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Mr. Maxwell's journey into hadron country (electromagnetic currents in nuclei)
1993
In these lectures an introduction is given into the main features of nuclear structure investigations by photoabsorption and electron scattering. After a brief review of the general structure of the electromagnetic interaction, the gauge conditions and low-energy theorems for the electromagnetic interaction operators are discussed. The various theoretical schemes for incorporating subnuclear degrees of freedom either as effective operators like the pion exchange current or explicitely like in the model of nuclear isobar configurations are reviewed. At the end, a few specific experiments are discussed as an illustration of what can be learned from such experiments.
Computing the nucleon Dirac radius directly at $Q^2=0$
2016
We describe a lattice approach for directly computing momentum derivatives of nucleon matrix elements using the Rome method, which we apply to obtain the isovector magnetic moment and Dirac radius. We present preliminary results calculated at the physical pion mass using a 2HEX-smeared Wilson-clover action. For removing the effects of excited-state contamination, the calculations were done at three source-sink separations and the summation method was used.
Nonstationary oscillations in gyrotrons
2001
The onset of stochastic oscillations in gyrotrons is studied by means of the self-consistent theory describing nonstationary processes. Complicated alternating sequences of regions of stationary, automodulation, and chaotic oscillations are found in the plane of the generalized gyrotron variables: cyclotron resonance mismatch and dimensionless current. The results of the investigations are important in connection with attempts to increase the output power of gyrotrons by raising the current.
Integrated photoabsorption strength and sum rules for a bound Dirac particle
1985
Relativistic effects in the integrated total photoabsorption cross section are discussed using a simple model of a Dirac particle bound in a central potential of scalar or vector type. The integrated strength is calculated explicitly and compared to a new relativistic extension of the TRK-sum rule using positive energy projection and to predictions from dispersion relations. M1 and E2 sum rules are also considered. In all cases the integrated strength exceeds the classical sum rule up to a few percent. The dispersion sum rule cannot be compared directly to the integrated strength since it contains a negative contribution from pair production in the potential field which is of the order of a…
Renormalized Proton-Neutron Quasiparticle Random-Phase Approximation and Its Application to Double Beta Decay
1995
A self-consistent method of treating excitations of the proton-neutron quasiparticle random-phase approximation is presented. The non-self-consistent methods violate the Pauli exclusion principle and lead to an eventual collapse of the ground state. This behavior renders a reliable calculation of the nuclear matrix elements, relevant for the prediction of double-beta-decay half-lives, difficult. The present formalism promotes the Pauli exclusion principle and avoids the collapse of the double-beta-decay matrix elements. We have applied this formalism to the double beta decay of ${}^{100}$Mo.
Modeling of a tunable-barrier non-adiabatic electron pump beyond the decay cascade model
2014
We generalize the decay cascade model of charge capture statistics for a tunable-barrier non-adiabatic electron pump dominated by the backtunneling error at the quantum dot decoupling stage. The energy scales controlling the competition between the thermal and the dynamical mechanisms for accurate trapped charge quantization are discussed. Empirical fitting formula incorporating quantum dot re-population errors due to particle-hole fluctuations in the source lead is suggested and tested against an exactly solvable rate equation model.
Mean field methods in large amplitude nuclear collective motion
1984
The time dependent Hartree-Fock method (TDHF) is reviewed and its success and failure are discussed. It is demonstrated that TDHF is a semiclassical theory which is basically able to describe the time evolution of one-body operators, the energy loss in inclusive deep inelastic collisions, and fusion reactions above the Coulomb barrier. For genuine quantum mechanical processes as e.g. spontaneous fission, subbarrier fusion, phase shifts and the description of bound vibrations, the quantized adiabatic time dependent Hartree-Fock theory (quantized ATDHF) is suggested and reviewed. Realistic three-dimensional calculations for heavy ion systems of A1+A2<32 are presented. Applications to various …
Bell's inequality violation for entangled generalized Bernoulli states in two spatially separate cavities
2005
We consider the entanglement of orthogonal generalized Bernoulli states in two separate single-mode high-$Q$ cavities. The expectation values and the correlations of the electric field in the cavities are obtained. We then define, in each cavity, a dichotomic operator expressible in terms of the field states which can be, in principle, experimentally measured by a probe atom that ``reads'' the field. Using the quantum correlations of couples of these operators, we construct a Bell's inequality which is shown to be violated for a wide range of the degree of entanglement and which can be tested in a simple way. Thus the cavity fields directly show quantum non-local properties. A scheme is als…
Entanglement of superconducting qubits via microwave fields: Classical and quantum regimes
2008
We study analytically and numerically the problem of two qubits with fixed coupling irradiated with quantum or classical fields. In the classical case, we derive an effective Hamiltonian, and construct composite pulse sequences leading to a CNOT gate. In the quantum case, we show that qubit-qubit-photon multiparticle entanglement and maximally entangled two-qubit state can be obtained by driving the system at very low powers (one quanta of excitation). Our results can be applied to a variety of systems of two superconducting qubits coupled to resonators.
Theory of quantum fluctuations of optical dissipative structures and its application to the squeezing properties of bright cavity solitons
2007
We present a method for the study of quantum fluctuations of dissipative structures forming in nonlinear optical cavities, which we illustrate in the case of a degenerate, type I optical parametric oscillator. The method consists in (i) taking into account explicitly, through a collective variable description, the drift of the dissipative structure caused by the quantum noise, and (ii) expanding the remaining -internal- fluctuations in the biorthonormal basis associated to the linear operator governing the evolution of fluctuations in the linearized Langevin equations. We obtain general expressions for the squeezing and intensity fluctuations spectra. Then we theoretically study the squeezi…