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Optical and near-infrared spectrophotometric properties of Long Period Variables and other luminous red stars
Based on a new and large sample of optical and near-infrared spectra obtained
at the Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories (Lancon & Wood 1998;
Lancon & Wood, in preparation), spectrophotometric properties of cool oxygen-
and carbon-rich Long Period Variables and supergiants are presented.
Temperatures of oxygen-rich stars are assigned by comparison with synthetic
spectra computed from up-to-date oxygen-rich model atmosphere grids. The
existence of reliable optical and near-infrared temperature indicators is
investigated. A narrow relation between the bolometric correction BC(I) and the
broad-band colour I-J is obtained for oxygen-rich cool stars. The ability of
specific near-infrared indices to separate luminosity classes, atmospheric
chemistry or variability subtypes is discussed. Some comments are also given on
extinction effects, water band strengths in Long Period Variables and the
evaluation of 12CO/13CO ratio in red giants.Comment: 14 pages, 21 figures, Latex, accepted for publication in Astronomy
and Astrophysics main journal. Also available at
http://www-astro.ulb.ac.be/~ralvarez
Activity of alumina supported fe catalysts for N2O decomposition: Effects of the iron content and thermal treatment
Indexación: Scopus.The activity of Fe2O3/Al2O3 catalysts prepared by impregnation of Al2O3 with different amounts of Fe and calcination temperatures (650 and 900 °C) in the direct N2O decomposition reaction was studied. High calcination temperature was introduced to study the effect of "aging", which are the conditions prevailing in the process-gas option for N2O abatement. The catalysts were characterized by BET, XRD, UV-DRS, and H2-TPR. The incorporation of Fe promotes the alumina phase transition (g-Al2O3 to a-Al2O3) when the catalysts are calcined at 900 °C, which is accompanied by a decrease in the specifc area. The activity of the catalysts and the specifc surface area depend on Fe loading and calcination temperature. It was found that highly dispersed Fe species are more active than bulk type Fe2O3 particles. We conclude that Fe2O3/Al2O3 catalysts prepared by impregnation method are active in the decomposition of N2O, to be used at low or high reaction temperatures (tail-gas or process-gas treatments, respectively), as part of nitric acid production plant. © 2018 Sociedad Chilena de Quimica. All rights reserved.https://scielo.conicyt.cl/pdf/jcchems/v62n4/0717-9324-jcchems-62-04-3752.pd
Isospin mixing and Fermi transitions: Selfconsistent deformed mean field calculations and beyond
We study Fermi transitions and isospin mixing in an isotopic chain 70-78 Kr
considering various approximations that use the same Skyrme-Hartree-Fock single
particle basis. We study Coulomb effects as well as the effect of BCS and
quasiparticle random phase approximation (QRPA) correlations. A measure of
isospin mixing in the approximate ground state is defined by means of the
expectation value of the isospin operator squared in N=Z nuclei (which is
generalized to N different from Z nuclei). Starting from strict Hartree-Fock
approach without Coulomb, it is shown that the isospin breaking is negligible,
on the order of a few per thousand for (N-Z)=6, increasing to a few percent
with Coulomb. Pairing correlations induce rather large isospin mixing and Fermi
transitions of the forbidden type (beta- for NZ). The
enhancement produced by BCS correlations is compensated to a large extent by
QRPA correlations induced by isospin conserving residual interactions that tend
to restore isospin symmetry.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev.
Gamow-Teller strength distributions in Fe and Ni stable isotopes
We study Gamow-Teller strength distributions in some selected nuclei of
particular Astrophysical interest within the iron mass region. The theoretical
framework is based on a proton-neutron Quasiparticle Random Phase Approximation
built on a deformed selfconsistent mean field basis obtained from two-body
density-dependent Skyrme forces. We compare our results to available
experimental information obtained from (n,p) and (p,n) charge exchange
reactions.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figure
Decoherence as attenuation of mesoscopic echoes in a spin-chain channel
An initial local excitation in a confined quantum system evolves exploring
the whole system, returning to the initial position as a mesoscopic echo at the
Heisenberg time. We consider a two weakly coupled spin chains, a spin ladder,
where one is a quantum channel while the other represents an environment. We
quantify decoherence in the quantum channel through the attenuation of the
mesoscopic echoes. We evaluate decoherence rates for different ratios between
sources of amplitude fluctuation and dephasing in the inter-chain interaction
Hamiltonian. The many-body dynamics is seen as a one-body evolution with a
decoherence rate given by the Fermi golden rule.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figure
Quantum parallelism as a tool for ensemble spin dynamics calculations
Efficient simulations of quantum evolutions of spin-1/2 systems are relevant
for ensemble quantum computation as well as in typical NMR experiments. We
propose an efficient method to calculate the dynamics of an observable provided
that the initial excitation is "local". It resorts a single entangled pure
initial state built as a superposition, with random phases, of the pure
elements that compose the mixture. This ensures self-averaging of any
observable, drastically reducing the calculation time. The procedure is tested
for two representative systems: a spin star (cluster with random long range
interactions) and a spin ladder.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, improved version of the manuscrip
Symmetries shape the current in ratchets induced by a bi-harmonic force
Equations describing the evolution of particles, solitons, or localized
structures, driven by a zero-average, periodic, external force, and invariant
under time reversal and a half-period time shift, exhibit a ratchet current
when the driving force breaks these symmetries. The bi-harmonic force
does
it for almost any choice of and , provided and are
two co-prime integers such that is odd. It has been widely observed, in
experiments in Josephson-junctions, photonic crystals, etc., as well as in
simulations, that the ratchet current induced by this force has the shape
for
small amplitudes, where depends on the damping ( if
there is no damping, and for overdamped systems). We rigorously
prove that this precise shape can be obtained solely from the broken symmetries
of the system and is independent of the details of the equation describing the
system.Comment: 4 page
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