538 research outputs found
This feels familiar
This is a book about in-betweenness. It’s an examination of how we identify people and objects, the categories we use to do so, and those that don’t fit squarely into one or the other. It considers the grey areas of identity--race, gender, species, function, living, inanimate. It slips and slides through the ambiguous and indefinite, forever moving, always simultaneously being “both,” “all,” “neither,” and “none.
Multi-cluster dynamics in and analogy to clustering in
We investigate structure of and discuss the difference
and similarity between the structures of and by answering the questions if the linear-chain and gaslike cluster states,
which are proposed to appear in , survives, or new structure
states appear or not. We introduce a microscopic cluster model called,
Hyper-Tohsaki-Horiuchi-Schuck-R\"opke (H-THSR) wave function, which is an
extended version of the THSR wave function so as to describe
hypernuclei. We obtained two bound states and two resonance (quasi-bound)
states for in , corresponding to the four
states in . However, the inversion of level ordering
between the spectra of and , i.e. that the
and states in correspond to the
and states in , respectively, is shown to occur. The
additional particle reduces sizes of the and states
in very much, but the shrinkage of the state is
only a half of the other states. In conclusion, the Hoyle state becomes quite a
compact object with configuration in
and is no more gaslike state composed of the
clusters. Instead, the state in , coming from the
state, appears as a gaslike state composed of
configuration, i.e. the Hoyle analog
state. A linear-chain state in a hypernucleus is for the first time
predicted to exist as the state in with more
shrunk arrangement of the clusters along -axis than the
linear-chain configuration realized in the state.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures, figures rearranged, accepted for publication in
PL
Imaginary-time method for radiative capture reaction rate
We propose a new computational method for astrophysical reaction rate of
radiative capture process. In the method, an evolution of a wave function is
calculated along the imaginary-time axis which is identified as the inverse
temperature. It enables direct evaluation of reaction rate as a function of
temperature without solving any scattering problem. The method is tested for
two-body radiative capture reaction, , showing that it gives identical results to that calculated by the
ordinary procedure. The new method will be suited for calculation of
triple-alpha radiative capture rate for which an explicit construction of the
scattering solution is difficult.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figure
Analysis of previous microscopic calculations for second state in C in terms of 3-alpha particle Bose-condensed state
The wave function of the second state of C which was obtained
long time ago by solving the microscopic 3 problem is shown to be
almost completely equivalent to the wave function of the 3 condensed
state which has been proposed recently by the present authors. This equivalence
of the wave functions is shown to hold in two cases where different effective
two-nucleon forces are adopted. This finding gives strong support for
interpreting the second state of C which is the key state for the
synthesis of C in stars ('Hoyle' state), and which is one of the typical
mysterious states in light nuclei, as a gas-like structure of three
particles, Bose-condensed into an identical s-wave function.Comment: revtex, 5 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Fluctuations for the Ginzburg-Landau Interface Model on a Bounded Domain
We study the massless field on , where is a bounded domain with smooth boundary, with Hamiltonian
\CH(h) = \sum_{x \sim y} \CV(h(x) - h(y)). The interaction \CV is assumed
to be symmetric and uniformly convex. This is a general model for a
-dimensional effective interface where represents the height. We
take our boundary conditions to be a continuous perturbation of a macroscopic
tilt: for , , and
continuous. We prove that the fluctuations of linear
functionals of about the tilt converge in the limit to a Gaussian free
field on , the standard Gaussian with respect to the weighted Dirichlet
inner product for some explicit . In a subsequent article,
we will employ the tools developed here to resolve a conjecture of Sheffield
that the zero contour lines of are asymptotically described by , a
conformally invariant random curve.Comment: 58 page
Determination of Pinning Parameters in Flux Creep-Flow Model for E-J characteristics of High Temperature Superconductors by using Differential Evolution
The pinning parameters such as strength of pinning force, temperature dependence of pinning force and so on using in flux creep-flow model to explain electric field vs current density (E-J) characteristics were determined by Differential Evolution (DE). DE is one of the methods in Evolutionary Computation (EC) to find an optimization of a problem. First, a model data of E-J characteristics in which the pinning parameters were given was prepared, and it was confirmed that DE can find the given pinning parameters from the model data. Then, DE and mesh method were used to determine the pinning parameters in experimental E-J characteristics of GdBa2CuO7-δ high temperature superconductor. In mesh method, the all combinations of pinning parameters with constant interval for each parameter are calculated, and best set of pinning parameters is selected. It was found that DE shows better performance than mesh method in terms of calculation time and accuracy for determining pinning parameters
Nuclear Alpha-Particle Condensates
The -particle condensate in nuclei is a novel state described by a
product state of 's, all with their c.o.m. in the lowest 0S orbit. We
demonstrate that a typical -particle condensate is the Hoyle state
( MeV, state in C), which plays a crucial role for
the synthesis of C in the universe. The influence of antisymmentrization
in the Hoyle state on the bosonic character of the particle is
discussed in detail. It is shown to be weak. The bosonic aspects in the Hoyle
state, therefore, are predominant. It is conjectured that -particle
condensate states also exist in heavier nuclei, like O,
Ne, etc. For instance the state of O at MeV
is identified from a theoretical analysis as being a strong candidate of a
condensate. The calculated small width (34 keV) of ,
consistent with data, lends credit to the existence of heavier Hoyle-analogue
states. In non-self-conjugated nuclei such as B and C, we discuss
candidates for the product states of clusters, composed of 's,
triton's, and neutrons etc. The relationship of -particle condensation
in finite nuclei to quartetting in symmetric nuclear matter is investigated
with the help of an in-medium modified four-nucleon equation. A nonlinear order
parameter equation for quartet condensation is derived and solved for
particle condensation in infinite nuclear matter. The strong qualitative
difference with the pairing case is pointed out.Comment: 71 pages, 41 figures, review article, to be published in "Cluster in
Nuclei (Lecture Notes in Physics) - Vol.2 -", ed. by C. Beck,
(Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2011
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