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Transport in Graphene: Ballistic or Diffusive?
We investigate the transport of electrons in disordered and pristine graphene
devices. Fano shot noise, a standard metric to assess the mechanism for
electronic transport in mesoscopic devices, has been shown to produce almost
the same magnitude () in ballistic and diffusive graphene devices
and is therefore of limited applicability. We consider a two-terminal geometry
where the graphene flake is contacted by narrow metallic leads. We propose that
the dependence of the conductance on the position of one of the leads, a
conductance profile, can give us insight into the charge flow, which can in
turn be used to analyze the transport mechanism. Moreover, we simulate scanning
probe microscopy (SPM) measurements for the same devices, which can visualize
the flow of charge inside the device, thus complementing the transport
calculations. From our simulations, we find that both the conductance profile
and SPM measurements are excellent tools to assess the transport mechanism
differentiating ballistic and diffusive graphene systems.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures. Renamed by editorial staff as "Ballistic versus
diffusive transport in graphene
Plasmid Injection and Application of Electric Pulses Alter Endogenous mRNA and Protein Expression in B16.F10 Mouse Melanomas
The application of electric pulses to tissues causes cell membrane destabilization, allowing exogenous molecules to enter the cells. This delivery technique can be used for plasmid gene therapy. Reporter gene expression after plasmid delivery with eight representative published protocols was compared in B16.F10 mouse melanoma tumors. This expression varied significantly based on the pulse parameters utilized for delivery. To observe the possible influence of plasmid injection and/or pulse application on endogenous gene expression, levels of stress-related mRNAs 4 and 24 h after delivery were determined by PCR array. Increases in mRNA levels for several inflammatory chemokines and cytokines were observed in response to plasmid injection, electric pulses alone or the combination. This upregulation was confirmed by individual real-time reverse transcription TaqMan PCR assays. Proteins were extracted at the same time points from identically treated tumors and inflammatory protein levels were assayed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and by a custom multiplex bead array. Increases in inflammatory protein levels generally paralleled mRNA levels. Some differences were observed, which may have been due to differing expression kinetics. The observed upregulated expression of these cytokines and chemokines may aid or inhibit the therapeutic effectiveness of immune-based cancer gene therapies
Microscopic eigenvalue correlations in QCD with imaginary isospin chemical potential
We consider the chiral limit of QCD subjected to an imaginary isospin
chemical potential. In the epsilon-regime of the theory we can perform precise
analytical calculations based on the zero-momentum Goldstone modes in the
low-energy effective theory. We present results for the spectral correlation
functions of the associated Dirac operators.Comment: 13 pages, 2 figures, RevTe
Second moment of the Husimi distribution as a measure of complexity of quantum states
We propose the second moment of the Husimi distribution as a measure of
complexity of quantum states. The inverse of this quantity represents the
effective volume in phase space occupied by the Husimi distribution, and has a
good correspondence with chaoticity of classical system. Its properties are
similar to the classical entropy proposed by Wehrl, but it is much easier to
calculate numerically. We calculate this quantity in the quartic oscillator
model, and show that it works well as a measure of chaoticity of quantum
states.Comment: 25 pages, 10 figures. to appear in PR
Scars of Invariant Manifolds in Interacting Chaotic Few-Body Systems
We present a novel extension of the concept of scars for the wave functions
of classically chaotic few-body systems of identical particles with rotation
and permutation symmetry. Generically there exist manifolds in classical phase
space which are invariant under the action of a common subgroup of these two
symmetries. Such manifolds are associated with highly symmetric configurations.
If sufficiently stable, the quantum motion on such manifolds displays a notable
enhancement of the revival in the autocorrelation function which is not
directly associated with individual periodic orbits. Rather, it indicates some
degree of localization around an invariant manifold which has collective
characteristics that should be experimentally observable.Comment: 4 pages, RevTeX, 4 PS/EPS-figures, uses psfig.sty, quantum
computation changed, to be published in Physical Review Letter
Intertwining technique for a system of difference Schroedinger equations and new exactly solvable multichannel potentials
The intertwining operator technique is applied to difference Schroedinger
equations with operator-valued coefficients. It is shown that these equations
appear naturally when a discrete basis is used for solving a multichannel
Schroedinger equation. New families of exactly solvable multichannel
Hamiltonians are found
The Inhibition of Mixing in Chaotic Quantum Dynamics
We study the quantum chaotic dynamics of an initially well-localized wave
packet in a cosine potential perturbed by an external time-dependent force. For
our choice of initial condition and with small but finite, we find that
the wave packet behaves classically (meaning that the quantum behavior is
indistinguishable from that of the analogous classical system) as long as the
motion is confined to the interior of the remnant separatrix of the cosine
potential. Once the classical motion becomes unbounded, however, we find that
quantum interference effects dominate. This interference leads to a long-lived
accumulation of quantum amplitude on top of the cosine barrier. This pinning of
the amplitude on the barrier is a dynamic mechanism for the quantum inhibition
of classical mixing.Comment: 20 pages, RevTeX format with 6 Postscript figures appended in
uuencoded tar.Z forma
Extracting from small lattices: unquenched results
We calculate the response of the microscopic Dirac spectrum to an imaginary
isospin chemical potential for QCD with two dynamical flavors in the chiral
limit. This extends our previous calculation from the quenched to the
unquenched theory. The resulting spectral correlation function in the
-regime provides here, too, a new and efficient way to measure
on the lattice. We test the method in a hybrid Monte Carlo simulation
of the theory with two staggered quarks.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
Quantization with Action-Angle Coherent States
For a single degree of freedom confined mechanical system with given energy,
we know that the motion is always periodic and action-angle variables are
convenient choice as conjugate phase-space variables. We construct action-angle
coherent states in view to provide a quantization scheme that yields precisely
a given observed energy spectrum for such a system. This construction
is based on a Bayesian approach: each family corresponds to a choice of
probability distributions such that the classical energy averaged with respect
to this probability distribution is precisely up to a constant shift. The
formalism is viewed as a natural extension of the Bohr-Sommerfeld rule and an
alternative to the canonical quantization. In particular, it also yields a
satisfactory angle operator as a bounded self-adjoint operator
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