655 research outputs found
The Kondo crossover in shot noise of a single quantum dot with orbital degeneracy
We investigate out of equilibrium transport through an orbital Kondo system
realized in a single quantum dot, described by the multiorbital impurity
Anderson model. Shot noise and current are calculated up to the third order in
bias voltage in the particle-hole symmetric case, using the renormalized
perturbation theory. The derived expressions are asymptotically exact at low
energies. The resulting Fano factor of the backscattering current is
expressed in terms of the Wilson ratio and the orbital degeneracy as
at zero temperature. Then,
for small Coulomb repulsions , we calculate the Fano factor exactly up to
terms of order , and also carry out the numerical renormalization group
calculation for intermediate in the case of two- and four-fold degeneracy
(). As increases, the charge fluctuation in the dot is suppressed,
and the Fano factor varies rapidly from the noninteracting value to the
value in the Kondo limit , near the crossover region
, with the energy scale of the hybridization .Comment: 10 pages, 4 figure
Thermopower of Kondo Effect in Single Quantum Dot Systems with Orbital at Finite Temperatures
We investigate the thermopower due to the orbital Kondo effect in a single
quantum dot system by means of the noncrossing approximation. It is elucidated
how the asymmetry of tunneling resonance due to the orbital Kondo effect
affects the thermopower under gate-voltage and magnetic-field control.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, proceeding of Second International Symposium on
Nanometer-Scale Quantum Physic
A Large-scale CO Imaging of the Galactic Center. II. Dynamical Properties of Molecular Clouds
The data from the Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45 m telescope Galactic Center
CO survey have been analyzed to generate a compilation of molecular clouds with
intense CO emission in this region. Clouds are identified in an automated
manner throughout the main part of the survey data for all CO emission peaks
exceeding 10 K (). Correlations between the size, velocity dispersion,
virial mass, and the CO luminosity, for the molecular clouds in the Galactic
center were shown. We diagnosed gravitational stabilities of identified clouds
assuming that the disk clouds are nearly at the onset of gravitational
instability. Most of the clouds and cloud complexes in the Galactic center are
gravitationally stable, while some clouds with intense CO emission are
gravitationally unstable.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the 32nd COSPAR
Scientific Assembl
A four-year baseline Swift study of enigmatic X-ray transients located near the Galactic center
We report on continued monitoring observations of the Galactic center carried
out by the X-ray telescope aboard the Swift satellite in 2008 and 2009. This
campaign revealed activity of the five known X-ray transients AX J1745.6-2901,
CXOGC J174535.5-290124, GRS 1741-2853, XMM J174457-2850.3 and CXOGC
J174538.0-290022. All these sources are known to undergo very faint X-ray
outbursts with 2-10 keV peak luminosities of Lx,peak~1E34-1E36 erg/s, although
the two confirmed neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries AX J1745.6-2901 and GRS
1741-2853 can also become brighter (Lx,peak~1E36-1E37 erg/s). We discuss the
observed long-term lightcurves and X-ray spectra of these five enigmatic
transients. In 2008, AX J1745.6-2901 returned to quiescence following an
unusually long accretion outburst of more than 1.5 years. GRS 1741-2853 was
active in 2009 and displayed the brightest outburst ever recorded for this
source, reaching up to a 2-10 keV luminosity of Lx~1E37 (D/7.2 kpc)^2 erg/s.
This system appears to undergo recurrent accretion outbursts approximately
every 2 years. Furthermore, we find that the unclassified transient XMM
J174457-2850.3 becomes bright only during short episodes (days) and is often
found active in between quiescence (Lx~1E32 erg/s) and its maximum outburst
luminosity of Lx~1E36 erg/s. CXOGC J174535.5-290124 and CXOGC J174538.0-290022,
as well as three other very-faint X-ray transients that were detected by Swift
monitoring observations in 2006, have very low time-averaged mass-accretion
rates of ~< 2E-12 Msun/yr. Despite having obtained two years of new data in
2008 and 2009, no new X-ray transients were detected.Comment: Minor textual revisions according to referee report, accepted for
publication in A&
Three-dimensional bulk band dispersion in polar BiTeI with giant Rashba-type spin splitting
In layered polar semiconductor BiTeI, giant Rashba-type spin-split band
dispersions show up due to the crystal structure asymmetry and the strong
spin-orbit interaction. Here we investigate the 3-dimensional (3D) bulk band
structures of BiTeI using the bulk-sensitive -dependent soft x-ray angle
resolved photoemission spectroscopy (SX-ARPES). The obtained band structure is
shown to be well reproducible by the first-principles calculations, with huge
spin splittings of meV at the conduction-band-minimum and
valence-band-maximum located in the plane. It provides the first
direct experimental evidence of the 3D Rashba-type spin splitting in a bulk
compound.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figure
1/(N-1) expansion based on a perturbation theory in U for the Anderson model with N-fold degeneracy
We study low-energy properties of the N-fold degenerate Anderson model. Using
a scaling that takes u=(N-1) U as an independent variable in place of the
Coulomb interaction U, the perturbation series in U is reorganized as an
expansion in powers of 1/(N-1). We calculate the renormalized parameters, which
characterize the Kondo state, to the next leading order in the 1/(N-1)
expansion at half-filling. The results, especially the Wilson ratio, agree very
closely with the exact numerical renormalization group results at N=4. This
ensures the applicability of our approach to N > 4, and we present highly
reliable results for nonequilibrium Kondo transport through a quantum dot.Comment: 5 pages, 6 figure
ASCA Observations of the Jet Source XTE J1748-288
XTE J1748-288 is a new X-ray transient with a one-sided radio jet. It was
observed with ASCA on 1998/09/06 and 1998/09/26, 100 days after the onset of
the radio-X-ray outburst. The spectra were fitted with an attenuated power-law
model, and the 2-6-keV flux was 4.6 * 10^{-11} erg s^{-1} cm^{-2} and 2.2 *
10^{-12} on 09/06 and 09/26, respectively. The light curve showed that the
steady exponential decay with an e-folding time of 14 days lasted over 100 days
and 4 orders of magnitude from the peak of the outburst. The celestial region
including the source had been observed with ASCA on 1993/10/01 and 1994/09/22,
years before the discovery. In those period, the flux was < 10^{-13} erg s^{-1}
cm^{-2}, below ASCA's detection limit. The jet blob colliding to the
environmental matter was supposedly not the X-ray source, although the emission
mechanism has not been determined. A possible detection of a K line from highly
ionized iron is discussed.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJL. Fig2 is replaced with correct
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Motion of glossy objects does not promote separation of lighting and surface colour
The surface properties of an object, such as texture, glossiness or colour, provide important cues to its identity. However, the actual visual stimulus received by the eye is determined by both the properties of the object and the illumination. We tested whether operational colour constancy for glossy objects (the ability to distinguish changes in spectral reflectance of the object, from changes in the spectrum of the illumination) was affected by rotational motion of either the object or the light source. The different chromatic and geometric properties of the specular and diffuse reflections provide the basis for this discrimination, and we systematically varied specularity to control the available information. Observers viewed animations of isolated objects undergoing either lighting or surface-based spectral transformations accompanied by motion. By varying the axis of rotation, and surface patterning or geometry, we manipulated: (i) motion-related information about the scene, (ii) relative motion between the surface patterning and the specular reflection of the lighting, and (iii) image disruption caused by this motion. Despite large individual differences in performance with static stimuli, motion manipulations neither improved nor degraded performance. As motion significantly disrupts frameby-frame low-level image statistics, we infer that operational constancy depends on a high-level scene interpretation, which is maintained in all condition
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