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STM imaging of electronic waves on the surface of BiTe: topologically protected surface states and hexagonal warping effects
Scanning tunneling spectroscopy studies on high-quality BiTe crystals
exhibit perfect correspondence to ARPES data, hence enabling identification of
different regimes measured in the local density of states (LDOS). Oscillations
of LDOS near a step are analyzed. Within the main part of the surface band
oscillations are strongly damped, supporting the hypothesis of topological
protection. At higher energies, as the surface band becomes concave,
oscillations appear which disperse with a particular wave-vector that may
result from an unconventional hexagonal warping term.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures. Revised manuscript with improved analysis and
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Neutron Stars with Hyperons subject to Strong Magnetic Field
Neutron stars are one of the most exotic objects in the universe and a unique
laboratory to study the nuclear matter above the nuclear saturation density. In
this work, we study the equation of state of the nuclear matter within a
relativistic model subjected to a strong magnetic field. We then apply this EoS
to study and describe some of the physical characteristics of neutron star,
especially the mass-radius relation and chemical compositions. To study the
influence of a the magnetic field and the hyperons in the stellar interior, we
consider altogether four solutions: two different values of magnetic field to
obtain a weak and a strong influence, and two configurations: a family of
neutron stars formed only by protons, electrons and neutrons and a family
formed by protons, electrons, neutrons, muons and hyperons. The limit and the
validity of the results found are discussed with some care. In all cases the
particles that constitute the neutron star are in equilibrium and zero
total net charge. Our work indicates that the effect of a strong magnetic field
has to be taken into account in the description of magnetars, mainly if we
believe that there are hyperons in their interior, in which case, the influence
of the magnetic field can increase the mass by more than 10%. We have also seen
that although a magnetar can reach 2.48, a natural explanation of
why we do not know pulsars with masses above 2.0 arises. We also
discuss how the magnetic field affects the strangeness fraction in some
standard neutron star masses and, to conclude our paper, we revisit the direct
URCA process related to the cooling of the neutron stars and show how it is
affected by the hyperons and the magnetic field.Comment: 16 pages, 8 figure
Global noise and oscillations in clustered excitable media
We study the effects of global noise on waves in heterogeneous, spatially clustered, reaction-diffusion systems with possible applications to calcium signaling. We first discuss how clustering of the excitability determines the dynamics by shifting bifurcation points and creating new oscillatory solutions. We then consider the specific situation, where intrinsic noise, due to the smallness of the excitable patches, destroys the global oscillatory state. We show that additional small global fluctuations, however, can partially restore temporal and spatial coherence of the oscillatory signal.U. S. National Science Foundation of China [IOS-0744798, 10775114
A Multi-Code Analysis Toolkit for Astrophysical Simulation Data
The analysis of complex multiphysics astrophysical simulations presents a
unique and rapidly growing set of challenges: reproducibility, parallelization,
and vast increases in data size and complexity chief among them. In order to
meet these challenges, and in order to open up new avenues for collaboration
between users of multiple simulation platforms, we present yt (available at
http://yt.enzotools.org/), an open source, community-developed astrophysical
analysis and visualization toolkit. Analysis and visualization with yt are
oriented around physically relevant quantities rather than quantities native to
astrophysical simulation codes. While originally designed for handling Enzo's
structure adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) data, yt has been extended to work
with several different simulation methods and simulation codes including Orion,
RAMSES, and FLASH. We report on its methods for reading, handling, and
visualizing data, including projections, multivariate volume rendering,
multi-dimensional histograms, halo finding, light cone generation and
topologically-connected isocontour identification. Furthermore, we discuss the
underlying algorithms yt uses for processing and visualizing data, and its
mechanisms for parallelization of analysis tasks.Comment: 18 pages, 6 figures, emulateapj format. Resubmitted to Astrophysical
Journal Supplement Series with revisions from referee. yt can be found at
http://yt.enzotools.org
Imaging nonequilibrium atomic vibrations with x-ray diffuse scattering
For over a century, x-ray scattering has been the most powerful tool for
determining the equilibrium structure of crystalline materials. Deviations from
perfect periodicity, for example due to thermal motion of the atoms, reduces
the intensity of the Bragg peaks as well as produces structure in the diffuse
scattering background. Analysis of the thermal diffuse scattering (TDS) had
been used to determine interatomic force constants and phonon dispersion in
relatively simple cases before inelastic neutron scattering became the
preferred technique to study lattice dynamics. With the advent of intense
synchrotron x-ray sources, there was a renewed interest in TDS for measuring
phonon dispersion. The relatively short x-ray pulses emanating from these
sources also enables the measurement of phonon dynamics in the time domain.
Prior experiments on nonequilibrium phonons were either limited by
time-resolution and/or to relatively long wavelength excitations. Here we
present the first images of nonequilibrium phonons throughout the Brillouin
zone in photoexcited III-V semiconductors, indium-phosphide and
indium-antimonide, using picosecond time-resolved diffuse scattering. In each
case, we find that the lattice remain out of equilibrium for several hundred
picoseconds up to nanoseconds after laser excitation. The non-equilibrium
population is dominated by transverse acoustic phonons which in InP are
directed along high-symmetry directions. The results have wide implications for
the detailed study of electron-phonon and phonon-phonon coupling in solids.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figure
Spatial Resolution of a Micromegas-TPC Using the Charge Dispersion Signal
The Time Projection Chamber (TPC) for the International Linear Collider will
need to measure about 200 track points with a resolution close to 100 m. A
Micro Pattern Gas Detector (MPGD) readout TPC could achieve the desired
resolution with existing techniques using sub-millimeter width pads at the
expense of a large increase in the detector cost and complexity. We have
recently applied a new MPGD readout concept of charge dispersion to a prototype
GEM-TPC and demonstrated the feasibility of achieving good resolution with pads
similar in width to the ones used for the proportional wire TPC. The charge
dispersion studies were repeated with a Micromegas TPC amplification stage. We
present here our first results on the Micromegas-TPC resolution with charge
dispersion. The TPC resolution with the Micromegas readout is compared to our
earlier GEM results and to the resolution expected from electron statistics and
transverse diffusion in a gaseous TPC.Comment: 5 pages, 8 figures, to appar in the Proceedings of the 2005
International Linear Collider Workshop (LCWS05), Stanford, 18-22 March 200
Solving a Coupled Set of Truncated QCD Dyson-Schwinger Equations
Truncated Dyson-Schwinger equations represent finite subsets of the equations
of motion for Green's functions. Solutions to these non-linear integral
equations can account for non-perturbative correlations. A closed set of
coupled Dyson-Schwinger equations for the propagators of gluons and ghosts in
Landau gauge QCD is obtained by neglecting all contributions from irreducible
4-point correlations and by implementing the Slavnov-Taylor identities for the
3-point vertex functions. We solve this coupled set in an one-dimensional
approximation which allows for an analytic infrared expansion necessary to
obtain numerically stable results. This technique, which was also used in our
previous solution of the gluon Dyson-Schwinger equation in the Mandelstam
approximation, is here extended to solve the coupled set of integral equations
for the propagators of gluons and ghosts simultaneously. In particular, the
gluon propagator is shown to vanish for small spacelike momenta whereas the
previoulsy neglected ghost propagator is found to be enhanced in the infrared.
The running coupling of the non-perturbative subtraction scheme approaches an
infrared stable fixed point at a critical value of the coupling, alpha_c
approximately 9.5.Comment: 23 pages, 6 figures, LaTeX2
Tuning magnetic chirality by dipolar interactions
Chiral magnetism has gained enormous interest in recent years because of the
anticipated wealth of applications in nanoelectronics. The demonstrated
stabilization of chiral magnetic domain walls and skyrmions has been attributed
to the actively investigated Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Recently,
however, predictions were made that suggest dipolar interactions can also
stabilize chiral domain walls and skyrmions, but direct experimental evidence
has been lacking. Here we show that dipolar interactions can indeed stabilize
chiral domain walls by directly imaging the magnetic domain walls using
scanning electron microscopy with polarization analysis. We further show that
the competition between the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and dipolar interactions can
reverse the domain-wall chirality. Finally, we suggest that this competition
can be tailored by a Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida interaction. Our work
therefore reveals that dipolar interactions play a key role in the
stabilization of chiral spin textures. This insight will open up new routes
towards balancing interactions for the stabilization of chiral magnetism
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