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Readout of solid-state charge qubits using a single-electron pump
A major difficulty in realizing a solid-state quantum computer is the
reliable measurement of the states of the quantum registers. In this paper, we
propose an efficient readout scheme making use of the resonant tunneling of a
ballistic electron produced by a single electron pump. We treat the measurement
interaction in detail by modeling the full spatial configuration, and show that
for pumped electrons with suitably chosen energy the transmission coefficient
is very sensitive to the qubit state. We further show that by using a short
sequence of pumping events, coupled with a simple feedback control procedure,
the qubit can be measured with high accuracy.Comment: 5 pages, revtex4, 4 eps figures. v2: published versio
Late stage kinetics for various wicking and spreading problems
The kinetics of spreading of a liquid drop in a wedge or V-shaped groove, in
a network of such grooves, and on a hydrophilic strip, is re-examined. The
length of a droplet of volume Omega spreading in a wedge after a time t is
predicted to scale as Omega^(1/5) * t^(2/5), and the height profile is
predicted to be a parabola in the distance along the wedge. If the droplet is
spreading radially in a sparse network of V-shaped grooves on a surface, the
radius is predicted to scale as Omega^(1/6) * t^(1/3), provided the liquid is
completely contained within the grooves. A number of other results are also
obtained.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, RevTeX
Near-field radiative heat transfer between macroscopic planar surfaces
Near-field radiative heat transfer allows heat to propagate across a small
vacuum gap in quantities that are several orders of magnitude greater then the
heat transfer by far-field, blackbody radiation. Although heat transfer via
near-field effects has been discussed for many years, experimental verification
of this theory has been very limited. We have measured the heat transfer
between two macroscopic sapphire plates, finding an increase in agreement with
expectations from theory. These experiments, conducted near 300 K, have
measured the heat transfer as a function of separation over mm to m and as
a function of temperature differences between 2.5 and 30 K. The experiments
demonstrate that evanescence can be put to work to transfer heat from an object
without actually touching it
In-situ measurements of the optical absorption of dioxythiophene-based conjugated polymers
Conjugated polymers can be reversibly doped by electrochemical means. This
doping introduces new sub-bandgap optical absorption bands in the polymer while
decreasing the bandgap absorption. To study this behavior, we have prepared an
electrochemical cell allowing measurements of the optical properties of the
polymer. The cell consists of a thin polymer film deposited on gold-coated
Mylar behind which is another polymer that serves as a counterelectrode. An
infrared transparent window protects the upper polymer from ambient air. By
adding a gel electrolyte and making electrical connections to the
polymer-on-gold films, one may study electrochromism in a wide spectral range.
As the cell voltage (the potential difference between the two electrodes)
changes, the doping level of the conjugated polymer films is changed
reversibly. Our experiments address electrochromism in
poly(3,4-ethylene-dioxy-thiophene) (PEDOT) and
poly(3,4-dimethyl-propylene-dioxy-thiophene) (PProDOT-Me). This closed
electrochemical cell allows the study of the doping induced sub-bandgap
features (polaronic and bipolaronic modes) in these easily oxidized and highly
redox switchable polymers. We also study the changes in cell spectra as a
function of polymer thickness and investigate strategies to obtain cleaner
spectra, minimizing the contributions of water and gel electrolyte features
On the contrasting spin dynamics of , and near half filling
We present simple calculations which show that incommensurability upon doping
and the width of the magnetically ordered phase in Mott-Hubbard insulators
depend strongly on the location of the hole/electron pockets in the Brillouin
zone. For systems, we found the pockets at ,
in which case the corrections to the antiferromagnetic spin stiffness grow with
doping and destroy the commensurate antiferromagnetic ordering already at a
very small doping. On the other hand, in , the hole pockets are
located at and the symmetry related points, in which case the
corrections to the stiffness scale linearly with the density of carriers and do
not destroy commensurate spin ordering. For , systems the situation is
less certain, but our results favor hole pockets at . We also
discuss briefly the tendency towards phase separation.Comment: 18 pages, LaTe
Phonon anomaly at the charge ordering transition in 1T-TaS2
The infrared reflectance of the transition metal chalcogenide 1T-TaS2 has
been measured at temperatures from 30K to 360K over 30-45,000cm^-1
(4meV-5.5eV). The optical conductivity was obtained by Kramers-Kronig analysis.
At 360K only modest traces of the phonon lines are noticeable. The phonon modes
are followed by a pseudogap-like increase of the optical conductivity, with
direct optical transitions observed at frequencies above 1eV. As the
temperature decreases, the low frequency conductivity also decreases, phonon
modes become more pronounced and pseudogap develops into a gap at 800cm^-1
(100meV). We observe an anomalous frequency dependence of the 208cm^-1
infrared-active phonon mode. This mode demonstrates softening as the
temperature decreases below the 180K metal-to-insulator transition. The same
mode demonstrates strong hysteresis of the frequency and linewidth changes,
similar in its temperature behavior to the hysteresis in the dc-resistivity. We
discuss a possible relation of the observed softening of the mode to the
structural changes associated with the metal-to-insulator transition.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, 1 table; corrected typo
Antisymmetric-Tensor and Electromagnetic effects in an alpha'-non-perturbative Four-Dimensional String Cosmology
Starting from an exact (in the Regge slope alpha') functional method for a
bosonic stringy sigma-model, we investigate four-dimensional cosmological
string solutions in graviton, dilaton and antisymmetric tensor backgrounds,
compatible with world-sheet conformal invariance, and valid beyond perturbative
expansions in powers of alpha'. The antisymmetric tensor field, playing the
role of an axion in the four-dimensional target space time, leads to spatial
anisotropies of the emergent Robertson-Walker expanding Universe, and, upon
coupling the system to the electromagnetic field, it results in non-trivial
optical activity. Some estimates of the corresponding effects are made and
their relevance to current cosmology is briefly discussed
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