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Modeling with structure of resins in electonic compornents
In recent years, interfacial fracture becomes one of the most important
problems in the assessment of reliability of electronics packaging. Especially,
underfill resin is used with solder joints in flip chip packaging for
preventing the thermal fatigue fracture in solder joints. In general, the
interfacial strength has been evaluated on the basis of interfacial fracture
mechanics concept. However, as the size of devices decrease, it is difficult to
evaluate the interfacial strength quantitatively. Most of researches in the
interfacial fracture were conducted on the basis of the assumption of the
perfectly bonding condition though the interface has the micro-scale structure
and the bonding is often imperfect. In this study, the mechanical model of the
interfacial structure of resin in electronic components was proposed.
Bimaterial model with the imperfect bonding condition was examined by using a
finite element analysis (FEA). Stress field in the vicinity of interface
depends on the interfacial structure with the imperfect bonding. In the front
of interfacial crack tip, the behavior of process zone is affected by
interfacial structure. However, the instability of fracture for macroscopic
crack which means the fracture toughness is governed by the stress intensity
factor based on the fracture mechanics concept.Comment: Submitted on behalf of TIMA Editions
(http://irevues.inist.fr/tima-editions
Variable-frequency-controlled coupling in charge qubit circuits: Effects of microwave field on qubit-state readout
To implement quantum information processing, microwave fields are often used
to manipulate superconuducting qubits. We study how the coupling between
superconducting charge qubits can be controlled by variable-frequency magnetic
fields. We also study the effects of the microwave fields on the readout of the
charge-qubit states. The measurement of the charge-qubit states can be used to
demonstrate the statistical properties of photons.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure
Black holes, cuspy atmospheres, and galaxy formation
In cuspy atmospheres, jets driven by supermassive black holes (BHs) offset
radiative cooling. The jets fire episodically, but often enough that the cuspy
atmosphere does not move very far towards a cooling catastrophe in the
intervals of jet inactivity. The ability of energy released on the sub-parsec
scale of the BH to balance cooling on scales of several tens of kiloparsecs
arises through a combination of the temperature sensitivity of the accretion
rate and the way in which the radius of jet disruption varies with ambient
density. Accretion of hot gas does not significantly increase BH masses, which
are determined by periods of rapid BH growth and star formation when cold gas
is briefly abundant at the galactic centre. Hot gas does not accumulate in
shallow potential wells. As the Universe ages, deeper wells form, and
eventually hot gas accumulates. This gas soon prevents the formation of further
stars, since jets powered by the BH prevent it from cooling, and it mops up
most cold infalling gas before many stars can form. Thus BHs set the upper
limit to the masses of galaxies. The formation of low-mass galaxies is
inhibited by a combination of photo-heating and supernova-driven galactic
winds. Working in tandem these mechanisms can probably explain the profound
difference between the galaxy luminosity function and the mass function of dark
halos expected in the cold dark matter cosmology.Comment: To appear in Phil Trans Roy So
Simultaneous cooling of an artificial atom and its neighboring quantum system
We propose an approach for cooling both an artificial atom (e.g., a flux
qubit) and its neighboring quantum system, the latter modeled by either a
quantum two-level system or a quantum resonator. The flux qubit is cooled by
manipulating its states, following an inverse process of state population
inversion, and then the qubit is switched on to resonantly interact with the
neighboring quantum system. By repeating these steps, the two subsystems can be
simultaneously cooled. Our results show that this cooling is robust and
effective, irrespective of the chosen quantum systems connected to the qubit.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Parity independence of the zero-bias conductance peak in a nanowire based topological superconductor-quantum dot hybrid device
We explore the signatures of Majorana fermions in a nanowire based
topological superconductor-quantum dot-topological superconductor hybrid device
by charge transport measurements. The device is made from an epitaxially grown
InSb nanowire with two superconductor Nb contacts on a Si/SiO substrate. At
low temperatures, a quantum dot is formed in the segment of the InSb nanowire
between the two Nb contacts and the two Nb contacted segments of the InSb
nanowire show superconductivity due to the proximity effect. At zero magnetic
field, well defined Coulomb diamonds and the Kondo effect are observed in the
charge stability diagram measurements in the Coulomb blockade regime of the
quantum dot. Under the application of a finite, sufficiently strong magnetic
field, a zero-bias conductance peak structure is observed in the same Coulomb
blockade regime. It is found that the zero-bias conductance peak is present in
many consecutive Coulomb diamonds, irrespective of the even-odd parity of the
quasi-particle occupation number in the quantum dot. In addition, we find that
the zero-bias conductance peak is in most cases accompanied by two differential
conductance peaks, forming a triple-peak structure, and the separation between
the two side peaks in bias voltage shows oscillations closely correlated to the
background Coulomb conductance oscillations of the device. The observed
zero-bias conductance peak and the associated triple-peak structure are in line
with the signatures of Majorana fermion physics in a nanowire based topological
superconductor-quantum dot-topological superconductor system, in which the two
Majorana bound states adjacent to the quantum dot are hybridized into a pair of
quasi-particle states with finite energies and the other two Majorana bound
states remain as the zero-energy modes located at the two ends of the entire
InSb nanowire.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
Optical selection rules and phase-dependent adiabatic state control in a superconducting quantum circuit
We analyze the optical selection rules of the microwave-assisted transitions
in a flux qubit superconducting quantum circuit (SQC). We show that the
parities of the states relevant to the superconducting phase in the SQC are
well-defined when the external magnetic flux , then the
selection rules are same as the ones for the electric-dipole transitions in
usual atoms. When , the symmetry of the potential of
the artificial "atom'' is broken, a so-called -type "cyclic"
three-level atom is formed, where one- and two-photon processes can coexist. We
study how the population of these three states can be selectively transferred
by adiabatically controlling the electromagnetic field pulses. Different from
-type atoms, the adiabatic population transfer in our three-level
-atom can be controlled not only by the amplitudes but also by the
phases of the pulses
Measuring the quality factor of a microwave cavity using superconduting qubit devices
We propose a method to create superpositions of two macroscopic quantum
states of a single-mode microwave cavity field interacting with a
superconducting charge qubit. The decoherence of such superpositions can be
determined by measuring either the Wigner function of the cavity field or the
charge qubit states. Then the quality factor Q of the cavity can be inferred
from the decoherence of the superposed states. The proposed method is
experimentally realizable within current technology even when the value is
relatively low, and the interaction between the qubit and the cavity field is
weak.Comment: 8 page
Optical properties of in the normal state
We present the optical reflectance and conductivity spectra for non-oxide
antiperovskite superconductor at different temperatures. The
reflectance drops gradually over a large energy scale up to 33,000 cm,
with the presence of several wiggles. The reflectance has slight temperature
dependence at low frequency but becomes temperature independent at high
frequency. The optical conductivity shows a Drude response at low frequencies
and four broad absorption features in the frequency range from 600 to
33,000 . We illustrate that those features can be well understood from
the intra- and interband transitions between different components of Ni 3d
bands which are hybridized with C 2p bands. There is a good agreement between
our experimental data and the first-principle band structure calculations.Comment: 4 pages, to be published in Phys. Rev.
-valley electron factor in bulk GaAs and AlAs
We study the Land\'e -factor of conduction electrons in the -valley of
bulk GaAs and AlAs by using a three-band model
together with the tight-binding model. We find that the -valley -factor
is highly anisotropic, and can be characterized by two components,
and . is close to the free electron Land\'e factor but
is strongly affected by the remote bands. The contribution from remote
bands on depends on how the remote bands are treated. However, when
the magnetic field is in the Voigt configuration, which is widely used in the
experiments, different models give almost identical -factor.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, To be published in J. App. Phys. 104, 200
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