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Edge-induced spin polarization in two-dimensional electron gas
We characterize the role of the spin-orbit coupling between electrons and the confining potential of the edge in nonequilibrium two-dimensional homogeneous electronic gas. We derive a simple analytical result for the magnitude of the current-induced spin polarization at the edge and prove that it is independent of the details of the confinement edge potential and the electronic density within realistic values of the parameters of the considered models. While the amplitude of the spin accumulation is comparable to the experimental values of extrinsic spin-Hall effect in similar samples, the spatial extent of edge-induced effect is restricted to the distances on the order of Fermi wavelength (similar to 10 nm)
Cosmological Brightness Distribution Fits of Gamma Ray Burst Sources
We discuss detailed fits of the BATSE and PVO gamma-ray burst peak-flux
distributions with Friedman models taking into account possible density
evolution and standard candle or power law luminosity functions. A chi-square
analysis is used to estimate the goodness of the fits and we derive the
significance level of limits on the density evolution and luminosity function
parameters. Cosmological models provide a good fit over a range of parameter
space which is physically reasonable.Comment: Ap.J. in press, uuencoded .ps file, 9 pages manuscript plus 5 figure
An assessment of the newest magnetar-SNR associations
Anomalous X-ray Pulsars and Soft-Gamma Repeaters groups are magnetar
candidates featuring low characteristic ages ().
At least some of them they should still be associated with the remnants of the
explosive events in which they were born, giving clues to the type of events
leading to their birth and the physics behind the apparent high value of the
magnetar magnetic fields. To explain the high values of , a self-consistent
picture of field growth also suggests that energy injection into the SNR is
large and unavoidable, in contrast with the evolution of {\it conventional}
SNR. This modified dynamics, in turn, has important implications for the
proposed associations. We show that this scenario yields low ages for the new
candidates CXOU J171405.7-381031/CTB 37B and XMMU J173203.3-344518/G353.6-0.7,
and predicted values agree with recently found , giving support to
the overall picture.Comment: Contributed talk to the ASTRONS 2010 Conference, Cesme, Turkey, Aug.
2-6 201
Analysis of the BATSE Continuous MER data
The CGRO/BATSE database includes many types of data such as the 16-channel
continuous background or medium energy resolution burst data (CONT and MER data
types). We have calculated some four hundred burst's medium energy resolution
spectra and Principal Component Analysis has been applied. We found five
components can describe GRBs' spectra.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, accepted in Nuovo Ciment
Strings in plane-fronted gravitational waves
Brinkmann's plane-fronted gravitational waves with parallel rays --~shortly
pp-waves~-- are shown to provide, under suitable conditions, exact string vacua
at all orders of the sigma-model perturbation expansion.Comment: 7 pages, no figure
Thermodynamics of black holes in finite boxes
We analyze the thermodynamical behavior of black holes in closed finite
boxes. First the black hole mass evolution is analyzed in an initially empty
box. Using the conservation of the energy and the Hawking evaporation flux, we
deduce a minimal volume above which one black hole can loss all of its mass to
the box, a result which agrees with the previous analysis made by Page. We then
obtain analogous results using a box initially containing radiation, allowed to
be absorbed by the black hole. The equilibrium times and masses are evaluated
and their behavior discussed to highlight some interesting features arising.
These results are generalized to black holes + thermal radiation. Using
physically simple arguments, we prove that these black holes achieve the same
equilibrium masses (even that the initial masses were different). The entropy
of the system is used to obtain the dependence of the equilibrium mass on the
box volume, number of black holes and the initial radiation. The equilibrium
mass is shown to be proportional to a {\it positive} power law of the effective
volume (contrary to naive expectations), a result explained in terms of the
detailed features of the system. The effect of the reflection of the radiation
on the box walls which comes back into the black hole is explicitly considered.
All these results (some of them counter-intuitive) may be useful to formulate
alternative problems in thermodynamic courses for graduate and advanced
undergraduate students. A handful of them are suggested in the Appendix.Comment: RevTex file, 2 .ps figures. Submitted to AmJPhy
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