54 research outputs found
Strain Enhanced Superconductivity in Li-Doped Graphene
We present a new way to enhance the electron-phonon coupling constant and the
critical superconducting temperature of graphene, significantly beyond all
reported values. Using density functional theory, we explore the application
effects of the tensile biaxial strain on the lithium intercalated graphene.
Both effects together, the presence of adatom and the strain, trigger
enhancement of critical temperature, up to 300\%, compared to non-strained
lithium intercalated graphene.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures, 1 tabl
Arbitrary angle waveguiding applications of two-dimensional curvilinear-lattice photonic crystals
We introduce a fresh class of photonic band-gap materials, curvilinear-lattice photonic crystals, whose distinctive feature is that their individual scatterers are arranged in a curvilinear lattice. We show that adhering to some restrictions in the acceptable lattice transformations, one can achieve omnidirectional photonic band gaps for an entire subclass of such structures. We demonstrate, designing an efficient arbitrary-angle waveguide bend, that curvilinear-lattice photonic crystals can be employed for creation of original types of nanophotonic devices
GHZ and W Entanglement Witnesses for the Non-interacting Fermi gas
The existence and nature of tripartite entanglement of a noninteracting Fermi
gas (NIFG) is investigated. Three new classes of parameterized entanglement
witnesses (EWs) are introduced with the aim of detecting genuine tripartite
entanglement in the three-body reduced density matrix and discriminating
between the presence of the two types of genuine tripartite entanglement, W\B
and GHZ\W. By choosing appropriate EW operators, the problem of finding GHZ and
W EWs is reduced to linear programming. Specifically, we devise new W EWs based
on a spin-chain model with periodic boundary conditions, and we construct a
class of parametrized GHZ EWs by linearly combining projection operators
corresponding to all the different state-vector types arising for a
three-fermion system. A third class of EWs is provided by a GHZ stabilizer
operator capable of distinguishing W\B from GHZ\B entanglement, which is not
possible with EWs. Implementing these classes of EWs, it is found that all
states containing genuine tripartite entanglement are of W type, and hence
states containing GHZ\W genuine tripartite entanglement do not arise. Some
genuine tripartite entangled states that have a positive partial transpose
(PPT) with respect to some bipartition are detected. Finally, it is
demonstrated that a NIFG does not exhibit "pure" W\B genuine tripartite
entanglement: three-party entanglement without any separable or biseparable
admixture does not occur.Comment: 15 pages, 7 figures, minor changes, to appear in Physical Review
Coordinate transformation based design of confined metamaterial structures
The coordinate transformation method is applied to bounded domains to design
metamaterial devices for steering spatially confined electromagnetic fields.
Both waveguide and free-space beam applications are considered as these are
analogous within the present approach. In particular, we describe devices that
bend the propagation direction and squeeze confined electromagnetic fields. Two
approaches in non-magnetic realization of these structures are examined. The
first is based on using a reduced set of material parameters, and the second on
finding non-magnetic transformation media. It is shown that transverse-magnetic
fields can be bent or squeezed to an arbitrary extent and without reflection
using only dielectric structures.Comment: The previous version has been revised and considerably expande
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