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Electrostatic force spectroscopy of near-surface localized states
Electrostatic force microscopy at cryogenic temperatures is used to probe the
electrostatic interaction of a conductive atomic force microscopy tip and
electronic charges trapped in localized states in an insulating layer on a
semiconductor. Measurement of the frequency shift of the cantilever as a
function of tip-sample shows discrete peaks at certain voltages when the tip is
located near trap centers. These discrete changes in frequency is attributed to
one by one filling of individual electronic states when the quantized energies
traverses the substrate conduction band fermi energy as tip-sample voltage is
increased. Theoretical analysis of the experiment suggests that such
measurement of the cantilever frequency shift as a function of bias voltage can
be interpreted as an AC force measurement, from which spectroscopic information
about the location, energy and tunneling times of localized states can be
deduced. Experimental results from study of a sample with InAs quantum dots as
trap centers is presented.Comment: 26 pages, 10 figure
Quantum correlation in degenerate optical parametric oscillators with mutual injections
We theoretically and numerically study the quantum dynamics of two degenerate
optical parametric oscillators with mutual injections. The cavity mode in the
optical coupling path between the two oscillator facets is explicitly
considered. Stochastic equations for the oscillators and mutual injection path
based on the positive representation are derived. The system of two
gradually pumped oscillators with out-of-phase mutual injections is simulated,
and its quantum state is investigated. When the incoherent loss of the
oscillators other than the mutual injections is small, the squeezed quadratic
amplitudes in the oscillators are positively correlated near the
oscillation threshold. It indicates finite quantum correlation, estimated via
Gaussian quantum discord, and the entanglement between the intracavity
subharmonic fields. When the loss in the injection path is low, each oscillator
around the phase transition point forms macroscopic superposition even under a
small pump noise. It suggests that the squeezed field stored in the low-loss
injection path weakens the decoherence in the oscillators.Comment: 14 pages, 9 figures; v3: author added, minor updat
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