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Correlations and fluctuations of a confined electron gas
The grand potential and the response of a phase-coherent confined noninteracting electron gas depend
sensitively on chemical potential or external parameter . We compute
their autocorrelation as a function of , and temperature. The result
is related to the short-time dynamics of the corresponding classical system,
implying in general the absence of a universal regime. Chaotic, diffusive and
integrable motions are investigated, and illustrated numerically. The
autocorrelation of the persistent current of a disordered mesoscopic ring is
also computed.Comment: 12 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Dynamic Correlation in Wave Propagation in Random Media
We report time-resolved measurements of the statistics of pulsed transmission
through quasi-one-dimensional dielectric media with static disorder. The
normalized intensity correlation function with displacement and polarization
rotation for an incident pulse of linewidth at delay time t is a
function only of the field correlation function, which is identical to that
found for steady-state excitation, and of , the residual
degree of intensity correlation at points at which the field correlation
function vanishes. The dynamic probability distribution of normalized intensity
depends only upon . Steady-state statistics are recovered
in the limit ->0, in which is the steady-state
degree of correlation.Comment: 4 RevTex pages, 4 figure
Molecules empowering animals to sense and respond to temperature in changing environments
Adapting behavior to thermal cues is essential for animal growth and survival. Indeed, each and every biological and biochemical process is profoundly affected by temperature and its extremes can cause irreversible damage. Hence, animals have developed thermotransduction mechanisms to detect and encode thermal information in the nervous system and acclimation mechanisms to finely tune their response over different timescales. While temperature-gated TRP channels are the best described class of temperature sensors, recent studies highlight many new candidates, including ionotropic and metabotropic receptors. Here, we review recent findings in vertebrate and invertebrate models, which highlight and substantiate the role of new candidate molecular thermometers and reveal intracellular signaling mechanisms implicated in thermal acclimation at the behavioral and cellular levels
The stationary phase point method for transitional scattering: diffractive radio scintillation for pulsar
The stationary phase point (SPP) method in one-dimensional case is introduced
to treat the diffractive scintillation. From weak scattering, where the SPP
number N=1, to strong scattering (N1), via transitional scattering regime
(N2,3), we find that the modulation index of intensity experiences the
monotonically increasing from 0 to 1 with the scattering strength,
characterized by the ratio of Fresnel scale \rf to diffractive scale
\rdiff.Comment: Hanas Meeting paper, appear in ChJAA, 2006, 6, Su
Hunting Galaxies to (and for) Extinction
In studies of star-forming regions, near-infrared excess (NIRX)
sources--objects with intrinsic colors redder than normal stars--constitute
both signal (young stars) and noise (e.g. background galaxies). We hunt down
(identify) galaxies using near-infrared observations in the Perseus
star-forming region by combining structural information, colors, and number
density estimates. Galaxies at moderate redshifts (z = 0.1 - 0.5) have colors
similar to young stellar objects (YSOs) at both near- and mid-infrared (e.g.
Spitzer) wavelengths, which limits our ability to identify YSOs from colors
alone. Structural information from high-quality near-infrared observations
allows us to better separate YSOs from galaxies, rejecting 2/5 of the YSO
candidates identified from Spitzer observations of our regions and potentially
extending the YSO luminosity function below K of 15 magnitudes where galaxy
contamination dominates. Once they are identified we use galaxies as valuable
extra signal for making extinction maps of molecular clouds. Our new iterative
procedure: the Galaxies Near Infrared Color Excess method Revisited (GNICER),
uses the mean colors of galaxies as a function of magnitude to include them in
extinction maps in an unbiased way. GNICER increases the number of background
sources used to probe the structure of a cloud, decreasing the noise and
increasing the resolution of extinction maps made far from the galactic plane.Comment: 16 pages and 16 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ. Full
resolution version at
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/COMPLETE/papers/Foster_HuntingGalaxies.pd
Resolving long-range spatial correlations in jammed colloidal systems using photon correlation imaging
We introduce a new dynamic light scattering method, termed photon correlation
imaging, which enables us to resolve the dynamics of soft matter in space and
time. We demonstrate photon correlation imaging by investigating the slow
dynamics of a quasi two-dimensional coarsening foam made of highly packed,
deformable bubbles and a rigid gel network formed by dilute, attractive
colloidal particles. We find the dynamics of both systems to be determined by
intermittent rearrangement events. For the foam, the rearrangements extend over
a few bubbles, but a small dynamical correlation is observed up to macroscopic
length scales. For the gel, dynamical correlations extend up to the system
size. These results indicate that dynamical correlations can be extremely
long-ranged in jammed systems and point to the key role of mechanical
properties in determining their nature.Comment: Published version (Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 085702 (2009)) The Dynamical
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