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    Theoretical Study for Deformation Kinetics of Glassy Solid Helium within Cylindrical Microtubes

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    The deformation kinetics for glassy solid helium confined in microscopic domain at very low temperature regime was investigated using a transition-rate model considering the shear thinning behavior which means, once material being subjected to high shear rates, the viscosity diminishes with increasing shear rate. The preliminary results show that there might be nearly frictionless fields for rate of deformation due to the almost vanishing shear stress in microtubes at very low temperature regime subjected to some surface conditions : The relatively larger roughness (compared to the macroscopic domain) inside microtubes and the slip. As the pore size decreases, the surface-to-volume ratio increases and therefore, surface roughness will greatly affect the deformation kinetics in microtubes. By using the boundary perturbation method, we obtained a class of temperature and activation energy dependent fields for the deformation kinetics at low temperature regime with the presumed small wavy roughness distributed along the walls of an cylindrical microtube. The critical deformation kinetics of the glassy matter is dependent upon the temperature, activation energy, activation volume, orientation dependent and is proportional to the (referenced) shear rate, the slip length, the amplitude and the orientation of the wavy-roughness. Finally, we also discuss the quantitative similarity between our results with Ray and Hallock [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 100}, 235301 (2008)].Comment: 9 figure

    Possible Frictionless States at Room-Temperature Regime for Many Fermions in Confined Domain

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    We investigate the possible frictionless transport of many composite (condensed) fermions at room temperature regime along an annular tube with transversely wavy-corrugations by using the verified transition-rate model and boundary perturbation approach. We found that for certain activation volume and energy there exist possible frictionless states at room temperature regime

    Gravity-driven Transport along Cylindrical Topological Defects : Possible Dark Matter and Nearly Frictionless States

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    The gravity-driven flow along an annular topological defect (string) with transversely corrugations is investigated by using the verified transition-rate model and boundary perturbation method. We found that for certain activation volume and energy there exists possible frictionless states which might be associated with the missing momentum of inertia or dark matter.Comment: two figure

    Note on "Sonic Mach cones induced by fast partons in a perturbative quark-gluon plasma" arXiv:0802.2254

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    We make remarks on Neufeld {\it et al.}'s [{\it Phys. Rev. C} 78, 041901(R) (2008), arXiv:0802.2254] paper especially about the Mach cone formation. We argue that the original bow shock structure (as a fast parton moving through a quark-gluon plasma) has been smeared out after the approximations made by Neufeld {\it et al.

    Population Inversion, Negative Temperature, and Quantum Degeneracies

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    We revisit the basic principle for lasing : Population inversion which is nevertheless closely linked to the negative temperature state in non-equilibrium thermodynamics. With the introduction of quantum degeneracies, we also illustrate their relationship with the lasing via the tuning of population inversion.Comment: two figure

    Rapid Transport of Glassy Supersolid Helium in Wavy-Rough Nanpores

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    We show that the presumed wavy roughness distributed along the wall of different nanopores (radius : a around 3.5 nm for Vycor or a silica glass; around 245 nm for porous gold) will induce larger volume flow rates of solid helium (of which there is a minimum) which might explain reported experimental differences of the supersolid fractions observed so far.Comment: one Figur

    Possible Routes to Frictionless Transport of Electronic Fluids in High-Temperature Superconductors

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    Electric-field-driven transport of electronic fluids in metallic glasses as well as three-dimensional amorphous superconductors are investigated by using the verified approach which has been successfully adopted to study the critical transport of glassy solid helium in very low temperature environment. The critical temperatures related to the nearly frictionless transport of electronic fluids were found to be directly relevant to the superconducting temperature of amorphous superconductors after selecting specific activation energies. Our results imply that optimal shear-thinning is an effective way to reach high-temperature charged superfluidity or superconductivity.Comment: four figure

    Possible Frictionless Regime for Ultra-High Temperature Amorphous Matter

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    The almost frictionless transport of the very-high temperature amorphous matter which resembles the color glass condensate (possibly having much of their origin in the RHIC heavy ion collisions) in a confined annular tube with transversely corrugations is investigated by using the verified transition-rate model and boundary perturbation method. We found that for certain activation volume and energy there exist possible frictionless states which might be associated with the perfect fluid formation during the early expansion stage in RHIC Au+Au collisions. We also address the possible similar scenario in LHC Pb+Pb collisions considering the possible perfect fluid formation in ultra-high temperature transport of amorphous matter

    Comments on "Effects of wall roughness on flow in nanochannels"

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    We make remarks on Sofos {\it et al.}'s [{\it Phys. Rev. E} 79, 026305 (2009)] paper. The focus is about the monotonicity of the slip length of which it is different from previous similar numerical simulation. We also offer a possible explanation for this

    Comments on "Slip coefficient in nanoscale pore flow" (arXiv:0805.1666)

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    We make some remarks on Sokhan and Quirke's [{\it Phys. Rev. E} 78, 015301(R) (2008)] paper (arXiv:0805.1666). Sokhan and Quirke mentioned that, considering their main result, {the slip coefficient is independent of the external force (flux)} which is not consistent with previous measurements and approaches. We also discuss the sudden changes of the slip coefficient for larger Knudsen numbers or smaller nanopores
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