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Excitonic nonlinear optical response of conventional and inverted CdSe/ZnS cylindrical core/shell quantum dots under dual-interface dielectric confinement: saturable absorption, photobleaching, and dielectric engineering

This paper presents a rigorous excitonic theoretical framework incorporating Coulomb correlation, dual-interface dielectric self-polarization, local-field corrections, and temperature-dependent dephasing to demonstrate that inverting the core/shell geometry of CdSe/ZnS cylindrical quantum dots significantly enhances third-order nonlinear optical responses, offering optimized design guidelines for oxide-embedded photonic devices.

Lakhdar Sek2026-06-29
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Ultrafast Electrical Charge Injection in Operating Perovskite Light-Emitting Diodes by Infrared Optical Control

This study demonstrates that femtosecond infrared optical pulses can trigger the ultrafast release of electrically accumulated interfacial charges in operating perovskite LEDs, enabling sub-100-fs carrier injection and transient electroluminescence enhancement that bypasses conventional RC speed limits.

Artem Bakulin, Ruoyu Gao, Zhongcheng Yuan, Bin Yang, Longren Li, Marie Houot, Mengyuan Huang, Ben Spencer, Seonghyeok Pa (…)2026-06-29
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Integrated photon-pair sources on periodically poled thin-film lithium tantalate

This paper demonstrates the first realization of high-efficiency, high-purity, and high-fidelity integrated photon-pair sources on periodically poled thin-film lithium tantalate (TFLT) in both traveling-wave and resonant configurations, establishing the platform as a competitive contender for scalable quantum light generation and photonic quantum information processing.

Di Zhu, Sakthi Sanjeev Mohanraj, Xiaodong Shi, Ran Yang, Lin Zhou2026-06-29
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Quantum Criticality in Monolayer Amorphous Carbon

This study demonstrates that monolayer amorphous carbon, despite being a strictly two-dimensional disordered system where electronic states are typically localized, retains a quantum-critical extended state at the band center due to an emergent chiral symmetry protected by a topological Wess-Zumino-Witten term.

Bent Weber, Rejaul SK, Hanning Zhang, Artem Grebenko, Arsen Herasymchuk, Ranjith Shivajirao, Hongji Zhang, Abee Nelson (…)2026-06-29