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Ground State Spin Oscillations of a Two-Electron Quantum Dot in a Magnetic Field
Crossings between spin-singlet and spin-triplet lowest states are analyzed
within the model of a two-electron quantum dot in a perpendicular magnetic
field. The explicit expressions in terms of the magnetic field, the magnetic
quantum number of the state and the dimensionless dot size for these
crossings are found.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures (PS files). The paper will appear in Journal of
Physics: Condensed Matter, volume 11, issue 11 (cover date 22 March 1999) on
pages 83 - 8
Nonequilibrium and Parity Effects in the Tunneling Conductance of Ultrasmall Superconducting Grains
Recent experiment on the tunneling spectra of ultrasmall superconducting
grains revealed an unusual structure of the lowest differential conductance
peak for grains in the odd charging states. We explain this behavior by
nonequilibrium ``gapless'' excitations associated with different energy levels
occupied by the unpaired electron. These excitations are generated by inelastic
cotunneling.Comment: 4 pages, 2 .eps figures include
Effect of Quantum Confinement on Electron Tunneling through a Quantum Dot
Employing the Anderson impurity model, we study tunneling properties through
an ideal quantum dot near the conductance minima. Considering the Coulomb
blockade and the quantum confinement on an equal footing, we have obtained
current contributions from various types of tunneling processes; inelastic
cotunneling, elastic cotunneling, and resonant tunneling of thermally activated
electrons. We have found that the inelastic cotunneling is suppressed in the
quantum confinement limit, and thus the conductance near its minima is
determined by the elastic cotunneling at low temperature (,
: dot-reservoir coupling constant), or by the resonant tunneling of
single electrons at high temperature ().Comment: 11 pages Revtex, 2 Postscript figures, To appear in Phys.Rev.
Levy statistics and anomalous transport in quantum-dot arrays
A novel model of transport is proposed to explain power law current
transients and memory phenomena observed in partially ordered arrays of
semiconducting nanocrystals. The model describes electron transport by a
stationary Levy process of transmission events and thereby requires no time
dependence of system properties. The waiting time distribution with a
characteristic long tail gives rise to a nonstationary response in the presence
of a voltage pulse. We report on noise measurements that agree well with the
predicted non-Poissonian fluctuations in current, and discuss possible
mechanisms leading to this behavior.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figure
Coulomb blockade in superconducting quantum point contacts
Amplitude of the Coulomb blockade oscillations is calculated for a
single-mode Josephson junction with arbitrary electron transparency . It is
shown that the Coulomb blockade is suppressed in ballistic junctions with . The suppression is described quantitatively as the Landau-Zener transition
in imaginary time.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures include
An X-Ray Induced Structural Transition in La_0.875Sr_0.125MnO_3
We report a synchrotron x-ray scattering study of the magnetoresistive
manganite La_0.875Sr_0.125MnO_3. At low temperatures, this material undergoes
an x-ray induced structural transition at which charge ordering of Mn^3+ and
Mn^4+ ions characteristic to the low-temperature state of this compound is
destroyed. The transition is persistent but the charge-ordered state can be
restored by heating above the charge-ordering transition temperature and
subsequently cooling. The charge-ordering diffraction peaks, which are
broadened at all temperatures, broaden more upon x-ray irradiation, indicating
the finite correlation length of the charge-ordered state. Together with the
recent reports on x-ray induced transitions in Pr_(1-x)Ca_xMnO_3, our results
demonstrate that the photoinduced structural change is a common property of the
charge-ordered perovskite manganites.Comment: 5 pages, 4 embedded EPS figures; significant changes in the data
analysis mad
Coulomb blockade oscillations of conductance in the regime of strong tunneling
We study the transport through a quantum dot coupled to two leads by
single-mode point contacts. The linear conductance is calculated analytically
as a function of a gate voltage and temperature T in the case when transmission
coefficients of the contacts are close to unity. As a function of the gate
voltage, the conductance shows Coulomb blockade oscillations. At low
temperatures, the off-resonance conductance vanishes as T^2, in agreement with
the theory of inelastic co-tunneling. Near a resonance, the low-energy physics
is governed by a multi-channel Kondo fixed point.Comment: Revtex, 8 pages, 2 figure
Physics of -Meson Condensation and High Temperature Cuprate Superconductors
The idea of condensation of the Goldstone -meson field in nuclear matter
had been put forward a long time ago. However, it was established that the
normal nuclear density is too low, it is not sufficient to condensate
-mesons. This is why the -condensation has never been observed.
Recent experimental and theoretical studies of high temperature cuprate
superconductors have revealed condensation of Goldstone magnons, the effect
fully analogous to the -condensation. The magnon condensation has been
observed. It is clear now that quantum fluctuations play a crucial role in the
condensation, in particular they drive a quantum phase transition that destroys
the condensate at some density of fermions
Dimension dependent energy thresholds for discrete breathers
Discrete breathers are time-periodic, spatially localized solutions of the
equations of motion for a system of classical degrees of freedom interacting on
a lattice. We study the existence of energy thresholds for discrete breathers,
i.e., the question whether, in a certain system, discrete breathers of
arbitrarily low energy exist, or a threshold has to be overcome in order to
excite a discrete breather. Breather energies are found to have a positive
lower bound if the lattice dimension d is greater than or equal to a certain
critical value d_c, whereas no energy threshold is observed for d<d_c. The
critical dimension d_c is system dependent and can be computed explicitly,
taking on values between zero and infinity. Three classes of Hamiltonian
systems are distinguished, being characterized by different mechanisms
effecting the existence (or non-existence) of an energy threshold.Comment: 20 pages, 5 figure
Pauli principle and chaos in a magnetized disk
We present results of a detailed quantum mechanical study of a gas of
noninteracting electrons confined to a circular boundary and subject to
homogeneous dc plus ac magnetic fields , with
). We earlier found a one-particle {\it classical}
phase diagram of the (scaled) Larmor frequency
{\rm vs} that
separates regular from chaotic regimes. We also showed that the quantum
spectrum statistics changed from Poisson to Gaussian orthogonal ensembles in
the transition from classically integrable to chaotic dynamics. Here we find
that, as a function of and , there are clear
quantum signatures in the magnetic response, when going from the
single-particle classically regular to chaotic regimes. In the quasi-integrable
regime the magnetization non-monotonically oscillates between diamagnetic and
paramagnetic as a function of . We quantitatively understand this behavior
from a perturbation theory analysis. In the chaotic regime, however, we find
that the magnetization oscillates as a function of but it is {\it always}
diamagnetic. Equivalent results are also presented for the orbital currents. We
also find that the time-averaged energy grows like in the
quasi-integrable regime but changes to a linear dependence in the chaotic
regime. In contrast, the results with Bose statistics are akin to the
single-particle case and thus different from the fermionic case. We also give
an estimate of possible experimental parameters were our results may be seen in
semiconductor quantum dot billiards.Comment: 22 pages, 7 GIF figures, Phys. Rev. E. (1999
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