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Antenna Miniaturization Based on Supperscattering Effect
Antennas are essential components of all existing radio equipments. The miniaturization of antenna is a key issue of antenna technology. Based on supperscattering effect, we found that when a small horn antenna is located inside of a dielectric core and covered with a complementary layer, its far field radiation pattern will be equivalent to a large horn antenna. The complementary layer with only axial parameters varying with radius is obtained using coordinate transformation theory. Besides, the influence of loss and perturbations of parameters on supperscattering effect is also investigated. Results show that the device is robust against the perturbation in the axial material parameters when the refractive index is kept invariant. Full-wave simulations based on finite element method are performed to validate the design
Ground-state phases of rung-alternated spin-1/2 Heisenberg ladder
The ground-state phase diagram of Heisenberg spin-1/2 system on a two-leg
ladder with rung alternation is studied by combining analytical approaches with
numerical simulations. For the case of ferromagnetic leg exchanges a unique
ferrimagnetic ground state emerges, whereas for the case of antiferromagnetic
leg exchanges several different ground states are stabilized depending on the
ratio between exchanges along legs and rungs. For the more general case of a
honeycomb-ladder model for the case of ferromagnetic leg exchanges besides
usual rung-singlet and saturated ferromagnetic states we obtain a ferrimagnetic
Luttinger liquid phase with both linear and quadratic low energy dispersions
and ground state magnetization continuously changing with system parameters.
For the case of antiferromagnetic exchanges along legs, different dimerized
states including states with additional topological order are suggested to be
realized
The overmassive black hole in NGC 1277: new constraints from molecular gas kinematics
We report the detection of CO(1-0) emission from NGC 1277, a lenticular
galaxy in the Perseus Cluster. NGC 1277 has previously been proposed to host an
overmassive black hole (BH) compared to the galaxy bulge luminosity (mass),
based on stellar-kinematic measurements. The CO(1-0) emission, observed with
the IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBI) using both, a more compact
(2.9-arcsec resolution) and a more extended (1-arcsec resolution)
configuration, is likely to originate from the dust lane encompassing the
galaxy nucleus at a distance of 0.9 arcsec (~320 pc). The double-horned CO(1-0)
profile found at 2.9-arcsec resolution traces of
molecular gas, likely orbiting in the dust lane at $\sim 550\ \mathrm{km\
s^{-1}}\sim 2\times 10^{10}\
M_\odot\sim
1.7\times 10^{10}\ M_\odotM/L_V=6.3\sim 5\times 10^{9}\ M_\odotM/L_V=10$. While the molecular gas reservoir
may be associated with a low level of star formation activity, the extended
2.6-mm continuum emission is likely to originate from a weak AGN, possibly
characterized by an inverted radio-to-millimetre spectral energy distribution.
Literature radio and X-ray data indicate that the BH in NGC 1277 is also
overmassive with respect to the Fundamental Plane of BH activity.Comment: 15 pages, 13 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS on 20 January
2016; updated version including minor changes and note added in proo
Realizing quantum controlled phase-flip gate through quantum dot in silicon slow-light photonic crystal waveguide
We propose a scheme to realize controlled phase gate between two single
photons through a single quantum dot in slow-light silicon photonic crystal
waveguide. Enhanced Purcell factor and beta factor lead to high gate fidelity
over broadband frequencies compared to cavity-assisted system. The excellent
physical integration of this silicon photonic crystal waveguide system provides
tremendous potential for large-scale quantum information processing.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figure
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