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Grundmannite, CuBiSe2, the Se-analogue of emplectite, a new mineral from the El DragĂłn mine, PotosĂ, Bolivia
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Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft, Sociedad Española de MineralogĂa, SocietĂ Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia, SociĂ©tĂ© Française de MinĂ©ralogie et de Cristallographie under the auspices of the European Mineralogical Union. This document attached is the author's submitted version of the journal article. You are advised to consult the publisher's version if you wish to cite from it
Ion-ion dynamic structure factor, acoustic modes and equation of state of two-temperature warm dense aluminum
The ion-ion dynamical structure factor and the equation of state of warm
dense aluminum in a two-temperature quasi-equilibrium state, with the electron
temperature higher than the ion temperature, are investigated using
molecular-dynamics simulations based on ion-ion pair potentials constructed
from a neutral pseudoatom model. Such pair potentials based on density
functional theory are parameter-free and depend directly on the electron
temperature and indirectly on the ion temperature, enabling efficient
computation of two-temperature properties. Comparison with ab initio
simulations and with other average-atom calculations for equilibrium aluminum
shows good agreement, justifying a study of quasi-equilibrium situations.
Analyzing the van Hove function, we find that ion-ion correlations vanish in a
time significantly smaller than the electron-ion relaxation time so that
dynamical properties have a physical meaning for the quasi-equilibrium state. A
significant increase in the speed of sound is predicted from the modification
of the dispersion relation of the ion acoustic mode as the electron temperature
is increased. The two-temperature equation of state including the free energy,
internal energy and pressure is also presented
Imprinting Patterns of Neutral Atoms in an Optical Lattice using Magnetic Resonance Techniques
We prepare arbitrary patterns of neutral atoms in a one-dimensional (1D)
optical lattice with single-site precision using microwave radiation in a
magnetic field gradient. We give a detailed account of the current limitations
and propose methods to overcome them. Our results have direct relevance for
addressing of planes, strings or single atoms in higher dimensional optical
lattices for quantum information processing or quantum simulations with
standard methods in current experiments. Furthermore, our findings pave the way
for arbitrary single qubit control with single site resolution.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figure
Spin-Forster transfer in optically excited quantum dots
The mechanisms of energy and spin transfer in quantum dot pairs coupled via
the Coulomb interaction are studied. Exciton transfer can be resonant or
phonon-assisted. In both cases, the transfer rates strongly depend on the
resonance conditions. The spin selection rules in the transfer process come
from the exchange and spin-orbit interactions. The character of energy
dissipation in spin transfer is different than that in the traditional spin
currents. The spin-dependent photon cross-correlation functions reflect the
exciton transfer process. In addition, a mathematical method to calculate
F\"orster transfer in crystalline nanostructures beyond the dipole-dipole
approximation is described.Comment: 22 pages, 10 figures, Phys. Rev. B, in pres
Magnetoasymmetric transport in a mesoscopic interferometer: From the weak to the strong coupling regime
The microreversibility principle implies that the conductance of a
two-terminal Aharonov-Bohm interferometer is an even function of the applied
magnetic flux. Away from linear response, however, this symmetry is not
fulfilled and the conductance phase of the interferometer when a quantum dot is
inserted in one of its arms can be a continuous function of the bias voltage.
Such magnetoasymmetries have been investigated in related mesoscopic systems
and arise as a consequence of the asymetric response of the internal potential
of the conductor out of equilibrium. Here we discuss magnetoasymmetries in
quantum-dot Aharonov-Bohm interferometers when strong electron-electron
interactions are taken into account beyond the mean-field approach. We find
that at very low temperatures the asymmetric element of the differential
conductance shows an abrupt change for voltages around the Fermi level. At
higher temperatures we recover a smooth variation of the magnetoasymmetry as a
function of the bias. We illustrate our results with the aid of the electron
occupation at the dot, demonstrating that its nonequilibrium component is an
asymmetric function of the flux even to lowest order in voltage. We also
calculate the magnetoasymmetry of the current-current correlations (the noise)
and find that it is given, to a good extent, by the magnetoasymmetry of the
weakly nonlinear conductance term. Therefore, both magnetoasymmetries (noise
and conductance) are related to each other via a higher-order
fluctuation-dissipation relation. This result appears to be true even in the
low temperature regime, where Kondo physics and many-body effects dominate the
transport properties.Comment: 17 pages, 9 figure
Calculation of the persistence length of a flexible polymer chain with short range self-repulsion
For a self-repelling polymer chain consisting of n segments we calculate the
persistence length L(j,n), defined as the projection of the end-to-end vector
on the direction of the j`th segment. This quantity shows some pronounced
variation along the chain. Using the renormalization group and
epsilon-expansion we establish the scaling form and calculate the scaling
function to order epsilon^2. Asymptotically the simple result L(j,n) ~
const(j(n-j)/n)^(2nu-1) emerges for dimension d=3. Also outside the excluded
volume limit L(j,n) is found to behave very similar to the swelling factor of a
chain of length j(n-j)/n. We carry through simulations which are found to be in
good accord with our analytical results. For d=2 both our and previous
simulations as well as theoretical arguments suggest the existence of
logarithmic anomalies.Comment: 28 pages, 8 figures, changed conten
Full counting statistics for voltage and dephasing probes
We present a stochastic path integral method to calculate the full counting
statistics of conductors with energy conserving dephasing probes and
dissipative voltage probes. The approach is explained for the experimentally
important case of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, but is easily generalized to
more complicated setups. For all geometries where dephasing may be modeled by a
single one-channel dephasing probe we prove that our method yields the same
full counting statistics as phase averaging of the cumulant generating
function.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
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