Blue-shifting of coherent plasmon radiation due to Landau damping
Restricting the wave vector of coherent plasmons excited by ultrashort laser pulses results in a frequency blue-shift of the emitted THz radiation, consistent with the onset of Landau damping.
Coherent plasmons in InSb
We study coherent plasmons in the narrow-gap semiconductor InSb by measuring the far-infrared electromagnetic radiation they emit. These collective oscillations are excited with ultrashort, near-infrared laser pulses having photon energy far above the semiconductor band gap. Coherent plasmon behavior is characterized as a function of temperature, doping density, optically injected carrier density, and spatial confinement.
Relations between Heavy-light Meson and Quark Masses
The study of heavy-light meson masses should provide a way to determine renormalized quark masses and other properties of heavy-light mesons. In the context of lattice QCD, for example, it is possible to calculate hadronic quantities for arbitrary values of the quark masses. In this paper, we address two aspects relating heavy-light meson masses to the quark masses. First, we introduce a definition of the renormalized quark mass that is free of both scale dependence and renormalon ambiguities, and discuss its relation to more familiar definitions of the quark mass. We then show how this definition enters a merger of the descriptions of heavy-light masses in heavy-quark effective theory and in chiral perturbation theory ($\chi$PT). For practical implementations of this merger, we extend the one-loop $\chi$PT corrections to lattice gauge theory with heavy-light mesons composed of staggered fermions for both quarks. Putting everything together, we obtain a practical formula to describe all-staggered heavy-light meson masses in terms of quark masses as well as some lattice artifacts related to staggered fermions. In a companion paper, we use this function to analyze lattice-QCD data and extract quark masses and some matrix elements defined in heavy-quark effective theory.