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Broadening effects due to alloy scattering in Quantum Cascade Lasers
We report on calculations of broadening effects in QCL due to alloy
scattering. The output of numerical calculations of alloy broadened Landau
levels compare favorably with calculations performed at the self-consistent
Born approximation. Results for Landau level width and optical absorption are
presented. A disorder activated forbidden transition becomes significant in the
vicinity of crossings of Landau levels which belong to different subbands. A
study of the time dependent survival probability in the lowest Landau level of
the excited subband is performed. It is shown that at resonance the population
relaxation occurs in a subpicosecond scale.Comment: 7 pages, 8 figure
Phenomenology of Neutrino Mass Matrix
The search for possible mixing patterns of charged leptons and neutrinos is
important to get clues of the origin of nearly maximal mixings, since there are
some preferred bases of the lepton mass matrices given by underlying theories.
We systematically examine the mixing patterns which could lead to large lepton
mixing angles. We find out 37 mixing patterns are consistent with experimental
data if taking into account phase factors in the mixing matrices. Only 6
patterns of them can explain the observed data without any tuning of
parameters, while the others need particular choices for phase values.Comment: revised reference
Density Matrix Renormalization Group and the Nuclear Shell Model
We describe the use of the Density Matrix Renormalization Group method as a
means of approximately solving large-scale nuclear shell-model problems. We
focus on an angular-momentum-conserving variant of the method and report test
results for the nucleus . The calculation is able to reproduce both
the ground state energy and the energy of the first excited state, by
diagonalizing matrices much smaller than those of the full shell model.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures; To appears in Phys. Rev.
Intermediate left-right gauge symmetry, unification of couplings and fermion masses in SUSY
If left-right gauge theory occurs as an intermediate symmetry in a GUT then,
apart from other advantages, it is possible to obtain the see-saw scale
necessary to understand small neutrino masses with Majorana coupling of order
unity. Barring threshold or non-renormalizable gravitational effects, or
assumed presence of additional light scalar particles of unprescribed origin,
all other attempts to achieve manifest one-loop gauge coupling unification in
SUSY SO(10) with left-right intermediate symmetry have not been successful so
far. Attributing this failure to lack of flavor symmetry in the GUT, we show
how the spontaneous symmetry breaking of leads to such
intermediate scale extending over a wide range, GeV
to GeV. All the charged fermion masses are fitted at the see-saw
scale, GeV which is obtained with
Majorana coupling . Using a constrained parametrization in which
CP-violation originates only from quark sector, besides other predictions made
in the neutrino sector, the reactor mixing angle is found to be which is in the range accessible to ongoing and
planned experiments. The leptonic Dirac phase turns out to be radians with Jarlskog invariant .Comment: Minor clarification and few references added to match the published
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On fermion mass hierarchy with extra dimensions
Recently various phenomenological implications of the existence of extra
space-time dimensions have been investigated. In this letter, we construct a
model with realistic fermion mass hierarchy with (large) extra dimensions
beyond the usual four dimensions. In this model, it is assumed that some matter
fields live in the bulk and the others are confined on our four dimensional
wall. It can naturally reproduce the quark and lepton mass hierarchy and mixing
angles without any symmetry arguments. We also discuss some possibilities of
obtaining suitable neutrino masses and mixings for the solar and atmospheric
neutrino problems.Comment: 13 pages, LaTe
Temperature dependence of the conductivity of the electronic crystal
We study the temperature dependence of the conductivity of the 2D electronic
solid. In realistic samples, a domain structure forms in the solid and each
domain randomly orients in the absence of the in-plane field. At higher
temperature, the electron transport is governed by thermal activation form of
. The impurities will localize the
electron states along the edges of the crystal domains. At sufficient low
temperature, another transport mechanism called Mott's variable range hopping
mechanism, similar to that in a disorder insulator takes effect. We show that
as the temperature decreases, a crossover from the fixed range hopping of the
transport to the variable range hopping of transport in the 2D electron system
may be experimentally observed.Comment: 4 pages,1 figure
Static and dynamic properties of crystalline phases of two-dimensional electrons in a strong magnetic field
We study the cohesive energy and elastic properties as well as normal modes
of the Wigner and bubble crystals of the two-dimensional electron system (2DES)
in higher Landau levels. Using a simple Hartree-Fock approach, we show that the
shear moduli ('s) of these electronic crystals show a non-monotonic
behavior as a function of the partial filling factor at any given
Landau level, with increasing for small values of , before
reaching a maximum at some intermediate filling factor , and
monotonically decreasing for . We also go beyond previous
treatments, and study how the phase diagram and elastic properties of electron
solids are changed by the effects of screening by electrons in lower Landau
levels, and by a finite thickness of the experimental sample. The implications
of these results on microwave resonance experiments are briefly discussed.Comment: Discussion updated - 16 pages, 10 figures; version accepted for
publication in Phys. Rev.
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