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Electron transfer in the nonadiabatic regime: Crossover from quantum-mechanical to classical behaviour
We study nonadiabatic electron transfer within the biased spin-boson model.
We calculate the incoherent transfer rate in analytic form at all temperatures
for a power law form of the spectral density of the solvent coupling. In the
Ohmic case, we present the exact low temperature corrections to the zero
temperature rate for arbitrarily large bias energies between the two redox
sites. Both for Ohmic and non-Ohmic coupling, we give the rate in the entire
regime extending from zero temperature, where the rate depends significantly on
the detailed spectral behaviour, via the crossover region, up to the classical
regime. For low temperatures, the rate shows characteristic quantum features,
in particular the shift of the rate maximum to a bias value below the
reorganization energy, and the asymmetry of the rate around the maximum. We
study in detail the gradual extinction of the quantum features as temperature
is increased.Comment: 17 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Chem. Phy
Decay of correlations in the dissipative two-state system
We study the equilibrium correlation function of the polaron-dressed
tunnelling operator in the dissipative two-state system and compare the
asymptoptic dynamics with that of the position correlations. For an Ohmic
spectral density with the damping strength , the correlation functions
are obtained in analytic form for all times at any and any bias. For ,
the asymptotic dynamics is found by using a diagrammatic approach within a
Coulomb gas representation. At T=0, the tunnelling or coherence correlations
drop as , whereas the position correlations show universal decay
. The former decay law is a signature of unscreened attractive
charge-charge interactions, while the latter is due to unscreened dipole-dipole
interactions.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, to be published in Europhys. Let
Characterization of coherent impurity effects in solid state qubits
We propose a characterisation of the effects of bistable coherent impurities
in solid state qubits. We introduce an effective impurity description in terms
of a tunable spin-boson environment and solve the dynamics for the qubit
coherences. The dominant rate characterizing the asymptotic time limit is
identified and signatures of non-Gaussian behavior of the quantum impurity at
intermediate times are pointed out. An alternative perspective considering the
qubit as a measurement device for the spin-boson impurity is proposed.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures. Replaced with published version, minor change
Effective target arrangement in a deterministic scale-free graph
We study the random walk problem on a deterministic scale-free network, in
the presence of a set of static, identical targets; due to the strong
inhomogeneity of the underlying structure the mean first-passage time (MFPT),
meant as a measure of transport efficiency, is expected to depend sensitively
on the position of targets. We consider several spatial arrangements for
targets and we calculate, mainly rigorously, the related MFPT, where the
average is taken over all possible starting points and over all possible paths.
For all the cases studied, the MFPT asymptotically scales like N^{theta}, being
N the volume of the substrate and theta ranging from (1 - log 2/log3), for
central target(s), to 1, for a single peripheral target.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure
Density of States in Landau Level Tails of GaAs-AlxGa1-xAs Heterostructures
From an analysis of the thermally activated resistivity as a function of the magnetic field in the quantum Hall regime we deduced the position of the Fermi energy in the mobility gap as a function of the filling factor and therefore the density of states. The measured density of states is best described by a Gaussian like profile superimposed on a constant background
HLA class-I-transgenic mice as model system to study MHC-restricted antigen recognition in man
Dynamical suppression of telegraph and 1/f noise due to quantum bistable fluctuator
We study dynamical decoupling of a qubit from non gaussian quantum noise due
to discrete sources, as bistable fluctuators and 1/f noise. We obtain analytic
and numerical results for generic operating point. For very large pulse
frequency, where dynamic decoupling compensates decoherence, we found universal
behavior. At intermediate frequencies noise can be compensated or enhanced,
depending on the nature of the fluctuators and on the operating point. Our
technique can be applied to a larger class of non-gaussian environments.Comment: Revtex 4, 5 pages, 3 figures. Title revised and some other minor
changed. Final version as published in PR
A Model for Hospital Discharge Preparation: From Case Management to Care Transition
There has been a proliferation of initiatives to improve discharge processes and outcomes for the transition from hospital to home and community-based care. Operationalization of these processes has varied widely as hospitals have customized discharge care into innovative roles and functions. This article presents a model for conceptualizing the components of hospital discharge preparation to ensure attention to the full range of processes needed for a comprehensive strategy for hospital discharge
The extensive nature of group quality
We consider groups of interacting nodes engaged in an activity as many-body,
complex systems and analyse their cooperative behaviour from a mean-field point
of view. We show that inter-nodal interactions rather than accumulated
individual node strengths dominate the quality of group activity, and give rise
to phenomena akin to phase transitions, where the extensive relationship
between group quality and quantity reduces. The theory is tested using
empirical data on quantity and quality of scientific research groups, for which
critical masses are determined.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures containing 13 plots. Very minor changes to
coincide with published versio
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