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Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensate under Rotation
We examine the combined effects of Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling and
rotation on trapped spinor Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). Nature of single
particle states is thoroughly examined in the Landau level basis and is shown
to support the formation of half-quantum vortex. In the presence of weak s-wave
interactions, the ground state at strong SO coupling develops ring-like
structures with domains whose number shows step behavior with increasing
rotation. For fast rotation case, the vortex pattern favors triangular lattice,
accompanied by the density depletion in the central region and weakened
Skyrmionic character as the SO coupling is enhanced. Giant vortex formation is
facilitated when SO coupling and rotation are both strong.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in PR
Unbalanced edge modes and topological phase transition in gated trilayer graphene
Gapless edge modes hosted by chirally-stacked trilayer graphene display
unique features when a bulk gap is opened by applying an interlayer potential
difference. We show that trilayer graphene with half-integer valley Hall
conductivity leads to unbalanced edge modes at opposite zigzag boundaries,
resulting in a natural valley current polarizer. This unusual characteristic is
preserved in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling that turns a gated
trilayer graphene into a topological insulator with an odd number of
helical edge mode pairs.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Valley-Hall Kink and Edge States in Multilayer Graphene
We report on a theoretical study of one-dimensional (1D) states localized at
few-layer graphene system ribbon edges, and at interfaces between few-layer
graphene systems with different valley Hall conductivities. These 1D states are
topologically protected when valley mixing is neglected. We address the
influence on their properties of stacking arrangement, interface structure, and
external electric field perpendicular to the layers. We find that 1D states are
generally absent at multilayer ribbon armchair direction edges, but present
irrespective of crystallographic orientation at any internal valley-Hall
interface of an ABC stacked multilayer.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Dynamical Exchanges in Facilitated Models of Supercooled liquids
We investigate statistics of dynamical exchange events in coarse--grained
models of supercooled liquids in spatial dimensions , 2, and 3. The
models, based upon the concept of dynamical facilitation, capture generic
features of statistics of exchange times and persistence times. Here,
distributions for both times are related, and calculated for cases of strong
and fragile glass formers over a range of temperatures. Exchange time
distributions are shown to be particularly sensitive to the model parameters
and dimensions, and exhibit more structured and richer behavior than
persistence time distributions. Mean exchange times are shown to be Arrhenius,
regardless of models and spatial dimensions. Specifically, , with being the excitation concentration. Different dynamical
exchange processes are identified and characterized from the underlying
trajectories. We discuss experimental possibilities to test some of our
theoretical findings.Comment: 11 pages, 14 figures, minor corrections made, paper published in
Journal of Chemical Physic
Classical Scattering for a driven inverted Gaussian potential in terms of the chaotic invariant set
We study the classical electron scattering from a driven inverted Gaussian
potential, an open system, in terms of its chaotic invariant set. This chaotic
invariant set is described by a ternary horseshoe construction on an
appropriate Poincare surface of section. We find the development parameters
that describe the hyperbolic component of the chaotic invariant set. In
addition, we show that the hierarchical structure of the fractal set of
singularities of the scattering functions is the same as the structure of the
chaotic invariant set. Finally, we construct a symbolic encoding of the
hierarchical structure of the set of singularities of the scattering functions
and use concepts from the thermodynamical formalism to obtain one of the
measures of chaos of the fractal set of singularities, the topological entropy.Comment: accepted in Phy. Rev.
Spectra and positions of galactic gamma-ray sources
The UCSD/MIT Hard X-Ray and Low Energy Gamma-Ray Experiment aboard HEAO-1 scanned the galactic center region during three epochs in 1977 and 1978 from 13 to 180 keV. The results are presented from the scanning epoch of 1978 September. Twenty-two known 2 to 10 keV source positions were necessary for an acceptable fit to the data. The spectra of the 16 strongest, least confused sources are all consistent with power laws with photon spectral indices ranging from 2.1 to 7.2. Acceptable fits to thermal bremsstrahlung models are also possible for most sources. No one source in this survey can be extrapolated to higher energy to match the intensity of the gamma-ray continuum as measured by HEAO-1 large field of view detectors, which implies that the continuum is a composite of contributions from a number of sources
Spectrum of the gamma-ray diffuse component observed from HEAO-1
The spectrum of the diffuse X and gamma ray background was measured between 15 keV and 4 MeV with the scintillation detectors aboard the HEAO 1 satellite. The apertures of the detectors were modulated on time scales of hours and the difference in counting rates measured the diffuse component flux. The observed spectrum is presented and compared with other measurements. At least two components are indicated, one below -100 keV and the other above. Possible origins are discussed
Reduced Fine-Tuning in Supersymmetry with R-parity violation
Both electroweak precision measurements and simple supersymmetric extensions
of the standard model prefer a mass of the Higgs boson less than the
experimental lower limit of 114 GeV. We show that supersymmetric models with R
parity violation and baryon number violation have a significant range of
parameter space in which the Higgs dominantly decays to six jets. These decays
are much more weakly constrained by current LEP analyses and would allow for a
Higgs mass near that of the . In general, lighter scalar quark and other
superpartner masses are allowed and the fine-tuning typically required to
generate the measured scale of electroweak symmetry breaking is ameliorated.
The Higgs would potentially be discovered at hadron colliders via the
appearance of new displaced vertices. The lightest neutralino could be
discovered by a scan of vertex-less events LEP I data.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures. Significant detail added to the arguments
regarding LEP limits - made more quantitative. Better figures used, plotting
more physical quantities. Typos corrected and references updated. Conclusions
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Flexible high-voltage supply for experimental electron microscope
Scanning microscope uses a field-emission tip for the electron source, an electron gun that simultaneously accelerates and focuses electrons from the source, and one auxiliary lens to produce a final probe size at the specimen on the order of angstroms
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