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Near-field spectroscopy of bimodal size distribution of InAs/AlGaAs quantum dots
We report on high-resolution photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy of spatial
structure of InAs/AlGaAs quantum dots (QDs) by using a near-field scanning
optical microscope (NSOM). The double-peaked distribution of PL spectra is
clearly observed, which is associated with the bimodal size distribution of
single QDs. In particular, the size difference of single QDs, represented by
the doublet spectral distribution, can be directly observed by the NSOM images
of PL.Comment: 3pages, 3figue
Negative reflections of electromagnetic waves in chiral media
We investigate the reflection properties of electromagnetic/optical waves in
isotropic chiral media. When the chiral parameter is strong enough, we show
that an unusual \emph{negative reflection} occurs at the interface of the
chiral medium and a perfectly conducting plane, where the incident wave and one
of reflected eigenwaves lie in the same side of the boundary normal. Using such
a property, we further demonstrate that such a conducting plane can be used for
focusing in the strong chiral medium. The related equations under paraxial
optics approximation are deduced. In a special case of chiral medium, the
chiral nihility, one of the bi-reflections disappears and only single reflected
eigenwave exists, which goes exactly opposite to the incident wave. Hence the
incident and reflected electric fields will cancel each other to yield a zero
total electric field. In another word, any electromagnetic waves entering the
chiral nihility with perfectly conducting plane will disappear.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
KN and KbarN Elastic Scattering in the Quark Potential Model
The KN and KbarN low-energy elastic scattering is consistently studied in the
framework of the QCD-inspired quark potential model. The model is composed of
the t-channel one-gluon exchange potential, the s-channel one-gluon exchange
potential and the harmonic oscillator confinement potential. By means of the
resonating group method, nonlocal effective interaction potentials for the KN
and KbarN systems are derived and used to calculate the KN and KbarN elastic
scattering phase shifts. By considering the effect of QCD renormalization, the
contribution of the color octet of the clusters (qqbar) and (qqq) and the
suppression of the spin-orbital coupling, the numerical results are in fairly
good agreement with the experimental data.Comment: 20 pages, 8 figure
4p states and X-Ray Spectroscopy
The 4p states in transition metals and their compounds usually play minor
roles on their physical quantities. Recent development of resonant x-ray
scattering (RXS) at the K-edge of transition metals, however, casts light on
the 4p states, because the signals on orbital and magnetic superlattice spots
are brought about by the modulation in the 4p states. The 4p states are
extending in solids and thereby sensitive to electronic states at neighboring
sites. This characteristic determines the mechanism of RXS that the intensity
on the orbital superlattice spots are mainly generated by the lattice
distortion and those on magnetic superlattice spots by the coupling of the 4p
states with the orbital polarization in the 3d states at neighboring sites.
Taking up typical examples for orbital and magnetic RXS, we demonstrate these
mechanisms on the basis of the band structure calculation. Finally, we study
the MCD spectra at the K-edge, demonstrating that the same mechanism as the
magnetic RXS is working.Comment: 9 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Physica Scripta (comment
Relative Ruan and Gromov-Taubes Invariants of Symplectic 4-Manifolds
We define relative Ruan invariants that count embedded connected symplectic
submanifolds which contact a fixed stable symplectic hypersurface V in a
symplectic 4-manifold (X,w) at prescribed points with prescribed contact orders
(in addition to insertions on X\V) for stable V. We obtain invariants of the
deformation class of (X,V,w). Two large issues must be tackled to define such
invariants: (1) Curves lying in the hypersurface V and (2) genericity results
for almost complex structures constrained to make V pseudo-holomorphic (or
almost complex). Moreover, these invariants are refined to take into account
rim tori decompositions. In the latter part of the paper, we extend the
definition to disconnected submanifolds and construct relative Gromov-Taubes
invariants
Cosmic ray spectral hardening due to dispersion in the source injection spectra
Recent cosmic ray (CR) experiments discovered that the CR spectra experience
a remarkable hardening for rigidity above several hundred GV. We propose that
this is caused by the superposition of the CR energy spectra of many sources
that have a dispersion in the injection spectral indices. Adopting similar
parameters as those of supernova remnants derived from the Fermi -ray
observations, we can reproduce the observational CR spectra of different
species well. This may be interpreted as evidence to support the supernova
remnant origin of CRs below the knee. We further propose that the same
mechanism may explain the "ankle" of the ultra high energy CR spectrum.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures and 1 table. Updated with the diffusion
propagation model, accepted by Phys. Rev.
The role of the resonance in the reaction
We investigate the photo-production in the reaction within the effective Lagrangian method near
threshold. In addition to the "background" contributions from the contact,
channel exchange, and channel nucleon pole terms, which were
already considered in previous works, the contribution from the nucleon
resonance (spin-parity ) is also considered. We show
that the inclusion of the nucleon resonance leads to a fairly good
description of the new LEPS differential cross section data, and that these
measurements can be used to determine some of the properties of this latter
resonance. However, serious discrepancies appear when the predictions of the
model are compared to the photon-beam asymmetry also measured by the LEPS
Collaboration.Comment: 9 pages,6 figures, 1 tabl
Diffusion-limited loop formation of semiflexible polymers: Kramers theory and the intertwined time scales of chain relaxation and closing
We show that Kramers rate theory gives a straightforward, accurate estimate
of the closing time of a semiflexible polymer that is valid in cases
of physical interest. The calculation also reveals how the time scales of chain
relaxation and closing are intertwined, illuminating an apparent conflict
between two ways of calculating in the flexible limit.Comment: Europhys. Lett., 2003 (in press). 8 pages, 3 figures. See also,
physics/0101087 for physicist's approach to and the importance of
semiflexible polymer looping, in DNA replicatio
SUSY-QCD Corrections to Associated Production at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
We calculate the SUSY-QCD corrections to the inclusive total cross sections
of the associated production processes in the Minimal
Supersymmetric Standard Model(MSSM) at the CERN Large Hadron Collider(LHC). The
SUSY-QCD corrections can increase and decrease the total cross sections
depending on the choice of the SUSY parameters. When the SUSY-QCD
corrections increase the leading-order (LO) total cross sections significantly
for large tan (), which can exceed 10% and have the opposite
sign with respect to the QCD and the SUSY-EW corrections, and thus cancel with
them to some extent. Moreover, we also investigate the effects of the SUSY-QCD
on the differential distribution of cross sections in transverse momentum
and rapidity Y of W-boson, and the invariant mass .Comment: 24 pages, 10 figures; minor changes in references; two figures and
the corresponding disccusions added; a version to appear in PR
Manipulating Majorana Fermions in Quantum Nanowires with Broken Inversion Symmetry
We study a Majorana-carrying quantum wire, driven into a trivial phase by
breaking the spatial inversion symmetry with a tilted external magnetic field.
Interestingly, we predict that a supercurrent applied in the proximate
superconductor is able to restore the topological phase and therefore the
Majorana end-states. Using Abelian bosonization, we further confirm this result
in the presence of electron-electron interactions and show a profound
connection of this phenomenon to the physics of a one-dimensional doped
Mott-insulator. The present results have important applications in e.g.,
realizing a supercurrent assisted braiding of Majorana fermions, which proves
highly useful in topological quantum computation with realistic Majorana
networks.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, Supplementary Material is adde
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