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Stimulated emission and excited-state absorption at room temperature on the 550 nm-laser transition in Er3+ doped YAlO3
A pump- and probe-beam technique is used for measuring time-resolved and cw-pumped excited-state absorption (ESA) and stimulated-emission (SE) spectra of Er3+:YAlO3 with high resolution. In combination with absorption and fluorescence spectra, detailed information on the wavelengths and cross-sections of ESA and SE at the 550 nm laser transition is provided
A strong electroweak phase transition in the 2HDM after LHC8
The nature of the electroweak phase transition in two-Higgs-doublet models is revisited in light of the recent LHC results. A scan over an extensive region of their parameter space is performed, showing that a strongly first-order phase transition favours a light neutral scalar with SM-like properties, together with a heavy pseudo-scalar (m_A^0 > 400 GeV) and a mass hierarchy in the scalar sector, m_H^+ gamma gamma decay channel and find that an enhancement in the branching ratio is allowed, and in some cases even preferred, when a strongly first-order phase transition is required
The structure of a single sharp quantum Hall edge probed by momentum-resolved tunneling
Momentum resolved magneto-tunnelling spectroscopy is performed at a single
sharp quantum Hall edge. We directly probe the structure of individual integer
quantum Hall (QH) edge modes, and find that an epitaxially overgrown cleaved
edge realizes the sharp edge limit, where the Chklovskii picture relevant for
soft etched or gated edges is no longer valid. The Fermi wavevector in the
probe quantum well probes the real-space position of the QH edge modes, and
reveals inter-channel distances smaller than both the magnetic length and the
Bohr radius. We quantitatively describe the lineshape of principal conductance
peaks and deduce an edge filling factor from their position consistent with the
bulk value. We observe features in the dispersion which are attributed to
fluctuations in the ground energy of the quantum Hall system.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Numerical Approach to Multi Dimensional Phase Transitions
We present an algorithm to analyze numerically the bounce solution of
first-order phase transitions. Our approach is well suited to treat phase
transitions with several fields. The algorithm consists of two parts. In the
first part the bounce solution without damping is determined, in which case
energy is conserved. In the second part the continuation to the physically
relevant case with damping is performed. The presented approach is numerically
stable and easily implemented.Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures; some comments, a reference and a table adde
Ontogeny of purinergic receptor-regulated Ca2+ signaling in mouse cortical collecting duct epithelium
Changes in ATP-induced increase in {[}Ca2+], during collecting duct ontogeny were studied in primary monolayer cultures of mouse ureteric bud (UB) and cortical collecting duct (CCD) cells by Fura-PE3 fluorescence ratio imaging. In UB (embryonic day E14 and postnatal day P1) the ATIP-stimulated increase (EC50 approximate to 1 muM) in fluorescence ratio (DeltaR(ATP)) was independent of extracellular Ca2+ and insensitive to the P2 purinoceptor-antagonist suramin (1 mM). From day P7 onward when CCD morphogenesis had been completed DeltaR(ATP) increased and became dependent on extracellular Ca2+. This ATP-stimulated Ca2+ entry into CCD cells was non-capacitative and suramin (11 mM)insensitive, but sensitive to nifedipine (30 muM) and enhanced by Bay K8644 (15 muM), a blocker and an agonist of L-type Ca2+ channels, respectively. Quantitative RT-PCR demonstrated similar mRNA expression of L-type Ca2+ channel alpha1-subunit, P2Y(1), P2Y(2), and P2X(4b) purinoceptors in UB and CCD monolayers while the abundance of P2X(4) mRNA increased with CCD morphogenesis. In conclusion, both embryonic and postnatal cells express probably P2Y(2)-stimulated Ca2+ release from intracellular stores. With development, the CCD epithelium acquires ATP-stimulated Ca2+ entry via L-type Ca2+ channels. This pathway might by mediated by the increasing expression of P2X(4)-receptors resulting in an increasing ATP-dependent membrane depolarization and activation of L-type Ca2+ channels. Copyright (C) 2002 S. Karger AG, Basel
Probing the Electrostatics of Integer Quantum Hall Edges with Momentum-Resolved Tunnel Spectroscopy
We present measurements of momentum-resolved magneto-tunneling from a
perpendicular two-dimensional (2D) contact into integer quantum Hall (QH) edges
at a sharp edge potential created by cleaved edge overgrowth. Resonances in the
tunnel conductance correspond to coincidences of electronic states of the QH
edge and the 2D contact in energy-momentum space. With this dispersion relation
reflecting the potential distribution at the edge we can directly measure the
band bending at our cleaved edge under the influence of an external voltage
bias. At finite bias we observe significant deviations from the flat-band
condition in agreement with self-consistent calculations of the edge potential
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