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Nuclear modification factor in intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions
The transverse momentum dependent nuclear modification factors (NMF), namely
, is investigated for protons produced in Au + Au at 1 GeV within
the framework of the isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics (IQMD) model.
It is found that the radial collective motion during the expansion stage
affects the NMF at low transverse momentum a lot. By fitting the transverse
mass spectra of protons with the distribution function from the Blast-Wave
model, the magnitude of radial flow can be extracted. After removing the
contribution from radial flow, the can be regarded as a thermal one
and is found to keep unitary at transverse momentum lower than 0.6 GeV/c and
enhance at higher transverse momentum, which can be attributed to Cronin
effect.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures; aceepted by Physics Letters
Antiferromagnetic fluctuations in the normal state of LiFeAs
We present a detailed study of 75As NMR Knight shift and spin-lattice
relaxation rate in the normal state of stoichiometric polycrystalline LiFeAs.
Our analysis of the Korringa relation suggests that LiFeAs exhibits strong
antiferromagnetic fluctuations, if transferred hyperfine coupling is a dominant
interaction between 75As nuclei and Fe electronic spins, whereas for an on-site
hyperfine coupling scenario, these are weaker, but still present to account for
our experimental observations. Density-functional calculations of electric
field gradient correctly reproduce the experimental values for both 75As and
7Li sites.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, thoroughly revised version with refined
experimental data, accepted for publication as a Rapid Communication in
Physical Review B
Phonon arithmetic in a trapped ion system
Single-quantum level operations are important tools to manipulate a quantum state. Annihilation or creation of single particles translates a quantum state to another by adding or subtracting a particle, depending on how many are already in the given state. The operations are probabilistic and the success rate has yet been low in their experimental realization. Here we experimentally demonstrate (near) deterministic addition and subtraction of a bosonic particle, in particular a phonon of ionic motion in a harmonic potential. We realize the operations by coupling phonons to an auxiliary two-level system and applying transitionless adiabatic passage. We show handy repetition of the operations on various initial states and demonstrate by the reconstruction of the density matrices that the operations preserve coherences. We observe the transformation of a classical state to a highly non-classical one and a Gaussian state to a non-Gaussian one by applying a sequence of operations deterministically
Pressure shift of the superconducting T_c of LiFeAs
The effect of hydrostatic pressure on the superconductivity in LiFeAs is
investigated up to 1.8 GPa. The superconducting transition temperature, T_c,
decreases linearly with pressure at a rate of 1.5 K/GPa. The negative pressure
coefficient of T_c and the high ambient pressure T_c indicate that LiFeAs is
the high-pressure analogue of the isoelectronic SrFe_2As_2 and BaFe_2As_2.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figure
Positive Semidefiniteness and Positive Definiteness of a Linear Parametric Interval Matrix
We consider a symmetric matrix, the entries of which depend linearly on some
parameters. The domains of the parameters are compact real intervals. We
investigate the problem of checking whether for each (or some) setting of the
parameters, the matrix is positive definite (or positive semidefinite). We
state a characterization in the form of equivalent conditions, and also propose
some computationally cheap sufficient\,/\,necessary conditions. Our results
extend the classical results on positive (semi-)definiteness of interval
matrices. They may be useful for checking convexity or non-convexity in global
optimization methods based on branch and bound framework and using interval
techniques
Infrared stability of ABJ-like theories
We consider marginal deformations of the superconformal ABJM/ABJ models which
preserve N=2 supersymmetry. We determine perturbatively the spectrum of fixed
points and study their infrared stability. We find a closed line of fixed
points which is IR stable. The fixed point corresponding to the ABJM/ABJ models
is stable under marginal deformations which respect the original SU(2)xSU(2)
invariance, while deformations which break this group destabilize the theory
which then flows to a less symmetric fixed point. We discuss the addition of
flavor degrees of freedom. We prove that in general a flavor marginal
superpotential does not destabilize the system in the IR. An exception is
represented by a marginal coupling which mixes matter charged under different
gauge sectors. Finally, we consider the case of relevant deformations which
should drive the system to a strongly coupled IR fixed point recently
investigated in arXiv:0909.2036 [hep-th].Comment: 1+11 pages, 4 figures; v2: minor correction
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