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Graded-index optical fiber emulator of an interacting three-atom system: illumination control of particle statistics and classical non-separability
We show that a system of three trapped ultracold and strongly interacting
atoms in one-dimension can be emulated using an optical fiber with a
graded-index profile and thin metallic slabs. While the wave-nature of single
quantum particles leads to direct and well known analogies with classical
optics, for interacting many-particle systems with unrestricted statistics such
analoga are not straightforward. Here we study the symmetries present in the
fiber eigenstates by using discrete group theory and show that, by spatially
modulating the incident field, one can select the atomic statistics, i.e.,
emulate a system of three bosons, fermions or two bosons or fermions plus an
additional distinguishable particle. We also show that the optical system is
able to produce classical non-separability resembling that found in the
analogous atomic system.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figure
Impact of g-factors and valleys on spin qubits in a silicon double quantum dot
We define single electron spin qubits in a silicon MOS double quantum dot
system. By mapping the qubit resonance frequency as a function of gate-induced
electric field, the spectrum reveals an anticrossing that is consistent with an
inter-valley spin-orbit coupling. We fit the data from which we extract an
inter-valley coupling strength of 43 MHz. In addition, we observe a narrow
resonance near the primary qubit resonance when we operate the device in the
(1,1) charge configuration. The experimental data is consistent with a
simulation involving two weakly exchanged-coupled spins with a g-factor
difference of 1 MHz, of the same order as the Rabi frequency. We conclude that
the narrow resonance is the result of driven transitions between the T- and T+
triplet states, using an ESR signal of frequency located halfway between the
resonance frequencies of the two individual spins. The findings presented here
offer an alternative method of implementing two-qubit gates, of relevance to
the operation of larger scale spin qubit systems
High-throughput discovery of post-transcriptional cis-regulatory elements
Validation of 8mers found in the main screen. (PDF 280Â kb
Integrated silicon qubit platform with single-spin addressability, exchange control and robust single-shot singlet-triplet readout
Silicon quantum dot spin qubits provide a promising platform for large-scale
quantum computation because of their compatibility with conventional CMOS
manufacturing and the long coherence times accessible using Si enriched
material. A scalable error-corrected quantum processor, however, will require
control of many qubits in parallel, while performing error detection across the
constituent qubits. Spin resonance techniques are a convenient path to parallel
two-axis control, while Pauli spin blockade can be used to realize local parity
measurements for error detection. Despite this, silicon qubit implementations
have so far focused on either single-spin resonance control, or control and
measurement via voltage-pulse detuning in the two-spin singlet-triplet basis,
but not both simultaneously. Here, we demonstrate an integrated device platform
incorporating a silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor double quantum dot that is
capable of single-spin addressing and control via electron spin resonance,
combined with high-fidelity spin readout in the singlet-triplet basis.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figure
Holomorphic symmetric differentials and a birational characterization of Abelian Varieties
A generically generated vector bundle on a smooth projective variety yields a
rational map to a Grassmannian, called Kodaira map. We answer a previous
question, raised by the asymptotic behaviour of such maps, giving rise to a
birational characterization of abelian varieties.
In particular we prove that, under the conjectures of the Minimal Model
Program, a smooth projective variety is birational to an abelian variety if and
only if it has Kodaira dimension 0 and some symmetric power of its cotangent
sheaf is generically generated by its global sections.Comment: UPDATED: more details added on main proo
Analysis of Bio-Obtainable Endocrine Disrupting Metals in River Water and Sediment, Sewage Influent/Effluent, Sludge, Leachate, and Concentrated Leachate, in the Irish Midlands Shannon Catchment
The application of an acid digestion and subsequent solid-phase extraction (SPE) procedure were implemented as preliminary treatments prior to quantifying the levels of potentially endocrine disrupting metals (EDMs) in a variety of solid and liquid matrices. These included (solid) river sediment, leachate sediment and sewage sludge and also (liquid) river water, landfill leachate, concentrated leachate, sewage influent, and sewage effluent, sampled in the Irish Midlands. The total concentrations of cobalt (Co), cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu), chromium (Cr), nickel (Ni), lead (Pb), zinc (Zn), and manganese (Mn), after extraction and preconcentration, were determined by atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS). Mercury (Hg) in sediment and sludge was determined using cold-vapour atomic fluorescence spectroscopy (AFS). For sewage sludge maximum values (mg/kgdw) of 4700 Ni, 1642 Mn, 100.0 Cd, 3400 Zn, 36.70 Co, 750.0 Pb, 485.8 Cr, and 1003 Cu were determined whilst in leachate sediment, maximum values (mg/kgdw) of 32.10 Ni, 815.0 Mn, 32.78 Cd, 230.3 Zn, 26.73 Co, 3525 Pb, 124.9 Cr, and 50.13 Cu were found. Over several months, the data showed elevated levels in sewage influents, effluents, and sludges compared to a battery of adjacent river water samples and corresponding sediments. There was a definite trend for target values for sediments to be exceeded, while intervention values were only exceeded for cadmium. Overall the pattern in terms of concentration was sewage > leachate > river matrices. A nonparametric assessment of the effect of sewage treatment method on median metal levels in sludge revealed statistically significant differences at the 95% level of confidence for Co, Cr, and Hg and at the 90% level of confidence for Cd
Topological properties of punctual Hilbert schemes of almost-complex fourfolds (I)
In this article, we study topological properties of Voisin's punctual Hilbert
schemes of an almost-complex fourfold . In this setting, we compute their
Betti numbers and construct Nakajima operators. We also define tautological
bundles associated with any complex bundle on , which are shown to be
canonical in -theory
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Unveiling the nature of kinematically offset active galactic nuclei
We have observed two kinematically offset active galactic nuclei (AGN), whose
ionised gas is at a different line-of-sight velocity to their host galaxies,
with the SAMI integral field spectrograph (IFS). One of the galaxies shows gas
kinematics very different to the stellar kinematics, indicating a recent merger
or accretion event. We demonstrate that the star formation associated with this
event was triggered within the last 100 Myr. The other galaxy shows simple disc
rotation in both gas and stellar kinematics, aligned with each other, but in
the central region has signatures of an outflow driven by the AGN. Other than
the outflow, neither galaxy shows any discontinuity in the ionised gas
kinematics at the galaxy's centre. We conclude that in these two cases there is
no direct evidence of the AGN being in a supermassive black hole binary system.
Our study demonstrates that selecting kinematically offset AGN from
single-fibre spectroscopy provides, by definition, samples of kinematically
peculiar objects, but IFS or other data are required to determine their true
nature.Comment: MNRAS accepted. 14 pages, 11 figure
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