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Effect of dipolar interactions on optical nonlinearity of two-dimensional nanocomposites
In this work, we calculate the contribution of dipole-dipole interactions to
the optical nonlinearity of the two-dimensional random ensemble of
nanoparticles that possess a set of exciton levels, for example, quantum dots.
The analytical expressions for the contributions in the cases of TM and
TE-polarized light waves propagating along the plane are obtained. It is shown
that the optical nonlinearity, caused by the dipole-dipole interactions in the
planar ensemble of the nanoparticles, is several times smaller than the similar
nonlinearity of the bulk nanocomposite. This type of optical nonlinearity is
expected to be observed at timescales much larger than the quantum dot exciton
rise time. The proposed method may be applied to various types of the
nanocomposite shapes.Comment: 8 page
Photometric properties and luminosity function of nearby massive early-type galaxies
We perform photometric analyses for a bright early-type galaxy (ETG) sample
with 2949 galaxies ( mag) in the redshift range of 0.05 to
0.15, drawn from the SDSS DR7 with morphological classification from Galaxy Zoo
1. We measure the Petrosian and isophotal magnitudes, as well as the
corresponding half-light radius for each galaxy. We find that for brightest
galaxies ( mag), our Petrosian magnitudes, and isophotal
magnitudes to 25 and 1\% of the sky brightness are on
average 0.16 mag, 0.20 mag, and 0.26 mag brighter than the SDSS Petrosian
values, respectively. In the first case the underestimations are caused by
overestimations in the sky background by the SDSS PHOTO algorithm, while the
latter two are also due to deeper photometry. Similarly, the typical half-light
radii () measured by the SDSS algorithm are smaller than our
measurements. As a result, the bright-end of the -band luminosity function
is found to decline more slowly than previous works. Our measured luminosity
densities at the bright end are more than one order of magnitude higher than
those of Blanton et al. (2003), and the stellar mass densities at and are a few tenths
and a factor of few higher than those of Bernardi et al. (2010). These results
may significantly alleviate the tension in the assembly of massive galaxies
between observations and predictions of the hierarchical structure formation
model.Comment: 43 pages, 14 figures, version accepted for publication in the
Astrophysical Journa
Achieving ground-state polar molecular condensates by chainwise atom-molecule adiabatic passage
We generalize the idea of chainwise stimulated Raman adiabatic passage
(STIRAP) [Kuznetsova \textit{et al.} Phys. Rev. A \textbf{78}, 021402(R)
(2008)] to a photoassociation-based chainwise atom-molecule system, with the
goal of directly converting two-species atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC)
into a ground polar molecular BEC. We pay particular attention to the
intermediate Raman laser fields, a control knob inaccessible to the usual
three-level model. We find that an appropriate exploration of both the
intermediate laser fields and the stability property of the atom-molecule
STIRAP can greatly reduce the power demand on the photoassociation laser, a key
concern for STIRAPs starting from free atoms due to the small Franck-Condon
factor in the free-bound transition.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Phy. Rev.
Accurate determination of the Lagrangian bias for the dark matter halos
We use a new method, the cross power spectrum between the linear density
field and the halo number density field, to measure the Lagrangian bias for
dark matter halos. The method has several important advantages over the
conventional correlation function analysis. By applying this method to a set of
high-resolution simulations of 256^3 particles, we have accurately determined
the Lagrangian bias, over 4 magnitudes in halo mass, for four scale-free models
with the index n=-0.5, -1.0, -1.5 and -2.0 and three typical CDM models. Our
result for massive halos with ( is a characteristic non-linear
mass) is in very good agreement with the analytical formula of Mo & White for
the Lagrangian bias, but the analytical formula significantly underestimates
the Lagrangian clustering for the less massive halos $M < M_*. Our simulation
result however can be satisfactorily described, with an accuracy better than
15%, by the fitting formula of Jing for Eulerian bias under the assumption that
the Lagrangian clustering and the Eulerian clustering are related with a linear
mapping. It implies that it is the failure of the Press-Schechter theories for
describing the formation of small halos that leads to the inaccuracy of the Mo
& White formula for the Eulerian bias. The non-linear mapping between the
Lagrangian clustering and the Eulerian clustering, which was speculated as
another possible cause for the inaccuracy of the Mo & White formula, must at
most have a second-order effect. Our result indicates that the halo formation
model adopted by the Press-Schechter theories must be improved.Comment: Minor changes; accepted for publication in ApJ (Letters) ; 11 pages
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