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The Grothendieck Group of a Quantum Projective Space Bundle
We compute the Grothendieck group K_0 of non-commutative analogues of quantum
projective space bundles. Our results specialize to give the Grothendieck
groups of non-commutative analogues of projective spaces, and specialize to
recover the Grothendieck group of a usual projective space bundle over a
regular noetherian separated scheme. As an application we develop an
intersection theory for the quantum ruled surfaces defined by Van den Bergh.Comment: This paper is being replaced so I can correct the metadata, the
title! I (Paul) spelled Grothendieck's name incorrectly. The paper is being
reposted with the journal reference and doi added to the metadat
The Breathing Modes of the Skyrmion and the Spin-Orbit Interaction
The coupling of the breathing and rotational modes of the skyrmion-skyrmion
system leads to a nucleon-nucleon spin-orbit interaction of short range, as
well as to spin-orbit potentials for the transitions , and . The longest range behaviour of these
spin-orbit potentials is calculated in closed form.Comment: Latex, figures not include
Minimally-destructive detection of magnetically-trapped atoms using frequency-synthesised light
We present a technique for atomic density measurements by the off-resonant
phase-shift induced on a two-frequency, coherently-synthesised light beam. We
have used this scheme to measure the column density of a magnetically trapped
atom cloud and to monitor oscillations of the cloud in real time by making over
a hundred non-destructive local density measurments. For measurements using
pulses of 10,000-100,000 photons lasting ~10 microsecond, the precision is
limited by statistics of the photons and the photodiode avalanche. We explore
the relationship between measurement precision and the unwanted loss of atoms
from the trap and introduce a figure of merit that characterises it. This
method can be used to probe the density of a BEC with minimal disturbance of
its phase.Comment: Submitted to New Journal of Physic
Nucleon form factors in the canonically quantized Skyrme model
The explicit expressions for the electric, magnetic, axial and induced
pseudoscalar form factors of the nucleons are derived in the {\it ab initio}
quantized Skyrme model. The canonical quantization procedure ensures the
existence of stable soliton solutions with good quantum numbers. The form
factors are derived for representations of arbitrary dimension of the SU(2)
group. After fixing the two parameters of the model, and , by the
empirical mass and electric mean square radius of the proton, the calculated
electric and magnetic form factors are fairly close to the empirical ones,
whereas the the axial and induced pseudoscalar form factors fall off too slowly
with momentum transfer.Comment: 14pp including figure
Anomalous radio emission from dust in the Helix
A byproduct of experiments designed to map the CMB is the recent detection of
a new component of foreground Galactic emission. The anomalous foreground at ~
10--30 GHz, unexplained by traditional emission mechanisms, correlates with
100um dust emission. We report that in the Helix the emission at 31 GHz and
100um are well correlated, and exhibit similar features on sky images, which
are absent in H\beta. Upper limits on the 250 GHz continuum emission in the
Helix rule out cold grains as candidates for the 31 GHz emission, and provide
spectroscopic evidence for an excess at 31 GHz over bremsstrahlung. We estimate
that the 100um-correlated radio emission, presumably due to dust, accounts for
at least 20% of the 31 GHz emission in the Helix. This result strengthens
previous tentative interpretations of diffuse ISM spectra involving a new dust
emission mechanism at radio frequencies. Very small grains have not been
detected in the Helix, which hampers interpreting the new component in terms of
spinning dust. The observed iron depletion in the Helix favors considering the
identity of this new component to be magnetic dipole emission from hot
ferromagnetic grains. The reduced level of free-free continuum we report also
implies an electronic temperature of Te=4600\pm1200K for the free-free emitting
material, which is significantly lower than the temperature of 9500\pm500K
inferred from collisionally-excited lines (abridged).Comment: Accepted for publication in Ap
Multi-order interference is generally nonzero
It is demonstrated that the third-order interference, as obtained from
explicit solutions of Maxwell's equations for realistic models of three-slit
devices, including an idealized version of the three-slit device used in a
recent three-slit experiment with light (U. Sinha et al., Science 329, 418
(2010)), is generally nonzero. The hypothesis that the third-order interference
should be zero is shown to be fatally flawed because it requires dropping the
one-to-one correspondence between the symbols in the mathematical theory and
the different experimental configurations.Comment: Replaced Figs. 4,5 and caption of Fig.
Nucleon-nucleon potential in finite nuclei
We consider the spin-isospin-independent central part of the residual
nucleon-nucleon potential in finite spherical nuclei taking into account the
deformation effects of the nucleons within the surrounding nuclear environment.
It is shown that inside the nucleus the short-range repulsive contribution of
the potential is increased and the intermediate attraction is decreased. We
identify the growth of the radial component of the spin-isospin independent
short-range part of the in-medium nucleon-nucleon interaction as the
responsible agent that prevents the radial collapse of the nucleus.Comment: 9 pages, 3 eps figure
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