Theory of Quantum Optical Control of Single Spin in a Quantum DotWe present a theory of quantum optical control of an electron spin in a single semiconductor quantum dot via spin-flip Raman transitions. We show how an arbitrary spin rotation may be achieved by…Pochung Chen, C. Piermarocchi, L. J. Sham et al.·Jan 22, 2003SaveLearn
Rotating Superfluid TurbulenceAlmost all studies of vortex states in helium II have been concerned with either ordered vortex lattices or disordered vortex tangles. This work studies numerically what happens in the presence of…Makoto Tsubota, Tsunehiko Araki, Carlo. F. Barenghi·Jan 22, 2003SaveLearn
Tunneling ionization of deep centers in high frequency electric fieldsExperimental and theoretical work on the ionization of deep impurity centers in the alternating terahertz field of high-intensity far-infrared laser radiation, with photon energies tens of times…S. D. Ganichev, I. N. Yassievich, W. Prettl·Jan 22, 2003SaveLearn
Debt Subordination and The Pricing of Credit Default SwapsFirst passage models, where corporate assets undergo a random walk and default occurs if the assets fall below a threshold, provide an attractive framework for modeling the default process. Recently…Peter B. Lee, Mark B. Wise, Vineer Bhansali·Jan 22, 2003SaveLearn
Zero temperature damping of Bose-Einstein condensate oscillations by vortex-antivortex pair creationWe investigate vortex-antivortex pair creation in a supersonically expanding and contracting quasi-2D Bose-Einstein condensate at zero temperature. For sufficiently large amplitude condensate…Petr O. Fedichev, Uwe R. Fischer, Alessio Recati·Jan 21, 2003SaveLearn
Hierarchically Organized Minority GamesIn this paper a hierarchical extension of the Minority Game is defined and studied. Numerical simulations show a special type of emergent global behavior between separated parts of the hierarchical…Csaba Foldy, Zoltan Somogyvari, Peter Erdi·Jan 21, 2003SaveLearn
Monopolar Optical Orientation of Electronic Spins in SemiconductorsIt is shown that absorption of circularly polarized infrared radiation due to intraband (Drude-like) transitions in n-type bulk semiconductors and due to intra-subband or inter-subband transitions in…S. A. Tarasenko, E. L. Ivchenko, V. V. Bel'kov et al.·Jan 21, 2003SaveLearn
Spin-Galvanic Effect in Quantum WellsIt is shown that a homogeneous non-equlibrium spin-polarization in semiconductor heterostructures results in an electric current. The microscopic origin of the effect is an inherent asymmetry of…S. D. Ganichev, E. L. Ivchenko, V. V. Bel'kov et al.·Jan 21, 2003SaveLearn
Spin-photocurrent in p-SiGe quantum wells under terahertz laser irradiationA detailed study of the circular photogalvanic effect (CPGE) in SiGe structures is presented. It is shown that the CPGE becomes possible due to the built-in asymmetry of quantum wells (QWs) in…V. V. Bel'kov, S. D. Ganichev, Petra Schneider et al.·Jan 21, 2003SaveLearn
Optical Spin Orientation under Inter- and Intra-Subband Transitions in QWsIt is shown that absorption of circularly polarized infrared radiation achieved by inter-subband and intra-subband (Drude-like) transitions results in a monopolar spin orientation of free carriers.…S. A. Tarasenko, E. L. Ivchenko, V. V. Bel'kov et al.·Jan 21, 2003SaveLearn
A model metal potential exhibiting polytetrahedral clustersPutative global minima have been located for clusters interacting with an aluminium glue potential for N<190. Virtually all the clusters have polytetrahedral structures, which for larger sizes…Jonathan P. K. Doye·Jan 21, 2003SaveLearn
Simulation and analysis of in vitro DNA evolutionWe study theoretically the in vitro evolution of a DNA sequence by binding to a transcription factor. Using a simple model of protein-DNA binding and available binding constants for the Mnt protein,…Morten Kloster, Chao Tang·Jan 21, 2003SaveLearn
Josephson nanocircuit in the presence of linear quantum noiseWe derive the effective hamiltonian for a charge-Josephson qubit in a circuit with no use of phenomenological arguments, showing how energy renormalizations induced by the environment appear with no…E. Paladino, F. Taddei, G. Giaquinta et al.·Jan 20, 2003SaveLearn
Nonlinear dynamics of dimers on periodic substratesWe study the dynamics of a dimer moving on a periodic one-dimensional substrate as a function of the initial kinetic energy at zero temperature. The aim is to describe, in a simplified picture, the…C. Fusco, A. Fasolino, T. Janssen·Jan 20, 2003SaveLearn
Surface Instability of a Multi-Component Condensate and Andreev-Bashkin effectIt is shown that surface of a liquid consisting of several interpenetrating superfluids becomes unstable at some threshold. We demonstrate that the criterion for the onset of the instability changes…D. A. Abanin·Jan 20, 2003SaveLearn
Comment on ``Quasisaddles as relevant points of the potential energy surface in the dynamics of supercooled liquids'' [J. Chem. Phys. 116, 10297 (2002); cond-mat/0203301]Recently, the properties of supercooled liquids have been studied by mapping instaneous configurations onto minima of the gradient squared. It was originally suggested that this mapping would probe…Jonathan P. K. Doye, David J. Wales·Jan 20, 2003SaveLearn
Local Distributions and Rate Fluctuations in a Unified Scaling Law for EarthquakesA recently proposed unified scaling law for interoccurrence times of earthquakes [P. Bak et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 178501 (2002)] is analyzed, both theoretically and with data from Southern…Alvaro Corral·Jan 17, 2003SaveLearn
Polaronic Heat Capacity in The Anderson - Hasegawa ModelAn exact treatment of the Anderson - Hasegawa two - site model, incorporating the presence of superexchange and polarons, is used to compute the heat capacity. The calculated results point to the…Manidipa Mitra, P. A. Sreeram, Sushanta Dattagupta·Jan 16, 2003SaveLearn
Relaxation and Metastability in the RandomWalkSAT search procedureAn analysis of the average properties of a local search resolution procedure for the satisfaction of random Boolean constraints is presented. Depending on the ratio alpha of constraints per variable,…Guilhem Semerjian, Remi Monasson·Jan 15, 2003SaveLearn
Chaos and the Quantum Phase Transition in the Dicke ModelWe investigate the quantum chaotic properties of the Dicke Hamiltonian; a quantum-optical model which describes a single-mode bosonic field interacting with an ensemble of N two-level atoms. This…Clive Emary, Tobias Brandes·Jan 15, 2003SaveLearn
Tight-binding g-Factor Calculations of CdSe NanostructuresThe Lande g-factors for CdSe quantum dots and rods are investigated within the framework of the semiempirical tight-binding method. We describe methods for treating both the n-doped and neutral…Joshua Schrier, K. Birgitta Whaley·Jan 14, 2003SaveLearn
Complete identification of alkali sites in ion conducting lithium silicate glasses: a computer study of ion dynamicsThe available sites for ions in a typical disordered ionic conductor are determined. For this purpose we devised a straightforward algorithm which via cluster analysis identifies these sites from…Heiko Lammert, Magnus Kunow, Andreas Heuer·Jan 14, 2003SaveLearn
Ferromagnetic/superconducting proximity effect in La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 / YBa2Cu3O7 superlatticesWe study the interplay between magnetism and superconductivity in high quality YBa2Cu3O7 (YBCO) / La0.7Ca0.3MnO3(LCMO)superlattices. We find evidence for the YBCO superconductivity depression in…Z. Sefrioui, D Arias, V. Pena et al.·Jan 14, 2003SaveLearn
Scaling and universality in ontogenetic growthRecently, West et al. claimed to derive a general quantitative model based on fundamental principles for the allocation of metabolic energy between maintenance of existing tissue and the production…Jayanth R. Banavar, John Damuth, Amos Maritan et al.·Jan 14, 2003SaveLearn
Non-Fermi liquid behavior of the electrical resistivity at the ferromagnetic quantum critical pointWe propose a model for the non-Fermi behavior in the proximity of the quantum phase transition induced by the strong polarization of the electrons due to local magnetic moments. The self - consistent…D. Bodea, M. Crisan, I. Grosu et al.·Jan 14, 2003SaveLearn