Electron screening and its effects on Big-Bang nucleosynthesis

We study the effects of electron screening on nuclear reaction rates occurring during the Big Bang nucleosynthesis epoch. The sensitivity of the predicted elemental abundances on electron screening is studied in details. It is shown that electron screening does not produce noticeable results in the abundances unless the traditional Debye-H\"uckel model for the treatment of electron screening in stellar environments is enhanced by several orders of magnitude. The present work rules out electron screening as a relevant ingredient to Big Bang nucleosynthesis and ruling out exotic possibilities for the treatment of screening, beyond the mean-field theoretical approach.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, more references included. To appear in Phys. Rev.

Tunneling Time in the Landau-Zener Model

We give a general definition for the tunneling time in the Landau-Zener model. This definition allows us to compute numerically the Landau-Zener tunneling time at any sweeping rate without ambiguity. We have also obtained analytical results in both the adiabatic limit and the sudden limit. Whenever applicable, our results are compared to previous results and they are in good agreement.Comment: 7pages, 9 figure

MULTI-FACETED TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT APPROACHES AS PANACEA TO IIIGIIER EDUCATION GRADUATE UNEMPLOYMENT IN NIGERIA

This paper posits that if higher education graduate uncmplo) mcnt was onl) a men: suspicion in the Nigeria of the 1970s, it became an important social challenge in the mid-1980s. A re\ iew of the literature revealed that skills mismatch between the training olTered b) uni\ersities and skills required b) the marJ....ct. structural mismatch between middle and upper le\ cl manpower production. the scrapping of National Manpower Planning Board and poor attitude tO\\ards \OCational training arc the major factors currcntl:y fuelling graduate unemplo) ment in Nigeria. This paper therefore develops a Ji·ame\\ork li.1r a ne\\ policy orientation in matters of higher education cmpiO) ment in Nigeria \\ hich will not on I) take advantage of the existing strengths "ithin the Nigerian economy but will open up massive emplo) ment opportunities li.1r higher education graduates. This li·ame\\ork calls li.w the deliberate opening up of li\ c economic domains for graduate emplo) ment. namely, the agricultural. mining, hospitality. \ending and lnlormation Communication Technologies. The paper identifies retraining and the prO\ ision of basic social amenities to Nigerian communities as catalysts to imprO\ cd graduate emplo) ment in the country as these measures "ill contribute towards the reduction of social agitation within the communities

Doping and dimensionality effects on the core-level spectra of layered ruthenates

Core-level spectra of the Mn-doped Sr3Ru2O7 and Srn+1RunO3n+1 (n = 1, 2 and 3) crystals are investigated with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Doping of Mn to Sr3Ru2O7 considerably affects the distribution of core-level spectral weight. The satellite of Ru 3d core levels exhibits a substantial change with doping, indicating an enhanced electron localization across the doping- induced metal-insulator transition. However, the Ru 3p core levels remain identical with Mn-doping, thus showing no sign of doping-induced multiple Ru valences. In the Srn+1RunO3n+1 (n = 1, 2 and 3), the Ru 3d core-level spectra are similar, indicating that the chemical bonding environment around Ru ions remains the same for different layered compounds. Meanwhile the Sr 3d shallow core levels shift to higher binding energy with increasing n, suggesting their participation in Sr-O bonding with structural evolution.Comment: 6 pages with 6 figures, to be published in PR

Surface and Bulk Structural Properties of Single Crystalline Sr3Ru2O7

We report temperature and thermal-cycling dependence of surface and bulk structures of double-layered perovskite Sr3Ru2O7 single crystals. The surface and bulk structures were investigated using low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) and single-crystal X-ray diffraction (XRD) techniques, respectively. Single-crystal XRD data is in good agreement with previous reports for the bulk structure with RuO6 octahedral rotation, which increases with decreasing temperature (~ 6.7(6)degrees at 300 K and ~ 8.1(2) degrees at 90 K). LEED results reveal that the octahedra at the surface are much more distorted with a higher rotation angle (~ 12 degrees between 300 and 80 K) and a slight tilt ((4.5\pm2.5) degrees at 300 K and (2.5\pm1.7) degrees at 80 K). While XRD data confirms temperature dependence of the unit cell height/width ratio (i.e. lattice parameter c divided by the average of parameters a and b) found in a prior neutron powder diffraction investigation, both bulk and surface structures display little change with thermal cycles between 300 and 80 K.Comment: 25 pages, 5 figures, 5 tables, to appear in Physical Review

Controlled Generation of Dark Solitons with Phase Imprinting

The generation of dark solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates with phase imprinting is studied by mapping it into the classic problem of a damped driven pendulum. We provide simple but powerful schemes of designing the phase imprint for various desired outcomes. We derive a formula for the number of dark solitons generated by a given phase step, and also obtain results which explain experimental observations.Comment: 4pages, 4 figure

SO(5) structure of p-wave superconductivity for spin-dipole interaction model

A closed SO(5) algebraic structure in the the mean-field form of the Hamiltonian the pure p-wave superconductivity is found that can help to diagonalized by making use of the Bogoliubov rotation instead of the Balian-Werthamer approach. we point out that the eigenstate is nothing but SO(5)-coherent state with fermionic realization. By applying the approach to the Hamiltonian with dipole interaction of Leggett the consistency between the diagonalization and gap equation is proved through the double-time Green function. The relationship between the s-wave and p-wave superconductivities turns out to be recognized through Yangian algebra, a new type of infinite-dimensional algebra.Comment: 7 pages, no figures. Accepted Journal of Physcis A: Mathematical and Genera

Direct extraction of the Eliashberg function for electron-phonon coupling: A case study of Be(1010)

We propose a systematic procedure to directly extract the Eliashberg function for electron-phonon coupling from high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission data. The procedure is successfully applied to the Be(1010) surface, providing new insights to electron-phonon coupling at this surface. The method is shown to be robust against imperfections in experimental data and suitable for wider applications.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures. More details concerning the procedure are include