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Describing many-body localized systems in thermal environments
In this work we formulate an efficient method for the description of fully many-body localized systems in weak contact with thermal environments at temperature T. The key idea is to exploit the representation of the system in terms of quasi-local integrals of motion (l-bits) to efficiently derive the generator for the quantum master equation in Born-Markov approximation. We, moreover, show how to compute the steady state of this equation efficiently by using quantum-jump Monte-Carlo techniques as well as by deriving approximate kinetic equations of motion. As an example, we consider a one-dimensional disordered extended Hubbard model for spinless fermions, for which we derive the l-bit representation approximately by employing a recently proposed method valid in the limit of strong disorder and weak interactions. Coupling the system to a global thermal bath, we study the transport between two leads with different chemical potentials at both of its ends. We find that the temperature-dependent current is captured by an interaction-dependent version of Mott's law for variable range hopping, where transport is enhanced/lowered depending on whether the interactions are attractive or repulsive, respectively. We interpret these results in terms of spatio-energetic correlations between the l-bits
Thermodynamic properties of Ba1-xMxFe2As2 (M = La and K)
The specific heat of BaFeAs single crystal, electron-doped
BaLaFeAs and hole-doped BaKFeAs
polycrystals were measured. For undoped BaFeAs single crystal, a very
sharp specific heat peak was observed at 136 K. This is attributed to the
structural and antiferromagnetic transitions occurring at the same temperature.
of the electron-doped non-superconducting
BaLaFeAs also shows a small peak at 120 K, indicating a
similar but weaker structural/antiferromagnetic transition. For the hole-doped
superconducting BaKFeAs, a clear peak of was
observed at = 36 K, which is the highest peak seen at superconducting
transition for iron-based high- superconductors so far. The electronic
specific heat coefficient and Debye temperature of these
compounds were obtained from the low temperature data
Aqua MODIS Electronic Crosstalk on SMWIR Bands 20 to 26
Aqua MODIS Moon images obtained with bands 20 to 26 (3.66 - 4.55 and 1.36 -
1.39 m) during scheduled lunar events show evidence of electronic
crosstalk contamination of the response of detector 1. In this work, we
determined the sending bands for each receiving band. We found that the
contaminating signal originates, in all cases, from the detector 10 of the
corresponding sending band and that the signals registered by the receiving and
sending detectors are always read out in immediate sequence. We used the lunar
images to derive the crosstalk coefficients, which were then applied in the
correction of electronic crosstalk striping artifacts present in L1B images,
successfully restoring product quality.Comment: Accepted to be published in the IEEE 2017 International Geoscience &
Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2017), scheduled for July 23-28, 2017 in
Fort Worth, Texas, US
Unification Theory of Angular Magnetoresistance Oscillations in Quasi-One-Dimensional Conductors
We present a unification theory of angular magnetoresistance oscillations,
experimentally observed in quasi-one-dimensional organic conductors, by solving
the Boltzmann kinetic equation in the extended Brillouin zone. We find that, at
commensurate directions of a magnetic field, resistivity exhibits strong
minima. In two limiting cases, our general solution reduces to the results,
previously obtained for the Lebed Magic Angles and Lee-Naughton-Lebed
oscillations. We demonstrate that our theoretical results are in good
qualitative and quantitative agreement with the existing measurements of
resistivity in (TMTSF)ClO conductor.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure
Non-Relativistic Limit of Dirac Equations in Gravitational Field and Quantum Effects of Gravity
Based on unified theory of electromagnetic interactions and gravitational
interactions, the non-relativistic limit of the equation of motion of a charged
Dirac particle in gravitational field is studied. From the Schrodinger equation
obtained from this non-relativistic limit, we could see that the classical
Newtonian gravitational potential appears as a part of the potential in the
Schrodinger equation, which can explain the gravitational phase effects found
in COW experiments. And because of this Newtonian gravitational potential, a
quantum particle in earth's gravitational field may form a gravitationally
bound quantized state, which had already been detected in experiments. Three
different kinds of phase effects related to gravitational interactions are
discussed in this paper, and these phase effects should be observable in some
astrophysical processes. Besides, there exists direct coupling between
gravitomagnetic field and quantum spin, radiation caused by this coupling can
be used to directly determine the gravitomagnetic field on the surface of a
star.Comment: 12 pages, no figur
Surface Contribution to Raman Scattering from Layered Superconductors
Generalizing recent work, the Raman scattering intensity from a semi-infinite
superconducting superlattice is calculated taking into account the surface
contribution to the density response functions. Our work makes use of the
formalism of Jain and Allen developed for normal superlattices. The surface
contributions are shown to strongly modify the bulk contribution to the
Raman-spectrum line shape below , and also may give rise to additional
surface plasmon modes above . The interplay between the bulk and
surface contribution is strongly dependent on the momentum transfer
parallel to layers. However, we argue that the scattering
cross-section for the out-of-phase phase modes (which arise from interlayer
Cooper pair tunneling) will not be affected and thus should be the only
structure exhibited in the Raman spectrum below for relatively large
. The intensity is small but perhaps observable.Comment: 14 pages, RevTex, 6 figure
Two-dimensional Poisson Trees converge to the Brownian web
The Brownian web can be roughly described as a family of coalescing
one-dimensional Brownian motions starting at all times in and at all
points of . It was introduced by Arratia; a variant was then studied by
Toth and Werner; another variant was analyzed recently by Fontes, Isopi, Newman
and Ravishankar. The two-dimensional \emph{Poisson tree} is a family of
continuous time one-dimensional random walks with uniform jumps in a bounded
interval. The walks start at the space-time points of a homogeneous Poisson
process in and are in fact constructed as a function of the point
process. This tree was introduced by Ferrari, Landim and Thorisson. By
verifying criteria derived by Fontes, Isopi, Newman and Ravishankar, we show
that, when properly rescaled, and under the topology introduced by those
authors, Poisson trees converge weakly to the Brownian web.Comment: 22 pages, 1 figure. This version corrects an error in the previous
proof. The results are the sam
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