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Non-LTE spectral analyses of the lately discovered DB-gap white dwarfs from the SDSS
For a long time, no hydrogen-deficient white dwarfs have been known that have
effective temperature between 30 kK and < 45 kK, i.e. exceeding those of DB
white dwarfs and having lower ones than DO white dwarfs. Therefore, this
temperature range was long known as the DB-gap. Only recently, the SDSS
provided spectra of several candidate DB-gap stars. First analyses based on
model spectra calculated under the assumption of local thermodynamic
equilibrium (LTE) confirmed that these stars had 30 kK < Teff < 45 kK
(Eisenstein et al. 2006). It has been shown for DO white dwarfs that the
relaxation of LTE is necessary to account for non local effects in the
atmosphere caused by the intense radiation field. Therefore, we calculated a
non-LTE model grid and re-analysed the aforementioned set of SDSS spectra. Our
results confirm the existence of DB-gap white dwarfs.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in: Proceedings of the 16th European
Workshop on White Dwarf
Hellman-Feynman operator sampling in Diffusion Monte Carlo calculations
Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) calculations typically yield highly accurate
results in solid-state and quantum-chemical calculations. However, operators
that do not commute with the Hamiltonian are at best sampled correctly up to
second order in the error of the underlying trial wavefunction, once simple
corrections have been applied. This error is of the same order as that for the
energy in variational calculations. Operators that suffer from these problems
include potential energies and the density. This paper presents a new method,
based on the Hellman-Feynman theorem, for the correct DMC sampling of all
operators diagonal in real space. Our method is easy to implement in any
standard DMC code
Quantum Monte Carlo modelling of the spherically averaged structure factor of a many-electron system
The interaction and exchange-correlation contributions to the ground-state
energy of an arbitrary many-electron system can be obtained from a spherical
average of the wavevector-dependent diagonal structure factor (SF). We model
the continuous-k spherically averaged SF using quantum Monte Carlo calculations
in finite simulation cells. We thus derive a method that allows to
substantially reduce the troublesome Coulomb finite-size errors that are
usually present in ground-state energy calculations. To demonstrate this, we
perform variational Monte Carlo calculations of the interaction energy of the
homogeneous electron gas. The method is, however, equally applicable to
arbitrary inhomogeneous systems.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Interaction-Induced Spin Polarization in Quantum Dots
The electronic states of lateral many electron quantum dots in high magnetic
fields are analyzed in terms of energy and spin. In a regime with two Landau
levels in the dot, several Coulomb blockade peaks are measured. A zig-zag
pattern is found as it is known from the Fock-Darwin spectrum. However, only
data from Landau level 0 show the typical spin-induced bimodality, whereas
features from Landau level 1 cannot be explained with the Fock-Darwin picture.
Instead, by including the interaction effects within spin-density-functional
theory a good agreement between experiment and theory is obtained. The absence
of bimodality on Landau level 1 is found to be due to strong spin polarization.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Time-dependent Internal DFT formalism and Kohn-Sham scheme
We generalize to the time-dependent case the stationary Internal DFT /
Kohn-Sham formalism presented in Ref. [14]. We prove that, in the
time-dependent case, the internal properties of a self-bound system (as an
atomic nuclei) are all defined by the internal one-body density and the initial
state. We set-up a time-dependent Internal Kohn-Sham scheme as a practical way
to compute the internal density. The main difference with the traditional DFT /
Kohn-Sham formalism is the inclusion of the center-of-mass correlations in the
functional.Comment: 13 pages. To be published in Phys. Rev.
Metal abundances in PG1159 stars from Chandra and FUSE spectroscopy
We investigate FUSE spectra of three PG1159 stars and do not find any
evidence for iron lines. From a comparison with NLTE models we conclude a
deficiency of 1-1.5 dex. We speculate that iron was transformed into heavier
elements. A soft X-ray Chandra spectrum of the unique H- and He-deficient star
H1504+65 is analyzed. We find high neon and magnesium abundances and confirm
that H1504+65 is the bare core of either a C-O or a O-Ne-Mg white dwarf.Comment: To be published in: Proceedings 13th European Workshop on White
Dwarfs, NATO Science Series, 4 pages, 1 figur
Spectral Analyses of DO White Dwarfs and PG1159 Stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
SDSS (DR1 and DR2) has recently proposed 7 new DO white dwarfs as well as 6
new PG1159 stars. This is a significant increase in the known number of DOs and
PG1159 stars. Our spectral analyses provide stellar parameters which can then
be used to derive constraints for the evolution of H-deficient white dwarfs. A
comprehensive understanding of these objects is still severely hampered by
low-number statistics.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, requires asp2004.sty, to appear in the
proceedings of the 14th European Workshop on White Dwarfs, eds. D. Koester
and S. Moehler, ASP Conf. Se
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