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Resonant Tunneling through S- and U-shaped Graphene Nanoribbons
We theoretically investigate resonant tunneling through S- and U-shaped
nanostructured graphene nanoribbons. A rich structure of resonant tunneling
peaks are found eminating from different quasi-bound states in the middle
region. The tunneling current can be turned on and off by varying the Fermi
energy. Tunability of resonant tunneling is realized by changing the width of
the left and/or right leads and without the use of any external gates.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figure
Mediating exchange bias by Verwey transition in CoO/Fe3O4 thin film
We report the tunability of the exchange bias effect by the first-order
metal-insulator transition (known as the Verwey transition) of Fe3O4 in CoO (5
nm)/Fe3O4 (40 nm)/MgO (001) thin film. In the vicinity of the Verwey
transition, the exchange bias field is substantially enhanced because of a
sharp increase in magnetocrystalline anisotropy constant from high-temperature
cubic to lowtemperature monoclinic structure. Moreover, with respect to the
Fe3O4 (40 nm)/MgO (001) thin film, the coercivity field of the CoO (5 nm)/Fe3O4
(40 nm)/MgO (001) bilayer is greatly increased for all the temperature range,
which would be due to the coupling between Co spins and Fe spins across the
interface
Tuning of energy levels and optical properties of graphene quantum dots
We investigate theoretically the magnetic levels and optical properties of
zigzag- and armchair-edged hexagonal graphene quantum dots (GQDs) utilizing the
tight-binding method. A new bound edge state at zero energy appears for the
zigzag GQDs in the absence of a magnetic field. The magnetic levels of GQDs
exhibit a Hofstadter-butterfly spectrum and approach the Landau levels of
two-dimensional graphene as the magnetic field increases. The optical
properties are tuned by the size, the type of the edge, and the external
magnetic field.Comment: 5 pages, 7 figures. to appear in Phys. Rev.
The NLO QCD Corrections to Meson Production in Decays
The decay width of to meson is evaluated at the next-to-leading
order(NLO) accuracy in strong interaction. Numerical calculation shows that the
NLO correction to this process is remarkable. The quantum
chromodynamics(QCD)renormalization scale dependence of the results is obviously
depressed, and hence the uncertainties lying in the leading order calculation
are reduced.Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures; references added; expressions and typos ammende
Estimating Form Factors of and their Applications to Semi-leptonic and Non-leptonic Decays
and weak transition
form factors are estimated for the whole physical region with a method based on
an instantaneous approximated Mandelstam formulation of transition matrix
elements and the instantaneous Bethe-Salpeter equation. We apply the estimated
form factors to branching ratios, CP asymmetries and polarization fractions of
non-leptonic decays within the factorization approximation. And we study the
non-factorizable effects and annihilation contributions with the perturbative
QCD approach. The branching ratios of semi-leptonic decays are also evaluated. We show that the calculated
decay rates agree well with the available experimental data. The longitudinal
polarization fraction of decays are when
denotes a light meson, and are when denotes a
() meson.Comment: Final version published in J Phys. G 39 (2012) 045002 (Title also
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Raman spectroscopic determination of the length, strength, compressibility, Debye temperature, elasticity, and force constant of the C-C bond in graphene
From the perspective of bond relaxation and vibration, we have reconciled the
Raman shifts of graphene under the stimuli of the number-of-layer,
uni-axial-strain, pressure, and temperature in terms of the response of the
length and strength of the representative bond of the entire specimen to the
applied stimuli. Theoretical unification of the measurements clarifies that:
(i) the opposite trends of Raman shifts due to number-of-layer reduction
indicate that the G-peak shift is dominated by the vibration of a pair of atoms
while the D- and the 2D-peak shifts involves z-neighbor of a specific atom;
(ii) the tensile strain-induced phonon softening and phonon-band splitting
arise from the asymmetric response of the C3v bond geometry to the C2v
uni-axial bond elongation; (iii) the thermal-softening of the phonons
originates from bond expansion and weakening; and (iv) the pressure- stiffening
of the phonons results from bond compression and work hardening. Reproduction
of the measurements has led to quantitative information about the referential
frequencies from which the Raman frequencies shift, the length, energy, force
constant, Debye temperature, compressibility, elastic modulus of the C-C bond
in graphene, which is of instrumental importance to the understanding of the
unusual behavior of graphene
Multi-Atomic Mirror for Perfect Reflection of Single Photons in A Wide Band of Frequency
A resonant two level atom doped in one dimensional waveguide behaves as a
mirror, but this single-atom "mirror" can only reflect single photon perfectly
at a specific frequency. For a one dimensional coupled-resonator waveguide, we
propose to extend the perfect reflection region from a specific frequency to a
wide band by placing many atoms individually in the resonators in a finite
coordinate region of the waveguide. Such a doped resonator array promises us to
control the propagation of a practical photon wave packet with certain momentum
distribution instead of a single photon, which is ideally represented by a
plane wave with specific momentum. The studies based on the discrete-coordinate
scattering theory display that such hybrid structure indeed provides a
near-perfect reflection for single photon in a wide band. We also calculated
photon group velocity distribution, which shows that the perfect reflection
with wide band exactly corresponds to the stopping light region.Comment: 8 pages, 10 figure
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