Improved model for the topological soliton-potential interaction in Phi^4 Model

An improved model for the soliton-potential interaction is presented. This model is constructed with a better approximation for adding the potential to the lagrangian through a space-time metric. The results of the model are compared with other models and the differences are discussed.Comment: 8 pages, 11 figure

Why not a di-NUT? or Gravitational duality and rotating solutions

We study how gravitational duality acts on rotating solutions, using the Kerr-NUT black hole as an example. After properly reconsidering how to take into account both electric (i.e. mass-like) and magnetic (i.e. NUT-like) sources in the equations of general relativity, we propose a set of definitions for the dual Lorentz charges. We then show that the Kerr-NUT solution has non-trivial such charges. Further, we clarify in which respect Kerr's source can be seen as a mass M with a dipole of NUT charges.Comment: 20 pages. v2: minor clarifications in section 4, version to appear in PR

Interaction of topological solitons with defects: using a nontrivial metric

By including potential into the flat metric, we study interaction of sine-Gordon soliton with potentials. We will show numerically that while the soliton-barrier system shows fully classical behaviour, the soliton-well system demonstrates non-classical behaviour. In particular, solitons with low velocities are trapped in the well and emit energy radiation.Comment: 10 pages, 11 figure

Analytical formulation for soliton-potential dynamics

An analytical model for the soliton-potential interaction is presented, by constructing a collective coordinate for the system. Most of the characters of the interaction are derived analytically while they are calculated by other models numerically. We will find that the behaviour of the soliton is like a point particle living under the influence of a complicated potential which is a function of soliton velocity and the potential parameters. The analytic model does not have a clear prediction for the islands of initial velocities in which the soliton may reflect back or escape over the potential well.Comment: 12 pages, 10 figure

Electromagnetic Casimir piston in higher dimensional spacetimes

We consider the Casimir effect of the electromagnetic field in a higher dimensional spacetime of the form $M\times \mathcal{N}$, where $M$ is the 4-dimensional Minkowski spacetime and $\mathcal{N}$ is an $n$-dimensional compact manifold. The Casimir force acting on a planar piston that can move freely inside a closed cylinder with the same cross section is investigated. Different combinations of perfectly conducting boundary conditions and infinitely permeable boundary conditions are imposed on the cylinder and the piston. It is verified that if the piston and the cylinder have the same boundary conditions, the piston is always going to be pulled towards the closer end of the cylinder. However, if the piston and the cylinder have different boundary conditions, the piston is always going to be pushed to the middle of the cylinder. By taking the limit where one end of the cylinder tends to infinity, one obtains the Casimir force acting between two parallel plates inside an infinitely long cylinder. The asymptotic behavior of this Casimir force in the high temperature regime and the low temperature regime are investigated for the case where the cross section of the cylinder in $M$ is large. It is found that if the separation between the plates is much smaller than the size of $\mathcal{N}$, the leading term of the Casimir force is the same as the Casimir force on a pair of large parallel plates in the $(4+n)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. However, if the size of $\mathcal{N}$ is much smaller than the separation between the plates, the leading term of the Casimir force is $1+h/2$ times the Casimir force on a pair of large parallel plates in the 4-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, where $h$ is the first Betti number of $\mathcal{N}$. In the limit the manifold $\mathcal{N}$ vanishes, one does not obtain the Casimir force in the 4-dimensional Minkowski spacetime if $h$ is nonzero.Comment: 22 pages, 4 figure

Rapport fra igangværende forskningsprojekt om alt det vi ikke ved, men burde vide om de sidste 20 års regel-udvikling i Danmark

Det er kendetegnende for debatten om regeludviklingen både i dag og tidligere, at den mere bygger på fornemmelser og oplevede udviklinger end på en systematisk afdækning af den faktiske udvikling. Der er derfor behov for en mere præcis beskrivelse af udviklingen i regelomfanget i Danmark over tid og på tværs af forskellige politikområder samt ikke mindst mere helhjertede og systematiske forsøg på at forklare, hvilke faktorer der driver denne udvikling. Et nyt forskningsprojekt beskriver systematisk den faktiske udvikling i regelomfanget i Danmark