Quasiparticle states around a nonmagnetic impurity in electron-doped iron-based superconductors with spin-density-wave order

The quasiparticle states around a nonmagnetic impurity in electron-doped iron-based superconductors with spin-density-wave (SDW) order are investigated as a function of doping and impurity scattering strength. In the undoped sample, where a pure SDW state exists, two impurity-induced resonance peaks are observed around the impurity site and they are shifted to higher (lower) energies as the strength of the positive (negative) scattering potential (SP) is increased. For the doped samples where the SDW order and the superconducting order coexist, the main feature is the existence of sharp in-gap resonance peaks whose positions and intensity depend on the strength of the SP and the doping concentration. In all cases, the local density of states exhibits clear $C_2$ symmetry. We also note that in the doped cases, the impurity will divide the system into two sublattices with distinct values of magnetic order. Here we use the band structure of a two-orbital model, which considers the asymmetry of the As atoms above and below the Fe-Fe plane. This model is suitable to study the properties of the surface layers in the iron-pnictides and should be more appropriate to describe the scanning tunneling microscopy experiments.Comment: 11 pages, 18 figure

Study on the immobilisation mechanism of chromium under microwave sintering

Chromium (Cr) salts have been widely used in various industries and the discharged waste has caused soil contamination. Among them, Cr(VI) is the main concern due to its high solubility and strong carcinogenic properties. This paper compares the performance of a novel microwave sintering technique with the conventional sintering technique for immobilising Cr contaminated soil. The most significant advantage of the microwave sintering is that it can provide controlled atmosphere (such as reduction atmosphere), which means Cr(Vl) can be reduced to less hazardous Cr(III) during the sintering process. The potential secondary contamination can, thus, be significantly reduced. The XRD results show that with microwave sintering, stronger and sharper peaks were observed, indicating minerals with higher crystallinity have been formed. On the other hand, the SEM results reveal that with conventional electric sintering, the microstructure was dominated by glassy phases, whilst a mixture of glassy and crystalline phases has been identified with microwave sintering. The leaching results show that the contaminated soil processed with microwave has met both British and Chinese leaching standards, and is better than that from the electric sintering technique

Lasing oscillation condition and group delay control in gain-assisted plasmon-induced transparency

A gain-assisted plasmonic waveguide with two detuned resonators is investigated in the plasmon-induced transparency window. Phase map is employed to study power transmittance and group delay for varying gain coefficients and frequency detunings of the two resonators. The gain coefficient for lasing oscillation condition is analytically shown to vary quadratically with the frequency detuning. In the amplification regime below the lasing threshold, the spectrum implies not only large group delay, but also high transmittance and narrow linewidth. This is in contrast to those in the loss-compensation regime and the passive case in which there always exists a trade-off between the linewidth and the peak transmittance.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figure

Stability of Pairwise Entanglement in a Decoherent Environment

Consider the dynamics of a two-qubit entangled system in the decoherence environment, we investigate the stability of pairwise entanglement under decoherence. We find that for different decoherence models, there exist some special class of entangled states of which the pairwise entanglement is the most stable. The lifetime of the entanglement in these states is larger than other states with the same initial entanglement. In addition, we also investigate the dynamics of pairwise entanglement in the ground state of spin models such as Heisenberg and XXY models.Comment: accepted by Physical Review A, references updated and minor change

Local Operations in qubit arrays via global but periodic Manipulation

We provide a scheme for quantum computation in lattice systems via global but periodic manipulation, in which only effective periodic magnetic fields and global nearest neighbor interaction are required. All operations in our scheme are attainable in optical lattice or solid state systems. We also investigate universal quantum operations and quantum simulation in 2 dimensional lattice. We find global manipulations are superior in simulating some nontrivial many body Hamiltonians.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.