6 research outputs found
Extreme magneto-transport of bulk carbon nanotubes in sorted electronic concentrations and aligned high performance fiber
We explored high-field (60T) magneto-resistance (MR) with two carbon nanotube (CNT) material classes: (1) unaligned single-wall CNTs (SWCNT) films with controlled metallic SWCNT concentrations and doping degree and (2) CNT fiber with aligned, long-length microstructure. All unaligned SWCNT films showed localized hopping transport where high-field MR saturation definitively supports spin polarization instead of a more prevalent wave function shrinking mechanism. Nitric acid exposure induced an insulator to metal transition and reduced the positive MR component. Aligned CNT fiber, already on the metal side of the insulator to metal transition, had positive MR without saturation and was assigned to classical MR involving electronic mobility. Subtracting high-field fits from the aligned fiber's MR yielded an unconfounded negative MR, which was assigned to weak localization. It is concluded that fluctuation induced tunnelling, an extrinsic transport model accounting for most of the aligned fiber's room temperature resistance, appears to lack MR field dependence
Spin noise spectroscopy to probe quantum states of ultracold fermionic atomic gases
Ultracold alkali atoms provide experimentally accessible model systems for
probing quantum states that manifest themselves at the macroscopic scale.
Recent experimental realizations of superfluidity in dilute gases of ultracold
fermionic (half-integer spin) atoms offer exciting opportunities to directly
test theoretical models of related many-body fermion systems that are
inaccessible to experimental manipulation, such as neutron stars and
quark-gluon plasmas. However, the microscopic interactions between fermions are
potentially quite complex, and experiments in ultracold gases to date cannot
clearly distinguish between the qualitatively different microscopic models that
have been proposed. Here, we theoretically demonstrate that optical
measurements of electron spin noise -- the intrinsic, random fluctuations of
spin -- can probe the entangled quantum states of ultracold fermionic atomic
gases and unambiguously reveal the detailed nature of the interatomic
interactions. We show that different models predict different sets of
resonances in the noise spectrum, and once the correct effective interatomic
interaction model is identified, the line-shapes of the spin noise can be used
to constrain this model. Further, experimental measurements of spin noise in
classical (Boltzmann) alkali vapors are used to estimate the expected signal
magnitudes for spin noise measurements in ultracold atom systems and to show
that these measurements are feasible
A quantitative study of spin noise spectroscopy in a classical gas of K atoms
We present a general derivation of the electron spin noise power spectrum in
alkali gases as measured by optical Faraday rotation, which applies to both
classical gases at high temperatures as well as ultracold quantum gases. We
show that the spin-noise power spectrum is determined by an electron spin-spin
correlation function, and we find that measurements of the spin-noise power
spectra for a classical gas of K atoms are in good agreement with the
predicted values. Experimental and theoretical spin noise spectra are directly
and quantitatively compared in both longitudinal and transverse magnetic fields
up to the high magnetic field regime (where Zeeman energies exceed the
intrinsic hyperfine energy splitting of the K ground state)
Switching Response of to Simultaneous Application of Near-Critical Current, Field, and Temperature
Zeeman-effect studies of the electronic absorption spectrum of octachlorodirhenate(2-) (Re(Strictly equivalent to)Re) in pulsed 50-Tesla magnetic fields
Electronic absorption spectra have been measured for crystals of (Bu4N)2[Re2Cl8] at 3.8 K in pulsed magnetic fields (pulse duration ca. 10 ms; field strength to 50 T). Spectra were measured in the 530-600 nm (\u27Band I\u27) and 435-500 nm (\u27Band II\u27) regions, where well resolved vibrational fine structure had been noted in previous spectroscopic studies. Application of magnetic fields up to 50 T caused no measurable splittings or shifts in these two absorption bands. This indicates that both bands are attributable to spin-allowed electronic transitions, since spin-forbidden transitions would be expected to show Zeeman splitting. Possible assignments for Bands I and II include transitions to two 1Eg excited states [1(π,δ*) and 1(δ,π*)], as previously suggested by Bursten et al. (B.E. Bursten, F.A. Cotton, P.E. Fanwick and G.G. Stanley, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 105 (1983) 3082), and to two formally doubly excited states, 1A1g [1(δδ,δ*δ*)] and 1Eu [1(πδ,δ*δ*)]
Some aspects of data processing for an optical absorption experiment in a pulsed 1000-tesla magnet
A procedure is given for the analysis of optical absorption data acquired in the hostile environment of a pulsed 1000-Tesla magnet. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc