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Observation of Majorana Quasiparticles Surface States in Superfluid ${^3}$He-B by Heat Capacity Measurements: We report about direct measurements of heat capacity of Majorana quasiparticles in superfluid ${^3}$He-B which appear near the surface of the experimental bolometer on the coherence length ${\xi}$. Two bolome...
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Electron effective mobility in strained Si/Si1-xGex MOS devices using Monte Carlo simulation: Based on Monte Carlo simulation, we report the study of the inversion layer mobility in n-channel strained Si/ Si1-xGex MOS structures. The influence of the strain in the Si layer and of the doping level is studied. Universa...
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Adiabatic and Non-Adiabatic Contributions to the Free Energy from the Electron-Phonon Interaction for Na, K, Al, and Pb: We calculate the adiabatic contributions to the free energy due to the electron--phonon interaction at intermediate temperatures, $0 \leqslant k_{B} T < \epsilon_{F}$ for the elemental metals Na, K...
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Superradiant scattering from a hydrodynamic vortex: We show that sound waves scattered from a hydrodynamic vortex may be amplified. Such superradiant scattering follows from the physical analogy between spinning black holes and hydrodynamic vortices. However a sonic horizon analogous to the black hole event horizon doe...
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The angular momentum of a magnetically trapped atomic condensate: For an atomic condensate in an axially symmetric magnetic trap, the sum of the axial components of the orbital angular momentum and the hyperfine spin is conserved. Inside an Ioffe-Pritchard trap (IPT) whose magnetic field (B-field) is not axially symmet...
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Equation of state of cubic boron nitride at high pressures and temperatures: We report accurate measurements of the equation of state (EOS) of cubic boron nitride by x-ray diffraction up to 160 GPa at 295 K and 80 GPa in the range 500-900 K. Experiments were performed on single-crystals embedded in a quasi-hydrostati...
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Remarks on the lattice Green's Function for the anisotropic Face Centered Cubic Lattice: An expression for the Green's function (GF) of anisotropic face centered cubic lattice is evaluated analytically and numerically for a single impurity problem. The density of states (DOS), phase shift and scattering cross section...
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Effects of an oscillating field on pattern formation in a ferromagnetic thin film: Analysis of patterns traveling at a low velocity: Magnetic domain patterns under an oscillating field is studied theoretically by using a simple Ising-like model. We propose two ways to investigate the effects of the oscillating field....
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Fidelity and Quantum phase transition for the Heisenberg chain with the next-nearest-neighbor interaction: In this paper, we investigate the fidelity for the Heisenberg chain with the next-nearest-neighbor interaction (or the $J_1-J_2$ model) and analyze its connections with quantum phase transition. We compute the f...
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Quantum levitation of nanoparticles seen with ultracold neutrons: Analyzing new experiments with ultracold neutrons (UCNs) we show that physical adsorption of nanoparticles/nano-droplets, levitating in high-excited states in a deep and broad potential well formed by van der Waals/Casimir-Polder (vdW/CP) forces results ...
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Fast partial decoherence of a superconducting flux qubit in a spin bath: The superconducting flux qubit has two quantum states with opposite magnetic flux. Environment of nuclear spins can find out the direction of the magnetic flux after a decoherence time $\tau_0$ inversely proportional to the magnitude of the flux a...
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Adiabatic self-trapped states in carbon nanotubes: We study here polaron (soliton) states of electrons or holes in a model describing carbon-type nanotubes. In the Hamiltonian of the system we take into account the electron-phonon interaction that arises from the deformation dependencies of both the on-site and the hop...
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Electrical conductivity in granular media and Branly's coherer: A simple experiment: We show how a simple laboratory experiment can illustrate certain electrical transport properties of metallic granular media. At a low critical imposed voltage, a transition from an insulating to a conductive state is observed. This ...
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Thermally induced rotons in two-dimensional dilute Bose gases: We show that roton-like excitations are thermally induced in a two-dimensional dilute Bose gas as a consequence of the strong phase fluctuations in two dimensions. At low momentum, the roton-like excitations lead for small enough temperatures to an anomalou...
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Self-similar space-filling sphere packings in three and four dimensions: Inversive geometry can be used to generate exactly self-similar space-filling sphere packings. We present a construction method in two dimensions and generalize it to search for packings in higher dimensions. We newly discover 29 three-dimensional...
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Influence of Exchange Scattering on Superfluid He-3 states in Nematic Aerogel: The superfluid state in bulk liquid $^3$He is realized in the form of A or B phases. Uniaxially anisotropic aerogel (nafen) stabilizes transition from the normal to the polar superfluid state which on further cooling transitions to the axi...
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Partially incoherent gap solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates: We construct families of incoherent matter-wave solitons in a repulsive degenerate Bose gas trapped in an optical lattice (OL), i.e., gap solitons, and investigate their stability at zero and finite temperature, using the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov equations....
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Mechanisms limiting the coherence time of spontaneous magnetic oscillations driven by DC spin-polarized currents: The spin-transfer torque from a DC spin-polarized current can generate highly-coherent magnetic precession in nanoscale magnetic-multilayer devices. By measuring linewidths of spectra from the resulting r...
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Electronic states in 1/1 Cd6Yb and 1/1 Cd6Ca: Relativistic, correlation, and structural effects: The electronic structure of the rational approximants 1/1 Cd6Yb and 1/1 Cd6Ca to the stable icosahedral CdYb and CdCa quasicrystals is studied by the full-potential linear augmented plane wave method. A comparison is made...
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Magneto-optic far-infrared study of Sr$_{14}$Cu$_{24}$O$_{41}$: triplet excitations in chains: Using far-infrared spectroscopy we have studied the magnetic field and temperature dependence of the spin gap modes in the chains of Sr$_{14}$Cu$_{24}$O$_{41}$. Two triplet modes T$_1$ and T$_2$ were found in the center of ...
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Low-frequency noise and tunnelling magnetoresistance in Fe(110)/MgO(111)/Fe(110) epitaxial magnetic tunnel junctions: We report on tunnelling magnetoresistance (TMR), current-voltage (IV) characteristics and low frequency noise in epitaxially grown Fe(110)/MgO(111)/Fe(110) magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with dimens...
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Physical and mathematical justification of the numerical Brillouin zone integration of the Boltzmann rate equation by Gaussian smearing: Scatterings of electrons at quasiparticles or photons are very important for many topics in solid state physics, e.g., spintronics, magnonics or photonics, and therefore a correct n...
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On the evolution of higher order fluxes in non-equilibrium thermodynamics: The connection between the balance structure of the evolution equations of higher order fluxes and different forms of the entropy current is investigated on the example of rigid heat conductors. Compatibility conditions of the theories are giv...
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Quantum fluctuations of a vortex in a dilute Bose-Einstein condensate: A vortex in a quasi two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate is subject to the Magnus force and can be effectively described as a planar particle in a uniform magnetic field. Quantization of this effective particle leads to the lowest Landau level w...
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Ground State of Quantum Jahn-Teller Model: Selftrapping vs Correlated Phonon-assisted Tunneling: Ground state of the quantum Jahn-Teller model with broken rotational symmetry was investigated by the variational approach in two cases: a lattice and a local ones. Both cases differ by the way of accounting for the nonli...
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On the effect of superfluid flows on the interaction of microwaves with He II: The paper proposes a possible mechanism of interaction of microwaves with superfluid helium that results in an experimentally observed narrow peak of microwave absorption on the frequencies by the order of the roton frequency. The obtained...
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Momentum distribution dynamics of a Tonks-Girardeau gas: Bragg reflections of a quantum many-body wavepacket: The dynamics of the momentum distribution and the reduced single-particle density matrix (RSPDM) of a Tonks-Girardeau (TG) gas is studied in the context of Bragg-reflections of a many-body wavepacket. We find...
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Velocity correlations in dense granular flows: Velocity fluctuations of grains flowing down a rough inclined plane are experimentally studied. The grains at the free surface exhibit fluctuating motions, which are correlated over few grains diameters. The characteristic correlation length is shown to depend on the incli...
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First-principles calculations of the phonon dispersion curves of H on Pt(111): We have calculated the surface phonon dispersion curves for H on Pt(111), using first-principles, total energy calculations based on a mixed-basis set and norm-conserving pseudopotentials. Linear response theory and the harmonic approximat...
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Self-focusing magnetostatic beams in thin magnetic films: The possibility of generation of stable self-focusing beams in in-plane magnetized thin magnetic films is considered and theoretical conditions for the existence of such localized solutions are discussed. It is shown that for the definite direction between stati...
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Heteronuclear molecules in an optical dipole trap: We report on the creation and characterization of heteronuclear KRb Feshbach molecules in an optical dipole trap. Starting from an ultracold gas mixture of K-40 and Rb-87 atoms, we create as many as 25,000 molecules at 300 nK by rf association. Optimizing the associati...
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Coherence-enhanced imaging of a degenerate Bose gas: We present coherence-enhanced imaging, an in situ technique that uses Raman superradiance to probe the spatial coherence properties of an ultracold gas. Applying this method, we obtain a spatially resolved measurement of the condensate number and more generally, of t...
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Spectrum and Screening cloud in the central spin model: We consider an electronic spin in a quantum dot, coupled to the surrounding nuclear spins via inhomogeneous antiferromagnetic hyperfine interactions and subject to a uniform field, which is described by Gaudin's central spin model. We study spectral properties, th...
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The role of the spin in quasiparticle interference: Quasiparticle interference patterns measured by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) can be used to study the local electronic structure of metal surfaces and high temperature superconductors. Here, we show that even in non-magnetic systems the spin of the quasiparticl...
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Multiple time scales and the exponential Ornstein-Uhlenbeck stochastic volatility model: We study the exponential Ornstein-Uhlenbeck stochastic volatility model and observe that the model shows a multiscale behavior in the volatility autocorrelation. It also exhibits a leverage correlation and a probability profile f...
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Coherent control theory and experiment of optical phonons in diamond: The coherent control of optical phonons has been experimentally demonstrated in various physical systems. While the transient dynamics for optical phonons can be explained by phenomenological models, the coherent control experiment cannot be explaine...
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Propagation of self-localised Q-ball solitons in the $^3$He universe: In relativistic quantum field theories, compact objects of interacting bosons can become stable owing to conservation of an additive quantum number $Q$. Discovering such $Q$-balls propagating in the Universe would confirm supersymmetric extensions of...
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Superfluid Edge Dislocation: Transverse Quantum Fluid: Recently, it has been argued by Kuklov et al., that unusual features associated with the superflow-through-solid effect observed in solid He4 can be explained by unique properties of dilute distribution of superfluid edge dislocations. We demonstrate that stability...
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Generalisation of Gilbert damping and magnetic inertia parameter as a series of higher-order relativistic terms: The phenomenological Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation of motion remains as the cornerstone of contemporary magnetisation dynamics studies, wherein the Gilbert damping parameter has been attributed to...
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Fundamental dissipation due to bound fermions in the zero-temperature limit: The ground state of a fermionic condensate is well protected against perturbations in the presence of an isotropic gap. Regions of gap suppression, surfaces and vortex cores which host Andreev-bound states, seemingly lift that strict protect...
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Effective magnetic fields in degenerate atomic gases induced by light beams with orbital angular momenta: We investigate the influence of two resonant laser beams on the mechanical properties of degenerate atomic gases. The control and probe beams of light are considered to have Orbital Angular Momenta (OAM) and act ...
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Exact soliton solution of Spin Chain with a external magnetic field in linear wave background: Employing a simple, straightforward Darboux transformation we construct exact N-soliton solution for anisotropic spin chain driven by a external magnetic field in linear wave background. As a special case the explicit one- ...
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Mass flux and solid growth in solid 4He: 60 mK - 700 mK: We use the thermo-mechanical effect to create a chemical potential difference between two liquid reservoirs connected to each other through Vycor rods in series with solid hcp 4He to confirm that a DC flux of atoms takes place below 600 mK, but find that the flux...
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Range separation combined with the Overhauser model: Application to the H$_2$ molecule along the dissociation curve: The combination of density-functional theory with other approaches to the many-electron problem through the separation of the electron-electron interaction into a short-range and a long-range contribut...
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p-wave Feshbach molecules: We have produced and detected molecules using a p-wave Feshbach resonance between 40K atoms. We have measured the binding energy and lifetime for these molecules and we find that the binding energy scales approximately linearly with magnetic field near the resonance. The lifetime of bound p-w...
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Anyons from fermions with conventional two-body interactions: Emergent anyons are the key elements of the topological quantum computation and topological quantum memory. We study a two-component fermion model with conventional two-body interaction in an open boundary condition and show that several subsets in the low-l...
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Spin motive forces due to magnetic vortices and domain walls: We study spin motive forces, i.e, spin-dependent forces, and voltages induced by time-dependent magnetization textures, for moving magnetic vortices and domain walls. First, we consider the voltage generated by a one-dimensional field-driven domain wall. Nex...
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Magnetic Domain Wall Pumping by Spin Transfer Torque: We show that spin transfer torque from direct spin-polarized current applied parallel to a magnetic domain wall (DW) induces DW motion in a direction independent of the current polarity. This unidirectional response of the DW to spin torque enables DW pumping: long-...
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Heteronuclear quantum gas mixtures: This PhD tutorial article is a review of our experiments on heteronuclear quantum gas mixtures at the University of Hamburg. We introduce basic properties of trapped Fermi-Bose mixtures and demonstrate the achievement of large quantum degenerate mixtures of 40K and 87Rb. Using hetero...
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Dynamics of a Bright Soliton in Bose-Einstein condensates with Time-Dependent Atomic Scattering Length in an Expulsive Parabolic Potential: We present a family of exact solutions of one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, which describe the dynamics of a bright soliton in Bose-Einstein condensates with the ...
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Cross-sections of Andreev scattering by quantized vortex rings in 3He-B: We studied numerically the Andreev scattering cross-sections of three-dimensional isolated quantized vortex rings in superfluid 3He-B at ultra-low temperatures. We calculated the dependence of the cross-section on the ring's size and on the angle ...
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Modelling the term structure of interest rates á la Heath-Jarrow-Morton but with non Gaussian fluctuations: We consider a generalization of the Heath Jarrow Morton model for the term structure of interest rates where the forward rate is driven by Paretian fluctuations. We derive a generalization of It\^{o}'s lemma fo...
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High domain wall velocities induced by current in ultrathin Pt/Co/AlOx wires with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy: Current-induced domain wall (DW) displacements in an array of ultrathin Pt/Co/AlOx wires with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy have been directly observed by wide field Kerr microscopy. DWs in all wir...
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Strongly Interacting Atoms and Molecules in a 3D Optical Lattice: We report on the realization of a strongly interacting quantum degenerate gas of fermionic atoms in a three-dimensional optical lattice. We prepare a band-insulating state for a two-component Fermi gas with one atom per spin state per lattice site. Using...
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Density modulations in an elongated Bose-Einstein condensate released from a disordered potential: We observe large density modulations in time-of-flight images of elongated Bose-Einstein condensates, initially confined in a harmonic trap and in the presence of weak disorder. The development of these modulations duri...
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On surface plasmon polariton wavepacket dynamics in metal-dielectric heterostructures: The WKB equations for dynamics of the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) wavepacket are studied. The dispersion law for the SPP in the metal-dielectric heterostructure with varying thickness of a perforated dielectric layer is rigorou...
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Nanoscale spin-polarization in dilute magnetic semiconductor (In,Mn)Sb: Results of point contact Andreev reflection (PCAR) experiments on (In,Mn)Sb are presented and analyzed in terms of current models of charge conversion at a superconductor-ferromagnet interface. We investigate the influence of surface transparency, ...
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Phase diagram of a Bose gas near a wide Feshbach resonance: In this paper, we study the phase diagram of a homogeneous Bose gas with a repulsive interaction near a wide Feshbach resonance at zero temperature. The Bose-Einstein-condensation (BEC) state of atoms is a metastable state. When the scattering length $a$ excee...
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Simple derivation of the frequency dependent complex heat capacity: This paper gives a simple derivation of the well-known expression of the frequency dependent complex heat capacity in modulated temperature experiments. It aims at clarified again that the generalized calorimetric susceptibility is only due to the non-...
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PT-Symmetric Electronics: We show both theoretically and experimentally that a pair of inductively coupled active LRC circuits (dimer), one with amplification and another with an equivalent amount of attenuation, display all the features which characterize a wide class of non-Hermitian systems which commute with the jo...
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Number statistics of molecules formed from ultra-cold atoms: We calculate the number statistics of a single-mode molecular field excited by photoassociation or via a Feshbach resonance from an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), a normal atomic Fermi gas and a Fermi system with pair correlations (BCS state). We find...
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Determination of anisotropic dipole moments in self-assembled quantum dots using Rabi oscillations: By investigating the polarization-dependent Rabi oscillations using photoluminescence spectroscopy, we determined the respective transition dipole moments of the two excited excitonic states |Ex> and |Ey> of a single s...
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Chern-number spin Hamiltonians for magnetic nano-clusters by DFT methods: Combining field-theoretical methods and ab-initio calculations, we construct an effective Hamiltonian with a single giant-spin degree of freedom, capable of the describing the low-energy spin dynamics of ferromagnetic metal nanoclusters consistin...
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3He on preplated graphite: By using the diffusion Monte Carlo method, we obtained the full phase diagram of $^3$He on top of graphite preplated with a solid layer of $^4$He. All the $^4$He atoms of the substrate were explicitly considered and allowed to move during the simulation. We found that the ground state is a li...
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Dipole moments from atomic-number-dependent potentials in analytic density-functional theory: Molecular dipole moments of analytic density-functional theory are investigated. The effect of element-dependent exchange potentials on these moments are examined by comparison with conventional quantum-chemical methods and ...
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Terahertz Kerr effect: We have observed optical birefringence in liquids induced by single-cycle THz pulses with field strengths exceeding 100 kV/cm. The induced change in polarization is proportional to the square of the THz electric field. The time-dependent THz Kerr signal is composed of a fast electronic response t...
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Efficient unidirectional nanoslit couplers for surface plasmons: Plasmonics is based on surface plasmon polariton (SPP) modes which can be laterally confined below the diffraction limit, thereby enabling ultracompact optical components. In order to exploit this potential, the fundamental bottleneck of poor light-SPP co...
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Numerical study of gas dynamic processes in conditions of silver nanocluster deposition experiments: In this paper, experiments on the deposition of silver nanoclusters are analysed numerically using improved DSMC method. These experiments were made in the Institute of Thermophysics SB RAS recent years, in the contex...
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Fundamental dissipation due to bound fermions in the zero-temperature limit: The ground state of a fermionic condensate is well protected against perturbations in the presence of an isotropic gap. Regions of gap suppression, surfaces and vortex cores which host Andreev-bound states, seemingly lift that strict protect...
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Effect of the Zero-Mode on the Response of a Trapped Bose-Condensed Gas: The dynamical response of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is formulated consistently with quantum field theory and is numerically evaluated. We regard the BEC as a manifestation of the breaking of the global phase symmetry. Then, the Gold...
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Nucleation of helium in liquid lithium: Fusion energy stands out as a promising alternative for a future decarbonised energy system. To be sustainable, future fusion nuclear reactors will have to produce their own tritium. In the so-called breeding blanket of a reactor, the neutron bombardment of lithium will produce t...
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Quantum Ratchets at High Temperatures: Using the continued-fraction method we solve the Caldeira-Leggett master equation in the phase-space (Wigner) representation to study Quantum ratchets. Broken spatial symmetry, irreversibility and periodic forcing allows for a net current in these systems. We calculate this curren...
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Three-dimensional character of atom-chip-based rf-dressed potentials: We experimentally investigate the properties of radio-frequency-dressed potentials for Bose-Einstein condensates on atom chips. The three-dimensional potential forms a connected pair of parallel waveguides. We show that rf-dressed potentials are robu...
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Quench dynamics and non equilibrium phase diagram of the Bose-Hubbard model: We investigate the time evolution of correlations in the Bose-Hubbard model following a quench from the superfluid to the Mott insulating phase. For large values of the final interaction strength the system approaches a distinctly non-equili...
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Static Electric Field in a 1D Systems without Boundaries: In this brief report, we show that in a 1D system with unit-cell doubling, the coefficient of the $\theta$-term is not only determined the topological index, $\int i\bra{u_k}\frac{\d}{\d k}\ket{u_k}{\rm d}k$. Specifically, the relative position between the elect...
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The Kelvin-wave cascade in the vortex filament model: The energy transfer mechanism in zero temperature superfluid turbulence of helium-4 is still a widely debated topic. Currently, the main hypothesis is that weakly nonlinear interacting Kelvin waves transfer energy to sufficiently small scales such that energy is dis...
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Polarization fine-structure and enhanced single-photon emission of self-assembled lateral InGaAs quantum dot molecules embedded in a planar micro-cavity: Single lateral InGaAs quantum dot molecules have been embedded in a planar micro-cavity in order to increase the luminescence extraction efficiency. Using a combi...
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Correlations in Ultracold Trapped Few-Boson Systems: Transition from Condensation to Fermionization: We study the correlation properties of the ground states of few ultracold bosons, trapped in double wells of varying barrier height in one dimension. Extending previous results on the signature of the transition from ...
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Shape dynamics during deposit of simple metal clusters on rare gas matrices: Using a combined quantum mechanical/classical method, we study the collisions of small Na clusters on large Ar clusters as a model for cluster deposit. We work out basic mechanisms by systematic variation of collision energy, system sizes, a...
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Adiabatic Connection in the Low-Density Limit: In density functional theory (DFT), the exchange-correlation functional can be exactly expressed by the adiabatic connection integral. It has been noticed that as lambda goes to infinity, the lambda^(-1) term in the expansion of W(lambda) vanishes. We provide a simple but ...
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Sodium Bose-Einstein Condensates in an Optical Lattice: The phase transition from a superfluid to a Mott insulator has been observed in a $^{23}$Na Bose-Einstein condensate. A dye laser detuned $\approx 5$nm red of the Na $3^2$S$ \to 3^2$P$_{1/2}$ transition was used to form the three dimensional optical lattice. The h...
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High intermodulation gain in a micromechanical Duffing resonator: In this work we use a micromechanical resonator to experimentally study small signal amplification near the onset of Duffing bistability. The device consists of a PdAu beam serving as a micromechanical resonator excited by an adjacent gate electrode. A l...
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Extreme times in financial markets: We apply the theory of continuous time random walks to study some aspects of the extreme value problem applied to financial time series. We focus our attention on extreme times, specifically the mean exit time and the mean first-passage time. We set the general equations for these ex...
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Dynamics of the vortex line density in superfluid counterflow turbulence: Describing superfluid turbulence at intermediate scales between the inter-vortex distance and the macroscale requires an acceptable equation of motion for the density of quantized vortex lines $\cal{L}$. The closure of such an equation for superf...
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Non-equilibrium dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice: The dynamical evolution of a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a one-dimensional lattice potential is investigated theoretically in the framework of the Bose-Hubbard model. The emphasis is set on the far-from-equilibrium evolution in a ca...
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Bound states of attractive Bose-Einstein condensates in shallow traps in two and three dimensions: Using variational and numerical solutions of the mean-field Gross-Pitaevskii equation for attractive interaction (with cubic or Kerr nonlinearity) we show that a stable bound state can appear in a Bose-Einstein condensa...
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Stationary waves in a supersonic flow of a two-component Bose gas: A stationary wave pattern occurring in a flow of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate past an obstacle is studied. We consider the general case of unequal velocities of two superfluid components. The Landau criterium applied to the two-component sys...
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Quantum Monte Carlo study of ring-shaped polariton parametric luminescence in a semiconductor microcavity: We present a quantum Monte Carlo study of the quantum correlations in the parametric luminescence from semiconductor microcavities in the strong exciton-photon coupling regime. As already demonstrated in recent ...
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Bose-Einstein condensate in a quartic potential: Static and Dynamic properties: In this paper, we present a theoretical study of a Bose-Einstein condensate of interacting bosons in a quartic trap in one, two, and three dimensions. Using Thomas-Fermi approximation, suitably complemented by numerical solutions of the G...
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Potential energy threshold for nano-hillock formation by impact of slow highly charged ions on a CaF$_2$(111) surface: We investigate the formation of nano-sized hillocks on the (111) surface of CaF$_2$ single crystals by impact of slow highly charged ions. Atomic force microscopy reveals a surprisingly sharp and wel...
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Nanoelectromechanical systems based on multi-walled nanotubes: nanothermometer, nanorelay and nanoactuator: We report on three new types of nanoelectromechanical systems based on carbon nanotubes: an electromechanical nanothermometer, a nanorelay and a nanomotor. The nanothermometer can be used for accurate temperatu...
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Thomas-Fermi Screening in Graphene: The in-plane static screening of the field originated by a charge placed in a graphene sheet is investigated. A self-consistent field equation in the real space domain is obtained by using a suitable Thomas-Fermi procedure. Exact and approximated (for qualitative considerations) solu...
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Exciton Spin Dynamics in Semiconductor Quantum Wells: In this paper we will review Exciton Spin Dynamics in Semiconductor Quantum Wells. The spin properties of excitons in nanostructures are determined by their fine structure. We will mainly focus in this review on GaAs and InGaAs quantum wells which are model systems.
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Nonlinear Electrokinetics at large applied voltages: The classical theory of electrokinetic phenomena assumes a dilute solution of point-like ions in chemical equilibrium with a surface whose double-layer voltage is of order the thermal voltage, $k_BT/e = 25$ mV. In nonlinear ``induced-charge'' electrokinetic phenomena...
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Numerical observation of Hawking radiation from acoustic black holes in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates: We report numerical evidence of Hawking emission of Bogoliubov phonons from a sonic horizon in a flowing one-dimensional atomic Bose-Einstein condensate. The presence of Hawking radiation is revealed from peculia...
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Resonant Dimer Relaxation in Cold Atoms with a Large Scattering Length: Efimov physics refers to universal phenomena associated with a discrete scaling symmetry in the 3-body problem with a large scattering length. The first experimental evidence for Efimov physics was the recent observation of a resonant peak in the 3...
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Ratchet, pawl and spring Brownian motor: We present a model for a thermal Brownian motor based on Feynman's famous ratchet and pawl device. Its main feature is that the ratchet and the pawl are in different thermal baths and connected by an harmonic spring. We simulate its dynamics, explore its main features and also d...
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Quantum phases of hardcore bosons with long-range interactions on a square lattice: We study the ground-state phase diagrams of hardcore bosons with long-range interactions on a square lattice using the linear spin-wave theory and a cluster mean-field method. Specifically, we consider the two types of long-range inte...
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Density-functional theory of nonequilibrium tunneling: Nanoscale optoelectronics and molecular-electronics systems operate with current injection and nonequilibrium tunneling, phenomena that challenge consistent descriptions of the steady-state transport. The current affects the electron-density variation and hence the...
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On surface plasmon polariton wavepacket dynamics in metal-dielectric heterostructures: The WKB equations for dynamics of the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) wavepacket are studied. The dispersion law for the SPP in the metal-dielectric heterostructure with varying thickness of a perforated dielectric layer is rigorou...
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