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Effectiveness of experimenter-supplied and subject-originated first letter and descriptive sentence mnemonics in learning word pairs
Zero sound in triplet-correlated superfluid neutron matter
The linear response of a superfluid neutron liquid onto external vector field
is studied for the case of ^{3}P_{2}-\,^{3}F_{2} pairing. The consideration
is limited to the case when the wave-length of the perturbation is large as
compared to the coherence length in the superfluid matter and the transferred
energy is small in comparison with the gap amplitude. The obtained results are
used to analyse the collisionless phonon-like excitations of the condensate of
superfluid neutrons. In particular, we analyze the case of neutron condensation
into the state with which is conventionally considered as the
preferable one in the bulk matter of neutron stars. Zero sound (if it exists)
is found to be anisotropic and undergoes strong decrement below some
temperature threshold depending substantially on the intensity of Fermi-liquid
interactions.Comment: 16 pages, 2 figure
Particle linear theory on a self-gravitating perturbed cubic Bravais lattice
Discreteness effects are a source of uncontrolled systematic errors of N-body
simulations, which are used to compute the evolution of a self-gravitating
fluid. We have already developed the so-called "Particle Linear Theory" (PLT),
which describes the evolution of the position of self-gravitating particles
located on a perturbed simple cubic lattice. It is the discrete analogue of the
well-known (Lagrangian) linear theory of a self-gravitating fluid. Comparing
both theories permits to quantify precisely discreteness effects in the linear
regime. It is useful to develop the PLT also for other perturbed lattices
because they represent different discretizations of the same continuous system.
In this paper we detail how to implement the PLT for perturbed cubic Bravais
lattices (simple, body and face-centered) in a cubic simulation box. As an
application, we will study the discreteness effects -- in the linear regime --
of N-body simulations for which initial conditions have been set-up using these
different lattices.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures and 4 tables. Minor corrections to match published
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The Dynamic Structure Factor of the 1D Bose Gas near the Tonks-Girardeau Limit
While the 1D Bose gas appears to exhibit superfluid response under certain
conditions, it fails the Landau criterion according to the elementary
excitation spectrum calculated by Lieb. The apparent riddle is solved by
calculating the dynamic structure factor of the Lieb-Liniger 1D Bose gas. A
pseudopotential Hamiltonian in the fermionic representation is used to derive a
Hartree-Fock operator, which turns out to be well-behaved and local. The
Random-Phase approximation for the dynamic structure factor based on this
derivation is calculated analytically and is expected to be valid at least up
to first order in , where is the dimensionless interaction
strength of the model. The dynamic structure factor in this approximation
clearly indicates a crossover behavior from the non-superfluid Tonks to the
superfluid weakly-interacting regime, which should be observable by Bragg
scattering in current experiments.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures misprints in formulas correcte
Thermalization of acoustic excitations in a strongly interacting one-dimensional quantum liquid
We study inelastic decay of bosonic excitations in a Luttinger liquid. In a
model with linear excitation spectrum the decay rate diverges. We show that
this difficulty is resolved when the interaction between constituent particles
is strong, and the excitation spectrum is nonlinear. Although at low energies
the nonlinearity is weak, it regularizes the divergence in the decay rate. We
develop a theoretical description of the approach of the system to thermal
equilibrium. The typical relaxation rate scales as the fifth power of
temperature
The healing mechanism for excited molecules near metallic surfaces
Radiation damage prevents the ability to obtain images from individual
molecules. We suggest that this problem can be avoided for organic molecules by
placing them in close proximity with a metallic surface. The molecules will
then quickly dissipate any electronic excitation via their coupling to the
metal surface. They may therefore be observed for a number of elastic
scattering events that is sufficient to determine their structure.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures. Added reference
Frequency dependent polarizability of small metallic grains
We study the dynamic electronic polarizability of a single nano-scale
spherical metallic grain using quantum mechanical approach. We introduce the
model for interacting electrons bound in the grain allowing us numerically to
calculate the frequency dependence of the polarizability of grains of different
sizes. We show that within this model the main resonance peak corresponding to
the surface plasmon mode is blue-shifted and some minor secondary resonances
above and below the main peak exist. We study the behavior of blue shift as a
function of grain size and compare our findings with the classical
polarizability and with other results in the literature.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
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