Planar Superconducting Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators

We introduce a microwave circuit architecture for quantum signal processing combining design principles borrowed from high-Q 3D resonators in the quantum regime and from planar structures fabricated with standard lithography. The resulting '2.5D' whispering-gallery mode resonators store 98% of their energy in vacuum. We have measured internal quality factors above 3 million at the single photon level and have used the device as a materials characterization platform to place an upper bound on the surface resistance of thin film aluminum of less than 250nOhms.Comment: 3 Pages, 3 Figure

Core-corona interplay in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76 TeV

A simple approach based on the separation of wounded nucleons in an A-A collision in two categories, those suffering single collisions - corona and the rest - core, estimated within a Glauber Monte-Carlo approach, explains the centrality dependence of the light flavor hadrons production in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=2.76 TeV. The core contribution does not include any dependence of any process on the fireball shape as a function of the impact parameter. Therefore, the ratios of the $p_T$ distributions to the one corresponding to the minimum bias pp collisions at the same energy, each of them normalised to the corresponding charged particle density, the $\langle p_T\rangle$ and transverse energy per unit of rapidity are reproduced less accurate by such an approach. The results show that the corona contribution plays an important role also at LHC energies and it has to be considered in order to evidence the centrality dependence of different observables related to the core properties and dynamics.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figure

New rr-Matrices for Lie Bialgebra Structures over Polynomials

For a finite dimensional simple complex Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$, Lie bialgebra structures on $\mathfrak{g}[[u]]$ and $\mathfrak{g}[u]$ were classified by Montaner, Stolin and Zelmanov. In our paper, we provide an explicit algorithm to produce $r$-matrices which correspond to Lie bialgebra structures over polynomials

Recent results and open questions on collective type phenomena from A-A to pp collisions

A review of the main results on the collective type expansion of the compressed and hot fireball formed in heavy ion collisions and some remarks to be considered when comparing multiplicity wise phenomena taking place in A-A, p-A and pp collisions, are followed by a discussion of the experimental results which seem to evidence collective type phenomena in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV at high charged particle multiplicity. Correlations among the kinetic freeze-out temperature, the average transverse expansion velocity and its profile, as a function of centrality and multiplicity, extracted from the fits of experimental transverse momentum spectra with an expression inspired by hydrodynamical models, estimates on Bjorken energy densities and perspectives in selecting soft and close to azimuthal isotropic events in pp collisions are presented.Comment: Lecture presented at CARPATHIAN SUMMER SCHOOL OF PHYSICS 2014, Exotic Nuclei and Nuclear/Particle Astrophysics (V) "From nuclei to stars" July 13 - 26, 2014, Sinaia, Romani

An approach to shape covering maps

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High-Field Electrical and Thermal Transport in Suspended Graphene

We study the intrinsic transport properties of suspended graphene devices at high fields (>1 V/um) and high temperatures (>1000 K). Across 15 samples, we find peak (average) saturation velocity of 3.6x10^7 cm/s (1.7x10^7 cm/s), and peak (average) thermal conductivity of 530 W/m/K (310 W/m/K), at 1000 K. The saturation velocity is 2-4 times and the thermal conductivity 10-17 times greater than in silicon at such elevated temperatures. However, the thermal conductivity shows a steeper decrease at high temperature than in graphite, consistent with stronger effects of second-order three-phonon scattering. Our analysis of sample-to-sample variation suggests the behavior of "cleaner" devices most closely approaches the intrinsic high-field properties of graphene. This study reveals key features of charge and heat flow in graphene up to device breakdown at ~2230 K in vacuum, highlighting remaining unknowns under extreme operating conditions

Measurement of the Current-Phase Relation in Josephson Junctions Rhombi Chains

We present low temperature transport measurements in one dimensional Josephson junctions rhombi chains. We have measured the current phase relation of a chain of 8 rhombi. The junctions are either in the classical phase regime with the Josephson energy much larger than the charging energy, $E_{J}\gg E_{C}$, or in the quantum phase regime where $E_{J}/E_{C}\approx 2$. In the strong Josephson coupling regime ($E_{J}\gg E_{C} \gg k_{B}T$) we observe a sawtooth-like supercurrent as a function of the phase difference over the chain. The period of the supercurrent oscillations changes abruptly from one flux quantum $\Phi_{0}$ to half the flux quantum $\Phi_{0}/2$ as the rhombi are tuned in the vicinity of full frustration. The main observed features can be understood from the complex energy ground state of the chain. For $E_{J}/E_{C}\approx 2$ we do observe a dramatic suppression and rounding of the switching current dependence which we found to be consistent with the model developed by Matveev et al.(Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 89}, 096802(2002)) for long Josephson junctions chains.Comment: to appear in Phys. Rev.

Unsteady Separated Mixed Convection Stagnation-Point Flow: The Case of Assisting Flow

The problem of unsteady separated stagnation-point flow in mixed convection is studied. Only the case of assisting flow is considered here. By employing similarity transformation, the governing partial differential equations are reduced to a system of ordinary differential equations which are then solved numerically using bvp4c Matlab program. Comparison with results for the steady-state case from the open literature shows good agreement; therefore the bvp4c is able to give accurate results. The effects of governing parameters on the flow and heat transfer characteristics are presented