VISITORS of the PM-Theory Group

Prof. Sergei Tikhodeev
Moscow State University, GSP-1, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119991
General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov Str. 38, Moscow 119991
Russia

A joint Royal Society project: "The Scattering Matrix Method for Resonant Acousto-Optics".

Visits to the PM-Theory Group:

1 month in 2009

Joint publications:

Problems of Condensed Matter Physics: Quantum coherence phenomena in electron-hole and coupled matter-light systems
Edited by Alexei L. Ivanov and Sergei G. Tikhodeev, Oxford University Press, (2008) pp. 1-376.

S. G. Tikhodeev, A. L. Yablonskii, E. A. Muljarov, N. A. Gippius, and T. Ishihara
Quasi-guided modes and optical properties of photonic crystal slabs
Phys. Rev. B 66, 45102-45119 (2002).

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Prof. Dr. Roland Zimmermann
Institut fur Physik der Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
Newtonstr. 15, D-12489 Berlin
Germany

Distiguished Visiting Fellow supported by Cardiff University. Collaboration on indirect excitons in coupled quantum wells, whispering gallery modes in dielectric micropheres and a exciton dephasing in quantum dots.

Visits to the PM-Theory Group:

2 weeks in 2008
2 weeks in 2009

Joint publications:

F. Grosse, E.A. Muljarov, and R. Zimmermann
Phonons in quntum dots and their role in exciton dephasing
in the book: Semiconductor Nanostructures, Editor D. Bimberg (Springer Berlin, 2008), pp. 165-187.

E. A. Muljarov and R. Zimmermann
Exciton dephasing in quantum dots due to LO-phonon couplings: An exactly solvable model
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 187401 (2007).

E. A. Muljarov, T. Takagahara, and R. Zimmerman
Phonon-induced exciton dephasing in quantum dot molecules
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 177405 (2005).

E. A. Muljarov and R. Zimmermann
Dephasing in quantum dots: Quadratic coupling to acoustic phonons
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 237401 (2004)..

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Prof. Leonid Butov
Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA
USA

A long-term collaboration on indirect excitons in coupled quantum wells.

Visits to the PM-Theory Group:

2 months in 2007

Joint publications:

A. T. Hammack, L. V. Butov, L. Mouchliadis, A. L. Ivanov, and A.C. Gossard
Kinetics of indirect excitons in the optically-induced exciton trap
Phys. Rev. B 76, 193308 (2007).

A. T. Hammack, M. Griswold, L. V. Butov, L. E. Smallwood, A. L. Ivanov, and A. C. Gossard, Laser induced trapping of excitons in coupled quantum wells
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 227402 (2006).

A. L. Ivanov, L. E. Smallwood, A. T. Hammack, Sen Yang, L. V. Butov, and A. C. Gossard, Origin of the inner ring in photoluminescence patterns of quantum well excitons, Europhysics Letters 73, 920-926 (2006).

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Prof. Kikuo Cho
Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute,
Nagakute,
Aichi 480-1192,
Japan

A joint project on resonant acousto-optics of microcavity polaritons.

Visits to the PM-Theory Group:

1 month in 2004
2 months in 2005
1 month in 2007

Joint publications:

- A. L. Ivanov, N. I. Nikolaev and K. Cho, SAW-driven microcavities for
device applications, IEE Proceedings Optoelectronics 153, 326-329,
2006.

- K. Cho, K. Okumoto, N.I. Nikolaev, and A.L. Ivanov, Bragg diffraction
of microcavity polaritons by a surface acoustic wave, Phys. Rev.
Lett. 94, 226406, 2005.