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InAs/InP single quantum wire formation and emission at 1.5 microns
Isolated InAs/InP self-assembled quantum wires have been grown using in situ
accumulated stress measurements to adjust the optimal InAs thickness. Atomic
force microscopy imaging shows highly asymmetric nanostructures with average
length exceeding more than ten times their width. High resolution optical
investigation of as-grown samples reveals strong photoluminescence from
individual quantum wires at 1.5 microns. Additional sharp features are related
to monolayer fluctuations of the two dimensional InAs layer present during the
early stages of the quantum wire self-assembling process.Comment: 4 pages and 3 figures submitted to Applied Physics Letter
Confinement of electrons in layered metals
We analyze the out of plane hopping in models of layered systems where the
in--plane properties deviate from Landau's theory of a Fermi liquid. We show
that the hopping term acquires a non trivial energy dependence, due to the
coupling to in plane excitations, and can be either relevant or irrelevant at
low energies or temperatures. The latter is always the case if the Fermi level
lies close to a saddle point in the dispersion relation.Comment: 4 pages, 1 eps figur
Perfect imaging with geodesic waveguides
Transformation optics is used to prove that a spherical waveguide filled with
an isotropic material with radial refractive index n=1/r has radial polarized
modes (i.e. the electric field has only radial component) with the same perfect
focusing properties as the Maxwell Fish-Eye lens. The approximate version of
that device using a thin waveguide with a homogenous core paves the way to
experimentally prove perfect imaging in the Maxwell Fish Eye lens
Nonlinear Pseudo-Supersymmetry in the Framework of N-fold Supersymmetry
We recall the importance of recognizing the different mathematical nature of
various concepts relating to PT-symmetric quantum theories. After clarifying
the relation between supersymmetry and pseudo-supersymmetry, we prove
generically that nonlinear pseudo-supersymmetry, recently proposed by Sinha and
Roy, is just a special case of N-fold supersymmetry. In particular, we show
that all the models constructed by these authors have type A 2-fold
supersymmetry. Furthermore, we prove that an arbitrary one-body quantum
Hamiltonian which admits two (local) solutions in closed form belongs to type A
2-fold supersymmetry, irrespective of whether or not it is Hermitian,
PT-symmetric, pseudo-Hermitian, and so on.Comment: 10 pages, no figures; typos correcte
Self-assembling processes involved in the molecular beam epitaxy growth of stacked InAs/InP quantum wires
The growth mechanism of stacked InAs/InP(001) quantum wires (QWRs) is studied by combining an atomic-scale cross-sectional scanning tunnelling microscopy analysis with in situ and in real-time stress measurements along the [110] direction (sensitive to stress relaxation during QWR formation). QWRs in stacked layers grow by a non-Stranski–Krastanov (SK) process which involves the production of extra InAs by strain-enhanced As/P exchange and a strong strain driven mass transport. Despite the different growth mechanism of the QWR between the first and following layers of the stack, the QWRs maintain on average the same shape and composition in all the layers of the stack, revealing the high stability of this QWR configuration
Density fluctuations and single-particle dynamics in liquid lithium
The single-particle and collective dynamical properties of liquid lithium
have been evaluated at several thermodynamic states near the triple point. This
is performed within the framework of mode-coupling theory, using a
self-consistent scheme which, starting from the known static structure of the
liquid, allows the theoretical calculation of several dynamical properties.
Special attention is devoted to several aspects of the single-particle
dynamics, which are discussed as a function of the thermodynamic state. The
results are compared with those of Molecular Dynamics simulations and other
theoretical approaches.Comment: 31 pages (in preprint format), 14 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev.
Interaction Effects on the Magneto-optical Response of Magnetoplasmonic Dimers
The effect that dipole-dipole interactions have on the magneto-optical (MO)
properties of magnetoplasmonic dimers is theoretically studied. The specific
plasmonic versus magnetoplasmonic nature of the dimer's metallic components and
their specific location within the dimer plays a crucial role on the
determination of these properties. We find that it is possible to generate an
induced MO activity in a purely plasmonic component, even larger than that of
the MO one, therefore dominating the overall MO spectral dependence of the
system. Adequate stacking of these components may allow obtaining, for specific
spectral regions, larger MO activities in systems with reduced amount of MO
metal and therefore with lower optical losses. Theoretical results are
contrasted and confirmed with experiments for selected structures
Accretions of Various Types of Dark Energies onto Morris-Thorne Wormhole
In this work, we have studied accretion of the dark energies onto
Morris-Thorne wormhole. For quintessence like dark energy, the mass of the
wormhole decreases and phantom like dark energy, the mass of wormhole
increases. We have assumed two types of dark energy like variable modified
Chaplygin gas (VMCG) and generalized cosmic Chaplygin gas (GCCG). We have found
the expression of wormhole mass in both cases. We have found the mass of the
wormhole at late universe and this is finite. For our choices the parameters
and the function , these models generate only quintessence dark energy
(not phantom) and so wormhole mass decreases during evolution of the universe.
Next we have assumed 5 kinds of parametrizations of well known dark energy
models. These models generate both quintessence and phantom scenarios. So if
these dark energies accrete onto the wormhole, then for quintessence stage,
wormhole mass decreases upto a certain value (finite value) and then again
increases to infinite value for phantom stage during whole evolution of the
universe. We also shown these results graphically.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
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