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Pressure tuning of light-induced superconductivity in K3C60
2017
Optical excitation at terahertz frequencies has emerged as an effective means to manipulate complex solids dynamically. In the molecular solid K3C60, coherent excitation of intramolecular vibrations was shown to transform the high temperature metal into a non-equilibrium state with the optical conductivity of a superconductor. Here we tune this effect with hydrostatic pressure, and we find it to disappear around 0.3 GPa. Reduction with pressure underscores the similarity with the equilibrium superconducting phase of K3C60, in which a larger electronic bandwidth is detrimental for pairing. Crucially, our observation excludes alternative interpretations based on a high-mobility metallic phase…
Development of an array of calorimetric low-temperature detectors for heavy ion physics
2006
Abstract Calorimetric low-temperature detectors have been investigated for several applications in heavy ion physics within the last 15 years. The detectors used consist of sapphire absorbers of 2×3×0.33 mm 3 and superconducting aluminum transition edge sensors operated at T ≈1.5 K. To fully exploit the potential of such detectors for heavy ion physics, a detector array is developed. For this purpose, a specially adapted 4 He bath cryostat with a base temperature of 1.2 K, which allows an active detector area of 30×80 mm 2 , was constructed. As different detectors have different transition temperatures, each detector pixel has to be adjusted to its specific working point and temperature sta…
Multimode squeezing of frequency combs
2006
We have developed a full multimode theory of a synchronously pumped type-I optical parametric oscillator. We calculate the output quantum fluctuations of the device and find that, in the degenerate case (coincident signal and idler set of frequencies), significant squeezing is obtained when one approaches threshold from below for a set of well-defined ``supermodes,'' or frequency combs, consisting of a coherent linear superposition of signal modes of different frequencies which are resonant in the cavity.
The energy calibration of LEP in the 1993 scan
1995
This report summarizes the procedure for providing the absolute energy calibration of the LEP beams during the energy scan in 1993. The average beam energy around the LEP ring was measured in 25 calibrations with the resonant depolarization technique. The time variation of this average beam energy is well described by a model of the accelerator based on monitored quantities. The absolute calibration of the centre of mass energies of the off-peak points is determined with a precision of 2 parts in 10(5) resulting in a systematic error on the Z-mass of about 1.4 MeV and on the Z-width of about 1.5 MeV.
Radiative lifetimes of the(1–3)Π1states in NaCs: Experiment and theory
2007
The radiative lifetimes of the $(3)\phantom{\rule{0.2em}{0ex}}^{1}\ensuremath{\Pi}$ and $D(2)\phantom{\rule{0.2em}{0ex}}^{1}\ensuremath{\Pi}$ states of the NaCs molecule have been directly measured in a thermal cell from fluorescence kinetics after modulated laser excitation. The experimental ${\ensuremath{\tau}}_{(3)\phantom{\rule{0.2em}{0ex}}^{1}\ensuremath{\Pi}}^{\mathrm{rad}}$ values of the $(3)\phantom{\rule{0.2em}{0ex}}^{1}\ensuremath{\Pi}({v}^{\ensuremath{'}}∊[3,25];{J}^{\ensuremath{'}}∊[25,106])$ levels decrease from $29\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\text{to}\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}21\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{ns}$ as the ${v}^{\ensuremath{'}}$ values increase. The measured …
Free-energy barriers for crystal nucleation from fluid phases.
2017
Monte Carlo simulations of crystal nuclei coexisting with the fluid phase in thermal equilibrium in finite volumes are presented and analyzed, for fluid densities from dense melts to the vapor. Generalizing the lever-rule for two-phase coexistence in the canonical ensemble to finite volume, "measurements" of the nucleus volume together with the pressure and chemical potential of the surrounding fluid allows to extract the surface free energy of the nucleus. Neither the knowledge of the (in general non-spherical) nucleus shape nor of the angle-dependent interface tension is required for this task. The feasibility of the approach is demonstrated for a variant of the Asakura-Oosawa model for c…
Opto-digital tomographic reconstruction of the Wigner distribution function of complex fields.
2008
An optical-digital method has been developed to obtain the Wigner distribution function of one-dimensional complex fields. In this technique an optical setup is employed to experimentally achieve the Radon-Wigner spectrum of the original signal through intensity measurements. Digital tomographic reconstruction is applied to the experimental spectrum to reconstruct the two-dimensional Wigner distribution function of the input. The validity of our proposal is demonstrated with experimental data, and the results are compared with computer simulations.
A sliding mass wave energy converter
2019
This paper presents a wave energy converter which is based on a sliding mass coupled to a linear generator. In order to maximize energy extraction, the stochastic features of the energy source has been included in the mathematical model of the system in order to satisfactorily tackle the problem. The results of several simulations are presented.
Thermal Excitation of Fourth Sound in Liquid Helium II
1974
In narrow channels filled with helium II two wave modes propagate, fourth sound1–3 and the fifth wave mode.4–6 According to new results of theoretical studies,7–8 it has been predicted that it should be possible to excite both wave modes mechanically by vibrating the diaphragm of a condenser microphone as well as thermally by periodically heating the surface of a solid body (e.g., a resistance layer). Shapiro and Rudnick3 have produced and detected fourth-sound signals mechanically. In the present contribution it will be experimentally verified that it is also possible to excite fourth sound thermally. Since the theory7,8 gives the result that fourth sound can be generated thermally only if…
Inverse dispersion engineering in silicon waveguides
2014
We present a numerical tool that searches an optimal cross section geometry of silicon-on-insulator waveguides given a target dispersion profile. The approach is a gradient-based multidimensional method whose efficiency resides on the simultaneous calculation of the propagation constant derivatives with respect to all geometrical parameters of the structure by using the waveguide mode distribution. The algorithm is compatible with regular mode solvers. As an illustrative example, using a silicon slot hybrid waveguide with 4 independent degrees of freedom, our approach finds ultra-flattened (either normal or anomalous) dispersion over 350 nm bandwidth in less than 10 iterations.