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Magnetic monopole and string excitations in a two-dimensional spin ice
We study the magnetic excitations of a square lattice spin-ice recently
produced in an artificial form, as an array of nanoscale magnets. Our analysis,
based upon the dipolar interaction between the nanomagnetic islands, correctly
reproduces the ground-state observed experimentally. In addition, we find
magnetic monopole-like excitations effectively interacting by means of the
usual Coulombic plus a linear confining potential, the latter being related to
a string-like excitation binding the monopoles pairs, what indicates that the
fractionalization of magnetic dipoles may not be so easy in two dimensions.
These findings contrast this material with the three-dimensional analogue,
where such monopoles experience only the Coulombic interaction. We discuss,
however, two entropic effects that affect the monopole interactions: firstly,
the string configurational entropy may loose the string tension and then, free
magnetic monopoles should also be found in lower dimensional spin ices;
secondly, in contrast to the string configurational entropy, an entropically
driven Coulomb force, which increases with temperature, has the opposite effect
of confining the magnetic defects.Comment: 8 pages. Accepted by Journal of Applied Physics (2009
Spatial-temporal evolution of the current filamentation instability
The spatial-temporal evolution of the purely transverse current filamentation
instability is analyzed by deriving a single partial differential equation for
the instability and obtaining the analytical solutions for the spatially and
temporally growing current filament mode. When the beam front always encounters
fresh plasma, our analysis shows that the instability grows spatially from the
beam front to the back up to a certain critical beam length; then the
instability acquires a purely temporal growth. This critical beam length
increases linearly with time and in the non-relativistic regime it is
proportional to the beam velocity. In the relativistic regime the critical
length is inversely proportional to the cube of the beam Lorentz factor
. Thus, in the ultra-relativistic regime the instability
immediately acquires a purely temporal growth all over the beam. The analytical
results are in good agreement with multidimensional particle-in-cell
simulations performed with OSIRIS. Relevance of current study to recent and
future experiments on fireball beams is also addressed
Computing the -coverage of a wireless network
Coverage is one of the main quality of service of a wirelessnetwork.
-coverage, that is to be covered simultaneously by network nodes, is
synonym of reliability and numerous applicationssuch as multiple site MIMO
features, or handovers. We introduce here anew algorithm for computing the
-coverage of a wirelessnetwork. Our method is based on the observation that
-coverage canbe interpreted as layers of -coverage, or simply
coverage. Weuse simplicial homology to compute the network's topology and
areduction algorithm to indentify the layers of -coverage. Weprovide figures
and simulation results to illustrate our algorithm.Comment: Valuetools 2019, Mar 2019, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. 2019. arXiv
admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1802.0844
Radiative corrections in bumblebee electrodynamics
We investigate some quantum features of the bumblebee electrodynamics in flat
spacetimes. The bumblebee field is a vector field that leads to a spontaneous
Lorentz symmetry breaking. For a smooth quadratic potential, the massless
excitation (Nambu-Goldstone boson) can be identified as the photon, transversal
to the vacuum expectation value of the bumblebee field. Besides, there is a
massive excitation associated with the longitudinal mode and whose presence
leads to instability in the spectrum of the theory. By using the
principal-value prescription, we show that no one-loop radiative corrections to
the mass term is generated. Moreover, the bumblebee self-energy is not
transverse, showing that the propagation of the longitudinal mode can not be
excluded from the effective theory.Comment: Revised version: contains some more elaborated interpretation of the
results. Conclusions improve
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