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Velocity bias in a LCDM model
We use N-body simulations to study the velocity bias of dark matter halos,
the difference in the velocity fields of dark matter and halos, in a flat low-
density LCDM model. The high force, 2kpc/h, and mass, 10^9Msun/h, resolution
allows dark matter halos to survive in very dense environments of groups and
clusters making it possible to use halos as galaxy tracers. We find that the
velocity bias pvb measured as a ratio of pairwise velocities of the halos to
that of the dark matter evolves with time and depends on scale. At high
redshifts (z ~5) halos move generally faster than the dark matter almost on all
scales: pvb(r)~1.2, r>0.5Mpc/h. At later moments the bias decreases and gets
below unity on scales less than r=5Mpc/h: pvb(r)~(0.6-0.8) at z=0. We find that
the evolution of the pairwise velocity bias follows and probably is defined by
the spatial antibias of the dark matter halos at small scales. One-point
velocity bias b_v, defined as the ratio of the rms velocities of halos and dark
matter, provides a more direct measure of the difference in velocities because
it is less sensitive to the spatial bias. We analyze b_v in clusters of
galaxies and find that halos are ``hotter'' than the dark matter: b_v=(1.2-1.3)
for r=(0.2-0.8)r_vir, where r_vir is the virial radius. At larger radii, b_v
decreases and approaches unity at r=(1-2)r_vir. We argue that dynamical
friction may be responsible for this small positive velocity bias b_v>1 found
in the central parts of clusters. We do not find significant difference in the
velocity anisotropy of halos and the dark matter. The dark matter the velocity
anisotropy can be approximated as beta(x)=0.15 +2x/(x^2+4), where x is measured
in units of the virial radius.Comment: 13 pages, Latex, AASTeXv5 and natbi
The variance-covariance method: Microdosimetry in time-varying low dose-rate radiation fields
The variance-covariance method is employed at low doses and in radiation fields of low dose rates from an241Am (4 nGy/s) and a90Sr (300 nGy/s) source. The preliminary applications and results illustrate some of the potential of the method, and show that the dose average of lineal energy or energy imparted can be determined over a wide range of doses and dose rates. The dose averages obtained with the variance-covariance method in time-varying fields, for which the conventional variance method is not suitable, agree well with results obtained under the condition of constant dose rate. The results are compared to data obtained in terms of the conventional single-event measurements. The method has evident advantages, such as facility and speed of measurement
Numerical equilibrium analysis for structured consumer resource models
In this paper, we present methods for a numerical equilibrium and stability analysis for models of a size structured population competing for an unstructured resource. We concentrate on cases where two model parameters are free, and thus existence boundaries for equilibria and stability boundaries can be defined in the (two-parameter) plane. We numerically trace these implicitly defined curves using alternatingly tangent prediction and Newton correction. Evaluation of the maps defining the curves involves integration over individual size and individual survival probability (and their derivatives) as functions of individual age. Such ingredients are often defined as solutions of ODE, i.e., in general only implicitly. In our case, the right-hand sides of these ODE feature discontinuities that are caused by an abrupt change of behavior at the size where juveniles are assumed to turn adult. So, we combine the numerical solution of these ODE with curve tracing methods. We have implemented the algorithms for “Daphnia consuming algae” models in C-code. The results obtained by way of this implementation are shown in the form of graphs
^25Mg NMR study of the MgB_2 superconductor
^25Mg NMR spectra and nuclear spin-lattice relaxation time, T_1, have been
measured in polycrystalline ^25MgB_2 with a superconducting transition
temperature T_c = 39.0 K in zero magnetic field. From the first order and
second order quadrupole perturbed NMR spectrum a quadrupole coupling frequency
nu_Q = 222(1.5) kHz is obtained. T_1T = 1090(50) sK and Knight shift K_c =
242(4) ppm are temperature independent in the normal conducting phase. The
^25Mg Korringa ratio equals to 0.95 which is very close to the ideal value of
unity for s-electrons. The comparison of the experimental nu_Q, T_1T, and K_c
with the corresponding values obtained by LDA calculations shows an excellent
agreement for all three quantities.Comment: 4 pages including 4 eps-figures, revtex
Deterministic entanglement of ions in thermal states of motion
We give a detailed description of the implementation of a Molmer-Sorensen
gate entangling two Ca+ ions using a bichromatic laser beam near-resonant with
a quadrupole transition. By amplitude pulse shaping and compensation of
AC-Stark shifts we achieve a fast gate operation without compromising the error
rate. Subjecting different input states to concatenations of up to 21
individual gate operations reveals Bell state fidelities above 0.80. In
principle, the entangling gate does not require ground state cooling of the
ions as long as the Lamb-Dicke criterion is fulfilled. We present the first
experimental evidence for this claim and create Bell states with a fidelity of
0.974(1) for ions in a thermal state of motion with a mean phonon number of
=20(2) in the mode coupling to the ions' internal states.Comment: 18 pages, 9 figures (author name spelling corrected
Weighted Bergman kernels and virtual Bergman kernels
We introduce the notion of "virtual Bergman kernel" and apply it to the
computation of the Bergman kernel of "domains inflated by Hermitian balls", in
particular when the base domain is a bounded symmetric domain.Comment: 12 pages. One-hour lecture for graduate students, SCV 2004, August
2004, Beijing, P.R. China. V2: typo correcte
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