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Oleg L. Berman

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arXiv2026

Optical Transmission of 2D Material with Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect

We study the optical properties of gapped two-dimensional materials which are subject to the quantum anomalous Hall effect. At sufficiently low temperatures the transmission, reflection and absorption coefficients are found to have a universal behavior that depends only on the ratio of the photonic energy and the gap energy. There is a singular behavior with total reflection when these energies are equal. In the limit of a vanishing gap we recover results for graphene, where the optical coefficients depend only on the fine-structure constant. The observed optical properties provide an accurate measurement of the bandgap.

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arXiv2026

Monitoring photon entanglement in coupled cavities

We study the dynamics of $N$ photons in a Fock state, initially located inside one cavity, and coupled by an optical fiber to a second cavity. The entanglement of the photons is monitored by projective measurements, repeated with a fixed time step. This approach is applied to the formation of a photonic N00N state. We calculate the probability of the transition of $N$ photons from the left to the right cavity and the probability of the return of $N$ photons to the left cavity under repeated projective measurements. The entanglement is analyzed for the N00N state by its fidelity and its phase sensitivity, while for the entanglement between the states in the two cavities the entanglement entropy is calculated. In addition, we study the monitored evolution of photons in a single cavity, which are coupled to a single qubit, using the Jaynes-Cummings model. Photon entanglement is analyzed in terms of the entanglement entropy. In all these cases we find that entanglement is sensitive to the details of monitoring protocol, which can be used to control photon entanglement for specific applications.

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arXiv2025

Theory of two-component superfluidity of microcavity polaritons

We develop a microscopic mean-field theory describing the coexistence of Bose-Einstein condensates of upper and lower polaritons (UP/LP) in a semiconductor microcavity. Incorporating interbranch scattering within a modified polariton Hamiltonian, we introduce a phenomenological population-split parameter $α$ that quantifies the relative LP/UP occupations. At zero detuning, the critical temperature becomes independent of $α$, converging to a single value that marks the balanced, resonant regime. Away from resonance, variations in $α$ lead to distinctive and experimentally resolvable changes in both the sound velocity $c_s$ and critical temperature $T_c$, relative to the single-component (LP-only) condensate limit. The system under study consists of excitons confined in a transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayer, particularly WSe$_2$ embedded within a planar optical microcavity of GaAs where they strongly couple to cavity photons. Our analysis focuses on monolayer WSe$_2$ embdedded in a GaAs microcavity. We present results for GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells embedded in a GaAs microcavity in the Appendix. While mean-field in scope, the framework provides analytic benchmarks and physical insight for future treatments that include dissipation and fluctuations in nonequilibrium polariton superfluids.

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arXiv2025

Enhanced polariton interaction in the presence of disorder

We consider the interaction between exciton-polaritons in a semiconductor quantum well, embedded in a microcavity, in the presence of disorder. The disorder acts on the excitons in the semiconductor quantum well. We have calculated the exciton and polariton self-energies and the exciton and polariton energy dispersion relations in the presence of disorder. Our results demonstrate that disorder increases the polariton-polariton interaction.

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arXiv2025

Tuning excitons and superfluidity of dipolar excitons in the double layers of kagome lattice by applying circularly polarized irradiation

We present detailed calculations for several significant properties of the kagome lattice. We employ the Floquet-Magnus perturbation expansion to obtain the energy bands and the corresponding wave functions near the Dirac points for the kagome lattice in the presence of circularly or linearly polarized irradiation. In contrast with linearly polarized irradiation, a band gap is opened up near the Dirac points, between the valence and conduction bands in the presence of circularly polarized irradiation. We calculated the exciton binding energy, and the exciton energy for gapped kagome lattice as a function of the frequency and intensity of the irradiation. We compare the exciton binding energy and exciton energy in a monolayer with those in a double layer separated by an insulator to inhibit recombination. We predict that a phase transition in the kagome lattice from the semiconducting phase to the excitonic insulating phase can be induced by applying irradiation. We also examined the conditions for such a phase transition. We explore opportunities to tune exciton binding energy, the energy spectrum of collective excitations, the sound velocity and the critical temperature of the superfluidity by applying circularly polarized irradiation. We propose observation of Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity of quasi-two-dimensional dipolar excitons in two-layer kagome lattices in the presence of pumping by circularly polarized light. We have also analyzed the dependence of superfluid density $n_s$ and the temperature of the Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition temperature on excitonic density n, the interlayer separation D and the parameters for circularly polarized light.

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arXiv2025

Long-living superfluidity of dark excitons in a strip of strained transition metal dichalcogenides double layer

We have proposed the superfluidity of dipolar excitons in a strip of double-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) heterostructures. We have shown that strain causes a shift in k-space between the minimum of the conduction band and the maximum of the valence band. Therefore, we expect that applying strain to this system can cause dark excitons to be created. We have numerically calculated the energy spectrum of dark dipolar excitons in strained MoSe$_2$, and we have calculated their binding energies and effective masses. We have shown that the dark dipolar excitons in strained TMDC heterostructures form superfluids, and we have calculated the sound velocity in the energy spectrum of collective excitations, as well as the mean-field critical temperature for superfluidity. We have shown that two separate superfluid flows moving in opposite directions will appear in the system, one on each edge of the strip, forming the double layer. We have seen that the critical temperature for superfluidity increases with the concentration of dark excitons, as well as with the inter-layer separation. The fact that dark excitons cannot decay by the simple emission of photons, makes it so that the superfluids and condensates formed by them have a much longer lifetime than that formed by bright excitons. We propose a way to experimentally verify the predicted phenomena.

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arXiv2024

Superfluidity of dipolar excitons in a double layer of $α-T_3$ with a mass term

We predict Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity of dipolar excitons, formed by electron-hole pairs in spatially separated gapped hexagonal $α-T_{3}$ (GHAT3) layers. In the $α-T_{3}$ model, the AB-honeycomb lattice structure is supplemented with C atoms located at the centers of the hexagons in the lattice. We considered the $α-T_{3}$ model in the presence of a mass term which opens a gap in the energy dispersive spectrum. The gap opening mass term, caused by a weak magnetic field, plays the role of Zeeman splitting at low magnetic fields for this pseudospin-1 system. The band structure of GHAT3 monolayers leads to the formation of two distinct types of excitons in the GHAT3 double layer. We consider two types of dipolar excitons in double-layer GHAT3: (a) ``A excitons'', which are bound states of electrons in the conduction band (CB) and holes in the intermediate band (IB) and (b) ``B excitons'', which are bound states of electrons in the CB and holes in the valence band (VB). The binding energy of A and B dipolar excitons is calculated. For a two-component weakly interacting Bose gas of dipolar excitons in a GHAT3 double layer, we obtain the energy dispersion of collective excitations, the sound velocity, the superfluid density, and the mean-field critical temperature $T_{c}$ for superfluidity.

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arXiv2024

Superfluidity of indirect momentum space dark dipolar excitons in a double layer with massive anisotropic tilted semi-Dirac bands

We have theoretically investigated the spin- and valley-dependent superfluidity properties of indirect momentum space dark dipolar excitons in double layers with massive anisotropic tilted semi-Dirac bands in the presence of circularly polarized irradiation. An external vertical electric field is also applied to the structure and is responsible for tilting and gap opening for the band structure. For our calculations we used the parameters of a double layer of 1T$^\prime$-MoS$_2$. Closed form analytical expressions are presented for the energy spectrum for excitons, their associated wave functions and binding energies. Additionally, we examine the effects which the intensity and frequency of circularly polarized irradiation has for 1T$^\prime$-MoS$_2$ on the effective mass of the excitons since it has been demonstrated that the application of an external high-frequency dressing field tailors the crucial electronic including the exciton binding energy, as well as the critical temperature for superfluidity. We also calculate the sound velocity in the anisotropic weakly-interacting Bose gas of two-component indirect momentum space dark excitons for a double layer of 1T$^\prime$-MoS$_2$. We show that the critical velocity of superfluidity, the spectrum of collective excitations, concentrations of the superfluid and normal component, and mean field critical temperature for superfluidity are anisotropic and formed by a two-component system. The critical temperature for superfluidity is increased when the exciton concentration and interlayer separation are increased. We propose the use of phonon-assisted photoluminescence to experimentally confirm directional superfluidity of indirect momentum space dark excitons in a double layer with massive anisotropic tilted semi-Dirac bands.

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arXiv2023

Anisotropic optical conductivities of Model Topological nodal-line Semimetals

With the use of simple models, we investigated the optical conductivity of a nodal-line semimetal (NLSM) whose crossing of the conduction and valence bands near the origin ($O$ point) in the ($k_x,k_y$) plane of a small cubic region can be adjusted by a parameter $α$. The Hamiltonian of the NLSM is based on the ${\bf k}\cdot {\bf p}$ model for the low-lying energy bands. When $α=0$, these bands touch each other along a continuous closed loop but the opening of a band gap corresponding to finite values of $α$ and the varying of the carrier concentration can be adjusted. This provides a tunable semiconductor gap, around the $O$ point and the valence and conduction bands can meet at a pair of points within the small cubic region in ${\bf k }$ space. The optical conductivity of such a NLSM is calculated using the Kubo formula with emphasis on the optical spectral weight redistribution, deduced from appropriate Green's functions, brought about by changes in gap and chemical potential due to modifying $α$. We derived closed-form semi-analytic expressions for the longitudinal components of the optical conductivity for these model systems of NLSM and compare results for chosen $α$ and chemical potential. We also present results for the heat capacity when the system is in thermal equilibrium for various chosen $α$ and chemical potential.

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arXiv2023

Polaritonic and Excitonic Time Crystals based on TMDC strips in an external periodic potential

We investigated the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) under an external periodic potential. We consider two such systems, the first being made of exciton-polaritons in a nanoribbon of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), such as MoSe$_2$, embedded in a microcavity with a special curvature, which serves as the source of the external potential. The second, made of bare excitons in a nanoribbon of twisted TMDC bilayer, which naturally creates a periodic Moiré potential that can be controlled by the angle of twist. We proved that such systems exhibit a Time Crystal (TC) phase. This was demonstrated by the fact that the calculated BEC spatial density profile shows a non-trivial two-point correlator that oscillates in time. These BECs density profiles were calculated by solving the quantum Lindblad master equations for the density matrix within the mean-field approximation. We then go beyond the usual mean-field approach, by adding a stochastic term to the master equation, which corresponds to quantum corrections, and we show that the TC phase is still present.

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arXiv2021

Quantum entanglement between excitons in two-dimensional materials

The quantum entanglement between two excitons in two-dimensional materials, embedded in an optical microcavity, was investigated. The energy eigenstates of a Jaynes-Cummings like Hamiltonian for two qubits coupled to a single cavity mode have been calculated. The quantum entanglement between such states was estimated by calculating the concurrence between two qubits in each of these eigenstates. According to the results of our calculations, if the system is allowed to decay only through the emission of cavity photons at low temperatures, there is a maximally entangled eigenstate, protected from decay. We demonstrated that the existence of such a state results in the counter-intuitive conclusion that, for some initial states of the system, the fact that the cavity is leaky can actually lead to an increase in the average concurrence on the timescales of the average photonic lifetime. In addition, we calculated the time evolution of the concurrence between a pair of excitons in a strained graphene monolayer.

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arXiv2021

Crystal Phases of Charged Interlayer Excitons in van der Waals Heterostructures

Throughout the years, strongly correlated coherent states of excitons have been the subject of intense theoretical and experimental studies. This topic has recently boomed due to new emerging quantum materials such as van der Waals (vdW) bound atomically thin layers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). We analyze the collective properties of charged interlayer excitons observed recently in bilayer TMD heterostructures. We predict new strongly correlated phases - crystal and Wigner crystal - that can be selectively realized with TMD bilayers of properly chosen electron-hole effective masses by just varying their interlayer separation distance. Our results open up new avenues for nonlinear coherent control, charge transport and spinoptronics applications with quantum vdW heterostuctures.

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arXiv2020

Strain induced quantum Hall effect of excitons in graphene

We study the effect of a uniform pseudomagnetic field, induced by a strain in a monolayer and double layer of gapped graphene, acting on excitons. For our analysis it is crucial that the pseudomagnetic field acts on the charges of the constituent particles of the excitons, i.e., the electrons and holes, the same way in contrast to a magnetic field. Moreover, using a circularly polarized laser field, the electrons and the holes can be excited only in one valley of the honeycomb lattice of gapped graphene. This breaks the time-reversal symmetry and provides the possibility to observe the various Quantum Hall phenomena in this pseudomagnetoexciton system. Our study poses a fundamental problem of the quantum Hall effect for composite particles and paves the way for quantum Hall physics of pseudomagnetoexcitons.

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arXiv2020

Chiral filtration of light by Weyl-semimetal medium

Recently discussed topological materials Weyl-semimetals (WSs) combine both: high electron mobility comparable with graphene and unique topological protection of Dirac points. We present novel results related to electromagnetic field propagation through WSs. It is predicted that transmission of the normally incident polarized electromagnetic wave (EMW) through the WS strongly depends on the orientation of polarization with respect to a gyration vector $\mathbf{g}$. The latter is related to the vector-parameter $\mathbf{b}$, which represents the separation between the Weyl nodes of opposite chirality in the first Brillouin zone. By changing the polarization of the incident EMW with respect to the gyration vector $\mathbf{g}$ the system undergoes the transition from the isotropic dielectric to the medium with Kerr- or Faraday-like rotation of polarization and finally to the system with chiral selective electromagnetic field. It is shown that WSs can be applied as the polarization filters.

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arXiv2020

Superfluidity of dipolar magnetoexcitons in doped double-layered $α$-${\cal T}_3$ lattice in a strong magnetic field

We predict the occurrence of Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity of dipolar magnetoexcitons for a pair of quasi-two-dimensional spatially separated $α$-${\cal T}_3$ layers. We have solved a two-body problem for an electron and a hole for the model Hamiltonian for the $α$-${\cal T}_3$ double layer in a magnetic field. The energy dispersion of collective excitations, the spectrum of sound velocity, and the effective magnetic mass of magnetoexcitons are obtained in the integer quantum Hall regime for high magnetic fields. The superfluid density and the temperature of the Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition are probed as functions of the excitonic density, magnetic field, and the inter-layer separation.

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arXiv2019

Optical Properties of Anisotropic Excitons in Phosphorene

We study the eigenenergies and optical properties of both direct excitons in a phosphorene monolayer in different dielectric environments, and indirect excitons in heterostructures of phosphorene with hexagonal boron nitride. For these systems, we solve the 2D Schrödinger equation using the Rytova-Keldysh (RK) potential for direct, and both the RK and Coulomb potentials for indirect excitons. The results show that excitons formed from charge carriers with anisotropic effective mass exhibit enhanced (suppressed) optical absorption, compared to their 2D isotropic counterparts, under linearly polarized excitations along the crystal axis with relatively smaller (larger) effective carrier masses. This anisotropy leads to dramatically different excited states than the isotropic exciton. The direct exciton binding energy depends strongly on the dielectric environment, and shows good agreement with previously published data. For indirect excitons, the oscillator strength and absorption coefficient increase as the interlayer separation increases. The choice of RK or Coulomb potential does not significantly change the indirect exciton optical properties, but leads to significant differences in the binding energy for small interlayer separation.

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arXiv2019

Can the dynamical Lamb effect be observed in a superconducting circuit?

The dynamical Lamb effect is predicted to arise in superconducting circuits when the coupling of a superconducting qubit with a resonator is periodically switched "on" and "off" nonadiabatically. We show that by using a superconducting circuit which allows to switch between longitudinal and transverse coupling of a qubit to a resonator, it is possible of to observe the dynamical Lamb effect. {The switching between longitudinal and transverse coupling can be achieved by modulating the magnetic flux through the circuit loops.} By solving the Schrödinger equation for a qubit coupled to a resonator, we calculate the time evolution of the probability of excitation of the qubit and the creation of $n$ photons in the resonator due to the dynamical Lamb effect. The probability is maximum when the coupling is periodically switched between longitudinal and transverse using a square-wave or sinusoidal modulation of the magnetic flux with frequency equal to the sum of the average qubit and photon transition frequencies.

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arXiv2019

Spin Hall effect for polaritons in a TMDC monolayer embedded in a microcavity

The spin Hall effect for polaritons (SHEP) in a transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) monolayer embedded in a microcavity is predicted. We demonstrate that two counterpropagating laser beams incident on a TMDC monolayer can deflect a superfluid polariton flow due to the generation the effective gauge vector and scalar potentials. The components of polariton conductivity tensor for both non-interacting polaritons without Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC)and for weakly-interacting Bose gas of polaritons in the presence of BEC and superfluidity are obtained. It is shown that the polariton flows in the same valley are splitting: the superfluid components of the \textit{A} and \textit{B} polariton flows propagate in opposite directions along the counterpropagating beams, while the normal components of the flows slightly deflect in opposite directions and propagate almost perpendicularly to the beams. The possible experimental observation of SHEP in a microcavity is proposed.

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