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Changes in the subsurface stratification of the Sun with the 11-year activity cycle
We report on the changes of the Sun's subsurface stratification inferred from
helioseismology data. Using SOHO/MDI (SOlar and Heliospheric
Observatory/Michelson Doppler Imager) data for the last 9 years and, more
precisely, the temporal variation of f-mode frequencies, we have computed the
variation of the radius of subsurface layers of the Sun by applying
helioseismic inversions. We have found a variability of the ``helioseismic''
radius in antiphase with the solar activity, with the strongest variations of
the stratification being just below the surface around 0.995.
Besides, the radius of the deeper layers of the Sun, between 0.975
and 0.99 changes in phase with the 11-year cycle.Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures, accepted in ApJ
Repetition and difference: Lefebvre, Le Corbusier and modernity's (im)moral landscape: a commentary
This article engages with the relationship between social theory, architectural theory and material culture. The article is a reply to an article in a previous volume of the journal in question (Smith, M. (2001) ‘Repetition and difference: Lefebvre, Le Corbusier and modernity’s (im)moral landscape’, Ethics, Place and Environment, 4(1), 31-34) and, consequently, is also a direct engagement with another academic's scholarship. It represents a critique of their work as well as a recasting of their ideas, arguing that the matter in question went beyond interpretative issues to a direct critique of another author's scholarship on both Le Corbusier and Lefebvre. A reply to my article from the author of the original article was carried in a later issue of the journal (Smith, M. (2002) ‘Ethical Difference(s): a Response to Maycroft on Le Corbusier and Lefebvre’, Ethics, Place and Environment, 5(3), 260-269)
High-quality ion beams by irradiating a nano-structured target with a petawatt laser pulse
We present a novel laser based ion acceleration scheme, where a petawatt
circularly polarized laser pulse is shot on an ultra-thin (nano-scale)
double-layer target. Our scheme allows the production of high-quality light ion
beams with both energy and angular dispersion controllable by the target
properties. We show that extraction of all electrons from the target by
radiation pressure can lead to a very effective two step acceleration process
for light ions if the target is designed correctly. Relativistic protons should
be obtainable with pulse powers of a few petawatt. Careful analytical modeling
yields estimates for characteristic beam parameters and requirements on the
laser pulse quality, in excellent agreement with one and two-dimensional
Particle-in Cell simulations.Comment: 18 pages, 7 figures, accepted in New. J. Phy
Anticorrelation between Ion Acceleration and Nonlinear Coherent Structures from Laser-Underdense Plasma Interaction
In laser-plasma experiments, we observed that ion acceleration from the
Coulomb explosion of the plasma channel bored by the laser, is prevented when
multiple plasma instabilities such as filamentation and hosing, and nonlinear
coherent structures (vortices/post-solitons) appear in the wake of an
ultrashort laser pulse. The tailoring of the longitudinal plasma density ramp
allows us to control the onset of these insabilities. We deduced that the laser
pulse is depleted into these structures in our conditions, when a plasma at
about 10% of the critical density exhibits a gradient on the order of 250
{\mu}m (gaussian fit), thus hindering the acceleration. A promising
experimental setup with a long pulse is demonstrated enabling the excitation of
an isolated coherent structure for polarimetric measurements and, in further
perspectives, parametric studies of ion plasma acceleration efficiency.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Управление направлениями повышения эффективности отрасли виноградарства
Целью статьи является изучение порядка управления затратами и прибылью с
целью повышения экономической эффективности производства винограда и определение важности отрасли
виноградарства
Incommensurate Mott Insulator in One-Dimensional Electron Systems close to Quarter Filling
A possibility of a metal-insulator transition in molecular conductors has
been studied for systems composed of donor molecules and fully ionized anions
with an incommensurate ratio close to 2:1 based on a one-dimensional extended
Hubbard model, where the donor carriers are slightly deviated from quarter
filling and under an incommensurate periodic potential from the anions. By use
of the renormalization group method, interplay between commensurability energy
on the donor lattice and that from the anion potential has been studied and it
has been found that an "incommensurate Mott insulator" can be generated. This
theoretical finding will explain the metal-insulator transition observed in
(MDT-TS)(AuI).Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. at December 24
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Early out-of-equilibrium beam-plasma evolution
We solve analytically the out-of-equilibrium initial stage that follows the
injection of a radially finite electron beam into a plasma at rest and test it
against particle-in-cell simulations. For initial large beam edge gradients and
not too large beam radius, compared to the electron skin depth, the electron
beam is shown to evolve into a ring structure. For low enough transverse
temperatures, the filamentation instability eventually proceeds and saturates
when transverse isotropy is reached. The analysis accounts for the variety of
very recent experimental beam transverse observations.Comment: to appear in Phys. Rev. Letter
Validity of adiabaticity in Cavity QED
This paper deals with the concept of adiabaticity for fully quantum
mechanically cavity QED models. The physically interesting cases of Gaussian
and standing wave shapes of the cavity mode are considered. An analytical
approximate measure for adiabaticity is given and compared with numerical wave
packet simulations. Good agreement is obtained where the approximations are
expected to be valid. Usually for cavity QED systems, the large atom-field
detuning case is considered as the adiabatic limit. We, however, show that
adiabaticity is also valid, for the Gaussian mode shape, in the opposite limit.
Effective semiclassical time dependent models, which do not take into account
the shape of the wave packet, are derived. Corrections to such an effective
theory, which are purely quantum mechanical, are discussed. It is shown that
many of the results presented can be applied to time dependent two-level
systems.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figure
The Collaborative Development of New CFD Methods Adapted for Tilt Rotor Aircraft in the HiPerTilt Project
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