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Radiative transfer dynamo effect
Magnetic fields in rotating and radiating astrophysical plasma can be
produced due to a radiative interaction between plasma layers moving relative
to each other. The efficiency of current drive, and with it the associated
dynamo effect, is considered in a number of limits. It is shown here, however,
that predictions for these generated magnetic fields can be significantly
higher when kinetic effects, previously neglected, are taken into account.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, published in Physical Review
Algebraic Properties of BRST Coupled Doublets
We characterize the dependence on doublets of the cohomology of an arbitrary
nilpotent differential s (including BRST differentials and classical linearized
Slavnov-Taylor (ST) operators) in terms of the cohomology of the
doublets-independent component of s. All cohomologies are computed in the space
of local integrated formal power series. We drop the usual assumption that the
counting operator for the doublets commutes with s (decoupled doublets) and
discuss the general case where the counting operator does not commute with s
(coupled doublets). The results are purely algebraic and do not rely on
power-counting arguments.Comment: Some explanations enlarged, references adde
Random Field and Random Anisotropy Effects in Defect-Free Three-Dimensional XY Models
Monte Carlo simulations have been used to study a vortex-free XY ferromagnet
with a random field or a random anisotropy on simple cubic lattices. In the
random field case, which can be related to a charge-density wave pinned by
random point defects, it is found that long-range order is destroyed even for
weak randomness. In the random anisotropy case, which can be related to a
randomly pinned spin-density wave, the long-range order is not destroyed and
the correlation length is finite. In both cases there are many local minima of
the free energy separated by high entropy barriers. Our results for the random
field case are consistent with the existence of a Bragg glass phase of the type
discussed by Emig, Bogner and Nattermann.Comment: 10 pages, including 2 figures, extensively revise
BRST-anti-BRST Antifield formalism : The Example of the Freedman-Townsend Model
The general BRST-anti-BRST construction in the framework of the
antifield-antibracket formalism is illustrated in the case of the
Freedmann-Townsend model.Comment: 16 pages, Latex file, Latex errors corrected, otherwise unchange
Randomly Dilute Two Dimensional Ising Models
Calculations of the specific heat and magnetization of quenched, siteâdiluted, NĂN square and triangular Ising lattices have been carried out by a Monte Carlo method. For spin concentrations x of 0.8 and 0.9, lattices of size N=64 did not give sharp transitions. For a triangular lattice with N=128 and x=0.904, we found a wellâdefined peak in the specific heat and an abrupt change in the magnetization at T=0.865 Tc(1). Linear interpolation gives sâĄd/dx[Tc(x)/Tc(1)]x=1=1.40±0.05, in excellent agreement with the high temperature series calculations of Rushbrooke et al. For the square lattice we calculate s=1.5±0.1. We also determined site magnetization as a function of the number of ââliveââ nearest neighbors
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