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A Coplanar Waveguide Fed Hexagonal Shape Ultra Wide Band Antenna with WiMAX and WLAN Band Rejection
In this paper, a coplanar waveguide (CPW) fed hexagonal shape planar antenna has been considered for ultra-wide band (UWB). This antenna is then modified to obtain dual band rejection. The Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and Wireless Microwave Access (WiMAX) band rejections are realized by symmetrically incorporating a pair of L-shape slots within the ground plane as well as a couple of I-shape stubs inserted on the bottom side of radiating patch. The proposed antenna has stop bands of 5.05-5.92 GHz and 3.19-3.7 GHz while maintaining the wideband performance from 2.88 - 13.71 GHz with reflection coefficient of ≤ -10 dB. The antenna exhibits satisfactory omni-directional radiation characteristics throughout its operating band. The peak gain varies from 2 dB to 6 dB in the entire UWB frequency regions except at the notch bands. Surface current distributions are used to analyze the effects of the L-slot and I-shape stub. The measured group delay has small variation within the operating band except notch bands and hence the proposed antenna may be suitable for UWB applications
Impurity effects on semiconductor quantum bits in coupled quantum dots
We theoretically consider the effects of having unintentional charged
impurities in laterally coupled two-dimensional double (GaAs) quantum dot
systems, where each dot contains one or two electrons and a single charged
impurity in the presence of an external magnetic field. Using molecular orbital
and configuration interaction method, we calculate the effect of the impurity
on the 2-electron energy spectrum of each individual dot as well as on the
spectrum of the coupled-double-dot 2-electron system. We find that the
singlet-triplet exchange splitting between the two lowest energy states, both
for the individual dots and the coupled dot system, depends sensitively on the
location of the impurity and its coupling strength (i.e. the effective charge).
A strong electron-impurity coupling breaks down equality of the two
doubly-occupied singlets in the left and the right dot leading to a mixing
between different spin singlets. As a result, the maximally entangled qubit
states are no longer fully obtained in zero magnetic field case. Moreover, a
repulsive impurity results in a triplet-singlet transition as the impurity
effective charge increases or/and the impurity position changes. We comment on
the impurity effect in spin qubit operations in the double dot system based on
our numerical results.Comment: published version on Physical Review B journal, 25 pages, 26 figure
Radial flow has little effect on clusterization at intermediate energies in the framework of the Lattice Gas Model
The Lattice Gas Model was extended to incorporate the effect of radial flow.
Contrary to popular belief, radial flow has little effect on the clusterization
process in intermediate energy heavy-ion collisions except adding an ordered
motion to the particles in the fragmentation source. We compared the results
from the lattice gas model with and without radial flow to experimental data.
We found that charge yields from central collisions are not significantly
affected by inclusion of any reasonable radial flow.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, submitted to PRC; Minor update and resubmitted to
PR
Efficient Quantum State Tomography for Quantum Information Processing using a two-dimensional Fourier Transform Technique
A new method of quantum state tomography for quantum information processing
is described. The method based on two-dimensional Fourier transform technique
involves detection of all the off-diagonal elements of the density matrix in a
two-dimensional experiment. All the diagonal elements are detected in another
one-dimensional experiment. The method is efficient and applicable to a wide
range of spin systems. The proposed method is explained using a 2 qubit system
and demonstrated by tomographing arbitrary complex density matrices of 2 and 4
qubit systems using simulations.Comment: 11 pages and 2 figure
3D Weak Gravitational Lensing of the CMB and Galaxies
In this paper we present a power spectrum formalism that combines the full
three-dimensional information from the galaxy ellipticity field, with
information from the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We include in this
approach galaxy cosmic shear and galaxy intrinsic alignments, CMB deflection,
CMB temperature and CMB polarisation data; including the inter-datum power
spectra between all quantities. We apply this to forecasting cosmological
parameter errors for CMB and imaging surveys for Euclid-like, Planck, ACTPoL,
and CoRE-like experiments. We show that the additional covariance between the
CMB and ellipticity measurements can improve dark energy equation of state
measurements by 15%, and the combination of cosmic shear and the CMB, from
Euclid-like and CoRE-like experiments, could in principle measure the sum of
neutrino masses with an error of 0.003 eV.Comment: Accepted to MNRA
Freezing a Quantum Magnet by Repeated Quantum Interference: An Experimental Realization
We experimentally demonstrate the phenomenon of dynamical many-body freezing
in a periodically driven Ising chain. Theoretically [Phys. Rev. B 82, 172402
(2010)], for certain values of the drive parameters all fundamental degrees of
freedom contributing to the response dynamics freeze for all time and for
arbitrary initial states. Also, since the condition of freezing involves only
the drive parameters and not on the quantization of the momentum (i.e., the
system-size), our simulation with a small (3-spin) chain captures all salient
features of the freezing phenomenon predicted for the infinite chain. Using
optimal control techniques, we realize high-fidelity cosine modulated drive,
and observe non-monotonic freezing of magnetization at specific frequencies of
modulation. Time-evolution of the excitations in momentum space has been
tracked directly through magnetization measurements
Aeroacoustics of a porous plug supersonic jet noise suppressor
The aeroacoustics of a porous plug supersonic jet noise suppressor was investigated. The needed modifications of the existing multistream coaxial jet rig; the compressed air facility and pressure controls; the design, the fabrication, and the installation of the plenum chamber for the plug nozzle, and the design and the machining of the first contoured plug nozzle were completed. The optical and the aeroacoustic data of the contoured plug nozzles and of the conical convergent nozzle alone were discussed
Spin-polarized transport in inhomogeneous magnetic semiconductors: theory of magnetic/nonmagnetic p-n junctions
A theory of spin-polarized transport in inhomogeneous magnetic semiconductors
is developed and applied to magnetic/nonmagnetic p-n junctions. Several
phenomena with possible spintronic applications are predicted, including
spinvoltaic effect, spin valve effect, and giant magnetoresistance. It is
demonstrated that only nonequilibrium spin can be injected across the
space-charge region of a p-n junction, so that there is no spin injection (or
extraction) at low bias.Comment: Minor Revisions. To appear in Phys. Rev. Let
Screening of charged impurities with multi-electron singlet-triplet spin qubits in quantum dots
Charged impurities in semiconductor quantum dots comprise one of the main
obstacles to achieving scalable fabrication and manipulation of singlet-triplet
spin qubits. We theoretically show that using dots that contain several
electrons each can help to overcome this problem through the screening of the
rough and noisy impurity potential by the excess electrons. We demonstrate how
the desired screening properties turn on as the number of electrons is
increased, and we characterize the properties of a double quantum dot
singlet-triplet qubit for small odd numbers of electrons per dot. We show that
the sensitivity of the multi-electron qubit to charge noise may be an order of
magnitude smaller than that of the two-electron qubit.Comment: 17 pages, 11 figures; typos corrected, minor revision
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