Conservation of Orbital Angular Momentum in Stimulated Down-Conversion

We report on an experiment demonstrating the conservation of orbital angular momentum in stimulated down-conversion. The orbital angular momentum is not transferred to the individual beams of the spontaneous down-conversion, but it is conserved when twin photons are taken individually. We observe the conservation law for an individual beam of the down-conversion through cavity-free stimulated emission.Comment: Submitted for publication in Phys. Rev. Let

Magnetism and Electronic Correlations in Quasi-One-Dimensional Compounds

In this contribution on the celebration of the 80th birthday anniversary of Prof. Ricardo Ferreira, we present a brief survey on the magnetism of quasi-one-dimensional compounds. This has been a research area of intense activity particularly since the first experimental announcements of magnetism in organic and organometallic polymers in the mid 80s. We review experimental and theoretical achievements on the field, featuring chain systems of correlated electrons in a special AB2 unit cell structure present in inorganic and organic compounds

Utilização de Base de Dados Georreferenciados na criação e gestão da APA de Descalvado.

O trabalho divulga as técnicas de geoprocessamento e sensoriamento remoto, utilizadas na caracterização ambiental da Área de Proteção Ambiental (APA) de Descalvado, em São Paulo, visando a elaboração de diagnósticos, estabelecimento de bases para o zoneamento e produção de material cartográfico

Time evolution towards q-Gaussian stationary states through unified Ito-Stratonovich stochastic equation

We consider a class of single-particle one-dimensional stochastic equations which include external field, additive and multiplicative noises. We use a parameter $\theta \in [0,1]$ which enables the unification of the traditional It\^o and Stratonovich approaches, now recovered respectively as the $\theta=0$ and $\theta=1/2$ particular cases to derive the associated Fokker-Planck equation (FPE). These FPE is a {\it linear} one, and its stationary state is given by a $q$-Gaussian distribution with $q = \frac{\tau + 2M (2 - \theta)}{\tau + 2M (1 - \theta)}<3$, where $\tau \ge 0$ characterizes the strength of the confining external field, and $M \ge 0$ is the (normalized) amplitude of the multiplicative noise. We also calculate the standard kurtosis $\kappa_1$ and the $q$-generalized kurtosis $\kappa_q$ (i.e., the standard kurtosis but using the escort distribution instead of the direct one). Through these two quantities we numerically follow the time evolution of the distributions. Finally, we exhibit how these quantities can be used as convenient calibrations for determining the index $q$ from numerical data obtained through experiments, observations or numerical computations.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figure

Generalized local interactions in 1D: solutions of quantum many-body systems describing distinguishable particles

As is well-known, there exists a four parameter family of local interactions in 1D. We interpret these parameters as coupling constants of delta-type interactions which include different kinds of momentum dependent terms, and we determine all cases leading to many-body systems of distinguishable particles which are exactly solvable by the coordinate Bethe Ansatz. We find two such families of systems, one with two independent coupling constants deforming the well-known delta interaction model to non-identical particles, and the other with a particular one-parameter combination of the delta- and (so-called) delta-prime interaction. We also find that the model of non-identical particles gives rise to a somewhat unusual solution of the Yang-Baxter relations. For the other model we write down explicit formulas for all eigenfunctions.Comment: 23 pages v2: references adde

3-3-1 exotic quark search at CERN LEPII-LHC

The 3-3-1 electroweak model is the simplest chiral extension of the standard model which predicts single and double charged bileptons and exotic quarks carrying -4/3 and 5/3 units of the positron charge. In this paper we study the possibilities of the production and decay of one of these exotic quarks at CERN LEPII-LHC collider. For typical vector bilepton, exotic quark masses and mixing angles we obtained between 20 and 750 events per year. Angular distributions are also presented.Comment: 5 pages, RevTex 3.1, 9 eps figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.

Food and biofuel: a possible dialogue? An overview about brazilian ethanol context.

Tropentag 2015

Orchestrating the measurements on twelve magnet test benches

The final LHC dipole series test set-up will consist of 12 benches, organised in 6 clusters of two benches sharing the largest and most expensive devices. This sharing is made possible by a deliberate de-phasing of the tests among magnets, ensuring an optimum use of resources, such as cryogenics and power equipment, without limiting the total throughput. To orchestrate the measurements a Test Master is needed to organise the tests per cluster and a Resource Manager to centralise the booking of the resources