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Autonomous thermal machine for amplification and control of energetic coherence
We present a model for an autonomous quantum thermal machine comprised of two
qubits capable of manipulating and even amplifying the local coherence in a
non-degenerate external system. The machine uses only thermal resources,
namely, contact with two heat baths at different temperatures, and the external
system has a non-zero initial amount of coherence. The method we propose allows
for an interconversion between energy, both work and heat, and coherence in an
autonomous configuration working in out-of-equilibrium conditions. This model
raises interesting questions about the role of fundamental limitations on
transformations involving coherence and opens up new possibilities in the
manipulation of coherence by autonomous thermal machines.Comment: v1: 5 + 3 pages, 2 figures. v2: Restructured version with several new
results and a new appendix, 11 + 14 pages, 4 + 3 figures. v3: Improved and
corrected version with new discussions, 8 + 8 pages, 4 + 3 figure
Information Flow of quantum states interacting with closed timelike curves
Recently, the quantum information processing power of closed timelike curves
have been discussed. Because the most widely accepted model for quantum closed
timelike curve interactions contains ambiguities, different authors have been
able to reach radically different conclusions as to the power of such
interactions. By tracing the information flow through such systems we are able
to derive equivalent circuits with unique solutions, thus allowing an objective
decision between the alternatives to be made. We conclude that closed timelike
curves, if they exist and are well described by these simple models, would be a
powerful resource for quantum information processing.Comment: Now includes appendix proving Deutsch's maximum entropy conjectur
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Nanocomposites and methods for synthesis and use thereof
Nanocomposite compositions and methods of synthesis of the compositions are described. In particular, liquid crystal-functionalized nanoparticles, liquid crystal-templated nanoparticles, nanocomposite compositions including the nanoparticles, and composite compositions including the nanocomposites are detailed.Board of Regents, University of Texas Syste
Paramagnetic Breakdown of Superconductivity in Ultrasmall Metallic Grains
We study the magnetic-field-induced breakdown of superconductivity in
nm-scale metal grains having a mean electron level spacing (bulk gap). Using a generalized variational BCS approach that
yields good qualitative agreement with measured spectra, we argue that Pauli
paramagnetism dominates orbital diamagnetism, as in the case of thin films in a
parallel magnetic field. However, the first-order transition observed for the
latter can be made continuous by finite size effects. The mean-field procedure
of describing the system by a single pairing parameter breaks down for
.Comment: 4 pages of revtex, 3 postscript figures, uses psfrag.sty, epsfig.sty.
Slightly revised and improved version, matching published versio
Modal survey of the space shuttle solid rocket motor using multiple input methods
The ability to accurately characterize propellant in a finite element model is a concern of engineers tasked with studying the dynamic response of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor (SRM). THe uncertainties arising from propellant characterization through specimem testing led to the decision to perform a model survey and model correlation of a single segment of the Shuttle SRM. Multiple input methods were used to excite and define case/propellant modes of both an inert segment and, later, a live propellant segment. These tests were successful at defining highly damped, flexible modes, several pairs of which occured with frequency spacing of less than two percent
Getting just the Supersymmetric Standard Model at Intersecting Branes on the Z6-orientifold
In this paper, globally N=1 supersymmetric configurations of intersecting
D6-branes on the Z6-orientifold are discussed, involving also fractional
branes. It turns out rather miraculously that one is led almost automatically
to just ONE particular class of 5 stack models containing the SM gauge group,
which all have the same chiral spectrum. The further discussion shows that
these models can be understood as exactly the supersymmetric standard model
without any exotic chiral symmetric/antisymmetric matter. The superpartner of
the Higgs finds a natural explanation and the hypercharge remains massless.
However, the non-chiral spectrum within the model class is very different and
does not in all cases allow for a N=2 low energy field theoretical
understanding of the necessary breaking U(1)xU(1)->U(1) along the Higgs branch,
which is needed in order to get the standard Yukawa couplings. Also the
left-right symmetric models belong to exactly one class of chiral spectra,
where the two kinds of exotic chiral fields can have the interpretation of
forming a composite Higgs. The aesthetical beauty of these models, involving
only non-vanishing intersection numbers of an absolute value three, seems to be
unescapable.Comment: 45 pages, 2 figures, v3:some signs corrected in erratum, conclusions
unchange
Scattering Theory of Charge-Current Induced Magnetization Dynamics
In ferromagnets, charge currents can excite magnons via the spin-orbit
coupling. We develop a novel and general scattering theory of charge current
induced macrospin magnetization torques in normal metalferromagnetnormal
metal layers. We apply the formalism to a dirty GaAs(Ga,Mn)AsGaAs system.
By computing the charge current induced magnetization torques and solving the
Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation, we find magnetization switching for current
densities as low as ~A/cm. Our results are in agreement
with a recent experimental observation of charge-current induced magnetization
switching in (Ga,Mn)As.Comment: Final version accepted by EP
Entanglement conditions for two-mode states: Applications
We examine the implications of several recently derived conditions [Hillery
and Zubairy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 050503 (2006)] for determining when a
two-mode state is entangled. We first find examples of non-Gaussian states that
satisfy these conditions. We then apply the entanglement conditions to the
study of several linear devices, the beam splitter, the parametric amplifier,
and the linear phase-insensitive amplifier. For the first two, we find
conditions on the input states that guarantee that the output states are
entangled. For the linear amplifier, we determine in the limit of high and no
gain, when an entangled input leads to an entangled output. Finally, we show
how application of two two-mode entanglement conditions to a three-mode state
can serve as a test of genuine three-mode entanglement.Comment: 7 pages, no figures, replaced with published versio
Progress toward the development of dual junction GaAs/Ge solar cells
Large area GaAs/Ge cells offer substantial promise for increasing the power output from existing silicon solar array designs and for providing an enabled technology for missions hitherto impossible using silicon. Single junction GaAs/Ge cells offer substantial advantages in both size, weight, and cost compared to GaAs cells but the efficiency is limited to approximately 19.2 to 20 percent AMO. The thermal absorptance of GaAs/Ge cells is also worse than GaAs/GaAs cells (0.88 vs 0.81 typ.) due to the absorption in the Ge substrate. On the other hand dual junction GaAs/Ge cells offer efficiencies up to ultimately 24 percent AMO in sizes up to 8 x 8 cm but there are still technological issues remaining to achieve current matching in the GaAs and Ge cells. This can be achieved through tuned antireflection (AR) coatings, improved quality of the GaAs growth, improved quality Ge wafers and the use of a Back Surface Field (BSF)/Back Surface Reflector (BSR) in the Ge cell. Although the temperature coefficients of efficiency and voltage are higher for dual junction GaAs/Ge cells, it has been shown elsewhere that for typical 28 C cell efficiencies of 22 percent (dual junction) vs 18.5 percent (single junction) there is a positive power tradeoff up to temperatures as high as 120 C. Due to the potential ease of fabrication of GaAs/Ge dual junction cells there is likely to be only a small cost differential compared to single junction cells
The Drinfel'd Double and Twisting in Stringy Orbifold Theory
This paper exposes the fundamental role that the Drinfel'd double \dkg of
the group ring of a finite group and its twists \dbkg, \beta \in
Z^3(G,\uk) as defined by Dijkgraaf--Pasquier--Roche play in stringy orbifold
theories and their twistings.
The results pertain to three different aspects of the theory. First, we show
that --Frobenius algebras arising in global orbifold cohomology or K-theory
are most naturally defined as elements in the braided category of
\dkg--modules. Secondly, we obtain a geometric realization of the Drinfel'd
double as the global orbifold --theory of global quotient given by the
inertia variety of a point with a action on the one hand and more
stunningly a geometric realization of its representation ring in the braided
category sense as the full --theory of the stack . Finally, we show
how one can use the co-cycles above to twist a) the global orbifold
--theory of the inertia of a global quotient and more importantly b) the
stacky --theory of a global quotient . This corresponds to twistings
with a special type of 2--gerbe.Comment: 35 pages, no figure
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