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Electronic phase diagram of LixCoO2 revisited with potentiostatically de-intercalated single crystals
Electronic phase diagram of LixCoO2 has been re-examined using
potentiostatically de-intercalated single crystal samples. Stable phases of x ~
0.87, 0.72, 0.53, 0.50, 0.43, and 0.33 were found and isolated for physical
property studies. A-type and chain-type antiferromagnetic orderings have been
suggested from magnetic susceptibility measurement results in x ~ 0.87 and 0.50
below ~ 10 K and 200 K, respectively, similar to those found in NaxCoO2 system.
There is no Li vacancy superlattice ordering observed at room temperature for
the electronically stable phase Li0.72CoO2 as revealed by synchrotron X-ray
Laue diffraction. The peculiar magnetic anomaly near ~ 175 K as often found in
powder samples of x ~ 0.46-0.78 cannot be isolated through this single crystal
potentiostatic method, which supports the previously proposed explanation to be
surface stabilized phase of significant thermal hysteresis and aging character.Comment: 9 pages, 9 figures, 1 tabl
Stable nondegenerate optical parametric oscillation at degenerate frequencies in Na:KTP
We report the realization of a light source specifically designed for the
generation of bright continuous-variable entangled beams and for
Heisenberg-limited inteferometry. The source is a nondegenerate, single-mode,
continuous-wave optical parametric oscillator in Na:KTP, operated at frequency
degeneracy and just above threshold, which is also of interest for the study of
critical fluctuations at the transition point. The residual
frequency-difference jitter is 150 kHz for a 3 MHz cold cavity half-width
at half maximum. We observe 4 dB of photon-number-difference squeezing at 200
kHz. The Na:KTP crystal is noncritically phase-matched for a 532 nm pump and
polarization crosstalk is therefore practically nonexistent
Multipartite Entanglement and Quantum State Exchange
We investigate multipartite entanglement in relation to the theoretical
process of quantum state exchange. In particular, we consider such entanglement
for a certain pure state involving two groups of N trapped atoms. The state,
which can be produced via quantum state exchange, is analogous to the
steady-state intracavity state of the subthreshold optical nondegenerate
parametric amplifier. We show that, first, it possesses some 2N-way
entanglement. Second, we place a lower bound on the amount of such entanglement
in the state using a novel measure called the entanglement of minimum bipartite
entropy.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure
Quantum state reconstruction of the single-photon Fock state
We have reconstructed the quantum state of optical pulses containing single
photons using the method of phase-randomized pulsed optical homodyne
tomography. The single-photon Fock state |1> was prepared using conditional
measurements on photon pairs born in the process of parametric down-conversion.
A probability distribution of the phase-averaged electric field amplitudes with
a strongly non-Gaussian shape is obtained with the total detection efficiency
of (55+-1)%. The angle-averaged Wigner function reconstructed from this
distribution shows a strong dip reaching classically impossible negative values
around the origin of the phase space.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Physical Review Letters. Avoid
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Synthesis of titanate nanostructures using amorphous precursor material and their adsorption/photocatalytic properties
This paper reports on a new and swift hydrothermal chemical route to prepare
titanate nanostructures (TNS) avoiding the use of crystalline TiO2 as starting
material. The synthesis approach uses a commercial solution of TiCl3 as
titanium source to prepare an amorphous precursor, circumventing the use of
hazardous chemical compounds. The influence of the reaction temperature and
dwell autoclave time on the structure and morphology of the synthesised
materials was studied. Homogeneous titanate nanotubes with a high
length/diameter aspect ratio were synthesised at 160^{\circ}C and 24 h. A band
gap of 3.06\pm0.03 eV was determined for the TNS samples prepared in these
experimental conditions. This value is red shifted by 0.14 eV compared to the
band gap value usually reported for the TiO2 anatase. Moreover, such samples
show better adsorption capacity and photocatalytic performance on the dye
rhodamine 6G (R6G) photodegradation process than TiO2 nanoparticles. A 98%
reduction of the R6G concentration was achieved after 45 minutes of irradiation
of a 10 ppm dye aqueous solution and 1 g/L of TNS catalyst.Comment: 29 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in Journal of
Materials Scienc
Competitions of magnetism and superconductivity in FeAs-based materials
Using the numerical unrestricted Hartree-Fock approach, we study the ground
state of a two-orbital model describing newly discovered FeAs-based
superconductors. We observe the competition of a mode spin-density
wave and the superconductivity as the doping concentration changes. There might
be a small region in the electron-doping side where the magnetism and
superconductivity coexist. The superconducting pairing is found to be spin
singlet, orbital even, and mixed s + d wave (even
parity).Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Dynamics of Nonlocality for A Two-Mode Squeezed State in Thermal Environment
We investigate the time evolution of nonlocality for a two-mode squeezed
state in the thermal environment. The initial two-mode pure squeezed state is
nonlocal with a stronger nonlocality for a larger degree of squeezing. It is
found that the larger the degree of initial squeezing is, the more rapidly the
squeezed state loses its nonlocality. We explain this by the rapid destruction
of quantum coherence for the strongly squeezed state.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted to PR
Nonlinear climatic sensitivity to greenhouse gases over past 4 glacial/interglacial cycles.
The paleoclimatic sensitivity to atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHGs) has recently been suggested to be nonlinear, however a GHG threshold value associated with deglaciation remains uncertain. Here, we combine a new sea surface temperature record spanning the last 360,000 years from the southern Western Pacific Warm Pool with records from five previous studies in the equatorial Pacific to document the nonlinear relationship between climatic sensitivity and GHG levels over the past four glacial/interglacial cycles. The sensitivity of the responses to GHG concentrations rises dramatically by a factor of 2-4 at atmospheric CO2 levels of >220 ppm. Our results suggest that the equatorial Pacific acts as a nonlinear amplifier that allows global climate to transition from deglacial to full interglacial conditions once atmospheric CO2 levels reach threshold levels
Coexistence of the spin-density-wave and superconductivity in the (Ba,K)Fe2As2
The relation between the spin-density-wave (SDW) and superconducting order is
a central topic in current research on the FeAs-based high Tc superconductors.
Conflicting results exist in the LaFeAs(O,F)-class of materials, for which
whether the SDW and superconductivity are mutually exclusive or they can
coexist has not been settled. Here we show that for the (Ba,K)Fe2As2 system,
the SDW and superconductivity can coexist in an extended range of compositions.
The availability of single crystalline samples and high value of the energy
gaps would make the materials a model system to investigate the high Tc
ferropnictide superconductivity.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
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