应可能有实用价值。在考虑旋光性影响后,立方晶系T-23,三方晶系D3-32,四方晶系中S4-4ˉ,六方晶系中C3h-6ˉ等也有可能应用。但是,电光晶体的应用与许多因素相关,对称性只是其中一个基本条件。     

加偏置电场的抛物量子阱中的电光效应

本文利用密度矩阵方法得到了加偏置电场的抛物量子阱中电光效应的解析表达式,并以典型的GaAs抛物量子阱为例进行了数值计算研究结果表明,电光效应随偏置电场和抛物势频率的增大而增强,同时也表明GaAs量子阱中的电光效应比体GaAs中的要强一个数量级以上。     

SiO2脊形条波导热极化引起的电光效应

通过理论模拟对具有上覆盖层的SiO2脊形条波导结构进行了优化,在此基础上利用微电子工艺制作了SiO2脊形波导Mach-Zehnder 型电光调制器,并进行热极化引起的电光和非线性效应的研究.热极化过程大幅增强了样品的电光及非线性效应,二次电光系数由热极化前的1.56×10-22(m/V)2提高到热极化后的8.50×10-22(m/V)2,极化后得到了0.093pm/V的线性电光系数,对热极化的物理机理进行了理论分析.     

聚合物薄膜电光效应研究

介绍聚合物DR/PMMA薄膜材料做成光学法布里-珀罗腔结构,通过观察透射率随外加电场变化,以确定其非线性光学特性参量,在室温和575.0nm时的三阶极化率x~⑶(-ω;ω,0,0)=(5.3-i6.0)×10~((-11)_(θs.u))和二次电光系数R=-(8.5-i9.7)×10~(-19)m~2/V~2.     

光学干涉在二次电光系数测量中的应用与分析

为了更加深入地掌握光学干涉原理以及晶体材料的电光效应,我们搭建了利用干涉原理的典型光学系统——马赫-曾德尔电光系数干涉测量系统.首先,结合光学干涉原理和晶体材料的二次电光效应,进行了详细的理论推导,证明了测量方法的正确性和可行性.之后,以钽铌酸钾钠(KNTN)晶体作为研究对象,在实验中测量得到了其二次电光系数s11为2.28×10-15 m2·V-2.在此过程中,通过对马赫-曾德尔光学干涉测量系统的理论剖析与实际应用,相信可以帮助同学们更深入地理解和掌握光学干涉、晶体折射率及其电光效应的本质与原理.     

Quantum-state transfer through long-range correlated disordered channels

We study quantum-state transfer in XX spin-1/2 chains where both communicating spins are weakly coupled to a channel featuring disordered on-site magnetic fields. Fluctuations are modeled by long-range correlated sequences with self-similar profile obeying a power-law spectrum. We show that the channel is able to perform almost perfect quantum-state transmissions even in the presence of significant amounts of disorder provided the degree of those correlations is strong enough, with the cost of having long transfer times and unavoidable timing errors. Still, we show that the lack of mirror symmetry in the channel does not affect much the likelihood of having high-quality outcomes. Our results suggest that coexistence between localized and delocalized states can diminish effects of static perturbations in solid-state devices for quantum communication.     

Symmetry breaking in dynamical spacetimes

The behaviour of scalar electrodynamics under symmetry breaking by the Higgs mechanism is studied in a class of dynamical spacetimes—those having a Bianchi type I symmetry—which includes the spatially flat Robertson-Walker spacetimes. The Einstein equations are used to obtain the effective Lagrangian, from which it is shown thateither the gauge field does not become massive during symmetry breaking (in marked contrast with the case in which the background spacetime is static),or the symmetry breaking chooses not only a direction in the phase space of the Higgs field, but also a spatial direction in the spacetime sections.     

Letter: Spin Polarised Magnetized Cylinders in Torsioned Spacetime

A Spin-polarised cylindrically symmetric exact class of solutions endowed with magnetic fields in Einstein-Cartan-Maxwell gravity is obtained. Application of matching conditions to this interior solution having an exterior as Einstein's vacuum solution shows that for this class of metrics the Riemann-Cartan (RC) rotation vanishes which makes the solution static. Therefore we end up with a magnetized static spin polarised cylinder where the pressure along the symmetry axis is negative.     

The existence of a lateral size effect and the relationship between indentation and scratch hardness in copper

Indentation size effects (ISEs) are well known in static indentation of materials that deform by dislocation-based mechanisms. However, whilst instrumented indentation techniques have become rapidly established as a means of determining the near-surface mechanical properties of materials, scratch testing has been much less widely used. Hardness is used in wear models as a proxy for the yield stress, and the design of materials and hard coatings has often sought to exploit size-derived performance enhancements through length-scale engineering. Yet, it is not known directly whether (or not) length-scale effects also apply to scratch (and thus wear) performance at small scales, or what the functional form of this effect is. This work directly demonstrates that there is a lateral size effect (LSE) and shows that there are questions to be answered if the use of hardness as an indicator of wear performance is to remain valid. We report on constant load scratch experiments using a Berkovich indenter on single-crystal, annealed copper, using a range of applied normal forces and compare results from three scratch hardness calculation methods to indentation hardness (ISO 14577:2002) measured on the same sample at the same loads. Scratch tests were performed with the Berkovich indenter aligned either edge forward or face forward to the scratch direction. In all cases, we demonstrate that there is a very significant (approximate factor of two) effect of scratch size (an LSE) on scratch hardness. The results also show that the deformation mechanisms occurring in scratch tests are different to those occurring beneath a static indentation and that different mechanisms dominated for different stylus orientations (face-forward vs. edge-forward orientation). This is, to our knowledge, the first direct demonstration of an LSE akin to the ISE in metallic materials. The results have significant implications for using static indentation as a predictor of deformation during wear processes.     

Nonlinear Hall Effect in Antiferromagnetic Half-Heusler Materials

It has recently been demonstrated that various topological states, including Dirac, Weyl, nodal-line, and triplepoint semimetal phases, can emerge in antiferromagnetic(AFM) half-Heusler compounds. However, how to determine the AFM structure and to distinguish different topological phases from transport behaviors remains unknown. We show that, due to the presence of combined time-reversal and fractional translation symmetry, the recently proposed second-order nonlinear Hall effect can be used to characterize different topological phases with various AFM configurations. Guided by the symmetry analysis, we obtain expressions of the Berry curvature dipole for different AFM configurations. Based on the effective model, we explicitly calculate the Berry curvature dipole, which is found to be vanishingly small for the triple-point semimetal phase, and large in the Weyl semimetal phase. Our results not only put forward an effective method for the identification of magnetic orders and topological phases in AFM half-Heusler materials, but also suggest these materials as a versatile platform for engineering the nonlinear Hall effect.     

Neutral excitation and bulk gap of fractional quantum Hall liquids in disk geometry

For the numerical simulation of the fractional quantum Hall(FQH) effects on a finite disk, the rotational symmetry is the only symmetry that is used in diagonalizing the Hamiltonian. In this work, we propose a method of using the weak translational symmetry for the center of mass of the many-body system. With this approach, the bulk properties, such as the energy gap and the magneto-roton excitation are consistent with those in the closed manifolds like the sphere and torus. As an application, we consider the FQH phase and its phase transition in the fast rotated dipolar fermions. We thus demonstrate the disk geometry having versatility in analyzing the bulk properties beside the usual edge physics.     

Effective permittivity and permeability of one-dimensional dielectric photonic crystal within a band gap

We take a finite dielectric photonic crystal as a homogeneous slab and have extracted the effective parameters. Our systematic study shows that the effective permittivity or permeability of dielectric photonic crystal is negative within a band gap region. This means that the band gap might act as ε-negative materials （ENMs） with ε 〈 0 and μ 〉 0, or μ-negative materials （MNMs） with ε 〉 0 and μ 〈 0. Moreover the effective parameters sensitively rely on size, surface termination, symmetry, etc. The effective parameters can be used to design full transmission tunnelling modes and amplify evanescent wave. Several cases are studied and the results show that dielectric photonic band gap can indeed mimic a single negative material （ENM or MNM） under some restrictions.     

NiFe/Pt薄膜中角度相关的逆自旋霍尔效应

NiFe/Pt双层薄膜样品在铁磁共振时, NiFe磁矩进动所产生的自旋流注入到Pt层中, 由于逆自旋霍尔效应产生直流电压V_ISHE, 此电压会叠加到NiFe薄膜由于自旋整流效应而产生的电压V_SRE 上, 实验测量所得电压为V_ISHE和V_SRE的叠加. 为了区分这两种不同机理对电压的贡献, 本文采取旋转外加静磁场的方法, 通过分析所测电压随磁场角度的变化从而分离出V_ISHE 的大小. 研究结果表明, 相比于单层NiFe(20 nm)薄膜样品, NiFe(20 nm)/Pt(10 nm)双层膜样品中由于NiFe自旋注入到Pt 中导致铁磁共振线宽增加. 与逆自旋霍尔效应产生的电压相比, 自旋整流效应的贡献较小, 但不可忽略. 本文工作有助于认清铁磁/非磁性金属材料中的自旋相关效应, 并提供了一种准确的分析逆自旋霍尔效应的方法.     

Topological nodal line semimetals

We review the recent,mainly theoretical,progress in the study of topological nodal line semimetals in three dimensions.In these semimetals,the conduction and the valence bands cross each other along a one-dimensional curve in the three-dimensional Brillouin zone,and any perturbation that preserves a certain symmetry group(generated by either spatial symmetries or time-reversal symmetry) cannot remove this crossing line and open a full direct gap between the two bands.The nodal line(s) is hence topologically protected by the symmetry group,and can be associated with a topological invariant.In this review,(ⅰ) we enumerate the symmetry groups that may protect a topological nodal line;(ⅱ) we write down the explicit form of the topological invariant for each of these symmetry groups in terms of the wave functions on the Fermi surface,establishing a topological classification;(ⅲ) for certain classes,we review the proposals for the realization of these semimetals in real materials;(ⅳ) we discuss different scenarios that when the protecting symmetry is broken,how a topological nodal line semimetal becomes Weyl semimetals,Dirac semimetals,and other topological phases;and(ⅴ) we discuss the possible physical effects accessible to experimental probes in these materials.     

ESR spectroscopy at 75 GHz by using a whispering gallery mode dielectric resonator and an electromagnet: Part I

Disc-shaped Whispering Gallery Mode (WGM) dielectric resonators were used to obtain ESR spectra of powder samples at 75 GHz. A mechanically and electronically controlled Gunn diode was used while the static magnetic fieldB ₀ was obtained by modifying a Bruker electromagnet. WGM resonators having a diameter of 30 mm were prevalently used. The samples were contained in polyethylene holders suitably designed so that the resonator could retain its original circular symmetry and the sample could stay as close as possible to the curved outer rim of the resonator.Q-factors of the order of 10⁴ were obtained at room temperature when single crystal quartz was used for the disc resonator. Anyway, the value ofQ could be easily controlled by using different materials for the WGM disc. The gained experience allows one to foresee that WGM resonators can be used with similar results also at frequencies up to 150 and 300 GHz. ESR spectra of many organic and inorganic samples will be reported in Part II of this paper. Here, an evaluation is made of the intensity of the electromagnetic field on a selected sample. Suitable holders for liquid samples are under study.