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Campbell Penetration Depth In Low Carrier Density Superconductor Yptbi, Hyunsoo Kim, Makariy A. Tanatar, Halyna Hodovanets, Kefeng Wang, Johnpierre Paglione, Ruslan Prozorov Jul 2021

Campbell Penetration Depth In Low Carrier Density Superconductor Yptbi, Hyunsoo Kim, Makariy A. Tanatar, Halyna Hodovanets, Kefeng Wang, Johnpierre Paglione, Ruslan Prozorov

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Magnetic penetration depth, λm, was measured as a function of temperature and magnetic field in single crystals of low carrier density superconductor YPtBi by using a tunnel-diode oscillator technique. Measurements in zero DC magnetic field yield London penetration depth, λL(T), but in the applied field the signal includes the Campbell penetration depth, λC(T), which is the characteristic length of the attenuation of small excitation field, HAC, into the Abrikosov vortex lattice due to its elasticity. Whereas the magnetic field dependent λC exhibit λC ~ BP with p = 1/2 …


Tests Of General Relativity With Binary Black Holes From The Second Ligo-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Jun 2021

Tests Of General Relativity With Binary Black Holes From The Second Ligo-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

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Gravitational waves enable tests of general relativity in the highly dynamical and strong-field regime. Using events detected by LIGO-Virgo up to 1 October 2019, we evaluate the consistency of the data with predictions from the theory. We first establish that residuals from the best-fit waveform are consistent with detector noise, and that the low- and high-frequency parts of the signals are in agreement. We then consider parametrized modifications to the waveform by varying post-Newtonian and phenomenological coefficients, improving past constraints by factors of ∼2; we also find consistency with Kerr black holes when we specifically target signatures of the spin-induced …


Population Properties Of Compact Objects From The Second Ligo-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. May 2021

Population Properties Of Compact Objects From The Second Ligo-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

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We report on the population of 47 compact binary mergers detected with a false-alarm rate of < 1 yr-1 in the second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog. We observe several characteristics of the merging binary black hole (BBH) population not discernible until now. First, the primary mass spectrum contains structure beyond a power law with a sharp high-mass cutoff; it is more consistent with a broken power law with a break at 39.7+20.3-9.1 M or a power law with a Gaussian feature peaking at 33.1+4.0-5.6 M (90% credible interval). While the primary mass distribution must extend to …


Circular Dichroism In Atomic Resonance-Enhanced Few-Photon Ionization, A. H. N. C. De Silva, T. Moon, Daniel Fischer, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. May 2021

Circular Dichroism In Atomic Resonance-Enhanced Few-Photon Ionization, A. H. N. C. De Silva, T. Moon, Daniel Fischer, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

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We investigate few-photon ionization of lithium atoms prepared in the polarized 2p(m = +1) state when subjected to femtosecond light pulses with left- or right-handed circular polarization at wavelengths between 665 and 920 nm. We consider whether ionization proceeds more favorably for the electric field co- or counter-rotating with the initial electronic current density. Strong asymmetries are found and quantitatively analyzed in terms of "circular dichroism"(CD). While the intensity dependence of the measured CD values is rather weak throughout the investigated regime, a very strong sensitivity on the center wavelength of the incoming radiation is observed. While the co-rotating …


Many-Body Collisional Dynamics Of Impurities Injected Into A Double-Well Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensate, Friethjof Theel, Kevin Keiler, Simeon I. Mistakidis, Peter Schmelcher Apr 2021

Many-Body Collisional Dynamics Of Impurities Injected Into A Double-Well Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensate, Friethjof Theel, Kevin Keiler, Simeon I. Mistakidis, Peter Schmelcher

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We Unravel The Many-Body Dynamics Of A Harmonically Trapped Impurity Colliding With A Bosonic Medium Confined In A Double Well Upon Quenching The Initially Displaced Harmonic Trap To The Center Of The Double Well. We Reveal That The Emerging Correlation Dynamics Crucially Depends On The Impurity-Medium Interaction Strength Allowing For A Classification Into Different Dynamical Response Regimes. For Strong Attractive Impurity-Medium Couplings The Impurity Is Bound To The Bosonic Bath, While For Intermediate Attractions It Undergoes An Effective Tunneling. In The Case Of Weak Attractive Or Repulsive Couplings The Impurity Penetrates The Bosonic Bath And Performs A Dissipative Oscillatory Motion. …


Edge-State Critical Behavior Of The Integer Quantum Hall Transition, Martin Puschmann, Philipp Cain, Michael Schreiber, Thomas Vojta Apr 2021

Edge-State Critical Behavior Of The Integer Quantum Hall Transition, Martin Puschmann, Philipp Cain, Michael Schreiber, Thomas Vojta

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The integer quantum Hall effect features a paradigmatic quantum phase transition. Despite decades of work, experimental, numerical, and analytical studies have yet to agree on a unified understanding of the critical behavior. Based on a numerical Green function approach, we consider the quantum Hall transition in a microscopic model of non-interacting disordered electrons on a simple square lattice. In a strip geometry, topologically induced edge states extend along the system rim and undergo localization–delocalization transitions as function of energy. We investigate the boundary critical behavior in the lowest Landau band and compare it with a recent tight-binding approach to the …


Radiofrequency Spectroscopy Of One-Dimensional Trapped Bose Polarons: Crossover From The Adiabatic To The Diabatic Regime, Simeon I. Mistakidis, G. M. Koutentakis, F. Grusdt, H. R. Sadeghpour, P. Schmelcher Apr 2021

Radiofrequency Spectroscopy Of One-Dimensional Trapped Bose Polarons: Crossover From The Adiabatic To The Diabatic Regime, Simeon I. Mistakidis, G. M. Koutentakis, F. Grusdt, H. R. Sadeghpour, P. Schmelcher

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We Investigate The Crossover Of The Impurity-Induced Dynamics, In Trapped One-Dimensional Bose Polarons Subject To Radio Frequency (RF) Pulses Of Varying Intensity, From An Adiabatic To A Diabatic Regime. Utilizing Adiabatic Pulses For Either Weak Repulsive Or Attractive Impurity-Medium Interactions, A Multitude Of Polaronic Excitations Or Mode-Couplings Of The Impurity-Bath Interaction With The Collective Breathing Motion Of The Bosonic Medium Are Spectrally Resolved. We Find That For Strongly Repulsive Impurity-Bath Interactions, A Temporal Orthogonality Catastrophe Manifests In Resonances In The Excitation Spectra Where Impurity Coherence Vanishes. When Two Impurities Are Introduced, Impurity-Impurity Correlations, For Either Attractive Or Strong Repulsive Couplings, …


All-Sky Search In Early O3 Ligo Data For Continuous Gravitational-Wave Signals From Unknown Neutron Stars In Binary Systems, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Mar 2021

All-Sky Search In Early O3 Ligo Data For Continuous Gravitational-Wave Signals From Unknown Neutron Stars In Binary Systems, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

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Rapidly spinning neutron stars are promising sources of continuous gravitational waves. Detecting such a signal would allow probing of the physical properties of matter under extreme conditions. A significant fraction of the known pulsar population belongs to binary systems. Searching for unknown neutron stars in binary systems requires specialized algorithms to address unknown orbital frequency modulations. We present a search for continuous gravitational waves emitted by neutron stars in binary systems in early data from the third observing run of the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors using the semicoherent, GPU-accelerated, binaryskyhough pipeline. The search analyzes the most sensitive frequency …


A Gravitational-Wave Measurement Of The Hubble Constant Following The Second Observing Run Of Advanced Ligo And Virgo, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Mar 2021

A Gravitational-Wave Measurement Of The Hubble Constant Following The Second Observing Run Of Advanced Ligo And Virgo, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

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This paper presents the gravitational-wave measurement of the Hubble constant (H0) using the detections from the first and second observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detector network. The presence of the transient electromagnetic counterpart of the binary neutron star GW170817 led to the first standard-siren measurement of H0. Here we additionally use binary black hole detections in conjunction with galaxy catalogs and report a joint measurement. Our updated measurement is H0 = 69+16-8 km s-1 Mpc-1 (68.3% of the highest density posterior interval with a flat-in-log prior) which is …


Thermal Conductivity Of The N = 1-5 And 10 Members Of The (Srtio₃)ₙsro Ruddlesden-Popper Superlattices, Natalie M. Dawley, Ella K. Pek, Che Hui Lee, Eugene J. Ragasa, Xue Xiong, Kiyoung Lee, Simon R. Phillpot, Aleksandr V. Chernatynskiy, David G. Cahill, Darrell G. Schlom Mar 2021

Thermal Conductivity Of The N = 1-5 And 10 Members Of The (Srtio₃)ₙsro Ruddlesden-Popper Superlattices, Natalie M. Dawley, Ella K. Pek, Che Hui Lee, Eugene J. Ragasa, Xue Xiong, Kiyoung Lee, Simon R. Phillpot, Aleksandr V. Chernatynskiy, David G. Cahill, Darrell G. Schlom

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Unlike many superlattice structures, Ruddlesden-Popper phases have atomically abrupt interfaces useful for interrogating how periodic atomic layers affect thermal properties. Here, we measure the thermal conductivity in thin films of the n = 1-5 and 10 members of the (SrTiO3)nSrO Ruddlesden-Popper superlattices grown by molecular-beam epitaxy and compare the results to a single crystal of the n = 1 Ruddlesden-Popper SrLaAlO4. The thermal conductivity cross-plane to the superlattice layering (k33) is measured using time-domain thermoreflectance as a function of temperature and the results are compared to first-principles calculations. The thermal conductivity of …


Entangling Lattice-Trapped Bosons With A Free Impurity: Impact On Stationary And Dynamical Properties, Maxim Pyzh, Kevin Keiler, Simeon I. Mistakidis, Peter Schmelcher Mar 2021

Entangling Lattice-Trapped Bosons With A Free Impurity: Impact On Stationary And Dynamical Properties, Maxim Pyzh, Kevin Keiler, Simeon I. Mistakidis, Peter Schmelcher

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We Address The Interplay Of Few Lattice Trapped Bosons Interacting With An Impurity Atom In A Box Potential. For The Ground State, A Classification Is Performed Based On The Fidelity Allowing To Quantify The Susceptibility Of The Composite System To Structural Changes Due To The Intercomponent Coupling. We Analyze The Overall Response At The Many-Body Level And Contrast It To The Single-Particle Level. By Inspecting Different Entropy Measures We Capture The Degree Of Entanglement And Intraspecies Correlations For A Wide Range Of Intra- And Intercomponent Interactions And Lattice Depths. We Also Spatially Resolve The Imprint Of The Entanglement On The …


Polaron Problems In Ultracold Atoms: Role Of A Fermi Sea Across Different Spatial Dimensions And Quantum Fluctuations Of A Bose Medium, Hiroyuki Tajima, Junichi Takahashi, Simeon I. Mistakidis, Eiji Nakano, Kei Iida Mar 2021

Polaron Problems In Ultracold Atoms: Role Of A Fermi Sea Across Different Spatial Dimensions And Quantum Fluctuations Of A Bose Medium, Hiroyuki Tajima, Junichi Takahashi, Simeon I. Mistakidis, Eiji Nakano, Kei Iida

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The Notion Of A Polaron, Originally Introduced In The Context Of Electrons In Ionic Lattices, Helps Us To Understand How A Quantum Impurity Behaves When Being Immersed In And Interacting With A Many-Body Background. We Discuss The Impact Of The Impurities On The Medium Particles By Considering Feedback Effects From Polarons That Can Be Realized In Ultracold Quantum Gas Experiments. In Particular, We Exemplify The Modifications Of The Medium In The Presence Of Either Fermi Or Bose Polarons. Regarding Fermi Polarons We Present A Corresponding Many-Body Diagrammatic Approach Operating At Finite Temperatures And Discuss How Mediated Two-And Three-Body Interactions Are …


On-Demand Generation Of Dark Soliton Trains In Bose-Einstein Condensates, A. Romero-Ros, Garyfallia C. Katsimiga, P. G. Kevrekidis, B. Prinari, G. Biondini, P. Schmelcher Feb 2021

On-Demand Generation Of Dark Soliton Trains In Bose-Einstein Condensates, A. Romero-Ros, Garyfallia C. Katsimiga, P. G. Kevrekidis, B. Prinari, G. Biondini, P. Schmelcher

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Matter-wave interference mechanisms in one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates that allow for the controlled generation of dark soliton trains upon choosing suitable box-type initial configurations are described. First, the direct scattering problem for the defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation with nonzero boundary conditions and general box-type initial configurations is discussed, and expressions for the discrete spectrum corresponding to the dark soliton excitations generated by the dynamics are obtained. It is found that the size of the initial box directly affects the number, size and velocity of the solitons, while the initial phase determines the parity of the solutions. The analytical results obtained for …


Pattern Formation Of Correlated Impurities Subjected To An Impurity-Medium Interaction Pulse, G. Bougas, Simeon I. Mistakidis, P. Schmelcher Feb 2021

Pattern Formation Of Correlated Impurities Subjected To An Impurity-Medium Interaction Pulse, G. Bougas, Simeon I. Mistakidis, P. Schmelcher

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We Study The Correlated Dynamics Of Few Interacting Bosonic Impurities Immersed In A One-Dimensional Harmonically Trapped Bosonic Environment. The Mixture Is Exposed To A Time-Dependent Impurity-Medium Interaction Pulse Moving It Across The Relevant Phase-Separation Boundary. For Modulation Frequencies Smaller Than The Trapping One, The System Successively Transits Through The Miscible And Immiscible Phases According To The Driving Of The Impurity-Medium Interactions. For Strong Modulations, And Driving From The Miscible To The Immiscible Regime, A Significant Fraction Of The Impurities Is Expelled To The Edges Of The Bath. They Exhibit A Strong Localization Behavior And Tend To Equilibrate. Following The Reverse …


Using Circular Dichroism To Control Energy Transfer In Multiphoton Ionization, A. H. N. C. De Silva, D. Atri-Schuller, Daniel Fischer, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Jan 2021

Using Circular Dichroism To Control Energy Transfer In Multiphoton Ionization, A. H. N. C. De Silva, D. Atri-Schuller, Daniel Fischer, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

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Chirality causes symmetry breaks in a large variety of natural phenomena ranging from particlephysics to biochemistry. We investigate one of the simplest conceivable chiral systems, a laser-excited, oriented, effective one-electron Li target. Prepared in a polarized p state with |m|= 1 in an optical trap, the atoms are exposed to co- and counterrotating circularly polarized femtosecond laser pulses. For a field frequency near the excitation energy of the oriented initial state, a strongcircular dichroism is observed and the photoelectron energies are significantly affected by the helicity-dependent Autler-Townes splitting. Besides its fundamental relevance, this system is suited to create spin-polarized electron …


Open Data From The First And Second Observing Runs Of Advanced Ligo And Advanced Virgo, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Jan 2021

Open Data From The First And Second Observing Runs Of Advanced Ligo And Advanced Virgo, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

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Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo are monitoring the sky and collecting gravitational-wave strain data with sufficient sensitivity to detect signals routinely. In this paper we describe the data recorded by these instruments during their first and second observing runs. The main data products are gravitational-wave strain time series sampled at 16384 Hz. The datasets that include this strain measurement can be freely accessed through the Gravitational Wave Open Science Center at http://gw-openscience.org, together with data-quality information essential for the analysis of LIGO and Virgo data, documentation, tutorials, and supporting software.


Laser-Induced Electron Diffraction Of The Ultrafast Umbrella Motion In Ammonia, B. Belsa, K. Amini, X. Liu, A. Sanchez, J. Steinmetzer, Anh-Thu Le, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Jan 2021

Laser-Induced Electron Diffraction Of The Ultrafast Umbrella Motion In Ammonia, B. Belsa, K. Amini, X. Liu, A. Sanchez, J. Steinmetzer, Anh-Thu Le, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

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Visualizing molecular transformations in real-time requires a structural retrieval method with Ångström spatial and femtosecond temporal atomic resolution. Imaging of hydrogen-containing molecules additionally requires an imaging method sensitive to the atomic positions of hydrogen nuclei, with most methods possessing relatively low sensitivity to hydrogen scattering. Laser-induced electron diffraction (LIED) is a table-top technique that can image ultrafast structural changes of gas-phase polyatomic molecules with sub-Ångström and femtosecond spatiotemporal resolution together with relatively high sensitivity to hydrogen scattering. Here, we image the umbrella motion of an isolated ammonia molecule (NH3) following its strong-field ionization. Upon ionization of a neutral ammonia molecule, …


Phase Diagram, Stability And Magnetic Properties Of Nonlinear Excitations In Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates, Garyfallia Katsimiga, Simeon I. Mistakidis, P. Schmelcher, P. G. Kevrekidis Jan 2021

Phase Diagram, Stability And Magnetic Properties Of Nonlinear Excitations In Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates, Garyfallia Katsimiga, Simeon I. Mistakidis, P. Schmelcher, P. G. Kevrekidis

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We Present The Phase Diagram, The Underlying Stability And Magnetic Properties As Well As The Dynamics Of Nonlinear Solitary Wave Excitations Arising In The Distinct Phases Of A Harmonically Confined Spinor F = 1 Bose-Einstein Condensate. Particularly, It Is Found That Nonlinear Excitations In The Form Of Dark-Dark-Bright Solitons Exist In The Antiferromagnetic And In The Easy-Axis Phase Of A Spinor Gas, Being Generally Unstable In The Former While Possessing Stability Intervals In The Latter Phase. Dark-Bright-Bright Solitons Can Be Realized In The Polar And The Easy-Plane Phases As Unstable And Stable Configurations Respectively; The Latter Phase Can Also Feature …


Local Electronic And Magnetic Properties Of The Doped Topological Insulators Bi₂Se₃:Ca And Bi₂Te₃:Mn Investigated Using Ion-Implanted ⁸Li Β-Nmr, Ryan M. L. Mcfadden, Aris Chatzichristos, David L. Cortie, Derek Fujimoto, Yew San Hor, Huiwen Ji, Victoria L. Karner, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Dec 2020

Local Electronic And Magnetic Properties Of The Doped Topological Insulators Bi₂Se₃:Ca And Bi₂Te₃:Mn Investigated Using Ion-Implanted ⁸Li Β-Nmr, Ryan M. L. Mcfadden, Aris Chatzichristos, David L. Cortie, Derek Fujimoto, Yew San Hor, Huiwen Ji, Victoria L. Karner, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

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We report β-NMR measurements in Bi2Se3:Ca and Bi2Te3:Mn single crystals using 8Li+ implanted to depths on the order of 100 nm. Above ∼200K, spin-lattice relaxation reveals diffusion of 8Li+, with activation energies of ∼0.4eV (∼0.2eV) in Bi2Se3:Ca (Bi2Te3:Mn). At lower temperatures, the NMR properties are those of a heavily doped semiconductor in the metallic limit, with Korringa relaxation and a small, negative, temperature-dependent Knight shift in Bi2Se3:Ca. From this, we make a detailed comparison with …


Quantum Oscillations From Networked Topological Interfaces In A Weyl Semimetal, I. Lin Liu, Colin Heikes, Taner Yildirim, Chris Eckberg, Tristin Metz, Hyunsoo Kim, Sheng Ran, William D. Ratcliff, Johnpierre Paglione, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Dec 2020

Quantum Oscillations From Networked Topological Interfaces In A Weyl Semimetal, I. Lin Liu, Colin Heikes, Taner Yildirim, Chris Eckberg, Tristin Metz, Hyunsoo Kim, Sheng Ran, William D. Ratcliff, Johnpierre Paglione, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

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Layered transition metal chalcogenides are promising hosts of electronic Weyl nodes and topological superconductivity. MoTe2 is a striking example that harbors both noncentrosymmetric Td and centrosymmetric T' phases, both of which have been identified as topologically nontrivial. Applied pressure tunes the structural transition separating these phases to zero temperature, stabilizing a mixed Td–T' matrix that entails a network of interfaces between the two nontrivial topological phases. Here, we show that this critical pressure range is characterized by distinct coherent quantum oscillations, indicating that the difference in topology between topologically nonvtrivial Td and T' phases gives …


Tuning Magnetic Confinement Of Spin-Triplet Superconductivity, Wen Chen Lin, Daniel J. Campbell, Sheng Ran, I. Lin Liu, Hyunsoo Kim, Andriy H. Nevidomskyy, David Graf, Nicholas P. Butch, Johnpierre Paglione Dec 2020

Tuning Magnetic Confinement Of Spin-Triplet Superconductivity, Wen Chen Lin, Daniel J. Campbell, Sheng Ran, I. Lin Liu, Hyunsoo Kim, Andriy H. Nevidomskyy, David Graf, Nicholas P. Butch, Johnpierre Paglione

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Electrical magnetoresistance and tunnel diode oscillator measurements were performed under external magnetic fields up to 41 T applied along the crystallographic b axis (hard axis) of UTe2 as a function of temperature and applied pressures up to 18.8 kbar. In this work, we track the field-induced first-order transition between superconducting and magnetic field-polarized phases as a function of applied pressure, showing suppression of the transition with increasing pressure until the demise of superconductivity near 16 kbar and the appearance of a pressure-induced ferromagnetic-like ground state that is distinct from the field-polarized phase and stable at zero field. Together with …


Induced Interactions And Quench Dynamics Of Bosonic Impurities Immersed In A Fermi Sea, K. Mukherjee, Simeon I. Mistakidis, S. Majumder, P. Schmelcher Nov 2020

Induced Interactions And Quench Dynamics Of Bosonic Impurities Immersed In A Fermi Sea, K. Mukherjee, Simeon I. Mistakidis, S. Majumder, P. Schmelcher

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We Unravel The Ground-State Properties And The Nonequilibrium Quantum Dynamics Of Two Bosonic Impurities Immersed In A One-Dimensional Fermionic Environment By Applying A Quench Of The Impurity-Medium Interaction Strength. In The Ground State, The Impurities And The Fermi Sea Are Phase Separated For Strong Impurity-Medium Repulsions While They Experience A Localization Tendency Around The Trap Center For Large Attractions. We Demonstrate The Presence Of Attractive Induced Interactions Mediated By The Host For Impurity-Medium Couplings Of Either Sign And Analyze The Competition Between Induced And Direct Interactions. A Quench To Repulsive Interactions Triggers A Breathing Motion In Both Components, With An …


Gwtc-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed By Ligo And Virgo During The First Half Of The Third Observing Run, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, Download The Pdf. Nov 2020

Gwtc-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed By Ligo And Virgo During The First Half Of The Third Observing Run, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, Download The Pdf.

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We report on gravitational wave discoveries from compact binary coalescences detected by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo between 1 April 2019 15:00 UTC and 1 October 2019 15:00 UTC. By imposing a false-alarm-rate threshold of two per year in each of the four search pipelines that constitute our search, we present 39 candidate gravitational wave events. At this threshold, we expect a contamination fraction of less than 10%. Of these, 26 candidate events were reported previously in near real-time through GCN Notices and Circulars; 13 are reported here for the first time. The catalog contains events whose sources are black …


Evidence For Target Outer-Shell Excitation Mediated By Electron Correlation In Single-Electron-Capture Collisions Of Slow He²⁺ Ions With Ar Atoms, Z. Y. Song, X. C. Wang, Z. W. Li, K. L. Han, Daniel Fischer Oct 2020

Evidence For Target Outer-Shell Excitation Mediated By Electron Correlation In Single-Electron-Capture Collisions Of Slow He²⁺ Ions With Ar Atoms, Z. Y. Song, X. C. Wang, Z. W. Li, K. L. Han, Daniel Fischer

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We have performed kinematically complete experiments on single-electron capture in slow He2+-Ar collisions. Besides the pure capture to the He+ (n = 2) level, capture into the deep He+ ( n= 1) state with simultaneous excitation of another target electron is also observed. In contrast to the pure capture, the total cross section for this two-electron transition decreases with increasing collision energy, and its angular-differential cross section exhibits a much slighter slope. We take these observations as evidence for electron capture mediated by electron-electron interactions.


Fluctuations And Correlations Of Transmission Eigenchannels In Diffusive Media, Nicholas Bender, Alexey Yamilov, Hasan Yllmaz, Hui Cao Oct 2020

Fluctuations And Correlations Of Transmission Eigenchannels In Diffusive Media, Nicholas Bender, Alexey Yamilov, Hasan Yllmaz, Hui Cao

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Selective excitation of a diffusive system's transmission eigenchannels enables manipulation of its internal energy distribution. The fluctuations and correlations of the eigenchannel's spatial profiles, however, remain unexplored so far. Here we show that the depth profiles of high-transmission eigenchannels exhibit low realization-to-realization fluctuations. Furthermore, our experimental and numerical studies reveal the existence of interchannel correlations, which are significant for low-transmission eigenchannels. Because high-transmission eigenchannels are robust and independent from other eigenchannels, they can reliably deliver energy deep inside turbid media.


Ejected-Electron-Energy And Angular Dependence Of Fully Differential Ionization Cross Sections In Medium-Velocity Proton Collisions With He And H₂, M. Dhital, S. Bastola, A. Silvus, J. Davis, B. R. Lamichhane, E. Ali, M. F. Ciappina, R. Lomsadze, A. Hasan, Don H. Madison, Michael Schulz Sep 2020

Ejected-Electron-Energy And Angular Dependence Of Fully Differential Ionization Cross Sections In Medium-Velocity Proton Collisions With He And H₂, M. Dhital, S. Bastola, A. Silvus, J. Davis, B. R. Lamichhane, E. Ali, M. F. Ciappina, R. Lomsadze, A. Hasan, Don H. Madison, Michael Schulz

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We have measured fully momentum-analyzed recoiling target ions and scattered projectiles, produced in ionization of He and H2 by 75 keV proton impact, in coincidence. The momentum of the ejected electrons was deduced from momentum conservation. From the data we extracted fully differential ionization cross sections as a function of the polar electron emission angle (for fixed electron energies) and as a function of the electron energy (for fixed electron emission angles). Comparison between experiment and various distorted wave calculations confirms that under kinematic conditions where the post-collision interaction plays an important role, the few-body dynamics underlying the ionization …


Pump-Probe Spectroscopy Of Bose Polarons: Dynamical Formation And Coherence, Simeon I. Mistakidis, Garyfallia Katsimiga, G. M. Koutentakis, Th Busch, P. Schmelcher Sep 2020

Pump-Probe Spectroscopy Of Bose Polarons: Dynamical Formation And Coherence, Simeon I. Mistakidis, Garyfallia Katsimiga, G. M. Koutentakis, Th Busch, P. Schmelcher

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We Propose And Investigate A Pump-Probe Spectroscopy Scheme To Unveil The Time-Resolved Dynamics Of Fermionic Or Bosonic Impurities Immersed In A Harmonically Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensate. In This Scheme A Pump Pulse Initially Transfers The Impurities From A Noninteracting To A Resonantly Interacting Spin State And, After A Finite Time In Which The System Evolves Freely, The Probe Pulse Reverses This Transition. This Directly Allows Us To Monitor The Nonequilibrium Dynamics Of The Impurities As The Dynamical Formation Of Coherent Attractive Or Repulsive Bose Polarons And Signatures Of Their Induced Interactions Are Imprinted In The Probe Spectra. We Show That For …


Reflected Fractional Brownian Motion In One And Higher Dimensions, Thomas Vojta, Samuel Halladay, Sarah Skinner, Skirmantas Janusonis, Tobias Guggenberger, Ralf Metzler Sep 2020

Reflected Fractional Brownian Motion In One And Higher Dimensions, Thomas Vojta, Samuel Halladay, Sarah Skinner, Skirmantas Janusonis, Tobias Guggenberger, Ralf Metzler

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Fractional Brownian motion (FBM), a non-Markovian self-similar Gaussian stochastic process with long-ranged correlations, represents a widely applied, paradigmatic mathematical model of anomalous diffusion. We report the results of large-scale computer simulations of FBM in one, two, and three dimensions in the presence of reflecting boundaries that confine the motion to finite regions in space. Generalizing earlier results for finite and semi-infinite one-dimensional intervals, we observe that the interplay between the long-time correlations of FBM and the reflecting boundaries leads to striking deviations of the stationary probability density from the uniform density found for normal diffusion. Particles accumulate at the boundaries …


Gw190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger With A Total Mass Of 150  M⊙, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Sep 2020

Gw190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger With A Total Mass Of 150  M⊙, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

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On May 21, 2019 at 03:02:29 UTC Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observed a short duration gravitational-wave signal, GW190521, with a three-detector network signal-to-noise ratio of 14.7, and an estimated false-alarm rate of 1 in 4900 yr using a search sensitive to generic transients. If GW190521 is from a quasicircular binary inspiral, then the detected signal is consistent with the merger of two black holes with masses of 85+21−14  M⊙ and 66+17−18  M⊙ (90% credible intervals). We infer that the primary black hole mass lies within the gap produced by (pulsational) pair-instability supernova processes, with only …


Parametrically Excited Star-Shaped Patterns At The Interface Of Binary Bose-Einstein Condensates, D. K. Maity, K. Mukherjee, Simeon I. Mistakidis, S. Das, P. G. Kevrekidis, S. Majumder, P. Schmelcher Sep 2020

Parametrically Excited Star-Shaped Patterns At The Interface Of Binary Bose-Einstein Condensates, D. K. Maity, K. Mukherjee, Simeon I. Mistakidis, S. Das, P. G. Kevrekidis, S. Majumder, P. Schmelcher

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A Faraday-Wave-Like Parametric Instability Is Investigated Via Mean-Field And Floquet Analysis In Immiscible Binary Bose-Einstein Condensates. The Condensates Form A So-Called Ball-Shell Structure In A Two-Dimensional Harmonic Trap. To Trigger The Dynamics, The Scattering Length Of The Core Condensate Is Periodically Modulated In Time. We Reveal That In The Dynamics The Interface Becomes Unstable Towards The Formation Of Oscillating Patterns. The Interface Oscillates Subharmonically, Exhibiting An M-Fold Rotational Symmetry That Can Be Controlled By Maneuvering The Amplitude And The Frequency Of The Modulation. Using Floquet Analysis We Are Able To Predict The Generated Interfacial Tension Of The Mixture And Derive …