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Heat conduction in 2D strongly-coupled dusty plasmas
We perform non-equilibrium simulations to study heat conduction in
two-dimensional strongly coupled dusty plasmas. Temperature gradients are
established by heating one part of the otherwise equilibrium system to a higher
temperature. Heat conductivity is measured directly from the stationary
temperature profile and heat flux. Particular attention is paid to the
influence of damping effect on the heat conduction. It is found that the heat
conductivity increases with the decrease of the damping rate, while its
magnitude agrees with previous experimental measurement.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, presented in SCCS2008 conferenc
Dynamical evolution of a scalar field coupling to Einstein's tensor in the Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black hole spacetime
We study the dynamical evolution of a scalar field coupling to Einstein's
tensor in the background of Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black hole. Our results show
that the the coupling constant imprints in the wave dynamics of a scalar
perturbation. In the weak coupling, we find that with the increase of the
coupling constant the real parts of the fundamental quasinormal
frequencies decrease and the absolute values of imaginary parts increase for
fixed charge and multipole number . In the strong coupling, we find that
for the instability occurs when is larger than a certain
threshold value which deceases with the multipole number and
charge . However, for the lowest , we find that there does not exist
such a threshold value and the scalar field always decays for arbitrary
coupling constant.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Phys Rev
Dynamical evolution of scalar perturbation in Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz black-hole spacetimes
We study the dynamical evolution of a massless scalar perturbation in the
Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz black-hole spacetimes with the coupling constants
, and , respectively. Our calculation
shows that, for the three cases, the scalar perturbations decay without any
oscillation in which the decay rate imprints the parameter of the
Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz black hole. The results are quite different from those in
the Schwarzschild AdS black hole and can help us understand more about the
Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figure
The Role of Phase Space in Complex Fragment Emission from Low to Intermediate Energies
The experimental emission probabilities of complex fragments by low energy
compound nuclei and their dependence upon energy and atomic number are compared
to the transition state rates. Intermediate-mass-fragment multiplicity
distributions for a variety of reactions at intermediate energies are shown to
be binomial and thus reducible at all measured transverse energies. From these
distributions a single binary event probability can be extracted which has a
thermal dependence. A strong thermal signature is also found in the charge
distributions. The n-fold charge distributions are reducible to the 1-fold
charge distributions through a simple scaling dictated by fold number and
charge conservation.Comment: 15 pages, TeX type, psfig, also available at
http://csa5.lbl.gov/moretto/ps/brazil.ps, to appear in Proceedings of the 1st
International Conference on Nuclear Dynamics at Long and Short Distances,
April 8-12, 1996, Angra dos Reis, Brazi
Dirac quasinormal frequencies of Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole in Anti-de Sitter spacetime
The quasinormal modes (QNMs) of Dirac field perturbations of a
Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole in an asymptotically Anti-de Sitter spacetime
are investigated. We find that both the real and imaginary parts of the
fundamental quasinormal frequencies for large black holes are the linear
functions of the Hawking temperature, and the slope of the lines for the real
parts decreases while that for the magnitude of the imaginary parts increases
as the black hole charge increases. According to the Anti-de Sitter/Conformal
Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence, the fact shows that different charge
presents different time scale in three-dimensional CFT. Another interesting
result is that the quasinormal frequencies become evenly spaced for high
overtone number, and in the spacing expressions the real part decreases while
the magnitude of the imaginary part increases as the charge increases. We also
study the relation between quasinormal frequencies and angular quantum number
and find that the real part increases while the magnitude of the imaginary part
decreases as the angular quantum number increases.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figure
Tilt-Induced Anisotropic to Isotropic Phase Transition at
A modest in-plane magnetic field \Bpar\ is sufficient to destroy the
fractional quantized Hall states at and 7/2 and replace them with
anisotropic compressible phases. Remarkably, we find that at larger \Bpar\
these anisotropic phases can themselves be replaced by isotropic compressible
phases reminiscent of the composite fermion fluid at . We present
strong evidence that this transition is a consequence of the mixing of Landau
levels from different electric subbands. We also report surprising dependences
of the energy gaps at and 7/3 on the width of the confinement
potential.Comment: Accepted by Phys. Rev. Lett. This is a final version with rewritten
introduction and modified figure
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