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Quantum probe and design for a chemical compass with magnetic nanostructures
Magnetic fields as weak as Earth's may affect the outcome of certain
photochemical reactions that go through a radical pair intermediate. When the
reaction environment is anisotropic, this phenomenon can form the basis of a
chemical compass and has been proposed as a mechanism for animal
magnetoreception. Here, we demonstrate how to optimize the design of a chemical
compass with a much better directional sensitivity simply by a gradient field,
e.g. from a magnetic nanostructure. We propose an experimental test of these
predictions, and suggest design principles for a hybrid metallic-organic
chemical compass. In addition to the practical interest in designing a
biomimetic weak magnetic field sensor, our result shows that gradient fields
can server as powerful tools to probe spin correlations in radical pair
reactions.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, comments are welcom
Breathing oscillations of a trapped impurity in a Bose gas
Motivated by a recent experiment [J. Catani et al., arXiv:1106.0828v1
preprint, 2011], we study breathing oscillations in the width of a harmonically
trapped impurity interacting with a separately trapped Bose gas. We provide an
intuitive physical picture of such dynamics at zero temperature, using a
time-dependent variational approach. In the Gross-Pitaevskii regime we obtain
breathing oscillations whose amplitudes are suppressed by self trapping, due to
interactions with the Bose gas. Introducing phonons in the Bose gas leads to
the damping of breathing oscillations and non-Markovian dynamics of the width
of the impurity, the degree of which can be engineered through controllable
parameters. Our results reproduce the main features of the impurity dynamics
observed by Catani et al. despite experimental thermal effects, and are
supported by simulations of the system in the Gross-Pitaevskii regime.
Moreover, we predict novel effects at lower temperatures due to self-trapping
and the inhomogeneity of the trapped Bose gas.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure
Hard photon flow and photon-photon correlation in intermediate energy heavy-ion collisions
Hard photons emitted from energetic heavy ion collisions are very interesting
since they do not experience nuclear interaction, and therefore they are useful
to explore properties of nuclear matter. We investigated hard photon production
and its properties in intermediate energy heavy-ion collisions with the help of
the Blotzmann-Uehling-Ulenbeck model. Two components of hard photons are
discussed: direct and thermal. The positive directed flow parameter and
negative elliptic flow parameter of direct photons are demonstrated and they
are anti-correlated to the flows of free protons. The dependencies of hard
photon production and anisotropic parameters on impact parameter, beam energy,
nuclear equation of state and symmetry energy are also discussed. Furthermore,
we investigated the two-photon momentum correlation function from which the
space-time structure information of the photon source could be extracted as
well as the two-photon azimuthal correlation which could provide another good
method to determine the elliptic flow parameter of direct hard photons.Comment: 13 pages, 18 figure
Isospin effect in the statistical sequential decay
Isospin effect of the statistical emission fragments from the equilibrated
source is investigated in the frame of statistical binary decay implemented
into GEMINI code, isoscaling behavior is observed and the dependences of
isoscaling parameters and on emission fragment size, source
size, source isospin asymmetry and excitation energies are studied. Results
show that and neither depends on light fragment size nor on
source size. A good linear dependence of and on the inverse of
temperature is manifested and the relationship of
and
from different
isospin asymmetry sources are satisfied. The symmetry energy coefficient
extracted from simulation results is 23 MeV which includes
both the volume and surface term contributions, of which the surface effect
seems to play a significant role in the symmetry energy.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures; A new substantially modified version which has
been accepted by the Physical Review
The roles of deformation and orientation in heavy-ion collisions induced by light deformed nuclei at intermediate energy
The reaction dynamics of axisymmetric deformed Mg + Mg
collisions have been investigated systematically by an isospin-dependent
quantum molecular dynamics (IDQMD) model. It is found that different
deformations and orientations result in apparently different properties of
reaction dynamics. We revealed that some observables such as nuclear stopping
power (), multiplicity of fragments, and elliptic flow are very sensitive to
the initial deformations and orientations. There exists an eccentricity scaling
of elliptic flow in central body-body collisions with different deformations.
In addition, the tip-tip and body-body configurations turn out to be two
extreme cases in central reaction dynamical process.Comment: 5 pages, 7 figures, to appear in Physical Review C (Rapid
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