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Spectra of Maser Radiation from a Turbulent, Circumnuclear Accretion Disk. III. Circular polarization
Calculations are performed for the circular polarization of maser radiation
from a turbulent, Keplerian disk that is intended to represent the sub-parsec
disk at the nucleus of the galaxy NGC4258. The polarization in the calculations
is a result of the Zeeman effect in the regime in which the Zeeman splitting is
much less than the spectral linebreadth. Plausible configurations for turbulent
magnetic and velocity fields in the disk are created by statistical methods.
This turbulence, along with the Keplerian velocity gradients and the blending
of the three hyperfine components to form the masing
transition of water, are key ingredients in determining the appearance of the
polarized spectra that are calculated. These spectra are quite different from
the polarized spectra that would be expected for a two-level transition where
there is no hyperfine structure. The effect of the hyperfine structure on the
polarization is most striking in the calculations for the maser emission that
represents the central (or systemic) features of NGC4258. Information about
magnetic fields is inferred from observations for polarized maser radiation and
bears on the structure of accretion disks.Comment: Latex, uses aastex, eucal, to be published in the Astrophysical
Journa
Lattice QCD study of a five-quark hadronic molecule
We compute the ground-state energies of a heavy-light K-Lambda like system as
a function of the relative distance r of the hadrons. The heavy quarks, one in
each hadron, are treated as static. Then, the energies give rise to an
adiabatic potential Va(r) which we use to study the structure of the five-quark
system. The simulation is based on an anisotropic and asymmetric lattice with
Wilson fermions. Energies are extracted from spectral density functions
obtained with the maximum entropy method. Our results are meant to give
qualitative insight: Using the resulting adiabatic potential in a Schroedinger
equation produces bound state wave functions which indicate that the ground
state of the five-quark system resembles a hadronic molecule, whereas the first
excited state, having a very small rms radius, is probably better described as
a five-quark cluster, or a pentaquark. We hypothesize that an all light-quark
pentaquark may not exist, but in the heavy-quark sector it might, albeit only
as an excited state.Comment: 11 pages, 15 figures, 4 table
Residual meson-meson interaction from lattice gauge simulation in a simple QED model
The residual interaction for a meson-meson system is computed utilizing the cumulant, or cluster, expansion of the momentum-space time correlation matrix. The cumulant expansion serves to define asymptotic, or free, meson-meson operators. The definition of an effective interaction is then based on a comparison of the full (interacting) and the free (noninteracting) time correlation matrices. The proposed method, which may straightforwardly be transcribed to other hadron-hadron systems, here is applied to a simple 2+1 dimensional U(1) lattice gauge model tuned such that it is confining. Fermions are treated in the staggered scheme. The effective interaction exhibits a repulsive core and attraction at intermediate relative distances. These findings are consistent with an earlier study of the same model utilizing L\"{u}scher's method where scattering phase shifts are obtained directly
Polarization of Astronomical Maser Radiation. IV. Circular Polarization Profiles
Profile comparison of the Stokes parameters and is a powerful tool
for maser data analysis, providing the first direct methods for unambiguous
determination of (1) the maser saturation stage, (2) the amplification optical
depth and intrinsic Doppler width of unsaturated masers, and (3) the
comparative magnitudes of Zeeman splitting and Doppler linewidth. Circular
polarization recently detected in OH 1720 MHz emission from the Galactic center
appears to provide the first direct evidence for maser saturation.Comment: 14 pages, 1 Postscript figures (included), uses aaspp4.sty. To appear
in Astrophysical Journa
News on Disconnected Diagrams
We present evidence for disconnected contributions to the
term and the flavor singlet axial coupling of the proton on full QCD
configurations, which are obtained by means of improved stochastic estimator
techniques. Furthermore we discuss results from the fermionic determination of
the topological charge of the QCD vacuum (in the spirit of the Athiya-Singer
theorem) again achieved with stochastic estimator methods. It turns out that
this approach provides an monitor for the tunneling efficiency of the HMC on
QCD with dynamical Wilson fermions which is independent on the pure gluonic
method that implies cooling.Comment: LATTICE98(algorithms) 3 pages, 3 figure
Time-resolved collapse and revival of the Kondo state near a quantum phase transition
One of the most successful paradigms of many-body physics is the concept of
quasiparticles: excitations in strongly interacting matter behaving like weakly
interacting particles in free space. Quasiparticles in metals are very robust
objects. Yet, when a system's ground state undergoes a qualitative change at a
quantum critical point (QCP), the quasiparticles may disintegrate and give way
to an exotic quantum-fluid state of matter. The nature of this breakdown is
intensely debated, because the emergent quantum fluid dominates the material
properties up to high temperature and might even be related to the occurence of
superconductivity in some compounds. Here we trace the dynamics of
heavy-fermion quasiparticles in CeCuAu and monitor their
evolution towards the QCP in time-resolved experiments, supported by many-body
calculations. A terahertz pulse disrupts the many-body heavy-fermion state.
Under emission of a delayed, phase-coherent terahertz reflex the heavy-fermion
state recovers, with a coherence time 100 times longer than typically
associated with correlated metals. The quasiparticle weight collapses towards
the QCP, yet its formation temperature remains constant -- phenomena believed
to be mutually exclusive. Coexistence in the same experiment calls for
revisions in our view on quantum criticality.Comment: Published version, including data on CeCu6, CeCu5.9Au0.1, and
CeCu5Au1 and extended Supplementary Information. 7 pages, 4 figures,
Supplementary Information: 5 pages, 3 figure
Exotic Meson Decay Widths using Lattice QCD
A decay width calculation for a hybrid exotic meson h, with JPC=1-+, is
presented for the channel h->pi+a1. This quenched lattice QCD simulation
employs Luescher's finite box method. Operators coupling to the h and pi+a1
states are used at various levels of smearing and fuzzing, and at four quark
masses. Eigenvalues of the corresponding correlation matrices yield energy
spectra that determine scattering phase shifts for a discrete set of relative
pi+a1 momenta. Although the phase shift data is sparse, fits to a Breit-Wigner
model are attempted, resulting in a decay width of about 60 MeV when averaged
over two lattice sizes.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures, RevTex4, minor change to Fig.
Symmetry Analysis of Second Harmonic Generation at Surfaces of Antiferromagnets
Using group theory we classify the nonlinear magneto-optical response at
low-index surfaces of fcc antiferromagnets, such as NiO. Structures consisting
of one atomic layer are discussed in detail. We find that optical second
harmonic generation is sensitive to surface antiferromagnetism in many cases.
We discuss the influence of a second type of magnetic atoms, and also of a
possible oxygen sublattice distortion on the output signal. Finally, our
symmetry analysis yields the possibility of antiferromagnetic surface domain
imaging even in the presence of magnetic unit-cell doubling.Comment: 23 pages, 10 figures incorporated. Accepted to Phys. Rev. B,
scheduled for July'9
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