An effective bosonic Hamiltonian of 1s excitons with “spin” degrees of freedom in two dimensions is obtained through a projection procedure, starting from a conventional electron-hole Hamiltonian Heh. We first demon...
An effective bosonic Hamiltonian of 1s excitons with “spin” degrees of freedom in two dimensions is obtained through a projection procedure, starting from a conventional electron-hole Hamiltonian Heh. We first demonstrate that a straightforward transformation of Heh into a Hamiltonian of bosonic excitons does not give the two-body interaction between an “up-spin” exciton and a “down-spin” exciton, which are created by the left- and right-circularly polarized light beams, respectively. We then show that this interaction is generated through a projection procedure onto the subspace spanned by 1s excitons, as a renormalization effect coming from higher exciton states. The projection also renormalizes the interaction between 1s excitons with the same spins by a large amount. These renormalization effects are crucial for the polarization dependence of the optical responses from semiconductors. The present theory gives the microscopic foundation of the phenomenology that was successfully applied to the analysis of four-wave mixing experiments in GaAs quantum wells strongly coupled to the radiation field in a high-Q microcavity.
A change of mitochondrial membrane permeability is essential for apoptosis, leading to translocation of apoptogenic cytochrome c and apoptosis-inducing factor into the cytoplasm. We recently showed that the Bcl-2 fami...
A change of mitochondrial membrane permeability is essential for apoptosis, leading to translocation of apoptogenic cytochrome c and apoptosis-inducing factor into the cytoplasm. We recently showed that the Bcl-2 family of proteins regulate cytochrome c release and the mitochondrial membrane potential (Deltapsi) by directly modulating the activity of the voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC) through binding. Here we investigated the biochemical role of the conserved N-terminal homology domain (BH4) of Bcl-x(L), which has been shown to be essential for inhibition of apoptosis, with respect to the regulation of mitochondrial membrane permeability and found that BH4 was required for Bcl-x(L) to prevent cytochrome c release and Deltapsi loss. A study using VDAC liposomes revealed that Bcl-x(L), but not Bcl-x(L) lacking the BH4 domain, inhibited VDAC activity. Furthermore, BH4 oligopeptides of Bcl-2 and Bcl-x(L), but not mutant peptides, were able to inhibit both VDAC activity on liposomes even in the presence of Bax and apoptotic Deltapsi loss in isolated mitochondria. It was also shown that the BH4 domain, fused to the protein transduction domain of HIV TAT protein (TAT-BH4), efficiently prevented apoptotic cell death. These results indicate that the BH4 of Bcl-2/Bcl-x(L) is essential and sufficient for inhibiting VDAC activity, which in turn prevents apoptotic mitochondrial changes, and for preventing apoptotic cell death. Finally, the data suggest that the TAT-BH4 peptide is potentially useful as a therapeutic agent for diseases caused by accelerated apoptosis.
Polarization-dependent nondegenerate four-wave-mixing signal on a self-organized quantum-well material is measured and analyzed with seven-level density matrix description accounting for phase-space filling, excitatio...
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Polarization-dependent nondegenerate four-wave-mixing signal on a self-organized quantum-well material is measured and analyzed with seven-level density matrix description accounting for phase-space filling, excitation-induced dephasing and biexciton formation effects. It reveals these exciton-exciton interactions significantly influence polarization dependence.
We have developed a fully self-consistent method which is suitable to examine field emission currents, on the basis of the density functional theory. In our method, the nearby counterelectrode is not necessary. By usi...
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We have developed a fully self-consistent method which is suitable to examine field emission currents, on the basis of the density functional theory. In our method, the nearby counterelectrode is not necessary. By using this method, we have investigated field emission currents from a biased metallic surface represented by the jellium model. We have found that the energy barrier between the jellium and vacuum becomes lower than the Fermi energy under strong electric fields (e.g., 10 V/nm for rs=4 bohr). In this situation, the slope of the Fowler-Nordheim plot becomes flatter than that under a weaker field.
Synchrotron x-ray-diffraction experiments have been carried out in a perovskite-type vanadium oxide YVO3 to elucidate orbital ordering of the system. The change from C- to G-type orbital ordering at the lower magnetic...
Synchrotron x-ray-diffraction experiments have been carried out in a perovskite-type vanadium oxide YVO3 to elucidate orbital ordering of the system. The change from C- to G-type orbital ordering at the lower magnetic transition temperature was strongly suggested. The long-range orbital ordering appears also in the high-temperature paramagnetic phase. Azimuthal-angle dependence of orbital superlattice reflections indicates that for both orbital-ordering phases the orbital occupation is approximately the dxy1dyz1 and dxy1dzx1 configuration in two sublattices, respectively. These results are in good agreement with a theoretical prediction.
We performed pump-probe transient absorption measurements around the exciton resonance in PbI/sub 2/ thin films. Coherent phonon oscillations corresponding to A/sub 1/ lattice mode were clearly observed at the excitat...
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We performed pump-probe transient absorption measurements around the exciton resonance in PbI/sub 2/ thin films. Coherent phonon oscillations corresponding to A/sub 1/ lattice mode were clearly observed at the excitation below the exciton resonance.
We present the first accurate time-resolved infrared (IR) radiance measurements in two slightly overlapping bands, approximately 7 to 9.5 μm and 9 to 12 μm, for a shock compressed partially transparent inert liquid,...
We present the first accurate time-resolved infrared (IR) radiance measurements in two slightly overlapping bands, approximately 7 to 9.5 μm and 9 to 12 μm, for a shock compressed partially transparent inert liquid, CCl4. The main features of the two-channel radiometer were fast liquid N2 cooled, reverse-biased HgCdTe photovoltaic detectors with cut-off frequencies of 100 MHz at 3 dB. Careful analysis of radiance histories based on detailed spectral information allowed us to derive values of the temperature, average absorption coefficients for the shocked material, and reflectivity of the shock front. Shock pressures varied from 3.3 to 9.4 GPa, and the corresponding temperatures ranged from 680 to 1370 K with an uncertainty of 2.5–3% except the lowest temperature which was accurate to ±4.5%. Our equilibrium vibrational temperatures are very consistent with results other groups obtained by pyrometry in the visible and near-infrared. The dependence of the temperature and linear absorption coefficients on pressure clearly indicate the chemical decomposition threshold at 7 GPa reported earlier by other research groups from the data on electrical conductivity and visible light absorption measurements.
Thorough analysis of the Us vs. Up principal Hugoniot data for liquid CCl4 shows that our values along with all the data reported by other groups except the low pressure results of Dick can be described by the single ...
Thorough analysis of the Us vs. Up principal Hugoniot data for liquid CCl4 shows that our values along with all the data reported by other groups except the low pressure results of Dick can be described by the single smooth function proposed by Woolfolk et al. with the following coefficients: Us/C0=(2.08±0.07)+(1.34±0.04)Up/C0−(1.08±0.07)exp((−1.2±0.2)Up/C0). This satisfies the boundary condition Us=C0=926 m/s at Up=0 and gives the same asymptotic linear relationship as the best-fit expression reported by Dick at shock pressures above ∼16 GPa. On-Hugoniot temperatures calculated using the EOS of Cowperthwaite and Shaw and the revised Us vs. Up are in good agreement with the results of our infrared (IR) measurements and reported optical pyrometry data. The maximum discrepancy does not exceed 5% in the 3.3 to 7 GPa and 10 to 15 GPa shock pressure ranges and is less than 10% for other pressures below 20 GPa. Within the accuracy of our data, the behavior of single-shocked CCl4 does not contradict to the predictions of the constant (∂P/∂T)v model, at least between 3.3 and 7 GPa. All reliable experimental results suggest only two singularities along the principal Hugoniot of CCl4: the threshold of chemical reactions at 7 GPa and complete decomposition at 20 GPa.
Polymerizations of 1-naphthylacetylene (1-NA) and 9-anthrylacetylene (9-AA) by various transition metal catalysts were studied, and properties of the polymers were clarified. 1-NA polymerized with WCl 6 -based catalys...
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