730 research outputs found
Integro-differential diffusion equation for continuous time random walk
In this paper we present an integro-differential diffusion equation for
continuous time random walk that is valid for a generic waiting time
probability density function. Using this equation we also study diffusion
behaviors for a couple of specific waiting time probability density functions
such as exponential, and a combination of power law and generalized
Mittag-Leffler function. We show that for the case of the exponential waiting
time probability density function a normal diffusion is generated and the
probability density function is Gaussian distribution. In the case of the
combination of a power-law and generalized Mittag-Leffler waiting probability
density function we obtain the subdiffusive behavior for all the time regions
from small to large times, and probability density function is non-Gaussian
distribution.Comment: 12 page
Narrative coherence in multiple forensic interviews with child witnesses alleging physical and sexual abuse
This study investigated the narrative coherence of children's accounts elicited in multiple forensic interviews. Transcriptions of 56 police interviews with 28 children aged 3–14 years alleging physical and sexual abuse were coded for markers of completeness, consistency and connectedness. We found that multiple interviews increased the completeness of children's testimony, containing on average almost twice as much new information as single interviews, including crucial location, time and abuse‐related details. When both contradictions within the same interview and across interviews were considered, contradictions were not more frequent in multiple interviews. The frequency of linguistic markers of connectedness remained stable across interviews. Multiple interviews increase the narrative coherence of children's testimony through increasing their completeness without necessarily introducing contradictions or decreasing causal‐temporal connections between details. However, as ‘ground truth’ is not known in field studies, further investigation of the relationship between the narrative coherence and accuracy of testimonies is required
Complementarity in generic open quantum systems
We develop a unified, information theoretic interpretation of the
number-phase complementarity that is applicable both to finite-dimensional
(atomic) and infinite-dimensional (oscillator) systems, with number treated as
a discrete Hermitian observable and phase as a continuous positive operator
valued measure (POVM). The relevant uncertainty principle is obtained as a
lower bound on {\it entropy excess}, , the difference between the entropy of
one variable, typically the number, and the knowledge of its complementary
variable, typically the phase, where knowledge of a variable is defined as its
relative entropy with respect to the uniform distribution. In the case of
finite dimensional systems, a weighting of phase knowledge by a factor
() is necessary in order to make the bound tight, essentially on account
of the POVM nature of phase as defined here. Numerical and analytical evidence
suggests that tends to 1 as system dimension becomes infinite. We study
the effect of non-dissipative and dissipative noise on these complementary
variables for oscillator as well as atomic systems.Comment: 18 pages, 15 figures; accepted for publication in Modern Physics
Letters
Counting statistics of tunneling through a single molecule: effect of distortion and displacement of vibrational potential surface
We analyze the effects of a distortion of the nuclear potential of a
molecular quantum dot (QD), as well as a shift of its equilibrium position, on
nonequilibrium-vibration-assisted tunneling through the QD with a single level
() coupled to the vibrational mode. For this purpose, we derive an
explicit analytical expression for the Franck-Condon (FC) factor for a
displaced-distorted oscillator surface of the molecule and establish rate
equations in the joint electron-phonon representation to examine the
current-voltage characteristics and zero-frequency shot noise, and skewness as
well. Our numerical analyses shows that the distortion has two important
effects. The first one is that it breaks the symmetry between the excitation
spectra of the charge states, leading to asymmetric tunneling properties with
respect to and . Secondly, distortion (frequency
change of the oscillator) significantly changes the voltage-activated cascaded
transition mechanism, and consequently gives rise to a different nonequilibrium
vibrational distribution from that of the case without distortion. Taken in
conjunction with strongly modified FC factors due to distortion, this results
in some new transport features: the appearance of strong NDC even for a
single-level QD with symmetric tunnel couplings; a giant Fano factor even for a
molecule with an extremely weak electron-phonon interaction; and enhanced
skewness that can have a large negative value under certain conditions.Comment: 29 pages, 11 figures, published versio
Brownian Motion and Polymer Statistics on Certain Curved Manifolds
We have calculated the probability distribution function G(R,L|R',0) of the
end-to-end vector R-R' and the mean-square end-to-end distance (R-R')^2 of a
Gaussian polymer chain embedded on a sphere S^(D-1) in D dimensions and on a
cylinder, a cone and a curved torus in 3-D.
We showed that: surface curvature induces a geometrical localization area; at
short length the polymer is locally "flat" and (R-R')^2 = L l in all cases; at
large scales, (R-R')^2 is constant for the sphere, it is linear in L for the
cylinder and reaches different constant values for the torus. The cone vertex
induces (function of opening angle and R') contraction of the chain for all
lengths. Explicit crossover formulas are derived.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures, RevTex, uses amssymb.sty and multicol.sty, to
appear in Phys. Rev
Static interactions and stability of matter in Rindler space
Dynamical issues associated with quantum fields in Rindler space are
addressed in a study of the interaction between two sources at rest generated
by the exchange of scalar particles, photons and gravitons. These static
interaction energies in Rindler space are shown to be scale invariant, complex
quantities. The imaginary part will be seen to have its quantum mechanical
origin in the presence of an infinity of zero modes in uniformly accelerated
frames which in turn are related to the radiation observed in inertial frames.
The impact of a uniform acceleration on the stability of matter and the
properties of particles is discussed and estimates are presented of the
instability of hydrogen atoms when approaching the horizon.Comment: 28 pages, 4 figure
Spectra and Symmetry in Nuclear Pairing
We apply the algebraic Bethe ansatz technique to the nuclear pairing problem
with orbit dependent coupling constants and degenerate single particle energy
levels. We find the exact energies and eigenstates. We show that for a given
shell, there are degeneracies between the states corresponding to less and more
than half full shell. We also provide a technique to solve the equations of
Bethe ansatz.Comment: 15 pages of REVTEX with 2 eps figure
The decay b -> s g at NLL in the Standard Model
I present the Standard Model calculation of the decay rate for b -> s g (g
denotes a gluon) at next-to-leading logarithms (NLL). In order to get a
meaningful physical result, the decay b -> s g g and certain contributions of b
-> s \bar{f} f (where f are the light quark flavours u, d and s) have to be
included as well. Numerically we get BR^(NLL) = (5.0 +/- 1.0) * 10^{-3} which
is more than a factor 2 larger than the leading logarithmic result BR^(LL) =
(2.2 +/- 0.8) * 10^{-3}. Further, I consider the impact of this contribution on
the charmless hadronic branching ratio BRc, which could be used to extract the
CKM-ratio |V_(ub)/V_(cb)| with more accuracy. Finally, I have a short look at
BRc in scenarios where the Wilson coefficient C_8 is enhanced by new physics.Comment: 7 pages including 5 postscript figures; uses epsfi
Infrared renormalons and single meson production in proton-proton collisions
In this article, we investigate the contribution of the higher twist Feynman
diagrams to the large- inclusive pion production cross section in
proton-proton collisions and present the general formulae for the higher twist
differential cross sections in the case of the running coupling and frozen
coupling approaches. The structure of infrared renormalon singularities of the
higher twist subprocess cross section and the resummed expression (the Borel
sum) for it are found. We compared the resummed higher twist cross sections
with the ones obtained in the framework of the frozen coupling approximation
and leading twist cross section. We obtain, that ratio for all values of
the transverse momentum of the pion identical equivalent to ratio .
It is shown that the resummed result depends on the choice of the meson wave
functions used in calculation. Phenomenological effects of the obtained results
are discussed.Comment: 28 pages, 13 figure
Acausality in Gowdy spacetimes
We present a parametrization of and Gowdy cosmological
models which allows us to study both types of topologies simultaneously. We
show that there exists a coordinate system in which the general solution of the
linear polarized special case (with both topologies) has exactly the same
functional dependence. This unified parametrization is used to investigate the
existence of Cauchy horizons at the cosmological singularities, leading to a
violation of the strong cosmic censorship conjecture. Our results indicate that
the only acausal spacetimes are described by the Kantowski-Sachs and the
Kerr-Gowdy metrics.Comment: Typos corrected, 10 pages. Dedicated to Michael P. Ryan on the
occasion of his 60-th birthda
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