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Probing Gluon Saturation through Dihadron Correlations at an Electron-Ion Collider
Two-particle azimuthal angle correlations have been proposed to be one of the
most direct and sensitive probes to access the underlying gluon dynamics
involved in hard scatterings. In anticipation of an Electron-Ion Collider
(EIC), detailed studies of dihadron correlation measurements in electron-proton
and electron-ion collisions at an EIC have been performed. The impact of such
measurements on the understanding of the different gluon distribution
functions, as a clean signature for gluon saturation and to constrain
saturation models further, has been explored. It is shown that dihadron
correlation measurements will be one of the key methods to probe gluon
saturation phenomena at a future EIC.Comment: 13 pages, 13 eps figure
Initial and Final State Interaction Effects in Small-x Quark Distributions
We study the initial and final state interaction effects in the transverse
momentum dependent parton distributions in the small- saturation region. In
particular, we discuss the quark distributions in the semi-inclusive deep
inelastic scattering, Drell-Yan lepton pair production and dijet-correlation
processes in collisions. We calculate the quark distributions in the
scalar-QED model and then extend to the color glass condensate formalism in
QCD. The quark distributions are found universal between the DIS and Drell-Yan
processes. On the other hand, the quark distribution from the
channel contribution to the dijet-correlation process is not universal.
However, we find that it can be related to the quark distribution in DIS
process by a convolution with the normalized unintegrated gluon distribution in
the color glass condensate formalism in the large limit.Comment: 20 pages, 6 figure
Observation of backscattering-immune chiral electromagnetic modes without time reversal breaking
A strategy is proposed to realize robust transport in time reversal invariant
photonic system. Using numerical simulation and microwave experiment, we
demonstrate that a chiral guided mode in the channel of a three-dimensional
dielectric woodpile photonic crystal is immune to the scattering of a square
patch of metal or dielectric inserted to block the channel. The chirality based
robust transport can be realized in nonmagnetic dielectric materials without
any external field.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figure
Binding Transition in Quantum Hall Edge States
We study a class of Abelian quantum Hall (QH) states which are topologically
unstable (T-unstable). We find that the T-unstable QH states can have a phase
transition on the edge which causes a binding between electrons and reduces the
number of gapless edge branches. After the binding transition, the
single-electron tunneling into the edge gains a finite energy gap, and only
certain multi-electron co-tunneling (such as three-electron co-tunneling for
edges) can be gapless. Similar phenomenon also appear for edge state
on the boundary between certain QH states. For example edge on the boundary
between and states only allow three-electron co-tunneling at
low energies after the binding transition.Comment: 4 pages, RevTeX, 1 figur
Landau-Zener Interference in Multilevel Superconducting Flux Qubits Driven by Large Amplitude Fields
We proposed an analytical model to analyze the Landau-Zener interference in a
multilevel superconducting flux qubit driven by large amplitude external
fields. Our analytical results agree remarkably with those of the experiment
[Nature 455, 51 (2008)]. Moreover, we studied the effect of driving-frequency
and dephasing rate on the interference. The dephasing generally destroys the
interference while increasing frequency rebuilds the interference at large
dephasing rate. At certain driving frequency and dephasing rate, the
interference shows some anomalous features as observed in recent experiments.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure
Modified Bennett-Brassard 1984 Quantum Key Distribution With Two-way Classical Communications
The quantum key distribution protocol without public announcement of bases is
equipped with a two-way classical communication symmetric entanglement
purification protocol. This modified key distribution protocol is
unconditionally secure and has a higher tolerable error rate of 20%, which is
higher than previous scheme without public announcement of bases.Comment: 5 pages. To appear in Physical Review
Non-equilibrium tunneling into general quantum Hall edge states
In this paper we formulate the theory of tunneling into general Abelian
fractional quantum Hall edge states. In contrast to the simple Laughlin states,
a number of charge transfer processes must be accounted for. Nonetheless, it is
possible to identify a unique value corresponding to dissipationless transport
as the asymptotic large- conductance through a tunneling junction, and find
fixed points (CFT boundary conditions) corresponding to this value. The
symmetries of a given edge tunneling problem determine the appropriate boundary
condition, and the boundary condition determines the strong-coupling operator
content and current noise.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures; published versio
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