Susceptibility of a two-level atom near an isotropic photonic band edge: transparency and band edge profile reconstruction

We discuss the necessary conditions for a two-level system in the presence of an isotropic band edge to be transparent to a probe laser field. The two-level atom is transparent whenever it is coupled to a reservoir constituted of two parts - a flat and a non-flat density of modes representing a PBG structure. A proposal on the reconstruction of the band edge profile from the experimentally measured susceptibility is also presented.Comment: 15 pages, 3 figure

Hermitian Dirac Hamiltonian in time dependent gravitational field

It is shown by a straightforward argument that the Hamiltonian generating the time evolution of the Dirac wave function in relativistic quantum mechanics is not hermitian with respect to the covariantly defined inner product whenever the background metric is time dependent. An alternative, hermitian, Hamiltonian is found and is shown to be directly related to the canonical field Hamiltonian used in quantum field theory.Comment: 9 pages, final version, to appear in Class. Quant. Gra

Continuous and discontinuous absorbing-state phase transitions on Voronoi-Delaunay random lattices

We study absorbing-state phase transitions in two-dimensional Voronoi-Delaunay (VD) random lattices with quenched coordination disorder. Quenched randomness usually changes the criticality and destroys discontinuous transitions in low-dimensional nonequilibrium systems. We performed extensive simulations of the Ziff-Gulari-Barshad (ZGB) model, and verified that the VD disorder does not change the nature of its discontinuous transition. Our results corroborate recent findings of Barghatti and Vojta [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 113}, 120602 (2014)] stating the irrelevance of topological disorder in a class of random lattices that includes VD and raise the interesting possibility that disorder in nonequilibrium APT may, under certain conditions, be irrelevant for the phase coexistence. We also verify that the VD disorder is irrelevant for the critical behavior of models belonging to the directed percolation and Manna universality classes.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure

A utilização de Unidades Demonstrativas para a transferência de tecnologia.

A demonstração das tecnologias agrícolas é uma das formas de transferência adotadas pela Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária ? Embrapa. Essa demonstração é feita para aproximar o agricultor dos benefícios gerados pela pesquisa. Nesse contexto, se insere o conceito de Unidade Demonstrativa (UD), mas o que vem a ser uma UD?bitstream/item/29508/1/adocao.pd

Temperature Measurement and Phonon Number Statistics of a Nanoelectromechanical Resonator

Measuring thermodynamic quantities can be easy or not, depending on the system that is being studied. For a macroscopic object, measuring temperatures can be as simple as measuring how much a column of mercury rises when in contact with the object. At the small scale of quantum electromechanical systems, such simple methods are not available and invariably detection processes disturb the system state. Here we propose a method for measuring the temperature on a suspended semiconductor membrane clamped at both ends. In this method, the membrane is mediating a capacitive coupling between two transmission line resonators (TLR). The first TLR has a strong dispersion, that is, its decaying rate is larger than its drive, and its role is to pump in a pulsed way the interaction between the membrane and the second TLR. By averaging the pulsed measurements of the quadrature of the second TLR we show how the temperature of the membrane can be determined. Moreover the statistical description of the state of the membrane, which is directly accessed in this approach is significantly improved by the addition of a Josephson Junction coupled to the second TLR.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures. To appear in New Journal of Physic

Informações técnicas sobre a colheita mecanizada do feijoeiro.

Do processo de produção do feijão a colheita é uma das etapas mais importantes. Quando mal processada pode acarretar em perdas de grãos e interferir de maneira decisiva na qualidade final do produto como, por exemplo, na perda no seu valor comercial. No sistema mecanizado todas as operações da colheita são feitas com máquina. Este sistema pode ser realizado por dois processos: direto e indireto. A vantagem de se realizar operações distintas está na qualidade final do produto, isso por que entre o corte e o enleiramento é necessário um intervalo para que as plantas sequem. Com isso, ocorre uma separação natural dos grãos com a terra, o que desfavorece o barreamento dos grãos no ato da trilha.bitstream/item/24032/1/itcm-pdf.pd