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Neutrino reactions on La and Ta via charged and neutral currents by the Quasi-particle Random Phase Approximation (QRPA)
Cosmological origins of the two heaviest odd-odd nuclei, La and
Ta, are believed to be closely related to the neutrino-process. We
investigate in detail neutrino-induced reactions on the nuclei. Charged current
(CC) reactions, BaLa and HfTa, are calculated by the standard Quasi-particle Random Phase
Approximation (QRPA) with neutron-proton pairing as well as neutron-neutron,
proton-proton pairing correlations. For neutral current (NC) reactions,
La{La} and TaTa, we generate ground and excited states of odd-even target nuclei,
La and Ta, by operating one quasi-particle to even-even nuclei,
Ba and Hf, which are assumed as the BCS ground state. Numerical
results for CC reactions are shown to be consistent with recent semi-empirical
data deduced from the Gamow-Teller strength distributions measured in the
(He, t) reaction. Results for NC reactions are estimated to be smaller by
a factor about 4 5 rather than those by CC reactions. Finally, cross
sections weighted by the incident neutrino flux in the core collapsing
supernova are presented for further applications to the network calculations
for relevant nuclear abundances
Non-equilibrium melting of colloidal crystals in confinement
We report on a novel and flexible experiment to investigate the
non-equilibrium melting behaviour of model crystals made from charged colloidal
spheres. In a slit geometry polycrystalline material formed in a low salt
region is driven by hydrostatic pressure up an evolving gradient in salt
concentration and melts at large salt concentration. Depending on particle and
initial salt concentration, driving velocity and the local salt concentration
complex morphologic evolution is observed. Crystal-melt interface positions and
the melting velocity are obtained quantitatively from time resolved Bragg- and
polarization microscopic measurements. A simple theoretical model predicts the
interface to first advance, then for balanced drift and melting velocities to
become stationary at a salt concentration larger than the equilibrium melting
concentration. It also describes the relaxation of the interface to its
equilibrium position in a stationary gradient after stopping the drive in
different manners. We further discuss the influence of the gradient strength on
the resulting interface morphology and a shear induced morphologic transition
from polycrystalline to oriented single crystalline material before melting
Large magnetoresistance using hybrid spin filter devices
A magnetic "spin filter" tunnel barrier, sandwiched between a non-magnetic
metal and a magnetic metal, is used to create a new magnetoresistive tunnel
device, somewhat analogous to an optical polarizer-analyzer configuration. The
resistance of these trilayer structures depends on the relative magnetization
orientation of the spin filter and the ferromagnetic electrode. The spin
filtering in this configuration yields a previously unobserved
magnetoresistance effect, exceeding 100%.Comment: 3.5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Appl. Phys. Let
1/t pressure and fermion behaviour of water in two dimensions
A variety of metal vacuum systems display the celebrated 1/t pressure, namely
power-law dependence on time t, with the exponent close to unity, the origin of
which has been a long-standing controversy. Here we propose a chemisorption
model for water adsorbates, based on the argument for fermion behaviour of
water vapour adsorbed on a stainless-steel surface, and obtain analytically the
power-law behaviour of pressure, with an exponent of unity. Further, the model
predicts that the pressure should depend on the temperature T according to
T^(3/2), which is indeed confirmed by our experiment. Our results should help
elucidate the unique characteristics of the adsorbed water.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figure
Size dependent line broadening in the emission spectra of single GaAs quantum dots: Impact of surface charges on spectral diffusion
Making use of droplet epitaxy, we systematically controlled the height of
self-assembled GaAs quantum dots by more than one order of magnitude. The
photoluminescence spectra of single quantum dots revealed the strong dependence
of the spectral linewidth on the dot height. Tall dots with a height of ~30 nm
showed broad spectral peaks with an average width as large as ~5 meV, but
shallow dots with a height of ~2 nm showed resolution-limited spectral lines
(<120 micro eV). The measured height dependence of the linewidths is in good
agreement with Stark coefficients calculated for the experimental shape
variation. We attribute the microscopic source of fluctuating electric fields
to the random motion of surface charges at the vacuum-semiconductor interface.
Our results offer guidelines for creating frequency-locked photon sources,
which will serve as key devices for long-distance quantum key distribution.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures; updated figs and their description
Persistence length of a polyelectrolyte in salty water: a Monte-Carlo study
We address the long standing problem of the dependence of the electrostatic
persistence length of a flexible polyelectrolyte (PE) on the screening
length of the solution within the linear Debye-Huckel theory. The
standard Odijk, Skolnick and Fixman (OSF) theory suggests ,
while some variational theories and computer simulations suggest . In this paper, we use Monte-Carlo simulations to study the conformation
of a simple polyelectrolyte. Using four times longer PEs than in previous
simulations and refined methods for the treatment of the simulation data, we
show that the results are consistent with the OSF dependence . The linear charge density of the PE which enters in the coefficient of
this dependence is properly renormalized to take into account local
fluctuations.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures. Various corrections in text and reference
Singular Cucker-Smale Dynamics
The existing state of the art for singular models of flocking is overviewed,
starting from microscopic model of Cucker and Smale with singular communication
weight, through its mesoscopic mean-filed limit, up to the corresponding
macroscopic regime. For the microscopic Cucker-Smale (CS) model, the
collision-avoidance phenomenon is discussed, also in the presence of bonding
forces and the decentralized control. For the kinetic mean-field model, the
existence of global-in-time measure-valued solutions, with a special emphasis
on a weak atomic uniqueness of solutions is sketched. Ultimately, for the
macroscopic singular model, the summary of the existence results for the
Euler-type alignment system is provided, including existence of strong
solutions on one-dimensional torus, and the extension of this result to higher
dimensions upon restriction on the smallness of initial data. Additionally, the
pressureless Navier-Stokes-type system corresponding to particular choice of
alignment kernel is presented, and compared - analytically and numerically - to
the porous medium equation
Growth in solvable subgroups of GL_r(Z/pZ)
Let and let be a subset of \GL_r(K) such that is
solvable. We reduce the study of the growth of $A$ under the group operation to
the nilpotent setting. Specifically we prove that either $A$ grows rapidly
(meaning $|A\cdot A\cdot A|\gg |A|^{1+\delta}$), or else there are groups $U_R$
and $S$, with $S/U_R$ nilpotent such that $A_k\cap S$ is large and
$U_R\subseteq A_k$, where $k$ is a bounded integer and $A_k = \{x_1 x_2...b x_k
: x_i \in A \cup A^{-1} \cup {1}}$. The implied constants depend only on the
rank $r$ of $\GL_r(K)$.
When combined with recent work by Pyber and Szab\'o, the main result of this
paper implies that it is possible to draw the same conclusions without
supposing that is solvable.Comment: 46 pages. This version includes revisions recommended by an anonymous
referee including, in particular, the statement of a new theorem, Theorem
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