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Electron Spin Relaxation under Drift in GaAs
Based on a Monte Carlo method, we investigate the influence of transport
conditions on the electron spin relaxation in GaAs. The decay of initial
electron spin polarization is calculated as a function of distance under the
presence of moderate drift fields and/or non-zero injection energies. For
relatively low fields (a couple of kV/cm), a substantial amount of spin
polarization is preserved for several microns at 300 K. However, it is also
found that the spin relaxation rate increases rapidly with the drift field,
scaling as the square of the electron wavevector in the direction of the field.
When the electrons are injected with a high energy, a pronounced decrease is
observed in the spin relaxation length due to an initial increase in the spin
precession frequency. Hence, high-field or high-energy transport conditions may
not be desirable for spin-based devices.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, one table. Scheduled for publication in the May
26, 2003 issue of Applied Physics Letters (039321APL
Prospects for the Bc Studies at LHCb
We discuss the motivations and perspectives for the studies of the mesons of
the (bc) family at LHCb. The description of production and decays at LHC
energies is given in details. The event yields, detection efficiencies, and
background conditions for several Bc decay modes at LHCb are estimated.Comment: 20 pages, 5 eps-figure
Temperature dependence of electric resistance and magnetoresistance of pressed nanocomposites of multilayer nanotubes with the structure of nested cones
Bulk samples of carbon multilayer nanotubes with the structure of nested
cones (fishbone structure) suitable for transport measurements, were prepared
by compressing under high pressure (~25 kbar) a nanotube precursor synthesized
through thermal decomposition of polyethylene catalyzed by nickel. The
structure of the initial nanotube material was studied using high-resolution
transmission electron microscopy. In the low-temperature range (4.2 - 100 K)
the electric resistance of the samples changes according to the law ln \rho ~
(T_0/T)^{1/3}, where T_0 ~ 7 K. The measured magnetoresistance is quadratic in
the magnetic field and linear in the reciprocal temperature. The measurements
have been interpreted in terms of two-dimensional variable-range hopping
conductivity. It is suggested that the space between the inside and outside
walls of nanotubes acts as a two-dimensional conducting medium. Estimates
suggest a high value of the density of electron states at the Fermi level of
about 5 10^{21} eV^{-1} cm^{-3}.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures. EM photographic images on figures 1a, 1b, 1c
attached as JPG files. For correspondence mail to [email protected]
Two-tone spectroscopy of a SQUID metamaterial in the nonlinear regime
Compact microwave resonantors made of superconducting rings containing
Josephson junctions (SQUIDs) are attractive candidates for building frequency
tunable metamaterials with low losses and pronounced nonlinear properties. We
explore the nonlinearity of a SQUID metamaterial by performing a two-tone
resonant spectroscopy. The small-amplitude response of the metamaterial under
strong driving by a microwave pump tone is investigated experimentally and
theoretically. The transmission coefficient of a weak probe signal is
measured in the presence of the pump tone. Increasing the power of the pump, we
observe pronounced oscillations of the SQUID's resonance frequency
. The shape of these oscillations varies significantly with
the frequency of the pump tone . The response to the probe
signal displays instabilities and sidebands. A state with strong second
harmonic generation is observed. We provide a theoretical analysis of these
observations, which is in good agreement with the experimental results
Theory of stripe domains in magnetic shape memory alloys
The evolution of multivariant patterns in thin plates of magnetic shape
memory materials with an applied magnetic field was studied theoretically. A
geometrical domain-model is considered composed of straight stripe-like
martensite variants with constant internal magnetization (high anisotropy
limit) and magnetic domain wall orientation fixed by the twin boundaries.
Through integral transforms of the demagnetization energy, the micromagnetic
energy is cast into a form convenient for direct numerical evaluation and
analytical calculations. The equilibrium geometrical parameters of multivariant
patterns with straight and oblique twin boundaries have been derived as
functions of the applied field and the material parameters of a plate. It is
shown that the oblique multivariant states exist only in plates with
thicknesses L larger than a certain critical value L_0. In samples with L < L_0
a magnetic-field-driven transformation occurs directly between single variant
states.Comment: Materials for E-MRS Fall Meeting, Warsaw 2007. Corrected figure
Gold-plated Mode of CP-Violation in Decays of B_c Meson from QCD Sum Rules
The model-independent method based on the triangle ideology is implemented to
extract the CKM-matrix angle gamma in the decays of doubly heavy long-lived
meson B_c. We analyze a color structure of diagrams and conditions to
reconstruct two reference-triangles by tagging the flavor and CP eigenstates of
D^0 meson in the fixed exclusive channels. The characteristic branching ratios
are evaluated in the framework of QCD sum rules.Comment: 11 pages, RevTeX4 file, 4 eps-figure
Scalar and vector Keldysh models in the time domain
The exactly solvable Keldysh model of disordered electron system in a random
scattering field with extremely long correlation length is converted to the
time-dependent model with extremely long relaxation. The dynamical problem is
solved for the ensemble of two-level systems (TLS) with fluctuating well depths
having the discrete Z_2 symmetry. It is shown also that the symmetric TLS with
fluctuating barrier transparency may be described in terms of the planar
Keldysh model with dime-dependent random planar rotations in xy plane having
continuous SO(2) symmetry. The case of simultaneous fluctuations of the well
depth and barrier transparency is subject to non-abelian algebra. Application
of this model to description of dynamic fluctuations in quantum dots and
optical lattices is discussed.Comment: 6 pages, 5 eps figures. Extended version of the paper to be published
in JETP Lett 89 (2009
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