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Transport Signatures Of Dirac States In Topological Insulator - Ferromagnet Heterostructures, Hilary M. Hurst Nov 2019

Transport Signatures Of Dirac States In Topological Insulator - Ferromagnet Heterostructures, Hilary M. Hurst

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

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Measurement-Induced Dynamics And Stabilization Of Spinor-Condensate Domain Walls, Hilary M. Hurst, I. B. Spielman May 2019

Measurement-Induced Dynamics And Stabilization Of Spinor-Condensate Domain Walls, Hilary M. Hurst, I. B. Spielman

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Weakly measuring many-body systems and allowing for feedback in real-time can simultaneously create and measure new phenomena in strongly correlated quantum systems. We study the dynamics of a continuously measured two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) potentially containing a domain wall, and focus on the trade-off between usable information obtained from measurement and quantum backaction. Each weakly measured system yields a measurement record from which we extract real-time dynamics of the domain wall. We show that quantum backaction due to measurement causes two primary effects: domain wall diffusion and overall heating. The system dynamics and signal-to-noise ratio depend on the choice of …


Induced Quantum Dot Probe For Material Characterization, Yun-Pil Shim, Rusko Ruskov, Hilary M. Hurst, Charles Tahan Apr 2019

Induced Quantum Dot Probe For Material Characterization, Yun-Pil Shim, Rusko Ruskov, Hilary M. Hurst, Charles Tahan

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

We propose a non-destructive means of characterizing a semiconductor wafer via measuring parameters of an induced quantum dot on the material system of interest with a separate probe chip that can also house the measurement circuitry. We show that a single wire can create the dot, determine if an electron is present, and be used to measure critical device parameters. Adding more wires enables more complicated (potentially multi-dot) systems and measurements. As one application for this concept we consider silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor and silicon/silicon-germanium quantum dot qubits relevant to quantum computing and show how to measure low-lying excited states (so-called "valley" …


Status Of The Los Alamos Room Temperature Neutorn Electric Dipole Moment Search, Robert W. Pattie Jr. Apr 2019

Status Of The Los Alamos Room Temperature Neutorn Electric Dipole Moment Search, Robert W. Pattie Jr.

ETSU Faculty Works

A discovery of the neutron's permanent electric dipole moment larger than the standard model prediction of dn ≈ 10-31 e·cm would signal a new source of CP-violation and help explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. Tightening the limits on dn constrain extensions to the standard model in a complementary fashion to the atomic and electron EDM searches. The recent upgrade of the Los Alamos ultracold neutron source makes it possible for a new room temperature search with the statistical reach to improve upon current limits by a factor of 10 or more. During the 2018 LANSCE …