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Edge and bulk merons in double quantum dots with spontaneous interlayer phase coherence
We have investigated nucleation of merons in double quantum dots when a
lateral distortion with a reflection symmetry is present in the confinement
potential. We find that merons can nucleate both inside and at the edge of the
dots. In addition to these merons, our results show that electron density
modulations can be also present inside the dots. An edge meron appears to have
approximately a half integer winding number.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of 17th International Conference on
High Magnetic Fields in Semiconductor Physic
Hole maximum density droplets of an antidot in strong magnetic fields
We investigate a quantum antidot in the integer quantum Hall regime (the
filling factor is two) by using a Hartree-Fock approach and by transforming the
electron antidot into a system which confines holes via an electron-hole
transformation. We find that its ground state is the maximum density droplet of
holes in certain parameter ranges. The competition between electron-electron
interactions and the confinement potential governs the properties of the hole
droplet such as its spin configuration. The ground-state transitions between
the droplets with different spin configurations occur as magnetic field varies.
For a bell-shape antidot containing about 300 holes, the features of the
transitions are in good agreement with the predictions of a recently proposed
capacitive interaction model for antidots as well as recent experimental
observations. We show this agreement by obtaining the parameters of the
capacitive interaction model from the Hartree-Fock results. An inverse
parabolic antidot is also studied. Its ground-state transitions, however,
display different magnetic-field dependence from that of a bell-shape antidot.
Our study demonstrates that the shape of antidot potential affects its physical
properties significantly.Comment: 12 pages, 11 figure
NO sub X Deposited in the Stratosphere by the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motors
The possible effects of the interaction of the plumes from the two solid rocket motors (SRM) from the space shuttles and mixing of the rocket exhaust products and ambient air in the base recirculation region on the total nitrous oxide deposition rate in the stratosphere were investigated. It was shown that these phenomena will not influence the total NOx deposition rate. It was also shown that uncertainties in the particle size of Al2O3, size distributions and particle/gas drag and heat transfer coefficients will not have a significant effect on the predicted NOx deposition rate. The final results show that the total mass flow of NOx leaving the plume at 30 km altitude is 4000 g./sec with a possible error factor of 3. For a vehicle velocity of 1140 meter/sec this yields an NOx deposition rate of about 3.5 g./meter. The corresponding HCl deposition rate at this altitude is about a factor of 500 greater than this value
Conserved cosmological structures in the one-loop superstring effective action
A generic form of low-energy effective action of superstring theories with
one-loop quantum correction is well known. Based on this action we derive the
complete perturbation equations and general analytic solutions in the
cosmological spacetime. Using the solutions we identify conserved quantities
characterizing the perturbations: the amplitude of gravitational wave and the
perturbed three-space curvature in the uniform-field gauge both in the
large-scale limit, and the angular-momentum of rotational perturbation are
conserved independently of changing gravity sector. Implications for
calculating perturbation spectra generated in the inflation era based on the
string action are presented.Comment: 5 pages, no figure, To appear in Phys. Rev.
Unified Analysis of Cosmological Perturbations in Generalized Gravity
In a class of generalized Einstein's gravity theories we derive the equations
and general asymptotic solutions describing the evolution of the perturbed
universe in unified forms. Our gravity theory considers general couplings
between the scalar field and the scalar curvature in the Lagrangian, thus
includes broad classes of generalized gravity theories resulting from recent
attempts for the unification. We analyze both the scalar-type mode and the
gravitational wave in analogous ways. For both modes the large scale evolutions
are characterized by the same conserved quantities which are valid in the
Einstein's gravity. This unified and simple treatment is possible due to our
proper choice of the gauges, or equivalently gauge invariant combinations.Comment: 4 pages, revtex, no figure
Cosmological perturbations in a gravity with quadratic order curvature couplings
We present a set of equations describing the evolution of the scalar-type
cosmological perturbation in a gravity with general quadratic order curvature
coupling terms. Equations are presented in a gauge ready form, thus are ready
to implement various temporal gauge conditions depending on the problems. The
Ricci-curvature square term leads to a fourth-order differential equation for
describing the spacetime fluctuations in a spatially homogeneous and isotropic
cosmological background.Comment: 5 pages, no figure, To appear in Phys. Rev.
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