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Dipolar effect in coherent spin mixing of two atoms in a single optical lattice site
We show that atomic dipolar effects are detectable in the system that
recently demonstrated two-atom coherent spin dynamics within individual lattice
sites of a Mott state. Based on a two-state approximation for the two-atom
internal states and relying on a variational approach, we have estimated the
spin dipolar effect. Despite the absolute weakness of the dipole-dipole
interaction, it is shown that it leads to experimentally observable effects in
the spin mixing dynamics.Comment: 4 pages, 3 color eps figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. Let
A single intrinsic Josephson junction with double-sided fabrication technique
We make stacks of intrinsic Josephson junctions (IJJs) imbedded in the bulk
of very thin (~nm) single crystals.
By precisely controlling the etching depth during the double-sided fabrication
process, the stacks can be reproducibly tailor-made to be of any microscopic
height (), i.e. enclosing a specified number of IJJ (0-6),
including the important case of a single junction. We discuss reproducible
gap-like features in the current-voltage characteristics of the samples at high
bias.Comment: 3 pages, 4 figures, to be published in APL May. 2
Superconducting properties of ultrathin Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x single crystals
We use Ar-ion milling to thin Bi2212 single crystals down to a few nanometers
or one-to-two (CuO2)2 layers. With decreasing the thickness, superconducting
transition temperature gradually decreases to zero and the in-plane resistivity
increases to large values indicating the existence of a
superconductor-insulator transition in ultrathin Bi2212 single crystals.Comment: 17 pages, 6 figures, to appear in J. Appl. Phys. 98(3) 200
Coherent population trapping in a dressed two-level atom via a bichromatic field
We show theoretically that by applying a bichromatic electromagnetic field,
the dressed states of a monochromatically driven two-level atom can be pumped
into a coherent superposition termed as dressed-state coherent population
trapping. Such effect can be viewed as a new doorknob to manipulate a two-level
system via its control over dressed-state populations. Application of this
effect in the precision measurement of Rabi frequency, the unexpected
population inversion and lasing without inversion are discussed to demonstrate
such controllability.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figure
A qubit strongly-coupled to a resonant cavity: asymmetry of the spontaneous emission spectrum beyond the rotating wave approximation
We investigate the spontaneous emission spectrum of a qubit in a lossy
resonant cavity. We use neither the rotating-wave approximation nor the Markov
approximation. The qubit-cavity coupling strength is varied from weak, to
strong, even to lower bound of the ultra-strong. For the weak-coupling case,
the spontaneous emission spectrum of the qubit is a single peak, with its
location depending on the spectral density of the qubit environment. Increasing
the qubit-cavity coupling increases the asymmetry (the positions about the
qubit energy spacing and heights of the two peaks) of the two spontaneous
emission peaks (which are related to the vacuum Rabi splitting) more.
Explicitly, for a qubit in a low-frequency intrinsic bath, the height asymmetry
of the splitting peaks becomes larger, when the qubit-cavity coupling strength
is increased. However, for a qubit in an Ohmic bath, the height asymmetry of
the spectral peaks is inverted from the same case of the low-frequency bath,
when the qubit is strongly coupled to the cavity. Increasing the qubit-cavity
coupling to the lower bound of the ultra-strong regime, the height asymmetry of
the left and right peak heights are inverted, which is consistent with the same
case of low-frequency bath, only relatively weak. Therefore, our results
explicitly show how the height asymmetry in the spontaneous emission spectrum
peaks depends not only on the qubit-cavity coupling, but also on the type of
intrinsic noise experienced by the qubit.Comment: 10pages, 5 figure
Effects of critical temperature inhomogeneities on the voltage-current characteristics of a planar superconductor near the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition
We analyze numerically how the voltage-current (V-I) characteristics near the
so-called Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition of 2D
superconductors are affected by a random spatial Gaussian distribution of
critical temperature inhomogeneities with long characteristic lengths (much
larger than the in-plane superconducting coherence length amplitude). Our
simulations allow to quantify the broadening around the average BKT transition
temperature of both the exponent alpha in V I^alpha and of the resistance V/I.
These calculations reveal that strong spatial redistributions of the local
current will occur around the transition as either I or the temperature T are
varied. Our results also support that the condition alpha=3 provides a good
estimate for the location of the average BKT transition temperature, and that
extrapolating to alpha->1 the alpha(T) behaviour well below the transition
provides a good estimate for the average mean-field critical temperature.Comment: 18 pages; pdfLaTeX; 1 TeX file + 8 PDF files for figures
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Topological quantum phase transition in an extended Kitaev spin model
We study the quantum phase transition between Abelian and non-Abelian phases
in an extended Kitaev spin model on the honeycomb lattice, where the periodic
boundary condition is applied by placing the lattice on a torus. Our analytical
results show that this spin model exhibits a continuous quantum phase
transition. Also, we reveal the relationship between bipartite entanglement and
the ground-state energy. Our approach directly shows that both the entanglement
and the ground-state energy can be used to characterize the topological quantum
phase transition in the extended Kitaev spin model.Comment: 9 Pages, 4 figure
Implementing topological quantum manipulation with superconducting circuits
A two-component fermion model with conventional two-body interactions was
recently shown to have anyonic excitations. We here propose a scheme to
physically implement this model by transforming each chain of two two-component
fermions to the two capacitively coupled chains of superconducting devices. In
particular, we elaborate how to achieve the wanted operations to create and
manipulate the topological quantum states, providing an experimentally feasible
scenario to access the topological memory and to build the anyonic
interferometry.Comment: 4 pages with 3 figures; V2: published version with minor updation
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