655 research outputs found
The Africa Museum of Tervuren, Belgium : the reopening of âthe last colonial museum in the worldâ : issues on decolonization and repatriation
The Africa Museum in Tervuren, Brussels, reopened its doors after a closure of five years. What precisely is on view in the refurbished museum? And how do the choices made by the museum relate to wider discussions in anthropology and museology on decolonization and repatriation? In Belgium, it seems, working towards cooperation between all parties involved is far from finished.
NAFTA â A Model Running Out of Breath?
Freihandelszone; AuĂenhandel; NAFTA-Staaten
Emission Noise and High Frequency Cut-Off of the Kondo Effect in a Quantum Dot
By coupling on chip a carbon nanotube to a quantum noise detector, a
superconductor-insulator-superconductor junction, via a resonant circuit, we
measure the emission noise of a carbon nanotube quantum dot in the Kondo
regime. The signature of the Kondo effect in the current noise is measured for
different ratios of the Kondo temperature over the measured frequency and for
different asymmetries of the coupling to the contacts, and compared to finite
frequency quantum noise calculations. Our results point towards the existence
of a high frequency cut-off of the electronic emission noise associated with
the Kondo resonance. This cut-off frequency is of the order of a few times the
Kondo temperature when the electronic system is close to equilibrium, which is
the case for a strongly asymmetric coupling. On the other hand, this cut-off is
shifted to lower frequency in a symmetric coupling situation, where the bias
voltage drives the Kondo state out-of-equilibrium. We then attribute the low
frequency cut-off to voltage induced spin relaxation.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures and appendi
Magnetization of ballistic quantum dots induced by a linear-polarized microwave field
On a basis of extensive analytical and numerical studies we show that a
linear-polarized microwave field creates a stationary magnetization in
mesoscopic ballistic quantum dots with two-dimensional electron gas being at a
thermal equilibrium. The magnetization is proportional to a number of electrons
in a dot and to a microwave power. Microwave fields of moderate strength create
in a one dot of few micron size a magnetization which is by few orders of
magnitude larger than a magnetization produced by persistent currents. The
effect is weakly dependent on temperature and can be observed with existing
experimental techniques. The parallels between this effect and ratchets in
asymmetric nanostructures are also discussed.Comment: 10 pages, 11 figs, research at http://www.quantware.ups-tlse.f
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