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Coherent transport through graphene nanoribbons in the presence of edge disorder
We simulate electron transport through graphene nanoribbons of experimentally
realizable size (length L up to 2 micrometer, width W approximately 40 nm) in
the presence of scattering at rough edges. Our numerical approach is based on a
modular recursive Green's function technique that features sub-linear scaling
with L of the computational effort. We identify the influence of the broken A-B
sublattice (or chiral) symmetry and of K-K' scattering by Fourier spectroscopy
of individual scattering states. For long ribbons we find Anderson-localized
scattering states with a well-defined exponential decay over 10 orders of
magnitude in amplitude.Comment: 8 pages, 6 Figure
Bulk and shear relaxation in glasses and highly viscous liquids
The ratio between the couplings of a relaxational process to compression and
shear, respectively, is calculated in the Eshelby picture of structural
rearrangements within a surrounding elastic matrix, assuming a constant density
of stable structures in distortion space. The result is compared to
experimental data for the low-temperature tunneling states in glasses and to
Prigogine-Defay data at the glass transition from the literature.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, 53 references; version after understanding the
Prigogine-Defay ratio at the glass transition in the accompanying paper
arXiv:1203.3555 [cond-mat.dis-nn
Nonlinear Transport of Bose-Einstein Condensates Through Waveguides with Disorder
We study the coherent flow of a guided Bose-Einstein condensate incident over
a disordered region of length L. We introduce a model of disordered potential
that originates from magnetic fluctuations inherent to microfabricated guides.
This model allows for analytical and numerical studies of realistic transport
experiments. The repulsive interaction among the condensate atoms in the beam
induces different transport regimes. Below some critical interaction (or for
sufficiently small L) a stationary flow is observed. In this regime, the
transmission decreases exponentially with L. For strong interaction (or large
L), the system displays a transition towards a time dependent flow with an
algebraic decay of the time averaged transmission.Comment: 15 pages, 9 figure
Nano-wires with surface disorder: Giant localization lengths and quantum-to-classical crossover
We investigate electronic quantum transport through nano-wires with one-sided
surface roughness. A magnetic field perpendicular to the scattering region is
shown to lead to exponentially diverging localization lengths in the
quantum-to-classical crossover regime. This effect can be quantitatively
accounted for by tunneling between the regular and the chaotic components of
the underlying mixed classical phase space.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures; final version (including added references
Energy Requirement of Control: Comments on Szilard's Engine and Maxwell's Demon
In mathematical physical analyses of Szilard's engine and Maxwell's demon, a
general assumption (explicit or implicit) is that one can neglect the energy
needed for relocating the piston in Szilard's engine and for driving the trap
door in Maxwell's demon. If this basic assumption is wrong, then the
conclusions of a vast literature on the implications of the Second Law of
Thermodynamics and of Landauer's erasure theorem are incorrect too. Our
analyses of the fundamental information physical aspects of various type of
control within Szilard's engine and Maxwell's demon indicate that the entropy
production due to the necessary generation of information yield much greater
energy dissipation than the energy Szilard's engine is able to produce even if
all sources of dissipation in the rest of these demons (due to measurement,
decision, memory, etc) are neglected.Comment: New, simpler and more fundamental approach utilizing the physical
meaning of control-information and the related entropy production. Criticism
of recent experiments adde
Stress Relaxation in Entangled Polymer Melts
We present an extensive set of simulation results for the stress relaxation
in equilibrium and step-strained bead-spring polymer melts. The data allow us
to explore the chain dynamics and the shear relaxation modulus, , into
the plateau regime for chains with entanglements and into the terminal
relaxation regime for . Using the known (Rouse) mobility of unentangled
chains and the melt entanglement length determined via the primitive path
analysis of the microscopic topological state of our systems, we have performed
parameter -free tests of several different tube models. We find excellent
agreement for the Likhtman-McLeish theory using the double reptation
approximation for constraint release, if we remove the contribution of
high-frequency modes to contour length fluctuations of the primitive chain.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Husimi Maps in Lattices
We build upon previous work that used coherent states as a measurement of the
local phase space and extended the flux operator by adapting the Husimi
projection to produce a vector field called the Husimi map. In this article, we
extend its definition from continuous systems to lattices. This requires making
several adjustments to incorporate effects such as group velocity and multiple
bands. Several phenomena which uniquely occur in lattice systems, like
group-velocity warping and internal Bragg diffraction, are explained and
demonstrated using Husimi maps. We also show that scattering points between
bands and valleys can be identified in the divergence of the Husimi map
Signatures of Dynamical Tunneling in the Wave function of a Soft-Walled Open Microwave Billiard
Evidence for dynamical tunneling is observed in studies of the transmission,
and wave functions, of a soft-walled microwave cavity resonator. In contrast to
previous work, we identify the conditions for dynamical tunneling by monitoring
the evolution of the wave function phase as a function of energy, which allows
us to detect the tunneling process even under conditions where its expected
level splitting remains irresolvable.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
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