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Light Quark Mass Reweighting
We present a systematic study of the effectiveness of light quark mass
reweighting. This method allows a single lattice QCD ensemble, generated with a
specific value of the dynamical light quark mass, to be used to determine
results for other, nearby light dynamical quark masses. We study two gauge
field ensembles generated with 2+1 flavors of dynamical domain wall fermions
with light quark masses m_l=0.02 (m_\pi=620 MeV) and m_l=0.01 (m_\pi=420 MeV).
We reweight each ensemble to determine results which could be computed directly
from the other and check the consistency of the reweighted results with the
direct results. The large difference between the 0.02 and 0.01 light quark
masses suggests that this is an aggressive application of reweighting as can be
seen from fluctuations in the magnitude of the reweighting factor by four
orders of magnitude. Never-the-less, a comparison of the reweighed topological
charge, average plaquette, residual mass, pion mass, pion decay constant, and
scalar correlator between these two ensembles shows agreement well described by
the statistical errors. The issues of the effective number of configurations
and finite sample size bias are discussed. An examination of the topological
charge distribution implies that it is more favorable to reweight from heavier
mass to lighter quark mass.Comment: 24 pages and 10 figure
Uniqueness of nontrivially complete monotonicity for a class of functions involving polygamma functions
For , let
on . In the
present paper, we prove using two methods that, among all for
, only is nontrivially completely monotonic on
. Accurately, the functions and are
completely monotonic on , but the functions for
are not monotonic and does not keep the same sign on
.Comment: 9 page
An external potential dynamic study on the formation of interface in polydisperse polymer blends
The formation of interface from an initial sharp interface in polydisperse
A/B blends is studied using the external potential dynamic method. The present
model is a nonlocal coupling model as we take into account the correlation
between segments in a single chain. The correlation is approximately expressed
by Debye function and the diffusion dynamics are based on the Rouse chain
model. The chain length distribution is described by the continuous Schulz
distribution. Our numerical calculation indicates that the broadening of
interface with respect to time obeys a power law at early times, and the power
law indexes are the same for both monodisperse and polydisperse blend. The
power law index is larger than that in the local coupling model. However there
is not a unified scaling form of the broadening of the interface width if only
the interfacial width at equilibrium is taken into account as the
characteristic length of the system, because the correlation makes an extra
characteristic length in the system, and the polydispersity is related to this
length.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figure
Experimental demonstration of phase-remapping attack in a practical quantum key distribution system
Unconditional security proofs of various quantum key distribution (QKD)
protocols are built on idealized assumptions. One key assumption is: the sender
(Alice) can prepare the required quantum states without errors. However, such
an assumption may be violated in a practical QKD system. In this paper, we
experimentally demonstrate a technically feasible "intercept-and-resend" attack
that exploits such a security loophole in a commercial "plug & play" QKD
system. The resulting quantum bit error rate is 19.7%, which is below the
proven secure bound of 20.0% for the BB84 protocol. The attack we utilize is
the phase-remapping attack (C.-H. F. Fung, et al., Phys. Rev. A, 75, 32314,
2007) proposed by our group.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figure
Epitaxial graphene on SiC(0001): More than just honeycombs
The potential of graphene to impact the development of the next generation of
electronics has renewed interest in its growth and structure. The
graphitization of hexagonal SiC surfaces provides a viable alternative for the
synthesis of graphene, with wafer-size epitaxial graphene on SiC(0001) now
possible. Despite this recent progress, the exact nature of the graphene-SiC
interface and whether the graphene even has a semiconducting gap remain
controversial. Using scanning tunneling microscopy with functionalized tips and
density functional theory calculations, here we show that the interface is a
warped carbon sheet consisting of three-fold hexagon-pentagon-heptagon
complexes periodically inserted into the honeycomb lattice. These defects
relieve the strain between the graphene layer and the SiC substrate, while
still retaining the three-fold coordination for each carbon atom. Moreover,
these defects break the six-fold symmetry of the honeycomb, thereby naturally
inducing a gap: the calculated band structure of the interface is
semiconducting and there are two localized states near K below the Fermi level,
explaining the photoemission and carbon core-level data. Nonlinear dispersion
and a 33 meV gap are found at the Dirac point for the next layer of graphene,
providing insights into the debate over the origin of the gap in epitaxial
graphene on SiC(0001). These results indicate that the interface of the
epitaxial graphene on SiC(0001) is more than a dead buffer layer, but actively
impacts the physical and electronic properties of the subsequent graphene
layers
Local Dielectric Measurements of BaTiO3-CoFe2O4 Nano-composites Through Microwave Microscopy
We report on linear and non-linear dielectric property measurements of BaTiO3
- CoFe2O4 (BTO-CFO) ferroelectro-magnetic nano-composites and pure BaTiO3 and
CoFe2O4 samples with Scanning Near Field Microwave Microscopy. The permittivity
scanning image with spatial resolution on the micro-meter scale shows that the
nano-composites have very uniform quality with an effective dielectric constant
\epsilon_r = 140 +/- 6.4 at 3.8 GHz and room temperature. The temperature
dependence of dielectric permittivity shows that the Curie temperature of pure
BTO was shifted by the clamping effect of the MgO substrate, whereas the Curie
temperature shift of the BTO ferroelectric phase in BTO-CFO composites is less
pronounced, and if it exists at all, would be mainly caused by the CFO.
Non-linear dielectric measurements of BTO-CFO show good ferroelectric
properties from BTO.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures, to be published in the Journal of Materials
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Topological aspect of graphene physics
Topological aspects of graphene are reviewed focusing on the massless Dirac
fermions with/without magnetic field. Doubled Dirac cones of graphene are
topologically protected by the chiral symmetry. The quantum Hall effect of the
graphene is described by the Berry connection of a manybody state by the filled
Landau levels which naturally possesses non-Abelian gauge structures. A generic
principle of the topologically non trivial states as the bulk-edge
correspondence is applied for graphene with/without magnetic field and explain
some of the characteristic boundary phenomena of graphene.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures. Proceedings for HMF-1
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