Publications by Alexander Tagantsev

Generation of squeezed Fock states by measurement

The generation of squeezed Fock states by the one or more photon subtraction from a two-mode entangled Gaussian (TMEG) state is theoretically addressed. We showed that an arbitrary order Fock state can be generated this way and we obtained a condition that ...

Amer Physical Soc2024

Paradoxical creation of a polydomain pattern by electric field in BaTiO3 crystal

Alexander Tagantsev

It is known that ferroelectric single crystals can be turned from a polydomain to a monodomain state by the application of an electric field. Here we report an unexpected opposite effect: the formation of through-the-crystal polydomain pattern in a monodom ...

2024

Optimal optomechanical cavity setups with highly reflecting membranes

Alexander Tagantsev

Highly reflecting mechanically compliant membranes based on photonic-crystal patterns have recently gained increasing attention within cavity optomechanics due to their prospects of reaching high coupling rates in membrane-in-the-middle experiments. Here, ...

2024

Phononically shielded photonic-crystal mirror membranes for cavity quantum optomechanics

Alexander Tagantsev

We present a highly reflective, sub-wavelength-thick membrane resonator featuring high mechanical quality factor and discuss its applicability for cavity optomechanics. The 88.5 nm thin stoichiometric silicon-nitride membrane, designed and fabricated to co ...

Optica Publishing Group2023

Dissipative optomechanical coupling with a membrane outside of an optical cavity

Alexander Tagantsev

We theoretically study an optomechanical system which consists of a two-sided cavity and a mechanical membrane that is placed outside of it. The membrane is positioned close to one of its mirrors, and the cavity is coupled to the external light field throu ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Electric field control of antiferroelectric domain pattern

Alexander Tagantsev

Control of domain and domain wall configurations in antiferroelectrics is a necessary step towards practical use of new functionalities based on polar domain wall structures. Here we propose and demonstrate a domain engineering scheme that provides an anti ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in an optomechanical cavity

Alexander Tagantsev

A theoretical consideration of the so-called "membrane-in-the-middle" optomechanical cavity revealed that it undergoes a spontaneous symmetry breaking as a function of transparency of the membrane. Such typical features of this phenomenon as a square-root ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Dissipative-coupling-assisted laser cooling: Limitations and perspectives

Alexander Tagantsev

The recently identified possibility of ground-state cooling of a mechanical oscillator in the unresolved sideband regime by combination of the dissipative and dispersive optomechanical coupling under the red sideband excitation [Phys. Rev. A 88, 023850 (20 ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Theoretical estimation of the linear electro-optic effect in compressively strained c-domain (Ba, Sr)TiO3 thin films using a phenomenological thermodynamic model

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev

The influence of compressive strain on the linear electro-optic (EO) effect in c-domain (BaxSr1-x)TiO3 (BST) thin films was theoretically investigated using a phenomenological thermodynamic model. We considered that the c-domain BST thin films were grown o ...

CERAMIC SOC JAPAN-NIPPON SERAMIKKUSU KYOKAI2019

Quantum-Limited Measurements Using an Optical Cavity with Modulated Intrinsic Loss

Alexander Tagantsev, Sergey Fedorov

We analyze a cavity optomechanical setup, in which the position of an oscillator modulates the internal optical loss. We show that, in contrast to systems with a fixed internal loss, in such a setup, quantum-limited position measurements can be performed a ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Large impact of strain on the electro-optic effect in (Ba, Sr)TiO3 thin films: Experiment and theoretical comparison

Alexander Tagantsev

(001)-epitaxial (Ba0.5Sr0.5)TiO3 (BST) thin films with different magnitudes of compressive strain were fabricated on SrRuO3/SrTiO3 substrates by pulsed laser deposition, and their electro-optic (EO) properties were characterized by modulation ellipsometry ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019

Triggered incommensurate transition in PbHfO3

Alexander Tagantsev

We report a type of structural phase transitions in dielectric materials: the triggered incommensurate (IC) transition. We demonstrate evidence for such a transition in the perovskite antiferroelectric PbHfO3 by means of single-crystal x-ray diffraction, d ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Dissipative versus dispersive coupling in quantum optomechanics: Squeezing ability and stability

Alexander Tagantsev

2018

Physics and applications of charged domain walls

Alexander Tagantsev, Tomas Sluka, Petr Yudin, Petr Bednyakov

The charged domain wall is an ultrathin (typically nanosized) interface between two domains; it carries bound charge owing to a change of normal component of spontaneous polarization on crossing the wall. In contrast to hetero-interfaces between different ...

2018

Critical scattering and incommensurate phase transition in antiferroelectric PbZrO3 under pressure

Alexander Tagantsev

Antiferroelectric lead zirconate is the key ingredient in modern ferroelectric and piezoelectric functional solid solutions. By itself it offers opportunities in new-type non-volatile memory and energy storage applications. A highly useful and scientifical ...

Springer Nature2017

Structure and pressure-induced ferroelectric phase transition in antiphase domain boundaries of strontium titanate from first principles

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev, Alexander Kvasov

In this work, using zero kelvin ab initio calculations, we revisit the structure and ferroelectric phase transition in antiphase domain boundaries (APBs) in SrTiO3 (STO), which has been previously addressed in terms of a phenomenological approach. We confi ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Piezoelectric enhancement under negative pressure

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev, Silviu Cosmin Sandu, Jin Wang, Tomas Sluka, Alexander Kvasov

Enhancement of ferroelectric properties, both spontaneous polarization and Curie temperature under negative pressure had been predicted in the past from first principles and recently confirmed experimentally. In contrast, piezoelectric properties are expec ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Contribution of spontaneous polarization and its fluctuations to refraction of light in ferroelectrics

Alexander Tagantsev

The expressions for the spontaneous polar contribution delta n (i) (s) to the principal values of the refractive index due to the quadratic electro-optic effect in ferroelectrics have been considered within the phenomenological approach taking into account ...

Maik Nauka/Interperiodica/Springer2016

Thick domain walls in non-magnetic ferroics

Alexander Tagantsev, Petr Yudin, Konstantin Shapovalov

Recent developments in the physics of non-magnetic ferroics identified possible functionality of domain walls in these materials, which specifies the current interest to the internal structure of the walls. In this context, the wall thickness itself can be ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2016

Short- and long-range polar order contributions to the Ferroelectric phase of Ca2+ doped SrTiO3

Alexander Tagantsev

Short- and long-range impurity-induced polar ordering in Sr1-xCaxTiO3 (x = 0.014) single crystals was investigated and discussed on the basis of light refraction, morphic birefringence and temperature-dependent dielectric hysteresis loop measurements. Anew ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016