Photon Statistics for Single Molecule Non-Linear Spectroscopy

We consider the theory of the non-linear spectroscopy for a single molecule undergoing stochastic dynamics and interacting with a sequence of two laser pulses. General expressions for photon counting statistics are obtained, and an exact solution to the problem of the Kubo-Anderson process is found. In the limit of impulsive pulses the information on the photon statistics is contained in the molecule's dipole correlation function. The selective limit where temporal resolution is maintained, the semi-classical approximation and the fast modulation limit exhibit general behaviors of this new type of spectroscopy. We show how the design of the external field leads to rich insights on dynamics of individual molecules which are different than those found for an ensemble

On the Coexistence Magnetism/Superconductivity in the Heavy-Fermion Superconductor CePt3_3Si

The interplay between magnetism and superconductivity in the newly discovered heavy-fermion superconductor CePt$_3$Si has been investigated using the zero-field $\mu$SR technique. The $\mu$SR data indicate that the whole muon ensemble senses spontaneous internal fields in the magnetic phase, demonstrating that magnetism occurs in the whole sample volume. This points to a microscopic coexistence between magnetism and heavy-fermion superconductivity.Comment: Final version, new figure structure, references correcte

Near-Extreme Black Holes and the Universal Relaxation Bound

A fundamental bound on the relaxation time \tau of a perturbed thermodynamical system has recently been derived, \tau \geq \hbar/\pi T, where $T$ is the system's temperature. We demonstrate analytically that black holes saturate this bound in the extremal limit and for large values of the azimuthal number m of the perturbation field.Comment: 2 Pages. Submitted to PRD on 5/12/200