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Asymmetric Fermi Superfluid With Two Types Of Pairings
We investigate the phase diagram in the plane of temperature and chemical
potential mismatch for an asymmetric fermion superfluid with double- and
single-species pairings. There is no mixing of these two types of pairings at
fixed chemical potential, but the introduction of the single species pairing
cures the magnetic instability at low temperature.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure. Proceedings of Poster Session, Quark Matter 2006,
November 14-20, 2006, Shanghai, P.R.Chin
Interlayer Exchange Coupling Beyond the Proximity Force Approximation
Ion bombardment has been shown to be capable of enhancing the interlayer
exchange coupling in a trilayer system that exhibits giant magnetoresistance.
We demonstrate that this phenomenon can be derived from the phase coherence
among scattered paths within the two rough interfaces when their topographies
are correlated. In the case of mild corrugations, our method reproduces the
predictions by the proximity force approximation which does not consider the
interference. When the characteristic Fourier conjugate of the tomography
becomes large and comparable to the Fermi momentum, interesting new features
arise and can only be captured by our more general approach. Among our
findings, the scenario of an enhanced interlayer exchange coupling due to the
interface roughness is explained, along with how it depends on the sample
parameters. An additional channel for the resonant transmission is identified
due to extra scattering paths from the roughness.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, submitted to PRB (2010
Ground-state properties of one-dimensional ultracold Bose gases in a hard-wall trap
We investigate the ground state of the system of N bosons enclosed in a
hard-wall trap interacting via a repulsive or attractive -function
potential. Based on the Bethe ansatz method, the explicit ground state wave
function is derived and the corresponding Bethe ansatz equations are solved
numerically for the full physical regime from the Tonks limit to the strongly
attractive limit. It is shown that the solution takes different form in
different regime. We also evaluate the one body density matrix and second-order
correlation function of the ground state for finite systems. In the Tonks limit
the density profiles display the Fermi-like behavior, while in the strongly
attractive limit the Bosons form a bound state of N atoms corresponding to the
N-string solution. The density profiles show the continuous crossover behavior
in the entire regime. Further the correlation function indicates that the Bose
atoms bunch closer as the interaction constant decreases.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, version published in Phys. Rev.
Critical Behavior of an Ising System on the Sierpinski Carpet: A Short-Time Dynamics Study
The short-time dynamic evolution of an Ising model embedded in an infinitely
ramified fractal structure with noninteger Hausdorff dimension was studied
using Monte Carlo simulations. Completely ordered and disordered spin
configurations were used as initial states for the dynamic simulations. In both
cases, the evolution of the physical observables follows a power-law behavior.
Based on this fact, the complete set of critical exponents characteristic of a
second-order phase transition was evaluated. Also, the dynamic exponent of the critical initial increase in magnetization, as well as the critical
temperature, were computed. The exponent exhibits a weak dependence
on the initial (small) magnetization. On the other hand, the dynamic exponent
shows a systematic decrease when the segmentation step is increased, i.e.,
when the system size becomes larger. Our results suggest that the effective
noninteger dimension for the second-order phase transition is noticeably
smaller than the Hausdorff dimension. Even when the behavior of the
magnetization (in the case of the ordered initial state) and the
autocorrelation (in the case of the disordered initial state) with time are
very well fitted by power laws, the precision of our simulations allows us to
detect the presence of a soft oscillation of the same type in both magnitudes
that we attribute to the topological details of the generating cell at any
scale.Comment: 10 figures, 4 tables and 14 page
Subwavelength internal imaging by means of the wire medium
Evanescent wave amplification is observed, for the first time to our
knowledge, inside a half-wavelength-thick wire medium slab used for
subwavelength imaging. The wire medium is analyzed using both a spatially
dispersive finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method and a full-wave
commercial electromagnetic simulator CST Microwave Studio. In this work we
demonstrate that subwavelength details of a source placed at a distance of
one-tenth of a wavelength from a wire medium slab can be detected inside the
slab with a resolution of approximately one-tenth of a wavelength in spite of
the fact that they cannot be resolved at the front interface of the device, due
to the rapid decay of evanescent spatial harmonics in free space
Topological Effects caused by the Fractal Substrate on the Nonequilibrium Critical Behavior of the Ising Magnet
The nonequilibrium critical dynamics of the Ising magnet on a fractal
substrate, namely the Sierpinski carpet with Hausdorff dimension =1.7925,
has been studied within the short-time regime by means of Monte Carlo
simulations. The evolution of the physical observables was followed at
criticality, after both annealing ordered spin configurations (ground state)
and quenching disordered initial configurations (high temperature state), for
three segmentation steps of the fractal. The topological effects become evident
from the emergence of a logarithmic periodic oscillation superimposed to a
power law in the decay of the magnetization and its logarithmic derivative and
also from the dependence of the critical exponents on the segmentation step.
These oscillations are discussed in the framework of the discrete scale
invariance of the substrate and carefully characterized in order to determine
the critical temperature of the second-order phase transition and the critical
exponents corresponding to the short-time regime. The exponent of the
initial increase in the magnetization was also obtained and the results suggest
that it would be almost independent of the fractal dimension of the susbstrate,
provided that is close enough to d=2.Comment: 9 figures, 3 tables, 10 page
CMBR Constraint on a Modified Chaplygin Gas Model
In this paper, a modified Chaplygin gas model of unifying dark energy and
dark matter with exotic equation of state
which can also explain the recent accelerated expansion of the universe is
investigated by the means of constraining the location of the peak of the CMBR
spectrum. We find that the result of CMBR measurements does not exclude the
nonzero value of parameter , but allows it in the range .Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Twist-3 distribution amplitudes of scalar mesons from QCD sum rules
We study the twist-3 distribution amplitudes for scalar mesons made up of two
valence quarks based on QCD sum rules.
By choosing the proper correlation functions, we derive the moments of the
scalar mesons up to the first two order. Making use of these moments, we then
calculate the first two Gegenbauer coefficients for twist-3 distribution
amplitudes of scalar mesons. It is found that the second Gegenbauer
coefficients of scalar density twist-3 distribution amplitudes for
and mesons are quite close to that for , which indicates that the
SU(3) symmetry breaking effect is tiny here. However, this effect could not be
neglected for the forth Gegenbauer coefficients of scalar twist-3 distribution
amplitudes between and . Besides, we also observe that the first two
Gegenbauer coefficients corresponding to the tensor current twist-3
distribution amplitudes for all the , and are very small.
The renormalization group evolution of condensates, quark masses, decay
constants and moments are considered in our calculations. As a byproduct, it is
found that the masses for isospin I=1, scalar mesons are around
GeV and GeV respectively, while the mass for
isospin state composed of is GeV.Comment: replaced with revised version, to be published in Phys. Rev.
X-ray and optical periodicities in X-ray binaries. I.A0535+26
A homogeneous set of UBV photometry (354 data points obtained between 1983
and 1998) for the Be/X-ray binary A0535+26 = V725Tau is analysed, aiming to
look for possible periodic component(s). After subtraction of the long-term
variation it was found that only a 103-day periodic component remains in the
power spectra in both the V and B colour bands. The probability of chance
occurrence of such a peak is less than 0.1%. There are no signs of optical
variability at the X-ray period (111 d). We discuss possible reasons for a
103-day modulation and suggest that it corresponds to a beat frequency of the
orbital period of the neutron star and the precession period (~1400 d) either
of an accretion disc around the neutron star or a warped decretion disc around
the Be star.Comment: LaTeX, 6 pages, 5 figures, uses psfig.st
Bosonic topological insulator intermediate state in the superconductor-insulator transition
A low-temperature intervening metallic regime arising in the two-dimensional superconductor-insulator transition challenges our understanding of electronic fluids. Here we develop a gauge theory revealing that this emergent anomalous metal is a bosonic topological insulator where bulk transport is suppressed by mutual statistics interactions between out-of-condensate Cooper pairs and vortices and the longitudinal conductivity is mediated by symmetry-protected gapless edge modes. We explore the magnetic-field-driven superconductor-insulator transition in a niobium titanium nitride device and find marked signatures of a bosonic topological insulator behavior of the intervening regime with the saturating resistance. The observed superconductor-anomalous metal and insulator-anomalous metal dual phase transitions exhibit quantum Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless criticality in accord with the gauge theory
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