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Measuring the quality factor of a microwave cavity using superconduting qubit devices
We propose a method to create superpositions of two macroscopic quantum
states of a single-mode microwave cavity field interacting with a
superconducting charge qubit. The decoherence of such superpositions can be
determined by measuring either the Wigner function of the cavity field or the
charge qubit states. Then the quality factor Q of the cavity can be inferred
from the decoherence of the superposed states. The proposed method is
experimentally realizable within current technology even when the value is
relatively low, and the interaction between the qubit and the cavity field is
weak.Comment: 8 page
Object Picture of Quasinormal Modes for Stringy Black Holes
We study the quasinormal modes (QNMs) for stringy black holes. By using
numerical calculation, the relations between the QNMs and the parameters of
black holes are minutely shown. For (1+1)-dimensional stringy black hole, the
real part of the quasinormal frequency increases and the imaginary part of the
quasinormal frequency decreases as the mass of the black hole increases.
Furthermore, the dependence of the QNMs on the charge of the black hole and the
flatness parameter is also illustrated. For (1+3)-dimensional stringy black
hole, increasing either the event horizon or the multipole index, the real part
of the quasinormal frequency decreases. The imaginary part of the quasinormal
frequency increases no matter whether the event horizon is increased or the
multipole index is decreased.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Long-term spatial and temporal variation of CO2 partial pressure in the Yellow River, China
10.5194/bg-12-921-2015Biogeosciences124921-93
Thickness dependence of the properties of epitaxial MgB2 thin films grown by hybrid physical-chemical vapor deposition
We have studied the effect of deposition rate and layer thickness on the
properties of epitaxial MgB2 thin films grown by hybrid physical-chemical vapor
deposition on 4H-SiC substrates. The MgB2 film deposition rate depends linearly
on the concentration of B2H6 in the inlet gas mixture. We found that the
superconducting and normal-state properties of the MgB2 films are determined by
the film thickness, not by the deposition rate. When the film thickness was
increased, the transition temperature, Tc, increased and the residual
resistivity, rho0, decreased. Above about 300 nm, a Tc of 41.8 K, a rho0 of
0.28 mikroOhm.cm, and a residual resistance ratio RRR of over 30 were obtained.
These values represent the best MgB2 properties reported thus far.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figure
Critical Current Density and Resistivity of MgB2 Films
The high resistivity of many bulk and film samples of MgB2 is most readily
explained by the suggestion that only a fraction of the cross-sectional area of
the samples is effectively carrying current. Hence the supercurrent (Jc) in
such samples will be limited by the same area factor, arising for example from
porosity or from insulating oxides present at the grain boundaries. We suggest
that a correlation should exist, Jc ~ 1/{Rho(300K) - Rho(50K)}, where Rho(300K)
- Rho(50K) is the change in the apparent resistivity from 300 K to 50 K. We
report measurements of Rho(T) and Jc for a number of films made by hybrid
physical-chemical vapor deposition which demonstrate this correlation, although
the "reduced effective area" argument alone is not sufficient. We suggest that
this argument can also apply to many polycrystalline bulk and wire samples of
MgB2.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figure
Geometric entanglement from matrix product state representations
An efficient scheme to compute the geometric entanglement per lattice site
for quantum many-body systems on a periodic finite-size chain is proposed in
the context of a tensor network algorithm based on the matrix product state
representations. It is systematically tested for three prototypical critical
quantum spin chains, which belong to the same Ising universality class. The
simulation results lend strong support to the previous claim [Q.-Q. Shi, R.
Or\'{u}s, J. O. Fj{\ae}restad, and H.-Q. Zhou, New J. Phys \textbf{12}, 025008
(2010); J.-M. St\'{e}phan, G. Misguich, and F. Alet, Phys. Rev. B \textbf{82},
180406R (2010)] that the leading finite-size correction to the geometric
entanglement per lattice site is universal, with its remarkable connection to
the celebrated Affleck-Ludwig boundary entropy corresponding to a conformally
invariant boundary condition.Comment: 4+ pages, 3 figure
A New Method to Calculate Electromagnetic Impedance Matching Degree in One-Layer Microwave Absorbers
A delta-function method was proposed to quantitatively evaluate the
electromagnetic impedance matching degree. Measured electromagnetic parameters
of {\alpha}-Fe/Fe3B/Y2O3 nanocomposites are applied to calculate the matching
degree by the method. Compared with reflection loss and quarter-wave principle
theory, the method accurately reveals the intrinsic mechanism of microwave
transmission and reflection properties. A possible honeycomb structure with
promising high-performance microwave absorption according to the method is also
proposed.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figure
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