CMSE Student's research featured in APS Physical Review A Kaleidoscope Collection

CMSE Student Connor Glosser, in part with CMSE faculty member Shanker Balasubramaniam and Physics Dept. faculty Carlo Piermarocchi, has been published in the American Physical Society Journal and featured in the Kaleidoscope collection. 

Abstract:

Rabi oscillations typify the inherent nonlinearity of optical excitations in quantum dots. Using an integral kernel formulation to solve the three-dimensional Maxwell-Bloch equations in ensembles of up to 104 quantum dots, we observe features in Rabi oscillations due to the interplay of nonlinearity, nonequilibrium excitation, and electromagnetic coupling between the dots. This approach allows us to observe the dynamics of each dot in the ensemble without resorting to spatial averages. Our simulations predict synchronized multiplets of dots that exchange energy, dots that dynamically couple to screen the effect of incident external radiation, localization of the polarization due to randomness and interactions, as well as wavelength-scale regions of enhanced and suppressed polarization.

Kaleidoscope Feature

https://journals.aps.org/pra/kaleidoscope/pra/96/3/033816

Full Article

https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.96.033816