We present experimental results of μ-atomic and μ-molecular processes induced by negative muons in pure helium and helium-deuterium mixtures. The experiment was performed at the Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland)...
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We present experimental results of μ-atomic and μ-molecular processes induced by negative muons in pure helium and helium-deuterium mixtures. The experiment was performed at the Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland). We measured relative intensities of muonic x-ray K series transitions in (μHe3,4)* atoms in pure helium as well as in helium-deuterium mixtures. The dμHe3 radiative decay probabilities for two different helium densities in D2+He3 mixture were also determined. Finally, the q1sHe probability for a dμ atom formed in an excited state to reach the ground state was measured and compared with theoretical calculations using a simple cascade model.
We study the loss of entanglement of a bipartite state subjected to discarding or measurement of one qubit. Examining behavior of different entanglement measures, we find that entanglement of formation, entanglement c...
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We study the loss of entanglement of a bipartite state subjected to discarding or measurement of one qubit. Examining behavior of different entanglement measures, we find that entanglement of formation, entanglement cost, logarithmic negativity, and one-way distillable entanglement are lockable measures in that they can decrease arbitrarily after measuring one qubit. We prove that any convex and asymptotically noncontinuous measure is lockable. As a consequence, all the convex-roof measures can be locked. The relative entropy of entanglement is shown to be a nonlockable measure.
We characterize the set of shared quantum states which contain a cryptographically private key. This allows us to recast the theory of privacy as a paradigm closely related to that used in entanglement manipulation. I...
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We characterize the set of shared quantum states which contain a cryptographically private key. This allows us to recast the theory of privacy as a paradigm closely related to that used in entanglement manipulation. It is shown that one can distill an arbitrarily secure key from bound entangled states. There are also states that have less distillable private keys than the entanglement cost of the state. In general, the amount of distillable key is bounded from above by the relative entropy of entanglement. Relationships between distillability and distinguishability are found for a class of states which have Bell states correlated to separable hiding states. We also describe a technique for finding states exhibiting irreversibility in entanglement distillation.
A radical change (Feenstra, Holmer, Tromans, Moos and Mieritz 2003) in manufacturing is starting to occur. The Rapid Manufacturing, which can be defined as "the use of an additive manufacturing process to constru...
A radical change (Feenstra, Holmer, Tromans, Moos and Mieritz 2003) in manufacturing is starting to occur. The Rapid Manufacturing, which can be defined as "the use of an additive manufacturing process to construct parts that are used directly as finished products or components", is set to supersede many current uses of moulds and dies. Rapid Manufacturing (Wohlers 2003) is based on new additive manufacturing techniques that produce fully functional parts directly from a 3D CAD model without the use of tooling. The ambitious scope of the European Initiative CUSTOM-FIT, a Framework 6 Integrated Project, is to create a fully integrated system for the design, production and supply of individualized custom-products. Within the cases under study there are strong connections to sporting articles. This project is being funded by the European Commission over the next four years and a half and will become central to European research concerning Rapid Manufacturing (RM).
Few-electron eigenstates confined in coupled concentric double quantum rings are studied by the exact diagonalization technique. We show that the magnetic field suppresses the tunnel coupling between the rings, locali...
Few-electron eigenstates confined in coupled concentric double quantum rings are studied by the exact diagonalization technique. We show that the magnetic field suppresses the tunnel coupling between the rings, localizing the single-electron states in the internal ring and the few-electron states in the external ring. The magnetic fields inducing the ground-state angular momentum transitions are determined by the distribution of the electron charge between the rings. The charge redistribution is translated into modifications of the fractional Aharonov-Bohm period. We demonstrate that the electron distribution can be deduced from the cusp pattern of the chemical potentials governing the single-electron charging properties of the system. The evolution of the electron-electron correlations to the high field limit of a classical Wigner molecule is discussed.
The phase diagram for the ground-state symmetry of three electrons confined in a pair of laterally coupled dots is determined as function of the interdot distance and the magnetic field. With a few exceptions the grou...
The phase diagram for the ground-state symmetry of three electrons confined in a pair of laterally coupled dots is determined as function of the interdot distance and the magnetic field. With a few exceptions the ground-state spin and parity symmetry sequence of a circular harmonic quantum dot is conserved. Reentrant behavior of some energy levels as ground states is found as a function of the magnetic field. The disappearance of interdot tunnelling due to a strong magnetic field leads to ground-state degeneracy of the even and odd parity energy levels. It is shown that at a high magnetic field the system can be closely approximated by a two-electron system confined in one dot and a spectator electron localized in the other. Broken-parity eigenstates with a classical charge distribution are constructed and used to discuss the interdot electron-electron correlations.
The time-dependent Schrödinger equation for an electron passing through a semiconductor quantum ring of nonzero width is solved in the presence of a perpendicular homogeneous magnetic field. We study the effects ...
The time-dependent Schrödinger equation for an electron passing through a semiconductor quantum ring of nonzero width is solved in the presence of a perpendicular homogeneous magnetic field. We study the effects of the Lorentz force on the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations. Within the range of incident momentum for which the ring is transparent at zero magnetic field, the Lorentz force leads to a decrease of the oscillation amplitude, due to the asymmetry in the electron injection in the two arms of the ring. For structures in which the fast electrons are predominantly backscattered, the Lorentz force assists in the transport, producing an initial increase of the corresponding oscillation amplitude. Furthermore, we discuss the effect of elastic scattering on a potential cavity within one of the arms of the ring. For the cavity tuned to shift maximally the phase of the maximum of the wave packet we observe a π shift of the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations. For other cavity depths oscillations with a period of half of the flux quantum are observed.
Binding energies of negative (X−) and positive trions (X+) in quantum wires are studied for strong quantum confinement of carriers which results in a numerical exactly solvable model. The relative electron and hole co...
Binding energies of negative (X−) and positive trions (X+) in quantum wires are studied for strong quantum confinement of carriers which results in a numerical exactly solvable model. The relative electron and hole confinement have a strong effect on the stability of trions. For equal hole and electron confinement, X+ is more stable but a small imbalance of the particle confinement towards a stronger hole confinement, e.g., due to its larger effective mass, leads to the interchange of X− and X+ recombination lines in the photoluminescent spectrum as was recently observed experimentally. In case of larger X− stability, a magnetic field oriented parallel to the wire axis leads to a stronger increase of the X+ binding energy resulting in a crossing of the X+ and X− lines.
We study the Stark effect for an exciton confined in a pair of vertically coupled quantum dots. A single-band approximation for the hole and a parabolic lateral confinement potential are adopted which allows for the s...
We study the Stark effect for an exciton confined in a pair of vertically coupled quantum dots. A single-band approximation for the hole and a parabolic lateral confinement potential are adopted which allows for the separation of the lateral center-of-mass motion and consequently for an exact numerical solution of the Schrödinger equation. We show that for intermediate tunnel coupling the external electric field leads to the dissociation of the exciton via an avoided crossing of bright and dark exciton energy levels which results in an atypical form of the Stark shift. The electric-field-induced dissociation of the negative trion is studied using the approximation of frozen lateral degrees of freedom. It is shown that in a symmetric system of coupled dots the trion is more stable against dissociation than the exciton. For an asymmetric system of coupled dots the trion dissociation is accompanied by a positive curvature of the recombination energy line as a function of the electric field.
We present ab initio calculations of conductivity, thermopower, Lorenz factor, and Hall coefficient for doped cobalt antimony skutterudites which are currently investigated experimentally for their thermoelectric prop...
We present ab initio calculations of conductivity, thermopower, Lorenz factor, and Hall coefficient for doped cobalt antimony skutterudites which are currently investigated experimentally for their thermoelectric properties. The electronic structure is calculated by the full potential linear augmented-plane-wave method. Using the results and shifting the Fermi level in a rigid way to mimic doping, Onsager coefficients are calculated in the framework of Boltzmann transport theory with a constant relaxation time. To this end electron velocities are calculated using a spectral collocation method. These results compare favorably with experiments.
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