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Local order and magnetic field effects on the electronic properties of disordered binary alloys in the Quantum Site Percolation limit
Electronic properties of disordered binary alloys are studied via the
calculation of the average Density of States (DOS) in two and three dimensions.
We propose a new approximate scheme that allows for the inclusion of local
order effects in finite geometries and extrapolates the behavior of infinite
systems following `finite-size scaling' ideas. We particularly investigate the
limit of the Quantum Site Percolation regime described by a tight-binding
Hamiltonian. This limit was chosen to probe the role of short range order (SRO)
properties under extreme conditions. The method is numerically highly efficient
and asymptotically exact in important limits, predicting the correct DOS
structure as a function of the SRO parameters. Magnetic field effects can also
be included in our model to study the interplay of local order and the shifted
quantum interference driven by the field. The average DOS is highly sensitive
to changes in the SRO properties, and striking effects are observed when a
magnetic field is applied near the segregated regime. The new effects observed
are twofold: there is a reduction of the band width and the formation of a gap
in the middle of the band, both as a consequence of destructive interference of
electronic paths and the loss of coherence for particular values of the
magnetic field. The above phenomena are periodic in the magnetic flux. For
other limits that imply strong localization, the magnetic field produces minor
changes in the structure of the average DOS.Comment: 13 pages, 9 figures, 31 references, RevTex preprint, submitted to
Phys. Rev.
Ongoing Mass Transfer in the Interacting Galaxy Pair NGC 1409/10
I present two-band HST STIS imaging, and WIYN spectral mapping, of ongoing
mass transfer in the interacting galaxy pair NGC 1409/10 (where NGC 1410 is the
Seyfert galaxy also catalogued as III Zw 55). Archival snapshot WFPC2 imaging
from the survey by Malkan et al. showed a dust feature stretching between the
galaxies, apparently being captured by NGC 1409. The new images allow estimates
of the mass being transferred and rate of transfer. An absorption lane
typically 0.25" (100 pc) wide with a representative optical depth tau_B = 0.2
cuts across the spiral structure of NGC 1410, crosses the 7-kpc projected space
between the nuclei, wraps in front of and, at the limits of detection, behind
NGC 1409, and becomes a denser (tau_B = 0.4) polar feature around the core of
NGC 1409. Combination of extinction data in two passbands allows a crude
three-dimensional recovery of the dust structure, supporting the front/back
geometry derived from colors and extinction estimates. The whole feature
contains of order solar masses in dust, implying about 2x10^7 solar
masses of gas, requiring a mass transfer rate averaging ~1 solar mass per year
unless we are particularly unlucky in viewing angle. Curiously, this
demonstrable case of mass transfer seems to be independent of the occurrence of
a Seyfert nucleus, since the Seyfert galaxy in this pair is the donor of the
material. Likewise, the recipient shows no signs of recent star formation from
incoming gas, although NGC 1410 has numerous luminous young star clusters and
widespread H-alpha emission.Comment: 27 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for the Astronomical Journal, March
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Euclidean Scalar Green Function in a Higher Dimensional Global Spacetime
We construct the explicit Euclidean scalar Green function associated with a
massless field in a higher dimensional global monopole spacetime, i.e., a
-spacetime with which presents a solid angle deficit. Our
result is expressed in terms of a infinite sum of products of Legendre
functions with Gegenbauer polynomials. Although this Green function cannot be
expressed in a closed form, for the specific case where the solid angle deficit
is very small, it is possible to develop the sum and obtain the Green function
in a more workable expression. Having this expression it is possible to
calculate the vacuum expectation value of some relevant operators. As an
application of this formalism, we calculate the renormalized vacuum expectation
value of the square of the scalar field, , and the
energy-momentum tensor, , for the global monopole
spacetime with spatial dimensions and .Comment: 18 pages, LaTex format, no figure
NGC 2782: a merger remnant with young stars in its gaseous tidal tail
We have searched for young star-forming regions around the merger remnant NGC
2782. By using GALEX FUV and NUV imaging and HI data we found seven UV sources,
located at distances greater than 26 kpc from the center of NGC 2782, and
coinciding with its western HI tidal tail. These regions were resolved in
several smaller systems when Gemini/GMOS r-band images were used. We compared
the observed colors to stellar population synthesis models and we found that
these objects have ages of ~1 to 11 Myr and masses ranging from 10^3.9 to
10^4.6 Msun. By using Gemini/GMOS spectroscopic data we confirm memberships and
derive high metallicities for three of the young regions in the tail
(12+log(O/H)=8.74\pm0.20, 8.81\pm0.20 and 8.78\pm0.20). These metallicities are
similar to the value presented by the nuclear region of NGC 2782 and also
similar to the value presented for an object located close to the main body of
NGC 2782. The high metallicities measured for the star-forming regions in the
gaseous tidal tail of NGC 2782 could be explained if they were formed out of
highly enriched gas which was once expelled from the center of the merging
galaxies when the system collided. An additional possibility is that the tail
has been a nursery of a few generations of young stellar systems which
ultimately polluted this medium with metals, further enriching the already
pre-enriched gas ejected to the tail when the galaxies collided.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRA
A Multiwavelength Study on the Fate of Ionizing Radiation in Local Starbursts
The fate of ionizing radiation is vital for understanding cosmic ionization,
energy budgets in the interstellar and intergalactic medium, and star formation
rate indicators. The low observed escape fractions of ionizing radiation have
not been adequately explained, and there is evidence that some starbursts have
high escape fractions. We examine the spectral energy distributions of a sample
of local star-forming galaxies, containing thirteen local starburst galaxies
and ten of their ordinary star-forming counterparts, to determine if there
exist significant differences in the fate of ionizing radiation in these
galaxies. We find that the galaxy-to-galaxy variations in the SEDs is much
larger than any systematic differences between starbursts and non-starbursts.
For example, we find no significant differences in the total absorption of
ionizing radiation by dust, traced by the 24um, 70um, and 160um MIPS bands of
the Spitzer Space Telescope, although the dust in starburst galaxies appears to
be hotter than that of non-starburst galaxies. We also observe no excess
ultraviolet flux in the GALEX bands that could indicate a high escape fraction
of ionizing photons in starburst galaxies. The small H-alpha fractions of the
diffuse, warm ionized medium in starburst galaxies are apparently due to
temporarily boosted H-alpha luminosity within the star-forming regions
themselves, with an independent, constant WIM luminosity. This independence of
the WIM and starburst luminosities contrasts with WIM behavior in non-starburst
galaxies and underscores our poor understanding of radiation transfer in both
ordinary and starburst galaxies.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures, accepted to ApJ 10/11/1
A double coset ansatz for integrability in AdS/CFT
We give a proof that the expected counting of strings attached to giant
graviton branes in AdS_5 x S^5, as constrained by the Gauss Law, matches the
dimension spanned by the expected dual operators in the gauge theory. The
counting of string-brane configurations is formulated as a graph counting
problem, which can be expressed as the number of points on a double coset
involving permutation groups. Fourier transformation on the double coset
suggests an ansatz for the diagonalization of the one-loop dilatation operator
in this sector of strings attached to giant graviton branes. The ansatz agrees
with and extends recent results which have found the dynamics of open string
excitations of giants to be given by harmonic oscillators. We prove that it
provides the conjectured diagonalization leading to harmonic oscillators.Comment: 33 pages, 3 figures; v2: references adde
Vacuum Polarization for a Massless Spin-1/2 Field in the Global Monopole Spacetime at Nonzero Temperature
In this paper we present the effects produced by the temperature in the
renormalized vacuum expectation value of the zero-zero component of the
energy-momentum tensor associated with massless left-handed spinor field in the
pointlike global monopole spacetime. In order to develop this calculation we
had to obtain the Euclidean thermal Green function in this background. Because
the expression obtained for the thermal energy density cannot be expressed in a
closed form, its explicit dependence on the temperature is not completely
evident. So, in order to obtain concrete information about its thermal
behavior, we develop a numerical analysis of our result in the high-temperature
limit for specific values of the parameter which codify the presence
of the monopole.Comment: 22 pages, LaTex format, 5 figure
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