Orientador: Antonio Vidiella Barranco / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Fisica "Gleb Wataghin" / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-06T16:53:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_FernandoLuisSemiaoda_D.pdf: 1615501 bytes, checksum: 370145b0056b0b8da7cf94fb9d01bc25 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: A presente tese é dedicada à utilização de conhecidos sistemas quânticos em aplicações de interesse em óptica e informação quântica. Motivados pelos recentes avanços experimentais em sistemas formados por íons aprisionados interagindo com lasers e na eletrodinâmica quântica de cavidades, nós focamos grande parte de nossas propostas nestes sistemas. Mais especificamente, nós estudamos a interação de íons e campos quantizados na chamada eletrodinâmica quântica de cavidades com íons aprisionados. Neste contexto, iniciamos nossos trabalhos com uma proposta de geração de superposições mesoscópicas no movimento do íon. Uma vez que tais superposições são muito sensíveis à decoerência, incluímos perdas na cavidade para tratar uma situação mais realista. Através da observação de quantum jumps, ou fóton-contagens fora da cavidade, mostramos um esquema de geração de estados com características quânticas muito similares aos encontrados no caso da cavidade ideal, sem perdas. Neste aspecto, encontramos um modo de usar a dissipação a nosso favor, fato de grande interesse experimental devido às imperfeições dos espelhos reais. Apresentamos também uma proposta de implementação de uma interação do tipo Kerr em íons como uma alternativa ao uso de cristais não-lineares que apresentam baixíssima eficiência para esse tipo de efeito. Essa proposta abre novas possibilidades para o uso de íons em medidas não demolidoras e computação quântica. Nossos estudos na área de eletrodinâmica quântica com íons aprisionados terminam com a análise dos efeitos do movimento do íon na dinâmica das transições multi-fotônicas. Esse é um estudo mais fundamental e está relacionado com o entendimento da interação da radiação com a matéria. Na última parte desta tese são apresentados resultados sobre o uso de sistemas de muitos corpos para a distribuição de informação quântica. O objetivo de se estudar estes sistemas mais complexos é a busca de implementação de protocolos quânticos em larga escala. Neste sentido, poderíamos pensar numa cadeia de osciladores harmônicos acoplados como ocorre em sistemas típicos da física da matéria condensada. Em particular, nós estudamos como aumentar a eficiência na transmissão de emaranhamento nestas cadeias. Propusemos um esquema que funciona como um tipo de quantum data bus, ou ônibus quântico para transportar e distribuir emaranhamento com alta eficiência / Abstract: This thesis is concerned with the use of firmly established quantum systems for applications in quantum optics and quantum information. Having been driven by recent experimental advances in laser-manipulated trapped ions and cavity quantum electrodynamics, we concentrated more on proposals to be implemented in those systems. Being more specific, we have studied the interaction between trapped ions and quantized fields in the so-called cavity quantum electrodynamics with trapped ions. In this context, we began with a proposal to generate mesoscopic superpositions in the motion of the ion. Since these superpositions are extremely sensitive to decoherence, we have included cavity losses in order to make the situation slightly more realistic. We showed that the observation of quantum jumps, or photon detection outside the cavity, would generate quantum states with properties close to that generated in the ideal lossless case. In spite of the normally destructive effect of dissipation, we found a way to use it in our favor which turns out to be of great experimental importance due to always present mirror imperfections. We also showed how to mimic cross-Kerr nonlinearities in the cavity-ion system as a feasible alternative to the use of nonlinear crystals whose intensity of that non-linearity is too weak. This proposal opens up new possibilities for the use of trapped ions in non-demolition measurements and quantum computing. We finish our work in cavity electrodynamics with trapped ions with the study of the effect of the ionic motion on the dynamics of multiphotonic transitions. This is a more fundamental issue that is related to the understanding of matter-field interaction. In the last part of this thesis, we present results on the use of many-body systems for quantum information distribution. It was our goal to study more complex systems for the implementation of quantum protocols in large scale. In this sense, one could think of a chain of coupled harmonic oscillators as commonly found in condensed matter physics. Particularly, we dealt with the efficiency of entanglement transmission through the chain, trying to improve it. We ended up with a scheme which acts as a quantum data bus able to transport and distribute entanglement around quite efficiently / Doutorado / Física / Doutor em Ciências

La première partie concerne les interactions acoustique-vorticité dans les écoulements cisaillés linéaires incompressibles, qui peuvent être décomposés en la somme d’une partie hyperbolique et d’une partie rotation solide. L’écoulement de Couette en est un exemple. En utilisant la démarche non-modale , les équations d’évolution de perturbations compressibles se réduisent à une EDO de dimension trois en temps, qui dépend d’un paramètre adimensionné ε représentant le rapport entre le taux de cisaillement de l’écoulement et la fréquence des perturbations. Pour ε faible, la méthode WKB permet d’exhiber naturellement trois modes (deux modes acoustiques et un mode de vorticité) et permet de mettre en évidence des couplages entre ces modes. Ces couplages sont exponentiellement faible en 1/ε, et ne peuvent être pris en compte par une méthode asymptotique. Ils semblent être liés à la partie hyperbolique de l’écoulement. La seconde partie traite de la réflexion d'une onde par une surface de géométrie complexe. Une transformation conforme permet de transformer une frontière complexe en une frontière plane, mais fait apparaître des coefficients non constants dans les équations en volume. Celles-ci sont résolues au moyen de la méthode de la matrice d’impédance multimodale qui ramène le problème à une équation de Riccati pour la matrice d’impédance. Une méthode pour trouver des géométries admettant des modes piégés est proposée. Puis la méthode de résolution est appliquée à la modélisation de la couche limite visqueuse d’un fluide oscillant au contact d’une surface complexe périodique. Une solution perturbative est proposée. La présence de zones de recirculation est étudiée. / The first part is a study of the interactions between acoustic and vorticity perturbations in linear incompressible shear flows, which can decomposed as a sum of a hyperbolic part and of a rigid rotation part. The plane Couette flow is an example of such flows. By using the non-modal approach, the equations governing the evolution of compressible perturbations reduce to an ODE of dimension three in time, which depends on a dimensionless parameter ε representing the ratio between the shear rate of the flow and the frequency of the perturbations. For small ε values, the WKB method allows us to exhibit naturally three modes (two acoustic modes and one vorticity mode) and to highlight couplings between these modes. These couplings are exponentially small in 1/ε, and cannot be taken into account by an asymptotic method. They seem to be linked to the hyperbolic part of the flow.The second part deals with the reflection of a wave by a geometrically complex surface. A conformal mapping allows us to transform a complex boundary into a plane boundary, but makes appear varying coefficients in the bulk equations. These equations are then solved with the multimodal impedance matrix method, which reduce the problem to a Riccati equation for the impedance matrix. A method to find geometries allowing for the existence of trapped modes is proposed. Then the solving method is applied to the modeling of the viscous boundary layer of a fluid oscillating near a periodical rough surface. A perturbative solution is proposed. The presence of recirculation areas is studied.

The work deals with a comparison of existing and perspective types of passivation and anti-reflective coating for silicon solar cells. The theoretical part describes the appropriate methodology for the characterization of these layers and focuses on the passivation layers based on Al2O3. The practical part describes design and verification operations of the equipment for measuring of the amount of fixed charge in the passivation layers using corona discharge. It also describes the implementation of equipment and the results of indicative tests for positive and negative polarity of high voltage. The final part discusses the possibility of equipment improving.

La prévision d'événements extrêmes est une question cruciale dans des domaines divers allant de la météorologie à la finance. Trois classes d'universalité (Gumbel, Fréchet et Weibull) ont été identifiées pour des variables aléatoires indépendantes et de distribution identique (i.i.d.).La modélisation par des variables aléatoires i.i.d., notamment avec le modèle d'énergie aléatoire de Derrida, a permis d'améliorer la compréhension des systèmes désordonnés. Cette hypothèse n'est toutefois pas valide pour de nombreux systèmes physiques qui présentent de fortes corrélations. Dans cette thèse, nous étudions trois modèles physiques de variables aléatoires fortement corrélées : des fermions piégés,des matrices aléatoires et des marches aléatoires. Dans la première partie, nous montrons plusieurs correspondances exactes entre l'état fondamental d'un gaz de Fermi piégé et des ensembles de matrices aléatoires. Le gaz Fermi est inhomogène dans le potentiel de piégeage et sa densité présente un bord fini au-delà duquel elle devient essentiellement nulle. Nous développons une description précise des statistiques spatiales à proximité de ce bord, qui va au-delà des approximations semi-classiques standards (telle que l'approximation de la densité locale). Nous appliquons ces résultats afin de calculer les statistiques de la position du fermion le plus éloigné du centre du piège, le nombre de fermions dans un domaine donné (statistiques de comptage) et l'entropie d'intrication correspondante. Notre analyse fournit également des solutions à des problèmes ouverts de valeurs extrêmes dans la théorie des matrices aléatoires. Nous obtenons par exemple une description complète des fluctuations de la plus grande valeur propre de l'ensemble complexe de Ginibre.Dans la deuxième partie de la thèse, nous étudions les questions de valeurs extrêmes pour des marches aléatoires. Nous considérons les statistiques d'écarts entre positions maximales consécutives (gaps), ce qui nécessite de prendre en compte explicitement le caractère discret du processus. Cette question ne peut être résolue en utilisant la convergence du processus avec son pendant continu, le mouvement Brownien. Nous obtenons des résultats analytiques explicites pour ces statistiques de gaps lorsque la distribution de sauts est donnée par la loi de Laplace et réalisons des simulations numériques suggérant l'universalité de ces résultats. / Predicting the occurrence of extreme events is a crucial issue in many contexts, ranging from meteorology to finance. For independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables, three universality classes were identified (Gumbel, Fréchet and Weibull) for the distribution of the maximum. While modelling disordered systems by i.i.d. random variables has been successful with Derrida's random energy model, this hypothesis fail for many physical systems which display strong correlations. In this thesis, we study three physically relevant models of strongly correlated random variables: trapped fermions, random matrices and random walks.In the first part, we show several exact mappings between the ground state of a trapped Fermi gas and ensembles of random matrix theory. The Fermi gas is inhomogeneous in the trapping potential and in particular there is a finite edge beyond which its density vanishes. Going beyond standard semi-classical techniques (such as local density approximation), we develop a precise description of the spatial statistics close to the edge. This description holds for a large universality class of hard edge potentials. We apply these results to compute the statistics of the position of the fermion the farthest away from the centre of the trap, the number of fermions in a given domain (full counting statistics) and the related bipartite entanglement entropy. Our analysis also provides solutions to open problems of extreme value statistics in random matrix theory. We obtain for instance a complete description of the fluctuations of the largest eigenvalue in the complex Ginibre ensemble.In the second part of the thesis, we study extreme value questions for random walks. We consider the gap statistics, which requires to take explicitly into account the discreteness of the process. This question cannot be solved using the convergence of the process to its continuous counterpart, the Brownian motion. We obtain explicit analytical results for the gap statistics of the walk with a Laplace distribution of jumps and provide numerical evidence suggesting the universality of these results.

L'objet de cette thèse est l'étude des équations de Schrödinger et des ondes, à la fois linéaires et non linéaires, dans des domaines extérieurs. Nous nous intéressons en particulier aux inégalités dites de Strichartz, qui sont une famille d'estimations dispersives mesurant la décroissance du flot linéaire, particulièrement utiles à l'étude des problèmes non linéaires correspondants. Dans des géométries dites non-captantes, c'est à dire où tous les rayons de l'optique géométrique partent à l'infini, de nombreux résultats montrent que de telles estimations sont aussi bonnes que dans l'espace libre. D'autre part, la présence d'une trajectoire captive induit nécessairement une perte au niveau d'une autre famille d'estimations à priori, les estimations d'effet régularisant et de décroissance locale de l'énergie, respectivement pour Schrödinger et pour les ondes. En contraste de quoi, nous montrons des estimations de Strichartz sans perte dans une géométrie captante instable : l'extérieur de plusieurs obstacles strictement convexes vérifiant la condition d'Ikawa. La seconde partie de cette thèse est dédiée à l'étude du comportement en temps long des équations non-linéaires sous-jacentes. Lorsque le domaine dans lequel elles vivent n'induit pas trop de concentration de l'énergie, on s'attend à ce qu'elles diffusent, c'est à dire se comportent de manière linéaire asymptotiquement en temps. Nous montrons un tel résultat pour les ondes non linéaires critiques à l'extérieur d'une classe d'obstacles généralisant la notion d'étoilé. A l'extérieur de deux obstacles strictement convexes, nous obtenons un résultat de rigidité concernant les solutions à flot compact, premier pas vers un résultat général. Enfin, nous nous intéressons à l'équation de Schrödinger non linéaire, dans l'espace libre, mais avec un potentiel. Nous montrons que les solutions diffusent si l'on prend un potentiel répulsif, ainsi qu'une somme de deux potentiels répulsifs ayant des surfaces de niveau convexes, ce qui fournit un exemple de diffusion dans une géométrie captante analogue à l'extérieur de deux convexes stricts. / We are concerned with Schrödinger and wave equations, both linear and non linear, in exterior domains. In particular, we are interested in the so-called Strichartz estimates, which are a family of dispersive estimates measuring decay for the linear flow. They turn out to be particularly useful in order to study the corresponding non linear equations. In non-captive geometries, where all the rays of geometrical optics go to infinity, many results show that Strichartz estimates hold with no loss with respect to the flat case. Moreover, the local smoothing estimates for the Schrödinger equation, respectively the local energy decay for the wave equation, which are another family of dispersive estimates, are known to fail in any captive geometry. In contrast, we show Strichartz estimates without loss in an unstable captive geometry: the exterior of many strictly convex obstacles verifying Ikawa's condition. The second part of this thesis is dedicated to the study of the long time asymptotics of the corresponding non linear equations. We expect that they behave linearly in large times, or scatter, when the domain they live in does not induce too much concentration effect. We show such a result for the non linear critical wave equation in the exterior of a class of obstacles generalizing star-shaped bodies. In the exterior of two strictly convex obstacles, we obtain a rigidity result concerning compact flow solutions, which is a first step toward a general result. Finally, we consider the non linear Schrödinger equation in the free space but with a potential. We prove that solutions scatter for a repulsive potential, and for a sum of two repulsive potentials with strictly convex level surfaces. This provides a scattering result in a framework similar to the exterior of two strictly convex obstacles.

<p>This thesis investigates the effect of different passive suppression techniques of different configurations on the flow-excited acoustic resonance of an internal axisymmetric cavity. This type of acoustic resonance is observed in many practical applications such as valves installed in steam pipe lines, and gas transport system. An experimental setup of a cavity-duct system has been altered to facilitate the study of the suppression and/or delay of resonance over the range of Mach number of 0.07-0.4. Three different cavity depths have been studied d=12.5 mm, 25 mm, and 50 mm deep. For each depth, the cavity length is changed from L=25 mm to 50 mm. The investigation matrix includes the study of two rounding radii, two chamfer geometries and three different types of spoilers, all located at the leading edge of the cavity. A reference case of no suppression seat installed for each of the examined cavity geometries is tested. Rounding off cavity edges for both radii has increased the acoustic pressure level, yet delayed the onset of resonance. Chamfering the upstream edge of the cavity delayed the onset of resonance as a result of increasing the cavity characteristic length which delays the coupling of the shear layer perturbations and the acoustic field. The delay and the suppression of resonance achieved by the chamfer depend on the size of the cavity. All spoiler configurations have proven effectiveness in delaying and suppressing resonance for all cavities. The choice of spoiler configuration would depend on cavity size and robustness/strength of acoustic resonance.</p> / Master of Science (MSc)

A new apparatus called Bypass Trapped Flow Analysis System (ByT-FAS) is described. A properly designed ByT-FAS gives an analyst the ability to use analyte sample volumes of 10 to 200 μL [or more] and reagent volumes of approximately the same size. The sample and reagent are injected into their respective carrier streams and attain physical steady state concentrations in the detection cell within approximately 15 to 45 seconds after injection. Upon achievement of simultaneous sample and reagent physical steady state concentrations, the system flow is diverted around the detection cell and the reaction mixture is trapped in the detection cell. The concentration of the sample and reagent in the detection cell can be readily computed from knowledge of the original concentrations of the sample and reagent and the flow rates of the streams propelling the sample and reagent. ByT-FAS was demonstrated to be useful for direct measurements of analytes in liquid solutions and for assays which utilize equilibrium and/or kinetic methods to create measurable product(s) for ultraviolet/visible spectrophotometry, fluorimetry, and chemiluminescence. Enzyme activities and fundamental enzyme kinetic parameters (Kms, Kis, VMAXs) were determined directly. Genetic transcription levels of luciferase in whole intact E. coli cells were also determined using chemiluminescent detection. Flow system configuration, components, and flow ratios were investigated for their effects on achieving physical steady state signals in the detector. It is believed that this new type of instrumentation will be of significant use for the analytical chemical, biochemical, molecular biology, biotechnology, environmental, pharmaceutical and medical communities for those measurements which require direct knowledge of the concentration of the reactants and products during quantitation. / Ph. D.

Quasi-particles formed in lithium niobate after pulse exposure were investigated by transient absorption and photoluminescence spectroscopy as well as numerical simulations. This includes the formation process, the transport through the crystal, interim pinning on defects during the relaxation process, and the final recombination with deep centers. It was shown that the charge-transport through the crystal can be described by a hopping transport including different types of hops between regular or defective lattice sites, i.e., the transport includes a mixture of free and bound small polarons. Furthermore, the different types of hops connected with varying activation energies and their distribution are responsible for an altered temporal decay curve when changing the crystal composition or temperature. Additionally, it was shown that the hitherto accepted recombination model is insufficient to describe all transient absorption and luminescence effects in lithium niobate under certain experimental conditions, i.e., long-living absorption dynamics in the blue/UV spectral range do not follow the typical polaron dynamics and cannot be described under the assumption of charge compensation. However, similar decay characteristics between self-trapped excitons known from photoluminescence spectroscopy and the unexpected behavior of the transient absorption were found leading to a revised model. This includes, besides the known polaron relaxation and recombination branch, a significant role of self-trapped excitons and their pinning on defects (pinned STEs). Since the consideration of further absorption centers in the relaxation path after pulse exposure might result in misinterpretations of previously determined polaron absorption cross-sections and shapes, the necessity to perform a review became apparent. Therefore, a supercontinuum pump-probe experiment was designed and all measurements applied under the same experimental conditions (temperature, polarization) so that one can extract the absorption amplitudes of the single quasi-particles in a spectral range of 0.7-3.0eV. The detailed knowledge might be used to deconvolve the absorption spectra and transform them to number densities of the involved centers which enables one to obtain an easier insight into recombination and decay dynamics of small polarons and self-trapped excitons. As the hopping transport of quasi-particles and the concept of pinned STEs might be fundamental processes, a thorough understanding opens up the possibility of their exploitation in various materials. In particular, results presented herein are not only limited to lithium niobate and its applications; an extension to a wide range of further strongly polar crystals in both their microscopic processes and their use in industry can be considered.

Sensitive nonlinear acoustic methods are suitable for material characterization. This thesis describes three nonlinear acoustic methods that are proven useful for detection of defects like cracks and delaminations in solids. They offer the possibility to use relatively low frequencies which is advantageous because attenuation and diffraction effects are smaller for low frequencies. Therefore large and multi-layered complete objects can be investigated in about one second. Sometimes the position of the damage is required. But it is in general difficult to limit the geometrical extent of low-frequency acoustic waves. A technique is presented that constrains the wave field to a localized trapped mode so that damage can be located.

This thesis describes experimental demonstrations of high-fidelity readout of trapped ion quantum bits ("qubits") for quantum information processing. We present direct single-shot measurement of an "optical" qubit stored in a single calcium-40 ion by the process of resonance fluorescence with a fidelity of 99.991(1)% (surpassing the level necessary for fault-tolerant quantum computation). A time-resolved maximum likelihood method is used to discriminate efficiently between the two qubit states based on photon-counting information, even in the presence of qubit decay from one state to the other. It also screens out errors due to cosmic ray events in the detector, a phenomenon investigated in this work. An adaptive method allows the 99.99% level to be reached in 145us average detection time. The readout fidelity is asymmetric: 99.9998% is possible for the "bright" qubit state, while retaining 99.98% for the "dark" state. This asymmetry could be exploited in quantum error correction (by encoding the "no-error" syndrome of the ancilla qubits in the "bright" state), as could the likelihood values computed (which quantify confidence in the measurement outcome). We then extend the work to parallel readout of a four-ion string using a CCD camera and achieve the same 99.99% net fidelity, limited by qubit decay in the 400us exposure time. The behaviour of the camera is characterised by fitting experimental data with a model. The additional readout error due to cross-talk between ion images on the CCD is measured in an experiment designed to remove the effect of qubit decay; a spatial maximum likelihood technique is used to reduce this error to only 0.2(1)x10^{-4} per qubit, despite the presence of ~4% optical cross-talk between neighbouring qubits. Studies of the cross-talk indicate that the readout method would scale with negligible loss of fidelity to parallel readout of ~10,000 qubits with a readout time of ~3us per qubit. Monte-Carlo simulations of the readout process are presented for comparison with experimental data; these are also used to explore the parameter space associated with fluorescence detection and to optimise experimental and analysis parameters. Applications of the analysis methods to readout of other atomic and solid-state qubits are discussed.