Frequency spectrum of focused broadband pulses of electromagnetic radiation generated by polarization currents with superluminally rotating distribution patterns.

J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis 20:11 (2003) 2137-2155

Authors:

Houshang Ardavan, Arzhang Ardavan, John Singleton

Abstract:

We investigate the spectral features of the emission from a superluminal polarization current whose distribution pattern rotates (with an angular frequency omega) and oscillates (with a frequency omega > omega differing from an integral multiple of omega) at the same time. This type of polarization current is found in recent practical machines designed to investigate superluminal emission. Although all of the processes involved are linear, we find that the broadband emission contains frequencies that are higher than omega by a factor of the order of (omega/omega)2. This generation of frequencies not required for the creation of the source stems from mathematically rigorous consequences of the familiar classical expression for the retarded potential. The results suggest practical applications for superluminal polarization currents as broadband radio-frequency and infrared sources.

Nanoscale solid-state quantum computing.

Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci 361:1808 (2003) 1473-1485

Authors:

A Ardavan, M Austwick, SC Benjamin, GAD Briggs, TJS Dennis, A Ferguson, DG Hasko, M Kanai, AN Khlobystov, BW Lovett, GW Morley, RA Oliver, DG Pettifor, K Porfyrakis, JH Reina, JH Rice, JD Smith, RA Taylor, DA Williams, C Adelmann, H Mariette, RJ Hamers

Abstract:

Most experts agree that it is too early to say how quantum computers will eventually be built, and several nanoscale solid-state schemes are being implemented in a range of materials. Nanofabricated quantum dots can be made in designer configurations, with established technology for controlling interactions and for reading out results. Epitaxial quantum dots can be grown in vertical arrays in semiconductors, and ultrafast optical techniques are available for controlling and measuring their excitations. Single-walled carbon nanotubes can be used for molecular self-assembly of endohedral fullerenes, which can embody quantum information in the electron spin. The challenges of individual addressing in such tiny structures could rapidly become intractable with increasing numbers of qubits, but these schemes are amenable to global addressing methods for computation.

Nanoscale solid-state quantum computing

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 361:1808 (2003) 1473-1485

Authors:

A Ardavan, M Austwick, SC Benjamin, GAD Briggs, TJS Dennis, A Ferguson, DG Hasko, M Kanai, AN Khlobystov, BW Lovett, GW Morley, RA Oliver, DG Pettifor, K Porfyrakis, JH Reina, JH Rlce, JD Smith, RA Taylor, DA Williams, C Adelmann, H Mariette, RJ Hamers

Abstract:

Most experts agree that it is too early to say how quantum computers will eventually be built, and several nanoscale solid-state schemes are being implemented in a range of materials. Nanofabricated quantum dots can be made in designer configurations, with established technology for controlling interactions and for reading out results. Epitaxial quantum dots can be grown in vertical arrays in semiconductors, and ultrafast optical techniques are available for controlling and measuring their excitations. Single-walled carbon nanotubes can be used for molecular self-assembly of endohedral fullerenes, which can embody quantum information in the electron spin. The challenges of individual addressing in such tiny structures could rapidly become intractable with increasing numbers of qubits, but these schemes are amenable to global addressing methods for computation.

Fermi-surface topology and the effects of intrinsic disorder in a class of charge-transfer salts containing magnetic ions, \beta''-(BEDT-TTF)_4[(H_3O)M(C_2O_4)_3]Y

(2003)

Authors:

AI Coldea, AF Bangura, J Singleton, A Ardavan, A Akutsu-Sato, H Akutsu, SS Turner, P Day

Angle-dependence of the magnetotransport and Anderson localization in a pressure-induced organic superconductor

SYNTHETIC MET 137:1-3 (2003) 1287-1288

Authors:

P Goddard, SW Tozer, J Singleton, A Ardavan, A Bangura, M Kurmoo

Abstract:

The conducting properties of the pressure-induced, layered organic superconductor (BEDT-TTF)(3)Cl-2 . 2H(2)O have been studied at 13.5 and 14.0 kbar using low temperatures, high magnetic fields and two-axis rotation. The observed negative magnetoresistance at 13.5 kbar can be explained by considering Anderson localization within the layers. Further application of pressure destroys the effects of localization.