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Black hole microstate geometries from string amplitudes
In this talk we review recent calculations of the asymptotic supergravity
fields sourced by bound states of D1 and D5-branes carrying travelling waves.
We compute disk one-point functions for the massless closed string fields. At
large distances from the branes, the effective open string coupling is small,
even in the regime of parameters where the classical D1-D5-P black hole may be
considered. The fields sourced by the branes differ from the black hole
solution by various multipole moments, and have led to the construction of a
new 1/8-BPS ansatz in type IIB supergravity.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, Contribution to the proceedings of the Black
Objects in Supergravity School, Frascati, 201
Data and the city – accessibility and openness. a cybersalon paper on open data
This paper showcases examples of bottom–up open data and smart city applications and identifies lessons for future such efforts. Examples include Changify, a neighbourhood-based platform for residents, businesses, and companies; Open Sensors, which provides APIs to help businesses, startups, and individuals develop applications for the Internet of Things; and Cybersalon’s Hackney Treasures. a location-based mobile app that uses Wikipedia entries geolocated in Hackney borough to map notable local residents. Other experiments with sensors and open data by Cybersalon members include Ilze Black and Nanda Khaorapapong's The Breather, a "breathing" balloon that uses high-end, sophisticated sensors to make air quality visible; and James Moulding's AirPublic, which measures pollution levels. Based on Cybersalon's experience to date, getting data to the people is difficult, circuitous, and slow, requiring an intricate process of leadership, public relations, and perseverance. Although there are myriad tools and initiatives, there is no one solution for the actual transfer of that data
Tunneling Anomaly in Superconductor above Paramagnetic Limit
We study the tunneling density of states (DoS) in the superconducting systems
driven by Zeeman splitting E_Z into the paramagnetic phase. We show that, even
though the BCS gap disappears, superconducting fluctuations cause a strong DoS
singularity in the vicinity of energies -E^* for electrons polarized along the
magnetic field and E^* for the opposite polarization. The position of the
singularity E^*=(1/2) (E_Z + \sqrt{E_Z^2- \Delta^2}) (where \Delta is BCS gap
at E_Z=0) is universal. We found analytically the shape of the DoS for
different dimensionality of the system. For ultrasmall grains the singularity
has the form of the hard gap, while in higher dimensions it appears as a
significant though finite dip. Our results are consistent with recent
experiments in superconducting films.Comment: 4 pages, 2 .eps figures include
Observation of Collective-Emission-Induced Cooling inside an Optical Cavity
We report the observation of collective-emission-induced, velocity-dependent
light forces. One third of a falling sample containing 3 x 10^6 cesium atoms
illuminated by a horizontal standing wave is stopped by cooperatively emitting
light into a vertically oriented confocal resonator. We observe decelerations
up to 1500 m/s^2 and cooling to temperatures as low as 7 uK, well below the
free space Doppler limit. The measured forces substantially exceed those
predicted for a single two-level atom.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
Effect of Time Reversal Symmetry Breaking on the Density of States in Small Superconducting Grains
We show that in ultra-small superconducting grains any concentration of
magnetic impurities or infinitely small orbital effect of magnetic field leads
to destruction of the hard gap in the tunneling density of states. Instead,
though exponentially suppressed at low energies, the tunneling density of
states exhibits the ``soft gap'' behavior, vanishing linearly with excitation
energy, as the energy approaches zero.Comment: 4 pages, 1 eps figur
Theory of Transition Temperature of Magnetic Double Perovskites
We formulate a theory of double perovskite coumpounds such as SrFeReO
and SrFeMoO which have attracted recent attention for their possible
uses as spin valves and sources of spin polarized electrons. We solve the
theory in the dynamical mean field approximation to find the magnetic
transition temperature . We find that is determined by a subtle
interplay between carrier density and the Fe-Mo/Re site energy difference, and
that the non-Fe same-sublattice hopping acts to reduce . Our results
suggest that presently existing materials do not optimize
Zero-bias anomalies of point contact resistance due to adiabatic electron renormalization of dynamical defects
We study effect of the adiabatic electron renormalization on the parameters
of the dynamical defects in the ballistic metallic point contact. The upper
energy states of the ``dressed'' defect are shown to give a smaller
contribution to a resistance of the contact than the lower energy ones. This
holds both for the "classical" renormalization related to defect coupling with
average local electron density and for the "mesoscopic" renormalization caused
by the mesoscopic fluctuations of electronic density the dynamical defects are
coupled with. In the case of mesoscopic renormalization one may treat the
dynamical defect as coupled with Friedel oscillations originated by the other
defects, both static and mobile. Such coupling lifts the energy degeneracy of
the states of the dynamical defects giving different mesoscopic contribution to
resistance, and provides a new model for the fluctuator as for the object
originated by the electronic mesoscopic disorder rather than by the structural
one. The correlation between the defect energy and the defect contribution to
the resistance leads to zero-temperature and zero-bias anomalies of the point
contact resistance.
A comparison of these anomalies with those predicted by the Two Channel Kondo
Model (TCKM) is made. It is shown, that although the proposed model is based on
a completely different from TCKM physical background, it leads to a zero-bias
anomalies of the point contact resistance, which are qualitatively similar to
TCKM predictions.Comment: 6 pages, to be published in Phys. Rev.
Decoherence in qubits due to low-frequency noise
The efficiency of the future devices for quantum information processing is
limited mostly by the finite decoherence rates of the qubits. Recently a
substantial progress was achieved in enhancing the time, which a solid-state
qubit demonstrates a coherent dynamics. This progress is based mostly on a
successful isolation of the qubits from external decoherence sources. Under
these conditions the material-inherent sources of noise start to play a crucial
role. In most cases the noise that quantum device demonstrate has 1/f spectrum.
This suggests that the environment that destroys the phase coherence of the
qubit can be thought of as a system of two-state fluctuators, which experience
random hops between their states. In this short review we discuss the current
state of the theory of the decoherence due to the qubit interaction with the
fluctuators. We describe the effect of such an environment on different
protocols of the qubit manipulations - free induction and echo signal. It turns
out that in many important cases the noise produced by the fluctuators is
non-Gaussian. Consequently the results of the interaction of the qubit with the
fluctuators are not determined by the pair correlation function only.
We describe the effect of the fluctuators using so-called spin-fluctuator
model. Being quite realistic this model allows one to evaluate the qubit
dynamics in the presence of one fluctuator exactly. This solution is found, and
its features, including non-Gaussian effects are analyzed in details. We extend
this consideration for the systems of large number of fluctuators, which
interact with the qubit and lead to the 1/f noise. We discuss existing
experiments on the Josephson qubit manipulation and try to identify
non-Gaussian behavior.Comment: 25 pages, 7 figure
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