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Negative-Index Refraction in a Lamellar Composite with Alternating Single Negative Layers
Negative-index refraction is achieved in a lamellar composite with
epsilon-negative (ENG) and mu-negative (MNG) materials stacked alternatively.
Based on the effective medium approximation, simultaneously negative effective
permittivity and permeability of such a lamellar composite are obtained
theoretically and further proven by full-wave simulations. Consequently, the
famous left-handed metamaterial comprising split ring resonators and wires is
interpreted as an analogy of such an ENG-MNG lamellar composite. In addition,
beyond the effective medium approximation, the propagating field squeezed near
the ENG/MNG interface is demonstrated to be left-handed surface waves with
backward phase velocity.Comment: 18 pages, 6 figure
Quantum information transfer and models for black hole mechanics
General features of information transfer between quantum subsystems, via
unitary evolution, are investigated, with applications to the problem of
information transfer from a black hole to its surroundings. A particularly
direct form of quantum information transfer is "subspace transfer," which can
be characterized by saturation of a subadditivity inequality. We also describe
more general unitary quantum information transfer, and categorize different
models for black hole evolution. Evolution that only creates paired excitations
inside/outside the black hole is shown not to extract information, but
information-transferring models exist both in the "saturating" and
"non-saturating" category. The former more closely capture thermodynamic
behavior; the latter generically have enhanced energy flux, beyond that of
Hawking.Comment: 31 pages, harvmac. v2: nomenclature change, minor added explanation.
v3: small corrections/rewordings; improved figure; version to match
publication in PR
Shaping the waveform of entangled photons
We demonstrate experimentally the tunable control of the joint spectrum, i.e.
waveform and degree of frequency correlations, of paired photons generated in
spontaneous parametric downconversion. This control is mediated by the spatial
shape of the pump beam in a type-I noncollinear configuration. We discuss the
applicability of this technique to other sources of frequency entangled
photons, such as electromagnetically induced Raman transitions.Comment: 5 Pages, 4 Figure
Classical simulation of quantum many-body systems with a tree tensor network
We show how to efficiently simulate a quantum many-body system with tree
structure when its entanglement is bounded for any bipartite split along an
edge of the tree. This is achieved by expanding the {\em time-evolving block
decimation} simulation algorithm for time evolution from a one dimensional
lattice to a tree graph, while replacing a {\em matrix product state} with a
{\em tree tensor network}. As an application, we show that any one-way quantum
computation on a tree graph can be efficiently simulated with a classical
computer.Comment: 4 pages,7 figure
Temperature dependence of the conductivity of the electronic crystal
We study the temperature dependence of the conductivity of the 2D electronic
solid. In realistic samples, a domain structure forms in the solid and each
domain randomly orients in the absence of the in-plane field. At higher
temperature, the electron transport is governed by thermal activation form of
. The impurities will localize the
electron states along the edges of the crystal domains. At sufficient low
temperature, another transport mechanism called Mott's variable range hopping
mechanism, similar to that in a disorder insulator takes effect. We show that
as the temperature decreases, a crossover from the fixed range hopping of the
transport to the variable range hopping of transport in the 2D electron system
may be experimentally observed.Comment: 4 pages,1 figure
The Droplet State and the Compressibility Anomaly in Dilute 2D Electron Systems
We investigate the space distribution of carrier density and the
compressibility of two-dimensional (2D) electron systems by using the local
density approximation. The strong correlation is simulated by the local
exchange and correlation energies. A slowly varied disorder potential is
applied to simulate the disorder effect. We show that the compressibility
anomaly observed in 2D systems which accompanies the metal-insulator transition
can be attributed to the formation of the droplet state due to disorder effect
at low carrier densities.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
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