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    Transport in gapped bilayer graphene: the role of potential fluctuations

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    We employ a dual-gated geometry to control the band gap \Delta in bilayer graphene and study the temperature dependence of the resistance at the charge neutrality point, RNP(T), from 220 to 1.5 K. Above 5 K, RNP(T) is dominated by two thermally activated processes in different temperature regimes and exhibits exp(T3/T)^{1/3} below 5 K. We develop a simple model to account for the experimental observations, which highlights the crucial role of localized states produced by potential fluctuations. The high temperature conduction is attributed to thermal activation to the mobility edge. The activation energy approaches \Delta /2 at large band gap. At intermediate and low temperatures, the dominant conduction mechanisms are nearest neighbor hopping and variable-range hopping through localized states. Our systematic study provides a coherent understanding of transport in gapped bilayer graphene.Comment: to appear in Physical Review B: Rapid Com

    Isospin breaking and f0(980)f_0(980)-a0(980)a_0(980) mixing in the η(1405)→π0f0(980)\eta(1405) \to \pi^{0} f_0(980) reaction

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    We make a theoretical study of the η(1405)→π0f0(980)\eta(1405) \to \pi^{0} f_0(980) and η(1405)→π0a0(980)\eta(1405) \to \pi^{0} a_0(980) reactions with an aim to determine the isospin violation and the mixing of the f0(980)f_0(980) and a0(980)a_0(980) resonances. We make use of the chiral unitary approach where these two resonances appear as composite states of two mesons, dynamically generated by the meson-meson interaction provided by chiral Lagrangians. We obtain a very narrow shape for the f0(980)f_0(980) production in agreement with a BES experiment. As to the amount of isospin violation, or f0(980)f_0(980) and a0(980)a_0(980) mixing, assuming constant vertices for the primary η(1405)→π0KKˉ\eta(1405)\rightarrow \pi^{0}K\bar{K} and η(1405)→π0π0η\eta(1405)\rightarrow \pi^{0}\pi^{0}\eta production, we find results which are much smaller than found in the recent experimental BES paper, but consistent with results found in two other related BES experiments. We have tried to understand this anomaly by assuming an I=1 mixture in the η(1405)\eta(1405) wave function, but this leads to a much bigger width of the f0(980)f_0(980) mass distribution than observed experimentally. The problem is solved by using the primary production driven by η′→K∗Kˉ\eta' \to K^* \bar K followed by K∗→KπK^* \to K \pi, which induces an extra singularity in the loop functions needed to produce the f0(980)f_0(980) and a0(980)a_0(980) resonances. Improving upon earlier work along the same lines, and using the chiral unitary approach, we can now predict absolute values for the ratio Γ(π0,π+π−)/Γ(π0,π0η)\Gamma(\pi^0, \pi^+ \pi^-)/\Gamma(\pi^0, \pi^0 \eta) which are in fair agreement with experiment. We also show that the same results hold if we had the η(1475)\eta(1475) resonance or a mixture of these two states, as seems to be the case in the BES experiment

    Poisson noise induced switching in driven micromechanical resonators

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    We study Poisson-noise induced switching between coexisting vibrational states in driven nonlinear micromechanical resonators. In contrast to Gaussian noise induced switching, the measured logarithm of the switching rate is proportional not to the reciprocal noise intensity, but to its logarithm, for fixed pulse area. We also find that the switching rate logarithm varies as a square root of the distance to the bifurcation point, instead of the conventional scaling with exponent 3/2.Comment: accepted by PR

    Evidence for spin-flip scattering and local moments in dilute fluorinated graphene

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    The issue of whether local magnetic moments can be formed by introducing adatoms into graphene is of intense research interest because it opens the window to fundamental studies of magnetism in graphene, as well as of its potential spintronics applications. To investigate this question we measure, by exploiting the well-established weak localization physics, the phase coherence length L_phi in dilute fluorinated graphene. L_phi reveals an unusual saturation below ~ 10 K, which cannot be explained by non-magnetic origins. The corresponding phase breaking rate increases with decreasing carrier density and increases with increasing fluorine density. These results provide strong evidence for spin-flip scattering and points to the existence of adatom-induced local magnetic moment in fluorinated graphene. Our results will stimulate further investigations of magnetism and spintronics applications in adatom-engineered graphene.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures, and supplementary materials; Phys. Rev. Lett. in pres

    Multi-quark components in baryons

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    A brief review on some recent progresses in our understanding of multi-quark components in baryons is presented. The multi-quark components in baryons seem to be mainly in colored quark cluster configurations rather than in ``meson cloud'' configurations or in the form of a sea of quark-antiquark pairs. The colored quark cluster multi-quark picture gives a natural explanation of empirical indications for a positive strangeness magnetic moment μs\mu_s of the proton and the longstanding mass-reverse problem of S11(1535) and P11(1440)N∗resonances.Amodel−predictionfortheP11(1440) N* resonances. A model-prediction for the \mu_s$ of the proton is given.Comment: Contribution to the International Conference on QCD and Hadronic Physics, June 16-20, 2005, Beijin

    Observation of indirect ionization of W7+ in an electron-beam ion-trap plasma

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    In this work, visible and extreme ultraviolet spectra of W7+ are measured using the high-temperature superconducting electron-beam ion trap (EBIT) at the Shanghai EBIT Laboratory under extremely low-energy conditions (lower than the nominal electron-beam energy of 130 eV). The relevant atomic structure is calculated using the flexible atomic code package based on the relativistic configuration interaction method. The GRASP2K code, in the framework of the multiconfiguration Dirac-Hartree-Fock method, is employed as well for calculating the wavelength of the M1 transition in the ground configuration of W7+. A line from the W7+ ions is observed at a little higher electron-beam energy than the ionization potential for W4+, making this line appear to be from W5+. A hypothesis for the charge-state evolution of W7+ is proposed based on our experimental and theoretical results; that is, the occurrence of W7+ ions results from indirect ionization caused by stepwise excitation between some metastable states of lower-charge-state W ions, at the nominal electron-beam energy of 59 eV

    On the Saturation Phenomenon of Stochastic Gradient Descent for Linear Inverse Problems

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    Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a promising method for solving large-scale inverse problems due to its excellent scalability with respect to data size. The current mathematical theory in the lens of regularization theory predicts that SGD with a polynomially decaying stepsize schedule may suffer from an undesirable saturation phenomenon; i.e., the convergence rate does not further improve with the solution regularity index when it is beyond a certain range. In this work, we present a refined convergence rate analysis of SGD and prove that saturation actually does not occur if the initial stepsize of the schedule is sufficiently small. Several numerical experiments are provided to complement the analysis

    On the convergence of stochastic gradient descent for nonlinear inverse problems

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    In this work, we analyze the regularizing property of the stochastic gradient descent for the numerical solution of a class of nonlinear ill-posed inverse problems in Hilbert spaces. At each step of the iteration, the method randomly chooses one equation from the nonlinear system to obtain an unbiased stochastic estimate of the gradient and then performs a descent step with the estimated gradient. It is a randomized version of the classical Landweber method for nonlinear inverse problems, and it is highly scalable to the problem size and holds significant potential for solving large-scale inverse problems. Under the canonical tangential cone condition, we prove the regularizing property for a priori stopping rules and then establish the convergence rates under a suitable sourcewise condition and a range invariance condition

    The pure annihilation type decays B0→Ds−K2∗+B^0\rightarrow D_{s}^{-}K_{2}^{*+} and Bs→Dˉa2B_{s}\rightarrow \bar{D}a_{2} in perturbative QCD approach

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    We calculate the branching ratios of pure annihilation type decays B0→Ds−K2∗+B^0\rightarrow D_{s}^{-}K_{2}^{*+} and Bs→Dˉa2B_s\rightarrow \bar{D}a_{2} using the perturbative QCD approach based on kTk_T factorization. The branching ratios are predicted to be (60.6−16.5 −10.4 −2.1+17.3 +4.3 +3.2)×10−6(60.6_{-16.5\,-10.4\,-2.1}^{+17.3\,+4.3\,+3.2}) \times 10^{-6} for B0→Ds−K2∗+B^0\rightarrow D_{s}^{-}K_{2}^{*+}, (1.1−0.4 −0.2 −0.1+0.4 +0.1 +0.1)×10−6(1.1_{-0.4\,-0.2\,-0.1}^{+0.4\,+0.1\,+0.1})\times 10^{-6} for Bs→Dˉa20B_s\rightarrow \bar{D}a_{2}^{0} and (2.3−0.8 −0.4 −0.1+0.8 +0.2 +0.1)×10−6(2.3_{-0.8\,-0.4\,-0.1}^{+0.8\,+0.2\,+0.1})\times 10^{-6} for Bs→D−a2+B_{s}\rightarrow D^{-}a_{2}^{+}. They are large enough to be measured in the ongoing experiment. Due to the shortage of contributions from penguin operators, there are no direct CP asymmetries for these decays in the standard model. We also derive simple relations among these decay channels to reduce theoretical uncertainties for the experiments to test the accuracy of theory and search of new physics signal.Comment: 9pages, 1 figur
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