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Spin accumulation created electrically in an n-type germanium channel using Schottky tunnel contacts
Using high-quality FeSi/-Ge Schottky-tunnel-barrier contacts, we
study spin accumulation in an -type germanium (-Ge) channel. In the
three- or two-terminal voltage measurements with low bias current conditions at
50 K, Hanle-effect signals are clearly detected only at a forward-biased
contact. These are reliable evidence for electrical detection of the spin
accumulation created in the -Ge channel. The estimated spin lifetime in
-Ge at 50 K is one order of magnitude shorter than those in -Si reported
recently. The magnitude of the spin signals cannot be explained by the commonly
used spin diffusion model. We discuss a possible origin of the difference
between experimental data and theoretical values.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, To appear in J. Appl. Phy
An ELU Network with Total Variation for Image Denoising
In this paper, we propose a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) for
image denoising, which uses exponential linear unit (ELU) as the activation
function. We investigate the suitability by analyzing ELU's connection with
trainable nonlinear reaction diffusion model (TNRD) and residual denoising. On
the other hand, batch normalization (BN) is indispensable for residual
denoising and convergence purpose. However, direct stacking of BN and ELU
degrades the performance of CNN. To mitigate this issue, we design an
innovative combination of activation layer and normalization layer to exploit
and leverage the ELU network, and discuss the corresponding rationale.
Moreover, inspired by the fact that minimizing total variation (TV) can be
applied to image denoising, we propose a TV regularized L2 loss to evaluate the
training effect during the iterations. Finally, we conduct extensive
experiments, showing that our model outperforms some recent and popular
approaches on Gaussian denoising with specific or randomized noise levels for
both gray and color images.Comment: 10 pages, Accepted by the 24th International Conference on Neural
Information Processing (2017
Anomalous quasiparticle transport in the superconducting state of CeCoIn5
We report on a study of thermal Hall conductivity k_xy in the superconducting
state of CeCoIn_5. The scaling relation and the density of states of the
delocalized quasiparticles, both obtained from k_xy, are consistent with d-wave
superconducting symmetry. The onset of superconductivity is accompanied by a
steep increase in the thermal Hall angle, pointing to a striking enhancement in
the quasiparticle mean free path. This enhancement is drastically suppressed in
a very weak magnetic field. These results highlight that CeCoIn_5 is unique
among superconductors. A small Fermi energy, a large superconducting gap, a
short coherence length, and a long mean free path all indicate that CeCoIn_5 is
clearly in the superclean regime (E_F/Delta<<l/xi), in which peculiar vortex
state is expected.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Tunneling-induced restoration of classical degeneracy in quantum kagome ice
Quantum effect is expected to dictate the behavior of physical systems at low temperature. For quantum magnets with geometrical frustration, quantum fluctuation usually lifts the macroscopic classical degeneracy, and exotic quantum states emerge. However, how different types of quantum processes entangle wave functions in a constrained Hilbert space is not well understood. Here, we study the topological entanglement entropy and the thermal entropy of a quantum ice model on a geometrically frustrated kagome lattice. We find that the system does not show a Z(2) topological order down to extremely low temperature, yet continues to behave like a classical kagome ice with finite residual entropy. Our theoretical analysis indicates an intricate competition of off-diagonal and diagonal quantum processes leading to the quasidegeneracy of states and effectively, the classical degeneracy is restored
Hamiltonian approach to slip-stacking dynamics
Hamiltonian dynamics has been applied to study the slip-stacking dynamics.
The canonical-perturbation method is employed to obtain the second-harmonic
correction term in the slip-stacking Hamiltonian. The Hamiltonian approach
provides a clear optimal method for choosing the slip-stacking parameter and
improving stacking efficiency. The dynamics are applied specifically to the
Fermilab Booster-Recycler complex. The dynamics can also be applied to other
accelerator complexes.Comment: 10 p
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