February 2000 arXiv papers

D. Jonathan, M. B. Plenio, P. L. Knight

We present an alternative scheme for the generation of a 2-qubit quantum gate interaction between laser-cooled trapped ions. The scheme is based on the AC Stark shift (lightshift) induced by laser light resonant with the ionic transition frequency. At {\it specific} laser intensities, the shift of the ionic levels allows the resonant excitation of transition

Antonio Maria Scarfone

In this work is studied a many body system obeying to a generalized Exclusion-Inclusion Principle (EIP) originated by collective effect, the dynamics, in mean field approximation, being ruled by a nonlinear Schroedinger equation. The EIP is introduced by a judicious generalization of the particle current. By means of variational principle is obtained a canon

K R P Sjodin, U Sperhake, J A Vickers

The field equations for a time dependent cylindrical cosmic string coupled to gravity are reformulated in terms of geometrical variables defined on a 2+1-dimensional spacetime by using the method of Geroch decomposition. Unlike the 4-dimensional spacetime the reduced case is asymptotically flat. A numerical method for solving the field equations which involv

L. Shi, P. Danielewicz

Nuclear matter within the liquid-gas phase transition region is investigated in a mean-field two-component Fermi-gas model. Following largely analytic considerations, it is shown that: (1) Due to density dependence of asymmetry energy, some of the neutron excess from the high-density phase could be expelled into the low-density region. (2) Formation of clust

E. Marinari, G. Parisi

We show that the evidence of cond-mat/9906323 does not discriminate among droplet model and mean field like behavior.

Mariano Cadoni, Salvatore Mignemi

When two-dimensional Anti-de Sitter space (AdS_2) is endowed with a non-constant dilaton the origin of the central charge in the Virasoro algebra generating the asymptotic symmetries of AdS_2 can be traced back to the breaking of the SL(2,R) isometry group of AdS_2. We use this fact to clarify some controversial results appeared in the literature about the v

P. Gallo, M. Rovere, E. Spohr

We present a Molecular Dynamics study of the single particle dynamics of supercooled water confined in a silica pore. Two dynamical regimes are found: close to the hydrophilic substrate molecules are below the Mode Coupling crossover temperature, $T_C$, already at ambient temperature. The water closer to the center of the pore (free water) approaches upon su

Theodore E. Liolios

Thermonuclear fusion reaction rates in the solar plasma are enhanced by the presence of the electron cloud that screens fusing nuclei. The present work studies the influence of electron screening deformations on solar reaction rates in the framework of the Debye-Huckel model. These electron-ion cloud deformations, assumed here to be static and axially symmet

Laur Jarv, Clifford V. Johnson

Supergravity solutions related to large N SU(N) pure gauge theories with eight supercharges have recently been shown to give rise to an ``enhancon'', a new type of hypersurface made of D-branes. We show that enhancons also arise in similar situations pertaining to SO(2N+1), USp(2N) and SO(2N) gauge theories, using orientifolds. Enhancons therefore ap

C. Bagnuls, C. Bervillier

Using the local potential approximation of the exact renormalization group (RG) equation, we show the various domains of values of the parameters of the O(1)-symmetric scalar Hamiltonian. In three dimensions, in addition to the usual critical surface $S_{c}$ (attraction domain of the Wilson-Fisher fixed point), we explicitly show the existence of a first-ord

Nysret Musliu, Johannes Gaertner, Wolfgang Slany

Generating high-quality schedules for a rotating workforce is a critical task in all settings where a certain staffing level must be guaranteed beyond the capacity of single employees, such as for instance in industrial plants, hospitals, or airline companies. Results from ergonomics \cite{BEST91} indicate that rotating workforce schedules have a profound im

J. G. Körner, B. Melic, Z. Merebashvili

Starting from the known one-loop result for the $e^{+}e^{-}$-annihilation process $e^{+}e^{-}\stackrel{γ,Z} {\longrightarrow} q\bar{q}g$ with massless quarks we employ analyticity and crossing to determine the absorptive parts of the corresponding one-loop contributions in Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) and in the Drell-Yan process (DY). Whereas the ${\cal

Richard de Grijs, Michiel Kregel, Karen H. Wesson

We present the first results of a systematic analysis of radially truncated exponential discs for four galaxies of a complete sample of disc-dominated edge-on spiral galaxies. The discs of our sample galaxies are truncated at similar radii on either side of their centres. With possible the exception of the disc of ESO 416-G25, it appears that the truncations

Sayipjamal Dulat

We construct Z_M, M= 2, 3, 4, 6 orbifold models of the N=2 superconformal field theories with central charge c=3. Then we check the description of the Z_3, Z_4 and Z_6 orbifolds by the N=2 superconformal Landau-Ginzburg models with c=3, by comparing the spectrum of chiral fields, in particular the Witten index Tr(-1)^F.

Tomasz Dietl, Hideo Ohno

The current status of research on the carrier-mediated ferromagnetism in tetrahedrally coordinated semiconductors is briefly reviewed. The experimental results for III-V semiconductors, where Mn atoms introduce both spins and holes, are compared to the case of II-VI compounds, in which the ferromagnetism has been observed for the modulation-doped p-type Cd1-

Carsten Merten

In this work a mass model based on a SO(10) GUT with a global U(1) family symmetry is discussed which leads to an asymmetric Nearest Neighbour Interaction structure for the fermionic mass matrices. As a result of the analysis one gets three solutions of the model which include several large left- and right-handed fermion mixings. Those mixings are not observ

J. S. Kole, K. Michielsen, H. De Raedt

Morphological image analysis is applied to the time evolution of the probability distribution of a quantum particle moving in two and three-dimensional billiards. It is shown that the time-averaged Euler characteristic of the probability density provides a well defined quantity to distinguish between classically integrable and non-integrable billiards. In th

Michael P. Reisenberger, Carlo Rovelli

Spin foam models are the path integral counterparts to loop quantized canonical theories. In the last few years several spin foam models of gravity have been proposed, most of which live on finite simplicial lattice spacetime. The lattice truncates the presumably infinite set of gravitational degrees of freedom down to a finite set. Models that can accomodat

D. Lilliehook

We consider the charged excitations in the quantum Hall effect with a large Zeeman splitting at filling factor nu=2. When the Zeeman splitting is increased over a critical value the groundstate undergoes a first order phase transition from a paramagnetic to a ferromagnetic phase. We have studied the possibility to form charged spin-textured excitations, &#34

Dean Lee, Nathan Salwen, Daniel Lee

We introduce a new diagonalization method called quasi-sparse eigenvector diagonalization which finds the most important basis vectors of the low energy eigenstates of a quantum Hamiltonian. It can operate using any basis, either orthogonal or non-orthogonal, and any sparse Hamiltonian, either Hermitian, non-Hermitian, finite-dimensional, or infinite-dimensi

Dipali Pal, Binoy Krishna Patra, Dinesh Kumar Srivastava

The long life-time of the quark-gluon plasma likely to be created in the relativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies renders it sensitive to the details of the equation of state of the quark-matter. We show that the $p_T$ dependence of the survival probability of the directly produced $J/ψ$ at RHIC energies and that of the directly produced $Υ

J Ravi Prakash

Linear viscoelastic properties for a dilute polymer solution are predicted by modeling the solution as a suspension of non-interacting bead-spring chains. The present model, unlike the Rouse model, can describe the solution's rheological behavior even when the solvent quality is good, since excluded volume effects are explicitly taken into account throug

W. Yuan, W. Brinkmann, M. Gliozzi, Y. Zhao

The results of an X-ray observation of the nearby core-dominated, super- luminal quasar 4C+73.18 (1928+738) with ASCA are reported. Variations of the 1-10keV flux on time-scales of the order of 10 hours were found while the 0.5-1keV flux remained almost unchanged. The quasar shows a curved spectrum in the 0.8-10keV band, which can be modeled as a power law p

S. Addicks, A. Beige, M. Dakna, G. -C. Hegerfeldt

Cooperative effects in the fluorescence of two dipole-interacting atoms, with macroscopic quantum jumps (light and dark periods), are investigated. The transition rates between different intensity periods are calculated in closed form and are used to determine the rates of double jumps between periods of double intensity and dark periods, the mean duration o

Urs Ledermann, Karyn Le Hur, T. M. Rice

We study the effect of doping away from half-filling in weakly (but finitely) interacting N-leg Hubbard ladders using renormalization group and bosonization techniques. For a small on-site repulsion U, the N-leg Hubbard ladders are equivalent to a N-band model, where at half-filling the Fermi velocities are v_{1}=v_{N}<v_{2}=v_{N-1}<... We then obtain a hier

S. Kümmel, J. Akola, M. Manninen

The thermal expansion coefficients of $\mathrm{Na}_{N}$ clusters with $8 \le N \le 40$ and $\mathrm{Al}_{7}$, $\mathrm{Al}_{13}^-$ and $\mathrm{Al}_{14}^-$ are obtained from {\it ab initio} Born-Oppenheimer LDA molecular dynamics. Thermal expansion of small metal clusters is considerably larger than that in the bulk and size-dependent. We demonstrate that th

S. Arunagiri

In this paper, we evaluate the expectation values of four-quark operators for the inclusive beauty decays from the differences in the inclusive total decay rates, assuming that the heavy quark expansion converges at $O(1/m^3)$. The obtained expectation values yeilds the ratio $τ(Λ_b)/τ(B)$ close to the experimental onee. We further point out that the quark-h

Anshu Gupta, A. Gopakumar, Bala R. Iyer, Sai Iyer

Padé approximants to truncated post-Newtonian neutron star models are constructed. The Padé models converge faster to the general relativistic (GR) solution than the truncated post-Newtonian ones. The evolution of initial data using the Padé models approximates better the evolution of full GR initial data than the truncated Taylor models. In the absence of f

RIA Davis, R Delbourgo, PD Jarvis

Unitary group branchings appropriate to the calculation of local invariants of density matrices of composite quantum systems are formulated using the method of $S$-function plethysms. From this, the generating function for the number of invariants at each degree in the density matrix can be computed. For the case of two two-level systems the generating funct

Glenn Barnich, Friedemann Brandt, Marc Henneaux

The general solution of the anomaly consistency condition (Wess-Zumino equation) has been found recently for Yang-Mills gauge theory. The general form of the counterterms arising in the renormalization of gauge invariant operators (Kluberg-Stern and Zuber conjecture) and in gauge theories of the Yang-Mills type with non power counting renormalizable coupling

Jason X. Prochaska, Arthur M. Wolfe

Observations of the damped Lya systems provide direct measurements on the chemical enrichment history of neutral gas in the early universe. In this Letter, we present new measurements for four damped Lya systems at high redshift. Combining these data with [Fe/H] values culled from the literature, we investigate the metallicity evolution of the universe from

W. F. Chen, G. Kunstatter

We investigate the precisely measured anomalous magnetic moment and Lamb shift as tests for the possible existence of the radiatively induced Lorentz and CPT violation effects in quantum electrodynamics. To this end we calculate the one-loop vacuum polarization tensor and vertex radiative correction in dimensional reduction and on-shell renormalization schem

John N. Bahcall, Plamen I. Krastev, Alexei Yu. Smirnov

We calculate the range of predicted values for 10 quantities that will be measured by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO). We use neutrino oscillation solutions (vacuum and MSW; active and sterile neutrinos) that are globally consistent with all available neutrino data and estimate realistic theoretical and experimental uncertainties. The neutral current

Robert M. Cavallo, Neil M. Nagar

We explore the relatiohsip between deep mixing on the red-giant branch and the second parameter that gives rise to the extended blue tail seen on the horizontal branch of the globular cluster M 13. We use the [Al/Fe] values of 96 RGB stars and the [Na/Fe] values of 119 RGB stars in M 13 to follow the evolution of mixing in this cluster. The data are compared

B. Vacchini

A completely positive master equation describing quantum dissipation for a Brownian particle is derived starting from microphysical collisions, exploiting a recently introduced approach to subdynamics of a macrosystem. The obtained equation can be cast into Lindblad form with a single generator for each Cartesian direction. Temperature dependent friction and

Andrew D. Greentree, John A. Vaccaro, Sebastian R. de Echaniz, Alan V. Durrant

We show that for appropriate choices of parameters it is possible to achieve photon blockade in idealised one, two and three atom systems. We also include realistic parameter ranges for rubidium as the atomic species. Our results circumvent the doubts cast by recent discussion in the literature (Grangier et al Phys. Rev Lett. 81, 2833 (1998), Imamoglu et al

Charles Ofria, Christoph Adami, Travis C. Collier, Grace K. Hsu

We investigate the evolutionary processes behind the development and optimization of multiple threads of execution in digital organisms using the avida platform, a software package that implements Darwinian evolution on populations of self-replicating computer programs. The system is seeded with a linearly executed ancestor capable only of reproducing its ow

M. R. Jarvis, P. P. Mitra

The spectrum and coherency are useful quantities for characterizing the temporal correlations and functional relations within and between point processes. This paper begins with a review of these quantities, their interpretation and how they may be estimated. A discussion of how to assess the statistical significance of features in these measures is included

A. Parfenov, A. Chrzanowska

The optically induced reorientation of nematic liquid crystal doped with azo-dye substituted polymer is investigated measuring photoinduced birefringence. These measurement reveal the value (Dn~0.1) of induced birefringence of liquid crystal with dye polymer which significantly exceeds the value of birefringence previously obtained in nematic mixture with th

Shadow J. Q. Robinson, L. Zamick, A. Mekjian, N. Auerbach

We present a superior proof that the results for summed strength isovector dipole, spin dipole, and orbital dipole excitations are independent of deformations at the Delta N = 0 level.

K. M. Heeger, P. J. Doe, S. R. Elliott, R. G. H. Robertson

An array of 3He-filled proportional counters will be used in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory to measure the neutral-current interaction of neutrinos and deuterium. We describe the backgrounds to this detection method.

R. Toral, C. R. Mirasso, E. Hernandez-Garcia, O. Piro

We show two examples of noise--induced synchronization. We study a 1-d map and the Lorenz systems, both in the chaotic region. For each system we give numerical evidence that the addition of a (common) random noise, of large enough intensity, to different trajectories which start from different initial conditions, leads eventually to the perfect synchronizat

Raul Montagne, Emilio Hernandez-Garcia

Coupled Complex Ginzburg-Landau equations describe generic features of the dynamics of coupled fields when they are close to a Hopf bifurcation leading to nonlinear oscillations. We study numerically this set of equations and find, within a particular range of parameters, the presence of uniformly propagating localized objects behaving as coherent structures

Jihun Park

In this paper, we study rigidity of nonsingular del Pezzo fibrations over a germ of smooth curve.

Dennis S. Keeler

In the noncommutative geometry of Artin, Van den Bergh, and others, the twisted homogeneous coordinate ring is one of the basic constructions. Such a ring is defined by a $σ$-ample divisor, where $σ$ is an automorphism of a projective scheme X. Many open questions regarding $σ$-ample divisors have remained. We derive a relatively simple necessary and suffici

Grinenko M. M

It is withdrawn because of errors.

A. Silverberg, Yu. G. Zarhin

The results in this paper imply that for every number field F and positive integer r, there exists an F-isogeny class of abelian varieties such that r divides the degree of every F-polarization on every abelian variety in the isogeny class.

Mikhail Grinenko

We study the birational rigidity problem for smooth Mori fibrations on del Pezzo surfaces of degree 1 and 2. For degree 1 we obtain a complete description of rigid and non-rigid cases.

A. Yu. Shahverdian, A. V. Apkarian

The paper introduces a new numerical characteristic of one dimensional stochastic systems. This quantity is a measure of minimal periodicity, can be detected in the process deep differential structure. The claim is that this new measure of stochasticity is also a well adapted characteristic for research of stochastic resonance phenomena.

Gert-Martin Greuel

In this survey I should like to introduce some concepts of algebraic geometry and try to demonstrate the fruitful interaction between algebraic geometry and computer algebra and, more generally, between mathematics and computer science. One of the aims of this article is to show, by means of examples, the usefulness of computer algebra to mathematical resear

Geoffrey Mason, Siu-Hung Ng

Dijkgraaf, Pasquier and Roche introduced twisted quantum doubles of a finite group in the context of conformal field theory. We study equivalences that arise among the braided monoidal categories associated to these quantum doubles, especially in the commutative case. This involves a close study of the cohomology of various complexes introduced by Eilenberg-

H. Endo, D. Kotschick

The paper was withdrawn due to a gap in the proof of Lemma 3.

Chiara Brandigi

Ran proved that smooth codimension 2 varieties in ${\bf P}^{m+2}$ are $j$-normal if $(j+1)(3j-1)\le m-1$, in this paper we extend this result to small codimension projective varieties. Let $X$ be a r codimension subvariety of $\pro$, we prove that if the set $Σ_{(j+1)}$ of $(j+1)$-secants to $X$ through a generic external point is not empty, $2(r+1)j\leq m-r

E. s. Tututi, P. Jizba

We present a particular approach to the non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum field theory. This approach is based on the Jaynes-Gibbs principle of the maximal entropy and its implementation, throghout the initial value data, into the dynamical equations for Green&#39;s functions.

Massimo Materassi

String theory usually represents quantum black holes as systems whose statistical mechanics reproduces Hawking&#39;s thermodynamics in a very satisfactory way. Complicated brane theoretical models are worked out, as quantum versions of Supergravity solutions. These models are then assumed to be in thermal equilibrium: this is a little cheating, because one i

Davide Fabbri

We present the construction of the candidate conformal field theories dual to $AdS_4$ non-maximally supersymmetric compactifications of 11D supergravity. We compare the spectra of the two theories and discuss the realization of the baryonic symmetries. Finally we comment on the presence in the spectrum of long multiplets with rational energies, trying to exp

M. A. Lledó

In this paper we review some properties of BPS black holes of supergravities with n=32,16 supersymmetries. The BPS condition, a condition on the eigenvalues of the central charge matrix, can be shown to be U-duality invariant. We explicitly work out D=4, N=8 and D=5, N=4 supergravities.

T. Harmark, N. A. Obers

We discuss general spinning p-branes of string and M-theory and use their thermodynamics along with the correspondence between near-horizon brane solutions and field theories with 16 supercharges to describe the thermodynamic behavior of these theories in the presence of voltages under the R-symmetry. The thermodynamics is used to provide two pieces of evide

Dario Martelli

We review some applications of Type 0 string theory in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence.

S. L. Lyakhovich, A. A. Sharapov, K. M. Shekhter

The general model of an arbitrary spin massive particle in any dimensional space-time is derived on the basis of Kirillov - Kostant - Souriau approach. It is shown that the model allows consistent coupling to an arbitrary background of electromagnetic and gravitational fields.

Harald Skarke

This is an informal introduction to the concept of reflexive polyhedra and some of their most important applications in perturbative and non-perturbative string physics. Following the historical development, topics like mirror symmetry, gauged linear sigma models, and the geometrical structures relevant to string and F-theory dualities are discussed. Finally

Marika Taylor-Robinson

The addition of boundary counterterms to the gravitational action of asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes permits us to define the partition function unambiguously without background subtraction. We show that the inclusion of p-form fields in the gravitational action requires the addition of further counterterms which we explicitly identify. We also rela

Marika Taylor-Robinson

We discuss the AdS/CFT correspondence for negative curvature Einstein manifolds whose conformal boundary is degenerate in the sense that it is of codimension greater than one. In such manifolds, hypersurfaces of constant radius do not blow up uniformly as one increases the radius; examples include products of hyperbolic spaces and the Bergman metric. We find

Edmond L. Berger, Tim M. P. Tait

We examine pair mass dependence near threshold as a means to measure the spin of the top quark in hadron collisions, and we discuss the possibility that a top squark signal could be hidden among the top events.

J. I. Aranda, R. Martinez, O. A. Sampayo

We study the effects induced by excited leptons on the leptonic tau decay at one loop level. Using a general effective lagrangian approach to describe the couplings of the excited leptons, we compute their contributions to the leptonic decays and use the current experimental values of the branching ratios to put limits on the mass of excited states and the s

Alan. R. White

Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. The Early Years. 2.1 Living Without Field Theory. 2.2 Initial Postulates. 2.3 Further Postulates. 2.4 QCD and a Final Postulate. 2.5 Analyticity in Field Theory. 3. Axiomatic S-Matrix Theory. 3.1 Unitarity, Bubble Diagrams and Landau Diagrams. 3.2 The Landau Equations and the ``$+~ α$&#39;&#39; Condition. 3.3 Macrocausality and

A. Capella, E. G. Ferreiro, A. B. Kaidalov

We show that, contrary to recent claims, the $J/ψ$ suppression resulting from its interaction with comovers does not saturate at large transverse energy $E_T$. On the contrary, it shows a characteristic structure - change of curvature near the knee of the $E_T$ distribution - which is due to the $E_T$ (or multiplicity) fluctuation, and agrees with recent exp

Yu. F. Pirogov

The content of physical massess, mixing angles and CP-violating phases in the lepton sector of extended standard model, both renormalizable and non-renormalizable, with arbitrary numbers of the singlet and left-handed doublet neutrinos is systematically analyzed in the weak basis.

Yasuhiro Okada

SUSY effects on various flavor changing neutral current processes are discussed in the minimal supergravity model and the SU(5) grand unified theory with right-handed neutrino supermultiplets. In particular, in the latter case the neutrino Yukawa coupling constants can be a source of the flavor mixing in the right-handed-down-type-squark sector. It is shown

L3 Collaboration

We report on measurements of the inclusive production rate of Sigma+ and Sigma0 baryons in hadronic Z decays collected with the L3 detector at LEP. The Sigma+ baryons are detected through the decay Sigma+ -> p pi0, while the Sigma0 baryons are detected via the decay mode Sigma0 -> Lambda gamma. The average numbers of Sigma+ and Sigma0 per hadronic Z decay ar

CLEO Collaboration

The decays B0 --> D*+D*-, B0 --> D*+D- and B0 --> D+D- are studied in 9.7 million Y(4S) --> BBbar decays accumulated with the CLEO detector. We determine Br(B0 --> D*+D*-) = (9.9+4.2-3.3+-1.2)e-4 and limit Br(B0 --> D*+D-) < 6.3e-4 and Br(B0 --> D+D-) < 9.4e-4 at 90% confidence level (CL). We also perform the first angular analysis of the B0 --> D*+D*- decay

G. Korniss, M. A. Novotny, Z. Toroczkai, P. A. Rikvold

The scalability of massively parallel algorithms is a fundamental question in computer science. We study the scalability and the efficiency of a conservative massively parallel algorithm for discrete-event simulations where the discrete events are Poisson arrivals. The parallel algorithm is applicable to a wide range of problems, including dynamic Monte Carl

E. Seynaeve, K. Temst, F. G. Aliev, C. Van Haesendonck

In order to probe the influence of the surface-induced anisotropy on the impurity spin magnetization, we measure the anomalous Hall effect in thin AuFe films at magnetic fields up to 15 T. The observed suppression of the anomalous Hall resistivity at low fields as well as the appearance of a minimum in the differential Hall resistivity at higher fields can b

S. Das Sarma, P. Punyindu, Z. Toroczkai

We demonstrate, using well-established nonequilibrium limited-mobility solid-on-solid growth models, that mound formation in the dynamical surface growth morphology does not necessarily imply the existence of a surface edge diffusion bias (the Schwoebel barrier). We find mounded morphologies in several nonequilibrium growth models which incorporate no Schwoe

P. M. Gehring, S. B. Vakhrushev, G. Shirane

Neutron inelastic scattering measurements of the polar TO phonon mode in the cubic relaxor Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3, at room temperature, reveal anomalous behavior similar to that recently observed in the Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)_{0.92}Ti_{0.08}O3 system in which the optic branch appears to drop precipitously into the acoustic branch at a finite value of the momentum transfer

S. Flach, A. A. Ovchinnikov

We consider a single spin in a constant magnetic field or an anisotropy field. We show that additional external time-periodic fields with zero mean may generate nonzero time-averaged spin components which are vanishing for the time-averaged Hamiltonian. The reason is a lowering of the dynamical symmetry of the system. A harmonic signal with proper orientatio

A. V. Andreev, K. A. Matveev

We consider Coulomb blockade oscillations of thermoelectric coefficients of a single electron transistor based on a quantum dot strongly coupled to one of the leads. Analytic expression for the thermopower as a function of temperature $T$ and the reflection amplitude $r$ in the quantum point contact is obtained. Two regimes can be identified: $T \ll E_C|r|^2

R. Brand, P. Lunkenheimer, U. Schneider, A. Loidl

A detailed dielectric investigation of liquid, supercooled liquid, and glassy ethanol reveals a third relaxation process, in addition to the two processes already known. The relaxation time of the newly detected process exhibits strong deviations from thermally activated behavior. Most important, this process is the cause of the apparent excess wing, which w

M. Anghel, W. Klein, J. B. Rundle, J. S. S&#39;a Martins

We present theoretical arguments and simulation data indicating that the scaling of earthquake events in models of faults with long-range stress transfer is composed of at least three distinct regions. These regions correspond to three classes of earthquakes with different underlying physical mechanisms. In addition to the events that exhibit scaling, there

G. A. Levin, D. A. Chernikov

We present an overview of the capabilities of a new software developed for use with multiterminal measurements. The program supports two configurations of current and voltage contacts known in the parlance of the field as &#34;flux transformer&#34; and &#34; I$\|$c&#34; geometries. The problem of instability of the results obtained by the multiterminal metho

P. Gallo, M. Rovere

A molecular dynamics simulation of SPC/E water confined in a Silica pore is presented. The pore has been constructed to reproduce the average properties of a pore of Vycor glass. Due to the confinement and to the presence of a strong hydrophilic surface, the dynamic behaviour of the liquid appears to be strongly dependent on the hydration level. The approach

J. M. B. Noronha, D. J. Toms

We find an analytical expression for the specific heat of a Fermi gas in a harmonic trap using a semi-classical approximation. Our approximation is valid for kT>hw and in this range it is shown to be highly accurate. We comment on the semi-classical approximation, presenting an explanation for this high accuracy.

C. Hartnig, W. Witschel, E. Spohr, P. Gallo

We present results of molecular dynamics simulations of water confined in a silica pore. A cylindrical cavity is created inside a vitreous silica cell with geometry and size similar to the pores of real Vycor glass. The simulations are performed at different hydration levels. At all hydration levels water adsorbs strongly on the Vycor surface; a double layer

I. Tifrea, I. Grosu, M. Crisan

We show that in the Anderson model for a two-dimensional non-Fermi liquid a magnetic instability can lead to the itinerant electron ferromagnetism. The critical temperature and the susceptibility of the paramagnetic phase have been analytically calculated. The usual Fermi behaviour is re-obtained taking the anomalous exponent to be zero.

S. Hofmann

New developments in quantitative sputter depth profiling during the past ten years are reviewed, with special emphasis on the experimental achievement of ultrahigh depth resolution (below 2 nm for sputtered depths larger than 10 nm). In this region, the depth resolution function generally is asymmetric (i.e.non-Gaussian) and it is governed by the three funda

X. Zotos, F. Naef, M. Long, P. Prelovsek

The zero temperature Hall constant R_H, described by reactive (nondissipative) conductivities, is analyzed within linear response theory. It is found that in a certain limit, R_H is directly related to the density dependence of the Drude weight implying a simple picture for the change of sign of charge carriers in the vicinity of a Mott-Hubbard transition. T

Natasa Cegar, Ferenc Simon, Slaven Garaj, Laszlo Forro

Electron Spin Resonance and optical reflectivity measurements demonstrate a metal-insulator transition in Na_2CsC_60 as the system passes from the low temperature simple cubic to the high temperature {\it fcc} structure above 300 K. The non-conducting electronic state is especially unexpected in view of the metallic character of other, apparently isostructur

Konstantin Kikoin, Yshai Avishai

Anderson impurity model for semiconductor quantum dot is extended to take into account both particle and hole branches of charge excitations. It is shown that in dots with even number of electrons where the Kondo effect is absent in the ground state, novel midgap exciton states emerge in the energy spectrum due to Kondo-type shake-up processes. The relevance

Serge F. Mingaleev, Yuri S. Kivshar, Rowland A. Sammut

We develop the theory of nonlinear localised modes (intrinsic localised modes or discrete breathers) in two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystal waveguides. We consider different geometries of the waveguides created by an array of nonlinear dielectric rods in an otherwise perfect linear 2D photonic crystal, and demonstrate that the effective interaction in such

Ryotaro Arita, Hideo Aoki

We explore how the spiral spin(SP) state, a spin singlet known to accompany fully-polarized ferromagnetic (F) states in the Hubbard model, is related with the F state in the thermodynamic limit using the density matrix renormalization group and exact diagonalization. We first obtain an indication that when the F state is the ground state the SP state is also

Ryotaro Arita, Shigeki Onoda, Kazuhiko Kuroki, Hideo Aoki

The relation between three-dimensional lattice structure and magnetism in correlated electron systems is explored for face centered cubic (FCC), body centered cubic (BCC), and simple cubic (SC) lattices. In particular, we question which lattice structure has the strongest tendency toward the ferromagnetism or antiferromagnetism. We employ the Hubbard model t

Ryotaro Arita, Kazuhiko Kuroki, Hideo Aoki

We have systematically studied superconducting instabilities in the repulsive Hubbard model for d-wave and p-wave pairing in various 2D and 3D lattices. Using fluctuation exchange approximation, we consider 3D face centered cubic lattice, 3D body centered cubic lattice, 3D simple cubic lattice, 2D square lattice and 2D triangular lattice, where either strong

J. Goryo

The axial anomaly in a quasi-one-dimensional (quasi-1D) chiral p-wave superfluid model, which has a epsilon_{x} p_{x}+i epsilon_{y} p_{y}-wave gap in 2D is studied. The anomaly causes an accumulation of the quasiparticle and a quantized chiral current density in an inhomogeneous magnetic field. These effects are related to the winding number of the gap. By v

R. F. Coker, J. G. L. Rae, T. W. Hartquist

We present plane-parallel equilibrium models of molecular clumps that are supported by Alfven waves damped by the linear process of ion-neutral friction. We used a WKB approximation to treat the inward propagation of waves and adopted a realistic ionization structure influenced by dissociation and ionization due to photons of external origin. The model clump

Frederick J. Vrba, Arne A. Henden, Christian B. Luginbuhl, Harry H. Guetter

Deep I-band imaging to approximately I = 26.5 of the soft gamma-ray repeater SGR 1900+14 region has revealed a compact cluster of massive stars located only a few arcseconds from the fading radio source thought to be the location of the SGR (Frail, Kulkarni, & Bloom 1999). This cluster was previously hidden in the glare of the pair of M5 supergiant stars (wh

G. Schubert, K. Zhang

A two-layer spherical $α^2$-dynamo model consisting of an inner electrically conducting core (magnetic diffusivity $λ_i$ and radius $r_i$) with $α= 0$ surrounded by an electrically conducting spherical shell (magnetic diffusivity $λ_o$ and radius $r_o$) with a constant $α$ is shown to exhibit oscillatory behavior for values of $β= λ_i/λ_o$ and $r_i/r_o$ rele

F. A. Rasio

Coalescing compact binaries are thought to be involved in a wide variety of astrophysical phenomena. In particular, they are important sources of gravitational radiation for both ground-based and space-based laser-interferometer detectors, and they may be sources of supernova explosions or gamma-ray bursts. Mergers of two white dwarfs may produce neutron sta

F. Frontera, L. A. Antonelli, L. Amati, E. Montanari

We discuss observations of the prompt X and gamma-ray emission and X-ray afterglow from GRB981226. This event has the weakest gamma-ray peak flux detected with the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor. It shows an isolated X-ray precursor and the highest X-ray to gamma-ray fluence ratio measured thus far with the Wide Field Cameras. The event was followed up with the Nar

Timothy M. Heckman, Matthew D. Lehnert, David K. Strickland, Lee Armus

We discuss moderate resolution spectra of the NaD absorption-line in a sample of 32 far-IR-bright starburst galaxies. In 18 cases, the line is produced primarily by interstellar gas, and in 12 of these it is blueshifted by over 100 km/s relative to the galaxy systemic velocity. The absorption-line profiles in these outflow sources span the range from near th

V. S. Beskin, R. R. Rafikov

The two-fluid effects on the radial outflow of relativistic electron-positron plasma are considered. It is shown that for large enough Michel magnetization parameter (1969) and multiplication parameter, the one-fluid MHD approximation remains correct in the whole region where |E| < |B|. In the case in which the longitudinal electric current is smaller than t