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Banded spatiotemporal chaos in sheared nematogenic fluids
We present the results of a numerical study of a model of the hydrodynamics
of a sheared nematogenic fluid, taking into account the effects of order
parameter stresses on the velocity profile, but allowing spatial variations
only in the gradient direction. When parameter values are such that the stress
from orientational distortions is comparable to the bare viscous stress, the
system exhibits steady states with the characteristics of shear banding. In
addition, nonlinearity in the coupling of extensional flow to orientation leads
to the appearance of a new steady state in which the features of both
spatiotemporal chaos and shear banding are present.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures.(Some of the figures have low resolution so as to
fit the requirements of arxiv.
Dual purpose optical instrument capable of simultaneously acting as spectrometer and diffractometer
A dual purpose optical instrument is described capable of simultaneously acting as a spectrometer and diffractometer to respectively perform elemental and structural analysis of an unknown sample. The diffractometer portion of the instrument employs a modified form of Seeman-Bohlin focusing which involves providing a line source of X-rays, a sample, and a detector, all on the same focal circle. The spectrometer portion of the instrument employs a fixedly mounted X-ray energy detector mounted outside of the plane of the focal circle
Potential inversion with subbarrier fusion data revisited
We invert experimental data for heavy-ion fusion reactions at energies well
below the Coulomb barrier in order to directly determine the internucleus
potential between the colliding nuclei. In contrast to the previous
applications of the inversion formula, we explicitly take into account the
effect of channel couplings on fusion reactions, by assuming that fusion cross
sections at deep subbarrier energies are governed by the lowest barrier in the
barrier distribution. We apply this procedure to the O +Sm and
O +Pb reactions, and find that the inverted internucleus
potential are much thicker than phenomenological potentials. A relation to the
steep fall-off phenomenon of fusion cross sections recently found at deep
subbarrier energies is also discussed.Comment: 5 pages, 3 eps figure
Probing surface diffuseness of nucleus-nucleus potential with quasielastic scattering at deep sub-barrier energies
We perform a systematic study on the surface property of nucleus-nucleus
potential in heavy-ion reactions using large-angle quasielastic scattering at
energies well below the Coulomb barrier. At these energies, the quasielastic
scattering can be well described by a single-channel potential model.
Exploiting this fact, we point out that systems which involve spherical nuclei
require the diffuseness parameter of around 0.60 fm in order to fit the
experimental data, while systems with a deformed target between 0.8 fm and 1.1
fm.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figure
Dilaton Brane Cosmology with Second Order String Corrections and the Cosmological Constant
We consider, in five dimensions, the effective action from heterotic string
which includes quantum gravity corrections up to (a')^2. The expansion, in the
string frame, is in terms of |a'R|, where R is the scalar curvature and uses
the third order Euler density, next to the Gauss-Bonnet term. For a positive
tension brane and infinite extra dimension, the logarithmic class of solutions
is less dependent from fine-tuning problems than in previous formulations. More
importantly, the model suggests that in the full non-perturbative formulation,
the string scale can be much lower than the effective Planck mass, without the
string coupling to be vanishingly small. Also a less severe fine-tuning of the
brane tension in needed.Comment: 19 pages, 5 figures LaTeX. Accepted for publication in IJMP
Electronic Structure of the Chevrel-Phase Compounds SnMoSe: Photoemission Spectroscopy and Band-structure Calculations
We have studied the electronic structure of two Chevrel-phase compounds,
MoSe and SnMoSe, by combining photoemission
spectroscopy and band-structure calculations. Core-level spectra taken with
x-ray photoemission spectroscopy show systematic core-level shifts, which do
not obey a simple rigid-band model. The inverse photoemission spectra imply the
existence of an energy gap located eV above the Fermi level, which is
a characteristic feature of the electronic structure of the Chevrel compounds.
Quantitative comparison between the photoemission spectra and the
band-structure calculations have been made. While good agreement between theory
and experiment in the wide energy range was obtained as already reported in
previous studies, we found that the high density of states near the Fermi level
predicted theoretically due to the Van Hove singularity is considerably reduced
in the experimental spectra taken with higher energy resolution than in the
previous reports. Possible origins are proposed to explain this observation.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure
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