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Inverse Scattering and Acousto-Optic Imaging
We propose a tomographic method to reconstruct the optical properties of a
highly-scattering medium from incoherent acousto-optic measurements. The method
is based on the solution to an inverse problem for the diffusion equation and
makes use of the principle of interior control of boundary measurements by an
external wave field.Comment: 10 page
Radiation- and Phonon-Bottleneck-Induced Tunneling in the Fe8 Single-Molecule Magnet
We measure magnetization changes in a single crystal of the single-molecule
magnet Fe8 when exposed to intense, short (<20 s) pulses of microwave
radiation resonant with the m = 10 to 9 transition. We find that radiation
induces a phonon bottleneck in the system with a time scale of ~5 s. The
phonon bottleneck, in turn, drives the spin dynamics, allowing observation of
thermally assisted resonant tunneling between spin states at the 100-ns time
scale. Detailed numerical simulations quantitatively reproduce the data and
yield a spin-phonon relaxation time of T1 ~ 40 ns.Comment: 6 RevTeX pages, including 4 EPS figures, version accepted for
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Measurement of Magnetization Dynamics in Single-Molecule Magnets Induced by Pulsed Millimeter-Wave Radiation
We describe an experiment aimed at measuring the spin dynamics of the Fe8
single-molecule magnet in the presence of pulsed microwave radiation. In
earlier work, heating was observed after a 0.2-ms pulse of intense radiation,
indicating that the spin system and the lattice were out of thermal equilibrium
at millisecond time scale [Bal et al., Europhys. Lett. 71, 110 (2005)]. In the
current work, an inductive pick-up loop is used to probe the photon-induced
magnetization dynamics between only two levels of the spin system at much
shorter time scales (from ns to us). The relaxation time for the magnetization,
induced by a pulse of radiation, is found to be on the order of 10 us.Comment: 3 RevTeX pages, including 3 eps figures. The paper will appear in the
Journal of Applied Physics as MMM'05 conference proceeding
Quantifying the impact of vibrational nonequilibrium in plasma catalysis: Insights from a molecular dynamics model of dissociative chemisorption
The rate, selectivity and efficiency of plasma-based conversion processes is
strongly affected by nonequilibrium phenomena. High concentrations of
vibrationally excited molecules are such a plasma-induced effect. It is
frequently assumed that vibrationally excited molecules are important in plasma
catalysis because their presence lowers the apparent activation energy of
dissociative chemisorption reactions and thus increases the conversion rate. A
detailed atomic-level understanding of vibrationally stimulated catalytic
reactions in the context of plasma catalysis is however lacking. Here, we
couple a recently developed statistical model of a plasma-induced vibrational
nonequilibrium to molecular dynamics simulations, enhanced sampling methods,
and machine learning techniques. We quantify the impact of a vibrational
nonequilibrium on the dissociative chemisorption barrier of H2 and CH4 on
nickel catalysts over a wide range of vibrational temperatures. We investigate
the effect of surface structure and compare the role of different vibrational
modes of methane in the dissociation process. For low vibrational temperatures,
very high vibrational efficacies are found, and energy in bend vibrations
appears to dominate the dissociation of methane. The relative impact of
vibrational nonequilibrium is much higher on terrace sites than on surface
steps. We then show how our simulations can help to interpret recent
experimental results, and suggest new paths to a better understanding of plasma
catalysis
Inversion formulas for the broken-ray Radon transform
We consider the inverse problem of the broken ray transform (sometimes also
referred to as the V-line transform). Explicit image reconstruction formulas
are derived and tested numerically. The obtained formulas are generalizations
of the filtered backprojection formula of the conventional Radon transform. The
advantages of the broken ray transform include the possibility to reconstruct
the absorption and the scattering coefficients of the medium simultaneously and
the possibility to utilize scattered radiation which, in the case of the
conventional X-ray tomography, is typically discarded.Comment: To be submitted to Inverse Problem
Inverse anisotropic diffusion from power density measurements in two dimensions
This paper concerns the reconstruction of an anisotropic diffusion tensor
from knowledge of internal functionals
of the form with for
solutions of the elliptic equation on a two
dimensional bounded domain with appropriate boundary conditions. We show that
for I=4 and appropriately chosen boundary conditions, may uniquely and
stably be reconstructed from such internal functionals, which appear in
coupled-physics inverse problems involving the ultrasound modulation of
electrical or optical coefficients. Explicit reconstruction procedures for the
diffusion tensor are presented and implemented numerically.Comment: 27 pages, 6 figure
Experimental Upper Bound on Superradiance Emission from Mn12 Acetate
We used a Josephson junction as a radiation detector to look for evidence of
the emission of electromagnetic radiation during magnetization avalanches in a
crystal assembly of Mn_12-Acetate. The crystal assembly exhibits avalanches at
several magnetic fields in the temperature range from 1.8 to 2.6 K with
durations of the order of 1 ms. Although a recent study shows evidence of
electromagnetic radiation bursts during these avalanches [J. Tejada, et al.,
Appl. Phys. Lett. {\bf 84}, 2373 (2004)], we were unable to detect any
significant radiation at well-defined frequencies. A control experiment with
external radiation pulses allows us to determine that the energy released as
radiation during an avalanche is less than 1 part in 10^4 of the total energy
released. In addition, our avalanche data indicates that the magnetization
reversal process does not occur uniformly throughout the sample.Comment: 4 RevTeX pages, 3 eps figure
Cooled Beam Diagnostics on LEIR
Electron cooling is central in the preparation of dense bunches of lead beams for the LHC. Ion beam pulses from the LINAC3 are transformed into short highbrightness bunches using multi-turn injection, cooling and accumulation in the Low Energy Ion Ring, LEIR [1]. The cooling process must therefore be continuously monitored in order to guarantee that the lead ions have the required characteristics in terms of beam size and momentum spread. In LEIR a number of systems have been developed to perform these measurements. These include Schottky diagnostics, ionisation profile monitors and scrapers. Along with their associated acquisition and analysis software packages these instruments have proved to be invaluable for the optimisation of the electron cooler
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