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Origin of the anomalous magnetic circular dichroism spectral shape in ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)As: Impurity bands inside the band gap
The electronic structure of a prototype dilute magnetic semiconductor (DMS),
Ga1-xMnxAs, is studied by magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectroscopy. We
prove that the optical transitions originated from impurity bands cause the
strong positive MCD background. The MCD signal due to the E0 transition from
the valence band to the conduction band is negative indicating that the p-d
exchange interactions between the p-carriers and d-spin is antiferromagnetic.
The negative E0 MCD signal also indicates that the hole-doping of the valence
band is not so large as previously assumed. The impurity bands seem to play
important roles for the ferromagnetism of Ga1-xMnxAs.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figure
Structural, Magnetic and Magneto-caloric studies of Ni50Mn30Sn20Shape Memory Alloy
We have synthesized a nominal composition of Ni50Mn30Sn20 alloy using arc
melting technique. Rietveld refinement confirms the austenite L21 structure in
Fm-3m space group. Electrical resistivity has been found to clearly exhibiting
two different phenomena viz. a magnetic transition from paramagnetic to
ferromagnetic and a structural transition from austenite to martensitic phase.
Thermo-magnetization measurements M(T) confirms ferromagnetic transition
temperature TC at 222 K and martensitic transition starting at 127 K(MS).
Magnetization measurement M(H) at 10 K confirms the ferromagnetic state.
Frequency dependence of ac susceptibility \c{hi}' at low temperature suggests
spin glass behavior in the system. The isothermal magnetic entropy change
values have been found to be 1.14 J/Kg.K, 2.69 J/Kg.K and 3.9 J/Kg.K, with
refrigeration capacities of 19.6 J/kg, 37.8 J/kg and 54.6 J/kg for the field
change of 1, 2 and 3 Tesla respectively at 227 K.Comment: 16 pages text + Figs. Ni50Mn30Sn20 alloy: reasonable refrigeration
capacity tunable to Room
Off Resonant Pumping for Transition from Continuous to Discrete Spectrum and Quantum Revivals in Systems in Coherent States
We show that in parametrically driven systems and, more generally, in systems
in coherent states, off-resonant pumping can cause a transition from a
continuum energy spectrum of the system to a discrete one, and result in
quantum revivals of the initial state. The mechanism responsible for quantum
revivals in the present case is different from that in the non-linear
wavepacket dynamics of systems such as Rydberg atoms. We interpret the reported
phenomena as an optical analog of Bloch oscillations realized in Fock space and
propose a feasible scheme for inducing Bloch oscillations in trapped ions.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Jnl. of Optics
Finding Pairwise Intersections Inside a Query Range
We study the following problem: preprocess a set O of objects into a data
structure that allows us to efficiently report all pairs of objects from O that
intersect inside an axis-aligned query range Q. We present data structures of
size and with query time
time, where k is the number of reported pairs, for two classes of objects in
the plane: axis-aligned rectangles and objects with small union complexity. For
the 3-dimensional case where the objects and the query range are axis-aligned
boxes in R^3, we present a data structures of size and query time . When the objects and
query are fat, we obtain query time using storage
Generation of a superposition of multiple mesoscopic states of radiation in a resonant cavity
Using resonant interaction between atoms and the field in a high quality
cavity, we show how to generate a superposition of many mesoscopic states of
the field. We study the quasi-probability distributions and demonstrate the
nonclassicality of the superposition in terms of the zeroes of the Q-function
as well as the negativity of the Wigner function. We discuss the decoherence of
the generated superposition state. We propose homodyne techniques of the type
developed by Auffeves et al [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 230405 (2003)] to monitor the
superposition of many mesoscopic states.Comment: submitted to Phys. Rev.
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