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Effective temperatures of a heated Brownian particle
We investigate various possible definitions of an effective temperature for a
particularly simple nonequilibrium stationary system, namely a heated Brownian
particle suspended in a fluid. The effective temperature based on the
fluctuation dissipation ratio depends on the time scale under consideration, so
that a simple Langevin description of the heated particle is impossible. The
short and long time limits of this effective temperature are shown to be
consistent with the temperatures estimated from the kinetic energy and Einstein
relation, respectively. The fluctuation theorem provides still another
definition of the temperature, which is shown to coincide with the short time
value of the fluctuation dissipation ratio
Blow-Up of Test Fields Near Cauchy Horizons
The behaviour of test fields near a compact Cauchy horizon is investigated.
It is shown that solutions of nonlinear wave equations on Taub spacetime with
generic initial data cannot be continued smoothly to both extensions of the
spacetime through the Cauchy horizon. This is proved using an energy method.
Similar results are obtained for the spacetimes of Moncrief containing a
compact Cauchy horizon and for more general matter models.Comment: 10 pages, Plain TeX, MPA-AR-92-
Observation of Magnetic Edge State and Dangling Bond State on Nanographene in Activated Carbon Fibers
The electronic structure of nanographene in pristine and fluorinated
activated carbon fibers (ACFs) have been investigated with near-edge x-ray
absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) and compared with magnetic properties we
reported on previously. In pristine ACFs in which magnetic properties are
governed by non-bonding edge states of the \pi-electron, a pre-peak assigned to
the edge state was observed below the conduction electron {\pi}* peak close to
the Fermi level in NEXAFS. Via the fluorination of the ACFs, an extra peak,
which was assigned to the \sigma-dangling bond state, was observed between the
pre-peak of the edge state and the {\pi}* peak in the NEXAFS profile. The
intensities of the extra peak correlate closely with the spin concentration
created upon fluorination. The combination of the NEXAFS and magnetic
measurement results confirms the coexistence of the magnetic edge states of
\pi-electrons and dangling bond states of \sigma-electrons on fluorinated
nanographene sheets.Comment: 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Generalised Einstein Relation for Hot Brownian Motion
The Brownian motion of a hot nanoparticle is described by an effective Markov
theory based on fluctuating hydrodynamics. Its predictions are scrutinized over
a wide temperature range using large-scale molecular dynamics simulations of a
hot nanoparticle in a Lennard-Jones fluid. The particle positions and momenta
are found to be Boltzmann distributed according to distinct effective
temperatures and . For we
derive a formally exact theoretical prediction and establish a generalised
Einstein relation that links it to directly measurable quantities
Resonant X-ray diffraction studies on the charge ordering in magnetite
Here we show that the low temperature phase of magnetite is associated with
an effective, although fractional, ordering of the charge. Evidence and a
quantitative evaluation of the atomic charges are achieved by using resonant
x-ray diffraction (RXD) experiments whose results are further analyzed with the
help of ab initio calculations of the scattering factors involved. By
confirming the results obtained from X-ray crystallography we have shown that
RXD is able to probe quantitatively the electronic structure in very complex
oxides, whose importance covers a wide domain of applications.Comment: 4 pages 4 figures, accepted for publication in PR
Derivation of the Zakharov equations
This paper continues the study of the validity of the Zakharov model
describing Langmuir turbulence. We give an existence theorem for a class of
singular quasilinear equations. This theorem is valid for well-prepared initial
data. We apply this result to the Euler-Maxwell equations describing
laser-plasma interactions, to obtain, in a high-frequency limit, an asymptotic
estimate that describes solutions of the Euler-Maxwell equations in terms of
WKB approximate solutions which leading terms are solutions of the Zakharov
equations. Because of transparency properties of the Euler-Maxwell equations,
this study is led in a supercritical (highly nonlinear) regime. In such a
regime, resonances between plasma waves, electromagnetric waves and acoustic
waves could create instabilities in small time. The key of this work is the
control of these resonances. The proof involves the techniques of geometric
optics of Joly, M\'etivier and Rauch, recent results of Lannes on norms of
pseudodifferential operators, and a semiclassical, paradifferential calculus
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