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Proton recoil polarization in exclusive (e,e'pp) reactions
The general formalism of nucleon recoil polarization in the () reaction is given. Numerical predictions are presented for the
components of the outgoing proton polarization and of the polarization transfer
coefficient in the specific case of the exclusive O()C knockout reaction leading to discrete states in the residual
nucleus. Reaction calculations are performed in a direct knockout framework
where final-state interactions and one-body and two-body currents are included.
The two-nucleon overlap integrals are obtained from a calculation of the
two-proton spectral function of O where long-range and short-range
correlations are consistently included. The comparison of results obtained in
different kinematics confirms that resolution of different final states in the
O()C reaction may act as a filter to
disentangle and separately investigate the reaction processes due to
short-range correlations and two-body currents and indicates that measurements
of the components of the outgoing proton polarization may offer good
opportunities to study short-range correlations.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure
Aharonov-Casher oscillations of spin current through a multichannel mesoscopic ring
The Aharonov-Casher (AC) oscillations of spin current through a 2D ballistic
ring in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction and external magnetic
field has been calculated using the semiclassical path integral method. For
classically chaotic trajectories the Fokker-Planck equation determining
dynamics of the particle spin polarization has been derived. On the basis of
this equation an analytic expression for the spin conductance has been obtained
taking into account a finite width of the ring arms carrying large number of
conducting channels. It was shown that the finite width results in a broadening
and damping of spin current AC oscillations. We found that an external magnetic
field leads to appearance of new nondiagonal components of the spin
conductance, allowing thus by applying a rather weak magnetic field to change a
direction of the transmitted spin current polarization.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figure
Dissipative dynamics of topological defects in frustrated Heisenberg spin systems
We study the dynamics of topological defects of a frustrated spin system
displaying spiral order. As a starting point we consider the SO(3) nonlinear
sigma model to describe long-wavelength fluctuations around the noncollinear
spiral state. Besides the usual spin-wave magnetic excitations, the model
allows for topologically non-trivial static solutions of the equations of
motion, associated with the change of chirality (clockwise or counterclockwise)
of the spiral. We consider two types of these topological defects, single
vortices and vortex-antivortex pairs, and quantize the corresponding solutions
by generalizing the semiclassical approach to a non-Abelian field theory. The
use of the collective coordinates allows us to represent the defect as a
particle coupled to a bath of harmonic oscillators, which can be integrated out
employing the Feynman-Vernon path-integral formalism. The resulting effective
action for the defect indicates that its motion is damped due to the scattering
by the magnons. We derive a general expression for the damping coefficient of
the defect, and evaluate its temperature dependence in both cases, for a single
vortex and for a vortex-antivortex pair. Finally, we consider an application of
the model for cuprates, where a spiral state has been argued to be realized in
the spin-glass regime. By assuming that the defect motion contributes to the
dissipative dynamics of the charges, we can compare our results with the
measured inverse mobility in a wide range of temperature. The relatively good
agreement between our calculations and the experiments confirms the possible
relevance of an incommensurate spiral order for lightly doped cuprates.Comment: 22 pages, 7 figures, final published versio
Rotational Effects of Twisted Light on Atoms Beyond the Paraxial Approximation
The transition probability for the emission of a Bessel photon by an atomic
system is calculated within first order perturbation theory. We derive a closed
expression for the electromagnetic potentials beyond the paraxial approximation
that permits a systematic multipole approximation . The matrix elements between
center of mass and internal states are evaluated for some specially relevant
cases. This permits to clarify the feasibility of observing the rotational
effects of twisted light on atoms predicted by the calculations. It is shown
that the probability that the internal state of an atom acquires orbital
angular momentum from light is, in general, maximum for an atom located at the
axis of a Bessel mode. For a Gaussian packet, the relevant parameter is the
ratio of the spread of the atomic center of mass wave packet to the transversal
wavelength of the photon.Comment: 10 pages, no figure
Spin Information from Vector-Meson Decay in Photoproduction
For the photoproduction of vector mesons, all single and double spin
observables involving vector meson two-body decays are defined consistently in
the center of mass. These definitions yield a procedure for
extracting physically meaningful single and double spin observables that are
subject to known rules concerning their angle and energy evolution. As part of
this analysis, we show that measuring the two-meson decay of a photoproduced
or does not determine the vector meson's vector polarization, but
only its tensor polarization. The vector meson decay into lepton pairs is also
insensitive to the vector meson's vector polarization, unless one measures the
spin of one of the leptons. Similar results are found for all double spin
observables which involve observation of vector meson decay. To access the
vector meson's vector polarization, one therefore needs to either measure the
spin of the decay leptons, make an analysis of the background interference
effects or relate the vector meson's vector polarization to other accessible
spin observables.Comment: 22 pages, 3 figure
Inflationary spectra and partially decohered distributions
It is generally expected that decoherence processes will erase the quantum
properties of the inflationary primordial spectra. However, given the weakness
of gravitational interactions, one might end up with a distribution which is
only partially decohered. Below a certain critical change, we show that the
inflationary distribution retains quantum properties. We identify four of
these: a squeezed spread in some direction of phase space, non-vanishing
off-diagonal matrix elements, and two properties used in quantum optics called
non--representability and non-separability. The last two are necessary
conditions to violate Bell's inequalities. The critical value above which all
these properties are lost is associated to the `grain' of coherent states. The
corresponding value of the entropy is equal to half the maximal (thermal)
value. Moreover it coincides with the entropy of the effective distribution
obtained by neglecting the decaying modes. By considering backreaction effects,
we also provide an upper bound for this entropy at the onset of the adiabatic
era.Comment: 42 pages, 9 figures; 1 ref. adde
Flavor Asymmetry of the Nucleon Sea: Consequences for Dilepton Production
Parton distributions derived from a chiral quark model that generates an
excess of down quarks and antiquarks in the proton's sea satisfactorily
describe the measured yields of muon pairs produced in proton-nucleus
collisions. Comparison of dilepton yields from hydrogen and deuterium targets
promises greater sensitivity to the predicted flavor asymmetry.Comment: 11 pages, REVTEX, (Three PostScript figures available by anonymous
ftp from fnth06.fnal.gov in directory /pub/Fermilab-Pub/92.264.)
FERMILAB-PUB-92/264--T LBL-3298
Higher Twist, Scaling, and Effective for Lepton Scattering in the Few GeV Region
We use a new scaling variable , and add low modifications to
GRV98 leading order parton distribution functions such that they can be used to
model electron, muon and neutrino inelastic scattering cross sections (and also
photoproduction) at both very low and high energies.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures. To be published in J. Phys. G (Conf. Proceedings)
based on two talks by Arie Bodek at the NuFact conference, Imperial
College, London, England, July 200
Mesoscopic superpositions of vibronic collective states of N trapped ions
We propose a scalable procedure to generate entangled superpositions of
motional coherent states and electronic states in N trapped ions. Beyond their
fundamental importance, these states may be of interest for quantum information
processing and may be used in experimental studies of decoherence.Comment: Final version, as published in Physical Review Letters. See also
further developments and applications in quant-ph/020207
The Balian-Br\'ezin Method in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
The method suggested by Balian and Br\'ezin for treating angular momentum
reduction in the Faddeev equations is shown to be applicable to the
relativistic three-body problem.Comment: 14 pages in LaTe
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