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Berry's phase with quantized field driving: effects of inter-subsystem coupling
The effect of inter-subsystem couplings on the Berry phase of a composite
system as well as that of its subsystem is investigated in this paper. We
analyze two coupled spin- particles with one driven by a quantized
field as an example, the pure state geometric phase of the composite system as
well as the mixed state geometric phase for the subsystem is calculated and
discussed.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur
Quantum Phase Diffusion in a Small Underdamped Josephson Junction
Quantum phase diffusion in a small underdamped Nb/AlO/Nb junction (
0.4 m) is demonstrated in a wide temperature range of 25-140 mK where
macroscopic quantum tunneling (MQT) is the dominant escape mechanism. We
propose a two-step transition model to describe the switching process in which
the escape rate out of the potential well and the transition rate from phase
diffusion to the running state are considered. The transition rate extracted
from the experimental switching current distribution follows the predicted
Arrhenius law in the thermal regime but is greatly enhanced when MQT becomes
dominant.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, 1 tabl
Effect of inter-subsystem couplings on the evolution of composite systems
The effect of inter-subsystem coupling on the adiabaticity of composite
systems and that of its subsystems is investigated. Similar to the adiabatic
evolution defined for pure states, non-transitional evolution for mixed states
is introduced; conditions for the non-transitional evolution are derived and
discussed. An example that describes two coupled qubits is presented to detail
the general presentation. The effects due to non-adiabatic evolution on the
geometric phase are also presented and discussed.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figur
Pressure effects on charge, spin, and metal-insulator transitions in narrow bandwidth manganite PrCaMnO
Pressure effects on the charge and spin states and the relation between the
ferromagnetic and metallic states were explored on the small bandwidth
manganite PrCaMnO (x = 0.25, 0.3, 0.35). Under pressure,
the charge ordering state is suppressed and a ferromagnetic metallic state is
induced in all three samples. The metal-insulator transition temperature
(T) increases with pressure below a critical point P*, above which
T decreases and the material becomes insulating as at the ambient
pressure. The e electron bandwidth and/or band-filling mediate the
pressure effects on the metal-insulator transition and the magnetic transition.
In the small bandwidth and low doping concentration compound (x = 0.25), the
T and Curie temperature (T) change with pressure in a reverse way
and do not couple under pressure. In the x = 0.3 compound, the relation of
T and T shows a critical behavior: They are coupled in the range
of 0.8-5 GPa and decoupled outside of this range. In the x = 0.35
compound, T and T are coupled in the measured pressure range where
a ferromagnetic state is present
Approximate gauge symmetry of composite vector bosons
It can be shown in a solvable field theory model that the couplings of the
composite vector bosons made of a fermion pair approach the gauge couplings in
the limit of strong binding. Although this phenomenon may appear accidental and
special to the vector boson made of a fermion pair, we extend it to the case of
bosons being constituents and find that the same phenomenon occurs in more an
intriguing way. The functional formalism not only facilitates computation but
also provides us with a better insight into the generating mechanism of
approximate gauge symmetry, in particular, how the strong binding and global
current conservation conspire to generate such an approximate symmetry. Remarks
are made on its possible relevance or irrelevance to electroweak and higher
symmetries.Comment: Correction of typos. The published versio
Peacock Bundles: Bundle Coloring for Graphs with Globality-Locality Trade-off
Bundling of graph edges (node-to-node connections) is a common technique to
enhance visibility of overall trends in the edge structure of a large graph
layout, and a large variety of bundling algorithms have been proposed. However,
with strong bundling, it becomes hard to identify origins and destinations of
individual edges. We propose a solution: we optimize edge coloring to
differentiate bundled edges. We quantify strength of bundling in a flexible
pairwise fashion between edges, and among bundled edges, we quantify how
dissimilar their colors should be by dissimilarity of their origins and
destinations. We solve the resulting nonlinear optimization, which is also
interpretable as a novel dimensionality reduction task. In large graphs the
necessary compromise is whether to differentiate colors sharply between locally
occurring strongly bundled edges ("local bundles"), or also between the weakly
bundled edges occurring globally over the graph ("global bundles"); we allow a
user-set global-local tradeoff. We call the technique "peacock bundles".
Experiments show the coloring clearly enhances comprehensibility of graph
layouts with edge bundling.Comment: Appears in the Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on
Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2016
Coherent Single Charge Transport in Molecular-Scale Silicon Nanowire Transistors
We report low-temperature electrical transport studies of molecule-scale
silicon nanowires. Individual nanowires exhibit well-defined Coulomb blockade
oscillations characteristic of charge addition to a single nanostructure with
length scales up to at least 400 nm. Further studies demonstrate coherent
charge transport through discrete single particle quantum levels extending the
whole device, and show that the ground state spin configuration follows the
Lieb-Mattis theorem. In addition, depletion of the nanowires suggests that
phase coherent single-dot characteristics are accessible in a regime where
correlations are strong.Comment: 4 pages and 4 figure
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