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Surface Crystallization in a Liquid AuSi Alloy
X-ray measurements reveal a crystalline monolayer at the surface of the
eutectic liquid Au_{82}Si_{18}, at temperatures above the alloy's melting
point. Surface-induced atomic layering, the hallmark of liquid metals, is also
found below the crystalline monolayer. The layering depth, however, is
threefold greater than that of all liquid metals studied to date. The
crystallinity of the surface monolayer is notable, considering that AuSi does
not form stable bulk crystalline phases at any concentration and temperature
and that no crystalline surface phase has been detected thus far in any pure
liquid metal or nondilute alloy. These results are discussed in relation to
recently suggested models of amorphous alloys.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, published in Science (2006
Slow oscillations of magnetoresistance in quasi-two-dimensional metals
Slow oscillations of the interlayer magnetoresistance observed in the layered
organic metal -(BEDT-TTF)IBr are shown to originate from the
slight warping of its Fermi surface rather than from independent small
cyclotron orbits. Unlike the usual Shubnikov-de Haas effect, these oscillations
are not affected by the temperature smearing of the Fermi distribution and can
therefore become dominant at high enough temperatures. We suggest that the slow
oscillations are a general feature of clean quasi-two-dimensional metals and
discuss possible applications of the phenomenon.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figure
The experimental cascade curves of EAS at E sub 0 10(17) eV obtained by the method of detection of Cherenkov pulse shape
The individual cascade curves of EAS with E sub 0 10 to the 17th power eV/I to 3/ were studied by detection of EAS Cherenkov light pulses. The scintillators located at the center of the Yakutsk EAS array within a 500-m radius circle were used to select the showers and to determine the main EAS parameters. The individual cascade curves N(t) were obtained using the EAS Cherenkov light pulses satisfying the following requirements: (1) the signal-to-noise ratio fm/delta sub n 15, (2) the EAS axis-detector distance tau sub 350 m, (3) the zenith angle theta 30 deg, (4) the probability for EAS to be detected by scintillators W 0.8. Condition (1) arises from the desire to reduce the amplitude distortion of Cherenkov pulses due to noise and determines the range of EAS sizes, N(t). The resolution times of the Cherenkov pulse shape detectors are tau sub 0 approx. 23 ns which results in distortion of a pulse during the process of the detection. The distortion of pulses due to the finiteness of tau sub 0 value was estimated. It is shown that the rise time of pulse becomes greater as tau sub 0.5/tau sub 0 ratio decreases
Zero-field and Larmor spinor precessions in a neutron polarimeter experiment
We present a neutron polarimetric experiment where two kinds of spinor
precessions are observed: one is induced by different total energy of neutrons
(zero-field precession) and the other is induced by a stationary guide field
(Larmor precession). A characteristic of the former is the dependence of the
energy-difference, which is in practice tuned by the frequency of the
interacting oscillating magnetic field. In contrast the latter completely
depends on the strength of the guide field, namely Larmor frequency. Our
neutron-polarimetric experiment exhibits individual tuning as well as specific
properties of each spinor precession, which assures the use of both spin
precessions for multi-entangled spinor manipulation.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure
Lie group analysis for multi-scale plasma dynamics
An application of approximate transformation groups to study dynamics of a
system with distinct time scales is discussed. The utilization of the
Krylov-Bogoliubov-Mitropolsky method of averaging to find solutions of the Lie
equations is considered. Physical illustrations from the plasma kinetic theory
demonstrate the potentialities of the suggested approach. Several examples of
invariant solutions for the system of the Vlasov-Maxwell equations for the
two-component (electron-ion) plasma are presented.Comment: Latex, 15 pages, 7 figure. This is an enlarged contribution to
Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics v.18, Suppl. 1 (2011) p.163-175
with modest stylistic corrections introduced mainly in the third Sectio
The AdS(5)xS(5) Semi-Symmetric Space Sine-Gordon Theory
The generalized symmetric space sine-Gordon theories are a series of
1+1-integrable field theories that are classically equivalent to superstrings
on symmetric space spacetimes F/G. They are formulated in terms of a
semi-symmetric space as a gauged WZW model with fermions and a potential term
to deform it away from the conformal fixed point. We consider in particular the
case of PSU(2,2|4)/Sp(2,2)xSp(4) which corresponds to AdS(5)xS(5). We argue
that the infinite tower of conserved charges of these theories includes an
exotic N=(8,8) supersymmetry that is realized in a mildy non-local way at the
Lagrangian level. The supersymmetry is associated to a double central extension
of the superalgebra psu(2|2)+psu(2|2) and includes a non-trivial R symmetry
algebra corresponding to global gauge transformations, as well as 2-dimensional
spacetime translations. We then explicitly construct soliton solutions and show
that they carry an internal moduli superspace CP(2|1)xCP(2|1) with both bosonic
and Grassmann collective coordinates. We show how to semi-classical quantize
the solitons by writing an effective quantum mechanical system on the moduli
space which takes the form of a co-adjoint orbit of SU(2|2)xSU(2|2). The
spectrum consists of a tower of massive states in the short, or atypical,
symmetric representations, just as the giant magnon states of the string world
sheet theory, although here the tower is truncated.Comment: 39 pages, references adde
Particle Production and Effective Thermalization in Inhomogeneous Mean Field Theory
As a toy model for dynamics in nonequilibrium quantum field theory we
consider the abelian Higgs model in 1+1 dimensions with fermions. In the
approximate dynamical equations, inhomogeneous classical (mean) Bose fields are
coupled to quantized fermion fields, which are treated with a mode function
expansion. The effective equations of motion imply e.g. Coulomb scattering, due
to the inhomogeneous gauge field. The equations are solved numerically. We
define time dependent fermion particle numbers with the help of the single-time
Wigner function and study particle production starting from inhomogeneous
initial conditions. The particle numbers are compared with the Fermi-Dirac
distribution parametrized by a time dependent temperature and chemical
potential. We find that the fermions approximately thermalize locally in time.Comment: 16 pages + 6 eps figures, some clarifications and two references
added, typos corrected; to appear in Phys.Rev.
An action principle for Vasiliev's four-dimensional higher-spin gravity
We provide Vasiliev's fully nonlinear equations of motion for bosonic gauge
fields in four spacetime dimensions with an action principle. We first extend
Vasiliev's original system with differential forms in degrees higher than one.
We then derive the resulting duality-extended equations of motion from a
variational principle based on a generalized Hamiltonian sigma-model action.
The generalized Hamiltonian contains two types of interaction freedoms: One set
of functions that appears in the Q-structure of the generalized curvatures of
the odd forms in the duality-extended system; and another set depending on the
Lagrange multipliers, encoding a generalized Poisson structure, i.e. a set of
polyvector fields of ranks two or higher in target space. We find that at least
one of the two sets of interaction-freedom functions must be linear in order to
ensure gauge invariance. We discuss consistent truncations to the minimal Type
A and B models (with only even spins), spectral flows on-shell and provide
boundary conditions on fields and gauge parameters that are compatible with the
variational principle and that make the duality-extended system equivalent, on
shell, to Vasiliev's original system.Comment: 37 pages. References added, corrected typo
Divergences in Real-Time Classical Field Theories at Non-Zero Temperature
The classical approximation provides a non-perturbative approach to
time-dependent problems in finite temperature field theory. We study the
divergences in hot classical field theory perturbatively. At one-loop, we show
that the linear divergences are completely determined by the classical
equivalent of the hard thermal loops in hot quantum field theories, and that
logarithmic divergences are absent. To deal with higher-loop diagrams, we
present a general argument that the superficial degree of divergence of
classical vertex functions decreases by one with each additional loop: one-loop
contributions are superficially linearly divergent, two-loop contributions are
superficially logarithmically divergent, and three- and higher-loop
contributions are superficially finite. We verify this for two-loop SU(N)
self-energy diagrams in Feynman and Coulomb gauges. We argue that hot,
classical scalar field theory may be completely renormalized by local (mass)
counterterms, and discuss renormalization of SU(N) gauge theories.Comment: 31 pages with 7 eps figure
Dynamics of Symmetry Breaking and Tachyonic Preheating
We reconsider the old problem of the dynamics of spontaneous symmetry
breaking using 3d lattice simulations, and develop a theory of tachyonic
preheating, which occurs due to the spinodal instability of the scalar field.
Tachyonic preheating is so efficient that symmetry breaking typically completes
within a single oscillation of the field distribution as it rolls towards the
minimum of its effective potential. As an application of this theory we
consider preheating in the hybrid inflation scenario, including SUSY-motivated
F-term and D-term inflationary models. We show that preheating in hybrid
inflation is typically tachyonic and the stage of oscillations of a homogeneous
component of the scalar fields driving inflation ends after a single
oscillation. Our results may also be relevant for the theory of the formation
of disoriented chiral condensates in heavy ion collisions.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures. Higher quality figures and computer generated
movies in gif format illustrating our results can be found at
http://physics.stanford.edu/gfelder/hybri
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