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Deduction of the quantum numbers of low-lying states of 6-nucleon systems based on symmetry
The inherent nodal structures of the wavefunctions of 6-nucleon systems have
been investigated. The existence of a group of six low-lying states dominated
by L=0 has been deduced. The spatial symmetries of these six states are found
to be mainly {4,2} and {2,2,2}.Comment: 8 pages, no figure
Hyperfine Interactions in the Heavy Fermion CeMIn_5 Systems
The CeMIn_5 heavy fermion compounds have attracted enormous interest since
their discovery six years ago. These materials exhibit a rich spectrum of
unusual correlated electron behavior, and may be an ideal model for the high
temperature superconductors. As many of these systems are either
antiferromagnets, or lie close to an antiferromagnetic phase boundary, it is
crucial to understand the behavior of the dynamic and static magnetism. Since
neutron scattering is difficult in these materials, often the primary source of
information about the magnetic fluctuations is Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
(NMR). Therefore, it is crucial to have a detailed understanding of how the
nuclear moments interact with conduction electrons and the local moments
present in these systems. Here we present a detailed analysis of the hyperfine
coupling based on anisotropic hyperfine coupling tensors between nuclear
moments and local moments. Because the couplings are symmetric with respect to
bond axes rather than crystal lattice directions, the nuclear sites can
experience non-vanishing hyperfine fields even in high symmetry sites.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figure
Conductance plateau in quantum spin transport through an interacting quantum dot
Quantum spin transport is studied in an interacting quantum dot. It is found
that a conductance "plateau" emerges in the non-linear charge conductance by a
spin bias in the Kondo regime. The conductance plateau, as a complementary to
the Kondo peak, originates from the strong electron correlation and exchange
processes in the quantum dot, and can be regarded as one of the characteristics
in quantum spin transport.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
DancingLines: An Analytical Scheme to Depict Cross-Platform Event Popularity
Nowadays, events usually burst and are propagated online through multiple
modern media like social networks and search engines. There exists various
research discussing the event dissemination trends on individual medium, while
few studies focus on event popularity analysis from a cross-platform
perspective. Challenges come from the vast diversity of events and media,
limited access to aligned datasets across different media and a great deal of
noise in the datasets. In this paper, we design DancingLines, an innovative
scheme that captures and quantitatively analyzes event popularity between
pairwise text media. It contains two models: TF-SW, a semantic-aware popularity
quantification model, based on an integrated weight coefficient leveraging
Word2Vec and TextRank; and wDTW-CD, a pairwise event popularity time series
alignment model matching different event phases adapted from Dynamic Time
Warping. We also propose three metrics to interpret event popularity trends
between pairwise social platforms. Experimental results on eighteen real-world
event datasets from an influential social network and a popular search engine
validate the effectiveness and applicability of our scheme. DancingLines is
demonstrated to possess broad application potentials for discovering the
knowledge of various aspects related to events and different media
Numerical Investigation of the Layer-Inversion Phenomenon in Binary Solid Liquid Fluidized Beds
Layer inversion behaviour in binary-solid liquid fluidized beds is examined using a Combined Continuum and Discrete Model. A suitable bidisperse system was selected from information in the literature. By simulating the fluidization of the system at a range of liquid velocities, varying degrees of segregation and mixing have been observed
Intrinsic Percolative Superconductivity in KxFe2-ySe2 Single Crystals
Magnetic field penetration and magnetization hysteresis loops (MHLs) have
been measured in KxFe2-ySe2 single crystals. The magnetic field penetration
shows a two-step feature with a very small full-magnetic-penetration field
(Hp1= 300 Oe at 2 K), and accordingly the MHL exhibits an abnormal vanishing of
the central peak near zero field below 13 K. The width of the MHL in KxFe2-ySe2
at the same temperature is in general much smaller than that measured in the
relatives Ba0.6K0.4Fe2As2 and Ba(Fe0.92Co0.08)2As2, and the MHLs in the latter
two samples show the normal central peak near zero field. All these anomalies
found in KxFe2-ySe2 can be understood in the picture that the sample is
percolative with weakly coupled superconducting islands.Comment: 5 page, 4 figure
Detection of lithium in nearby young late-M dwarfs
Late M-type dwarfs in the solar neighborhood include a mixture of very
low-mass stars and brown dwarfs which is difficult to disentangle due to the
lack of constraints on their age such as trigonometric parallax, lithium
detection and space velocity.
We search for young brown dwarf candidates among a sample of 28 nearby late-M
dwarfs with spectral types between M5.0 and M9.0, and we also search for debris
disks around three of them.
Based on theoretical models, we used the color , the -band absolute
magnitude and the detection of the Li I 6708 doublet line as a strong
constraint to estimate masses and ages of our targets. For the search of debris
disks, we observed three targets at submillimeter wavelength of 850 m.
We report here the first clear detections of lithium absorption in four
targets and a marginal detection in one target. Our mass estimates indicate
that two of them are young brown dwarfs, two are young brown dwarf candidates
and one is a young very low-mass star. The closest young field brown dwarf in
our sample at only 15 pc is an excellent benchmark for further studying
physical properties of brown dwarfs in the range 100150 Myr. We did not
detect any debris disks around three late-M dwarfs, and we estimated upper
limits to the dust mass of debris disks around them.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and
Astrophysic
Line Emission from an Accretion Disk around a Rotating Black Hole: Toward a Measurement of Frame Dragging
Line emission from an accretion disk and a corotating hot spot about a
rotating black hole are considered for possible signatures of the
frame-dragging effect. We explicitly compare integrated line profiles from a
geometrically thin disk about a Schwarzschild and an extreme Kerr black hole,
and show that the line profile differences are small if the inner radius of the
disk is near or above the Schwarzschild stable-orbit limit of radius 6GM/c^2.
However, if the inner disk radius extends below this limit, as is possible in
the extreme Kerr spacetime, then differences can become significant, especially
if the disk emissivity is stronger near the inner regions. We demonstrate that
the first three moments of a line profile define a three-dimensional space in
which the presence of material at small radii becomes quantitatively evident in
broad classes of disk models. In the context of the simple, thin disk paradigm,
this moment-mapping scheme suggests formally that the iron line detected by the
Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics mission from MCG-6-30-15
(Tanaka et al. 1995) is 3 times more likely to originate from a disk about a
rotating black hole than from a Schwarzschild system. A statistically
significant detection of black hole rotation in this way may be achieved after
only modest improvements in the quality of data. We also consider light curves
and frequency shifts in line emission as a function of time for corotating hot
spots in extreme Kerr and Schwarzschild geometries. Both the frequency-shift
profile and the light curve from a hot spot are valuable measures of orbital
parameters and might possibly be used to detect frame dragging even at radii
approaching 6GM/c^2 if the inclination angle of the orbital plane is large.Comment: 15 pages (LaTex), 7 postscript figures; color plot (Figure 1)
available at http://cfata2.harvard.edu/bromley/nu_nofun.html (This version
contains a new subsection as well as minor corrections.
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