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Feedback cooling of a cantilever's fundamental mode below 5 mK
We cool the fundamental mechanical mode of an ultrasoft silicon cantilever
from a base temperature of 2.2 K to 2.9 +/- 0.3 mK using active optomechanical
feedback. The lowest observed mode temperature is consistent with limits
determined by the properties of the cantilever and by the measurement noise.
For high feedback gain, the driven cantilever motion is found to suppress or
"squash" the optical interferometer intensity noise below the shot noise level.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figure
Nuclear spin relaxation induced by a mechanical resonator
We report on measurements of the spin lifetime of nuclear spins strongly
coupled to a micromechanical cantilever as used in magnetic resonance force
microscopy. We find that the rotating-frame correlation time of the statistical
nuclear polarization is set by the magneto-mechanical noise originating from
the thermal motion of the cantilever. Evidence is based on the effect of three
parameters: (1) the magnetic field gradient (the coupling strength), (2) the
Rabi frequency of the spins (the transition energy), and (3) the temperature of
the low-frequency mechanical modes. Experimental results are compared to
relaxation rates calculated from the spectral density of the magneto-mechanical
noise.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Dynamical Properties of a Growing Surface on a Random Substrate
The dynamics of the discrete Gaussian model for the surface of a crystal
deposited on a disordered substrate is investigated by Monte Carlo simulations.
The mobility of the growing surface was studied as a function of a small
driving force and temperature . A continuous transition is found from
high-temperature phase characterized by linear response to a low-temperature
phase with nonlinear, temperature dependent response. In the simulated regime
of driving force the numerical results are in general agreement with recent
dynamic renormalization group predictions.Comment: 10 pages, latex, 3 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. E (RC
Soliton Staircases and Standing Strain Waves in Confined Colloidal Crystals
We show by computer simulation of a two-dimensional crystal confined by
corrugated walls that confinement can be used to impose a controllable
mesoscopic superstructure of predominantly mechanical elastic character. Due to
an interplay of the particle density of the system and the width D of the
confining channel, "soliton staircases" can be created along both parallel
confining boundaries, that give rise to standing strain waves in the entire
crystal. The periodicity of these waves is of the same order as D. This
mechanism should be useful for structure formation in the self-assembly of
various nanoscopic materials.Comment: 22 pages, 5 figure
Symmetric-Asymmetric transition in mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensates
We propose a new kind of quantum phase transition in phase separated mixtures
of Bose-Einstein condensates. In this transition, the distribution of the two
components changes from a symmetric to an asymmetric shape. We discuss the
nature of the phase transition, the role of interface tension and the phase
diagram. The symmetric to asymmetric transition is the simplest quantum phase
transition that one can imagine. Careful study of this problem should provide
us new insight into this burgeoning field of discovery.Comment: 6 pages, 3 eps figure
Fractional Quantum Hall States in Narrow Channels
A model system is considered where two dimensional electrons are confined by
a harmonic potential in one direction, and are free in the other direction.
Ground state in strong magnetic fields is investigated through numerical
diagonalization of the Hamiltonian. It is shown that the fractional quantum
Hall states are realized even in the presence of the external potential under
suitable conditions, and a phase diagram is obtained.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures (not included
Wigner crystallization and metal-insulator transition of two-dimensional holes in GaAs/AlGaAs at B=0
We report the transport properties of a low disorder two-dimensional hole
system (2DHS) in the GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure, which has an unprecedentedly
high peak mobility of , with hole density of in the temperature range of
. From their T, p, and electric field dependences, we find that
the metal-insulator transition in zero magnetic field in this exceptionally
clean 2DHS occurs at , which is in good agreement with the
critical for Wigner crystallization , predicted by
Tanatar and Ceperley for an ideally clean 2D system.Comment: 4 pages, 4 Postscript figure
Melting of the classical bilayer Wigner crystal: influence of the lattice symmetry
The melting transition of the five different lattices of a bilayer crystal is
studied using the Monte-Carlo technique. We found the surprising result that
the square lattice has a substantial larger melting temperature as compared to
the other lattice structures, which is a consequence of the specific topology
of the temperature induced defects. A new melting criterion is formulated which
we show to be universal for bilayers as well as for single layer crystals.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures (postscript files). Accepted in Physical Review
Letter
A Bias-Aware EnKF Estimator for Aerodynamic Flows
Ensemble methods can integrate measurement data and CFD-based models to estimate the state of fluid systems in a robust and cost-efficient way. However, discretization errors can render numerical solutions a biased representation of reality. Left unaccounted for, biased forecast and observation models can lead to poor estimator performance. In this work, we propose a low-rank representation for the bias whose dynamics is represented by a colorednoise process. System state and bias parameters are simultaneously corrected on-line with the Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) algorithm. The proposed methodology is demonstrated to achieve a 70% error reduction for the problem of estimating the state of the two-dimensional low-Re flow past a flat plate at high angle of attack using an ensemble of coarse-mesh simulations and pressure measurements at the surface of the body, compared to a bias-blind estimator. Strategies to determine the bias statistics and to deal with nonlinear observation functions in the context of ensemble methods are discussed
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