159 research outputs found
Coherent quantum transport in disordered systems: A unified polaron treatment of hopping and band-like transport
Quantum transport in disordered systems is studied using a polaron-based
master equation. The polaron approach is capable of bridging the results from
the coherent band-like transport regime governed by the Redfield equation to
incoherent hopping transport in the classical regime. A non-monotonic
dependence of the diffusion coefficient is observed both as a function of
temperature and system-phonon coupling strength. In the band-like transport
regime, the diffusion coefficient is shown to be linearly proportional to the
system-phonon coupling strength, and vanishes at zero coupling due to Anderson
localization. In the opposite classical hopping regime, we correctly recover
that the dynamics are described by the Fermi's Golden Rule (FGR) and establish
that the scaling of the diffusion coefficient depends on the phonon bath
relaxation time. In both the hopping and band-like transport regimes, it is
demonstrated that at low temperature the zero-point fluctuations of the bath
lead to non-zero transport rates, and hence a finite diffusion constant.
Application to rubrene and other organic semiconductor materials shows a good
agreement with experimental mobility data.Comment: 19 pages, 4 figure
A comparative study of three international construction firms : knowledge management infrastructures for optimising organisations' learning
Sendo a comunicação crescentemente crucial na sociedade contemporânea, e com o aumento do número de plataformas de redes sociais e ferramentas agregadas que vão surgindo, torna-se relevante compreender de que forma estas podem ser aproveitadas e utilizadas enquanto meios de comunicação estratégica para empresas e instituições. A tendência é a de as redes disponibilizarem cada vez mais recursos ao utilizador, fruto da adaptação às necessidades do mesmo, e os baixos custos que possuem são um incentivo à sua exploração. Como tal, através de dois estudos de casos que se tornam aqui relevantes analisar, este trabalho propõe-se compreender de que forma a parceria estratégica entre o YouTube e o Facebook pode funcionar para fortalecer e tornar eficaz a transmissão de mensagens audiovisuais de uma instituição, evidenciando assim a sua presença junto do público-alvo que se encontra cada vez mais presente nestas redes
Quantum Diffusion on Molecular Tubes: Universal Scaling of the 1D to 2D Transition
The transport properties of disordered systems are known to depend critically
on dimensionality. We study the diffusion coefficient of a quantum particle
confined to a lattice on the surface of a tube, where it scales between the 1D
and 2D limits. It is found that the scaling relation is universal and
independent of the disorder and noise parameters, and the essential order
parameter is the ratio between the localization length in 2D and the
circumference of the tube. Phenomenological and quantitative expressions for
transport properties as functions of disorder and noise are obtained and
applied to real systems: In the natural chlorosomes found in light-harvesting
bacteria the exciton transfer dynamics is predicted to be in the 2D limit,
whereas a family of synthetic molecular aggregates is found to be in the
homogeneous limit and is independent of dimensionality.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figure
Synthesis of TiO2 nanotube arrays and preparation of agar based gel polymer electrolyte for dye-sensitized solar cell.
Dalam kajian ini, katod-udara digunakan untuk menghasilkan tiubnano TiO2. Kesan pH dan voltan dalam pengubahsuaian morfologi tiubnano TiO2 telah dikaji. Tambahan pula, kestabilan katod udara dalam pelbagai keadaan penganodan juga dikaji buat pertama kalinya.
In the current study, air-cathode is used to synthesize titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanotube arrays. Effect of pH and voltage in tailoring the morphologies of TiO2 nanotube arrays is investigated
Accuracy of Second Order Perturbation theory in the Polaron and Variational Polaron Frames
In the study of open quantum systems, the polaron transformation has recently
attracted a renewed interest as it offers the possibility to explore the strong
system-bath coupling regime. Despite this interest, a clear and unambiguous
analysis of the regimes of validity of the polaron transformation is still
lacking. Here we provide such a benchmark, comparing second order perturbation
theory results in the original untransformed frame, the polaron frame and the
variational extension with numerically exact path integral calculations of the
equilibrium reduced density matrix. Equilibrium quantities allow a direct
comparison of the three methods without invoking any further approximations as
is usually required in deriving master equations. It is found that the second
order results in the original frame are accurate for weak system-bath coupling,
the full polaron results are accurate in the opposite regime of strong
coupling, and the variational method is capable of interpolating between these
two extremes. As the bath becomes more non-Markovian (slow bath), all three
approaches become less accurate.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figures, typos correcte
Surprise responses in the human brain demonstrate statistical learning under high concurrent cognitive demand
The ability to learn about regularities in the environment and to make predictions about future events is fundamental for adaptive behaviour. We have previously shown that people can implicitly encode statistical regularities and detect violations therein, as reflected in neuronal responses to unpredictable events that carry a unique prediction error signature. In the real world, however, learning about regularities will often occur in the context of competing cognitive demands. Here we asked whether learning of statistical regularities is modulated by concurrent cognitive load. We compared electroencephalographic metrics associated with responses to pure-tone sounds with frequencies sampled from narrow or wide Gaussian distributions. We showed that outliers evoked a larger response than those in the centre of the stimulus distribution (i.e., an effect of surprise) and that this difference was greater for physically identical outliers in the narrow than in the broad distribution. These results demonstrate an early neurophysiological marker of the brain’s ability to implicitly encode complex statistical structure in the environment. Moreover, we manipulated concurrent cognitive load by having participants perform a visual working memory task while listening to these streams of sounds. We again observed greater prediction error responses in the narrower distribution under both low and high cognitive load. Furthermore, there was no reliable reduction in prediction error magnitude under high-relative to low cognitive load. Our findings suggest that statistical learning is not a capacity limited process, and that it proceeds automatically even when cognitive resources are taxed by concurrent demands
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