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Competition between Kondo screening and quantum Hall edge reconstruction
We report on a Kondo correlated quantum dot connected to two-dimensional
leads where we demonstrate the renormalization of the g-factor in the pure
Zeeman case i.e, for magnetic fields parallel to the plane of the quantum dot.
For the same system we study the influence of orbital effects by investigating
the quantum Hall regime i.e. a perpendicular magnetic field is applied. In this
case an unusual behaviour of the suppression of the Kondo effect and of the
split zero-bias anomaly is observed. The splitting decreases with magnetic
field and shows discontinuous changes which are attributed to the intricate
interplay between Kondo screening and the quantum Hall edge structure
originating from electrostatic screening. This edge structure made up of
compressible and incompressible stripes strongly affects the Kondo temperature
of the quantum dot and thereby influences the renormalized g-factor
Generation of spiral bevel gears with zero kinematical errors and computer aided tooth contact analysis
Kinematic errors in spiral bevel gears are a major source of noise and vibrations in transmissions. A method for the generation of Gleason's spiral bevel gears which provides conjugated gear tooth surfaces and an improved bearing contact was developed. A computer program for the simulation of meshing, misalignment, and bearing contact was written
The Structure of Barium in the hcp Phase Under High Pressure
Recent experimental results on two hcp phases of barium under high pressure
show interesting variation of the lattice parameters. They are here interpreted
in terms of electronic structure calculation by using the LMTO method and
generalized pseudopotential theory (GPT) with a NFE-TBB approach. In phase II
the dramatic drop in c/a is an instability analogous to that in the group II
metals but with the transfer of s to d electrons playing a crucial role in Ba.
Meanwhile in phase V, the instability decrease a lot due to the core repulsion
at very high pressure. PACS numbers: 62.50+p, 61.66Bi, 71.15.Ap, 71.15Hx,
71.15LaComment: 29 pages, 8 figure
IGC Antarctic Glaciological Data Field Work 1959-60
"Submitted by RIchard P. Goldthwait to the National Science Foundation, in partial fulfillment of Grant No. NSF-G8992."At head of title: "IGC Antarctic Glaciological Data Field Work 1959-60."The interpretation of 19 snow pits dug by the 1959-60 Victoria Land Traverse gives a mean annual accumulation of 16 cm of water equivalent for the area studied. Deposition is thought to occur in the form of sastrugi instead of in blanket form and this introduces a serious error in the interpretation. Approximate mean annual air temperatures ranged between -38.4°c and -47.4°c. A map of the traverse route shows contoured elevations and sastrugi observations. The highest elevation was 2591 meters. A compilation of accumulation stakes emplaced by this traverse is made available. The Rennick Glacier which empties into Rennick Bay and extends southward for about 300 kilometers was reconnoitered by the traverse party; a sketch map is included. Accumulation stakes were measured on the Ross Ice Shelf, Skelton Glacier, and the Victoria Land Plateau near the coast of the Ross Sea. Annual values ranged from 23.5 cm to 1.7 cm of water equivalent; the higher accumulation is on the Ross Ice Shelf.National Science Foundation Grant No. NSF-G899
Long period polytype boundaries in silicon carbide
A significant gap in our understanding of polytypism exists, caused partly by the lack of experimental data on the spatial distribution of polytype coalescence and knowledge of the regions between adjoining polytypes. Few observations, Takei & Francombe (1967) apart, of the relative location of different polytypes have been reported. A phenomenological description of the boundaries, exact position of one-dimensional disorder (1DD) and long period polytypes (LPP’s) has been made possible by synchrotron X-ray diffraction topography (XRDT)
Phase Estimation from Atom Position Measurements
We study the measurement of the position of atoms as a means to estimate the
relative phase between two Bose-Einstein condensates. First, we consider
atoms released from a double-well trap, forming an interference pattern, and
show that a simple least-squares fit to the density gives a shot-noise limited
sensitivity. The shot-noise limit can instead be overcome by using correlation
functions of order or larger. The measurement of the
-order correlation function allows to estimate the relative phase
at the Heisenberg limit. Phase estimation through the measurement of the
center-of-mass of the interference pattern can also provide sub-shot-noise
sensitivity. Finally, we study the effect of the overlap between the two clouds
on the phase estimation, when Mach-Zehnder interferometry is performed in a
double-well.Comment: 20 pages, 6 figure
Computational science and re-discovery: open-source implementations of ellipsoidal harmonics for problems in potential theory
We present two open-source (BSD) implementations of ellipsoidal harmonic
expansions for solving problems of potential theory using separation of
variables. Ellipsoidal harmonics are used surprisingly infrequently,
considering their substantial value for problems ranging in scale from
molecules to the entire solar system. In this article, we suggest two possible
reasons for the paucity relative to spherical harmonics. The first is
essentially historical---ellipsoidal harmonics developed during the late 19th
century and early 20th, when it was found that only the lowest-order harmonics
are expressible in closed form. Each higher-order term requires the solution of
an eigenvalue problem, and tedious manual computation seems to have discouraged
applications and theoretical studies. The second explanation is practical: even
with modern computers and accurate eigenvalue algorithms, expansions in
ellipsoidal harmonics are significantly more challenging to compute than those
in Cartesian or spherical coordinates. The present implementations reduce the
"barrier to entry" by providing an easy and free way for the community to begin
using ellipsoidal harmonics in actual research. We demonstrate our
implementation using the specific and physiologically crucial problem of how
charged proteins interact with their environment, and ask: what other
analytical tools await re-discovery in an era of inexpensive computation?Comment: 25 pages, 3 figure
Total energy differences between SiC polytypes revisited
The total energy differences between various SiC polytypes (3C, 6H, 4H, 2H,
15R and 9R) were calculated using the full-potential linear muffin-tin orbital
method using the Perdew-Wang-(91) generalized gradient approximation to the
exchange-correlation functional in the density functional method. Numerical
convergence versus k-point sampling and basis set completeness are demonstrated
to be better than 1 meV/atom. The parameters of several generalized anisotropic
next-nearest-neighbor Ising models are extracted and their significance and
consequences for epitaxial growth are discussed.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, Latex, uses epsfig and revte
Exchange interaction in chirally coupled quantum dots
We present transport measurements on a system of two lateral quantum dots in a perpendicular magnetic field. Due to edge channel formation in an open conducting region, the quantum dots are chirally coupled. When both quantum dots are tuned into the Kondo regime simultaneously, we observe a change in the temperature dependence of the differential conductance. This is explained by the RKKY exchange interaction between the two dots. As a function of bias the differential conductance shows a splitting of the Kondo resonance which changes in the presence of RKKY interaction.DFG/EXC/QUESTNTH School for Contacts in Nanosystem
Encircling an Exceptional Point
We calculate analytically the geometric phases that the eigenvectors of a
parametric dissipative two-state system described by a complex symmetric
Hamiltonian pick up when an exceptional point (EP) is encircled. An EP is a
parameter setting where the two eigenvalues and the corresponding eigenvectors
of the Hamiltonian coalesce. We show that it can be encircled on a path along
which the eigenvectors remain approximately real and discuss a microwave cavity
experiment, where such an encircling of an EP was realized. Since the
wavefunctions remain approximately real, they could be reconstructed from the
nodal lines of the recorded spatial intensity distributions of the electric
fields inside the resonator. We measured the geometric phases that occur when
an EP is encircled four times and thus confirmed that for our system an EP is a
branch point of fourth order.Comment: RevTex 4.0, four eps-figures (low resolution
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