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Quantum Spin Holography with Surface State Electrons
In a recent paper Moon and coworkers [C.R. Moon et al., Nature Nanotechnology
4, 167 (2009)] have shown that the single-atom limit for information storage
density can be overcome by using the coherence of electrons in a
two-dimensional electron gas to produce quantum holograms comprised of
individually manipulated molecules projecting an electronic pattern onto a
portion of a surface. We propose to further extend the concept by introducing
quantum spin holography - a version of quantum holographic encoding allowing to
store the information in two spin channels independently.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Relativistic peculiarities at stepped surfaces: surprising energetics and unexpected diffusion patterns
We revive intriguing, yet still unexplained, experimental results of Ehrlich
and co-workers [ Phys. Rev. Lett. 77 1334 (1996); Phys. Rev. Lett. 67 2509
(1991)] who have observed, that 5d adatoms distributed on (111) surface islands
of 5d metals favor the adsorption at the cluster's edge rather than at the
cluster's interior, which lies in contrast with the behavior of 4d and 3d
elements. Our state of the art ab initio calculations demonstrate that such
behavior is a direct consequence of the relativity of 5d metals.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Confined bulk states as a long-range sensor for impurities and a transfer channel for quantum information
We show that confinement of bulk electrons can be observed at low-dimensional
surface structures and can serve as a long-range sensor for the magnetism and
electronic properties of single impurities or as a quantum information transfer
channel with large coherence lengths. Our ab initio calculations reveal
oscillations of electron density in magnetic chains on metallic surfaces and
help to unambiguously identify the electrons involved as bulk electrons. We
furthermore discuss the possibility of utilizing bulk state confinement to
transfer quantum information, encoded in an atom's species or spin, across
distances of several nanometers with high efficiency.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Surface Geometry of 5D Black Holes and Black Rings
We discuss geometrical properties of the horizon surface of five-dimensional
rotating black holes and black rings. Geometrical invariants characterizing
these 3D geometries are calculated. We obtain a global embedding of the 5D
rotating black horizon surface into a flat space. We also describe the
Kaluza-Klein reduction of the black ring solution (along the direction of its
rotation) which relates this solution to the 4D metric of a static black hole
distorted by the presence of external scalar (dilaton) and vector
(`electromagnetic') field. The properties of the reduced black hole horizon and
its embedding in \E^3 are briefly discussed.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures, Revtex
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