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Phase diagram at finite temperature and quark density in the strong coupling limit of lattice QCD for color SU(3)
We study the phase diagram of quark matter at finite temperature (T) and
finite chemical potential (mu) in the strong coupling limit of lattice QCD for
color SU(3). We derive an analytical expression of the effective free energy as
a function of T and mu, including baryon effects. The finite temperature
effects are evaluated by integrating over the temporal link variable exactly in
the Polyakov gauge with anti-periodic boundary condition for fermions. The
obtained phase diagram shows the first order phase transition at low
temperatures and the second order phase transition at high temperatures
separated by the tri-critical point in the chiral limit. Baryon has effects to
reduce the effective free energy and to extend the hadron phase to a larger mu
direction at low temperatures.Comment: 18 pages, 10 figure
An accretion model for the growth of the central black hole associated with ionization instability in quasars
A possible accretion model associated with the ionization instability of
quasar disks is proposed to address the growth of the central black hole
harbored in the host galaxy.The mass ratio between black hole and its host
galactic bulge is a nature consequence of our model.Comment: submitted to ApJ, 15 page
Isothermal Shock Formation in Non-Equatorial Accretion Flows around Kerr Black Holes
We explore isothermal shock formation in non-equatorial, adiabatic accretion
flows onto a rotating black hole, with possible application to some active
galactic nuclei (AGNs). The isothermal shock jump conditions as well as the
regularity condition, previously developed for one-dimensional (1D) flows in
the equatorial plane, are extended to two-dimensional (2D), non-equatorial
flows, to explore possible geometrical effects. The basic hydrodynamic
equations with these conditions are self-consistently solved in the context of
general relativity to explore the formation of stable isothermal shocks. We
find that strong shocks are formed in various locations above the equatorial
plane, especially around a rapidly-rotating black hole with the prograde flows
(rather than a Schwarzschild black hole). The retrograde flows are generally
found to develop weaker shocks. The energy dissipation across the shock in the
hot non-equatorial flows above the cooler accretion disk may offer an
attractive illuminating source for the reprocessed features, such as the iron
fluorescence lines, which are often observed in some AGNs.Comment: 22 pages with 11 figures, presented at 5th international conference
on high energy density laboratory astrophysics in Tucson, Arizona. accepted
to Ap
Effects of Uniaxial Stress on Antiferromagnetic Moment in the Heavy Electron Compound URu_2Si_2
We have performed the elastic neutron scattering experiments under uniaxial
stress \sigma along the tetragonal [100], [110] and [001] directions for
URu2Si2. For \sigma // [100] and [110], the antiferromagnetic moment \mu_o is
strongly enhanced from 0.02 \mu_B (\sigma=0) to 0.22 \mu_B (\sigma=2.5 kbar) at
1.5 K. The rate of increase d\mu_o/d\sigma is roughly estimated to be ~ 0.1
\mu_B/kbar, which is much larger than that for the hydrostatic pressure (~
0.025 \mu_B/kbar). Above 2.5 kbar, \mu_o shows a tendency to saturate similar
to the behavior in the hydrostatic pressure. For \sigma // [001], on the other
hand, \mu_o shows only a slight increase to 0.028 \mu_B (\sigma = 4.6 kbar)
with a rate of ~ 0.002 \mu_B/kbar. The observed anisotropy suggests that the
competition between the hidden order and the antiferromagnetic state in URu2Si2
is strongly coupled with the tetragonal four-fold symmetry and the c/a ratio,
or both.Comment: 3 pages, 3 eps figures, Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Strongly
Correlated Electrons with Orbital Degrees of Freedom (Sendai, Japan,
September 11-14, 2001
Anisotropic multi-gap superfluid states in nuclear matter
It is shown that under changing density or temperature a nucleon Fermi
superfluid can undergo a phase transition to an anisotropic superfluid state,
characterized by nonvanishing gaps in pairing channels with singlet-singlet
(SS) and triplet-singlet (TS) pairing of nucleons (in spin and isospin spaces).
In the SS pairing channel nucleons are paired with nonzero orbital angular
momentum. Such two-gap states can arise as a result of branching from the
one-gap solution of the self-consistent equations, describing SS or TS pairing
of nucleons, that depends on the relationship between SS and TS coupling
constants at the branching point. The density/temperature dependence of the
order parameters and the critical temperature for transition to the anisotropic
two-gap state are determined in a model with the SkP effective interaction. It
is shown that the anisotropic SS-TS superfluid phase corresponds to a
metastable state in nuclear matter.Comment: Prepared with RevTeX4, 7p., 5 fi
Transition Between Ground State and Metastable States in Classical 2D Atoms
Structural and static properties of a classical two-dimensional (2D) system
consisting of a finite number of charged particles which are laterally confined
by a parabolic potential are investigated by Monte Carlo (MC) simulations and
the Newton optimization technique. This system is the classical analog of the
well-known quantum dot problem. The energies and configurations of the ground
and all metastable states are obtained. In order to investigate the barriers
and the transitions between the ground and all metastable states we first
locate the saddle points between them, then by walking downhill from the saddle
point to the different minima, we find the path in configurational space from
the ground state to the metastable states, from which the geometric properties
of the energy landscape are obtained. The sensitivity of the ground-state
configuration on the functional form of the inter-particle interaction and on
the confinement potential is also investigated
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