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Accretion and Preservation of D-rich Organic Particles in Carbonaceous Chondrites: Evidence for Important Transport in the Early Solar System Nebula
We have acquired NanoSIMS images of the matrices of CI, CM, and CR carbonaceous chondrites to study, in situ, the organic matter trapped during the formation of their parent bodies. D/H ratio images reveal the occurrence of D-rich hot spots, constituting isolated organic particles. Not all the organic particles are D-rich hot spots, indicating that at least two kinds of organic particles have been accreted in the parent bodies. Ratio profiles through D-rich hot spots indicate that no significant self-diffusion of deuterium occurs between the D-rich organic matter and the depleted hydrous minerals that are surrounding them. This is not the result of a physical shielding by any constituent of the chondrites. Ab initio calculations indicate that it cannot be explained by isotopic equilibrium. Then it appears that the organic matter that is extremely enriched in D does not exchange with the hydrous minerals, or this exchange is so slow that it is not significant over the 4.5 billion year history on the parent body. If we consider that the D-rich hot spots are the result of an exposure to intense irradiation, then it appears that carbonaceous chondrites accreted organic particles that have been brought to different regions of the solar nebula. This is likely the result of important radial and vertical transport in the early solar system
Yang-Yang method for the thermodynamics of one-dimensional multi-component interacting fermions
Using Yang and Yang's particle-hole description, we present a thorough
derivation of the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz equations for a general
fermionic system in one-dimension for both the repulsive and
attractive regimes under the presence of an external magnetic field. These
equations are derived from Sutherland's Bethe ansatz equations by using the
spin-string hypothesis. The Bethe ansatz root patterns for the attractive case
are discussed in detail. The relationship between the various phases of the
magnetic phase diagrams and the external magnetic fields is given for the
attractive case. We also give a quantitative description of the ground state
energies for both strongly repulsive and strongly attractive regimes.Comment: 22 pages, 2 figures, slight improvements, some extra reference
Unified description of pairing, trionic and quarteting states for one-dimensional SU(4) attractive fermions
Paired states, trions and quarteting states in one-dimensional SU(4)
attractive fermions are investigated via exact Bethe ansatz calculations. In
particular, quantum phase transitions are identified and calculated from the
quarteting phase into normal Fermi liquid, trionic states and spin-2 paired
states which belong to the universality class of linear field-dependent
magnetization in the vicinity of critical points. Moreover, unified exact
results for the ground state energy, chemical potentials and complete phase
diagrams for isospin attractive fermions with external fields
are presented. Also identified are the magnetization plateaux of
and , where is the magnetization saturation value. The
universality of finite-size corrections and collective dispersion relations
provides a further test ground for low energy effective field theory.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figure
Universal Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid phases in one-dimensional strongly attractive SU(N) fermionic cold atoms
A simple set of algebraic equations is derived for the exact low-temperature
thermodynamics of one-dimensional multi-component strongly attractive fermionic
atoms with enlarged SU(N) spin symmetry and Zeeman splitting. Universal
multi-component Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (TLL) phases are thus determined. For
linear Zeeman splitting, the physics of the gapless phase at low temperatures
belongs to the universality class of a two-component asymmetric TLL
corresponding to spin-neutral N-atom composites and spin-(N-1)/2 single atoms.
The equation of states is also obtained to open up the study of multi-component
TLL phases in 1D systems of N-component Fermi gases with population imbalance.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figure
Interpreting time-integrated polarization data of gamma-ray burst prompt emission
Aims. With the accumulation of polarization data in the gamma-ray burst (GRB)
prompt phase, polarization models can be tested. Methods. We predicted the
time-integrated polarizations of 37 GRBs with polarization observation. We used
their observed spectral parameters to do this. In the model, the emission
mechanism is synchrotron radiation, and the magnetic field configuration in the
emission region was assumed to be large-scale ordered. Therefore, the predicted
polarization degrees (PDs) are upper limits. Results. For most GRBs detected by
the Gamma-ray Burst Polarimeter (GAP), POLAR, and AstroSat, the predicted PD
can match the corresponding observed PD. Hence the synchrotron-emission model
in a large-scale ordered magnetic field can interpret both the moderately low
PDs () detected by POLAR and relatively high PDs ()
observed by GAP and AstroSat well. Therefore, the magnetic fields in these GRB
prompt phases or at least during the peak times are dominated by the ordered
component. However, the predicted PDs of GRB 110721A observed by GAP and GRB
180427A observed by AstroSat are both lower than the observed values. Because
the synchrotron emission in an ordered magnetic field predicts the upper-limit
of the PD for the synchrotron-emission models, PD observations of the two
bursts challenge the synchrotron-emission model. Then we predict the PDs of the
High-energy Polarimetry Detector (HPD) and Low-energy Polarimetry Detector
(LPD) on board the upcoming POLAR-2. In the synchrotron-emission models, the
concentrated PD values of the GRBs detected by HPD will be higher than the LPD,
which might be different from the predictions of the dissipative photosphere
model. Therefore, more accurate multiband polarization observations are highly
desired to test models of the GRB prompt phase.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, with updated AstroSat data, accepted by A
Decomposition of quantum Markov chains and its applications
© 2018 Elsevier Inc. Markov chains have been widely employed as a fundamental model in the studies of probabilistic and stochastic communicating and concurrent systems. It is well-understood that decomposition techniques play a key role in reachability analysis and model-checking of Markov chains. (Discrete-time) quantum Markov chains have been introduced as a model of quantum communicating systems [1] and also a semantic model of quantum programs [2]. The BSCC (Bottom Strongly Connected Component) and stationary coherence decompositions of quantum Markov chains were introduced in [3–5]. This paper presents a new decomposition technique, namely periodic decomposition, for quantum Markov chains. We further establish a limit theorem for them. As an application, an algorithm to find a maximum dimensional noiseless subsystem of a quantum communicating system is given using decomposition techniques of quantum Markov chains
Exactly solvable models and ultracold Fermi gases
Exactly solvable models of ultracold Fermi gases are reviewed via their
thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz solution. Analytical and numerical results are
obtained for the thermodynamics and ground state properties of two- and
three-component one-dimensional attractive fermions with population imbalance.
New results for the universal finite temperature corrections are given for the
two-component model. For the three-component model, numerical solution of the
dressed energy equations confirm that the analytical expressions for the
critical fields and the resulting phase diagrams at zero temperature are highly
accurate in the strong coupling regime. The results provide a precise
description of the quantum phases and universal thermodynamics which are
applicable to experiments with cold fermionic atoms confined to one-dimensional
tubes.Comment: based on an invited talk at Statphys24, Cairns (Australia) 2010. 16
pages, 6 figure
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