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Cooling a mechanical resonator via coupling to a tunable double quantum dot
We study the cooling of a mechanical resonator (MR) that is capacitively
coupled to a double quantum dot (DQD). The MR is cooled by the dynamical
backaction induced by the capacitive coupling between the DQD and the MR. The
DQD is excited by a microwave field and afterwards a tunneling event results in
the decay of the excited state of the DQD. An important advantage of this
system is that both the energy level splitting and the decay rate of the DQD
can be well tuned by varying the gate voltage. We find that the steady average
occupancy, below unity, of the MR can be achieved by changing both the decay
rate of the excited state and the detuning between the transition frequency of
the DQD and the microwave frequency, in analogy to the laser sideband cooling
of an atom or trapped ion in atomic physics. Our results show that the cooling
of the MR to the ground state is experimentally implementable.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
Quark Distributions of Octet Baryons from SU(3) Symmetry
SU(3) symmetry relations between the octet baryons are introduced in order to
connect both the unpolarized and polarized quark distributions of the octet
baryons with those of the nucleon. Two different parametrizations of the
nucleon quark distributions are used. A new scenario of quark flavor and spin
structure of the is found and compared with two other models: a
perturbative QCD based analysis and a quark diquark model. The and
quarks inside the are predicted to be positively polarized at large
Bjorken variable in the new scenario. By using an approximate relation
connecting the quark fragmentation functions with the quark distributions, the
hadron polarizations of the octet baryons in -annihilation, polarized
charged lepton deep inelastic scattering (DIS) processes, and neutrino
(antineutrino) DIS processes are predicted. The predictions for
polarizations in several processes are compatible with the available data at
large fragmentation momentum fraction , and support the prediction of
positively polarized and quarks inside the at large .
Predictions for Drell-Yan processes from and beams on an
isoscalar target are also given and discussed.Comment: 29 latex pages, 16 figures, to appear in PR
Chemical abundance analysis of 19 barium stars
We aim at deriving accurate atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances of
19 barium (Ba) stars, including both strong and mild Ba stars, based on the
high signal-to-noise ratio and high resolution Echelle spectra obtained from
the 2.16 m telescope at Xinglong station of National Astronomical
Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The chemical abundances of the
sample stars were obtained from an LTE, plane-parallel and line-blanketed
atmospheric model by inputting the atmospheric parameters (effective
temperatures, surface gravities, metallicity and microturbulent velocity) and
equivalent widths of stellar absorption lines. These samples of Ba stars are
giants indicated by atmospheric parameters, metallicities and kinematic
analysis about UVW velocity. Chemical abundances of 17 elements were obtained
for these Ba stars. Their light elements (O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Cr,
Mn and Ni) are similar to the solar abundances. Our samples of Ba stars show
obvious overabundances of neutron-capture (n-capture) process elements relative
to the Sun. Their median abundances of [Ba/Fe], [La/Fe] and [Eu/Fe] are 0.54,
0.65 and 0.40, respectively. The YI and ZrI abundances are lower than Ba, La
and Eu, but higher than the light elements for the strong Ba stars and similar
to the iron-peak elements for the mild stars. There exists a positive
correlation between Ba intensity and [Ba/Fe]. For the n-capture elements (Y,
Zr, Ba, La), there is an anti-correlation between their [X/Fe] and [Fe/H]. We
identify nine of our sample stars as strong Ba stars with [Ba/Fe]>0.6 where
seven of them have Ba intensity Ba=2-5, one has Ba=1.5 and another one has
Ba=1.0. The remaining ten stars are classified as mild Ba stars with
0.17<[Ba/Fe]<0.54
Computation of dynamical correlation functions of Heisenberg chains in a field
We compute the momentum- and frequency-dependent longitudinal spin structure
factor for the one-dimensional spin-1/2 Heisenberg spin chain in a
magnetic field, using exact determinant representations for form factors on the
lattice. Multiparticle contributions are computed numerically throughout the
Brillouin zone, yielding saturation of the sum rule to high precision.Comment: 4 pages, 14 figure
Anomalous Resonance of the Symmetric Single-Impurity Anderson Model in the Presence of Pairing Fluctuations
We consider the symmetric single-impurity Anderson model in the presence of
pairing fluctuations. In the isotropic limit, the degrees of freedom of the
local impurity are separated into hybridizing and non-hybridizing modes. The
self-energy for the hybridizing modes can be obtained exactly, leading to two
subbands centered at . For the non-hybridizing modes, the second order
perturbation yields a singular resonance of the marginal Fermi liquid form. By
multiplicative renomalization, the self-energy is derived exactly, showing the
resonance is pinned at the Fermi level, while its strength is weakened by
renormalization.Comment: 4 pages, revtex, no figures. To be published in Physical Review
Letter
Comparison between resistive and collisionless double tearing modes for nearby resonant surfaces
The linear instability and nonlinear dynamics of collisional (resistive) and
collisionless (due to electron inertia) double tearing modes (DTMs) are
compared with the use of a reduced cylindrical model of a tokamak plasma. We
focus on cases where two q = 2 resonant surfaces are located a small distance
apart. It is found that regardless of the magnetic reconnection mechanism,
resistivity or electron inertia, the fastest growing linear eigenmodes may have
high poloidal mode numbers m ~ 10. The spectrum of unstable modes tends to be
broader in the collisionless case. In the nonlinear regime, it is shown that in
both cases fast growing high-m DTMs lead to an annular collapse involving small
magnetic island structures. In addition, collisionless DTMs exhibit multiple
reconnection cycles due to reversibility of collisionless reconnection and
strong ExB flows. Collisionless reconnection leads to a saturated stable state,
while in the collisional case resistive decay keeps the system weakly dynamic
by driving it back towards the unstable equilibrium maintained by a source
term.Comment: 15 pages, 9 figure
Two-State Spectral-Free Solutions of Frenkel-Moore Simplex Equation
Whilst many solutions have been found for the Quantum Yang-Baxter Equation
(QYBE), there are fewer known solutions available for its higher dimensional
generalizations: Zamolodchikov's tetrahedron equation (ZTE) and Frenkel and
Moore's simplex equation (FME). In this paper, we present families of solutions
to FME which may help us to understand more about higher dimensional
generalization of QYBE.Comment: LaTeX file. Require macros: cite.sty and subeqnarray.sty to process.
To appear in J. Phys. A: Math. and Ge
Quantum Phase Interference for Quantum Tunneling in Spin Systems
The point-particle-like Hamiltonian of a biaxial spin particle with external
magnetic field along the hard axis is obtained in terms of the potential field
description of spin systems with exact spin-coordinate correspondence. The
Zeeman energy term turns out to be an effective gauge potential which leads to
a nonintegrable pha se of the Euclidean Feynman propagator.
The phase interference between clockwise and anticlockwise under barrier
propagations is recognized explicitly as the Aharonov-Bohm effect. An
additional phase which is significant for quantum phase interference is
discovered with the quantum theory of spin systems besides the known phase
obtained with the semiclassical treatment of spin. We also show the energ y
dependence of the effect and obtain the tunneling splitting at excited states
with the help of periodic instantons.Comment: 19 pages, no figure, to appear in PR
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