TY - JOUR A1 - van Loock, Peter A1 - Alt, Wolfgang A1 - Becher, Christoph A1 - Benson, Oliver A1 - Boche, Holger A1 - Deppe, Christian A1 - Eschner, Jürgen A1 - Höfling, Sven A1 - Meschede, Dieter A1 - Michler, Peter A1 - Schmidt, Frank A1 - Weinfurter, Harald T1 - Extending Quantum Links: Modules for Fiber‐ and Memory‐Based Quantum Repeaters JF - Advanced Quantum Technologies N2 - Elementary building blocks for quantum repeaters based on fiber channels and memory stations are analyzed. Implementations are considered for three different physical platforms, for which suitable components are available: quantum dots, trapped atoms and ions, and color centers in diamond. The performances of basic quantum repeater links for these platforms are evaluated and compared, both for present‐day, state‐of‐the‐art experimental parameters as well as for parameters that can in principle be reached in the future. The ultimate goal is to experimentally explore regimes at intermediate distances—up to a few 100 km—in which the repeater‐assisted secret key transmission rates exceed the maximal rate achievable via direct transmission. Two different protocols are considered, one of which is better adapted to the higher source clock rate and lower memory coherence time of the quantum dot platform, while the other circumvents the need of writing photonic quantum states into the memories in a heralded, nondestructive fashion. The elementary building blocks and protocols can be connected in a modular form to construct a quantum repeater system that is potentially scalable to large distances. KW - color centers KW - quantum communication KW - quantum dots KW - quantum repeaters KW - trapped atoms/ions Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-228322 VL - 3 IS - 11 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Goel, Mahima A1 - Siegert, Marie A1 - Krauss, Gert A1 - Mohanraj, John A1 - Hochgesang, Adrian A1 - Heinrich, David C. A1 - Fried, Martina A1 - Pflaum, Jens A1 - Thelakkat, Mukundan T1 - HOMO–HOMO Electron Transfer: An Elegant Strategy for p‐Type Doping of Polymer Semiconductors toward Thermoelectric Applications JF - Advanced Materials N2 - Unlike the conventional p‐doping of organic semiconductors (OSCs) using acceptors, here, an efficient doping concept for diketopyrrolopyrrole‐based polymer PDPP[T]\(_{2}\)‐EDOT (OSC‐1) is presented using an oxidized p‐type semiconductor, Spiro‐OMeTAD(TFSI)\(_{2}\) (OSC‐2), exploiting electron transfer from HOMO\(_{OSC-1}\) to HOMO\(_{OSC-2}\). A shift of work function toward the HOMO\(_{OSC-1}\) upon doping is confirmed by ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS). Detailed X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and UV–vis–NIR absorption studies confirm HOMO\(_{OSC-1}\) to HOMO\(_{OSC-2}\) electron transfer. The reduction products of Spiro‐OMeTAD(TFSI)\(_{2}\) to Spiro‐OMeTAD(TFSI) and Spiro‐OMeTAD is also confirmed and their relative amounts in doped samples is determined. Mott–Schottky analysis shows two orders of magnitude increase in free charge carrier density and one order of magnitude increase in the charge carrier mobility. The conductivity increases considerably by four orders of magnitude to a maximum of 10 S m\(^{-1}\) for a very low doping ratio of 8 mol%. The doped polymer films exhibit high thermal and ambient stability resulting in a maximum power factor of 0.07 µW m\(^{-1}\) K\(^{-2}\) at a Seebeck coefficient of 140 µV K\(^{-1}\) for a very low doping ratio of 4 mol%. Also, the concept of HOMO\(_{OSC-1}\) to HOMO\(_{OSC-2}\) electron transfer is a highly efficient, stable and generic way to p‐dope other conjugated polymers. KW - molecular doping KW - Mott–Schottky analysis KW - organic semiconductors KW - polymer thermoelectrics KW - ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-217850 VL - 32 IS - 43 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Shukla, A. A1 - Mannheim, K. T1 - Gamma-ray flares from relativistic magnetic reconnection in the jet of the quasar 3C 279 JF - Nature Communications N2 - Spinning black holes in the centres of galaxies can release powerful magnetised jets. When the jets are observed at angles of less than a few degrees to the line-of-sight, they are called blazars, showing variable non-thermal emission across the electromagnetic spectrum from radio waves to gamma rays. It is commonly believed that shock waves are responsible for this dissipation of jet energy. Here we show that gamma-ray observations of the blazar 3C 279 with the space-borne telescope Fermi-LAT reveal a characteristic peak-in-peak variability pattern on time scales of minutes expected if the particle acceleration is instead due to relativistic magnetic reconnection. The absence of gamma-ray pair attenuation shows that particle acceleration takes place at a distance of ten thousand gravitational radii from the black hole where the fluid dynamical kink instability drives plasma turbulence. KW - kink instability KW - energy KW - radiation KW - blazars KW - variability KW - absorption KW - telescope KW - shocks Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-231328 VL - 11 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Peixoto, Thiago R. F. A1 - Bentmann, Hendrik A1 - Rüßmann, Philipp A1 - Tcakaev, Abdul-Vakhab A1 - Winnerlein, Martin A1 - Schreyeck, Steffen A1 - Schatz, Sonja A1 - Vidal, Raphael Crespo A1 - Stier, Fabian A1 - Zabolotnyy, Volodymyr A1 - Green, Robert J. A1 - Min, Chul Hee A1 - Fornari, Celso I. A1 - Maaß, Henriette A1 - Vasili, Hari Babu A1 - Gargiani, Pierluigi A1 - Valvidares, Manuel A1 - Barla, Alessandro A1 - Buck, Jens A1 - Hoesch, Moritz A1 - Diekmann, Florian A1 - Rohlf, Sebastian A1 - Kalläne, Matthias A1 - Rossnagel, Kai A1 - Gould, Charles A1 - Brunner, Karl A1 - Blügel, Stefan A1 - Hinkov, Vladimir A1 - Molenkamp, Laurens W. A1 - Friedrich, Reinert T1 - Non-local effect of impurity states on the exchange coupling mechanism in magnetic topological insulators JF - NPJ Quantum Materials N2 - Since the discovery of the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in the magnetically doped topological insulators (MTI) Cr:(Bi,Sb)\(_2\)Te\(_3\) and V:(Bi,Sb)\(_2\)Te\(_3\), the search for the magnetic coupling mechanisms underlying the onset of ferromagnetism has been a central issue, and a variety of different scenarios have been put forward. By combining resonant photoemission, X-ray magnetic circular dichroism and density functional theory, we determine the local electronic and magnetic configurations of V and Cr impurities in (Bi,Sb)\(_2\)Te\(_3\). State-of-the-art first-principles calculations find pronounced differences in their 3d densities of states, and show how these impurity states mediate characteristic short-range pd exchange interactions, whose strength sensitively varies with the position of the 3d states relative to the Fermi level. Measurements on films with varying host stoichiometry support this trend. Our results explain, in an unified picture, the origins of the observed magnetic properties, and establish the essential role of impurity-state-mediated exchange interactions in the magnetism of MTI. KW - shape-truncation functions KW - semiconductors Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-230686 VL - 5 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Di Sante, Domenico A1 - Erdmenger, Johanna A1 - Greiter, Martin A1 - Matthaiakakis, Ioannis A1 - Meyer, René A1 - Fernandez, David Rodríguez A1 - Thomale, Ronny A1 - van Loon, Erik A1 - Wehling, Tim T1 - Turbulent hydrodynamics in strongly correlated Kagome metals JF - Nature Communications N2 - A current challenge in condensed matter physics is the realization of strongly correlated, viscous electron fluids. These fluids can be described by holography, that is, by mapping them onto a weakly curved gravitational theory via gauge/gravity duality. The canonical system considered for realizations has been graphene. In this work, we show that Kagome systems with electron fillings adjusted to the Dirac nodes provide a much more compelling platform for realizations of viscous electron fluids, including non-linear effects such as turbulence. In particular, we find that in Scandium Herbertsmithite, the fine-structure constant, which measures the effective Coulomb interaction, is enhanced by a factor of about 3.2 as compared to graphene. We employ holography to estimate the ratio of the shear viscosity over the entropy density in Sc-Herbertsmithite, and find it about three times smaller than in graphene. These findings put the turbulent flow regime described by holography within the reach of experiments. Viscous electron fluids are predicted in strongly correlated systems but remain challenging to realize. Here, the authors predict enhanced effective Coulomb interaction and reduced ratio of the shear viscosity over entropy density in a Kagome metal, inferring turbulent flow of viscous electron fluids. KW - coupling-constant dependence KW - shear viscosity KW - electron KW - resistance Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-230380 VL - 11 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Horvat, Sonja A1 - Vogel, Patrick A1 - Kampf, Thomas A1 - Brandl, Andreas A1 - Alshamsan, Aws A1 - Alhadlaq, Hisham A. A1 - Ahamed, Maqusood A1 - Albrecht, Krystyna A1 - Behr, Volker C. A1 - Beilhack, Andreas A1 - Groll, Jürgen T1 - Crosslinked Coating Improves the Signal‐to‐Noise Ratio of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles in Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) JF - ChemNanoMat N2 - Magnetic particle imaging is an emerging tomographic method used for evaluation of the spatial distribution of iron‐oxide nanoparticles. In this work, the effect of the polymer coating on the response of particles was studied. Particles with covalently crosslinked coating showed improved signal and image resolution. KW - crosslinked coating KW - imaging agents KW - magnetic properties KW - MPI KW - MPS Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-214718 VL - 6 IS - 5 SP - 755 EP - 758 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Geiger, Michael A1 - Acharya, Rachana A1 - Reutter, Eric A1 - Ferschke, Thomas A1 - Zschieschang, Ute A1 - Weis, Jürgen A1 - Pflaum, Jens A1 - Klauk, Hagen A1 - Weitz, Ralf Thomas T1 - Effect of the Degree of the Gate‐Dielectric Surface Roughness on the Performance of Bottom‐Gate Organic Thin‐Film Transistors JF - Advanced Materials Interfaces N2 - In organic thin‐film transistors (TFTs) fabricated in the inverted (bottom‐gate) device structure, the surface roughness of the gate dielectric onto which the organic‐semiconductor layer is deposited is expected to have a significant effect on the TFT characteristics. To quantitatively evaluate this effect, a method to tune the surface roughness of a gate dielectric consisting of a thin layer of aluminum oxide and an alkylphosphonic acid self‐assembled monolayer over a wide range by controlling a single process parameter, namely the substrate temperature during the deposition of the aluminum gate electrodes, is developed. All other process parameters remain constant in the experiments, so that any differences observed in the TFT performance can be confidently ascribed to effects related to the difference in the gate‐dielectric surface roughness. It is found that an increase in surface roughness leads to a significant decrease in the effective charge‐carrier mobility and an increase in the subthreshold swing. It is shown that a larger gate‐dielectric surface roughness leads to a larger density of grain boundaries in the semiconductor layer, which in turn produces a larger density of localized trap states in the semiconductor. KW - grain boundaries KW - organic thin‐film transistors KW - surface roughness Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-214830 VL - 7 IS - 10 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Riedl, Katharina A. A1 - Kampf, Thomas A1 - Herold, Volker A1 - Behr, Volker C. A1 - Bauer, Wolfgang R. T1 - Wall shear stress analysis using 17.6 Tesla MRI: A longitudinal study in ApoE\(^{-/-}\)mice with histological analysis JF - PLoS One N2 - This longitudinal study was performed to evaluate the feasibility of detecting the interaction between wall shear stress (WSS) and plaque development. 20 ApoE\(^{-/-}\)mice were separated in 12 mice with Western Diet and 8 mice with Chow Diet. Magnetic resonance (MR) scans at 17.6 Tesla and histological analysis were performed after one week, eight and twelve weeks. Allin vivoMR measurements were acquired using a flow sensitive phase contrast method for determining vectorial flow. Histological sections were stained with Hematoxylin and Eosin, Elastica van Gieson and CD68 staining. Data analysis was performed using Ensight and a Matlab-based "Flow Tool". The body weight of ApoE\(^{-/-}\)mice increased significantly over 12 weeks. WSS values increased in the Western Diet group over the time period; in contrast, in the Chow Diet group the values decreased from the first to the second measurement point. Western Diet mice showed small plaque formations with elastin fragmentations after 8 weeks and big plaque formations after 12 weeks; Chow Diet mice showed a few elastin fragmentations after 8 weeks and small plaque formations after 12 weeks. Favored by high-fat diet, plaque formation results in higher values of WSS. With wall shear stress being a known predictor for atherosclerotic plaque development, ultra highfield MRI can serve as a tool for studying the causes and beginnings of atherosclerosis. KW - phase-contrast MRI KW - flow patterns KW - blood flow KW - apolipoprotein-E KW - atheriosclerosis KW - mouse KW - mice KW - quantification KW - association KW - lesions Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-229318 VL - 15 IS - 8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Franich, Robert A. A1 - Meder, Roger A1 - Behr, Volker C. T1 - Dewatering Green Sapwood Using Carbon Dioxide Undergoing Cyclical Phase Change between Supercritical Fluid and Gas JF - Molecules N2 - Conventional kiln drying of wood operates by the evaporation of water at elevated temperature. In the initial stage of drying, mobile water in the wood cell lumen evaporates. More slowly, water bound in the wood cell walls evaporates, requiring the breaking of hydrogen bonds between water molecules and cellulose and hemicellulose polymers in the cell wall. An alternative for wood kiln drying is a patented process for green wood dewatering through the molecular interaction of supercritical carbon dioxide with water of wood cell sap. When the system pressure is reduced to below the critical point, phase change from supercritical fluid to gas occurs with a consequent large change in CO2 volume. This results in the efficient, rapid, mechanical expulsion of liquid sap from wood. The end-point of this cyclical phase-change process is wood dewatered to the cell wall fibre saturation point. This paper describes dewatering over a range of green wood specimen sizes, from laboratory physical chemistry studies to pilot-plant trials. Magnetic resonance imaging and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy were applied to study the fundamental mechanisms of the process, which were contrasted with similar studies of conventional thermal wood drying. In conclusion, opportunities and impediments towards the commercialisation of the green wood dewatering process are discussed. KW - supercritical CO2 KW - phase-change KW - sapwood KW - dewatering KW - physical chemistry KW - nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy KW - magnetic resonance imaging Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-219327 SN - 1420-3049 VL - 25 IS - 22 ER - TY - THES A1 - Grimm, Manuel T1 - Anwendung und Weiterentwicklung der winkelaufgelösten Photoemission an Molekül-Metall-Grenzflächen: Geometrische Struktur von Bilagenschichten und Kondoeffekt T1 - Application and further development of angle-resolved photoemission on molecule-metal interfaces: Geometric structure of bilayers and kondo effect N2 - Im Rahmen dieser Dissertation wurden organische Dünnschichten und deren Grenzflächen an Metallen mittels Photoemissionsspektroskopie untersucht. Hierbei wurden, unter Einstrahlung von Photonen mit einer Energie von zumeist 20-50 eV Elektronen des Valenzbandes des zu untersuchenden Probensystems ausgelöst, und in Abhängigkeit der kinetischen Energie und des Austrittswinkels bzw. Impulses charakterisiert. Eine wesentliche Aufgabe dieser Arbeit war es, die technische Entwicklung experimenteller Apparaturen des letzten Jahrzehnts dazu zu verwenden, um mit möglichst großer energetischer Auflösung bereits etablierte aber dennoch vielversprechende Systeme erneut zu untersuchen. Im ersten Hauptabschnitt wurden hierzu Einzel- und Doppelschichten bestehend aus Pentacenmolekülen mittels Molekularstrahlepitaxie auf einer Ag(110)-Oberfläche abgeschieden. Eine anschließende Untersuchung der emittierten Photoelektronen mittels Impulsmikroskopie, wodurch man in der Lage ist, die Photoelektronen des gesamten oberen Halbraumes gleichzeitig zu detektieren, ergab eine Verkippung der Moleküle der ersten und zweiten Lage der Doppelschichten. Im Vergleich hierzu liegen die Moleküle der Einzelschicht flach auf dem Substrat auf. Der Übergang von der Einzel- zur Doppelschicht erwirkt demnach eine Verkippung der Moleküle der ersten Lage, welche aufgrund der direkten Wechselwirkung mit dem Substrat nicht zu erwarten war. Im weiteren Verlauf dieses Abschnittes konnten unter Verwendung eines hemisphärischen Analysators mit hoher Energieauflösung weitere Feinheiten des Valenzbandspektrums, wie z.B. ein ungewöhnlicher Kurvenverlauf des Intensitätsmaximums des zweiten besetzten Molekülorbitals der ersten (unteren) Pentacenlage ausgemacht werden. Im zweiten Hauptabschnitt wurde eine energetisch schmale Resonanz, welche in der Literatur mit dem Kondoeffekt in Verbindung gebracht wird, im Valenzbandspektrum zweier unterschiedlicher Metall-Phthalocyaninmoleküle (Nickel- und Kupfer-Phthalocyanin) auf den drei Oberflächen Ag(100), Ag(110) und Ag(111) adsorbiert und auf ihre Temperaturabhängigkeit im Bereich von 20-300 Kelvin untersucht. Hierbei ergab sich neben der Feststellung des Vorhandenseins des Maximums auf allen drei Silber-Oberflächen ein energetischer Versatz dieses Maximums durch Abkühlen der Probe im Falle der Substrate Ag(100) und Ag(110), welcher in der vorliegenden Größenordnung von bis zu 100 meV ungewöhnlich für bisherige bekannte Kondosysteme ist. Auf Ag(111) konnte kein signifikanter Versatz im Rahmen der Messungenauigkeit festgestellt werden. Im weiteren Verlauf wurden auch von diesen Probensystemen Messungen mittels Impulsmikroskopie durchgeführt, welche in den dadurch erhaltenen Impulskarten geringe Anomalien aufwiesen. Insgesamt kann das vorliegende Verhalten dieser Systeme bis zum Abschluss dieser Arbeit nicht endgültig erklärt werden. Die für organische Systeme höchst ungewöhnliche Theorie der Ausbildung eines Kondogitters, in welcher die Wechselwirkung einzelner Störstellen zur Ausbildung eines elektronenartigen Bandes führt, wäre jedoch zunächst in der Lage, ein derartiges Verhalten, wenn auch nicht in dem hier gezeigten Ausmaß, teilweise zu erklären. N2 - In this dissertation organic thin films and their interfaces to metals are investigated by photoemission spectroscopy. Electrons of the valence band of the sample system to be investigated are excited under irradiation of photons with an energy in the order of 20-50 eV, and characterized as a function of the kinetic energy and the exit angle or momentum. An essential task of this work was to use the technical development of state-of-the-art experimental apparatuses of the last decade in order to investigate already established but nevertheless promising systems with the highest possible energetic resolution. In the first main section, single and double layers consisting of pentacene were deposited by molecular beam epitaxy on an Ag(110) surface. A subsequent examination of the emitted photoelectrons by momentum microscopy, which enables the simultaneous measurement of the entire upper half-space, revealed a tilting of the molecules of the first and second layers of the double layers. In comparison, the molecules of the single layer lie flat on the substrate. Therefore, the transition from the single to the double layer causes a tilting of the molecules of the first layer, which was not to be expected due to the direct interaction with the substrate. In the further course of this section, using a hemispherical analyzer with high energy resolution, further small energetic features of the valence band spectrum could be detected, e.g. an unusual shape of the intensity of the second occupied orbital of the first (bottom) pentacene layer. In the second main section, an energetically narrow resonance, which is associated with the Kondo effect in the literature, was investigated in the valence band spectrum of two different metal phthalocyanine molecules (nickel and copper) adsorbed on the three surfaces Ag(100), Ag(110) and Ag(111) for their temperature dependence in the range of 20-300 Kelvin. Besides the determination of the occurrence of the maximum on all three silver surfaces, an energetic shift of this maximum resulted from cooling the sample on the substrates Ag(100) and Ag(110), which in the present order of magnitude of approx. 100 meV is unusual for the previously known Kondo systems. On Ag(111) no significant shift could be found within the uncertainty of the measurement. In the further course, measurements of these sample systems were also carried out using a momentum microscope, which showed minor anomalies in the resulting momentum maps. Overall, the presented behaviour of these systems could not be explained within the frame of this dissertation. However, the theory of the formation of a Kondo lattice, in which the interaction of individual impurities leads to the formation of an electron-like band, which is highly unusual for organic systems, might be able to partially explain such a behaviour, even if not to the extent shown here. KW - Winkelaufgelöste Photoemissionsspektroskopie KW - Molekülphysik KW - Kondo-Effekt KW - Tieftemperaturphänomene KW - Low temperature effects Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-213797 ER -