488 research outputs found
Near-field spectra of quantum well excitons with non-Markovian phonon scattering
The excitonic absorption spectrum for a disordered quantum well in presence
of exciton-acoustic phonon interaction is treated beyond the Markov
approximation. Realistic disorder exciton states are taken from a microscopic
simulation, and the deformation potential interaction is implemented. The
exciton Green's function is solved with a self energy in second order Born
quality. The calculated spectra differ from a superposition of Lorentzian
lineshapes by enhanced inter-peak absorption. This is a manifestation of pure
dephasing which should be possible to measure in near-field experiments.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figure
Interaction-tuned Anderson versus Mott localization
Disorder or sufficiently strong interactions can render a metallic state
unstable causing it to turn into an insulating one. Despite the fact that the
interplay of these two routes to a vanishing conductivity has been a central
research topic, a unifying picture has not emerged so far. Here, we establish
that the two-dimensional Falicov-Kimball model, one of the simplest lattice
models of strong electron correlation does allow for the study of this
interplay. In particular, we show that this model at particle-hole symmetry
possesses three distinct thermodynamic insulating phases and exhibits Anderson
localization. The previously reported metallic phase is identified as a
finite-size feature due to the presence of weak localization. We characterize
these phases by their electronic density of states, staggered occupation,
conductivity, and the generalized inverse participation ratio. The implications
of our findings for other strongly correlated systems are discussed.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Dynamics of Complex Quantum Systems: Dissipation and Kinetic Equations
We present a microscopic approach to quantum dissipation and sketch the
derivation of the kinetic equation describing the evolution of a simple quantum
system in interaction with a complex quantum system. A typical quantum complex
system is modeled by means of parametric banded random matrices coupled to the
subsystem of interest. We do not assume the weak coupling limit and allow for
an independent dynamics of the ``reservoir''. We discuss the reasons for having
a new theoretical approach and the new elements introduced by us. The present
approach incorporates known limits and previous results, but at the same time
includes new cases, previously never derived on a microscopic level. We briefly
discuss the kinetic equation and its solution for a particle in the absence of
an external field.Comment: 7 pages, Elsevier style file espcrc2.st
Blind Multilinear Identification
We discuss a technique that allows blind recovery of signals or blind
identification of mixtures in instances where such recovery or identification
were previously thought to be impossible: (i) closely located or highly
correlated sources in antenna array processing, (ii) highly correlated
spreading codes in CDMA radio communication, (iii) nearly dependent spectra in
fluorescent spectroscopy. This has important implications --- in the case of
antenna array processing, it allows for joint localization and extraction of
multiple sources from the measurement of a noisy mixture recorded on multiple
sensors in an entirely deterministic manner. In the case of CDMA, it allows the
possibility of having a number of users larger than the spreading gain. In the
case of fluorescent spectroscopy, it allows for detection of nearly identical
chemical constituents. The proposed technique involves the solution of a
bounded coherence low-rank multilinear approximation problem. We show that
bounded coherence allows us to establish existence and uniqueness of the
recovered solution. We will provide some statistical motivation for the
approximation problem and discuss greedy approximation bounds. To provide the
theoretical underpinnings for this technique, we develop a corresponding theory
of sparse separable decompositions of functions, including notions of rank and
nuclear norm that specialize to the usual ones for matrices and operators but
apply to also hypermatrices and tensors.Comment: 20 pages, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theor
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