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Global-String and Vortex Superfluids in a Supersymmetric Scenario
The main goal of this work is to investigate the possibility of finding the
supersymmetric version of the U(1)-global string model which behaves as a
vortex-superfluid. To describe the superfluid phase, we introduce a
Lorentz-symmetry breaking background that, in an approach based on
supersymmetry, leads to a discussion on the relation between the violation of
Lorentz symmetry and explicit soft supersymmetry breakings. We also study the
relation between the string configuration and the vortex-superfluid phase. In
the framework we settle down in terms of superspace and superfields, we
actually establish a duality between the vortex degrees of freedom and the
component fields of the Kalb-Ramond superfield. We make also considerations
about the fermionic excitations that may appear in connection with the vortex
formation.Comment: 9 pages. This version presented the relation between Lorentz symmetry
violation by the background and the appearance of terms that explicitly break
SUS
Some Comments on BPS systems
We look at simple BPS systems involving more than one field. We discuss the
conditions that have to be imposed on various terms in Lagrangians involving
many fields to produce BPS systems and then look in more detail at the simplest
of such cases. We analyse in detail BPS systems involving 2 interacting
Sine-Gordon like fields, both when one of them has a kink solution and the
second one either a kink or an antikink solution. We take their solitonic
static solutions and use them as initial conditions for their evolution in
Lorentz covariant versions of such models. We send these structures towards
themselves and find that when they interact weakly they can pass through each
other with a phase shift which is related to the strength of their interaction.
When they interact strongly they repel and reflect on each other. We use the
method of a modified gradient flow in order to visualize the solutions in the
space of fields.Comment: 27 pages, 17 figure
Magnetic fields around evolved stars: further observations of HO maser polarization
We aim to detect the magnetic field and infer its properties around four AGB
stars using HO maser observations. The sample we observed consists of the
following sources: the semi-regular variable RT Vir and the Mira variables AP
Lyn, IK Tau, and IRC+60370. We observed the 6 HO maser
rotational transition, in full-polarization mode, to determine its linear and
circular polarization. Based on the Zeeman effect, one can infer the properties
of the magnetic field from the maser polarization analysis. We detected a total
of 238 maser features, in three of the four observed sources. No masers were
found toward AP Lyn. The observed masers are all located between 2.4 and 53.0
AU from the stars. Linear and circular polarization was found in 18 and 11
maser features, respectively. We more than doubled the number of AGB stars in
which magnetic field has been detected from HO maser polarization, as our
results confirm the presence of fields around IK Tau, RT Vir and IRC+60370. The
strength of the field along the line of sight is found to be between 47 and 331
mG in the HO maser region. Extrapolating this result to the surface of the
stars, assuming a toroidal field ( r), we find magnetic fields
of 0.3-6.9 G on the stellar surfaces. If, instead of a toroidal field, we
assume a poloidal field ( r), then the extrapolated magnetic
field strength on the stellar surfaces are in the range between 2.2 and
115 G. Finally, if a dipole field ( r) is assumed, the
field strength on the surface of the star is found to be between 15.8 and
1945 G. The magnetic energy of our sources is higher than the thermal and
kinetic energy in the HO maser region of this class of objects. This leads
us to conclude that, indeed, magnetic fields probably play an important role in
shaping the outflows of evolved stars. (abridged)Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures, 7 tables. Accepted for publication in A&
Knots, Braids and Hedgehogs from the Eikonal Equation
The complex eikonal equation in the three space dimensions is considered. We
show that apart from the recently found torus knots this equation can also
generate other topological configurations with a non-trivial value of the
index: braided open strings as well as hedgehogs. In particular,
cylindric strings i.e. string solutions located on a cylinder with a constant
radius are found. Moreover, solutions describing strings lying on an arbitrary
surface topologically equivalent to cylinder are presented. We discus them in
the context of the eikonal knots. The physical importance of the results
originates in the fact that the eikonal knots have been recently used to
approximate the Faddeev-Niemi hopfions.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figure
Incorporating label dependencies in multilabel stance detection
© 2019 Association for Computational Linguistics Stance detection in social media is a well-studied task in a variety of domains. Nevertheless, previous work has mostly focused on multiclass versions of the problem, where the labels are mutually exclusive, and typically positive, negative or neutral. In this paper, we address versions of the task in which an utterance can have multiple labels, thus corresponding to multilabel classification. We propose a method that explicitly incorporates label dependencies in the training objective and compare it against a variety of baselines, as well as a reduction of multilabel to multiclass learning. In experiments with three datasets, we find that our proposed method improves upon all baselines on two out of three datasets. We also show that the reduction of multilabel to multiclass classification can be very competitive, especially in cases where the output consists of a small number of labels and one can enumerate over all label combinations
Tunable diffusion of magnetic particles in a quasi-one-dimensional channel
The diffusion of a system of ferromagnetic dipoles confined in a
quasi-one-dimensional parabolic trap is studied using Brownian dynamics
simulations. We show that the dynamics of the system is tunable by an in-plane
external homogeneous magnetic field. For a strong applied magnetic field, we
find that the mobility of the system, the exponent of diffusion and the
crossover time among different diffusion regimes can be tuned by the
orientation of the magnetic field. For weak magnetic fields, the exponent of
diffusion in the subdiffusive regime is independent of the orientation of the
external field.Comment: 9 pages, 13 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. E (2013
Two-component mixture of charged particles confined in a channel: melting
The melting of a binary system of charged particles confined in a {\it
quasi}-one-dimensional parabolic channel is studied through Monte Carlo
simulations. At zero temperature the particles are ordered in parallel chains.
The melting is anisotropic and different melting temperatures are obtained
according to the spatial direction, and the different types of particles
present in the system. Melting is very different for the single-, two- and
four-chain configurations. A temperature induced structural phase transition is
found between two different four chain ordered states which is absent in the
mono-disperse system. In the mixed regime, where the two types of particles are
only slightly different, melting is almost isotropic and a thermally induced
homogeneous distribution of the distinct types of charges is observed.Comment: To appear in Journal of Physics: condensed matter ; (13 pages, 12
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