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Reconstructing the electron in a fractionalized quantum fluid
The low energy physics of the fractional Hall liquid is described in terms
quasiparticles that are qualitatively distinct from electrons. We show,
however, that a long-lived electron-like quasiparticle also exists in the
excitation spectrum: the state obtained by the application of an electron
creation operator to a fractional quantum Hall ground state has a non-zero
overlap with a complex, high energy bound state containing an odd number of
composite-fermion quasiparticles. The electron annihilation operator similarly
couples to a bound complex of composite-fermion holes. We predict that these
bound states can be observed through a conductance resonance in experiments
involving a tunneling of an external electron into the fractional quantum Hall
liquid. A comment is made on the origin of the breakdown of the Fermi liquid
paradigm in the fractional hall liquid.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Do Teens Make Rational Choices? The Case of Teen Nonmarital Childbearing
With emphasis on the role of economic incentives, we explore the determinants of a woman’s choice of whether or not to give birth as an unmarried teenager. Our data are taken from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Guided by a simple utility-maximization model, we represent the income possibilities available to teenaged women if they do and do not give birth out of wedlock. We estimate these choice-conditioned income possibilities through a two-stage probit procedure, relying on the observed incomes of a secondary sample of somewhat older women. The response of the young women in our primary sample to these income expectations is measured after controlling for the effects of a variety of other factors, including the characteristics of the girl’s family, the social and economic environment in which she lives (including such policy-related factors as expenditures by states on family planning programs and education), and her own prior choices. We use the estimated structural parameters from our model to simulate the effects of a variety of policy interventions on the probability of becoming an unmarried teen mother. Our estimations provide evidence that income expectations have a persistent influence on the childbearing decision. They also provide evidence that the provision of public family planning expenditures and increases in parental education could reduce the prevalence of teen nonmarital births.
Two-dimensional electron system in high magnetic fields: Wigner crystal vs. composite-fermion liquid
The two dimensional system of electrons in a high magnetic field offers an
opportunity to investigate a phase transition from a quantum liquid into a
Wigner solid. Recent experiments have revealed an incipient composite fermion
liquid in a parameter range where theory and many experiments had previously
suggested the Wigner crystal phase, thus calling into question our current
understanding. This Letter shows how very small quantitative corrections (< 1%)
in the energy due to the weak interaction between composite fermions can cause
a fundamental change in the nature of the ground state, thus providing insight
into the puzzling experimental results.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Flavor altering excitations of composite fermions
Past theoretical studies have considered excitations of a given flavor of
composite fermions across composite-fermion quasi-Landau levels. We show that
in general there exists a ladder of flavor changing excitations in which
composite fermions shed none, some, or all of their vortices. The lowest energy
excitations are obtained when the composite fermions do not change their
flavor, whereas in the highest energy excitations they are stripped of all of
their vortices, emerging as electrons in the final state. The results are
relevant to the intriguing experimental discovery of Hirjibehedin {\em et al.}
(cond-mat/0306152) of coexisting excitation modes of composite fermions of
different flavor in the filling factor range .Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Stability of the Submillimeter Brightness of the Atmosphere Above Mauna Kea, Chajnantor and the South Pole
The summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the area near Cerro Chajnantor in Chile,
and the South Pole are sites of large millimeter or submillimeter wavelength
telescopes. We have placed 860 GHz sky brightness monitors at all three sites
and present a comparative study of the measured submillimeter brightness due to
atmospheric thermal emission. We report the stability of that quantity at each
site.Comment: 6 figure
Improving broadband displacement detection with quantum correlations
Interferometers enable ultrasensitive measurement in a wide array of
applications from gravitational wave searches to force microscopes. The role of
quantum mechanics in the metrological limits of interferometers has a rich
history, and a large number of techniques to surpass conventional limits have
been proposed. In a typical measurement configuration, the tradeoff between the
probe's shot noise (imprecision) and its quantum backaction results in what is
known as the standard quantum limit (SQL). In this work we investigate how
quantum correlations accessed by modifying the readout of the interferometer
can access physics beyond the SQL and improve displacement sensitivity.
Specifically, we use an optical cavity to probe the motion of a silicon nitride
membrane off mechanical resonance, as one would do in a broadband displacement
or force measurement, and observe sensitivity better than the SQL dictates for
our quantum efficiency. Our measurement illustrates the core idea behind a
technique known as \textit{variational readout}, in which the optical readout
quadrature is changed as a function of frequency to improve broadband
displacement detection. And more generally our result is a salient example of
how correlations can aid sensing in the presence of backaction.Comment: 17 pages, 5 figure
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