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Correlation between Compact Radio Quasars and Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays
Some proposals to account for the highest energy cosmic rays predict that
they should point to their sources. We study the five highest energy events
(E>10^20 eV) and find they are all aligned with compact, radio-loud quasars.
The probability that these alignments are coincidental is 0.005, given the
accuracy of the position measurements and the rarity of such sources. The
source quasars have redshifts between 0.3 and 2.2. If the correlation pointed
out here is confirmed by further data, the primary must be a new hadron or one
produced by a novel mechanism.Comment: 8 pages, 3 tables, revtex. with some versions of latex it's necessary
to break out the tables and latex them separately using article.sty rather
than revtex.st
The Origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays
Motivated by recent measurements of the major components of the cosmic
radiation around 10 TeV/nucleon and above, we discuss the phenomenology of a
model in which there are two distinct kinds of cosmic ray accelerators in the
galaxy. Comparison of the spectra of hydrogen and helium up to 100 TeV per
nucleon suggests that these two elements do not have the same spectrum of
magnetic rigidity over this entire region and that these two dominant elements
therefore receive contributions from different sources.Comment: To be published in Physical Review D, 13 pages, with 3 figures,
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Neutrino production through hadronic cascades in AGN accretion disks
We consider the production of neutrinos in active galactic nuclei (AGN)
through hadronic cascades. The initial, high energy nucleons are accelerated in
a source above the accretion disk around the central black hole. From the
source, the particles diffuse back to the disk and initiate hadronic cascades.
The observable output from the cascade are electromagnetic radiation and
neutrinos. We use the observed diffuse background X-ray luminosity, which
presumably results {}from this process, to predict the diffuse neutrino flux
close to existing limits from the Frejus experiment. The resulting neutrino
spectrum is down to the \GeV region. We discuss modifications of
this scenario which reduce the predicted neutrino flux.Comment: 12 Pages, LaTeX, TK 92 0
Self-consistency over the charge-density in dynamical mean-field theory: a linear muffin-tin implementation and some physical implications
We present a simple implementation of the dynamical mean-field theory
approach to the electronic structure of strongly correlated materials. This
implementation achieves full self-consistency over the charge density, taking
into account correlation-induced changes to the total charge density and
effective Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian. A linear muffin-tin orbital basis-set is used,
and the charge density is computed from moments of the many body
momentum-distribution matrix. The calculation of the total energy is also
considered, with a proper treatment of high-frequency tails of the Green's
function and self-energy. The method is illustrated on two materials with
well-localized 4f electrons, insulating cerium sesquioxide Ce2O3 and the
gamma-phase of metallic cerium, using the Hubbard-I approximation to the
dynamical mean-field self-energy. The momentum-integrated spectral function and
momentum-resolved dispersion of the Hubbard bands are calculated, as well as
the volume-dependence of the total energy. We show that full self-consistency
over the charge density, taking into account its modification by strong
correlations, can be important for the computation of both thermodynamical and
spectral properties, particularly in the case of the oxide material.Comment: 20 pages, 6 figures (submitted in The Physical Review B
Effect of interactions on vortices in a nonequilibrium polariton condensate
We demonstrate the creation of vortices in a macroscopically occupied polariton state formed in a semiconductor microcavity. A weak external laser beam carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) is used to imprint a vortex on the condensate arising from the polariton optical parametric oscillator (OPO). The vortex core radius is found to decrease with increasing pump power, and is determined by polariton-polariton interactions. As a result of OAM conservation in the parametric scattering process, the excitation consists of a vortex in the signal and a corresponding antivortex in the idler of the OPO. The experimental results are in good agreement with a theoretical model of a vortex in the polariton OPO
Correlation effects in total energy of transition metals and related properties
We present an accurate implementation of total energy calculations into the
local density approximation plus dynamical mean-field theory (LDA+DMFT) method.
The electronic structure problem is solved through the full potential linear
Muffin-Tin Orbital (FP-LMTO) and Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker (FP-KKR) methods with a
perturbative solver for the effective impurity suitable for moderately
correlated systems. We have tested the method in detail for the case of Ni and
investigated the sensitivity of the results to the computational scheme and to
the complete self-consistency. It is demonstrated that the LDA+DMFT method can
resolve a long-standing controversy between the LDA/GGA density functional
approach and experiment for equilibrium lattice constant and bulk modulus of
Mn.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figure
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Lateral distributed-feedback gratings for single-mode, high-power terahertz quantum-cascade lasers
We report on terahertz quantum-cascade lasers (THz QCLs) based on first-order lateral distributed-feedback (lDFB) gratings, which exhibit continuous-wave operation, high output powers (>8 mW), and single-mode emission at 3.3–3.4 THz. A general method is presented to determine the coupling coefficients of lateral gratings in terms of the coupled-mode theory, which demonstrates that large coupling strengths are obtained in the presence of corrugated metal layers. The experimental spectra are in agreement with simulations of the lDFB cavities, which take into account the reflective end facets
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High-temperature, continuous-wave operation of terahertz quantum-cascade lasers with metal-metal waveguides and third-order distributed feedback
Currently, different competing waveguide and resonator concepts exist for terahertz quantum-cascade lasers (THz QCLs). We examine the continuous-wave (cw) performance of THz QCLs with single-plasmon (SP) and metal-metal (MM) waveguides fabricated from the same wafer. While SP QCLs are superior in terms of output power, the maximum operating temperature for MM QCLs is typically much higher. For SP QCLs, we observed cw operation up to 73 K as compared to 129 K for narrow (≤ 15 μm) MM QCLs. In the latter case, single-mode operation and a narrow beam profile were achieved by applying third-order distributed-feedback gratings and contact pads which are optically insulated from the intended resonators. We present a quantitative analytic model for the beam profile, which is based on experimentally accessible parameters
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