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Surface Acoustic Wave induced Transport in a Double Quantum Dot
We report on non-adiabatic transport through a double quantum dot under
irradiation of surface acoustic waves generated on-chip. At low excitation
powers, absorption and emission of single and multiple phonons is observed. At
higher power, sequential phonon assisted tunneling processes excite the double
dot in a highly non-equilibrium state. The present system is attractive for
studying electron-phonon interaction with piezoelectric coupling.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Entanglement distillation by adiabatic passage in coupled quantum dots
Adiabatic passage of two correlated electrons in three coupled quantum dots
is shown to provide a robust and controlled way of distilling, transporting and
detecting spin entanglement, as well as of measuring the rate of spin
disentanglement. Employing tunable interdot coupling the scheme creates, from
an unentangled two-electron state, a superposition of spatially separated
singlet and triplet states. A single measurement of a dot population (charge)
collapses the wave function to either of these states, realizing entanglement
to charge conversion. The scheme is robust, with the efficiency close to 100%,
for a large range of realistic spectral parameters.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Gas signatures of Herbig Ae/Be disks probed with Herschel SPIRE spectroscopy
Herbig Ae/Be objects, like their lower mass counterparts T Tauri stars, are
seen to form a stable circumstellar disk which is initially gas-rich and could
ultimately form a planetary system. We present Herschel SPIRE 460-1540 GHz
spectra of five targets out of a sample of 13 young disk sources, showing line
detections mainly due to warm CO gas.Comment: to be published in proceedings of IAU symposium 299 (Victoria, BC,
Canada, June 2013
Exchange-controlled single-electron-spin rotations in quantum dots
We show theoretically that arbitrary coherent rotations can be performed
quickly (with a gating time ~1 ns) and with high fidelity on the spin of a
single confined electron using control of exchange only, without the need for
spin-orbit coupling or ac fields. We expect that implementations of this scheme
would achieve gate error rates on the order of \eta ~ 10^{-3} in GaAs quantum
dots, within reach of several known error-correction protocolsComment: 4+ pages, 3 figures; v2: Streamlined presentation, final version
published in PRB (Rapid Comm.
Modeling association between DNA copy number and gene expression with constrained piecewise linear regression splines
DNA copy number and mRNA expression are widely used data types in cancer
studies, which combined provide more insight than separately. Whereas in
existing literature the form of the relationship between these two types of
markers is fixed a priori, in this paper we model their association. We employ
piecewise linear regression splines (PLRS), which combine good interpretation
with sufficient flexibility to identify any plausible type of relationship. The
specification of the model leads to estimation and model selection in a
constrained, nonstandard setting. We provide methodology for testing the effect
of DNA on mRNA and choosing the appropriate model. Furthermore, we present a
novel approach to obtain reliable confidence bands for constrained PLRS, which
incorporates model uncertainty. The procedures are applied to colorectal and
breast cancer data. Common assumptions are found to be potentially misleading
for biologically relevant genes. More flexible models may bring more insight in
the interaction between the two markers.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/12-AOAS605 the Annals of
Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Nonadiabatic Electron Manipulation in Quantum-Dot Arrays
A novel method of coherent manipulation of the electron tunneling in
quantum-dots is proposed, which utilizes the quantum interference in
nonadiabatic double-crossing of the discrete energy levels. In this method, we
need only a smoothly varying gate voltage to manipulate electrons, without a
sudden switching-on and off. A systematic design of a smooth gate-pulse is
presented with a simple analytic formula to drive the two-level electronic
state to essentially arbitrary target state, and numerical simulations for
complete transfer of an electron is shown for a coupled double quantum-dots and
an array of quantum-dots. Estimation of the manipulation-time shows that the
present method can be employed in realistic quantum-dots
Emergence of a negative charging energy in a metallic dot capacitively coupled to a superconducting island
We consider the hybrid setup formed by a metallic dot, capacitively coupled
to a superconducting island S connected to a bulk superconductor by a Josephson
junction. Charge fluctuations in S act as a dynamical gate and overscreen the
electronic repulsion in the metallic dot, producing an attractive interaction
between two additional electrons. As the offset charge of the metallic dot is
increased, the dot charging curve shows positive steps () followed by
negative ones () signaling the occurrence of a negative differential
capacitance. A proposal for experimental detection is given, and potential
applications in nanoelectronics are mentioned.Comment: Revised version, 4 pages, 4 figure
Symbolic computation and exact distributions of nonparametric test statistics
We show how to use computer algebra for computing exact distributions on nonparametric statistics. We give several examples of nonparametric statistics with explicit probability generating functions that can be handled this way. In particular, we give a new table of critical values of the Jonckheere-Terpstra test that extends tables known in the literature
Theory of a two-level artificial molecule in laterally coupled quantum Hall droplets
We present a theory of laterally coupled quantum Hall droplets with electron
numbers (N1,N2) at filling factor . We show that the edge states of each
droplet are tunnel coupled and form a two-level artificial molecule. By
populating the edge states with one electron each a two electron molecule is
formed. We predict the singlet-triplet transitions of the effective
two-electron molecule as a function of the magnetic field, the number of
electrons, and confining potential using the configuration interaction method
(CI) coupled with the unrestricted Hartree-Fock (URHF) basis. In addition to
the singlet-triplet transitions of a 2 electron molecule involving edge states,
triplet transitions involving transfer of electrons to the center of individual
dots exist for .Comment: 5 pages, 10 figure
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