Excitonic transitions in organic semiconductors are associated with large oscillator strength that limits the excited-state lifetime and can in turn impede long-range exciton migration. We present perylene-based emissive H-aggregate nanowires where the lowest energy state is only weakly coupled to the ground state, thus dramatically enhancing lifetime. Exciton migration occurs by thermally acti...

We report on the observation of sympathetic cooling of a cloud of fermionic 6Li atoms which are thermally coupled to evaporatively cooled bosonic 87Rb. Using this technique we obtain a mixture of quantum-degenerate gases, where the Rb cloud is colder than the critical temperature for Bose-Einstein condensation and the Li cloud is colder than the Fermi temperature. From measurements of the therm...

LiHoo. ]67Yp.833F4 is a dilute dipolar-coupled Ising magnet with a spin glass transition which can be crossed with temperature T (Ts =0.13 K) or with an effective transverse field I (I s = I K at T=O). The nonlinear susceptibility contains a diverging component which dominates at T=98 mK, but disappears by 25 mK. At the same time, the onset of spin glass behavior in the dissipative linear susce...

We report on a broadband terahertz emission from a doubly interdigitated grating gates high electron mobility transistor. The observed emission was explained as due to the excitation of multi mode of plasmons: thermally excited incoherent modes and instability-driven coherent modes. The experiment was performed using Fourier spectrometer system coupled with high sensitive 4K Silicon bolometer u...

We report electrical transport experiments, using the phenomenon of electrical breakdown to perform thermometry, that probe the thermal properties of individual multiwalled carbon nanotubes. Our results show that nanotubes can readily conduct heat by ballistic phonon propagation. We determine the thermal conductance quantum, the ultimate limit to thermal conductance for a single phonon channel,...

The Petlyuk distillation configuration has received considerable attention because of its efficiency to reduce the energy required for the separation of ternary mixtures. The structure of the Petlyuk system offers some control challenges arising from the transfer of vapor streams back and forth between the columns. This means that neither of the columns can have a uniform lower nor higher press...

Colloidal spheres localized in an array of harmonic wells form a thermally excited, viscously damped dynamical system capable of supporting propagating elastic waves. Experimentally realized with micrometer-scale polystyrene spheres localized in a line of holographic optical traps, the hydrodynamically coupled array's behavior is quantitatively explained by a model based on the Oseen superposit...

The operation of an integrated silicon-photonics multi-microring network-on-chip (NoC) is experimentally demonstrated in terms of transmission spectra and bit error rates at 10 Gb/s. The integrated NoC consists of 8 thermally tuned microrings coupled to a central ring. The switching functionalities are tested with concurrent transmissions at both the same and different wavelengths. Experimental...

The Hubbard model is used to study an electronic system at half filling. Starting from a functional integral representation the spinup Grassmann field is integrated out. It is shown that the resulting spinless fermion theory has an instantaneous cluster interaction, and that the spinless fermions are coupled to thermally fluctuating Ising spins. The coupling parameter of the spinless fermion in...

The classical, thermally driven transition in the dipolar-coupled Ising ferromagnet LiHoF 4 sTc ­ 1.53 Kd can be converted into a quantum transition driven by a transverse magnetic field Ht at T ­ 0. The transverse field, applied perpendicular to the Ising axis, introduces channels for quantum relaxation, thereby depressing Tc . We have determined the phase diagram in the Ht-T plane via magneti...