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Production of q bar-q Pairs in Proton-Nucleus Collisions at High Energies
We calculate production of quark-antiquark pairs in high energy
proton-nucleus collisions both in the quasi-classical approximation of
McLerran-Venugopalan model and including quantum small- evolution. The
resulting production cross section is explicitly expressed in terms of
Glauber-Mueller multiple rescatterings in the classical case and in terms of
dipole-nucleus scattering amplitude in the quantum evolution case. We
generalize the result of one of us (K.T.) beyond the aligned jet
configurations. We expand on the earlier results of Blaizot, Gelis and
Venugopalan by deriving quark production cross section including quantum
evolution corrections in rapidity intervals both between the quarks and the
target and between the quarks and the projectile.Comment: 18 pages, 3 figures; typos corrected, discussion extende
Coherent spin dynamics in quantum wells in quantizing magnetic field
We investigate theoretically the coherent longitudinal and transversal spin
relaxation of photoexcited electrons in quantum wells in quantized magnetic
fields. We find the relaxation time for typical quantum well parameters between
100 and 1000 ps. For a realistic random potential the relaxation process
depends on the electron energy and g-factor, demonstrating oscillations in the
spin polarization accompanying the spin relaxation. The dependence of spin
relaxation on applied field, and thus on the corresponding "magnetic" length,
can be used to characterize the spatial scale of disorder in quantum wells.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figure
Anomalous ordering in inhomogeneously strained materials
We study a continuous quasi-two-dimensional order-disorder phase transition
that occurs in a simple model of a material that is inhomogeneously strained
due to the presence of dislocation lines. Performing Monte Carlo simulations of
different system sizes and using finite size scaling, we measure critical
exponents describing the transition of beta=0.18\pm0.02, gamma=1.0\pm0.1, and
alpha=0.10\pm0.02. Comparable exponents have been reported in a variety of
physical systems. These systems undergo a range of different types of phase
transitions, including structural transitions, exciton percolation, and
magnetic ordering. In particular, similar exponents have been found to describe
the development of magnetic order at the onset of the pseudogap transition in
high-temperature superconductors. Their common universal critical exponents
suggest that the essential physics of the transition in all of these physical
systems is the same as in our model. We argue that the nature of the transition
in our model is related to surface transitions, although our model has no free
surface.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Four-Particle Anyon Exciton: Boson Approximation
A theory of anyon excitons consisting of a valence hole and three
quasielectrons with electric charges is presented. A full symmetry
classification of the states is given, where is the exciton momentum.
The energy levels of these states are expressed by quadratures of confluent
hypergeometric functions. It is shown that the angular momentum of the
exciton ground state depends on the distance between electron and hole
confinement planes and takes the values , where is an integer. With
increasing the electron density shows a spectacular splitting on bundles.
At first a single anyon splits off of the two-anyon core, and finally all
anyons become separated.Comment: Revtex 13 pages + 6 uuencoded postscript figure
Improved Theory of the Muonium Hyperfine Structure
Terms contributing to the hyperfine structure of the muonium ground state at
the level of few tenths of kHz have been evaluated. The
radiative correction has been calculated numerically to the precision of 0.02
kHz. Leading terms of order and some relativistic corrections have been evaluated analytically.
The theoretical uncertainty is now reduced to 0.17 kHz. At present, however, it
is not possible to test QED to this precision because of the 1.34 kHz
uncertainty due to the muon mass.Comment: 11 pages + 2 figures (included), RevTeX 3.0, CLNS 94/127
Universal Quantum Computation through Control of Spin-Orbit Coupling
We propose a method for quantum computation which uses control of spin-orbit
coupling in a linear array of single electron quantum dots. Quantum gates are
carried out by pulsing the exchange interaction between neighboring electron
spins, including the anisotropic corrections due to spin-orbit coupling.
Control over these corrections, even if limited, is sufficient for universal
quantum computation over qubits encoded into pairs of electron spins. The
number of voltage pulses required to carry out either single qubit rotations or
controlled-Not gates scales as the inverse of a dimensionless measure of the
degree of control of spin-orbit coupling.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures (minor revision, references added
Topological Change of the Fermi Surface in Low Density Rashba Gases: Application to Superconductivity
Strong spin-orbit coupling can have a profound effect on the electronic
structure in a metal or semiconductor, particularly for low electron
concentrations. We show how, for small values of the Fermi energy compared to
the spin-orbit splitting of Rashba type, a topological change of the Fermi
surface leads to an effective reduction of the dimensionality in the electronic
density of states. We investigate its consequences on the onset of the
superconducting instability. We show, by solving the Eliashberg equations for
the critical temperature as a function of spin-orbit coupling and electron
density, that the superconducting critical temperature is significantly tuned
in this regime by the spin-orbit coupling. We suggest that materials with
strong spin-orbit coupling are good candidates for enhanced superconductivity.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures ep
"Phase Diagram" of the Spin Hall Effect
We obtain analytic formulas for the frequency-dependent spin-Hall
conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the presence of
impurities, linear spin-orbit Rashba interaction, and external magnetic field
perpendicular to the 2DEG. We show how different mechanisms (skew-scattering,
side-jump, and spin precession) can be brought in or out of focus by changing
controllable parameters such as frequency, magnetic field, and temperature. We
find, in particular, that the d.c. spin Hall conductivity vanishes in the
absence of a magnetic field, while a magnetic field restores the
skew-scattering and side-jump contributions proportionally to the ratio of
magnetic and Rashba fields.Comment: Some typos correcte
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