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Note about a second "evidence" for a WIMP annual modulation
This note, with its five questions, is intended to contribute to a
clarification about a claimed "evidence" by the DAMA group of an annual
modulation of the counting rate of a Dark Matter NaI(Tl) detector as due to a
neutralino (SUSY-LSP) Dark Matter candidate.Comment: LaTex, 3 pages, 2 figure
Predictive protocol of flocks with small-world connection pattern
By introducing a predictive mechanism with small-world connections, we
propose a new motion protocol for self-driven flocks. The small-world
connections are implemented by randomly adding long-range interactions from the
leader to a few distant agents, namely pseudo-leaders. The leader can directly
affect the pseudo-leaders, thereby influencing all the other agents through
them efficiently. Moreover, these pseudo-leaders are able to predict the
leader's motion several steps ahead and use this information in decision making
towards coherent flocking with more stable formation. It is shown that drastic
improvement can be achieved in terms of both the consensus performance and the
communication cost. From the industrial engineering point of view, the current
protocol allows for a significant improvement in the cohesion and rigidity of
the formation at a fairly low cost of adding a few long-range links embedded
with predictive capabilities. Significantly, this work uncovers an important
feature of flocks that predictive capability and long-range links can
compensate for the insufficiency of each other. These conclusions are valid for
both the attractive/repulsive swarm model and the Vicsek model.Comment: 10 pages, 12 figure
Structure of polydisperse inverse ferrofluids: Theory and computer simulation
By using theoretical analysis and molecular dynamics simulations, we
investigate the structure of colloidal crystals formed by nonmagnetic
microparticles (or magnetic holes) suspended in ferrofluids (called inverse
ferrofluids), by taking into account the effect of polydispersity in size of
the nonmagnetic microparticles. Such polydispersity often exists in real
situations. We obtain an analytical expression for the interaction energy of
monodisperse, bidisperse, and polydisperse inverse ferrofluids. Body-centered
tetragonal (bct) lattices are shown to possess the lowest energy when compared
with other sorts of lattices and thus serve as the ground state of the systems.
Also, the effect of microparticle size distributions (namely, polydispersity in
size) plays an important role in the formation of various kinds of structural
configurations. Thus, it seems possible to fabricate colloidal crystals by
choosing appropriate polydispersity in size.Comment: 22 pages, 8 figure
X(1835): A Natural Candidate of 's Second Radial Excitation
Recently BES collaboration observed one interesting resonance X(1835). We
point out that its mass, total width, production rate and decay pattern favor
its assignment as the second radial excitation of meson very
naturally
Probing the electron-phonon coupling in ozone-doped graphene by Raman spectroscopy
We have investigated the effects of ozone treatment on graphene by Raman
scattering. Sequential ozone short-exposure cycles resulted in increasing the
doping levels as inferred from the blue shift of the 2 and peak
frequencies, without introducing significant disorder. The two-phonon 2 and
2 Raman peak intensities show a significant decrease, while, on the
contrary, the one-phonon G Raman peak intensity remains constant for the whole
exposure process. The former reflects the dynamics of the photoexcited
electrons (holes) and, specifically, the increase of the electron-electron
scattering rate with doping. From the ratio of 2 to 2 intensities, which
remains constant with doping, we could extract the ratio of electron-phonon
coupling parameters. This ratio is found independent on the number of layers up
to ten layers. Moreover, the rate of decrease of 2 and 2 intensities
with doping was found to slowdown inversely proportional to the number of
graphene layers, revealing the increase of the electron-electron collision
probability
Field-induced structure transformation in electrorheological solids
We have computed the local electric field in a body-centered tetragonal (BCT)
lattice of point dipoles via the Ewald-Kornfeld formulation, in an attempt to
examine the effects of a structure transformation on the local field strength.
For the ground state of an electrorheological solid of hard spheres, we
identified a novel structure transformation from the BCT to the face-centered
cubic (FCC) lattices by changing the uniaxial lattice constant c under the hard
sphere constraint. In contrast to the previous results, the local field
exhibits a non-monotonic transition from BCT to FCC. As c increases from the
BCT ground state, the local field initially decreases rapidly towards the
isotropic value at the body-centered cubic lattice, decreases further, reaching
a minimum value and increases, passing through the isotropic value again at an
intermediate lattice, reaches a maximum value and finally decreases to the FCC
value. An experimental realization of the structure transformation is
suggested. Moreover, the change in the local field can lead to a generalized
Clausius-Mossotti equation for the BCT lattices.Comment: Submitted to Phys. Rev.
Well-posedness and stability results for the Gardner equation
In this article we present local well-posedness results in the classical
Sobolev space H^s(R) with s > 1/4 for the Cauchy problem of the Gardner
equation, overcoming the problem of the loss of the scaling property of this
equation. We also cover the energy space H^1(R) where global well-posedness
follows from the conservation laws of the system. Moreover, we construct
solitons of the Gardner equation explicitly and prove that, under certain
conditions, this family is orbitally stable in the energy space.Comment: 1 figure. Accepted for publication in Nonlin.Diff Eq.and App
Neutron scattering study of a quasi-2D spin-1/2 dimer system Piperazinium Hexachlorodicuprate under hydrostatic pressure
We report inelastic neutron scattering study of a quasi-two-dimensional S=1/2
dimer system Piperazinium Hexachlorodicuprate under hydrostatic pressure. The
spin gap {\Delta} becomes softened with the increase of the hydrostatic
pressure up to P= 9.0 kbar. The observed threefold degenerate triplet
excitation at P= 6.0 kbar is consistent with the theoretical prediction and the
bandwidth of the dispersion relation is unaffected within the experimental
uncertainty. At P= 9.0 kbar the spin gap is reduced to 0.55 meV from 1.0 meV at
ambient pressure.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
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