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Small-mass effects in heavy-to-light form factors
We present the heavy-to-light form factors with two different non-vanishing
masses at next-to-next-to-leading order and study its expansion in the small
mass. The leading term of this small-mass expansion leads to a factorized
expression for the form factor. The presence of a second mass results in a new
feature, in that the soft contribution develops a factorization anomaly. This
cancels with the corresponding anomaly in the collinear contribution. With the
generalized factorization presented here, it is possible to obtain the leading
small-mass terms for processes with large masses, such as muon-electron
scattering, from the corresponding massless amplitude and the soft
contribution.Comment: 20 pages, 4 figures, 1 ancillary file, published versio
Controlled exchange interaction for quantum logic operations with spin qubits in coupled quantum dots
A two-electron system confined in two coupled semiconductor quantum dots is
investigated as a candidate for performing quantum logic operations on spin
qubits. We study different processes of swapping the electron spins by
controlled switching on/off the exchange interaction. The resulting spin swap
corresponds to an elementary operation in quantum information processing. We
perform a direct time evolution simulations of the time-dependent Schroedinger
equation. Our results show that -- in order to obtain the full interchange of
spins -- the exchange interaction should change smoothly in time. The presence
of jumps and spikes in the corresponding time characteristics leads to a
considerable increase of the spin swap time. We propose several mechanisms to
modify the exchange interaction by changing the confinement potential profile
and discuss their advantages and disadvantages
A subtraction scheme for massive QED
We present an extension of the FKS subtraction scheme beyond next-to-leading
order to deal with soft singularities in fully differential calculations within
QED with massive fermions. After a detailed discussion of the
next-to-next-to-leading order case, we show how to extend the scheme to even
higher orders in perturbation theory. As an application we discuss the
computation of the next-to-next-to-leading order QED corrections to the muon
decay and present differential results with full electron mass dependence.Comment: 25 pages, 6 figures, published versio
Theory of Spin Hall conductivity in n-doped GaAs
We develop a theory of extrinsic spin currents in semiconductors, resulting
from spin-orbit coupling at charged scatterers, which leads to skew scattering
and side jump contributions to the spin Hall conductance. Applying the theory
to bulk n-GaAs, without any free parameters, we find spin currents that are in
reasonable agreement with recent experiments by Kato et al. [Science 306, 1910
(2004)].Comment: 5 pages, 1 figur
A New Model-Independent Method for Extracting Spin-Dependent Cross Section Limits from Dark Matter Searches
A new method is proposed for extracting limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon
interaction cross sections from direct detection dark matter experiments. The
new method has the advantage that the limits on individual WIMP-proton and
WIMP-neutron cross sections for a given WIMP mass can be combined in a simple
way to give a model-independent limit on the properties of WIMPs scattering
from both protons and neutrons in the target nucleus. Extension of the
technique to the case of a target material consisting of several different
species of nuclei is discussed.Comment: 15 pages, 6 Encapsulated Postscript figure
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