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Super Jackstraws and Super Waterwheels
We construct various new BPS states of D-branes preserving 8 supersymmetries.
These include super Jackstraws (a bunch of scattered D- or (p,q)-strings
preserving supersymmetries), and super waterwheels (a number of D2-branes
intersecting at generic angles on parallel lines while preserving
supersymmetries). Super D-Jackstraws are scattered in various dimensions but
are dynamical with all their intersections following a common null direction.
Meanwhile, super (p,q)-Jackstraws form a planar static configuration. We show
that the SO(2) subgroup of SL(2,R), the group of classical S-duality
transformations in IIB theory, can be used to generate this latter
configuration of variously charged (p,q)-strings intersecting at various
angles. The waterwheel configuration of D2-branes preserves 8 supersymmetries
as long as the `critical' Born-Infeld electric fields are along the common
direction.Comment: 23 pages, 10 figure
Spin diffusion of correlated two-spin states in a dielectric crystal
Reciprocal space measurements of spin diffusion in a single crystal of
calcium fluoride (CaF) have been extended to dipolar ordered states. The
experimental results for the component of the spin diffusion parallel with the
external field are cm/s for the
[001] direction and cm/s for the
[111] direction. The diffusion rates for dipolar order are significantly faster
than those for Zeeman order and are considerably faster than predicted by
simple theoretical models. It is suggested that constructive interference in
the transport of the two spin state is responsible for this enhancement. As
expected the anisotropy in the diffusion rates is observed to be significantly
less for dipolar order compared to the Zeeman case.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures. Resubmitted to PRL - new figure added /
discussion expande
Program of analytical and experimental study of porous metal ionizers summary report
Cesium ion emission of porous tungsten material
Schwinger Effect in Non-parallel D1-branes: A Path Integral Approach
We study the Schwinger effect in a system of non-parallel D1-branes for the
bosonic strings using the path integral formalism. We drive the string pair
creation rate by calculating the one loop vacuum amplitude of the setup in
presence of the background electric filed defined along one of the D1-branes.
We find an angle dependent minimum value for the background field and show that
the decaying of vacuum into string pairs takes place for the field above this
value. It is shown that in limit the vacuum
becomes stable and thus no pair creation occurs
Varying c cosmology and Planck value constraints
It has been suggested that by increasing the speed of light during the early
universe various cosmological problems of standard big bang cosmology can be
overcome, without requiring an inflationary phase. However, we find that as the
Planck length and Planck time are then made correspondingly smaller, and
together with the need that the universe should not re-enter a Planck epoch,
the higher models have very limited ability to resolve such problems. For a
constantly decreasing the universe will quickly becomes quantum
gravitationally dominated as time increases: the opposite to standard cosmology
where quantum behaviour is only ascribed to early times.Comment: extended versio
Lineal Trails of D2-D2bar Superstrings
We study the superstrings suspended between a D2- and an anti-D2-brane. We
quantize the string in the presence of some general configuration of gauge
fields over the (anti-)D-brane world volumes. The interstring can move only in
a specific direction that is normal to the difference of the electric fields of
each (anti-)D-branes. Especially when the electric fields are the same, the
interstring cannot move. We obtain the condition for the tachyons to disappear
from the spectrum.Comment: 15 pages with 4 figures, referenced added, Sec. 5 on the spectrum
made cleare
QCD effective action with a most general homogeneous field background
We consider one-loop effective action of SU(3) QCD with a most general
constant chromomagnetic (chromoelectric) background which has two independent
Abelian field components. The effective potential with a pure magnetic
background has a local minimum only when two Abelian components H_{\mu\nu}^3
and H_{\mu\nu}^8 of color magnetic field are orthogonal to each other. The
non-trivial structure of the effective action has important implication in
estimating quark-gluon production rate and p_T-distribution in quark-gluon
plasma. In general the production rate depends on three independent Casimir
invariants, in particular, it depends on the relative orientation between
chromoelectric fields.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures (9 pages in published version
Dilaton as a Dark Matter Candidate and its Detection
Assuming that the dilaton is the dark matter of the universe, we propose an
experiment to detect the relic dilaton using the electromagnetic resonant
cavity, based on the dilaton-photon conversion in strong electromagnetic
background. We calculate the density of the relic dilaton, and estimate the
dilaton mass for which the dilaton becomes the dark matter of the universe.
With this we calculate the dilaton detection power in the resonant cavity, and
compare it with the axion detection power in similar resonant cavity
experiment.Comment: 23 pages, 2 figure
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