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Asteroseismic Theory of Rapidly Oscillating Ap Stars
This paper reviews some of the important advances made over the last decade
concerning theory of roAp stars.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figure
Estimating entanglement of unknown states
The experimental determination of entanglement is a major goal in the quantum
information field. In general the knowledge of the state is required in order
to quantify its entanglement. Here we express a lower bound to the robustness
of entanglement of a state based only on the measurement of the energy
observable and on the calculation of a separability energy. This allows the
estimation of entanglement dismissing the knowledge of the state in question.Comment: 3 pages, 1 figure. Comments welcome. V2: references updated. Accepted
version by Applied Physics Letter
A thorough analysis of the short- and mid-term activity-related variations in the solar acoustic frequencies
The frequencies of the solar acoustic oscillations vary over the activity
cycle. The variations in other activity proxies are found to be well correlated
with the variations in the acoustic frequencies. However, each proxy has a
slightly different time behaviour. Our goal is to characterize the differences
between the time behaviour of the frequency shifts and of two other activity
proxies, namely, the area covered by sunspots and the 10.7cm flux. We define a
new observable that is particularly sensitive to the short-term frequency
variations. We then compare the observable when computed from model frequency
shifts and from observed frequency shifts obtained with the Global Oscillation
Network Group (GONG) for cycle 23. Our analysis shows that on the shortest
time-scales the variations in the frequency shifts seen in the GONG
observations are strongly correlated with the variations in the area covered by
sunspots. However, a significant loss of correlation is still found. We verify
that the times when the frequency shifts and the sunspot area do not vary in a
similar way tend to coincide with the times of the maxima of the quasi-biennial
variations seen in the solar seismic data. A similar analysis of the relation
between the 10.7cm flux and the frequency shifts reveals that the short-time
variations in the frequency shifts follow even more closely those of the 10.7cm
flux than those of the sunspot area. However, a loss of correlation between
frequency shifts and 10.7cm flux variations is still found around the same
times.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRA
Complete high-precision entropic sampling
Monte Carlo simulations using entropic sampling to estimate the number of
configurations of a given energy are a valuable alternative to traditional
methods. We introduce {\it tomographic} entropic sampling, a scheme which uses
multiple studies, starting from different regions of configuration space, to
yield precise estimates of the number of configurations over the {\it full
range} of energies, {\it without} dividing the latter into subsets or windows.
Applied to the Ising model on the square lattice, the method yields the
critical temperature to an accuracy of about 0.01%, and critical exponents to
1% or better. Predictions for systems sizes L=10 - 160, for the temperature of
the specific heat maximum, and of the specific heat at the critical
temperature, are in very close agreement with exact results. For the Ising
model on the simple cubic lattice the critical temperature is given to within
0.003% of the best available estimate; the exponent ratios and
are given to within about 0.4% and 1%, respectively, of the
literature values. In both two and three dimensions, results for the {\it
antiferromagnetic} critical point are fully consistent with those of the
ferromagnetic transition. Application to the lattice gas with nearest-neighbor
exclusion on the square lattice again yields the critical chemical potential
and exponent ratios and to good precision.Comment: For a version with figures go to
http://www.fisica.ufmg.br/~dickman/transfers/preprints/entsamp2.pd
On the relation between activity-related frequency shifts and the sunspot distribution over the solar cycle 23
The activity-related variations in the solar acoustic frequencies have been
known for 30 years. However, the importance of the different contributions is
still not well established. With this in mind, we developed an empirical model
to estimate the spot-induced frequency shifts, which takes into account the
sunspot properties, such as area and latitude. The comparison between the model
frequency shifts obtained from the daily sunspot records and those observed
suggests that the contribution from a stochastic component to the total
frequency shifts is about 30%. The remaining 70% is related to a global,
long-term variation. We also propose a new observable to investigate the short-
and mid-term variations of the frequency shifts, which is insensitive to the
long-term variations contained in the data. On the shortest time scales the
variations in the frequency shifts are strongly correlated with the variations
in the total area covered by sunspots. However, a significant loss of
correlation is still found, which cannot be fully explained by ignoring the
invisible side of the Sun when accounting for the total sunspot area. We also
verify that the times when the frequency shifts and the sunspot areas do not
vary in a similar way tend to coincide with the times of the maximum amplitude
of the quasi-biennial variations found in the seismic data.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, proceedings of the Joint TASC2 - KASC9 Workshop -
SPACEINN - HELAS8 Conference "Seismology of the Sun and the Distant Stars
2016: Using Today's Successes to Prepare the Future". To be published by the
EPJ Web of Conference
Spin-polarized transport in ferromagnetic multilayered semiconductor nanostructures
The occurrence of inhomogeneous spin-density distribution in multilayered
ferromagnetic diluted magnetic semiconductor nanostructures leads to strong
dependence of the spin-polarized transport properties on these systems. The
spin-dependent mobility, conductivity and resistivity in
(Ga,Mn)As/GaAs,(Ga,Mn)N/GaN, and (Si,Mn)/Si multilayers are calculated as a
function of temperature, scaled by the average magnetization of the diluted
magnetic semiconductor layers. An increase of the resistivity near the
transition temperature is obtained. We observed that the spin-polarized
transport properties changes strongly among the three materials.Comment: 3 pages, 4 figure
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