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Negative Binomial States of the Radiation Field and their Excitations are Nonlinear Coherent States
We show that the well-known negative binomial states of the radiation field
and their excitations are nonlinear coherent states. Excited nonlinear coherent
state are still nonlinear coherent states with different nonlinear functions.
We finally give exponential form of the nonlinear coherent states and remark
that the binomial states are not nonlinear coherent states.Comment: 10 pages, no figure
The C-metric as a colliding plane wave space-time
It is explicitly shown that part of the C-metric space-time inside the black
hole horizon may be interpreted as the interaction region of two colliding
plane waves with aligned linear polarization, provided the rotational
coordinate is replaced by a linear one. This is a one-parameter generalization
of the degenerate Ferrari-Ibanez solution in which the focussing singularity is
a Cauchy horizon rather than a curvature singularity.Comment: 6 pages. To appear in Classical and Quantum Gravit
Imaging and burst location with the EXIST high-energy telescope
The primary instrument of the proposed EXIST mission is a coded mask high
energy telescope (the HET), that must have a wide field of view and extremely
good sensitivity. It will be crucial to minimize systematic errors so that even
for very long total integration times the imaging performance is close to the
statistical photon limit. There is also a requirement to be able to reconstruct
images on-board in near real time in order to detect and localize gamma-ray
bursts. This must be done while the spacecraft is scanning the sky. The
scanning provides all-sky coverage and is key to reducing systematic errors.
The on-board computational problem is made even more challenging for EXIST by
the very large number of detector pixels. Numerous alternative designs for the
HET have been evaluated. The baseline concept adopted depends on a unique coded
mask with two spatial scales. Monte Carlo simulations and analytic analysis
techniques have been used to demonstrate the capabilities of the design and of
the proposed two-step burst localization procedure
Experimental investigation of spark assisted auto-ignition combustion in a small two-stroke engine
The local temperature of the in-cylinder mixture before combustion is critical to enable auto-ignition (AI) in a gasoline engine. Spark assistance is one of the methods to ensure the critical temperature required for auto-ignition. The application of the spark gives a time controlled initiation to the onset of ignition. In the work reported in this paper, spark assisted AI was experimentally investigated on a small two-stroke engine. The spark assistance and internal exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) were jointly applied to achieve and control AI. The results showed that at higher engine load, the onset timing of AI had a clear dependence on the timing of the spark and was consistent from cycle to cycle. At lower engine load, the assistance of the spark became necessary for keeping the AI operation to continue. © 2008 SAE International
Topology of the polarization field in ferroelectric nanowires from first principles
The behaviour of the cross-sectional polarization field is explored for thin
nanowires of barium titanate from first-principles calculations. Topological
defects of different winding numbers have been obtained, beyond the known
textures in ferroelectric nanostructures. They result from the inward
accommodation of the polarization patterns imposed at the surface of the wire
by surface and edge effects. Close to a topological defect the polarization
field orients out of the basal plane in some cases, maintaining a close to
constant magnitude, whereas it virtually vanishes in other cases.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Effects of Mirror Aberrations on Laguerre-Gaussian Beams in Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Detectors
A fundamental limit to the sensitivity of optical interferometers is imposed
by Brownian thermal fluctuations of the mirrors' surfaces. This thermal noise
can be reduced by using larger beams which "average out" the random
fluctuations of the surfaces. It has been proposed previously that wider,
higher-order Laguerre-Gaussian modes can be used to exploit this effect. In
this article, we show that susceptibility to spatial imperfections of the
mirrors' surfaces limits the effectiveness of this approach in interferometers
used for gravitational-wave detection. Possible methods of reducing this
susceptibility are also discussed.Comment: 10 pages, 11 figure
Dynamics of Vortex Core Switching in Ferromagnetic Nanodisks
Dynamics of magnetic vortex core switching in nanometer-scale permalloy disk,
having a single vortex ground state, was investigated by micromagnetic
modeling. When an in-plane magnetic field pulse with an appropriate strength
and duration is applied to the vortex structure, additional two vortices, i.e.,
a circular- and an anti-vortex, are created near the original vortex core.
Sequentially, the vortex-antivortex pair annihilates. A spin wave is created at
the annihilation point and propagated through the entire element; the relaxed
state for the system is the single vortex state with a switched vortex core.Comment: to appear in Appl. Phys. Let
Semiclassical Strings in Electric and Magnetic Fields Deformed Spacetimes
We first apply the transformation of mixing azimuthal and internal coordinate
or mixing time and internal coordinate to the 11D M-theory with a stack N
M2-branes to find the spacetime of a stack of N D2-branes with magnetic or
electric flux in 10 D IIA string theory, after the Kaluza-Klein reduction. We
then perform the T duality to the spacetime to find the background of a stack
of N D3-branes with magnetic or electric flux. In the near-horizon limit the
background becomes the magnetic or electric field deformed .
We adopt an ansatz to find the classical string solution which is rotating in
the deformed with three angular momenta in the three rotation planes. The
relations between the classical string energy and its angular momenta are found
and results show that the external magnetic and electric fluxes will increase
the string energy. Therefore, from the AdS/CFT point of view, the corrections
of the anomalous dimensions of operators in the dual SYM theory will be
positive. We also investigate the small fluctuations in these solutions and
discuss the effects of magnetic and electric fields on the stability of these
classical rotating string solutions. Finally, we find the possible solutions of
string pulsating on the deformed spacetimes and show that the corrections to
the anomalous dimensions of operators in the dual SYM theory are non-negative.Comment: Latex 18 pages, correct sec. 3.
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