94 research outputs found
Pairing of Parafermions of Order 2: Seniority Model
As generalizations of the fermion seniority model, four multi-mode
Hamiltonians are considered to investigate some of the consequences of the
pairing of parafermions of order two. 2-particle and 4-particle states are
explicitly constructed for H_A = - G A^+ A with A^+}= 1/2 Sum c_{m}^+ c_{-m}^+
and the distinct H_C = - G C^+ C with C^+}= 1/2 Sum c_{-m}^+ c_{m}^+, and for
the time-reversal invariant H_(-)= -G (A^+ - C^+)(A-C) and H_(+) = -G
(A^+dagger + C^+)(A+C), which has no analogue in the fermion case. The spectra
and degeneracies are compared with those of the usual fermion seniority model.Comment: 18 pages, no figures, no macro
Probing Noise in Flux Qubits via Macroscopic Resonant Tunneling
Macroscopic resonant tunneling between the two lowest lying states of a
bistable RF-SQUID is used to characterize noise in a flux qubit. Measurements
of the incoherent decay rate as a function of flux bias revealed a Gaussian
shaped profile that is not peaked at the resonance point, but is shifted to a
bias at which the initial well is higher than the target well. The r.m.s.
amplitude of the noise, which is proportional to the decoherence rate 1/T_2^*,
was observed to be weakly dependent on temperature below 70 mK. Analysis of
these results indicates that the dominant source of low frequency (1/f) flux
noise in this device is a quantum mechanical environment in thermal
equilibrium.Comment: 4 pages 4 figure
Spatial-distribution of recombination centers in gaaste - effects of the doping level
The distribution in liquid-encapsulated-Czochralski (LEC) GaAs:Te wafers of point and complex defects has been investigated together with their influence on the minority-carrier diffusion length L. Three wafers with different Te-doping concentration (2.2 X 10(17), 4.5 X 10(17), and 1.5 X 10(18) cm-3) have been studied by means of the electron-beam-induced-current (EBIC) mode of scanning electron microscopy and of the surface photovoltage (SPV) method. The morphology and electrical activity of the defects observed across each wafer have been correlated to the formation and distribution of deep electronic levels, which are significantly affected by the tellurium concentration. The diffusion length has been found to be mainly controlled by deep levels associated with dislocations. EBIC localized measurements of L and of the net ionized free-carrier concentration provide evidence for the influence of Te concentration on impurity segregation at complex defects
Where is the pseudoscalar glueball ?
The pseudoscalar mesons with the masses higher than 1 GeV are assumed to
belong to the meson decuplet including the glueball as the basis state
supplementing the standard nonet of light states
. The decuplet is investigated by means of an algebraic approach based
on hypothesis of vanishing the exotic commutators of "charges" and
their time derivatives. These commutators result in a system of equations
determining contents of the isoscalar octet state in the physical isoscalar
mesons as well as the mass formula including all masses of the decuplet:
, K(1460), , and . The physical
isoscalar mesons , are expressed as superpositions of the "ideal"
states ( and ) and the glueball with the mixing
coefficient matrix following from the exotic commutator restrictions. Among
four one-parameter families of the calculated mixing matrix (numerous solutions
result from bad quality of data on the and K(1460) masses) there is
one family attributing the glueball-dominant composition to the
meson. Similarity between the pseudoscalar and scalar decuplets, analogy
between the whole spectra of the and mesons and affinity of
the glueball with excited states are also noticed.Comment: 18 pp., 2. figs., 2 tabs.; Published version. One of the authors
withdraws his nam
Sign- and magnitude-tunable coupler for superconducting flux qubits
We experimentally confirm the functionality of a coupling element for
flux-based superconducting qubits, with a coupling strength whose sign and
magnitude can be tuned {\it in situ}. To measure the effective , the
groundstate of a coupled two-qubit system has been mapped as a function of the
local magnetic fields applied to each qubit. The state of the system is
determined by directly reading out the individual qubits while tunneling is
suppressed. These measurements demonstrate that can be tuned from
antiferromagnetic through zero to ferromagnetic.Comment: Updated text and figure
Gallium transformation under femtosecond laser excitation: Phase coexistence and incomplete melting
The reversible phase transition induced by femtosecond laser excitation of
Gallium has been studied by measuring the dielectric function at 775 nm with ~
200 fs temporal resolution. The real and imaginary parts of the transient
dielectric function were calculated from absolute reflectivity of Gallium layer
measured at two different angles of incidence, using Fresnel formulas. The
time-dependent electron-phonon effective collision frequency, the heat
conduction coefficient and the volume fraction of a new phase were restored
directly from the experimental data, and the time and space dependent electron
and lattice temperatures in the layer undergoing phase transition were
reconstructed without ad hoc assumptions. We converted the temporal dependence
of the electron-phonon collision rate into the temperature dependence, and
demonstrated, for the first time, that the electron-phonon collision rate has a
non-linear character. This temperature dependence converges into the known
equilibrium function during the cooling stage. The maximum fraction of a new
phase in the laser-excited Gallium layer reached only 60% even when the
deposited energy was two times the equilibrium enthalpy of melting. We have
also demonstrated that the phase transition pace and a fraction of the
transformed material depended strongly on the thickness of the laser-excited
Gallium layer, which was of the order of several tens of nanometers for the
whole range of the pump laser fluencies up to the damage threshold. The
kinetics of the phase transformation after the laser excitation can be
understood on the basis of the classical theory of the first-order phase
transition while the duration of non-thermal stage appears to be comparable to
the sub-picosecond pulse length.Comment: 28 pages, including 9 figs. Submitted to Phys. Rev. B 14 March 200
Absence of Scaling in the Integer Quantum Hall Effect
We have studied the conductivity peak in the transition region between the
two lowest integer Quantum Hall states using transmission measurements of edge
magnetoplasmons. The width of the transition region is found to increase
linearly with frequency but remains finite when extrapolated to zero frequency
and temperature. Contrary to prevalent theoretical pictures, our data does not
show the scaling characteristics of critical phenomena.These results suggest
that a different mechanism governs the transition in our experiment.Comment: Minor changes and new references include
Symmetry as a source of hidden coherent structures in quantum physics: general outlook and examples
A general algebraic approach, incorporating both invariance groups and
dynamic symmetry algebras, is developed to reveal hidden coherent structures
(closed complexes and configurations) in quantum many-body physics models due
to symmetries of their Hamiltonians . Its general ideas are manifested on
some recent new examples: 1) G-invariant bi-photons and a related
SU(2)-invariant treatment of unpolarized light; 2) quasi-spin clusters in
nonlinear models of quantum optics; 3) construction of composite particles and
(para)fields from G-invariant clusters due to internal symmetries.Comment: 10 pages, LATEX; Proceedings of VIII Int. Conf. on Symmetry Methods
in Physics (Dubna, July 28-August 2, 1997
The parafermion Fock space and explicit so(2n+1) representations
The defining relations (triple relations) of n pairs of parafermion operators
f_j^\pm (j=1,...,n) are known to coincide with a set of defining relations for
the Lie algebra so(2n+1) in terms of 2n generators. With the common Hermiticity
conditions, this means that the ``parafermions of order p'' correspond to a
finite-dimensional unitary irreducible representation W(p) of so(2n+1), with
highest weight (p/2, p/2,..., p/2). Although the dimension and character of
W(p) is known by classical formulas, there is no explicit basis of W(p)
available in which the parafermion operators have a natural action. In this
paper we construct an orthogonal basis for W(p), and we present the explicit
actions of the parafermion generators on these basis vectors. We use group
theoretical techniques, in which the u(n) subalgebra of so(2n+1) plays a
crucial role: a set of Gelfand-Zetlin patterns of u(n) will be used to label
the basis vectors of W(p), and also in the explicit action (matrix elements)
certain u(n) Clebsch-Gordan coefficients are essential
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