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most citedPlasmon wakefields and dispersive properties of metallic nanostructures

18 citations · 43 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Ultrafast All-Optical Switching via a Supersolid Phase Transition of Light

J. L. Figueiredo, J. T. Mendonça, H. Terças

We propose ultrafast all-optical switching exploiting the bistability between a spatially uniform photon superfluid and a spontaneously ordered supersolid in a driven-dissipative m…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 2 cited

The role of the exchange-Coulomb potential in two-dimensional electron transport

J. L. Figueiredo, J. T. Mendonça, H. Terças

We develop a quantum kinetic theory of two-dimensional electron gases in which exchange is treated self-consistently at the Hartree-Fock level and enters as a nonlocal, momentum-de…

physics.optics2025

Photon Bose-Einstein Condensation in Semiconductors: A Quantum Kinetic Theory

José L. Figueiredo, Ross C. Schofield, Ming Fu +4

Photon condensation in semiconductor microcavities is a transformative technique for engineering quantum states of light at room temperature by tailoring strong but incoherent ligh…

physics.optics2025

Supersolid light in a semiconductor microcavity

J. L. Figueiredo, J. T. Mendonça, H. Terças

Supersolidity - simultaneous superfluid flow and crystalline order - has been realized in quantum atomic systems but remains unexplored in purely photonic platforms operating at we…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Anisotropy-Induced Magnetic Field Generation in Bidimensional Materials

Diogo Simões, Hugo Terças, Jorge Ferreira

We investigate an electromagnetic instability in two-dimensional materials arising from an anisotropy of the Fermi surface, utilizing a kinetic model accounting for the effects of…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025

Normal modes and shockwaves in cold atoms

Francisco Raposo, Hugo Terças

Numerical methods are developed to simulate the dynamics of atoms in a Magneto-Optic Trap (MOT), based on the fluid description of ultracold gases under laser cooling and magnetic…

quant-ph2024

Multiplexed quantum repeaters with hot multimode alkali-noble gas memories

Alexandre Barbosa, Hugo Terças, Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro

We propose a non-cryogenic optical quantum memory for noble-gas nuclear spins based on the Atomic Frequency Comb (AFC) protocol. Owing to the hours-long coherence lifetimes of the…

cond-mat.quant-gas2023

Superdiffusion of vortices in two-component quantum fluids of light

M. Roldão, J. L. Figueiredo, P. Monteiro +2

The quantum diffusion of a vortex in a two-component quantum fluid of light is investigated. In these systems, the Kerr nonlinearity promotes interactions between the photons, disp…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Conductance suppression due to two-stream instability in bilayer graphene

Vasco Pinhão, Pedro Cosme, Hugo Terças

We investigate the electron-hole two-stream instability (or Coulomb drag) in intrinsic bilayer graphene in the hydrodynamic regime, accounting for the effects of temperature, initi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Towards the detection of ultra-low energetic neutrinos with plasma metamaterials

C. Alfisi, H. Terças

Experiments as IceCube or Super-Kamiokande have been successful in detecting highly energetic neutrinos in the. Neutrinos in the ultra-low energy range ()…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Hydrodynamic electrons in Graphene: a viscous boundary-layer description

Pedro Cosme, João S. Santos, Hugo Terças

In this paper we dwell over the study of the boundary layer problem in a hydrodynamical description of the electrons in gated graphene. It has been verified experimentally that thi…

physics.atom-ph2018★ 1 cited

Roton-Induced Trapping in Strongly Correlated Rydberg Gases

João D. Rodrigues, Luís F. Gonçalves, Hugo Terças +2

Atoms excited into high-lying Rydberg states and under strong dipole-dipole interactions exhibit phenomena associated with highly correlated and complex systems. We perform first p…

quant-ph2017★ 7 cited

Collective dynamics of accelerated atoms

Benedikt Richter, Hugo Terças, Yasser Omar +1

We study the collective dynamics of accelerated atoms interacting with a massless field via an Unruh-deWitt-type interaction. We first derive a general Hamiltonian describing such…

cond-mat.quant-gas2013★ 15 cited

Polytropic equilibrium and normal modes in cold atomic traps

H. Terças, J. T. Mendonça

The compressibility limit of a cold gas confined in a magneto-optical trap due to multiple scattering of light is a long-standing problem. This scattering mechanism induces long-ra…

cond-mat.mes-hall2010★ 18 cited

Plasmon wakefields and dispersive properties of metallic nanostructures

S. Ali, H. Terças, J. T. Mendonça

We investigate the excitation of electrostatic wakefields in metallic nanostructures (nanowires) due to the propagation of a short electron pulse. For that purpose, a dispersive (n…