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Dissipative Effects on Quantum Sticking
Using variational mean-field theory, many-body dissipative effects on the
threshold law for quantum sticking and reflection of neutral and charged
particles are examined. For the case of an ohmic bosonic bath, we study the
effects of the infrared divergence on the probability of sticking and obtain a
non-perturbative expression for the sticking rate. We find that for weak
dissipative coupling , the low energy threshold laws for quantum
sticking are modified by an infrared singularity in the bath. The sticking
probability for a neutral particle with incident energy behaves
asymptotically as ; for a charged
particle, we obtain . Thus, "quantum
mirrors" --surfaces that become perfectly reflective to particles with incident
energies asymptotically approaching zero-- can also exist for charged
particles.Comment: 10 pages, 0 fig
Abradable compressor and turbine seals, volume 1
The application and advantages of abradable coatings as gas-path seals in a general aviation turbine engine were evaluated for use on the high-pressure compressor, the high-pressure turbine, and the low-pressure turbine shrouds. Topics covered include: (1) the initial selection of candidate materials for interim full-scale engine testing; (2) interim engine testing of the initially selected materials and additional candidate materials; (3) the design of the component required to adapt the hardware to permit full-scale engine testing of the most promising materials; (4) finalization of the fabrication methods used in the manufacture of engine test hardware; and (5) the manufacture of the hardware necessary to support the final full-scale engine tests
Abradable compressor and turbine seals, volume 2
The applications and advantages of abradable coatings as gas path seals in a general aviation turbofan engine were investigated. Abradable materials were evaluated for the high pressure radial compressor and the axial high and low pressure turbine shrouds
Quark-antiquark pair production in space-time dependent fields
Fermion-antifermion pair-production in the presence of classical fields is
described based on the retarded and advanced fermion propagators. They are
obtained by solving the equation of motion for the Dirac Green's functions with
the respective boundary conditions to all orders in the field. Subsequently,
various approximation schemes fit for different field configurations are
explained. This includes longitudinally boost-invariant forms. Those occur
frequently in the description of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions in the
semiclassical limit. As a next step, the gauge invariance of the expression for
the expectation value of the number of produced fermion-antifermion pairs as a
functional of said propagators is investigated in detail. Finally, the
calculations are carried out for a longitudinally boost-invariant model-field,
taking care of the last issue, especially.Comment: 32 pages, 8 figures, revised versio
Parton Production Via Vacuum Polarization
We discuss the production mechanism of partons via vacuum polarization during
the very early, gluon dominated phase of an ultrarelativistic heavy-ion
collision in the framework of the background field method of quantum
chromodynamics.Comment: 3 pages, Latex, 3 figures (eps), to be published in JPhysG, SQM2001
proceeding
Anharmonicity and self-energy effects of the E2g phonon in MgB2
We present a Raman scattering study of the E2g phonon anharmonicity and of
superconductivity induced self-energy effects in MgB2 single crystals. We show
that anharmonic two phonon decay is mainly responsible for the unusually large
linewidth of the E2g mode. We observe ~ 2.5 % hardening of the E2g phonon
frequency upon cooling into the superconducting state and estimate the
electron-phonon coupling strength associated with this renormalization.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted to PR
Slowly decaying classical fields, unitarity, and gauge invariance
In classical external gauge fields that fall off less fast than the inverse
of the evolution parameter (time) of the system the implementability of a
unitary perturbative scattering operator (-matrix) is not guaranteed,
although the field goes to zero. The importance of this point is exposed for
the counter-example of low-dimensionally expanding systems. The issues of gauge
invariance and of the interpretation of the evolution at intermediate times are
also intricately linked to that point.Comment: 8 pages, no figure
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