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Simulation Of Coherent Remission In Planar Disordered Medium, Pablo Jara-Palacios, Ho Chun Lin, Chia Wei Hsu, Hui Cao, Alexey Yamilov Jan 2023

Simulation Of Coherent Remission In Planar Disordered Medium, Pablo Jara-Palacios, Ho Chun Lin, Chia Wei Hsu, Hui Cao, Alexey Yamilov

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Waves remitted from a scattering medium carry information that can be used for non-invasive imaging and sensing. Such techniques are usually limited by a low photon budget. Recent progress in optical wavefront shaping has enabled coherent control with an order-of-magnitude enhancement of remission [1]. This experimental study necessitated increasingly demanding numerical simulations. Extending this line of research requires more sophisticated computational techniques capable of simulating multiple instances of even larger systems. Here, we demonstrate that remission geometry can be efficiently simulated using a novel open-source software package [2] Maxwell's Equations Solver with Thousands of Inputs (MESTI). To verify its numerical …


Delivering Broadband Light Deep Into Diffusive Media, Rohin Mcintosh, Nicholas Bender, Alexey Yamilov, Arthur Goetschy, Chia Wei Hsu, Hasan Yilmaz, Hui Cao Jan 2023

Delivering Broadband Light Deep Into Diffusive Media, Rohin Mcintosh, Nicholas Bender, Alexey Yamilov, Arthur Goetschy, Chia Wei Hsu, Hasan Yilmaz, Hui Cao

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Waves propagate diffusively through disordered media, such as biological tissue, clouds, and paint, due to random scattering. Recent advances in optical wavefront shaping techniques have enabled controlling coherent light propagation in multiple-scattering samples. We overcome wave diffusion to deliver optical energy into a target region of arbitrary size and shape anywhere inside a strong-scattering system. This is particularly important for applications such as photoacoustic microscopy and optogenetics, where light needs to be deposited deep into biological tissue. For monochromatic light, we previously introduced the deposition matrix (DM) Z(ω), which maps its input wavefront to the field distribution in the target …


Quantum Electrodynamics Of Dicke States: Resonant One-Photon Exchange Energy And Entangled Decay Rate, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Chandra M. Adhikari Jan 2023

Quantum Electrodynamics Of Dicke States: Resonant One-Photon Exchange Energy And Entangled Decay Rate, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Chandra M. Adhikari

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We calculate the fully retarded one-photon exchange interaction potential between electrically neutral, identical atoms, one of which is assumed to be in an excited state, by matching the scattering matrix (S matrix) element with the effective Hamiltonian. Based on the Feynman prescription, we obtain the imaginary part of the interaction energy. Our results lead to precise formulas for the distance-dependent enhancement and suppression of the decay rates of entangled superradiant and subradiant Dicke states (Bell states), as a function of the interatomic distance. The formulas include a long-range tail due to entanglement. We apply the result to an example calculation …


Stability And Dynamics Across Magnetic Phases Of Vortex-Bright Type Excitations In Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates, Garyfallia C. Katsimiga, Simeon I. Mistakidis, K. Mukherjee, P. G. Kevrekidis, P. Schmelcher Jan 2023

Stability And Dynamics Across Magnetic Phases Of Vortex-Bright Type Excitations In Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates, Garyfallia C. Katsimiga, Simeon I. Mistakidis, K. Mukherjee, P. G. Kevrekidis, P. Schmelcher

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The Static Properties, I.e., Existence And Stability, As Well As The Quench-Induced Dynamics Of Vortex-Bright Type Excitations In Two-Dimensional Harmonically Confined Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Condensates Are Investigated. Linearly Stable Vortex-Bright-Vortex And Bright-Vortex-Bright Solutions Arise In Both Antiferromagnetic And Ferromagnetic Spinor Gases Upon Quadratic Zeeman Energy Shift Variations. Their Deformations Across The Relevant Transitions Are Exposed And Discussed In Detail, Evincing Also That Emergent Instabilities Can Lead To Pattern Formation. Spatial Elongations, Precessional Motion, And Spiraling Of The Nonlinear Excitations When Exposed To Finite Temperatures And Upon Crossing The Distinct Phase Boundaries, Via Quenching Of The Quadratic Zeeman Coefficient, Are Unveiled. Spin-Mixing …


Cavity Induced Collective Behavior In The Polaritonic Ground State, Vasil Rokaj, Simeon I. Mistakidis, H. R. Sadeghpour Jan 2023

Cavity Induced Collective Behavior In The Polaritonic Ground State, Vasil Rokaj, Simeon I. Mistakidis, H. R. Sadeghpour

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Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics Provides An Ideal Platform To Engineer And Control Light-Matter Interactions With Polariton Quasiparticles. In This Work, We Investigate Collective Phenomena In A System Of Many Particles In A Harmonic Trap Coupled To A Homogeneous Cavity Vacuum Field. The System Couples Collectively To The Cavity Field, Through Its Center Of Mass, And Collective Polariton States Emerge. The Cavity Field Mediates Pairwise Long-Range Interactions And Enhances The Effective Mass Of The Particles. This Leads To An Enhancement Of Localization In The Matter Ground State Density, Which Features A Maximum When Light And Matter Are On Resonance, And Demonstrates A …


Delivering Broadband Light Deep Into Diffusive Media, Rohin Mcintosh, Nicholas Bender, Alexey Yamilov, Arthur Goetschy, Chia Wei Hsu, Hasan Yilmaz, Hui Cao Jan 2023

Delivering Broadband Light Deep Into Diffusive Media, Rohin Mcintosh, Nicholas Bender, Alexey Yamilov, Arthur Goetschy, Chia Wei Hsu, Hasan Yilmaz, Hui Cao

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Waves propagate diffusively through disordered media, such as biological tissue, clouds, and paint, due to random scattering. Recent advances in optical wavefront shaping techniques have enabled controlling coherent light propagation in multiple-scattering samples. We overcome wave diffusion to deliver optical energy into a target region of arbitrary size and shape anywhere inside a strong-scattering system. This is particularly important for applications such as photoacoustic microscopy and optogenetics, where light needs to be deposited deep into biological tissue. For monochromatic light, we previously introduced the deposition matrix (DM) Z(ω), which maps its input wavefront to the field distribution in the target …


Scattering-Angle Dependence Of Doubly Differential Cross Sections For Ionization In Proton Collisions With Molecular Hydrogen, C. T. Plowman, K. H. Spicer, Michael Schulz, A. S. Kadyrov Jan 2023

Scattering-Angle Dependence Of Doubly Differential Cross Sections For Ionization In Proton Collisions With Molecular Hydrogen, C. T. Plowman, K. H. Spicer, Michael Schulz, A. S. Kadyrov

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The wave-packet convergent close-coupling (WP-CCC) approach is applied to calculate the energy spectrum of electrons ejected in p+H2 collisions as a function of the scattering angle of the projectile. The calculations are performed for projectile energies of 75, 100, and 200 keV. At these incident energies there are many competing reaction channels that play an essential role in the collision dynamics. The target is modeled as an orientationally averaged effective one-electron system. The results are compared with available perturbative calculations and experimental data. Good agreement between the WP-CCC results and experimental data is found for small emission energies, especially when …


Effects Of Molecular Size And Orientation On The Interfacial Properties And Wetting Behavior Of Water/ N -Alkane Systems: A Molecular-Dynamics Study, Fawaz Hrahsheh, Gerald Wilemski Jan 2023

Effects Of Molecular Size And Orientation On The Interfacial Properties And Wetting Behavior Of Water/ N -Alkane Systems: A Molecular-Dynamics Study, Fawaz Hrahsheh, Gerald Wilemski

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Molecular Dynamics Simulations (MD) Are Performed to Study the Interfacial Structure/tension and Wetting Behavior of Water/n-Alkane Systems (Water/nC5 to Water/nC16 Where nCx = CxH(2x + 2)). in Particular, We Study Complete-To-Partial Wetting Transitions by Changing the N-Alkane Chain Length (NC) at a Constant Temperature, T = 295 K. Simulations Are Carried Out with a United-Atom TraPPE Model for N-Alkanes and the TIP4P-2005 Model of Water. Simulation Results Are in Excellent Agreement with the Initial Spreading Coefficients and Contact Angles Calculated using Experimental Values of the Surface and Interfacial Tensions. in Addition, It Has Been Determined that Water/(nC5-nC7) and …


Coherent Enhancement Of Optical Remission In Diffusive Media, Nicholas Bender, Arthur Goetschy, Chia Wei Hsu, Hasan Yılmaz, Pablo Jara Palacios, Alexey Yamilov, Hui Cao Oct 2022

Coherent Enhancement Of Optical Remission In Diffusive Media, Nicholas Bender, Arthur Goetschy, Chia Wei Hsu, Hasan Yılmaz, Pablo Jara Palacios, Alexey Yamilov, Hui Cao

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Remitted waves are used for sensing and imaging in diverse diffusive media from the Earth's crust to the human brain. Separating the source and detector increases the penetration depth of light, but the signal strength decreases rapidly, leading to a poor signal-to-noise ratio. Here, we show, experimentally and numerically, that wavefront shaping a laser beam incident on a diffusive sample enables an enhancement of remission by an order of magnitude at depths of up to 10 transport mean free paths. We develop a theoretical model which predicts the maximal remission enhancement. Our analysis reveals a significant improvement in the sensitivity …


Sum Rules For Energy Deposition Eigenchannels In Scattering Systems, Alexey Yamilov, Nicholas Bender, Hui Cao Oct 2022

Sum Rules For Energy Deposition Eigenchannels In Scattering Systems, Alexey Yamilov, Nicholas Bender, Hui Cao

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In a random-scattering system, the deposition matrix maps the incident wavefront onto the internal field distribution across a target volume. The corresponding eigenchannels have been used to enhance the wave energy delivered to the target. Here, we find the sum rules for the eigenvalues and eigenchannels of the deposition matrix in any system geometry: including two- and three-dimensional scattering systems, as well as narrow waveguides and wide slabs. We derive a number of constraints on the eigenchannel intensity distributions inside the system as well as the corresponding eigenvalues. Our results are general and applicable to random systems of arbitrary scattering …


Control Of Dy 164 Bose-Einstein Condensate Phases And Dynamics With Dipolar Anisotropy, S. Halder, K. Mukherjee, Simeon I. Mistakidis, S. Das, P. G. Kevrekidis, P. K. Panigrahi, S. Majumder, H. R. Sadeghpour Oct 2022

Control Of Dy 164 Bose-Einstein Condensate Phases And Dynamics With Dipolar Anisotropy, S. Halder, K. Mukherjee, Simeon I. Mistakidis, S. Das, P. G. Kevrekidis, P. K. Panigrahi, S. Majumder, H. R. Sadeghpour

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We Investigate The Quench Dynamics Of Quasi-One- And Two-Dimensional Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates Of Dy164 Atoms Under The Influence Of A Fast Rotating Magnetic Field. The Magnetic Field Thus Controls Both The Magnitude And Sign Of The Dipolar Potential. We Account For Quantum Fluctuations, Critical To Formation Of Exotic Quantum Droplet And Supersolid Phases In The Extended Gross-Pitaevskii Formalism, Which Includes The So-Called Lee-Huang-Yang Correction. An Analytical Variational Ansatz Allows Us To Obtain The Phase Diagrams Of The Superfluid And Droplet Phases. The Crossover From The Superfluid To The Supersolid Phase And To Single And Droplet Arrays Is Probed With Particle …


Triple-Differential Cross Sections In Three-Dimensional Kinematics For Electron-Impact-Ionization Dynamics Of Tetrahydrofuran At 250-Ev Projectile Energy, Xiaorui Xue, Deepthy Maria Mootheril, Esam Ali, Maomao Gong, Shaokui Jia, Jiaqi Zhou, Enliang Wang, Jian Xing Li, Xiangjun Chen, Don H. Madison, Alexander Dorn, Xueguang Ren Oct 2022

Triple-Differential Cross Sections In Three-Dimensional Kinematics For Electron-Impact-Ionization Dynamics Of Tetrahydrofuran At 250-Ev Projectile Energy, Xiaorui Xue, Deepthy Maria Mootheril, Esam Ali, Maomao Gong, Shaokui Jia, Jiaqi Zhou, Enliang Wang, Jian Xing Li, Xiangjun Chen, Don H. Madison, Alexander Dorn, Xueguang Ren

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We report a combined experimental and theoretical study of the ionization dynamics of tetrahydrofuran induced by 250 eV electron impact in which the highest occupied molecular orbital is ionized leading to the stable parent ion. Experimentally a reaction microscope was used, covering nearly the entire 4π solid angle for the ejected slow electron. We present the triple-differential cross sections for the projectile scattering angles of θ1 = -10∘ as a function of the emission angle of the ejected electrons with energies of E2=10, 15, and 20 eV, i.e., for asymmetric energy sharing between the scattered and ejected electrons. The measured …


Dynamical Excitation Processes And Correlations Of Three-Body Two-Dimensional Mixtures, G. Bougas, Simeon I. Mistakidis, P. Giannakeas, P. Schmelcher Oct 2022

Dynamical Excitation Processes And Correlations Of Three-Body Two-Dimensional Mixtures, G. Bougas, Simeon I. Mistakidis, P. Giannakeas, P. Schmelcher

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A Scheme Is Proposed To Dynamically Excite Distinct Eigenstate Superpositions In Three-Body Bose-Fermi Mixtures Confined In A Two-Dimensional Harmonic Trap. The System Is Initialized In A Noninteracting State With A Variable Spatial Extent, And The Scattering Lengths Are Subsequently Quenched Spanning The Regime From Weak To Strong Interactions. For Spatial Widths Smaller Than The Three-Body Harmonic Oscillator Length, A Superposition Of Trimers And Atom-Dimers Is Dynamically Attained, Otherwise Trap States Are Predominantly Populated, As Inferred From The Frequency Spectrum Of The Fidelity. Accordingly, The Tan Contacts Evince The Buildup Of Short-Range Two- And Three-Body Correlations In The Course Of The …


Contact Process With Simultaneous Spatial And Temporal Disorder, Xuecheng Ye, Thomas Vojta Oct 2022

Contact Process With Simultaneous Spatial And Temporal Disorder, Xuecheng Ye, Thomas Vojta

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We study the absorbing-state phase transition in the one-dimensional contact process under the combined influence of spatial and temporal random disorders. We focus on situations in which the spatial and temporal disorders decouple. Couched in the language of epidemic spreading, this means that some spatial regions are, at all times, more favorable than others for infections, and some time periods are more favorable than others independent of spatial location. We employ a generalized Harris criterion to discuss the stability of the directed percolation universality class against such disorder. We then perform large-scale Monte Carlo simulations to analyze the critical behavior …


Random Strain Induced Correlations In Materials With Intertwined Nematic And Magnetic Orders, W. Joe Meese, Thomas Vojta, Rafael M. Fernandes Sep 2022

Random Strain Induced Correlations In Materials With Intertwined Nematic And Magnetic Orders, W. Joe Meese, Thomas Vojta, Rafael M. Fernandes

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Electronic nematicity is rarely observed as an isolated instability of a correlated electron system. Instead, in iron pnictides and in certain cuprates and heavy-fermion materials, nematicity is intertwined with an underlying spin-stripe or charge-stripe state. As a result, random strain, ubiquitous in any real crystal, creates both random-field disorder for the nematic degrees of freedom and random-bond disorder for the spin or charge ones. Here, we put forward an Ashkin-Teller model with random Baxter fields to capture the dual role of random strain in nematic systems for which nematicity is a composite order arising from a stripe state. Using Monte …


Hydrogen Behavior At Crystalline/Amorphous Interface Of Transparent Oxide Semiconductor And Its Effects On Carrier Transport And Crystallization, Julia E. Medvedeva, Kapil Sharma, Bishal Bhattarai, Mariana I. Bertoni Aug 2022

Hydrogen Behavior At Crystalline/Amorphous Interface Of Transparent Oxide Semiconductor And Its Effects On Carrier Transport And Crystallization, Julia E. Medvedeva, Kapil Sharma, Bishal Bhattarai, Mariana I. Bertoni

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The role of disorder and particularly of the interfacial region between crystalline and amorphous phases of indium oxide in the formation of hydrogen defects with covalent (In-OH) or ionic (In-H-In) bonding are investigated using ab initio molecular dynamics and hybrid density-functional approaches. The results reveal that disorder stabilizes In-H-In defects even in the stoichiometric amorphous oxide and also promotes the formation of deep electron traps adjacent to In-OH defects. Furthermore, below-room-temperature fluctuations help switch interfacial In-H-In into In-OH, creating a new deep state in the process. This H-defect transformation limits not only the number of free carriers but also the …


C -Axis Transport In Ute2: Evidence Of Three-Dimensional Conductivity Component, Yun Suk Eo, Shouzheng Liu, Shanta R. Saha, Hyunsoo Kim, Sheng Ran, Jarryd A. Horn, Halyna Hodovanets, John Collini, Tristin Metz, Wesley T. Fuhrman, Andriy H. Nevidomskyy, Jonathan D. Denlinger, Nicholas P. Butch, Michael S. Fuhrer Aug 2022

C -Axis Transport In Ute2: Evidence Of Three-Dimensional Conductivity Component, Yun Suk Eo, Shouzheng Liu, Shanta R. Saha, Hyunsoo Kim, Sheng Ran, Jarryd A. Horn, Halyna Hodovanets, John Collini, Tristin Metz, Wesley T. Fuhrman, Andriy H. Nevidomskyy, Jonathan D. Denlinger, Nicholas P. Butch, Michael S. Fuhrer

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We study the temperature dependence of electrical resistivity for currents directed along all crystallographic axes of the spin-triplet superconductor UTe2. We focus particularly on an accurate determination of the resistivity along the c axis (ρc) by using a generalized Montgomery technique that allows extraction of crystallographic resistivity components from a single sample. In contrast to expectations from the observed highly anisotropic band structure, our measurement of the absolute values of resistivities in all current directions reveals a surprisingly nearly isotropic transport behavior at temperatures above Kondo coherence, with ρc∼ρb∼2ρa, that evolves to reveal qualitatively distinct behaviors on cooling. The temperature …


Self-Intercalation Tunable Interlayer Exchange Coupling In A Synthetic Van Der Waals Antiferromagnet, Xiaoqian Zhang, Wenqing Liu, Wei Niu, Qiangsheng Lu, Wei Wang, Ali Sarikhani, Xiaohua Wu, Chunhui Zhu, Jiabao Sun, Mitchel Vaninger, Paul F. Miceli, Jianqi Li, David J. Singh, Yew San Hor Aug 2022

Self-Intercalation Tunable Interlayer Exchange Coupling In A Synthetic Van Der Waals Antiferromagnet, Xiaoqian Zhang, Wenqing Liu, Wei Niu, Qiangsheng Lu, Wei Wang, Ali Sarikhani, Xiaohua Wu, Chunhui Zhu, Jiabao Sun, Mitchel Vaninger, Paul F. Miceli, Jianqi Li, David J. Singh, Yew San Hor

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One of the most promising avenues in 2D materials research is the synthesis of antiferromagnets employing 2D van der Waals (vdW) magnets. However, it has proven challenging, due in part to the complicated fabrication process and undesired adsorbates as well as the significantly deteriorated ferromagnetism at atomic layers. Here, the engineering of the antiferromagnetic (AFM) interlayer exchange coupling between atomically thin yet ferromagnetic CrTe2 layers in an ultra-high vacuum-free 2D magnetic crystal, Cr5Te8 is reported. By self-introducing interstitial Cr atoms in the vdW gaps, the emergent AFM ordering and the resultant giant magnetoresistance effect are induced. A large negative magnetoresistance …


Two-Path Interference In Resonance-Enhanced Few-Photon Ionization Of Li Atoms, B. P. Acharya, S. Dubey, K. L. Romans, A. H.N.C. De Silva, K. Foster, O. Russ, K. Bartschat, N. Douguet, Daniel Fischer Aug 2022

Two-Path Interference In Resonance-Enhanced Few-Photon Ionization Of Li Atoms, B. P. Acharya, S. Dubey, K. L. Romans, A. H.N.C. De Silva, K. Foster, O. Russ, K. Bartschat, N. Douguet, Daniel Fischer

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We investigate the resonance-enhanced few-photon ionization of atomic lithium by linearly polarized light whose frequency is tuned near the 2s-2p transition. Considering the direction of light polarization orthogonal to the quantization axis, the process can be viewed as an atomic "double-slit experiment "where the 2p states with magnetic quantum numbers mℓ=±1 act as the slits. In our experiment, we can virtually close one of the two slits by preparing lithium in one of the two circularly polarized 2p states before subjecting it to the ionizing radiation. This allows us to extract the interference term between the two pathways and obtain …


Inducing Spin-Order With An Impurity: Phase Diagram Of The Magnetic Bose Polaron, Simeon I. Mistakidis, G. M. Koutentakis, F. Grusdt, P. Schmelcher, H. R. Sadeghpour Aug 2022

Inducing Spin-Order With An Impurity: Phase Diagram Of The Magnetic Bose Polaron, Simeon I. Mistakidis, G. M. Koutentakis, F. Grusdt, P. Schmelcher, H. R. Sadeghpour

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We Investigate The Formation Of Magnetic Bose Polaron, An Impurity Atom Dressed By Spin-Wave Excitations, In A One-Dimensional Spinor Bose Gas. Within An Effective Potential Model, The Impurity Is Strongly Confined By The Host Excitations Which Can Even Overcome The Impurity-Medium Repulsion Leading To A Self-Localized Quasi-Particle State. The Phase Diagram Of The Attractive And Self-Bound Repulsive Magnetic Polaron, Repulsive Non-Magnetic (Fröhlich-Type) Polaron And Impurity-Medium Phase-Separation Regimes Is Explored With Respect To The Rabi-Coupling Between The Spin Components, Spin-Spin Interactions And Impurity-Medium Coupling. The Residue Of Such Magnetic Polarons Decreases Substantially In Both Strong Attractive And Repulsive Branches With Strong …


Quantum Oscillations Of The J=3/2 Fermi Surface In The Topological Semimetal Yptbi, Hyunsoo Kim, Junhyun Lee, Halyna Hodovanets, Kefeng Wang, Jay D. Sau, Johnpierre Paglione Jul 2022

Quantum Oscillations Of The J=3/2 Fermi Surface In The Topological Semimetal Yptbi, Hyunsoo Kim, Junhyun Lee, Halyna Hodovanets, Kefeng Wang, Jay D. Sau, Johnpierre Paglione

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The bismuth-based half-Heusler materials host a nontrivial topological band structure, unconventional superconductivity, and large spin-orbit coupling in a system with very low electron density. In particular, the inversion of p-orbital-derived bands with an effective angular momentum j of up to 3/2 is thought to play a central role in anomalous Cooper pairing in the cubic half-Heusler semimetal YPtBi, which is thought to be the first "high-spin" superconductor. Here, we report an extensive study of the angular dependence of quantum oscillations (QOs) in the electrical conductivity of YPtBi, revealing an anomalous Shubnikov-de Haas effect consistent with the presence of a coherent …


Structure And Electronic Properties Of Amorphous Strontium Titanate, Julia E. Medvedeva, Bishal Bhattarai, Ivan A. Zhuravlev, Federico Motti, Piero Torelli, Anita Guarino, Andreas Klein, Emiliano Di Gennaro, Fabio Miletto Granozio Jul 2022

Structure And Electronic Properties Of Amorphous Strontium Titanate, Julia E. Medvedeva, Bishal Bhattarai, Ivan A. Zhuravlev, Federico Motti, Piero Torelli, Anita Guarino, Andreas Klein, Emiliano Di Gennaro, Fabio Miletto Granozio

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Understanding the short-range structure of an amorphous material is the first step in predicting its macroscopic properties. Amorphous strontium titanate (a-STO) presents a unique challenge due to contradictory experimental findings regarding the local oxygen environment of titanium, concluded to be either tetrahedral or octahedral. To elucidate the discrepancy, 72 models of a-STO with density ranging from the crystalline value 5.12 to 3.07g/cm3 were prepared using ab initio molecular dynamics liquid-quench simulations and characterized by extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) for both Ti and Sr K edge. An excellent agreement between the calculated and two independent experimental EXAFS measurements demonstrates …


Foldy-Wouthuysen Transformation In Strong Magnetic Fields And Relativistic Corrections For Quantum Cyclotron Energy Levels, Albert Wienczek, Christopher Moore, Ulrich D. Jentschura Jul 2022

Foldy-Wouthuysen Transformation In Strong Magnetic Fields And Relativistic Corrections For Quantum Cyclotron Energy Levels, Albert Wienczek, Christopher Moore, Ulrich D. Jentschura

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We carry out a direct iterative Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation of a general Dirac Hamiltonian coupled to an electromagnetic field, including the anomalous magnetic moment. The transformation is carried out through an iterative disentangling of the particle and antiparticle Hamiltonians in the expansion for higher orders of the momenta. The time-derivative term from the unitary transformation is found to be crucial in supplementing the transverse component of the electric field in higher orders. Final expressions are obtained for general combined electric and magnetic fields, including strong magnetic fields. The time derivative of the electric field is shown to enter only in the …


Artificial Atoms From Cold Bosons In One Dimension, Fabian Brauneis, Timothy G. Backert, Simeon I. Mistakidis, Mikhail Lemeshko, Hans Werner Hammer, Artem G. Volosniev Jun 2022

Artificial Atoms From Cold Bosons In One Dimension, Fabian Brauneis, Timothy G. Backert, Simeon I. Mistakidis, Mikhail Lemeshko, Hans Werner Hammer, Artem G. Volosniev

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We Investigate The Ground-State Properties Of Weakly Repulsive One-Dimensional Bosons In The Presence Of An Attractive Zero-Range Impurity Potential. First, We Derive Mean-Field Solutions To The Problem On A Finite Ring For The Two Asymptotic Cases: (I) All Bosons Are Bound To The Impurity And (Ii) All Bosons Are In A Scattering State. Moreover, We Derive The Critical Line That Separates These Regimes In The Parameter Space. In The Thermodynamic Limit, This Critical Line Determines The Maximum Number Of Bosons That Can Be Bound By The Impurity Potential, Forming An Artificial Atom. Second, We Validate The Mean-Field Results Using The …


Silverrush. Xii. Intensity Mapping For Ly Α Emission Extending Over 100-1000 Comoving Kpc Around Z ∼2-7 Laes With Subaru Hsc-Ssp And Chorus Data, Shotaro Kikuchihara, Yuichi Harikane, Masami Ouchi, Yoshiaki Ono, Takatoshi Shibuya, Ryohei Itoh, Ryota Kakuma, Akio K. Inoue, Haruka Kusakabe, Kazuhiro Shimasaku, Rieko Momose, Yuma Sugahara, Satoshi Kikuta, Shun Saito Jun 2022

Silverrush. Xii. Intensity Mapping For Ly Α Emission Extending Over 100-1000 Comoving Kpc Around Z ∼2-7 Laes With Subaru Hsc-Ssp And Chorus Data, Shotaro Kikuchihara, Yuichi Harikane, Masami Ouchi, Yoshiaki Ono, Takatoshi Shibuya, Ryohei Itoh, Ryota Kakuma, Akio K. Inoue, Haruka Kusakabe, Kazuhiro Shimasaku, Rieko Momose, Yuma Sugahara, Satoshi Kikuta, Shun Saito

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We conduct intensity mapping to probe for extended diffuse Lyα emission around Lyα emitters (LAEs) at z ∼2-7, exploiting very deep (∼26 mag at 5σ) and large-area (∼4.5 deg2) Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam narrowband (NB) images and large LAE catalogs consisting of a total of 1540 LAEs at z = 2.2, 3.3, 5.7, and 6.6 obtained by the HSC-SSP and CHORUS projects. We calculate the spatial correlations of these LAEs with ∼1-2-billion-pixel flux values of the NB images, deriving the average Lyα surface brightness (SBLyα ) radial profiles around the LAEs. By carefully estimating systematics such as fluctuations of sky background and …


Correlation Functions Of The Anharmonic Oscillator: Numerical Verification Of Two-Loop Corrections To The Large-Order Behavior, Ludovico T. Giorgini, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Enrico M. Malatesta, Giorgio Parisi, Tommaso Rizzo, Jean Zinn-Justin May 2022

Correlation Functions Of The Anharmonic Oscillator: Numerical Verification Of Two-Loop Corrections To The Large-Order Behavior, Ludovico T. Giorgini, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Enrico M. Malatesta, Giorgio Parisi, Tommaso Rizzo, Jean Zinn-Justin

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Recently, the large-order behavior of correlation functions of the O(N)-anharmonic oscillator has been analyzed by us [L. T. Giorgini et al., Phys. Rev. D 101, 125001 (2020)PRVDAQ2470-001010.1103/PhysRevD.101.125001]. Two-loop corrections about the instanton configurations were obtained for the partition function, the two-point and four-point functions, and the derivative of the two-point function at zero momentum transfer. Here, we attempt to verify the obtained analytic results against numerical calculations of higher-order coefficients for the O(1), O(2), and O(3) oscillators, and we demonstrate the drastic improvement of the agreement of the large-order asymptotic estimates and perturbation theory upon the inclusion of the two-loop …


Counterflow Dynamics Of Two Correlated Impurities Immersed In A Bosonic Gas, Friethjof Theel, Simeon I. Mistakidis, Kevin Keiler, Peter Schmelcher May 2022

Counterflow Dynamics Of Two Correlated Impurities Immersed In A Bosonic Gas, Friethjof Theel, Simeon I. Mistakidis, Kevin Keiler, Peter Schmelcher

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The Counterflow Dynamics Of Two Correlated Impurities In A Double Well Coupled To A One-Dimensional Bosonic Medium Is Explored. We Determine The Ground-State Phase Diagram Of The System According To The Impurity-Medium Entanglement And The Impurities' Two-Body Correlations. Specifically, Bound Impurity Structures Reminiscent Of Bipolarons For Strong Attractive Couplings As Well As Configurations With Two Clustered Or Separated Impurities In The Repulsive Case Are Identified. The Interval Of Existence Of These Phases Depends Strongly On The Impurity-Impurity Interactions And External Confinement Of The Medium. Accordingly The Impurities' Dynamical Response, Triggered By Suddenly Ramping Down The Central Potential Barrier, Is Affected …


Using Supervised Learning Algorithms As A Follow-Up Method In The Search Of Gravitational Waves From Core-Collapse Supernovae, Javier M. Antelis, Marco Cavaglia, Travis Hansen, Manuel D. Morales, Claudia Moreno, Soma Mukherjee, Marek J. Szczepańczyk, Michele Zanolin Apr 2022

Using Supervised Learning Algorithms As A Follow-Up Method In The Search Of Gravitational Waves From Core-Collapse Supernovae, Javier M. Antelis, Marco Cavaglia, Travis Hansen, Manuel D. Morales, Claudia Moreno, Soma Mukherjee, Marek J. Szczepańczyk, Michele Zanolin

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We present a follow-up method based on supervised machine learning (ML) to improve the performance in the search of gravitational wave (GW) bursts from core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) using the coherent WaveBurst (cWB) pipeline. The ML model discriminates noise from signal events by using a set of reconstruction parameters provided by cWB as features. Detected noise events are discarded yielding a reduction in the false alarm rate (FAR) and the false alarm probability thus enhancing the statistical significance. We tested the proposed method using strain data from the first half of the third observing run of advanced LIGO, and CCSNe GW …


Building-Block Approach To The Discovery Of Na8mn2(Ge2se6)2: A Polar Chalcogenide Exhibiting Promising Harmonic Generation Signals With A High Laser-Induced Damage Threshold, Srikanth Balijapelly, Andrew J. Craig, Jeong Bin Cho, Joon I. Jang, Kartik Ghosh, Jennifer A. Aitken, Aleksandr V. Chernatynskiy, Amitava Choudhury Apr 2022

Building-Block Approach To The Discovery Of Na8mn2(Ge2se6)2: A Polar Chalcogenide Exhibiting Promising Harmonic Generation Signals With A High Laser-Induced Damage Threshold, Srikanth Balijapelly, Andrew J. Craig, Jeong Bin Cho, Joon I. Jang, Kartik Ghosh, Jennifer A. Aitken, Aleksandr V. Chernatynskiy, Amitava Choudhury

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A new polar quaternary chalcogenide, Na8Mn2(Ge2Se6)2, has been synthesized using the building-block approach by reacting preformed Na6Ge2Se6 and MnCl2 at 750 °C. The structure consists of layers of [Na(1)Mn(Ge2Se6)]3– stacked perpendicular to the c-axis and sodium ions occupying the interlayer space. An indirect bandgap of 1.52 eV has been calculated using density functional theory, which is expectedly underestimated compared to the observed optical bandgap of 1.95 eV derived from diffuse reflectance spectroscopic measurements in the UV/Vis/NIR region. Magnetic measurements confirm the paramagnetic nature of Na8Mn2(Ge2Se6)2 with an experimental magnetic moment of 5.8 μB in good agreement with the theoretical spin …


Fluoride Doping In Crystalline And Amorphous Indium Oxide Semiconductors, Aritra Sil, Michael J. Deck, Elise A. Goldfine, Chi Zhang, Sawankumar V. Patel, Steven Flynn, Haoyu Liu, Po Hsiu Chien, Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier, Vinayak P. Dravid, Michael J. Bedzyk, Julia E. Medvedeva, Yan Yan Hu, Antonio Facchetti Apr 2022

Fluoride Doping In Crystalline And Amorphous Indium Oxide Semiconductors, Aritra Sil, Michael J. Deck, Elise A. Goldfine, Chi Zhang, Sawankumar V. Patel, Steven Flynn, Haoyu Liu, Po Hsiu Chien, Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier, Vinayak P. Dravid, Michael J. Bedzyk, Julia E. Medvedeva, Yan Yan Hu, Antonio Facchetti

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In this contribution, the structural and electronic effects of fluoride doping in both crystalline and amorphous indium oxides are investigated by both experimental and theoretical techniques. Pristine crystalline and amorphous fluoride-doped indium oxide (F:In-O) phases were prepared by solution-based combustion synthesis and sol-gel techniques, respectively. The chemical composition, environment, and solid-state microstructure of these materials were extensively studied with a wide array of state-of-the-art techniques such as UV-vis, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, grazing incidence X-ray diffraction, 19F and 115In solid-state NMR, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM), and extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) as well as by density functional theory (DFT) …