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Reduction of the radar cross section of arbitrarily shaped cavity structures
The problem of the reduction of the radar cross section (RCS) of open-ended cavities was studied. The issues investigated were reduction through lossy coating materials on the inner cavity wall and reduction through shaping of the cavity. A method was presented to calculate the RCS of any arbitrarily shaped structure in order to study the shaping problem. The limitations of this method were also addressed. The modal attenuation was studied in a multilayered coated waveguide. It was shown that by employing two layers of coating, it was possible to achieve an increase in both the magnitude of attenuation and the frequency band of effectiveness. The numerical method used in finding the roots of the characteristic equation breaks down when the coating thickness is very lossy and large in terms of wavelength. A new method of computing the RCS of an arbitrary cavity was applied to study the effects of longitudinal bending on RCS reduction. The ray and modal descriptions for the fields in a parallel plate waveguide were compared. To extend the range of validity of the Shooting and Bouncing Ray (SBR) method, the simple ray picture must be modified to account for the beam blurring
Temporal Dynamics of Photon Pairs Generated by an Atomic Ensemble
The time dependence of nonclassical correlations is investigated for two
fields (1,2) generated by an ensemble of cold Cesium atoms via the protocol of
Duan et al. [Nature Vol. 414, p. 413 (2001)]. The correlation function R(t1,t2)
for the ratio of cross to auto-correlations for the (1,2) fields at times
(t1,t2) is found to have a maximum value Rmax=292(+-)57, which significantly
violates the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality R<=1 for classical fields. Decoherence
of quantum correlations is observed over 175 ns, and is described by our model,
as is a new scheme to mitigate this effect.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Heralded Entanglement between Atomic Ensembles: Preparation, Decoherence, and Scaling
Heralded entanglement between collective excitations in two atomic ensembles
is probabilistically generated, stored, and converted to single photon fields.
By way of the concurrence, quantitative characterizations are reported for the
scaling behavior of entanglement with excitation probability and for the
temporal dynamics of various correlations resulting in the decay of
entanglement. A lower bound of the concurrence for the collective atomic state
of 0.9\pm 0.3 is inferred. The decay of entanglement as a function of storage
time is also observed, and related to the local dynamics.Comment: 4 page
Single-Photon Generation from Stored Excitation in an Atomic Ensemble
Single photons are generated from an ensemble of cold Cs atoms via the
protocol of Duan et al. [Nature \textbf{414}, 413 (2001)]. Conditioned upon an
initial detection from field 1 at 852 nm, a photon in field 2 at 894 nm is
produced in a controlled fashion from excitation stored within the atomic
ensemble. The single-quantum character of the field 2 is demonstrated by the
violation of a Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, namely , where describes detection of two events
conditioned upon an initial detection , with
for single photons.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Unique gap structure and symmetry of the charge density wave in single-layer VSe
Single layers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are excellent
candidates for electronic applications beyond the graphene platform; many of
them exhibit novel properties including charge density waves (CDWs) and
magnetic ordering. CDWs in these single layers are generally a planar
projection of the corresponding bulk CDWs because of the quasi-two-dimensional
nature of TMDCs; a different CDW symmetry is unexpected. We report herein the
successful creation of pristine single-layer VSe, which shows a () CDW in contrast to the (4 4) CDW for the layers in
bulk VSe. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) from the single
layer shows a sizable () CDW gap of 100 meV at the
zone boundary, a 220 K CDW transition temperature twice the bulk value, and no
ferromagnetic exchange splitting as predicted by theory. This robust CDW with
an exotic broken symmetry as the ground state is explained via a
first-principles analysis. The results illustrate a unique CDW phenomenon in
the two-dimensional limit
Nonclassical photon pairs from a cold atomic ensemble for scalable quantum communication
We report a dramatic improvement of the degree of nonclassical correlation between photon pairs generated by a cold atomic ensemble. The temporal dependence of this correlation and the influence of decoherence are described
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