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Coherent Exciton Lasing in ZnSe/ZnCdSe Quantum Wells?
A new mechanism for exciton lasing in ZnSe/ZnCdSe quantum wells is proposed.
Lasing, occurring below the lowest exciton line, may be associated with a
BCS-like condensed (coherent) exciton state. This state is most stable at low
temperatures for densities in the transition region separating the exciton Bose
gas and the coherent exciton state. Calculations show the gain region to lie
below the exciton line and to be separated from the absorption regime by a
transparency region of width, for example, about 80 meV for a 90 Angstrom
ZnSe/Zn_(0.75)Cd_(0.25)Se quantum well. Experimental observation of the
transparency region using differential spectroscopy would confirm this picture.Comment: 9 pages + 3 figs contained in 4 postscript files to appear Appl.
Phys. Lett. March 13, 199
Hot Spots on the Fermi Surface of Bi2212: Stripes versus Superstructure
In a recent paper Saini et al. have reported evidence for a pseudogap around
(pi,0) at room temperature in the optimally doped superconductor Bi2212. This
result is in contradiction with previous ARPES measurements. Furthermore they
observed at certain points on the Fermi surface hot spots of high spectral
intensity which they relate to the existence of stripes in the CuO planes. They
also claim to have identified a new electronic band along Gamma-M1 whose one
dimensional character provides further evidence for stripes. We demonstrate in
this Comment that all the measured features can be simply understood by
correctly considering the superstructure (umklapp) and shadow bands which occur
in Bi2212.Comment: 1 page, revtex, 1 encapsulated postscript figure (color
Bipartite graph partitioning and data clustering
Many data types arising from data mining applications can be modeled as
bipartite graphs, examples include terms and documents in a text corpus,
customers and purchasing items in market basket analysis and reviewers and
movies in a movie recommender system. In this paper, we propose a new data
clustering method based on partitioning the underlying bipartite graph. The
partition is constructed by minimizing a normalized sum of edge weights between
unmatched pairs of vertices of the bipartite graph. We show that an approximate
solution to the minimization problem can be obtained by computing a partial
singular value decomposition (SVD) of the associated edge weight matrix of the
bipartite graph. We point out the connection of our clustering algorithm to
correspondence analysis used in multivariate analysis. We also briefly discuss
the issue of assigning data objects to multiple clusters. In the experimental
results, we apply our clustering algorithm to the problem of document
clustering to illustrate its effectiveness and efficiency.Comment: Proceedings of ACM CIKM 2001, the Tenth International Conference on
Information and Knowledge Management, 200
Direct observation of particle-hole mixing in the superconducting state by angle-resolved photoemission
Particle-hole (p-h) mixing is a fundamental consequence of the existence of a
pair condensate. We present direct experimental evidence for p-h mixing in the
angle-resolved photoemission (ARPES) spectra in the superconducting state of
Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+\delta}. In addition to its pedagogical importance, this
establishes unambiguously that the gap observed in ARPES is associated with
superconductivity.Comment: 3 pages, revtex, 4 postscript figure
Heavy Quark diffusion from lattice QCD spectral functions
We analyze the low frequency part of charmonium spectral functions on large
lattices close to the continuum limit in the temperature region as well as for . We present evidence for the
existence of a transport peak above and its absence below . The
heavy quark diffusion constant is then estimated using the Kubo formula. As
part of the calculation we also determine the temperature dependence of the
signature for the charmonium bound state in the spectral function and discuss
the fate of charmonium states in the hot medium.Comment: 4 pages, Proceedings for Quark Matter 2011 Conference, May 23-28,
2011, Annecy, Franc
Evolution of the Fermi surface with carrier concentration in Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+\delta}
We show, by use of angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, that underdoped
Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+\delta} appears to have a large Fermi surface centered at
(\pi,\pi), even for samples with a T_c as low as 15 K. No clear evidence of a
Fermi surface pocket around (\pi/2,\pi/2) has been found. These conclusions are
based on a determination of the minimum gap locus in the pseudogap regime T_c <
T < T^*, which is found to coincide with the locus of gapless excitations in
momentum space (Fermi surface) determined above T^*. These results suggest that
the pseudogap is more likely of precursor pairing rather than magnetic origin.Comment: 4 pages, revtex, 4 postscript color figure
Solar flare hard X-ray spikes observed by RHESSI: a statistical study
Context. Hard X-ray (HXR) spikes refer to fine time structures on timescales
of seconds to milliseconds in high-energy HXR emission profiles during solar
flare eruptions. Aims. We present a preliminary statistical investigation of
temporal and spectral properties of HXR spikes. Methods. Using a three-sigma
spike selection rule, we detected 184 spikes in 94 out of 322 flares with
significant counts at given photon energies, which were detected from
demodulated HXR light curves obtained by the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar
Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI). About one fifth of these spikes are also
detected at photon energies higher than 100 keV. Results. The statistical
properties of the spikes are as follows. (1) HXR spikes are produced in both
impulsive flares and long-duration flares with nearly the same occurrence
rates. Ninety percent of the spikes occur during the rise phase of the flares,
and about 70% occur around the peak times of the flares. (2) The time durations
of the spikes vary from 0.2 to 2 s, with the mean being 1.0 s, which is not
dependent on photon energies. The spikes exhibit symmetric time profiles with
no significant difference between rise and decay times. (3) Among the most
energetic spikes, nearly all of them have harder count spectra than their
underlying slow-varying components. There is also a weak indication that spikes
exhibiting time lags in high-energy emissions tend to have harder spectra than
spikes with time lags in low-energy emissions.Comment: 16 pages, 13 figure
Reciprocatory magnetic reconnection in a coronal bright point
Coronal bright points (CBPs) are small-scale and long-duration brightenings
in the lower solar corona. They are often explained in terms of magnetic
reconnection. We aim to study the sub-structures of a CBP and clarify the
relationship among the brightenings of different patches inside the CBP. The
event was observed by the X-ray Telescope (XRT) aboard the Hinode spacecraft on
2009 August 2223. The CBP showed repetitive brightenings (or CBP flashes).
During each of the two successive CBP flashes, i.e., weak and strong flashes
which are separated by 2 hr, the XRT images revealed that the CBP was
composed of two chambers, i.e., patches A and B. During the weak flash, patch A
brightened first, and patch B brightened 2 min later. During the
transition, the right leg of a large-scale coronal loop drifted from the right
side of the CBP to the left side. During the strong flash, patch B brightened
first, and patch A brightened 2 min later. During the transition, the
right leg of the large-scale coronal loop drifted from the left side of the CBP
to the right side. In each flash, the rapid change of the connectivity of the
large-scale coronal loop is strongly suggestive of the interchange
reconnection. For the first time we found reciprocatory reconnection in the
CBP, i.e., reconnected loops in the outflow region of the first reconnection
process serve as the inflow of the second reconnection process.Comment: 13 pages, 8 figure
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