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    Production and detection of doubly charmed tetraquarks

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    The feasibility of tetraquark detection is studied. For the cc\bar{u}\bar{d} tetraquark we show that in present (SELEX, Tevatron, RHIC) and future facilities (LHCb, ALICE) the production rate is promising and we propose some detectable decay channels.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure

    Practical long-distance quantum key distribution system using decoy levels

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    Quantum key distribution (QKD) has the potential for widespread real-world applications. To date no secure long-distance experiment has demonstrated the truly practical operation needed to move QKD from the laboratory to the real world due largely to limitations in synchronization and poor detector performance. Here we report results obtained using a fully automated, robust QKD system based on the Bennett Brassard 1984 protocol (BB84) with low-noise superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) and decoy levels. Secret key is produced with unconditional security over a record 144.3 km of optical fibre, an increase of more than a factor of five compared to the previous record for unconditionally secure key generation in a practical QKD system.Comment: 9 page

    Two inequivalent sublattices and orbital ordering in MnV2O4 studied by 51V NMR

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    We report detailed 51V NMR spectra in a single crystal of MnV2O4. The vanadium spectrum reveals two peaks in the orbitally ordered state, which arise from different internal hyperfine fields at two different V sublattices. These internal fields evolve smoothly with externally applied field, and show no change in structure that would suggest a change of the orbital ordering. The result is consistent with the orbital ordering model recently proposed by Sarkar et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 216405 (2009)] in which the same orbital that is a mixture of t_2g orbitals rotates by about 45^\circ alternately within and between orbital chains in the I4_1/a tetragonal space group.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, title changed, published in PRB as a rapid com

    Complex Landau Ginzburg Theory of the Hidden Order in URu_2Si_2

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    We develop a Landau Ginzburg theory of the hidden order phase and the local moment antiferromagnetic phase of URu_2Si_2. We unify the two broken symmetries in a common complex order parameter and derive many experimentally relevant consequences such as the topology of the phase diagram in magnetic field and pressure. The theory accounts for the appearance of a moment under application of stress and the thermal expansion anomaly across the phase transitions. It identifies the low energy mode which is seen in the hidden order phase near the conmensurate wavector (0,0, 1) as the pseudo-Goldstone mode of the approximate U(1) symmetry.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure

    Single-crystalline CdTe nanowire field effect transistors as nanowire-based photodetector

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    The electronic and photoconductive characteristics of CdTe nanowire-based field effect transistors were studied systematically. The electrical characterization of a single CdTe nanowire FET verifies p-type behavior. The CdTe NW FETs respond to visible-near infrared (400-800 nm) incident light with a fast, reversible and stable response characterized by a high responsivity (81 A W-1), photoconductive gain (similar to 2.5 x 10(4)%) and reasonable response and decay times (0.7 s and 1 s, respectively). These results substantiate the potential of CdTe nanowire-based photodetectors in optoelectronic applications.open112423sciescopu

    Two-loop Barr-Zee type Contributions to (g2)μ(g-2)_\mu in the MSSM

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    We consider the contribution of a two-loop Barr-Zee type diagram to (g2)μ(g-2)_\mu in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM). At relatively large tanβ\tan\beta, we show that the contribution of light third generation scalar fermions and neutral CP-even Higgs, h0(H0)h^0(H^0), can easily explain the very recent BNL experimental data. In our analysis (g2)μ(g-2)_\mu prefers negative AfA_{f} and positive μ\mu. It is more sensitive to the chirality flipping h^0(H^0)\wt{f}_R^*\wt{f}_L rather than chirality conserving couplings.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, references adde

    Towards the theory of ferrimagnetism

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    Two-sublattice ferrimagnet, with spin-s1s_1 operators S1i\bf{S_{1i}} at the sublattice AA site and spin-s2s_2 operators S2i\bf{S_{2i}} at the sublattice BB site, is considered. The magnon of the system, the transversal fluctuation of the total magnetization, is a complicate mixture of the transversal fluctuations of the sublattice AA and BB spins. As a result, the magnons' fluctuations suppress in a different way the magnetic orders of the AA and BB sublattices and one obtains two phases. At low temperature (0,T)(0,T^*) the magnetic orders of the AA and BB spins contribute to the magnetization of the system, while at the high temperature (T,TN)(T^*,T_N), the magnetic order of the spins with a weaker intra-sublattice exchange is suppressed by magnon fluctuations, and only the spins with stronger intra-sublattice exchange has non-zero spontaneous magnetization. The TT^* transition is a transition between two spin-ordered phases in contrast to the transition from spin-ordered state to disordered state (TNT_N-transition). There is no additional symmetry breaking, and the Goldstone boson has a ferromagnetic dispersion in both phases. A modified spin-wave theory is developed to describe the two phases. All known Neel's anomalous M(T)M(T) curves are reproduced, in particular that with "compensation point". The theoretical curves are compared with experimental ones for sulpho-spinel MnCr2S4xSexMnCr2S_{4-x}Se_{x} and rare earth iron garnets.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figure

    AC susceptibility and 51^{51}V NMR study of MnV2_2O4_4

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    We report 51^{51}V zero-field NMR of manganese vanadate spinel of MnV2_2O4_4, together with both ac and dc magnetization measurements. The field and temperature dependence of ac susceptibilities show a reentrant-spin-glass-like behavior below the ferrimagnetic(FEM) ordering temperature. The zero-field NMR spectrum consists of multiple lines ranging from 240 MHz to 320 MHz. Its temperature dependence reveals that the ground state is given by the simultaneous formation of a long-range FEM order and a short-range order component. We attribute the spin-glass-like anomalies to freezing and fluctuations of the short-range ordered state caused by the competition between spin and orbital ordering of the V site
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