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Spiral Waves in Media with Complex Excitable Dynamics
The structure of spiral waves is investigated in super-excitable
reaction-diffusion systems where the local dynamics exhibits multi-looped phase
space trajectories. It is shown that such systems support stable spiral waves
with broken symmetry and complex temporal dynamics. The main structural
features of such waves, synchronization defect lines, are demonstrated to be
similar to those of spiral waves in systems with complex-oscillatory dynamics.Comment: to appear in International Journal of Bifurcation and Chao
On a family of integrable systems on with a cubic integral of motion
We discuss a family of integrable systems on the sphere with an
additional integral of third order in momenta. This family contains the
Coryachev-Chaplygin top, the Goryachev system, the system recently discovered
by Dullin and Matveev and two new integrable systems. On the non-physical
sphere with zero radius all these systems are isomorphic to each other.Comment: LaTeX, 8 page
Comment on ``Theory of Spinodal Decomposition''
I comment on a paper by S. B. Goryachev [PRL vol 72, p.1850 (1994)] that
presents a theory of non-equilibrium dynamics for scalar systems quenched into
an ordered phase. Goryachev incorrectly applies only a global conservation
constraint to systems with local conservation laws.Comment: 2 pages LATeX (REVTeX macros), no figures. REVISIONS --- more to the
point. microscopic example added, presentation streamlined, long-range
interactions mentioned, to be published in Phys. Rev. Let
Re(\gamm,n) cross section close to and above the neutron threshold
The neutron capture cross section of the unstable nucleus Re is
studied by investigating the inverse photodisintegration reaction
Re(,n). The special interest of the {\it s}-process branching
point Re is related to the question of possible {\it s}-process
contributions to the abundance of the {\it r}-process chronometer nucleus
^{187}^{186}\gamma^{186}$Os; the two predicted neutron-capture cross sections
differ by a factor of 2.4; this calls for future theoretical study.Comment: Phys. Rev. C, in pres
The s-process branching at 185W
The neutron capture cross section of the unstable nucleus 185W has been
derived from experimental photoactivation data of the inverse reaction
186W(gamma,n)185W. The new result of sigma = (687 +- 110) mbarn confirms the
theoretically predicted neutron capture cross section of 185W of sigma = 700
mbarn at kT = 30 keV. A neutron density in the classical s-process of n_n =
(3.8 +0.9 -0.8} * 1e8 cm-3 is derived from the new data for the 185W branching.
In a stellar s-process model one finds a significant overproduction of the
residual s-only nucleus 186Os.Comment: ApJ, in pres
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