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Pressure-Driven Metal-Insulator Transition in Hematite from Dynamical Mean-Field Theory
The Local Density Approximation combined with Dynamical Mean-Field Theory
(LDA+DMFT method) is applied to the study of the paramagnetic and magnetically
ordered phases of hematite FeO as a function of volume. As the volume
is decreased, a simultaneous 1st order insulator-metal and high-spin to
low-spin transition occurs close to the experimental value of the critical
volume. The high-spin insulating phase is destroyed by a progressive reduction
of the charge gap with increasing pressure, upon closing of which the high spin
phase becomes unstable. We conclude that the transition in FeO at
50 GPa can be described as an electronically driven volume collapse.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Effect of Hund's exchange on the spectral function of a triply orbital degenerate correlated metal
We present an approach based on the dynamical mean field theory which is able
to give the excitation spectrum of a triply degenerate Hubbard model with a
Hund's exchange invariant under spin rotation. The lattice problem can be
mapped onto a local Anderson model containing 64 local eigenstates. This local
problem is solved by a generalized non-crossing approximation. The influence of
Hund's coupling J is examined in detail for metallic states close to the metal
insulator transition. The band-filling is shown to play a crucial role
concerning the effect of J on the low energy dynamics.Comment: Phys. Rev. B (In Press
Coherent and Squeezed Vacuum Light Interferometry: Parity detection hits the Heisenberg limit
The interference between coherent and squeezed vacuum light can produce path
entangled states with very high fidelities. We show that the phase sensitivity
of the above interferometric scheme with parity detection saturates the quantum
Cramer-Rao bound, which reaches the Heisenberg-limit when the coherent and
squeezed vacuum light are mixed in roughly equal proportions. For the same
interferometric scheme, we draw a detailed comparison between parity detection
and a symmetric-logarithmic-derivative-based detection scheme suggested by Ono
and Hofmann.Comment: Change in the format from aps to iop since we decided to submit it to
NJP; Minor changes in tex
An Invisible Quantum Tripwire
We present here a quantum tripwire, which is a quantum optical interrogation
technique capable of detecting an intrusion with very low probability of the
tripwire being revealed to the intruder. Our scheme combines interaction-free
measurement with the quantum Zeno effect in order to interrogate the presence
of the intruder without interaction. The tripwire exploits a curious nonlinear
behaviour of the quantum Zeno effect we discovered, which occurs in a lossy
system. We also employ a statistical hypothesis testing protocol, allowing us
to calculate a confidence level of interaction-free measurement after a given
number of trials. As a result, our quantum intruder alert system is robust
against photon loss and dephasing under realistic atmospheric conditions and
its design minimizes the probabilities of false positives and false negatives
as well as the probability of becoming visible to the intruder.Comment: Improved based on reviewers comments; 5 figure
Non-leptonic two-body decays of the Bc meson in light-front quark model and QCD factorization approach
We study exclusive non-leptonic two-body
decays with (pseudoscalar or vector meson) being factored out in QCD
factorization approach. The non-leptonic decay amplitudes are related to the
product of meson decay constants and the form factors for semileptonic
decays. As inputs in obtaining the branching ratios for a large set of
non-leptonic decays, we use the weak form factors for the semileptonic
decays in the whole kinematical region and the
unmeasured meson decay constants obtained from our previous light-front quark
model. We compare our results of the branching ratios with those of other
theoretical studies.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures, minor corrections, version to appear in PR
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