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A Novel Nanocomposite with Photo-Polymerization for Wafer Level Application
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Nonlinear stability of <i>E</i> centers in Si<sub>1-<i>x</i></sub>Ge<sub><i>x</i></sub>: electronic structure calculations
Electronic structure calculations are used to investigate the binding energies of defect pairs composed of lattice vacancies and phosphorus or arsenic atoms (E centers) in silicon-germanium alloys. To describe the local environment surrounding the E center we have generated special quasirandom structures that represent random silicon-germanium alloys. It is predicted that the stability of E centers does not vary linearly with the composition of the silicon-germanium alloy. Interestingly, we predict that the nonlinear behavior does not depend on the donor atom of the E center but only on the host lattice. The impact on diffusion properties is discussed in view of recent experimental and theoretical results
Size dependence of second-order hyperpolarizability of finite periodic chain under Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model
The second hyperpolarizability of
double-bond finite chain of trans-polyactylene is analyzed using the
Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model to explain qualitative features of the
size-dependence behavior of . Our study shows that is
{\it nonmonotonic} with and that the nonmonotonicity is caused by the
dominant contribution of the intraband transition to in polyenes.
Several important physical effects are discussed to reduce quantitative
discrepancies between experimental and our resultsComment: 3 figures, 1 tabl
Reversibility Checking for Markov Chains
In this paper, we present reversibility preserving operations on Markov chain
transition matrices. Simple row and column operations allow us to create new
reversible transition matrices and yield an easy method for checking a Markov
chain for reversibility
Super-Resolving Quantum Radar: Coherent-State Sources with Homodyne Detection Suffice to Beat the Diffraction Limit
There has been much recent interest in quantum metrology for applications to
sub-Raleigh ranging and remote sensing such as in quantum radar. For quantum
radar, atmospheric absorption and diffraction rapidly degrades any actively
transmitted quantum states of light, such as N00N states, so that for this
high-loss regime the optimal strategy is to transmit coherent states of light,
which suffer no worse loss than the linear Beer's law for classical radar
attenuation, and which provide sensitivity at the shot-noise limit in the
returned power. We show that coherent radar radiation sources, coupled with a
quantum homodyne detection scheme, provide both longitudinal and angular
super-resolution much below the Rayleigh diffraction limit, with sensitivity at
shot-noise in terms of the detected photon power. Our approach provides a
template for the development of a complete super-resolving quantum radar system
with currently available technology.Comment: 23 pages, content is identical to published versio
Discovery and Identification of W' and Z' in SU(2) x SU(2) x U(1) Models at the LHC
We explore the discovery potential of W' and Z' boson searches for various
SU(2) x SU(2) x U(1) models at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), after taking
into account the constraints from low energy precision measurements and direct
searches at both the Tevatron (1.96 TeV) and the LHC (7 TeV). In such models,
the W' and Z' bosons emerge after the electroweak symmetry is spontaneously
broken. Two patterns of the symmetry breaking are considered in this work: one
is SU(2)_L x SU(2)_2 x U(1)_X to SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y (BP-I), another is SU(2)_1 x
SU(2)_2 x U(1)_Y to SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y (BP-II). Examining the single production
channel of W' and Z' with their subsequent leptonic decays, we find that the
probability of detecting W' and Z' bosons in the considered models at the LHC
(with 14 TeV) is highly limited by the low energy precision data constraints.
We show that observing Z' alone, without seeing a W', does not rule out new
physics models with non-Abelian gauge extension, such as the phobic models in
BP-I. Models in BP-II would predict the discovery of degenerate W' and Z'
bosons at the LHC.Comment: 29 pages, including 11 figures, 3 tables, added references for
introductio
Systematic Effective Field Theory Investigation of Spiral Phases in Hole-Doped Antiferromagnets on the Honeycomb Lattice
Motivated by possible applications to the antiferromagnetic precursor of the
high-temperature superconductor NaCoOyHO, we use a systematic
low-energy effective field theory for magnons and holes to study different
phases of doped antiferromagnets on the honeycomb lattice. The effective action
contains a leading single-derivative term, similar to the Shraiman-Siggia term
in the square lattice case, which gives rise to spirals in the staggered
magnetization. Depending on the values of the low-energy parameters, either a
homogeneous phase with four or a spiral phase with two filled hole pockets is
energetically favored. Unlike in the square lattice case, at leading order the
effective action has an accidental continuous spatial rotation symmetry.
Consequently, the spiral may point in any direction and is not necessarily
aligned with a lattice direction.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figure
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