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What lines, rats, and sheep can tell us
In his 2015 Research Through Design provocation, Tim Ingold invites his audience to think with string, lines, and meshworks. In this article I use Ingold's concepts to explore an orientation to design—one that threads through both Ingold's ideas and Vinciane Despret's vivid and moving accounts of human-animal relations. This is a “thinking and doing” through design that seeks to be expansive to the capacities of humans and non-humans in relation to one another
Coulomb blockade of non-local electron transport in metallic conductors
We consider a metallic wire coupled to two metallic electrodes via two
junctions placed nearby. A bias voltage applied to one of such junctions alters
the electron distribution function in the wire in the vicinity of another
junction thus modifying both its noise and the Coulomb blockade correction to
its conductance. We evaluate such interaction corrections to both local and
non-local conductances demonstrating non-trivial Coulomb anomalies in the
system under consideration. Experiments on non-local electron transport with
Coulomb effects can be conveniently used to test inelastic electron relaxation
in metallic conductors at low temperatures.Comment: Published version. 11 pages, 4 figures. New references added,
discussion and introduction are extended, appendices adde
Tunneling into Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes: Coulomb Blockade and Fano Resonance
Tunneling spectroscopy measurements of single tunnel junctions formed between
multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) and a normal metal are reported. Intrinsic
Coulomb interactions in the MWNTs give rise to a strong zero-bias suppression
of a tunneling density of states (TDOS) that can be fitted numerically to the
environmental quantum-fluctuation (EQF) theory. An asymmetric conductance
anomaly near zero bias is found at low temperatures and interpreted as Fano
resonance in the strong tunneling regime.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Coherent phonon dynamics at the martensitic phase transition of Ni_2MnGa
We use time-resolved optical reflectivity to study the laser stimulated
dynamics in the magnetic shape memory alloy Ni_2MnGa. We observe two coherent
optical phonons, at 1.2 THz in the martensite phase and at 0.7 THz in the
pre-martensite phase, which we interpret as a zone-folded acoustic phonon and a
heavily damped amplitudon respectively. In the martensite phase the martensitic
phase transition can be induced by a fs laser pulse on a timescale of a few ps.Comment: 3 figure
Low noise buffer amplifiers and buffered phase comparators for precise time and frequency measurement and distribution
Extremely low noise, high performance, wideband buffer amplifiers and buffered phase comparators were developed. These buffer amplifiers are designed to distribute reference frequencies from 30 KHz to 45 MHz from a hydrogen maser without degrading the hydrogen maser's performance. The buffered phase comparators are designed to intercompare the phase of state of the art hydrogen masers without adding any significant measurement system noise. These devices have a 27 femtosecond phase stability floor and are stable to better than one picosecond for long periods of time. Their temperature coefficient is less than one picosecond per degree C, and they have shown virtually no voltage coefficients
A new non-perturbative approach to Quantum Brownian Motion
Starting from the Caldeira-Leggett (CL) model, we derive the equation
describing the Quantum Brownian motion, which has been originally proposed by
Dekker purely from phenomenological basis containing extra anomalous diffusion
terms. Explicit analytical expressions for the temperature dependence of the
diffusion constants are derived. At high temperatures, additional momentum
diffusion terms are suppressed and classical Langivin equation can be recovered
and at the same time positivity of the density matrix(DM) is satisfied. At low
temperatures, the diffusion constants have a finite positive value, however,
below a certain critical temperature, the Master Equation(ME) does not satisfy
the positivity condition as proposed by Dekker.Comment: 5 page
Weak localization in a system with a barrier: Dephasing and weak Coulomb blockade
We non-perturbatively analyze the effect of electron-electron interactions on
weak localization (WL) in relatively short metallic conductors with a tunnel
barrier. We demonstrate that the main effect of interactions is electron
dephasing which persists down to T=0 and yields suppression of WL correction to
conductance below its non-interacting value. Our results may account for recent
observations of low temperature saturation of the electron decoherence time in
quantum dots.Comment: published version, 10 page
Rf-induced transport of Cooper pairs in superconducting single electron transistors in a dissipative environment
We investigate low-temperature and low-voltage-bias charge transport in a
superconducting Al single electron transistor in a dissipating environment,
realized as on-chip high-ohmic Cr microstrips. In our samples with relatively
large charging energy values Ec > EJ, where EJ is the energy of the Josephson
coupling, two transport mechanisms were found to be dominating, both based on
discrete tunneling of individual Cooper pairs: Depending on the gate voltage
Vg, either sequential tunneling of pairs via the transistor island (in the open
state of the transistor around the points Qg = CgVg = e mod(2e), where Cg is
the gate capacitance) or their cotunneling through the transistor (for Qg away
of these points) was found to prevail in the net current. As the open states of
our transistors had been found to be unstable with respect to quasiparticle
poisoning, high-frequency gate cycling (at f ~ 1 MHz) was applied to study the
sequential tunneling mechanism. A simple model based on the master equation was
found to be in a good agreement with the experimental data.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figure
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