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Fast inactivation in Shaker K+ channels. Properties of ionic and gating currents.
Fast inactivating Shaker H4 potassium channels and nonconducting pore mutant Shaker H4 W434F channels have been used to correlate the installation and recovery of the fast inactivation of ionic current with changes in the kinetics of gating current known as "charge immobilization" (Armstrong, C.M., and F. Bezanilla. 1977. J. Gen. Physiol. 70:567-590.). Shaker H4 W434F gating currents are very similar to those of the conducting clone recorded in potassium-free solutions. This mutant channel allows the recording of the total gating charge return, even when returning from potentials that would largely inactivate conducting channels. As the depolarizing potential increased, the OFF gating currents decay phase at -90 mV return potential changed from a single fast component to at least two components, the slower requiring approximately 200 ms for a full charge return. The charge immobilization onset and the ionic current decay have an identical time course. The recoveries of gating current (Shaker H4 W434F) and ionic current (Shaker H4) in 2 mM external potassium have at least two components. Both recoveries are similar at -120 and -90 mV. In contrast, at higher potentials (-70 and -50 mV), the gating charge recovers significantly more slowly than the ionic current. A model with a single inactivated state cannot account for all our data, which strongly support the existence of "parallel" inactivated states. In this model, a fraction of the charge can be recovered upon repolarization while the channel pore is occupied by the NH2-terminus region
High current operation of pre-bunching cavities in the CT3 accelerator
CDROM (JACoW)In the framework of the CLIC studies for a 3 TeV centre of mass linear collider the CLIC Test Facility-3 accelerator (CTF3) is developed to validate the novel concept of CLIC drive beam generation. The front end of the CTF3 linac uses a 140 kV thermionic gun capable to deliver a beam with currents of up to 10 A during 1.5 microseconds. TheÉ time structure of this beam is generated with two standing wave single-cell 3 GHz pre-buncher cavities. The high current demands special care in the design of the pre-bunchers to preserve beam quality and transmission. A particular concern was beamloading in the second pre-buncher. In this paper, the design and the conditioning of the pre-bunchers are reported but the main focus is on the commissioning with the electron beam, which showed unexpected results. Indeed, contrary to our expectations, the unbunched beam seems to induce a kind of beamloading in the first pre-buncher while the second one shows none
Scattering by a toroidal coil
In this paper we consider the Schr\"odinger operator in with
a long-range magnetic potential associated to a magnetic field supported inside
a torus . Using the scheme of smooth perturbations we construct
stationary modified wave operators and the corresponding scattering matrix
. We prove that the essential spectrum of is an
interval of the unit circle depending only on the magnetic flux across
the section of . Additionally we show that, in contrast to the
Aharonov-Bohm potential in , the total scattering cross-section
is always finite. We also conjecture that the case treated here is a typical
example in dimension 3.Comment: LaTeX2e 17 pages, 1 figur
Trionic and quartetting phases in one-dimensional multicomponent ultracold fermions
We investigate the possible formation of a molecular condensate, which might
be, for instance, the analogue of the alpha condensate of nuclear physics, in
the context of multicomponent cold atoms fermionic systems. A simple
paradigmatic model of N-component fermions with contact interactions loaded
into a one-dimensional optical lattice is studied by means of low-energy and
numerical approaches. For attractive interaction, a quasi-long-range molecular
superfluid phase, formed from bound-states made of N fermions, emerges at low
density. We show that trionic and quartetting phases, respectively for N=3,4,
extend in a large domain of the phase diagram and are robust against small
symmetry-breaking perturbations.Comment: Contribution to the SOTANCP 2008 worksho
Equilibrium onions?
We demonstrate the possibility of a stable equilibrium multi-lamellar ("onion") phase in pure lamellar systems (no excess solvent) due to a sufficiently negative Gaussian curvature modulus. The onion phase is stabilized by non-linear elastic moduli coupled to a polydisperse size distribution (Apollonian packing) to allow space-filling without appreciable elastic distortion. This model is compared to experiments on copolymer-decorated lamellar surfactant systems, with reasonable qualitative agreement
Diamagnetism of doped two-leg ladders and probing the nature of their commensurate phases
We study the magnetic orbital effect of a doped two-leg ladder in the
presence of a magnetic field component perpendicular to the ladder plane.
Combining both low-energy approach (bosonization) and numerical simulations
(density-matrix renormalization group) on the strong coupling limit (t-J
model), a rich phase diagram is established as a function of hole doping and
magnetic flux. Above a critical flux, the spin gap is destroyed and a Luttinger
liquid phase is stabilized. Above a second critical flux, a reentrance of the
spin gap at high magnetic flux is found. Interestingly, the phase transitions
are associated with a change of sign of the orbital susceptibility. Focusing on
the small magnetic field regime, the spin-gapped superconducting phase is
robust but immediately acquires algebraic transverse (i.e. along rungs) current
correlations which are commensurate with the 4k_F density correlations. In
addition, we have computed the zero-field orbital susceptibility for a large
range of doping and interactions ratio J/t : we found strong anomalies at low
J/t only in the vicinity of the commensurate fillings corresponding to delta =
1/4 and 1/2. Furthermore, the behavior of the orbital susceptibility reveals
that the nature of these insulating phases is different: while for delta = 1/4
a 4k_F charge density wave is confirmed, the delta = 1/2 phase is shown to be a
bond order wave.Comment: 15 pages, 17 figure
Zeeman effect in superconducting two-leg ladders: irrational magnetization plateaus and exceeding the Pauli limit
The effect of a parallel magnetic field on superconducting two-leg ladders is
investigated numerically. The magnetization curve displays an irrational
plateau at a magnetization equal to the hole density. Remarkably, its stability
is fundamentally connected to the existence of a well-known magnetic resonant
mode. Once the zero-field spin gap is suppressed by the field, pairs acquire a
finite momentum characteristic of a Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov phase. In
addition, S^z=0 triplet superconducting correlations coexist with singlet ones
above the irrational plateau. This provides a simple mechanism in which the
Pauli limit is exceeded as suggested by recent experiments.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figure
Random manifolds in non-linear resistor networks: Applications to varistors and superconductors
We show that current localization in polycrystalline varistors occurs on
paths which are, usually, in the universality class of the directed polymer in
a random medium. We also show that in ceramic superconductors, voltage
localizes on a surface which maps to an Ising domain wall. The emergence of
these manifolds is explained and their structure is illustrated using direct
solution of non-linear resistor networks
A Framework for JAVA applications programs in the CERN PS control system
The user interface for a system controlling 5 inter-connected accelerators is composed of a large number of windows organized in a tree structure of application programs with a console manager at the top. All programs run in a single Java Virtual Machine (JVM) without interfering with each other. The windows show accelerator data and interaction widgets. A framework has been built to design these windows and make them interact and cooperate with a minimum of effort from the programmers. A project manager controls the life cycle of the programs, including use of templates and CVS [3]. Program development and execution can be done on both the Microsoft Windows and Linux platforms through files that are visible to both systems
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