text
stringlengths
89
2.49k
category
stringclasses
19 values
Fluctuation electromagnetic conservative -dissipative interaction and heating of two closely spaced parallel plates in relative motion. Nonrelativistic approximation.1: For the first time, we calculate the heating rate, attractive conservative and tangential dissipative fluctuation electromagnetic forces felt by a ...
cond-mat_other
Device modeling of long-channel nanotube electro-optical emitter: We present a simple analytic model of nanotube electro-optical emitters, along with improved experimental measurements using PMMA-passivated devices with reduced hysteresis. Both the ambipolar electrical characteristics and the motion of the infrared-emi...
cond-mat_other
Chaos due to parametric excitation: phase space symmetry and photon correlations: We discuss dissipative chaos showing symmetries in the phase space and nonclassical statistics for a parametrically driven nonlinear Kerr resonator (PDNR). In this system an oscillatory mode is created in the process of degenerate down-...
cond-mat_other
Effects of spatial and temporal noise on a cubic-autocatalytic reaction-diffusion model: We characterize the influence that external noise, with both spatial and temporal correlations, has on the scale dependence of the reaction parameters of a cubic autocatalytic reaction diffusion (CARD) system. Interpreting the CA...
cond-mat_other
Quantum degenerate two-species Fermi-Fermi mixture coexisting with a Bose-Einstein condensate: We report on the generation of a quantum degenerate Fermi-Fermi mixture of two different atomic species. The quantum degenerate mixture is realized employing sympathetic cooling of fermionic Li-6 and K-40 gases by an evapor...
cond-mat_other
Dipolar spinor Bose-Einstein condensates: Under many circumstances, the only important two-body interaction between atoms in ultracold dilute atomic vapors is the short-ranged isotropic s-wave collision. Recent studies have shown, however, that situations may arise where the dipolar interaction between atomic magnetic ...
cond-mat_other
Emergence of oscillons in kink-impurity interactions: The (1+1)-dimensional classical $\varphi^4$ theory contains stable, topological excitations in the form of solitary waves or kinks, as well as stable but non-topological solutions, such as the oscillon. Both are used in effective descriptions of excitations througho...
cond-mat_other
Novel Methods to Create Multielectron Bubbles in Superfluid Helium: An equilibrium multielectron bubble in liquid helium is a fascinating object with a spherical two-dimensional electron gas on its surface. We describe two ways of creating them. MEBs have been observed in the dome of a cylindrical cell with an unexpect...
cond-mat_other
Limits to the analogue Hawking temperature in a Bose-Einstein condensate: Quasi-one dimensional outflow from a dilute gas Bose-Einstein condensate reservoir is a promising system for the creation of analogue Hawking radiation. We use numerical modeling to show that stable sonic horizons exist in such a system under rea...
cond-mat_other
Two approaches for describing the Casimir interaction with graphene: density-density correlation function versus polarization tensor: The comparison studies of theoretical approaches to the description of the Casimir interaction in layered systems including graphene is performed. It is shown that at zero temperature ...
cond-mat_other
Simulations of Surface X-ray Diffraction from a Monolayer 4He Film Adsorbed on Graphite: We carried out simulations of crystal truncation rod (CTR) scatterings, i.e., one of the surface X-ray diffraction techniques with atomic resolution, from a monolayer He film adsorbed on graphite. Our simulations reveal that the ...
cond-mat_other
Motion of vortices in ferromagnetic spin-1 BEC: The paper investigates dynamics of nonsingular vortices in a ferromagnetic spin-1 BEC, where spin and mass superfluidity coexist in the presence of uniaxial anisotropy (linear and quadratic Zeeman effect). The analysis is based on hydrodynamics following from the Gross-Pi...
cond-mat_other
Dissipation-managed soliton in a quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate: We use the time-dependent mean-field Gross-Pitaevskii equation to study the formation of a dynamically-stabilized dissipation-managed bright soliton in a quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). Because of three-body recombi...
cond-mat_other
Mesoscopic Aspects of Strongly Interacting Cold Atoms: Harmonically trapped lattice bosons with strong repulsive interactions exhibit a superfluid-Mott-insulator heterostructure in the form of a "wedding cake". We discuss the mesoscopic aspects of such a system within a one-dimensional scattering matrix approach and ca...
cond-mat_other
Attractive Fermi gases with unequal spin populations in highly elongated traps: We investigate two-component attractive Fermi gases with imbalanced spin populations in trapped one dimensional configurations. The ground state properties are determined within local density approximation, starting from the exact Bethe-a...
cond-mat_other
Sufficient conditions for two-dimensional localization by arbitrarily weak defects in periodic potentials with band gaps: We prove, via an elementary variational method, 1d and 2d localization within the band gaps of a periodic Schrodinger operator for any mostly negative or mostly positive defect potential, V, whose...
cond-mat_other
Electrical Tuning of Terahertz Plasmonic Crystal Phases: We present an extensive study of resonant two-dimensional (2D) plasmon excitations in grating-gated quantum well heterostructures, which enable an electrical control of periodic charge carrier density profile. Our study combines theoretical and experimental inves...
cond-mat_other
Quantum complementarity of microcavity polaritons: We present an experiment that probes polariton quantum correlations by exploiting quantum complementarity. Specifically, we find that polaritons in two distinct idler-modes interfere if and only if they share the same signal-mode so that "which-way" information cannot ...
cond-mat_other
Quantum Phases of Ultracold Bosonic Atoms in a Two-Dimensional Optical Superlattice: We study quantum phases of ultracold bosonic atoms in a two-dimensional optical superlattice. The extended Bose-Hubbard model derived from the system of ultracold bosonic atoms in an optical superlattice is solved numerically with Gu...
cond-mat_other
A possibility for precise Weinberg angle measurement in centrosymmetric crystals with axis: We demonstrate that parity nonconserving interaction due to the nuclear weak charge Q_W leads to nonlinear magnetoelectric effect in centrosymmetric paramagnetic crystals. It is shown that the effect exists only in crystals wi...
cond-mat_other
Charge density wave in graphene: magnetic-field-induced Peierls instability: We suggest that a magnetic-field-induced Peierls instability accounts for the recent experiment of Zhang et al. in which unexpected quantum Hall plateaus were observed at high magnetic fields in graphene on a substrate. This Peierls instabil...
cond-mat_other
Conformal Mapping on Rough Boundaries I: Applications to harmonic problems: The aim of this study is to analyze the properties of harmonic fields in the vicinity of rough boundaries where either a constant potential or a zero flux is imposed, while a constant field is prescribed at an infinite distance from this boun...
cond-mat_other
The Projected Gross-Pitaevskii Equation for harmonically confined Bose gases: We extend the Projected Gross Pitaevskii equation formalism of Davis et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. \bf{87}, 160402 (2001)] to the experimentally relevant case of harmonic potentials. We outline a robust and accurate numerical scheme that can eff...
cond-mat_other
Critical dislocation speed in helium-4 crystals: Our experiments show that in $^4$He crystals, the binding of $^3$He impurities to dislocations does not necessarily imply their pinning. Indeed, in these crystals, there are two different regimes of the motion of dislocations when impurities bind to them. At lowdriving s...
cond-mat_other
The interplay between magnetism, structure, and strong electron-phonon coupling in binary FeAs under pressure: Unlike the ferropnictide superconductors, which crystallize in a tetragonal crystal structure, binary FeAs forms in an orthorhombic crystal structure, where the local atomic environment resembles a highly di...
cond-mat_other
Simulation study of the two-dimensional Burridge-Knopoff model of earthquakes: Spatiotemporal correlations of the two-dimensional spring-block (Burridge-Knopoff) model of earthquakes are extensively studied by means of numerical computer simulations. The model is found to exhibit either ``subcritical'' or ``supercrit...
cond-mat_other
Artificial electromagnetism for neutral atoms: Escher staircase and Laughlin liquids: We show how lasers may create fields which couple to neutral atoms in the same way that the electromagnetic fields couple to charged particles. These fields are needed for using neutral atoms as an analog quantum computer for simula...
cond-mat_other
Tracking Intrinsic Non-Hermitian Skin Effect in Lossy Lattices: Non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), characterized by a majority of eigenstates localized at open boundaries, is one of the most iconic phenomena in non-Hermitian lattices. Despite notable experimental studies implemented, most of them witness only certain si...
cond-mat_other
On the Transition to Turbulence of Oscillatory Flow of Liquid Helium-4: Oscillating solid bodies have frequently been used for studying the properties of normal and superfluid helium. In particular, the transition from laminar flow to turbulence has attracted much interest recently. The purpose of this note is to revie...
cond-mat_other
Limits to inertial vibration power harvesting: power-spectral-density approach and its applications: Maximum output powers of vibration-driven inertial power harvesters reported in literature exhibit sizable variations, even when normalized by the device weight or their maximum linear size. To help establish a common...
cond-mat_other
Turbulent superfluid profiles in a counterflow channel: We have developed a two-dimensional model of quantised vortices in helium II moving under the influence of applied normal fluid and superfluid in a counterflow channel. We predict superfluid and vortex-line density profiles which could be experimentally tested usi...
cond-mat_other
Genuine phase diffusion of a Bose-Einstein condensate in the microcanonical ensemble: A classical field study: Within the classical field model, we find that the phase of a Bose-Einstein condensate undergoes a true diffusive motion in the microcanonical ensemble, the variance of the condensate phase change between ti...
cond-mat_other
A simple position operator for periodic systems: We present a position operator that is compatible with periodic boundary conditions (PBC). It is a one-body operator that can be applied in calculations of correlated materials by simply replacing the traditional position vector by the new definition. We show that it sat...
cond-mat_other
Calculations of two-color interband optical injection and control of carrier population, spin, current, and spin current in bulk semiconductors: Quantum interference between one- and two-photon absorption pathways allows coherent control of interband transitions in unbiased bulk semiconductors; carrier population, ca...
cond-mat_other
The S shape of a granular pile in a rotating drum: The shape of a granular pile in a rotating drum is investigated. Using Discrete Elements Method (DEM) simulations we show that the "S shape" obtained for high rotation speed can be accounted for by the friction on the end plates. A theoretical model which accounts for ...
cond-mat_other
Landau damping: instability mechanism of superfluid Bose gases moving in optical lattices: We investigate Landau damping of Bogoliubov excitations in a dilute Bose gas moving in an optical lattice at finite temperatures. Using a 1D tight-binding model, we explicitly obtain the Landau damping rate, the sign of which d...
cond-mat_other
The Dynamic Structure Factor of the 1D Bose Gas near the Tonks-Girardeau Limit: While the 1D Bose gas appears to exhibit superfluid response under certain conditions, it fails the Landau criterion according to the elementary excitation spectrum calculated by Lieb. The apparent riddle is solved by calculating the dyna...
cond-mat_other
Measurements on Melting Pressure, Metastable Solid Phases, and Molar Volume of Univariant Saturated Helium Mixture: A concentration-saturated helium mixture at the melting pressure consists of two liquid phases and one or two solid phases. The equilibrium system is univariant, whose properties depend uniquely on temp...
cond-mat_other
Theoretical analysis of beta- emission from 63-Ni nano-particles in glassy 15-P: The energy loss of $\beta^-$ emission emitting from a 63-Ni source in a phosphorus 15-P scintillation medium is theoretically studied. It has shown the $\beta$ energy spectrum absorption in ${15}P$ had nearly 100% efficiency for $\leq$ 2...
cond-mat_other
Feshbach spectroscopy of a K-Rb atomic mixture: We perform extensive magnetic Feshbach spectroscopy of an ultracold mixture of fermionic 40K and bosonic 87Rb atoms. The magnetic-field locations of 14 interspecies resonances is used to construct a quantum collision model able to predict accurate collisional parameters f...
cond-mat_other
Limits to the analogue Hawking temperature in a Bose-Einstein condensate: Quasi-one dimensional outflow from a dilute gas Bose-Einstein condensate reservoir is a promising system for the creation of analogue Hawking radiation. We use numerical modeling to show that stable sonic horizons exist in such a system under rea...
cond-mat_other
Computational spectroscopy of helium-solvated molecules: effective inertia, from small He clusters toward the nano-droplet regime: Accurate computer simulations of the rotational dynamics of linear molecules solvated in He clusters indicate that the large-size (nano-droplet) regime is attained quickly for light rotor...
cond-mat_other
Strong extinction of a far-field laser beam by a single quantum dot: Through the utilization of index-matched GaAs immersion lens techniques we demonstrate a record extinction (12%) of a far-field focused laser by a single InAs/GaAs quantum dot. This contrast level enables us to report for the first time resonant laser...
cond-mat_other
Stability of the density-wave state of a dipolar condensate in a pancake trap: We study a dipolar boson-fermion mixture in a pancake geometry at absolute zero temperature, generalizing our previous work on the stability of polar condensates and the formation of a density-wave state in cylindrical traps. After examini...
cond-mat_other
Dense electron-hole plasma in silicon light emitting diodes: Efficient electroluminescence of silicon light emitting p-n diodes with different sizes and shapes is investigated at room temperature. High quantum efficiency of the diodes, a long linear dependence of the electroluminescence intensity on the diode current a...
cond-mat_other
Feshbach resonances with large background scattering length: interplay with open-channel resonances: Feshbach resonances are commonly described by a single-resonance Feshbach model, and open-channel resonances are not taken into account explicitly. However, an open-channel resonance near threshold limits the range of...
cond-mat_other
Semi-analytic Faddeev solution to the $N$-boson problem with zero-range interactions: We study two-body correlations for $N$ identical bosons by use of the hyperspherical adiabatic expansion method. We use the zero-range interaction and derive a transcendental equation determining the key ingredient of the hyperradia...
cond-mat_other
Vortex Lattice in a Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensate: Numerical simulations of vortex motion in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate were performed by solving the two-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation in the presence of a simple phenomenological model of interaction between the condensate and the finite temperature ...
cond-mat_other
Dipolar spinor Bose-Einstein condensates: Under many circumstances, the only important two-body interaction between atoms in ultracold dilute atomic vapors is the short-ranged isotropic s-wave collision. Recent studies have shown, however, that situations may arise where the dipolar interaction between atomic magnetic ...
cond-mat_other
The Structure of Integrable One-Dimensional Systems: We explain the relationship between the classical description of an integrable system in terms of invariant tori and action-angle variables, and the quantum description in terms of the asymptotic Bethe ansatz.
cond-mat_other
Classical Region of a Trapped Bose Gas: The classical region of a Bose gas consists of all single-particle modes that have a high average occupation and are well-described by a classical field. Highly-occupied modes only occur in massive Bose gases at ultra-cold temperatures, in contrast to the photon case where there ...
cond-mat_other
Phase-controlled, heterodyne laser-induced transient grating measurements of thermal transport properties in opaque material: The methodology for a heterodyned laser-induced transient thermal grating technique for non-contact, non-destructive measurements of thermal transport in opaque material is presented. Phase-co...
cond-mat_other
Multiband superfluidity and superfluid to band-insulator transition of strongly interacting fermions in an optical lattice: We study the multiband superfluid and the superfluid (SF) to band insulator (BI) transition of strongly interacting fermionic atoms in an optical lattice at a filling of two fermions per well. W...
cond-mat_other
On the Transition from Potential Flow to Turbulence Around a Microsphere Oscillating in Superfluid ^4He: The flow of superfluid $^4$He around a translationally oscillating sphere, levitating without mechanical support, can either be laminar or turbulent, depending on the velocity amplitude. Below a critical velocity ...
cond-mat_other
Band degeneration and evolution in nonlinear triatomic chain superlattices: Nonlinear superlattices exhibit unique features allowing for wave manipulations. Despite the increasing attention received, the underlying physical mechanisms and the evolution process of the band structures and bandgaps in strongly nonlinear...
cond-mat_other
The dynamics of condensate shells: collective modes and expansion: We explore the physics of three-dimensional shell-shaped condensates, relevant to cold atoms in "bubble traps" and to Mott insulator-superfluid systems in optical lattices. We study the ground state of the condensate wavefunction, spherically-symmetric ...
cond-mat_other
Macroscopic quantum tunneling and quantum-classical phase transitions of the escape rate in large spin systems: This article presents a review on the theoretical and the experimental developments on macroscopic quantum tunneling and phase transition of the escape rate in spin systems. We present the basic ideas with ...
cond-mat_other
Solid-liquid phase coexistence and structural transitions in palladium clusters: We use molecular dynamics with an embedded atom potential to study the behavior of palladium nanoclusters near the melting point in the microcanonical ensemble. We see transitions from both fcc and decahedral ground state structures to i...
cond-mat_other
Superslow Self-Organized Motions in a Multimode Microwave Phonon Laser (Phaser) under Resonant Destabilization of Stationary Acoustic Stimulated Emission: Two qualitatively different kinds of resonant destabilization of phonon stimulated emission (SE) are experimentally revealed for periodically forced multimode ru...
cond-mat_other
Wavelet versus Detrended Fluctuation Analysis of multifractal structures: We perform a comparative study of applicability of the Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (MFDFA) and the Wavelet Transform Modulus Maxima (WTMM) method in proper detecting of mono- and multifractal character of data. We quantify the per...
cond-mat_other
Temperature dependence of exciton recombination in semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes: We study the excitonic recombination dynamics in an ensemble of (9,4) semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes by high sensitivity time-resolved photo-luminescence experiments. Measurements from cryogenic to room temper...
cond-mat_other
Fermion Superfluids of Non-Zero Orbital Angular Momentum near Resonance: We study the pairing of Fermi gases near the scattering resonance of the $\ell\neq 0$ partial wave. Using a model potential which reproduces the actual two-body low energy scattering amplitude, we have obtained an analytic solution of the gap equa...
cond-mat_other
Boson-Fermion pairing in Bose-Fermi mixtures on 1D optical lattices: Boson-fermion pairing is considered in a discrete environment of bosons and fully spin-polarized fermions, coupled via an attractive Bose-Fermi Hubbard Hamiltonian in one dimension. The results of the T-matrix approximation for particles of equal mass...
cond-mat_other
Matrix Product Density Operators: Simulation of finite-T and dissipative systems: We show how to simulate numerically both the evolution of 1D quantum systems under dissipation as well as in thermal equilibrium. The method applies to both finite and inhomogeneous systems and it is based on two ideas: (a) a representa...
cond-mat_other
Fully Frustrated Cold Atoms: Fully frustrated Josephson Junction arrays (FF-JJA's) exhibit a subtle compound phase transition in which an Ising transition associated with discrete broken translational symmetry and a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition associated with quasi-long-range phase coherence occur ...
cond-mat_other
Generalized Mean Field Approach to a Resonant Bose-Fermi Mixture: We formulate a generalized mean-field theory of a mixture of fermionic and bosonic atoms, in which the fermion-boson interaction can be controlled by a Feshbach resonance. The theory correctly accounts for molecular binding energies of the molecules in t...
cond-mat_other
Controlling a magnetic Feshbach resonance with laser light: The capability to tune the strength of the elastic interparticle interaction is crucial for many experiments with ultracold gases. Magnetic Feshbach resonances are a tool widely used for this purpose, but future experiments would benefit from additional flexib...
cond-mat_other
Search for supersolid 4He in neutron scattering experiments at ISIS: The observation of a non-classical rotation inertia (NCRI) fraction in bulk solid 4He by M. Chan and E. Kim attracted significant interest as a possible manifestation of supersolid state of matter. Despite numerous experimental and theoretical studies...
cond-mat_other
Using Multi-Threshold Threshold Gates in RTD-based Logic Design. A Case Study: The basic building blocks for Resonant Tunnelling Diode (RTD) logic circuits are Threshold Gates (TGs) instead of the conventional Boolean gates (AND, OR, NAND, NOR) due to the fact that, when designing with RTDs, threshold gates can be im...
cond-mat_other
Experimental investigation on the microscopic structure of intrinsic paramagnetic point defects in amorphous silicon dioxide: In the present Ph.D. Thesis we report an experimental investigation on the effects of gamma- and beta-ray irradiation and of subsequent thermal treatment on many types of a-SiO2 materials, dif...
cond-mat_other
Collision Dynamics and Rung Formation of Non-Abelian Vortices: We investigate the collision dynamics of two non-Abelian vortices and find that, unlike Abelian vortices, they neither reconnect themselves nor pass through each other, but create a rung between them in a topologically stable manner. Our predictions are ver...
cond-mat_other
Generalized gradient approximation for solids and their surfaces: Successful modern generalized gradient approximations (GGA) are biased toward atomic energies. Restoration of the first-principles gradient expansion for the exchange energy over a wide range of density gradients eliminates this bias. We introduce PBEsol...
cond-mat_other
Mode-locking and mode-competition in a non-equilibrium solid-state condensate: A trapped polariton condensate with continuous pumping and decay is analyzed using a generalized Gross-Pitaevskii model. Whereas an equilibrium condensate is characterized by a macroscopic occupation of a ground state, here the steady-stat...
cond-mat_other
Influence of domain wall interactions on nanosecond switching in magnetic tunnel junctions: We have obtained microscopic evidence of the influence of domain wall stray fields on the nanosecond magnetization switching in magnetic trilayer systems. The nucleation barrier initiating the magnetic switching of the soft ma...
cond-mat_other
Inversion of the spin polarization of localized electrons driven by dark excitons: The creation of free excitons by absorption of circularly polarized photons, and their subsequent fast capture by donors, is at the origin of the spin polarization of donor-bound electrons. The sign of the electronic spin polarization ...
cond-mat_other
Non-periodic pseudo-random numbers used in Monte Carlo calculations: The generation of pseudo-random numbers is one of the interesting problems in Monte Carlo simulations, mostly because the common computer generators produce periodic numbers. We used simple pseudo-random numbers generated with the simplest chaotic sys...
cond-mat_other
Excitation spectrum of bosons in a finite one-dimensional circular waveguide via the Bethe ansatz: The exactly solvable Lieb-Liniger model of interacting bosons in one-dimension has attracted renewed interest as current experiments with ultra-cold atoms begin to probe this regime. Here we numerically solve the equati...
cond-mat_other
On the feasibility of studying vortex noise in 2D superconductors with cold atoms: We investigate the feasibility of using ultracold neutral atoms trapped near a thin superconductor to study vortex noise close to the Kosterlitz-Thouless-Berezinskii transition temperature. Alkali atoms such as rubidium probe the magne...
cond-mat_other
Anomalous enhancement of quasiparticle current near a potential barrier in a Bose-Einstein condensate: We investigate tunneling properties of Bogoliubov phonons in a Bose-Einstein condensate. We find the anomalous enhancement of the quasiparticle current $J_{\rm q}$ carried by Bogoliubov phonons near a potential barr...
cond-mat_other
Effects of Community Structure on Search and Ranking in Information Network: The World-Wide Web (WWW) is characterized by a strong community structure in which communities of webpages (e.g. those sharing a common keyword) are densely interconnected by hyperlinks. We study how such network architecture affects the ave...
cond-mat_other
Feshbach resonances in an ultracold $^7$Li and $^{87}$Rb mixture: We report on the observation of five Feshbach resonances in collisions between ultracold $^7$Li and $^{87}$Rb atoms in the absolute ground state mixture where both species are in their $|f,m_f>=|1,1>$ hyperfine states. The resonances appear as trap losse...
cond-mat_other
Accurate measurement of ^{13}C - ^{15}N distances with solid-state NMR: Solid-state NMR technique for measureing distances between hetero-nuclei in static powder samples is described. It is based on a two-dimensional single-echo scheme enhanced with adiabatic cross-polarization. As an example, the results for intra-mol...
cond-mat_other
Theory of ground states for classical Heisenberg spin systems IV: We extend the theory of ground states of classical Heisenberg spin systems previously published to the case where the interaction with an external magnetic field is described by a Zeeman term. The ground state problem for the Heisenberg-Zeeman Hamiltonia...
cond-mat_other
Macroscopic quantum tunnelling of Bose-Einstein condensates in a finite potential well: Bose-Einstein condensates are studied in a potential of finite depth which supports both bound and quasi-bound states. This potential, which is harmonic for small radii and decays as a Gaussian for large radii, models experimental...
cond-mat_other
Thomas-Fermi versus one- and two-dimensional regimes of a trapped dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate: We derive the criteria for the Thomas-Fermi regime of a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate in cigar, pancake and spherical geometries. This also naturally gives the criteria for the mean-field one- and two-dimensional re...
cond-mat_other
Controlled quantum stirring of Bose-Einstein condensates: By cyclic adiabatic change of two control parameters of an optical trap one can induce a circulating current of condensed bosons. The amount of particles that are transported per period depends on the "radius" of the cycle, and this dependence can be utilized in...
cond-mat_other
An exploration of thermal counterflow in He II using particle tracking velocimetry: Visualization of thermal counterflow in He II using PIV (particle image velocimetry) and PTV (particle tracking velocimetry) is difficult because tracer particle motion can be influenced by both the normal fluid and superfluid compone...
cond-mat_other
Exact Coulomb cutoff technique for supercell calculations in two dimensions: We present a reciprocal space technique for the calculation of the Coulomb integral in two dimensions in systems with reduced periodicity, i.e., finite systems, or systems that are periodic only in one dimension. The technique consists in cu...
cond-mat_other
Photoconduction in Alq3: Photoelectronic properties of Alq3 were studied by photoconductivity measurements in thin film, sandwich (ITO/Alq3/LiF/Al) devices. We find that the photocurrent is dominated by bulk generation of carriers for incident photon energies greater than 2.75 eV. The quantum efficiency of photocarrier...
cond-mat_other
Emergent Time Scale in Entangled Quantum Dynamics of Ultracold Molecules in Optical Lattices: We derive a novel lattice Hamiltonian, the \emph{Molecular Hubbard Hamiltonian} (MHH), which describes the essential many body physics of closed-shell ultracold heteronuclear molecules in their absolute ground state in a qua...
cond-mat_other
Disorder, defects and bandgaps in ultra thin (001) MgO tunnel barrier layers: We report scanning tunneling spectroscopy studies of the electronic structure of 1.5 to 3 nm (001) textured MgO layers grown on (001) Fe. Thick MgO layers exhibit a bulk-like band gap, approximately 5-7 eV, and sparse, localized defect stat...
cond-mat_other
Electrical spin injection into p-doped quantum dots through a tunnel barrier: We have demonstrated by electroluminescence the injection of spin polarized electrons through Co/Al2O3/GaAs tunnel barrier into p-doped InAs/GaAs quantum dots embedded in a PIN GaAs light emitting diode. The spin relaxation processes in the...
cond-mat_other
Viscoelastic Behavior of Solid $^4$He: Over the last five years several experimental groups have reported anomalies in the temperature dependence of the period and amplitude of a torsional oscillator containing solid $^4$He. We model these experiments by assuming that $^4$He is a viscoelastic solid--a solid with freque...
cond-mat_other
Conservative-dissipative forces and heating mediated by fluctuation electromagnetic field: two plates in relative nonrelativistic motion: We calculate heating rate, attractive conservative and tangential dissipative fluctuation electromagnetic forces felt by a thick plate moving with nonrelativistic velocity parallel...
cond-mat_other
Wealth distribution in an ancient Egyptian society: Modern excavations yielded a distribution of the house areas in the ancient Egyptian city Akhetaten, which was populated for a short period during the 14th century BC. Assuming that the house area is a measure of the wealth of its inhabitants allows us to make a compa...
cond-mat_other
Basic theory tools for degenerate Fermi gases: This is an introductory lecture to the theory of degenerate Fermi gases, in the context of present experiments on atomic Fermi gases. In part one, some properties of the ideal Fermi gas are presented, including a discussion of the fluctuations of the number of fermions in ...
cond-mat_other
The surface-forming energy release rate based fracture criterion for elastic-plastic crack propagation: J integral based criterion is widely used in elastic-plastic fracture mechanics. However, it is not rigorously applicable when plastic unloading appears during crack propagation. One difficulty is that the energy d...
cond-mat_other
Discrete symmetry in graphene: the Dirac equation and beyond: In this pedagogical paper we review the discrete symmetries of the Dirac equation using elementary tools, but in a comparative order: the usual 3 + 1 dimensional case and the 2 + 1 dimensional case. Motivated by new applications of the 2d Dirac equation in c...
cond-mat_other
Collective Excitations of a Two-Component Bose Condensate at Finite Temperature: We compare the collective modes for Bose-condensed systems with two degenerate components with and without spontaneous intercomponent coherence at finite temperature using the time-dependent Hartree-Fock approximation. We show that the i...
cond-mat_other
Material independent crack arrest statistics: The propagation of (planar) cracks in a heterogeneous brittle material characterized by a random field of toughness is considered, taking into account explicitly the effect of the crack front roughness on the local stress intensity factor. In the so-called strong-pinning re...
cond-mat_other