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Theory of the oscillatory photoconductivity of a 2D electron gas
We develop a theory of magnetooscillations in the photoconductivity of a
two-dimensional electron gas observed in recent experiments. The effect is
governed by a change of the electron distribution function induced by the
microwave radiation. We analyze a nonlinearity with respect to both the dc
field and the microwave power, as well as the temperature dependence determined
by the inelastic relaxation rate.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
New Results for the Correlation Functions of the Ising Model and the Transverse Ising Chain
In this paper we show how an infinite system of coupled Toda-type nonlinear
differential equations derived by one of us can be used efficiently to
calculate the time-dependent pair-correlations in the Ising chain in a
transverse field. The results are seen to match extremely well long large-time
asymptotic expansions newly derived here. For our initial conditions we use new
long asymptotic expansions for the equal-time pair correlation functions of the
transverse Ising chain, extending an old result of T.T. Wu for the 2d Ising
model. Using this one can also study the equal-time wavevector-dependent
correlation function of the quantum chain, a.k.a. the q-dependent diagonal
susceptibility in the 2d Ising model, in great detail with very little
computational effort.Comment: LaTeX 2e, 31 pages, 8 figures (16 eps files). vs2: Two references
added and minor changes of style. vs3: Corrections made and reference adde
Liouvillian Approach to the Integer Quantum Hall Effect Transition
We present a novel approach to the localization-delocalization transition in
the integer quantum Hall effect. The Hamiltonian projected onto the lowest
Landau level can be written in terms of the projected density operators alone.
This and the closed set of commutation relations between the projected
densities leads to simple equations for the time evolution of the density
operators. These equations can be used to map the problem of calculating the
disorder averaged and energetically unconstrained density-density correlation
function to the problem of calculating the one-particle density of states of a
dynamical system with a novel action. At the self-consistent mean-field level,
this approach yields normal diffusion and a finite longitudinal conductivity.
While we have not been able to go beyond the saddle point approximation
analytically, we show numerically that the critical localization exponent can
be extracted from the energetically integrated correlation function yielding
in excellent agreement with previous finite-size scaling
studies.Comment: 9 pages, submitted to PR
QED Effective Action at Finite Temperature: Two-Loop Dominance
We calculate the two-loop effective action of QED for arbitrary constant
electromagnetic fields at finite temperature T in the limit of T much smaller
than the electron mass. It is shown that in this regime the two-loop
contribution always exceeds the influence of the one-loop part due to the
thermal excitation of the internal photon. As an application, we study light
propagation and photon splitting in the presence of a magnetic background field
at low temperature. We furthermore discover a thermally induced contribution to
pair production in electric fields.Comment: 34 pages, 4 figures, LaTe
Axial vector current in an electromagnetic field and low-energy neutrino-photon interactions
An expression for the axial vector current in a strong, slowly varying
electromagnetic field is obtained. We apply this expression to the construction
of the effective action for low-energy neutrino-photon interactions.Comment: 6 pages, references updated, final version to appear in Phys. Rev.
Unitary limit and quantum interference effect in disordered two-dimensional crystals with nearly half-filled bands
Based on the self-consistent -matrix approximation, the quantum
interference (QI) effect is studied with the diagrammatic technique in
weakly-disordered two-dimensional crystals with nearly half-filled bands. In
addition to the usual 0-mode cooperon and diffuson, there exist -mode
cooperon and diffuson in the unitary limit due to the particle-hole symmetry.
The diffusive -modes are gapped by the deviation from the exactly-nested
Fermi surface. The conductivity diagrams with the gapped -mode cooperon or
diffuson are found to give rise to unconventional features of the QI effect.
Besides the inelastic scattering, the thermal fluctuation is shown to be also
an important dephasing mechanism in the QI processes related with the diffusive
-modes. In the proximity of the nesting case, a power-law
anti-localization effect appears due to the -mode diffuson. For large
deviation from the nested Fermi surface, this anti-localization effect is
suppressed, and the conductivity remains to have the usual logarithmic
weak-localization correction contributed by the 0-mode cooperon. As a result,
the dc conductivity in the unitary limit becomes a non-monotonic function of
the temperature or the sample size, which is quite different from the
prediction of the usual weak-localization theory.Comment: 21 pages, 4 figure
Two-Boson Exchange Physics: A Brief Review
Current status of the two-boson exchange contributions to elastic
electron-proton scattering, both for parity conserving and parity-violating, is
briefly reviewed. How the discrepancy in the extraction of elastic nucleon form
factors between unpolarized Rosenbluth and polarization transfer experiments
can be understood, in large part, by the two-photon exchange corrections is
discussed. We also illustrate how the measurement of the ratio between
positron-proton and electron-proton scattering can be used to differentiate
different models of two-photon exchange. For the parity-violating
electron-proton scattering, the interest is on how the two-boson exchange
(TBE), \gamma Z-exchange in particular, could affect the extraction of the
long-sought strangeness form factors. Various calculations all indicate that
the magnitudes of effect of TBE on the extraction of strangeness form factors
is small, though can be large percentage-wise in certain kinematics.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, prepared for Proceedings of the fifth
Asia-Pacific Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (APFB2011), Seoul,
Korea, August 22-26, 2011, to appear in Few-Body Systems, November 201
Isovector soft dipole mode in 6Be
By using the 1H(6Li,6Be)n charge-exchange reaction, continuum states in 6Be
were populated up to E_t=16 MeV, E_t being the 6Be energy above its three-body
decay threshold. In kinematically complete measurements performed by detecting
alpha+p+p coincidences, an E_t spectrum of high statistics was obtained,
containing approximately ~5x10^6 events. The spectrum provides detailed
correlation information about the well-known 0^+ ground state of 6Be at
E_t=1.37 MeV and its 2^+ state at E_t=3.05 MeV. Moreover, a broad structure
extending from 4 to 16 MeV was observed. It contains negative parity states
populated by Delta L=1 angular momentum transfer without other significant
contributions. This structure can be interpreted as a novel phenomenon, i.e.
the isovector soft dipole mode associated with the 6Li ground state. The
population of this mode in the charge-exchange reaction is a dominant
phenomenon for this reaction, being responsible for about 60% of the cross
section obtained in the measured energy range.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figure
An observation of spin-valve effects in a semiconductor field effect transistor: a novel spintronic device
We present the first spintronic semiconductor field effect transistor.
The injector and collector contacts of this device were made from magnetic
permalloy thin films with different coercive fields so that they could be
magnetized either parallel or antiparallel to each other in different applied
magnetic fields. The conducting medium was a two dimensional electron gas
(2DEG) formed in an AlSb/InAs quantum well.
Data from this device suggest that its resistance is controlled by two
different types of spin-valve effect: the first occurring at the
ferromagnet-2DEG interfaces; and the second occuring in direct propagation
between contacts.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Statistical mechanics of triangulated ribbons
We use computer simulations and scaling arguments to investigate statistical
and structural properties of a semiflexible ribbon composed of isosceles
triangles. We study two different models, one where the bending energy is
calculated from the angles between the normal vectors of adjacent triangles,
the second where the edges are viewed as semiflexible polymers so that the
bending energy is related to the angles between the tangent vectors of
next-nearest neighbor triangles. The first model can be solved exactly whereas
the second is more involved. It was recently introduced by Liverpool and
Golestanian Phys.Rev.Lett. 80, 405 (1998), Phys.Rev.E 62, 5488 (2000) as a
model for double-stranded biopolymers such as DNA. Comparing observables such
as the autocorrelation functions of the tangent vectors and the bond-director
field, the probability distribution functions of the end-to-end distance, and
the mean squared twist we confirm the existence of local twist correlation, but
find no indications for other predicted features such as twist-stretch
coupling, kinks, or oscillations in the autocorrelation function of the
bond-director field.Comment: 10 pages, 13 figures. submitted to PRE, revised versio
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