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Observation of the Quantum Zeno and Anti-Zeno effects in an unstable system
We report the first observation of the Quantum Zeno and Anti-Zeno effects in
an unstable system. Cold sodium atoms are trapped in a far-detuned standing
wave of light that is accelerated for a controlled duration. For a large
acceleration the atoms can escape the trapping potential via tunneling.
Initially the number of trapped atoms shows strong non-exponential decay
features, evolving into the characteristic exponential decay behavior. We
repeatedly measure the number of atoms remaining trapped during the initial
period of non-exponential decay. Depending on the frequency of measurements we
observe a decay that is suppressed or enhanced as compared to the unperturbed
system.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PR
Macroscopic Floquet topological crystalline steel pump
The transport of a steel sphere on top of two dimensional periodic magnetic
patterns is studied experimentally. Transport of the sphere is achieved by
moving an external permanent magnet on a closed loop around the two dimensional
crystal. The transport is topological i.e. the steel sphere is transported by a
primitive unit vector of the lattice when the external magnet loop winds around
specific directions. We experimentally determine the set of directions the
loops must enclose for nontrivial transport of the steel sphere into various
directions
Ice core records of atmospheric CO2 around the last three glacial terminations
Air trapped in bubbles in polar ice cores constitutes an archive for the reconstruction of the global carbon cycle and the relation between greenhouse gases and climate in the past. High-resolution records from Antarctic ice cores show that carbon dioxide concentrations increased by 80 to 100 parts per million by volume 600 ± 400 years after the warming of the last three deglaciations. Despite strongly decreasing temperatures, high carbon dioxide concentrations can be sustained for thousands of years during glaciations; the size of this phase lag is probably connected to the duration of the preceding warm period, which controls the change in land ice coverage and the buildup of the terrestrial biosphere.</jats:p
Linear and field-independent relation between vortex core state energy and gap in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d
We present a scanning tunneling spectroscopy study on quasiparticle states in vortex cores in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ. The energy of the observed vortex core states shows an approximately linear scaling with the superconducting gap in the region just outside the core. This clearly distinguishes them from conventional localized core states and is a signature of the mechanism responsible for their discrete appearance in high-temperature superconductors. The energy scaling of the vortex core states also suggests a common nature of vortex cores in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ and YBa2Cu3O7-δ. Finally, these states do not show any dependence on the applied magnetic field between 1 and 6 T
Localized collective excitations in doped graphene in strong magnetic fields
We consider collective excitations in graphene with filled Landau levels (LL’s) in the presence of an external potential due to a single charged donor D+ or acceptor A− impurity. We show that localized collective modes split off the magnetoplasmon continuum and, in addition, quasibound states are formed within the continuum. A study of the evolution of the strengths and energies of magneto-optical transitions is performed for integer filling factors ν=1,2,3,4 of the lowest LL. We predict impurity absorption peaks above as well as below the cyclotron resonance. We find that the single-particle electron-hole symmetry of graphene leads to a duality between the spectra of collective modes for the D+ and A−. The duality shows up as a set of the D+ and A− magnetoabsorption peaks having the same energies but active in different circular polarizations
Long-term evolution of massive star explosions
We examine simulations of core-collapse supernovae in spherical symmetry. Our
model is based on general relativistic radiation hydrodynamics with
three-flavor Boltzmann neutrino transport. We discuss the different supernova
phases, including the long-term evolution up to 20 seconds after the onset of
explosion during which the neutrino fluxes and mean energies decrease
continuously. In addition, the spectra of all flavors become increasingly
similar, indicating the change from charged- to neutral-current dominance.
Furthermore, it has been shown recently by several groups independently, based
on sophisticated supernova models, that collective neutrino flavor oscillations
are suppressed during the early mass-accretion dominated post-bounce evolution.
Here we focus on the possibility of collective flavor flips between electron
and non-electron flavors during the later, on the order of seconds, evolution
after the onset of an explosion with possible application for the
nucleosynthesis of heavy elements.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures, conference proceeding, HANSE 2011 worksho
Dry and wet interfaces: Influence of solvent particles on molecular recognition
We present a coarse-grained lattice model to study the influence of water on
the recognition process of two rigid proteins. The basic model is formulated in
terms of the hydrophobic effect. We then investigate several modifications of
our basic model showing that the selectivity of the recognition process can be
enhanced by considering the explicit influence of single solvent particles.
When the number of cavities at the interface of a protein-protein complex is
fixed as an intrinsic geometric constraint, there typically exists a
characteristic fraction that should be filled with water molecules such that
the selectivity exhibits a maximum. In addition the optimum fraction depends on
the hydrophobicity of the interface so that one has to distinguish between dry
and wet interfaces.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figure
Electronic and structural properties of alkali doped SWNT
Comprehensive experiments on structural and transport properties of alkali intercalated
single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) are presented. The increasing electron density was
measured as a shift of the Drude-edge in optical reflectivity in-situ with progressive doping. In
saturation-doped samples the Drude-edge shifts into the visible (to 25,000 - 30,000 cm— 1 for potassium
and rubidium doped samples) and the samples have a golden-brown color, similar to stage I
graphite. X-ray diffraction reveals a crystalline rope structure with expanded lattice constant, similar
to results of Duclaux et al. The change in the low temperature divergence of the resistivity after
degassing at high temperature and high vacuum and after K-doping is studied in-situ
Influence of correlations on molecular recognition
The influence of the patchiness and correlations in the distribution of
hydrophobic and polar residues at the interface between two rigid biomolecules
on their recognition ability is investigated in idealised coarse-grained
lattice models. A general two-stage approach is utilised where an ensemble of
probe molecules is designed first and the recognition ability of the probe
ensemble is related to the free energy of association with both the target
molecule and a different rival molecule in a second step. The influence of
correlation effects are investigated using numerical Monte Carlo techniques and
mean field methods. Correlations lead to different optimum characteristic
lengths of the hydrophobic and polar patches for the mutual design of the two
biomolecules on the one hand and their recognition ability in the presence of
other molecules on the other hand.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figure
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