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What is the true charge transfer gap in parent insulating cuprates?
A large body of experimental data point towards a charge transfer instability
of parent insulating cuprates to be their unique property. We argue that the
true charge transfer gap in these compounds is as small as 0.4-0.5\,eV rather
than 1.5-2.0\,eV as usually derived from the optical gap measurements. In fact
we deal with a competition of the conventional (3d) ground state and a
charge transfer (CT) state with formation of electron-hole dimers which evolves
under doping to an unconventional bosonic system. Our conjecture does provide
an unified standpoint on the main experimental findings for parent cuprates
including linear and nonlinear optical, Raman, photoemission, photoabsorption,
and transport properties anyhow related with the CT excitations. In addition we
suggest a scenario for the evolution of the CuO planes in the CT unstable
cuprates under a nonisovalent doping.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PR
Triaxial projected shell model approach
The projected shell model analysis is carried out using the triaxial
Nilsson+BCS basis. It is demonstrated that, for an accurate description of the
moments of inertia in the transitional region, it is necessary to take the
triaxiality into account and perform the three-dimensional angular-momentum
projection from the triaxial Nilsson+BCS intrinsic wavefunction.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figure
Control of scroll wave turbulence using resonant perturbations
Turbulence of scroll waves is a sort of spatio-temporal chaos that exists in
three-dimensional excitable media. Cardiac tissue and the Belousov-Zhabotinsky
reaction are examples of such media. In cardiac tissue, chaotic behaviour is
believed to underlie fibrillation which, without intervention, precedes cardiac
death. In this study we investigate suppression of the turbulence using
stimulation of two different types, "modulation of excitability" and "extra
transmembrane current". With cardiac defibrillation in mind, we used a single
pulse as well as repetitive extra current with both constant and feedback
controlled frequency. We show that turbulence can be terminated using either a
resonant modulation of excitability or a resonant extra current. The turbulence
is terminated with much higher probability using a resonant frequency
perturbation than a non-resonant one. Suppression of the turbulence using a
resonant frequency is up to fifty times faster than using a non-resonant
frequency, in both the modulation of excitability and the extra current modes.
We also demonstrate that resonant perturbation requires strength one order of
magnitude lower than that of a single pulse, which is currently used in
clinical practice to terminate cardiac fibrillation. Our results provide a
robust method of controlling complex chaotic spatio-temporal processes.
Resonant drift of spiral waves has been studied extensively in two dimensions,
however, these results show for the first time that it also works in three
dimensions, despite the complex nature of the scroll wave turbulence.Comment: 13 pages, 12 figures, submitted to Phys Rev E 2008/06/13. Last
version: 2008/09/18, after revie
Semi-analytical Solution of Dirac equation in Schwarzschild Geometry
Separation of the Dirac equation in the spacetime around a Kerr black hole
into radial and angular coordinates was done by Chandrasekhar in 1976. In the
present paper, we solve the radial equations in a Schwarzschild geometry
semi-analytically using Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximation (in short WKB)
method. Among other things, we present analytical expression of the
instantaneous reflection and transmission coefficients and the radial wave
functions of the Dirac particles. Complete physical parameter space was divided
into two parts depending on the height of the potential well and energy of the
incoming waves. We show the general solution for these two regions. We also
solve the equations by a Quantum Mechanical approach, in which the potential is
approximated by a series of steps and found that these two solutions agree. We
compare solutions of different initial parameters and show how the properties
of the scattered wave depend on these parameters.Comment: RevTex, 11 Latex pages and 12 Figures ; Classical and Quantum Gravity
(in Press) (1999
Phonon Coherence and New Set of Sidebands in Phonon-Assisted Photoluminescence
We investigate excitonic polaron states comprising a local exciton and
phonons in the longitudinal optical (LO) mode by solving the Schr\"{o}dinger
equation. We derive an exact expression for the ground state (GS), which
includes multi-phonon components with coefficients satisfying the Huang-Rhys
factors. The recombination of GS and excited polaron states gives one set of
sidebands in photoluminescence (PL): the multi-phonon components in the GS
produce the Stokes lines and the zero-phonon components in the excited states
produce the anti-Stokes lines. By introducing the mixing of the LO mode and
environal phonon modes, the exciton will also couple with the latter, and the
resultant polaron states result in another set of phonon sidebands. This set
has a zero-phonon line higher and wider than that of the first set due to the
tremendous number of the environal modes. The energy spacing between the
zero-phonon lines of the first and second sets is proved to be the binding
energy of the GS state. The common exciton origin of these two sets can be
further verified by a characteristic Fano lineshape induced by the coherence in
the mixing of the LO and the environal modes.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures 1 figure (fig. 1) replaced 1 figure (fig. 2)
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A Study Of A New Class Of Discrete Nonlinear Schroedinger Equations
A new class of 1D discrete nonlinear Schrdinger Hamiltonians
with tunable nonlinerities is introduced, which includes the integrable
Ablowitz-Ladik system as a limit. A new subset of equations, which are derived
from these Hamiltonians using a generalized definition of Poisson brackets, and
collectively refered to as the N-AL equation, is studied. The symmetry
properties of the equation are discussed. These equations are shown to possess
propagating localized solutions, having the continuous translational symmetry
of the one-soliton solution of the Ablowitz-Ladik nonlinear
Schrdinger equation. The N-AL systems are shown to be suitable
to study the combined effect of the dynamical imbalance of nonlinearity and
dispersion and the Peierls-Nabarro potential, arising from the lattice
discreteness, on the propagating solitary wave like profiles. A perturbative
analysis shows that the N-AL systems can have discrete breather solutions, due
to the presence of saddle center bifurcations in phase portraits. The
unstaggered localized states are shown to have positive effective mass. On the
other hand, large width but small amplitude staggered localized states have
negative effective mass. The collison dynamics of two colliding solitary wave
profiles are studied numerically. Notwithstanding colliding solitary wave
profiles are seen to exhibit nontrivial nonsolitonic interactions, certain
universal features are observed in the collison dynamics. Future scopes of this
work and possible applications of the N-AL systems are discussed.Comment: 17 pages, 15 figures, revtex4, xmgr, gn
Strong exciton-plasmon coupling in semiconducting carbon nanotubes
We study theoretically the interactions of excitonic states with surface
electromagnetic modes of small-diameter (~1 nm) semiconducting single-walled
carbon nanotubes. We show that these interactions can result in strong
exciton-surface-plasmon coupling. The exciton absorption line shape exhibits
Rabi splitting ~0.1 eV as the exciton energy is tuned to the nearest interband
surface plasmon resonance of the nanotube. We also show that the quantum
confined Stark effect may be used as a tool to control the exciton binding
energy and the nanotube band gap in carbon nanotubes in order, e.g., to bring
the exciton total energy in resonance with the nearest interband plasmon mode.
The exciton-plasmon Rabi splitting we predict here for an individual carbon
nanotube is close in its magnitude to that previously reported for hybrid
plasmonic nanostructures artificially fabricated of organic semiconductors on
metallic films. We expect this effect to open up paths to new tunable
optoelectronic device applications of semiconducting carbon nanotubes.Comment: 22 pages, 8 figures, accepted for PR
Soft triaxial rotor in the vicinity of and its extensions
The collective Bohr hamiltonian is solved for the soft triaxial rotor around
with a displaced harmonic oscillator potential in and
a Kratzer-like potential in . The properties of the spectrum are
outlined and a generalization for the more general triaxial case with
is proposed.Comment: Contribution to ENAM '04 conference. 2 pages, 2 figur
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