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On the Creation of the Universe out of Nothing
We explain how the Universe was created with no expenditure of energy or
initial mass.Comment: To be presented at IWARA 2009 (4th International Workshop on
Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics), to be held in Brazil, October 200
Natural Entropy Production in an Inflationary Model for a Polarized Vacuum
Though entropy production is forbidden in standard FRW Cosmology, Berman and
Som presented a simple inflationary model where entropy production by bulk
viscosity, during standard inflation without ad hoc pressure terms can be
accommodated with Robertson-Walker's metric, so the requirement that the early
Universe be anisotropic is not essential in order to have entropy growth during
inflationary phase, as we show. Entropy also grows due to shear viscosity, for
the anisotropic case. The intrinsically inflationary metric that we propose can
be thought of as defining a polarized vacuum, and leads directly to the desired
effects without the need of introducing extra pressure terms.Comment: 7 pages including front one. Accepted to publication, Astrophysics
and Space Science, subjected to a minor correction, already submitte
Time-Dependent Quasiparticle Current Density Functional Theory of X-Ray Nonlinear Response Functions
A real-space representation of the current response of many-electron systems
with possible applications to x-ray nonlinear spectroscopy and magnetic
susceptibilities is developed. Closed expressions for the linear, quadratic and
third-order response functions are derived by solving the adiabatic Time
Dependent Current Density Functional (TDCDFT) equations for the single-electron
density matrix in Liouville space.Comment: 11 page
Dynamical Stability and Quantum Chaos of Ions in a Linear Trap
The realization of a paradigm chaotic system, namely the harmonically driven
oscillator, in the quantum domain using cold trapped ions driven by lasers is
theoretically investigated. The simplest characteristics of regular and chaotic
dynamics are calculated. The possibilities of experimental realization are
discussed.Comment: 24 pages, 17 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev
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