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Atomic Ground-State Energies
It is demonstrated that atomic Hartree–Fock binding energies may be reproduced with great accuracy (within about four parts in a thousand) by a scaled model system in which the electrons are noninteracting, and are bound in a bare Coulomb potential. </jats:p
Supershell structure in trapped dilute Fermi gases
We show that a dilute harmonically trapped two-component gas of fermionic
atoms with a weak repulsive interaction has a pronounced super-shell structure:
the shell fillings due to the spherical harmonic trapping potential are
modulated by a beat mode. This changes the ``magic numbers'' occurring between
the beat nodes by half a period. The length and amplitude of this beating mode
depend on the strength of the interaction. We give a simple interpretation of
the beat structure in terms of a semiclassical trace formula for the symmetry
breaking U(3) --> SO(3).Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures; In version 2, references added. The semiclassical
explanation of super-shell structure is refined. Version 3, as appeared in
Phys. Rev.
Super-shell structure in harmonically trapped fermionic gases and its semi-classical interpretation
It was recently shown in self-consistent Hartree-Fock calculations that a
harmonically trapped dilute gas of fermionic atoms with a repulsive two-body
interaction exhibits a pronounced {\it super-shell} structure: the shell
fillings due to the spherical harmonic trapping potential are modulated by a
beat mode. This changes the ``magic numbers'' occurring between the beat nodes
by half a period. The length and amplitude of the beating mode depends on the
strength of the interaction. We give a qualitative interpretation of the beat
structure in terms of a semiclassical trace formula that uniformly describes
the symmetry breaking U(3) SO(3) in a 3D harmonic oscillator potential
perturbed by an anharmonic term with arbitrary strength. We show
that at low Fermi energies (or particle numbers), the beating gross-shell
structure of this system is dominated solely by the two-fold degenerate
circular and (diametrically) pendulating orbits.Comment: Final version of procedings for the 'Nilsson conference
On the canonically invariant calculation of Maslov indices
After a short review of various ways to calculate the Maslov index appearing
in semiclassical Gutzwiller type trace formulae, we discuss a
coordinate-independent and canonically invariant formulation recently proposed
by A Sugita (2000, 2001). We give explicit formulae for its ingredients and
test them numerically for periodic orbits in several Hamiltonian systems with
mixed dynamics. We demonstrate how the Maslov indices and their ingredients can
be useful in the classification of periodic orbits in complicated bifurcation
scenarios, for instance in a novel sequence of seven orbits born out of a
tangent bifurcation in the H\'enon-Heiles system.Comment: LaTeX, 13 figures, 3 tables, submitted to J. Phys.
Spontaneous bleeding in a patient with malignant lymphoma: A case of acquired hemophilia
Background: Acquired hemophilia is a rare condition which can be associated with lymphoproliferative disease. Case Report: Eleven yea rs after the diagnosis of immunocytoma had been made, a 72-year-old man developed a high-titer factor VIII inhibitor. At this time, the lymphoma was without significant progress and there was no paraprotein in the serum. Partial thromboplastin time (PTT) was 83 a, factor-VIII clotting activity was <1%, and inhibitor level was 50.4 Bethesda units. The patient presented with spontaneous hematomas in the skin and musculature of the extremities. Following combination chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide, vincristine and prednisolone (COP), there was a prompt disappearance of the inhibitor and normalization of coagulation; however, the patient developed serious infectious complications. When the inhibitor recurred he was treated with low-dose cyclophosphamide and prednisolone. This time there was a more delayed response, but the inhibitor disappeared again completely. Two months after cessation of therapy, there was again relapse. Conclusion: Causal relationship between lymphoma and acquired hemophilia remains speculative. At least in some cases of factor VIII inhibitors associated with malignant disease, immunosuppressive therapy may be sufficient to suppress the inhibitor
Exact results for a charged, harmonically trapped quantum gas at arbitrary temperature and magnetic field strength
An analytical expression for the first-order density matrix of a charged,
two-dimensional, harmonically confined quantum gas, in the presence of a
constant magnetic field is derived. In contrast to previous results available
in the literature, our expressions are exact for any temperature and magnetic
field strength. We also present a novel factorization of the Bloch density
matrix in the form of a simple product with a clean separation of the
zero-field and field-dependent parts. This factorization provides an
alternative way of analytically investigating the effects of the magnetic field
on the system, and also permits the extension of our analysis to other
dimensions, and/or anisotropic confinement.Comment: To appear in Phys. Rev.
Semiclassical trace formulae for systems with spin-orbit interactions: successes and limitations of present approaches
We discuss the semiclassical approaches for describing systems with
spin-orbit interactions by Littlejohn and Flynn (1991, 1992), Frisk and Guhr
(1993), and by Bolte and Keppeler (1998, 1999). We use these methods to derive
trace formulae for several two- and three-dimensional model systems, and
exhibit their successes and limitations. We discuss, in particular, also the
mode conversion problem that arises in the strong-coupling limit.Comment: LaTeX2e, 25 pages incl. 9 figures, version 3: final version in print
for J. Phys.
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