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Interlayer tunneling spectroscopy of BiSrCaCuO: a look from inside on the doping phase diagram of high superconductors
A systematic, doping dependent interlayer tunneling spectroscopy of Bi2212
high superconductor is presented. An improved resolution made it possible
to simultaneously trace the superconducting gap (SG) and the normal state
pseudo-gap (PG) in a close vicinity of and to analyze closing of the PG
at . The obtained doping phase diagram exhibits a critical doping point
for appearance of the PG and a characteristic crossing of the SG and the PG
close to the optimal doping. This points towards coexistence of two different
and competing order parameters in Bi2212. Experimental data indicate that the
SG can form a combined (large) gap with the PG at and that the
interlayer tunneling becomes progressively incoherent with decreasing doping.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Group expansions for impurities in superconductors
A new method is proposed for practical calculation of the effective
interaction between impurity scatterers in superconductors, based on algebraic
properties of related Nambu matrices for Green functions. In particular, we
show that the density of states within the s-wave gap can have a non-zero
contribution (impossible either in Born and in T-matrix approximation) from
non-magnetic impurities with concentration , beginning from order.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figur
Deformation of the Planetary Orbits Caused by the Time Dependent Gravitational Potential in the Universe
In the paper are studied the deformations of the planetary orbits caused by
the time dependent gravitational potential in the universe. It is shown that
the orbits are not axially symmetric and the time dependent potential does not
cause perihelion precession. It is found a simple formula for the change of the
orbit period caused by the time dependent gravitational potential and it is
tested for two binary pulsars.Comment: 7 page
Diffusion and Home Range Parameters for Rodents: Peromyscus maniculatus in New Mexico
We analyze data from a long term field project in New Mexico, consisting of
repeated sessions of mark-recaptures of Peromyscus maniculatus (Rodentia:
Muridae), the host and reservoir of Sin Nombre Virus (Bunyaviridae:
Hantavirus). The displacements of the recaptured animals provide a means to
study their movement from a statistical point of view. We extract two
parameters from the data with the help of a simple model: the diffusion
constant of the rodents, and the size of their home range. The short time
behavior shows the motion to be approximately diffusive and the diffusion
constant to be 470+/-50m^2/day. The long time behavior provides an estimation
of the diameter of the rodent home ranges, with an average value of 100+/-25m.
As in previous investigations directed at Zygodontomys brevicauda observations
in Panama, we use a box model for home range estimation. We also use a harmonic
model in the present investigation to study the sensitivity of the conclusions
to the model used and find that both models lead to similar estimates.Comment: The published paper in Ecol. Complexity has an old version of Figure
6. Here we have put the correct version of Figure
X-ray Sources and their Optical Counterparts in the Globular Cluster M4
We report on the Chandra X-ray Observatory ACIS-S3 imaging observation of the
Galactic globular cluster M4 (NGC 6121). We detect 12 X-ray sources inside the
core and 19 more within the cluster half-mass radius. The limiting luminosity
of this observation is Lx~10e29 erg/sec for sources associated with the
cluster, the deepest X-ray observation of a globular cluster to date. We
identify 6 X-ray sources with known objects and use ROSAT observations to show
that the brightest X-ray source is variable. Archival data from the Hubble
Space Telescope allow us to identify optical counterparts to 16 X-ray sources.
Based on the X-ray and optical properties of the identifications and the
information from the literature, we classify two (possibly three) sources as
cataclysmic variables, one X-ray source as a millisecond pulsar and 12 sources
as chromospherically active binaries. Comparison of M4 with 47 Tuc and NGC 6397
suggests a scaling of the number of active binaries in these clusters with the
cluster (core) mass.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ. Figure 1 and 5
are of reduced qualit
Quantum Phase Fluctuations Responsible for Pseudogap
The effect of ordering field phase fluctuations on the normal and
superconducting properties of a simple 2D model with a local four-fermion
attraction is studied. Neglecting the coupling between the spin and charge
degrees of freedom an analytical expression has been obtained for the fermion
spectral function as a single integral over a simple function. From this we
show that, as the temperature increases through the 2D critical temperature and
a nontrivial damping for a phase correlator develops, quantum fluctuations fill
the gap in the quasiparticle spectrum. Simultaneously the quasiparticle peaks
broaden significantly above the critical temperature, resembling the observed
pseudogap behavior in high-T_c superconductors.Comment: 5 pages, ReVTeX, 1 EPS figure; final version to appear in Physica
Small-amplitude normal modes of a vortex in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate
We consider a cylindrically symmetric trap containing a small Bose-Einstein
condensate with a singly quantized vortex on the axis of symmetry. A
time-dependent variational Lagrangian analysis yields the small-amplitude
dynamics of the vortex and the condensate, directly determining the equations
of motion of the coupled normal modes. As found previously from the Bogoliubov
equations, there are two rigid dipole modes and one anomalous mode with a
negative frequency when seen in the laboratory frame.Comment: 4 pages, no figures, Revte
Coupled-mode theory for Bose-Einstein condensates
We apply the concepts of nonlinear guided-wave optics to a Bose-Einstein
condensate (BEC) trapped in an external potential. As an example, we consider a
parabolic double-well potential and derive coupled-mode equations for the
complex amplitudes of the BEC macroscopic collective modes. Our equations
describe different regimes of the condensate dynamics, including the nonlinear
Josephson effect for any separation between the wells. We demonstrate
macroscopic self-trapping for both repulsive and attractive interactions, and
confirm our results by numerical simulations.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures; typos removed, figures amended; submitted to PR
The role of caretakers in disease dynamics
One of the key challenges in modeling the dynamics of contagion phenomena is
to understand how the structure of social interactions shapes the time course
of a disease. Complex network theory has provided significant advances in this
context. However, awareness of an epidemic in a population typically yields
behavioral changes that correspond to changes in the network structure on which
the disease evolves. This feedback mechanism has not been investigated in
depth. For example, one would intuitively expect susceptible individuals to
avoid other infecteds. However, doctors treating patients or parents tending
sick children may also increase the amount of contact made with an infecteds,
in an effort to speed up recovery but also exposing themselves to higher risks
of infection. We study the role of these caretaker links in an adaptive network
models where individuals react to a disease by increasing or decreasing the
amount of contact they make with infected individuals. We find that pure
avoidance, with only few caretaker links, is the best strategy for curtailing
an SIS disease in networks that possess a large topological variability. In
more homogeneous networks, disease prevalence is decreased for low
concentrations of caretakers whereas a high prevalence emerges if caretaker
concentration passes a well defined critical value.Comment: 8 pages, 9 figure
Oscillations of a rapidly rotating annular Bose-Einstein condensate
A time-dependent variational Lagrangian analysis based on the
Gross-Pitaevskii energy functional serves to study the dynamics of a metastable
giant vortex in a rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensate. The resulting
oscillation frequencies of the core radius reproduce the trends seen in recent
experiments [Engels et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 170405 (2003)], but the
theoretical values are smaller by a factor approximately 0.6-0.8.Comment: 7 pages, revtex
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