Pub Date : 2025-12-19DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.5c02545
Sung-Un Kim, Vignesh Veeramuthu, Min-Seok Lee, Ja-Yeon Kim, Jeong-Kyun Oh, Se-bee Shin, Yong-Ho Ra
We report on the demonstration of dielectric amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) from the gallium nitride (GaN) nanorod dimer, in which localized optical modes arise from strong coupling across a nanoscale air gap. The nanorod dimer forms a self-aligned cavity that supports spatially confined resonant modes, enabling ASE under continuous-wave excitation at room temperature. The system achieves a narrow emission line width of approximately 3 nm and a low ASE threshold of ∼26.98 kW/cm2. Photoluminescence (PL) measurements reveal distinct spectral narrowing and polarization-dependent emission as the injection power increases. Time-resolved PL and quality factor analysis confirm enhanced photon confinement and coherence in the dimer configuration, with the Q-factor increasing by nearly 8-fold compared to single nanorods. Finite-difference time-domain (3D-FDTD) simulations support these observations by showing electric field localization within the dimer cavity and modal selectivity between TE and TM modes. Furthermore, the air-gap cavity exhibits characteristics of a leaky-mode resonance, facilitating directional emission and improved gain accumulation. These findings highlight a fabrication-compatible route toward compact, low-threshold nanophotonic light sources based on the dielectric confinement in semiconductor nanostructures.
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Exceptional points (EPs), arising in non-Hermitian systems, have garnered significant attention in recent years, enabling advancements in sensing, wave manipulation, and mode selectivity. However, their role in quantum systems, particularly in influencing quantum correlations, remains underexplored. In this work, we investigate how EPs control multimode entanglement in bosonic chains. Using a Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) framework to describe the Heisenberg equations, we identify EPs of varying orders and uncover spectral transitions between purely real, purely imaginary, and mixed eigenvalue spectra. These spectral regions, divided by EPs, correspond to three distinct entanglement dynamics: oscillatory, exponential, and hybrid. Remarkably, we demonstrate that higher-order EPs, realized by non-integer-π hopping phases or nonuniform interaction strengths, significantly enhance the degree of multimode entanglement compared to second-order EPs. Our findings provide a pathway to leveraging EPs for entanglement control and exhibit the potential of non-Hermitian physics in advancing quantum technologies.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-19DOI: 10.1007/s10955-025-03557-z
Esteban Cárdenas, Thomas Chen
In this paper, we study a gas of (N gg 1 ) weakly interacting fermions. We describe the time evolution of states that are perturbations of the Fermi ball, and analyze the dynamics in particle-hole variables. Our main result states that, for small values of the coupling constant and for appropriate initial data, the effective dynamics of the momentum distribution is determined by a discrete collision operator of quantum Boltzmann form.
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