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Nonequilibrium effects of anisotropic compression applied to vortex lattices in Bose-Einstein condensates
We have studied the dynamics of large vortex lattices in a dilute-gas
Bose-Einstein condensate. While undisturbed lattices have a regular hexagonal
structure, large-amplitude quadrupolar shape oscillations of the condensate are
shown to induce a wealth of nonequilibrium lattice dynamics. When exciting an m
= -2 mode, we observe shifting of lattice planes, changes of lattice structure,
and sheet-like structures in which individual vortices appear to have merged.
Excitation of an m = +2 mode dissolves the regular lattice, leading to randomly
arranged but still strictly parallel vortex lines.Comment: 5 pages, 6 figure
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Linear relaxation to planar Travelling Waves in Inertial Confinement Fusion
We study linear stability of planar travelling waves for a scalar
reaction-diffusion equation with non-linear anisotropic diffusion. The
mathematical model is derived from the full thermo-hydrodynamical model
describing the process of Inertial Confinement Fusion. We show that solutions
of the Cauchy problem with physically relevant initial data become planar
exponentially fast with rate s(\eps',k)>0, where
\eps'=\frac{T_{min}}{T_{max}}\ll 1 is a small temperature ratio and
the transversal wrinkling wavenumber of perturbations. We rigorously recover in
some particular limit (\eps',k)\rightarrow (0,+\infty) a dispersion relation
s(\eps',k)\sim \gamma_0 k^{\alpha} previously computed heuristically and
numerically in some physical models of Inertial Confinement Fusion
Rotation Numbers, Boundary Forces and Gap labelling
We review the Johnson-Moser rotation number and the -theoretical gap
labelling of Bellissard for one-dimensional Schr\"odinger operators. We compare
them with two further gap-labels, one being related to the motion of Dirichlet
eigenvalues, the other being a -theoretical gap label. We argue that the
latter provides a natural generalisation of the Johnson-Moser rotation number
to higher dimensions.Comment: 10 pages, version accepted for publicatio
On the stability of soliton and hairy black hole solutions of SU(N) Einstein-Yang-Mills theory with a negative cosmological constant
We investigate the stability of spherically symmetric, purely magnetic, soliton and black hole solutions of four-dimensional su(N) Einstein-Yang-Mills theory with a
negative cosmological constant Λ. These solutions are described by N − 1 magnetic gauge field functions ωj. We consider linear, spherically symmetric, perturbations of these solutions. The perturbations decouple into two sectors, known as the sphaleronic and gravitational sectors. For any N, there are no instabilities in the sphaleronic sector if all the magnetic gauge field functions ωj have no zeros and satisfy a set of N − 1 inequalities. In the gravitational sector, we prove that there are solutions which have no instabilities in a neighbourhood of stable embedded su(2) solutions, provided the magnitude of the cosmological constant |Λ| is sufficiently large.
Kewywords : Stability, hairy black hole, soliton, Einstein-Yang-Mills, anti de-Sitte
On the density-potential mapping in time-dependent density functional theory
The key questions of uniqueness and existence in time-dependent density
functional theory are usually formulated only for potentials and densities that
are analytic in time. Simple examples, standard in quantum mechanics, lead
however to non-analyticities. We reformulate these questions in terms of a
non-linear Schr\"odinger equation with a potential that depends non-locally on
the wavefunction.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figure
On the harmonic Boltzmannian waves in laser-plasma interaction
We study the permanent regimes of the reduced Vlasov-Maxwell system for
laser-plasma interaction. A non-relativistic and two different relativistic
models are investigated. We prove the existence of solutions where the
distribution function is Boltzmannian and the electromagnetic variables are
time-harmonic and circularly polarized
Slow light in photonic crystals
The problem of slowing down light by orders of magnitude has been extensively
discussed in the literature. Such a possibility can be useful in a variety of
optical and microwave applications. Many qualitatively different approaches
have been explored. Here we discuss how this goal can be achieved in linear
dispersive media, such as photonic crystals. The existence of slowly
propagating electromagnetic waves in photonic crystals is quite obvious and
well known. The main problem, though, has been how to convert the input
radiation into the slow mode without loosing a significant portion of the
incident light energy to absorption, reflection, etc. We show that the
so-called frozen mode regime offers a unique solution to the above problem.
Under the frozen mode regime, the incident light enters the photonic crystal
with little reflection and, subsequently, is completely converted into the
frozen mode with huge amplitude and almost zero group velocity. The linearity
of the above effect allows to slow light regardless of its intensity. An
additional advantage of photonic crystals over other methods of slowing down
light is that photonic crystals can preserve both time and space coherence of
the input electromagnetic wave.Comment: 96 pages, 12 figure
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