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Reply to "Comment on `Resilience of gated avalanche photodiodes against bright illumination attacks in quantum cryptography'"
This is a Reply to the Comment by Lydersen et al. [arXiv: 1106.3756v1]
The magnetoresistance and Hall effect in CeFeAsO: a high magnetic field study
The longitudinal electrical resistivity and the transverse Hall resistivity
of CeFeAsO are simultaneously measured up to a magnetic field of 45T using the
facilities of pulsed magnetic field at Los Alamos. Distinct behaviour is
observed in both the magnetoresistance Rxx({\mu}0H) and the Hall resistance
Rxy({\mu}0H) while crossing the structural phase transition at Ts \approx 150K.
At temperatures above Ts, little magnetoresistance is observed and the Hall
resistivity follows linear field dependence. Upon cooling down the system below
Ts, large magnetoresistance develops and the Hall resistivity deviates from the
linear field dependence. Furthermore, we found that the transition at Ts is
extremely robust against the external magnetic field. We argue that the
magnetic state in CeFeAsO is unlikely a conventional type of spin-density-wave
(SDW).Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures SCES2010, To appear in J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. for
SCES201
Avoiding the Detector Blinding Attack on Quantum Cryptography
We show the detector blinding attack by Lydersen et al [1] will be
ineffective on most single photon avalanche photodiodes (APDs) and certainly
ineffective on any detectors that are operated correctly. The attack is only
successful if a redundant resistor is included in series with the APD, or if
the detector discrimination levels are set inappropriately
Origin of the X-ray Emission in the Nuclei of FR Is
We investigate the X-ray origin in FRIs using the multi-waveband high
resolution data of eight FR I sources, which have very low Eddington ratios. We
fit their multi-waveband spectrum using a coupled accretion-jet model. We find
that X-ray emission in the source with the highest L_X (~1.8*10^-4 L_Edd) is
from the advection-dominated accretion flow (ADAF). Four sources with moderate
L_X(~several*10^-6 L_Edd) are complicated. The X-ray emission of one FR I is
from the jet, and the other three is from the sum of the jet and ADAF. The
X-ray emission in the three least luminous sources (L_X<1.0*10^-6L_Edd) is
dominated by the jet. These results roughly support the predictions of Yuan and
Cui(2005) where they predict that when the X-ray luminosity of the system is
below a critical value, the X-radiation will not be dominated by the emission
from the ADAF any longer, but by the jet. We also find that the accretion rates
in four sources must be higher than the Bondi rates, which implies that other
fuel supply (e.g., stellar winds) inside the Bondi radius should be important.Comment: 6 pages. To published in Journal of Physics, in proceedings of "The
Universe under the Microscope - Astrophysics at High Angular Resolution" (Bad
Honnef, Germany, April 2008), eds. R. Schoedel, A. Eckart, S. Pfalzner, and
E. Ro
Dielectric properties and lattice dynamics of alpha-PbO2-type TiO2: The role of soft phonon modes in pressure-induced phase transition to baddeleyite-type TiO2
Dielectric tensor and lattice dynamics of alpha-PbO2-type TiO2 have been
investigated using the density functional perturbation theory, with a focus on
responses of the vibrational frequencies to pressure. The calculated Raman
spectra under different pressures are in good agreement with available
experimental results and the symmetry assignments of the Raman peaks of
alpha-PbO2-type TiO2 are given for the first time. In addition, we identified
two anomalously IR-active soft phonon modes, B1u and B3u, respectively, around
200 cm-1 which have not been observed in high pressure experiments. Comparison
of the phonon dispersions at 0 and 10 GPa reveals that softening of phonon
modes also occurs for the zone-boundary modes. The B1u and B3u modes play an
important role in transformation from the alpha-PbO2-type phase to baddeleyite
phase. The significant relaxations of the oxygen atoms from the Ti4 plane in
the Ti2O2Ti2 complex of the baddeleyite phase are directly correlated to the
oxygen displacements along the directions given by the eigenvectors of the soft
B1u and B3u modes in the alpha-PbO2-type phase.Comment: 8 pages, 9 figure
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