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Canonical-basis solution of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov equation on three-dimensional Cartesian mesh
A method is presented to obtain the canonical-form solutions of the HFB
equation for atomic nuclei with zero-range interactions like the Skyrme force.
It is appropriate to describe pairing correlations in the continuum in
coordinate-space representations. An improved gradient method is used for
faster convergences under constraint of orthogonality between orbitals. To
prevent high-lying orbitals to shrink into a spatial point, a repulsive
momentum dependent force is introduced, which turns out to unveil the nature of
high-lying canonical-basis orbitals. The asymptotic properties at large radius
and the relation with quasiparticle states are discussed for the obtained
canonical basis.Comment: 23 pages including 17 figures, REVTeX4, revised version, scheduled to
appear in Phys. Rev. C, Vol.69, No.
Microbunching And Coherent Acceleration Of Electrons By Subcycle Laser Pulses
The pick up and acceleration of all plasma electrons irradiated by an intense, subcyclic laser pulse is demonstrated via analytical and numerical calculations. It is shown that the initial low emittance of the plasma electrons is conserved during the process of acceleration, leading to an extremely cold, bunched electron beam. Compression of the electron bunch along the longitudinal coordinate is naturally achieved due to the interaction of electrons and laser pulse. In this paper, we find the localized solutions to Maxwell's equations of a subcyclic laser pulse and use these to determine the acceleration of charged particles and we suggest future application for this acceleration mechanism as low energy particle injector and as electron source for coherent x-ray generation.Physic
Comment on ''Phase Diagram of LaSrCuO Probed in the Infrared: Imprints of Charge Stripe Excitations''
Recently Lucarelli {\it et al.} have reported\cite{lucarelli}
temperature-dependence of the in-plane optical reflectivity of
LaSrCuO over a wide doping range, focusing on the infrared
peaks at 30 cm (for =0.12), 250 cm and 510 cm. They
interpreted the first peak (30 cm) as a signature of charge stripe
ordering, while the latter two (250 cm and 510 cm) are attributed
to the polaronic charge excitations. However, careful readers would notice that
the reported spectra are largely different from those so far measured on the
same system. As we illustrate below, all these peaks are caused by an
uncontrolled leakage of the c-axis reflectivity into the measured spectra.Comment: 1 page, 1 figure, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett 91
(2003
Possible Verification of Tilted Anisotropic Dirac Cone in \alpha-(BEDT-TTF)_2 I_3 Using Interlayer Magnetoresistance
It is proposed that the presence of a tilted and anisotropic Dirac cone can
be verified using the interlayer magnetoresistance in the layered Dirac fermion
system, which is realized in quasi-two-dimensional organic compound
\alpha-(BEDT-TTF)_2 I_3. Theoretical formula is derived using the analytic
Landau level wave functions and assuming local tunneling of electrons. It is
shown that the resistivity takes the maximum in the direction of the tilt if
anisotropy of the Fermi velocity of the Dirac cone is small. The procedure is
described to determine the parameters of the tilt and anisotropy.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, corrected Fig.
Electrodynamics of the vortex lattice in untwinned YBaCuO by complex impedance measurements
We report complex impedance measurements in an untwinned YBaCuO crystal. Our
broad frequency range covers both the quasi static response and the resistive
response of the vortex lattice. It allow us to characterize the irreversibility
line without the need of any frequency dependent pinning parameters. We confirm
the validity of the two modes model of vortex dynamic, and extract both the
surface critical current and the flux flow resistivity around the first order
transition . This latter is identified by the abrupt loss of pinning and
by an unexpected step of at .Comment: accepted for publication in EPJ
The vortex depinning transition in untwinned YBaCuO using complex impedance measurements
We present surface impedance measurement of the vortex linear response in a
large untwinned YBCO crystal. The depinning spectra obtained over a broad
frequency range (100 Hz- 30 MHz) are those of a surface pinned vortex lattice
with a free flux flow resistivity (two modes response). The critical current in
the "Campbell" like regime and the flux flow resistivity in the dissipative
regime are extracted. Those two parameters are affected by the first order
transition, showing that this transition may be related to the electronic state
of vortices.Comment: to be published in the proceedings of M2S RI
Modeling the Parker instability in a rotating plasma screw pinch
We analytically and numerically study the analogue of the Parker (magnetic
buoyancy) instability in a uniformly rotating plasma screw pinch confined in a
cylinder. Uniform plasma rotation is imposed to create a centrifugal
acceleration, which mimics the gravity required for the classical Parker
instability. The goal of this study is to determine how the Parker instability
could be unambiguously identified in a weakly magnetized, rapidly rotating
screw pinch, in which the rotation provides an effective gravity and a radially
varying azimuthal field is controlled to give conditions for which the plasma
is magnetically buoyant to inward motion. We show that an axial magnetic field
is also required to circumvent conventional current driven magnetohydrodynamic
(MHD) instabilities such as the sausage and kink modes that would obscure the
Parker instability. These conditions can be realized in the Madison Plasma
Couette Experiment (MPCX). Simulations are performed using the extended MHD
code NIMROD for an isothermal compressible plasma model. Both linear and
nonlinear regimes of the instability are studied, and the results obtained for
the linear regime are compared with analytical results from a slab geometry.
Based on this comparison, it is found that in a cylindrical pinch the magnetic
buoyancy mechanism dominates at relatively large Mach numbers (M>5), while at
low Mach numbers (M<1) the instability is due to the curvature of magnetic
field lines. At intermediate values of Mach number (1<M<5) the Coriolis force
has a strong stabilizing effect on the plasma. A possible scenario for
experimental demonstration of the Parker instability in MPCX is discussed
Tilted-Cone Induced Cusps and Nonmonotonic Structures in Dynamical Polarization Function of Massless Dirac Fermions
The polarization function of electrons with the tilted Dirac cone found in
organic conductors is studied using the tilted Weyl equation. The dynamical
property is explored based on the analytical treatment of the particle-hole
excitation. It is shown that the polarization function as the function of both
the frequency and the momentum exhibits cusps and nonmonotonic structures. The
polarization function depends not only on the magnitude but also the direction
of the external momentum. These properties are characteristic of the tilted
Dirac cone, and are contrast to the isotropic case of grapheme. Further, the
results are applied to calculate the optical conductivity, the plasma frequency
and the screening of Coulomb interaction, which are also strongly influenced by
the tilted cone.Comment: 28 pages, 12 figures, to be published in Journal of the Physical
Society of Japan Vol. 79 (2010) No. 1
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