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Cosmology in Nonlinear Born-Infeld Scalar Field Theory With Negative Potentials
The cosmological evolution in Nonlinear Born-Infeld(hereafter NLBI) scalar
field theory with negative potentials was investigated. The cosmological
solutions in some important evolutive epoches were obtained. The different
evolutional behaviors between NLBI and linear(canonical) scalar field theory
have been presented. A notable characteristic is that NLBI scalar field behaves
as ordinary matter nearly the singularity while the linear scalar field behaves
as "stiff" matter. We find that in order to accommodate current observational
accelerating expanding universe the value of potential parameters and
must have an {\it upper bound}. We compare different cosmological
evolutions for different potential parameters .Comment: 18 pages, 18 figures, some references added, revised version for
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A, appeared in Int.J.Mod.Phys.
Generalized Sagnac Effect
Experiments were conducted to study light propagation in a light waveguide
loop consisting of linearly and circularly moving segments. We found that any
segment of the loop contributes to the total phase difference between two
counterpropagating light beams in the loop. The contribution is proportional to
a product of the moving velocity v and the projection of the segment length
Deltal on the moving direction, Deltaphi=4pivDeltal/clambda. It is independent
of the type of motion and the refractive index of waveguides. The finding
includes the Sagnac effect of rotation as a special case and suggests a new
fiber optic sensor for measuring linear motion with nanoscale sensitivity.Comment: 3 pages (including 3 figures
The Evolution of Universe with th B-I Type Phantom Scalar Field
We considered the phantom cosmology with a lagrangian ,
which is original from the nonlinear Born-Infeld type scalar field with the
lagrangian . This cosmological model can explain the
accelerated expansion of the universe with the equation of state parameter
. We get a sufficient condition for a arbitrary potential to admit a
late time attractor solution: the value of potential at the critical
point should be maximum and large than zero. We study a specific
potential with the form of
via phase plane
analysis and compute the cosmological evolution by numerical analysis in
detail. The result shows that the phantom field survive till today (to account
for the observed late time accelerated expansion) without interfering with the
nucleosynthesis of the standard model(the density parameter
at the equipartition epoch), and also avoid the
future collapse of the universe.Comment: 17 pages, 10 figures,typos corrected, references added,figures added
and enriched, title changed, main result remaine
Fluctuation-driven insulator-to-metal transition in an external magnetic field
We consider a model for a metal-insulator transition of correlated electrons
in an external magnetic field. We find a broad region in interaction and
magnetic field where metallic and insulating (fully magnetized) solutions
coexist and the system undergoes a first-order metal-insulator transition. A
global instability of the magnetically saturated solution precedes the local
ones and is caused by collective fluctuations due to poles in electron-hole
vertex functions.Comment: REVTeX 4 pages, 3 PS figure
Emitter-site selective photoelectron circular dichroism of trifluoromethyloxirane
The angle-resolved inner-shell photoionization of R-trifluoromethyloxirane,
C3H3F3O, is studied experimentally and theoretically. Thereby, we investigate
the photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) for nearly-symmetric O 1s and F 1s
electronic orbitals, which are localized on different molecular sites. The
respective dichroic and angular distribution parameters
are measured at the photoelectron kinetic energies from 1 to 16 eV by using
variably polarized synchrotron radiation and velocity map imaging spectroscopy.
The present experimental results are in good agreement with the outcome of ab
initio electronic structure calculations. We report a sizable chiral asymmetry
of up to about 9% for the K-shell photoionization of oxygen atom.
For the individual fluorine atoms, the present calculations predict asymmetries
of similar size. However, being averaged over all fluorine atoms, it drops down
to about 2%, as also observed in the present experiment. Our study demonstrates
a strong emitter- and site-sensitivity of PECD in the one-photon inner-shell
ionization of this chiral molecule
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Relation of Cognitive Reserve and Task Performance to Expression of Regional Covariance Networks in an Event-Related fMRI Study of Nonverbal Memory
Cognitive reserve (CR) has been established as a mechanism that can explain individual differences in the clinical manifestation of neural changes associated with aging or neurodegenerative diseases. CR may represent individual differences in how tasks are processed (i.e., differences in the component processes), or in the underlying neural circuitry (of the component processes). CR may be a function of innate differences or differential life experiences. To investigate to what extent CR can account for individual differences in brain activation and task performance, we used fMRI to image healthy young individuals while performing a nonverbal memory task. We used IQ estimates as a proxy for CR. During both study and test phase of the task, we identified regional covariance patterns whose change in subject expression across two task conditions correlated with performance and CR. Common brain regions in both activation patterns were suggestive of a brain network previously found to underlie overt and covert shifts of spatial attention. After partialing out the influence of task performance variables, this network still showed an association with the CR, i.e., there were reserve-related physiological differences that presumably would persist were there no subject differences in task performance. This suggests that this network may represent a neural correlate of CR
Thermoelectric Response Near the Density Driven Mott Transition
We investigate the thermoelectric response of correlated electron systems
near the density driven Mott transition using the dynamical mean field theory.Comment: 4 pages, 2 embedded figure
Time Dependent Solution in Cubic String Field Theory
We study time dependent solutions in cubic open string field theory which are
expected to describe the configuration of the rolling tachyon. We consider the
truncated system consisting of component fields of level zero and two, which
are expanded in terms of cosh n x^0 modes. For studying the large time behavior
of the solution we need to know the coefficients of all and, in particular,
large n modes. We examine numerically the coefficients of the n-th mode, and
find that it has the leading n-dependence of the form (-\beta)^n \lambda^{-n^2}
multiplied by a peculiar subleading part with peaks at
n=2^m=4,8,16,32,64,128,.... This behavior is also reproduced analytically by
solving simplified equations of motion of the tachyon system.Comment: 22 pages, 12 figures, LaTeX2e, v3:minor correction
Patterns in Open String Field Theory Solutions
In open string field theory the kinetic operator mixes matter and ghost
sectors, and thus the ghost structure of classical solutions is not universal.
Nevertheless, we have found from numerical analysis that certain ratios of
expectation values for states involving pure ghost excitations appear to be
universal. We give an analytic expression for these ratios and find good
evidence that they are common to all known solutions of open string field
theory, including the tachyon vacuum solution, lump solutions and string fields
representing marginal deformations. We also draw attention to a close
correspondence between the expectation values for the pure matter components in
the tachyon vacuum solution and those in the solution of a simpler equation for
a ghost number zero string field. Finally we observe that the action of L_0 on
the tachyon condensate gives a state that is approximately factorized into a
matter and a ghost part.Comment: 21 pages, LaTe
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