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Dispersion cancellation in high resolution two-photon interference
The dispersion cancellation observed in Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference
between frequency-entangled photon pairs has been the basis of quantum optical
coherence tomography and quantum clock synchronization. Here we explore the
effect of phase dispersion on ultranarrow HOM dips. We show that the
higher-order dispersion, the line width of the pump laser, and the spectral
shape of the parametric fluorescence have a strong effect on the dispersion
cancellation in the high-resolution regime with several experimental
verifications. Perfect dispersion cancellation with a linewidth of 3\mu m is
also demonstrated through 25 mm of water.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figure
Coupling of ultrathin tapered fibers with high-Q microsphere resonators at cryogenic temperatures and observation of phase-shift transition from undercoupling to overcoupling
We cooled ultrathin tapered fibers to cryogenic temperatures and controllably
coupled them with high-Q microsphere resonators at a wavelength close to the
optical transition of diamond nitrogen vacancy centers. The 310-nm-diameter
tapered fibers were stably nanopositioned close to the microspheres with a
positioning stability of approximately 10 nm over a temperature range of 7-28
K. A cavity-induced phase shift was observed in this temperature range,
demonstrating a discrete transition from undercoupling to overcoupling
Quantum fluctuations in the effective pseudospin-1/2 model for magnetic pyrochlore oxides
The effective quantum pseudospin-1/2 model for interacting rare-earth
magnetic moments, which are locally described with atomic doublets, is studied
theoretically for magnetic pyrochlore oxides. It is derived microscopically for
localized Pr^{3+} 4f moments in Pr_2TM_2O_7 (TM = Zr, Sn, Hf, and Ir) by
starting from the atomic non-Kramers magnetic doublets and performing the
strong-coupling perturbation expansion of the virtual electron transfer between
the Pr 4f and O 2p electrons. The most generic form of the nearest-neighbor
anisotropic superexchange pseudospin-1/2 Hamiltonian is also constructed from
the symmetry properties, which is applicable to Kramers ions Nd^{3+}, Sm^{3+},
and Yb^{3+} potentially showing large quantum effects. The effective model is
then studied by means of a classical mean-field theory and the exact
diagonalization on a single tetrahedron and on a 16-site cluster. These
calculations reveal appreciable quantum fluctuations leading to quantum phase
transitions to a quadrupolar state as a melting of spin ice for the Pr^{3+}
case. The model also shows a formation of cooperative quadrupole moment and
pseudospin chirality on tetrahedrons. A sign of a singlet quantum spin ice is
also found in a finite region in the space of coupling constants. The relevance
to the experiments is discussed.Comment: 18 pages including 14 figures; Comparison with the magnetization
curve on Pr2Ir2O7 included; to appear in Phys. Rev.
Multiobjective control of a vehicle with triple trailers
We consider the backing-up control of a vehicle with triple trailers using a model-based fuzzy-control methodology. First, the vehicle model is represented by a Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy model. Then, we employ the so-called "parallel distributed compensation" design to arrive at a controller that guarantees the stability of the closed-loop system consisted of the fuzzy model and controller. The control-design problem is cast in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). In addition to stability, the control performance considerations such as decay rate, constraints on input and output, and disturbance rejection are incorporated in the LMI conditions. In application to the vehicle with triple trailers setup, we utilize these LMI conditions to explicitly avoid the saturation of the steering angle and the jackknife phenomenon in the control design. Both simulation and experimental results are presented. Our results demonstrate that the fuzzy controller effectively achieves the backing-up control of the vehicle with triple trailers while avoiding the saturation of the actuator and "jackknife" phenomenon
Synthesis of Fluorine-Containing Analogues of 1-Lysoglycerophospholipids via Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons Reaction
This article describes an efficient method of synthesizing fluorine-containing analogues of 1-lysoglycerophospholipids (1-LPLs) by introducing a palmitoyl moiety starting from bis(2,2,2-trifluoroethyl)phosphonoacetate (Still-Gennari reagent). Our method effectively employs Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reagents as masked 1-LPL derivatives to prepare a series of analogues of 1-lysophosphatidic acid (1-LPA), 1-lysophosphatidylethanolamine (1-LPE), and 1-lysophosphatidylcholine (1-LPC)
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