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啁啾脉冲对超导体熔化的控制

Chirped pulse control over the melting of superconductors

Maria Recasens, Valentin Kasper, Maciej Lewenstein, Allan S. Johnson

AI总结:

本研究基于含时Ginzburg-Landau方程,发现强场太赫兹脉冲下超导体的反作用会导致凝聚态失控熔化,且该过程对初始脉冲啁啾极度敏感,引发反向等离子体红移及大规模光谱偏移。

摘要:

强场太赫兹脉冲越来越多地被用于在超快时间尺度上激发和控制量子材料。它们通过实现对超导能隙或约瑟夫森共振的直接寻址而得到广泛应用,并在Higgs能谱学中不可或缺。通过太赫兹与超导自由度的强耦合,可以诱导出大的非线性光学信号。然而,这种强场与材料之间的强双向耦合却鲜少受到关注。在此,我们使用含时Ginzburg-Landau方程框架,研究了强场太赫兹脉冲驱动下超导体的完整场和材料演化。我们发现,在高场强下,超导体的反作用会对驱动脉冲产生巨大改变,进而导致超导凝聚态的失控熔化。这导致其对初始驱动脉冲啁啾表现出惊人的敏感性,使得这些纯动力学变化能够导致数量级不同的熔化水平。我们还发现,驱动脉冲在仅几百纳米的超导体传播过程中就会发生大规模光谱偏移。我们将这些效应归因于反向等离子体红移,其中驱动场破坏Cooper对并降低自由电子迁移率,类似于降低等离子体的密度。

英文摘要:

Strong field terahertz pulses are increasingly used to excite and control quantum materials at the ultrafast timescale. They have found widespread application by enabling direct addressing of the superconducting gap or Josephson resonances and are essential in Higgs spectroscopy. Large non-linear optical signals can be induced by the strong coupling of the THz and superconducting degrees of freedom. However, far less attention has been paid to the strong bi-directional coupling between field and material this implies. Here, we use the framework of the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations to study the full field and material evolution of a superconductor driven by strong field terahertz pulses. We find that at high field strengths, the backreaction of the superconductor induces large changes to the driving pulse, which in turn leads to a runaway melting of the superconducting condensate. This results in a surprisingly large sensitivity to the initial driving pulse chirp, enabling these purely dynamical changes to result in order of magnitude different levels of melting. We also find large-scale spectral shifting of the driving pulse to occur in just a few hundred nanometers of propagation through a superconductor. We attribute these effects to an inverse plasma redshift, in which the driving field breaks Cooper pairs and decreases the free-electron mobility, analogous to reducing the density of a plasma.

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