19 research outputs found
Green functions for generalized point interactions in 1D: A scattering approach
Recently, general point interactions in one dimension has been used to model
a large number of different phenomena in quantum mechanics. Such potentials,
however, requires some sort of regularization to lead to meaningful results.
The usual ways to do so rely on technicalities which may hide important
physical aspects of the problem. In this work we present a new method to
calculate the exact Green functions for general point interactions in 1D. Our
approach differs from previous ones because it is based only on physical
quantities, namely, the scattering coefficients, and , to construct .
Renormalization or particular mathematical prescriptions are not invoked. The
simple formulation of the method makes it easy to extend to more general
contexts, such as for lattices of general point interactions; on a line; on
a half-line; under periodic boundary conditions; and confined in a box.Comment: Revtex, 9 pages, 3 EPS figures. To be published in PR
Bound Chains of Tilted Dipoles in Layered Systems
Ultracold polar molecules in multilayered systems have been experimentally
realized very recently. While experiments study these systems almost
exclusively through their chemical reactivity, the outlook for creating and
manipulating exotic few- and many-body physics in dipolar systems is
fascinating. Here we concentrate on few-body states in a multilayered setup. We
exploit the geometry of the interlayer potential to calculate the two- and
three-body chains with one molecule in each layer. The focus is on dipoles that
are aligned at some angle with respect to the layer planes by means of an
external eletric field. The binding energy and the spatial structure of the
bound states are studied in several different ways using analytical approaches.
The results are compared to stochastic variational calculations and very good
agreement is found. We conclude that approximations based on harmonic
oscillator potentials are accurate even for tilted dipoles when the geometry of
the potential landscape is taken into account.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to Few-body Systems special issue on
Critical Stability, revised versio
On Aharonov-Casher bound states
In this work bound states for the Aharonov-Casher problem are considered.
According to Hagen's work on the exact equivalence between spin-1/2
Aharonov-Bohm and Aharonov-Casher effects, is known that the
term cannot be neglected in the
Hamiltonian if the spin of particle is considered. This term leads to the
existence of a singular potential at the origin. By modeling the problem by
boundary conditions at the origin which arises by the self-adjoint extension of
the Hamiltonian, we derive for the first time an expression for the bound state
energy of the Aharonov-Casher problem. As an application, we consider the
Aharonov-Casher plus a two-dimensional harmonic oscillator. We derive the
expression for the harmonic oscillator energies and compare it with the
expression obtained in the case without singularity. At the end, an approach
for determination of the self-adjoint extension parameter is given. In our
approach, the parameter is obtained essentially in terms of physics of the
problem.Comment: 11 pages, matches published versio
Uma nota sobre sistemas não-holonômicos
This note describes a question that deals with nonholonomic systems, a subject that has been gradually fading away from textbooks and even treated somewhat incorrectly as holonomic.Esta nota descreve uma questão sobre sistemas nao-holonômicos, um assunto que tem desaparecido de livros-texto e que ate mesmo tem sido tratado incorretamente como holonômico
Situações não usuais originadas da função delta de Dirac e da sua derivada
There is a situation such that, when a function ƒ(<img src="/img/revistas/rbef/v31n4/a04x.gif" align="absmiddle">) is combined with the Dirac delta function δ(<img src="/img/revistas/rbef/v31n4/a04x.gif" align="absmiddle">), the usual formula <img src="/img/revistas/rbef/v31n4/a04form01.gif" align="absmiddle">does not hold. A similar situation may also be encountered with the derivative of the delta function δ'(<img src="/img/revistas/rbef/v31n4/a04x.gif" align="absmiddle">), regarding the validity of <img src="/img/revistas/rbef/v31n4/a04form02.gif" align="absmiddle">. We present an overview of such unusual situations and elucidate their underlying mechanisms. We discuss implications of the situations regarding the transmission-reflection problem of one-dimensional quantum mechanics.Existe uma situação tal que quando uma função ƒ(<img src="/img/revistas/rbef/v31n4/a04x.gif" align="absmiddle">) é combinada com a função delta de Dirac, δ(<img src="/img/revistas/rbef/v31n4/a04x.gif" align="absmiddle">), a formula usual <img src="/img/revistas/rbef/v31n4/a04form01.gif" align="absmiddle"> deixa de ser válida. Uma situação similar pode ocorrer com a derivada da função delta, δ'(<img src="/img/revistas/rbef/v31n4/a04x.gif" align="absmiddle">), com relação à formula <img src="/img/revistas/rbef/v31n4/a04form02.gif" align="absmiddle">. Nós apresentamos um apanhado destas situaçãoes não usuais e elucidamos os mecanismos por detrás delas. Nós discutimos as implicações destas situaçãoes em relação ao problema de tranmissão-reflexão em mecânica quântica uni-dimensional
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10.1017/S0950268810000026Epidemiology and Infection1387959-96
Robust taxonomic classification of uncharted microbial sequences and bins with CAT and BAT
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Modelling dengue epidemics with autoregressive switching Markov models (AR-HMM) ⋆
Abstract. In this work, autoregressive switching-Markov models (AR-HMM) are applied to the dengue fever epidemics (DF) in La Havana (Cuba). This technique allows to model time series which are controlled by some unobserved process and finite time lags. A first experiment with real data of dengue is performed in order to obtain the characterization of different stages of the epidemics. The aim of this work is to present a method which can give valuable information about how an efficient control strategy can be performed.