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Coherent State Path Integral for Bloch Particle
We construct a coherent state path integral formalism for the one-dimensional
Bloch particle within the single band model. The transition amplitude between
two coherent states is a sum of transition amplitudes with different winding
numbers on the two-dimensional phase space which has the same topology as that
of the cylinder. Appearance of the winding number is due to the periodicity of
the quasi-momentum of the Bloch particle. Our formalism is successfully applied
to a semiclassical motion of the Bloch particle under a uniform electric field.
The wave packet exhibits not only the Bloch oscillation but also a similar
breathing to the one for the squeezed state of a harmonic oscillator.Comment: 10 pages, Revtev
Spin Hall Current and Spin-transfer Torque in Ferromagnetic Metal
We theoretically examine the spin-transfer torque in the presence of
spin-orbit interaction (SOI) at impurities in a ferromagnetic metal on the
basis of linear response theory. We obtained, in addition to the usual
spin-transfer torque, a new contributioin in the first order in SOI, where
is the spin Hall current driven by an
external electric field. This is a reaction to inverse spin Hall effect driven
by spin motive force in a ferromagnet.Comment: 4 pages, Proceedings of the International Conference on Magnetism,
submitted to J. Phys: Conference Serie
Gravitational waves from axisymmetrically oscillating neutron stars in general relativistic simulations
Gravitational waves from oscillating neutron stars in axial symmetry are
studied performing numerical simulations in full general relativity. Neutron
stars are modeled by a polytropic equation of state for simplicity. A
gauge-invariant wave extraction method as well as a quadrupole formula are
adopted for computation of gravitational waves. It is found that the
gauge-invariant variables systematically contain numerical errors generated
near the outer boundaries in the present axisymmetric computation. We clarify
their origin, and illustrate it possible to eliminate the dominant part of the
systematic errors. The best corrected waveforms for oscillating and rotating
stars currently contain errors of magnitude in the local wave
zone. Comparing the waveforms obtained by the gauge-invariant technique with
those by the quadrupole formula, it is shown that the quadrupole formula yields
approximate gravitational waveforms besides a systematic underestimation of the
amplitude of where and denote the mass and the radius of
neutron stars. However, the wave phase and modulation of the amplitude can be
computed accurately. This indicates that the quadrupole formula is a useful
tool for studying gravitational waves from rotating stellar core collapse to a
neutron star in fully general relativistic simulations. Properties of the
gravitational waveforms from the oscillating and rigidly rotating neutron stars
are also addressed paying attention to the oscillation associated with
fundamental modes
Possible explanation for star-crushing effect in binary neutron star simulations
A possible explanation is suggested for the controversial star-crushing
effect seen in numerical simulations of inspiraling neutron star binaries by
Wilson, Mathews and Marronetti (WMM). An apparently incorrect definition of
momentum density in the momentum constraint equation used by WMM gives rise to
a post-1-Newtonian error in the approximation scheme. We show by means of an
analytic, post-1-Newtonian calculation that this error causes an increase of
the stars' central densities which is of the order of several percent when the
stars are separated by a few stellar radii, in agreement with what is seen in
the simulations.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, uses revetx macros, minor revision
Finite temperature properties of the 2D Kondo lattice model
Using recently developed Lanczos technique we study finite-temperature
properties of the 2D Kondo lattice model at various fillings of the conduction
band. At half filling the quasiparticle gap governs physical properties of the
chemical potential and the charge susceptibility at small temperatures. In the
intermediate coupling regime quasiparticle gap scales approximately linearly
with Kondo coupling. Temperature dependence of the spin susceptibility reveals
the existence of two different temperature scales. A spin gap in the
intermediate regime leads to exponential drop of the spin susceptibility at low
temperatures. Unusual scaling of spin susceptibility is found for temperatures
above 0.6 J. Charge susceptibility at finite doping reveals existence of heavy
quasiparticles. A new low energy scale is found at finite doping.Comment: REVTeX, 7 pages, 7 figure
Thermodynamics of doped Kondo insulator in one dimension: Finite Temperature DMRG Study
The finite-temperature density-matrix renormalization-group method is applied
to the one-dimensional Kondo lattice model near half filling to study its
thermodynamics. The spin and charge susceptibilities and entropy are calculated
down to T=0.03t. We find two crossover temperatures near half filling. The
higher crossover temperature continuously connects to the spin gap at half
filling, and the susceptibilities are suppressed around this temperature. At
low temperatures, the susceptibilities increase again with decreasing
temperature when doping is finite. We confirm that they finally approach to the
values obtained in the Tomonaga-Luttinger (TL) liquid ground state for several
parameters. The crossover temperature to the TL liquid is a new energy scale
determined by gapless excitations of the TL liquid. The transition from the
metallic phase to the insulating phase is accompanied by the vanishing of the
lower crossover temperature.Comment: 4 pages, 7 Postscript figures, REVTe
Merger of black hole-neutron star binaries: nonspinning black hole case
We perform a simulation for merger of a black hole (BH)-neutron star (NS)
binary in full general relativity preparing a quasicircular state as initial
condition. The BH is modeled by a moving puncture with no spin and the NS by
the -law equation of state with . Corotating velocity field
is assumed for the NS. The mass of the BH and the rest-mass of the NS are
chosen to be and with
relatively large radius of the NS km. The NS is tidally disrupted
near the innermost stable orbit but of the material is swallowed
into the BH with small disk mass even for such small BH
mass . The result indicates that the system of a BH and a
massive disk of is not formed from nonspinning BH-NS binaries,
although a disk of mass is a possible outcome.Comment: 5 pages. Phys. Rev. D 74, 121503 (R) (2006
Axisymmetric general relativistic hydrodynamics: Long-term evolution of neutron stars and stellar collapse to neutron stars and black holes
We report a new implementation for axisymmetric simulation in full general
relativity. In this implementation, the Einstein equations are solved using the
Nakamura-Shibata formulation with the so-called cartoon method to impose an
axisymmetric boundary condition, and the general relativistic hydrodynamic
equations are solved using a high-resolution shock-capturing scheme based on an
approximate Riemann solver. As tests, we performed the following simulations:
(i) long-term evolution of non-rotating and rapidly rotating neutron stars,
(ii) long-term evolution of neutron stars of a high-amplitude damping
oscillation accompanied with shock formation, (iii) collapse of unstable
neutron stars to black holes, and (iv) stellar collapses to neutron stars. The
tests (i)--(iii) were carried out with the -law equation of state, and
the test (iv) with a more realistic parametric equation of state for
high-density matter. We found that this new implementation works very well: It
is possible to perform the simulations for stable neutron stars for more than
10 dynamical time scales, to capture strong shocks formed at stellar core
collapses, and to accurately compute the mass of black holes formed after the
collapse and subsequent accretion. In conclusion, this implementation is robust
enough to apply to astrophysical problems such as stellar core collapse of
massive stars to a neutron star and black hole, phase transition of a neutron
star to a high-density star, and accretion-induced collapse of a neutron star
to a black hole. The result for the first simulation of stellar core collapse
to a neutron star started from a realistic initial condition is also presented.Comment: 28 pages, to appear in PRD 67, 0440XX (2003
A relativistic formalism for computation of irrotational binary stars in quasi equilibrium states
We present relativistic hydrostatic equations for obtaining irrotational
binary neutron stars in quasi equilibrium states in 3+1 formalism. Equations
derived here are different from those previously given by Bonazzola,
Gourgoulhon, and Marck, and have a simpler and more tractable form for
computation in numerical relativity. We also present hydrostatic equations for
computation of equilibrium irrotational binary stars in first post-Newtonian
order.Comment: 5 pages, corrected eqs.(2.10), (2.11) and (3.1
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