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Errors in hybrid computers
Method is described for reduction of error components in numerical integration, sampling with zero hold order, and execution time delay
Stability of color-flavor locked strangelets
The stability of color-flavor locked (CFL) strangelets is studied in the
three-flavor Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. We consider all quark flavors to be
massless, for simplicity. By making use of the multiple reflection expansion,
we explicitly take into account finite size effects and formulate the
thermodynamic potential for CFL strangelets. We find that the CFL gap could be
large enough so that the energy per baryon number of CFL strangelets is greatly
affected. In addition, if the quark-quark coupling constant is larger than a
certain critical value, there is a possibility of finding absolutely stable CFL
strangelets.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys.
An outlook for cargo aircraft of the future
An assessment is provided of the future of air cargo by analyzing air cargo statistics and trends, by noting air cargo system problems and inefficiencies, by analyzing characteristics of air-eligible commodities, and by showing the promise of new technology for future cargo aircraft with significant improvements in costs and efficiency. NASA's proposed program is reviewed which would sponsor the research needed to provide for development of advanced designs by 1985
Gluonic phase versus LOFF phase in two-flavor quark matter
We study the gluonic phase in a two-flavor color superconductor as a function
of the ratio of the gap over the chemical potential
mismatch,. We find that the gluonic phase resolves the
chromomagnetic instability encountered in a two-flavor color superconductor for
. We also calculate approximately the free
energies of the gluonic phase and the single plane-wave LOFF phase and show
that the former is favored over the latter for a wide range of coupling
strengths.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, references added, revisions to text, version
accepted for publication in Phys. Lett.
Growth of Epitaxial Oxide Thin Films on Graphene
The transfer process of graphene onto the surface of oxide substrates is well known. However, for many devices, we require high quality oxide thin films on the surface of graphene. This step is not understood. It is not clear why the oxide should adopt the epitaxy of the underlying oxide layer when it is deposited on graphene where there is no lattice match. To date there has been no explanation or suggestion of mechanisms which clarify this step. Here we show a mechanism, supported by first principles simulation and structural characterisation results, for the growth of oxide thin films on graphene. We describe the growth of epitaxial SrTiO3 (STO) thin films on a graphene and show that local defects in the graphene layer (e.g. grain boundaries) act as bridgepillar spots that enable the epitaxial growth of STO thin films on the surface of the graphene layer. This study, and in particular the suggestion of a mechanism for epitaxial growth of oxides on graphene, offers new directions to exploit the development of oxide/graphene multilayer structures and devices
Vortices on Higher Genus Surfaces
We consider the topological interactions of vortices on general surfaces. If
the genus of the surface is greater than zero, the handles can carry magnetic
flux. The classical state of the vortices and the handles can be described by a
mapping from the fundamental group to the unbroken gauge group. The allowed
configurations must satisfy a relation induced by the fundamental group. Upon
quantization, the handles can carry ``Cheshire charge.'' The motion of the
vortices can be described by the braid group of the surface. How the motion of
the vortices affects the state is analyzed in detail.Comment: 28 pages with 10 figures; uses phyzzx and psfig; Caltech preprint
CALT-68-187
Latent heat in the chiral phase transition
The chiral phase transition at finite temperature and density is discussed in
the framework of the QCD-like gauge field theory. The thermodynamical potential
is investigated using a variational approach. Latent heat generated in the
first-order phase transition is calculated. It is found that the latent heat is
enhanced near the tricritical point and is more than several hundred MeV per
quark.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
Color-flavor locked strange matter
We analyze how the CFL states in dense matter work in the direction of
enhancing the parameter space for absolutely stable phases (strange matter). We
find that the "CFL strange matter" phase can be the true ground state of
hadronic matter for a much wider range of the parameters of the model (the gap
of the QCD Cooper pairs , the strange quark mass and the Bag
Constant ) than the state without any pairing, and derive a full equation of
state and an accurate analytic approximation to the lowest order in
and which may be directly used for applications. The effects of pairing
on the equation of state are found to be small (as previously expected) but not
negligible and may be relevant for astrophysics.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Bose-Einstein condensation in dense quark matter
We consider the problem of Bose condensation of charged pions in QCD at
finite isospin chemical potential using the O(4)-symmetric linear sigma
model as an effective field theory for two-flavor QCD. Using the 2PI
-expansion, we determine the quasiparticle masses as well as the pion and
chiral condensates as a function of the temperature and isospin chemical
potential in the chiral limit and at the physical point. At T=0, Bose
condensation takes place for chemical potentials larger than . In the
chiral limit, the chiral condensate vanishes for any finite value of .Comment: Talk given at Strong and Electroweak matter 2008, Amsterdam August
25-29 2008. Four pages and two figures. 2nd version: typos fixed and updated
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