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Q-stars and charged q-stars
We present the formalism of q-stars with local or global U(1) symmetry. The
equations we formulate are solved numerically and provide the main features of
the soliton star. We study its behavior when the symmetry is local in contrast
to the global case. A general result is that the soliton remains stable and
does not decay into free particles and the electrostatic repulsion preserves it
from gravitational collapse. We also investigate the case of a q-star with
non-minimal energy-momentum tensor and find that the soliton is stable even in
some cases of collapse when the coupling to gravity is absent.Comment: Latex, 19pg, 12 figures. Accepted in Phys. Rev.
Spectral Boundary of Positive Random Potential in a Strong Magnetic Field
We consider the problem of randomly distributed positive delta-function
scatterers in a strong magnetic field and study the behavior of density of
states close to the spectral boundary at in both two and
three dimensions. Starting from dimensionally reduced expression of Brezin et
al. and using the semiclassical approximation we show that the density of
states in the Lifshitz tail at small energies is proportio- nal to in
two dimensions and to in three
dimensions, where is the energy and is the density of scatterers in
natural units.Comment: 12 pages, LaTex, 5 figures available upon request, to appear in Phys.
Rev.
The Importance of DNA Repair in Tumor Suppression
The transition from a normal to cancerous cell requires a number of highly
specific mutations that affect cell cycle regulation, apoptosis,
differentiation, and many other cell functions. One hallmark of cancerous
genomes is genomic instability, with mutation rates far greater than those of
normal cells. In microsatellite instability (MIN tumors), these are often
caused by damage to mismatch repair genes, allowing further mutation of the
genome and tumor progression. These mutation rates may lie near the error
catastrophe found in the quasispecies model of adaptive RNA genomes, suggesting
that further increasing mutation rates will destroy cancerous genomes. However,
recent results have demonstrated that DNA genomes exhibit an error threshold at
mutation rates far lower than their conservative counterparts. Furthermore,
while the maximum viable mutation rate in conservative systems increases
indefinitely with increasing master sequence fitness, the semiconservative
threshold plateaus at a relatively low value. This implies a paradox, wherein
inaccessible mutation rates are found in viable tumor cells. In this paper, we
address this paradox, demonstrating an isomorphism between the conservatively
replicating (RNA) quasispecies model and the semiconservative (DNA) model with
post-methylation DNA repair mechanisms impaired. Thus, as DNA repair becomes
inactivated, the maximum viable mutation rate increases smoothly to that of a
conservatively replicating system on a transformed landscape, with an upper
bound that is dependent on replication rates. We postulate that inactivation of
post-methylation repair mechanisms are fundamental to the progression of a
tumor cell and hence these mechanisms act as a method for prevention and
destruction of cancerous genomes.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures; Approximation replaced with exact calculation;
Minor error corrected; Minor changes to model syste
In-medium Yang-Mills equations: a derivation and canonical quantization
The equations for Yang-Mills field in a medium are derived in a linear
approximation with respect to the gauge coupling parameter and the external
field. The obtained equations closely resemble the macroscopic Maxwell
equations. A canonical quantization is performed for a family of Fermi-like
gauges in the case of constant and diagonal (in the group indices) tensors of
electric permittivity and magnetic permeability. The physical subspace is
defined and the gauge field propagator is evaluated for a particular choice of
the gauge. The propagator is applied for evaluation of the cross-section of
ellastic quark scattering in the Born approximation. Possible applications to
Cherenkov-type gluon radiation are commented briefly.Comment: 27 pages, references added, version extended with emphasis on
non-Abelian gauge group impact on medium characteristics. To appear in J.
Phys.
Superradiance from an ultrathin film of three-level V-type atoms: Interplay between splitting, quantum coherence and local-field effects
We carry out a theoretical study of the collective spontaneous emission
(superradiance) from an ultrathin film comprised of three-level atoms with
-configuration of the operating transitions. As the thickness of the system
is small compared to the emission wavelength inside the film, the local-field
correction to the averaged Maxwell field is relevant. We show that the
interplay between the low-frequency quantum coherence within the subspace of
the upper doublet states and the local-field correction may drastically affect
the branching ratio of the operating transitions. This effect may be used for
controlling the emission process by varying the doublet splitting and the
amount of low-frequency coherence.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figure
Bogomol'nyi Equations of Maxwell-Chern-Simons vortices from a generalized Abelian Higgs Model
We consider a generalization of the abelian Higgs model with a Chern-Simons
term by modifying two terms of the usual Lagrangian. We multiply a dielectric
function with the Maxwell kinetic energy term and incorporate nonminimal
interaction by considering generalized covariant derivative. We show that for a
particular choice of the dielectric function this model admits both topological
as well as nontopological charged vortices satisfying Bogomol'nyi bound for
which the magnetic flux, charge and angular momentum are not quantized. However
the energy for the topolgical vortices is quantized and in each sector these
topological vortex solutions are infinitely degenerate. In the nonrelativistic
limit, this model admits static self-dual soliton solutions with nonzero finite
energy configuration. For the whole class of dielectric function for which the
nontopological vortices exists in the relativistic theory, the charge density
satisfies the same Liouville equation in the nonrelativistic limit.Comment: 30 pages(4 figures not included), RevTeX, IP/BBSR/93-6
Cooperative Spontaneous Emission as a Many Body Eigenvalue Problem
We study emission of a single photon from a spherically symmetric cloud of N
atoms (one atom is excited, N-1 are in ground state) and present an exact
analytical expression for eigenvalues and eigenstates of this many body
problem. We found that some states decay much faster then the single-atom decay
rate, while other states are trapped and undergo very slow decay. When size of
the atomic cloud is small compared with the radiation wave length we found that
the radiation frequency undergoes a large shift.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Physical Review
zeek-osquery: Host-Network Correlation for Advanced Monitoring and Intrusion Detection
Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) can analyze network traffic for signs of
attacks and intrusions. However, encrypted communication limits their
visibility and sophisticated attackers additionally try to evade their
detection. To overcome these limitations, we extend the scope of Network IDSs
(NIDSs) with additional data from the hosts. For that, we propose the
integrated open-source zeek-osquery platform that combines the Zeek IDS with
the osquery host monitor. Our platform can collect, process, and correlate host
and network data at large scale, e.g., to attribute network flows to processes
and users. The platform can be flexibly extended with own detection scripts
using already correlated, but also additional and dynamically retrieved host
data. A distributed deployment enables it to scale with an arbitrary number of
osquery hosts. Our evaluation results indicate that a single Zeek instance can
manage more than 870 osquery hosts and can attribute more than 96% of TCP
connections to host-side applications and users in real-time.Comment: Accepted for publication at ICT Systems Security and Privacy
Protection (IFIP) SEC 202
Flux tube dynamics in the dual superconductor
We study plasma oscillations in a flux tube of the dual superconductor model
of 't Hooft and Mandelstam. A magnetic condensate is coupled to an
electromagnetic field by its dual vector potential, and fixed electric charges
set up a flux tube. An electrically charged fluid (a quark plasma) flows in the
tube and screens the fixed charges via plasma oscillations. We investigate both
Type I and Type II superconductors, with plasma frequencies both above and
below the threshold for radiation into the Higgs vacuum. We find strong
radiation of electric flux into the superconductor in all regimes, and argue
that this invalidates the use of the simplest dual superconductor model for
dynamical problems.Comment: 25 pages Revtex with 11 EPS figure
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