On the dimensional dependence of duality groups for massive p-forms

We study the soldering formalism in the context of abelian p-form theories. We develop further the fusion process of massless antisymmetric tensors of different ranks into a massive p-form and establish its duality properties. To illustrate the formalism we consider two situations. First the soldering mass generation mechanism is compared with the Higgs and Julia-Toulouse mechanisms for mass generation due to condensation of electric and magnetic topological defects. We show that the soldering mechanism interpolates between them for even dimensional spacetimes, in this way confirming the Higgs/Julia-Toulouse duality proposed by Quevedo and Trugenberger \cite{QT} a few years ago. Next, soldering is applied to the study of duality group classification of the massive forms. We show a dichotomy controlled by the parity of the operator defining the symplectic structure of the theory and find their explicit actions.Comment: Reference [8] has been properly place

On duality of the noncommutative extension of the Maxwell-Chern-Simons model

We study issues of duality in 3D field theory models over a canonical noncommutative spacetime and obtain the noncommutative extension of the Self-Dual model induced by the Seiberg-Witten map. We apply the dual projection technique to uncover some properties of the noncommutative Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory up to first-order in the noncommutative parameter. A duality between this theory and a model similar to the ordinary self-dual model is estabilished. The correspondence of the basic fields is obtained and the equivalence of algebras and equations of motion are directly verified. We also comment on previous results in this subject.Comment: Revtex, 9 pages, accepted for publication PL

Steady-state entanglement between distant quantum dots in photonic crystal dimers

We show that two spatially separated semiconductor quantum dots under resonant and continuous-wave excitation can be strongly entangled in the steady-state, thanks to their radiative coupling by mutual interaction through the normal modes of a photonic crystal dimer. We employ a quantum master equation formalism to quantify the steady-state entanglement by calculating the system {\it negativity}. Calculations are specified to consider realistic semiconductor nanostructure parameters for the photonic crystal dimer-quantum dots coupled system, determined by a guided mode expansion solution of Maxwell equations. Negativity values of the order of 0.1 ($20\%$ of the maximum value) are shown for interdot distances that are larger than the resonant wavelength of the system. It is shown that the amount of entanglement is almost independent of the interdot distance, as long as the normal mode splitting of the photonic dimer is larger than their linewidths, which becomes the only requirement to achieve a local and individual qubit addressing. Considering inhomogeneously broadened quantum dots, we find that the steady-state entanglement is preserved as long as the detuning between the two quantum dot resonances is small when compared to their decay rates. The steady-state entanglement is shown to be robust against the effects of pure dephasing of the quantum dot transitions. We finally study the entanglement dynamics for a configuration in which one of the two quantum dots is initially excited and find that the transient negativity can be enhanced by more than a factor of two with respect to the steady-state value. These results are promising for practical applications of entangled states at short time scales.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figure

Fast pick up technique for high quality heterostructures of bilayer graphene and hexagonal boron nitride

We present a fast method to fabricate high quality heterostructure devices by picking up crystals of arbitrary sizes. Bilayer graphene is encapsulated with hexagonal boron nitride to demonstrate this approach, showing good electronic quality with mobilities ranging from 17 000 cm^2/V/s at room temperature to 49 000 cm^2/V/s at 4.2 K, and entering the quantum Hall regime below 0.5 T. This method provides a strong and useful tool for the fabrication of future high quality layered crystal devices.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure

24 \textmu m length spin relaxation length in boron nitride encapsulated bilayer graphene

We have performed spin and charge transport measurements in dual gated high mobility bilayer graphene encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride. Our results show spin relaxation lengths $\lambda_s$ up to 13~\textmu m at room temperature with relaxation times $\tau_s$ of 2.5~ns. At 4~K, the diffusion coefficient rises up to 0.52~m$^2$/s, a value 5 times higher than the best achieved for graphene spin valves up to date. As a consequence, $\lambda_s$ rises up to 24~\textmu m with $\tau_s$ as high as 2.9~ns. We characterized 3 different samples and observed that the spin relaxation times increase with the device length. We explain our results using a model that accounts for the spin relaxation induced by the non-encapsulated outer regions.Comment: 5 pages and 4 figure

Controlling spin relaxation in hexagonal BN-encapsulated graphene with a transverse electric field

We experimentally study the electronic spin transport in hBN encapsulated single layer graphene nonlocal spin valves. The use of top and bottom gates allows us to control the carrier density and the electric field independently. The spin relaxation times in our devices range up to 2 ns with spin relaxation lengths exceeding 12 $\mu$m even at room temperature. We obtain that the ratio of the spin relaxation time for spins pointing out-of-plane to spins in-plane is $\tau_{\bot} / \tau_{||} \approx$ 0.75 for zero applied perpendicular electric field. By tuning the electric field this anisotropy changes to $\approx$0.65 at 0.7 V/nm, in agreement with an electric field tunable in-plane Rashba spin-orbit coupling

Consequências da redução de espaçamentos entre as linhas e entre as plantas na linha de plantio sobre os componentes vegetativos de cafeeiros (Coffea arabica L.) cultivar Catuaí.

O experimento foi instalado na Fazenda Experimental da EPAMIG em Machado, sul de Minas Gerais, em 1992, com o objetivo de avaliar as conseqüências da redução de espaçamentos entre as linhas e entre as plantas na linha de plantio sobre a produção e a fenologia do cafeeiro. O delineamento experimental utilizado foi um fatorial 4 x 3 com parcela subdividida, sendo quatro distâncias entre as linhas (2,0? 2,5? 3,0 e 3,5 m) e três distâncias entre as plantas na linha de plantio (0,5? 0,75? 1,0 m), e totalizando 12 tratamentos dispostos em blocos ao acaso em três repetições. Em julho de 2002, logo após a colheita e antes da primeira recepa, foram avaliadas as características relativas à arquitetura dos cafeeiros (altura da planta, diâmetro da copa, altura dos ramos plagiotrópicos baixeiros e diâmetro do caule). O adensamento entre linhas proporciona plantas mais altas, com inserção dos primeiros ramos plagiotrópicos mais altos, menores comprimento e diâmetro da copa. O adensamento entre linhas não afeta o diâmetro do caule. Já o adensamento das plantas na linha de plantio linha proporciona também plantas mais altas e com inserção dos primeiros ramos plagiotrópicos mais altos, não influencia o comprimento da copa e apresenta diâmetros da copa e do caule menores

Carbon nanotube: a low-loss spin-current waveguide

We demonstrate with a quantum-mechanical approach that carbon nanotubes are excellent spin-current waveguides and are able to carry information stored in a precessing magnetic moment for long distances with very little dispersion and with tunable degrees of attenuation. Pulsed magnetic excitations are predicted to travel with the nanotube Fermi velocity and are able to induce similar excitations in remote locations. Such an efficient way of transporting magnetic information suggests that nanotubes are promising candidates for memory devices with fast magnetization switchings

Massive scalar field near a cosmic string

The $\zeta$ function of a massive scalar field near a cosmic string is computed and then employed to find the vacuum fluctuation of the field. The vacuum expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor is also computed using a point-splitting approach. The obtained results could be useful also for the case of self-interacting scalar fields and for the finite-temperature Rindler space theory.Comment: 15 pages, standard LaTeX, no figures. Reference [14] correcte

Evolução da produção individual de cafeeiros (Coffea arabica L.) cultivar catuaí submetidos a espaçamentos crescentes ao longo de nove colheitas.

O experimento foi instalado na Fazenda Experimental da EPAMIG em Machado, sul de Minas Gerais, em 1992, com o objetivo de avaliar as conseqüências da redução de espaçamentos entre as linhas e entre as plantas na linha de plantio sobre a produção do cafeeiro. O delineamento experimental utilizado foi um fatorial 4 x 3 com parcela subdividida, sendo quatro distâncias entre as linhas (2,0? 2,5? 3,0 e 3,5 m) e três distâncias entre as plantas na linha de plantio (0,5? 0,75? 1,0 m), e totalizando 12 tratamentos dispostos em blocos ao acaso em três repetições. Entre os anos de 1994 e 2002 foram avaliadas a produção individual de cada um dos tratamentos. A produção de café beneficiado por planta foi afetada negativamente com a redução dos espaçamentos entre as plantas e não foi influenciada pela redução dos espaçamentos entre as linhas de plantio