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A method for simultaneously thermostatting an atomistic region and absorbing energetic pulses impinging on the atormstic/continuum interface from the atomistic region is developed to operate within the framework of the coupled atomistic/discrete dislocatio ...
Time-resolved measurements of the resonant Rayleigh scattering from quantum well excitons are shown to provide information on the energy-level statistics of the localized exciton states. The signal transients are reproduced by a microscopic quantum model o ...
I discuss some of the didactic problems in the introduction to quantum physics based on the concept of photon. I specifically argue that the derivation of the photon energy from the relativistic Doppler shift offers stimulating didactic opportunities. A de ...
The system of one or several quantum wells embedded in a planar semiconductor Fabry-Perot microcavity with distributed Bragg reflectors is studied in the framework of both a semiclassical and a full quantum theory. The results obtained with the two treatme ...
Due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, various classical systems differing only on the scale smaller than Planck's cell correspond to the same quantum system. We use this fact to find a unique semiclassical representation without the Van Vleck determ ...
The theory of resonant Rayleigh scattering of light by excitons in a disordered quantum structure is presented. Disorder is modeled by a random Gauss distributed potential with finite correlation length in space. The time dependent scattered si,anal under ...
We present a comparison between the semiclassical and the full quantum descriptions of optical properties of quantum wells (QWs) in semiconductor microcavities. The semiclassical theory, which is based on a nonlocal treatment of the optical response of a s ...
Collective Thomson scattering, using a high-power pulsed D2O laser at 385-mu-m and a heterodyne receiver system, has provided local ion temperature (T(i)) measurements of the plasma in the tokamak chauffage Alfven (TCA) tokamak. Recent improvements in the ...