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Coexistence of superconductivity and antiferromagnetism in self-doped bilayer t-t'-J model
A self-doped bilayer t-t'-J model of an electron- and a hole-doped planes is
studied by the slave-boson mean-field theory. A hopping integral between the
differently doped planes, which are generated by a site potential, are
renormalized by the electron-electron correlation. We find coexistent phases of
antiferromagnetic (AFM) and superconducting orders, although the magnitudes of
order parameters become more dissimilar in the bilayer away from half-filling.
Fermi surfaces (FS's) with the AFM order show two pockets around the nodal and
the anti-nodal regions. These results look like a composite of electron- and
hole-doped FS's. In the nodal direction, the FS splitting is absent even in the
bilayer system, since one band is flat due to the AFM order.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
The new radiation-hard optical links for the ATLAS pixel detector
The ATLAS detector is currently being upgraded with a new layer of pixel
based charged particle tracking and a new arrangement of the services for the
pixel detector. These upgrades require the replacement of the opto-boards
previously used by the pixel detector. In this report we give details on the
design and production of the new opto-boards.Comment: Presentation at the DPF 2013 Meeting of the American Physical Society
Division of Particles and Fields, Santa Cruz, California, August 13-17, 201
MgO barrier-perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions with CoFe/Pd multilayers and ferromagnetic insertion layers
The authors studied an effect of ferromagnetic (Co20Fe60B20 or Fe) layer
insertion on tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) properties of MgO-barrier magnetic
tunnel junctions (MTJs) with CoFe/Pd multilayer electrodes. TMR ratio in MTJs
with CoFeB/MgO/Fe stack reached 67% at an-nealing temperature (Ta) of 200
degree C and then decreased rapidly at Ta over 250 degree C. The degradation of
the TMR ratio may be related to crystallization of CoFe(B) into fcc(111) or
bcc(011) texture result-ing from diffusion of B into Pd layers. MTJs which were
in-situ annealed at 350oC just after depo-siting bottom CoFe/Pd multilayer
showed TMR ratio of 78% by post annealing at Ta =200 degree C.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure
Effects of image charges, interfacial charge discreteness, and surface roughness on the zeta potential of spherical electric double layers
We investigate the effects of image charges, interfacial charge discreteness,
and surface roughness on spherical electric double layers in electrolyte
solutions with divalent counter-ions in the setting of the primitive model. By
using Monte Carlo simulations and the image charge method, the zeta potential
profile and the integrated charge distribution function are computed for
varying surface charge strengths and salt concentrations. Systematic
comparisons were carried out between three distinct models for interfacial
charges: 1) SURF1 with uniform surface charges, 2) SURF2 with discrete point
charges on the interface, and 3) SURF3 with discrete interfacial charges and
finite excluded volume. By comparing the integrated charge distribution
function (ICDF) and potential profile, we argue that the potential at the
distance of one ion diameter from the macroion surface is a suitable location
to define the zeta potential. In SURF2 model, we find that image charge effects
strongly enhance charge inversion for monovalent interfacial charges, and
strongly suppress charge inversion for multivalent interfacial charges. For
SURF3, the image charge effect becomes much smaller. Finally, with image
charges in action, we find that excluded volumes (in SURF3) suppress charge
inversion for monovalent interfacial charges and enhance charge inversion for
multivalent interfacial charges. Overall, our results demonstrate that all
these aspects, i.e., image charges, interfacial charge discreteness, their
excluding volumes have significant impacts on the zeta potential, and thus the
structure of electric double layers.Comment: 11 pages, 10 figures, some errors are change
Experimental verification of the "rainbow" trapping effect in plasmonic graded gratings
We report the first experimental observation of trapped rainbow1 in graded
metallic gratings2-4, designed to validate theoretical predictions for this new
class of plasmonic structures. One-dimensional tapered gratings were fabricated
and their surface dispersion properties tailored by varying the grating period
and depth, whose dimensions were confirmed by atomic force microscopy. Reduced
group velocities and the plasmonic bandgap were observed. Direct measurements
on graded grating structures show that light of different wavelengths in the
500-700nm region is "trapped" at different positions along the grating,
consistent with computer simulations, thus verifying the "rainbow" trapping
effect. The trapped rainbow effect offers exciting pathways for optical
information storage and optical delays in photonic circuits at ambient
temperature
Admissible Policy Teaching through Reward Design
We study reward design strategies for incentivizing a reinforcement learning agent to adopt a policy from a set of admissible policies. The goal of the reward designer is to modify the underlying reward function cost-efficiently while ensuring that any approximately optimal deterministic policy under the new reward function is admissible and performs well under the original reward function. This problem can be viewed as a dual to the problem of optimal reward poisoning attacks: instead of forcing an agent to adopt a specific policy, the reward designer incentivizes an agent to avoid taking actions that are inadmissible in certain states. Perhaps surprisingly, and in contrast to the problem of optimal reward poisoning attacks, we first show that the reward design problem for admissible policy teaching is computationally challenging, and it is NP-hard to find an approximately optimal reward modification. We then proceed by formulating a surrogate problem whose optimal solution approximates the optimal solution to the reward design problem in our setting, but is more amenable to optimization techniques and analysis. For this surrogate problem, we present characterization results that provide bounds on the value of the optimal solution. Finally, we design a local search algorithm to solve the surrogate problem and showcase its utility using simulation-based experiments
Towards run-time monitoring of web services conformance to business-level agreements
Web service behaviour is currently specified in a mixture of ways, often using methods that are only partially complete. These range from static functional specifications, based on interfaces in WSDL and preconditions in RIF, to business process simulations using executable process-based models such as BPEL, to detailed quality of service (QoS) agreements laid down in a service level agreement (SLA). This paper recognises that something similar to a SLA is required at the higher business level to govern the contract between service producers, brokers and consumers. We call this a business level agreement (BLA) and within this framework, seek to unify disparate aspects of functional specification, QoS and run-time verification. We propose that the method for validating a web service with respect to its advertised BLA should be based on run-time service monitoring. This is a position paper towards defining these goals
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