99 research outputs found
Conductance fluctuations in a quantum dot under almost periodic ac pumping
It is shown that the variance of the linear dc conductance fluctuations in an
open quantum dot under a high-frequency ac pumping depends significantly on the
spectral content of the ac field. For a sufficiently strong ac field
, where is the dephasing rate induced by
ac noise and is the electron escape rate, the dc conductance
fluctuations are much stronger for the harmonic pumping than in the case of the
noise ac field of the same intensity. The reduction factor in a static
magnetic field takes the universal value of 2 only for the white--noise
pumping. For the strictly harmonic pumping of
sufficiently large intensity the variance is almost insensitive to the static
magnetic field . For the quasi-periodic ac
field of the form with
and we predict the novel
effect of enchancement of conductance fluctuations at commensurate frequencies
.Comment: 4 pages RevTex, 4 eps figures; the final version to appear in
Phys.Rev.
Mesoscopic fluctuations of the Density of States and Conductivity in the middle of the band of Disordered Lattices
The mesoscopic fluctuations of the Density of electronic States (DoS) and of
the conductivity of two- and three- dimensional lattices with randomly
distributed substitutional impurities are studied. Correlations of the levels
lying above (or below) the Fermi surface, in addition to the correlations of
the levels lying on opposite sides of the Fermi surface, take place at half
filling due to nesting. The Bragg reflections mediate to increase static
fluctuations of the conductivity in the middle of the band which change the
distribution function of the conductivity at half- filling.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Spectral and Transport Properties of d-Wave Superconductors With Strong Impurities
One of the remarkable features of disordered d-wave superconductors is strong
sensitivity of long range properties to the microscopic realization of the
disorder potential. Particularly rich phenomenology is observed for the --
experimentally relevant -- case of dilute distributions of isolated impurity
centers. Building on earlier diagrammatic analyses, the present paper derives
and analyses a low energy effective field theory of this system. Specifically,
the results of previous diagrammatic T-matrix approaches are extended into the
perturbatively inaccessible low energy regimes, and the long range (thermal)
transport behaviour of the system is discussed. It turns out that in the
extreme case of a half-filled tight binding band and infinitely strong
impurities (impurities at the unitary limit), the system is in a delocalized
phase.Comment: 14 pages, two figures include
Conductance Fluctuations of Open Quantum Dots under Microwave Radiation
We develop a time dependent random matrix theory describing the influence of
a time-dependent perturbation on mesoscopic conductance fluctuations in open
quantum dots. The effect of external field is taken into account to all orders
of perturbation theory, and our results are applicable to both weak and strong
fields. We obtain temperature and magnetic field dependences of conductance
fluctuations. The amplitude of conductance fluctuations is determined by
electron temperature in the leads rather than by the width of electron
distribution function in the dot. The asymmetry of conductance with respect to
inversion of applied magnetic field is the main feature allowing to distinguish
the effect of direct suppression of quantum interference from the simple
heating if the frequency of external radiation is larger than the temperature
of the leads .Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
Aharonov-Bohm ring with fluctuating flux
We consider a non-interacting system of electrons on a clean one-channel
Aharonov-Bohm ring which is threaded by a fluctuating magnetic flux. The flux
derives from a Caldeira-Leggett bath of harmonic oscillators. We address the
influence of the bath on the following properties: one- and two-particle
Green's functions, dephasing, persistent current and visibility of the
Aharonov-Bohm effect in cotunneling transport through the ring. For the bath
spectra considered here (including Nyquist noise of an external coil), we find
no dephasing in the linear transport regime at zero temperature.
PACS numbers: 73.23.-b, 73.23.Hk, 73.23.Ra, 03.65.YzComment: 17 pages, 8 figures. To be published in PRB. New version contains
minor corrections and additional discussion suggested by referee. A simple
introduction to the basics of dephasing can be found at
http://iff.physik.unibas.ch/~florian/dephasing/dephasing.htm
Demonstrating the Feasibility of Line Intensity Mapping Using Mock Data of Galaxy Clustering from Simulations
Visbal & Loeb (2010) have shown that it is possible to measure the clustering
of galaxies by cross correlating the cumulative emission from two different
spectral lines which originate at the same redshift. Through this cross
correlation, one can study galaxies which are too faint to be individually
resolved. This technique, known as intensity mapping, is a promising probe of
the global properties of high redshift galaxies. Here, we test the feasibility
of such measurements with synthetic data generated from cosmological dark
matter simulations. We use a simple prescription for associating galaxies with
dark matter halos and create a realization of emitted radiation as a function
of angular position and wavelength over a patch of the sky. This is then used
to create synthetic data for two different hypothetical instruments, one aboard
the Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA) and another
consisting of a pair of ground based radio telescopes designed to measure the
CO(1-0) and CO(2-1) emission lines. We find that the line cross power spectrum
can be measured accurately from the synthetic data with errors consistent with
the analytical prediction of Visbal & Loeb (2010). Removal of astronomical
backgrounds and masking bright line emission from foreground contaminating
galaxies do not prevent accurate cross power spectrum measurements.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures, Submitted to JCA
Development of a Momentum Determined Electron Beam in the 1 -45 GeV Range
A beam line for electrons with energies in the range of 1 to 45 GeV, low
contamination of hadrons and muons and high intensity up to 10^6 per
accelerator spill at 27 GeV was setup at U70 accelerator in Protvino, Russia. A
beam tagging system based on drift chambers with 160 micron resolution was able
to measure relative electron beam momentum precisely. The resolution sigma_p p
was 0.13% at 45 GeV where multiple scattering is negligible. This test beam
setup provided the possibility to study properties of lead tungstate crystals
(PbWO_4) for the BTeV experiment at Fermilab.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures; work done by the BTeV Electromagnetic
Calorimeter grou
Level Spacing Distribution of Critical Random Matrix Ensembles
We consider unitary invariant random matrix ensembles which obey spectral
statistics different from the Wigner-Dyson, including unitary ensembles with
slowly (~(log x)^2) growing potentials and the finite-temperature fermi gas
model. If the deformation parameters in these matrix ensembles are small, the
asymptotically translational-invariant region in the spectral bulk is
universally governed by a one-parameter generalization of the sine kernel. We
provide an analytic expression for the distribution of the eigenvalue spacings
of this universal asymptotic kernel, which is a hybrid of the Wigner-Dyson and
the Poisson distributions, by determining the Fredholm determinant of the
universal kernel in terms of a Painleve VI transcendental function.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure, REVTeX; restriction on the parameter stressed,
figure replaced, refs added (v2); typos (factors of pi) in (35), (36)
corrected (v3); minor changes incl. title, version to appear in Phys.Rev.E
(v4
Comparison of Radiation Damage in Lead Tungstate Crystals under Pion and Gamma Irradiation
Studies of the radiation hardness of lead tungstate crystals produced by the
Bogoroditsk Techno-Chemical Plant in Russia and the Shanghai Institute of
Ceramics in China have been carried out at IHEP, Protvino. The crystals were
irradiated by a 40-GeV pion beam. After full recovery, the same crystals were
irradiated using a -ray source. The dose rate profiles along
the crystal length were observed to be quite similar. We compare the effects of
the two types of radiation on the crystals light output.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures, Latex 2e, 28.04.04 - minor grammatical change
Performance of a fine-sampling electromagnetic calorimeter prototype in the energy range from 1 to 19 GeV
The fine-sampling electromagnetic calorimeter prototype has been
experimentally tested using the 1-19 GeV/c tagged beams of negatively charged
particles at the U70 accelerator at IHEP, Protvino. The energy resolution
measured by electrons is Delta{E}/E=2.8%/\sqrt{E} + 1.3%. The position
resolution for electrons is Delta{x}=3.1 + 15.4/sqrt{E} mm in the center of the
cell. The lateral non-uniformity of the prototype energy response to electrons
and MIPs has turned out to be negligible. Obtained experimental results are in
a good agreement with Monte-Carlo simulations.Comment: Article is prepared for pdflatex using the class elsart. 13 pages, 9
figures in 11 PDF file
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