198 research outputs found
Direct Visualization of Laser-Driven Focusing Shock Waves
Cylindrically or spherically focusing shock waves have been of keen interest
for the past several decades. In addition to fundamental study of materials
under extreme conditions, cavitation, and sonoluminescence, focusing shock
waves enable myriad applications including hypervelocity launchers, synthesis
of new materials, production of high-temperature and high-density plasma
fields, and a variety of medical therapies. Applications in controlled
thermonuclear fusion and in the study of the conditions reached in laser fusion
are also of current interest. Here we report on a method for direct real-time
visualization and measurement of laser-driven shock generation, propagation,
and 2D focusing in a sample. The 2D focusing of the shock front is the
consequence of spatial shaping of the laser shock generation pulse into a ring
pattern. A substantial increase of the pressure at the convergence of the
acoustic shock front is observed experimentally and simulated numerically.
Single-shot acquisitions using a streak camera reveal that at the convergence
of the shock wave in liquid water the supersonic speed reaches Mach 6,
corresponding to the multiple gigapascal pressure range 30 GPa
Beyond the veil: Inner horizon instability and holography
We show that scalar perturbations of the eternal, rotating BTZ black hole
should lead to an instability of the inner (Cauchy) horizon, preserving strong
cosmic censorship. Because of backscattering from the geometry, plane wave
modes have a divergent stress tensor at the event horizon, but suitable
wavepackets avoid this difficulty, and are dominated at late times by
quasinormal behavior. The wavepackets have cuts in the complexified coordinate
plane that are controlled by requirements of continuity, single-valuedness and
positive energy. Due to a focusing effect, regular wavepackets nevertheless
have a divergent stress-energy at the inner horizon, signaling an instability.
This instability, which is localized behind the event horizon, is detected
holographically as a breakdown in the semiclassical computation of dual CFT
expectation values in which the analytic behavior of wavepackets in the
complexified coordinate plane plays an integral role. In the dual field theory,
this is interpreted as an encoding of physics behind the horizon in the
entanglement between otherwise independent CFTs.Comment: 40 pages, LaTeX, 3 eps figures, v2: references adde
Conformal geodesics in spherically symmetric vacuum spacetimes with cosmological constant
An analysis of conformal geodesics in the Schwarzschild-de Sitter and
Schwarzschild-anti de Sitter families of spacetimes is given. For both families
of spacetimes we show that initial data on a spacelike hypersurface can be
given such that the congruence of conformal geodesics arising from this data
cover the whole maximal extension of canonical conformal representations of the
spacetimes without forming caustic points. For the Schwarzschild-de Sitter
family, the resulting congruence can be used to obtain global conformal
Gaussian systems of coordinates of the conformal representation. In the case of
the Schwarzschild-anti de Sitter family, the natural parameter of the curves
only covers a restricted time span so that these global conformal Gaussian
systems do not exist.Comment: 51 pages, 12 figures. Minor changes. File updated. To appear in CQ
On Charged Black Holes in Anti-de Sitter Space
We study the region inside the event horizon of charged black holes in five
dimensional asymptotically anti-de Sitter space, using as a probe two-sided
correlators which are dominated by spacelike geodesics penetrating the horizon.
The spacetimes we investigate include the Reissner-Nordstrom black hole and
perturbations thereof. The perturbed spacetimes can be found exactly, enabling
us to perform a local scan of the region between the inner and outer horizons.
Surprisingly, the two-sided correlators we calculate seem to be geometrically
protected from the instability of the inner horizon.Comment: 1+37 pages, 20 ps and eps figures, LaTeX. References added and
changes made to section
The geodesic structure of the Schwarzschild Anti-de Sitter black hole
In the present work we found the geodesic structure of an AdS black hole. By
means of a detailed analyze of the corresponding effective potentials for
particles and photon, we found all the possible motions which are allowed by
the energy levels. Radial and non radial trajectories were exactly evaluated
for both geodesics. The founded orbits were plotted in order to have a direct
visualization of the allowed motions. We show that the geodesic structure of
this black hole presents new type of motions not allowed by the Schwarzschild
spacetime.Comment: 17 pages, 11 figure
Drag Prediction Using Adaptive Discontinuous Finite Elements
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/106502/1/AIAA2013-51.pd
Real time response on dS_3: the Topological AdS Black Hole and the Bubble
We study real time correlators in strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric
Yang-Mills theory on dS_3 x S^1, with antiperiodic boundary conditions for
fermions on the circle. When the circle radius is larger than a critical value,
the dual geometry is the so-called "topological AdS_5 black hole". Applying the
Son- Starinets recipe in this background we compute retarded glueball
propagators which exhibit an infinite set of poles yielding the quasinormal
frequencies of the topological black hole. The imaginary parts of the
propagators exhibit thermal effects associated with the Gibbons-Hawking
temperature due to the cosmological horizon of the de Sitter boundary. We also
obtain R-current correlators and find that after accounting for a small
subtlety, the Son-Starinets prescription yields the retarded Green's functions.
The correlators do not display diffusive behaviour at late times. Below the
critical value of the circle radius, the topological black hole decays to the
AdS_5 "bubble of nothing". Using a high frequency WKB approximation, we show
that glueball correlators in this phase exhibit poles on the real axis. The
tunnelling from the black hole to the bubble is interpreted as a hadronization
transition.Comment: 52 pages, 11 figures, typos corrected, references adde
How to realize a robust practical Majorana chain in a quantum dot-superconductor linear array
Semiconducting nanowires in proximity to superconductors are promising
experimental systems for Majorana fermions, which may ultimately be used as
building blocks for topological quantum computers. A serious challenge in the
experimental realization of the Majorana fermions is the supression of
topological superconductivity by disorder. We show that Majorana fermions
protected by a robust topological gap can occur at the ends of a chain of
quantum dots connected by s-wave superconductors. In the appropriate parameter
regime, we establish that the quantum dot/superconductor system is equivalent
to a 1D Kitaev chain, which can be tuned to be in a robust topological phase
with Majorana end modes even in the case where the quantum dots and
superconductors are both strongly disordered. Such a spin-orbit coupled quantum
dot - s-wave superconductor array provides an ideal experimental platform for
the observation of non-Abelian Majorana modes.Comment: 8 pages; 3 figures; version 2: Supplementary material updated to
include more general proof for localized Majorana fermion
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