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Characterization of pore evolution in ceramics during creep failure and densification. Final report, April 15, 1984--April 14, 1995
This research program was divided into two phases, one involving creep cavitation, the other cavity evolution during sintering. In the former, work was aimed at determining the effect of microstructure and stress state upon creep cavitation, while in the latter, the principal objective was the characterization of pore evolution during sintering. In order to meet these objectives, the creep cavitation portion of the program was centered around small-angle neutron scattering, supplemented by electron microscopy and precision density measurements. The neutron scattering measurements yielded cavity nucleation and growth rates, and average pore, size, distribution, and morphology. These data were used to evaluate current cavitation models, and to implement improved modelling efforts. Additionally, stereoimaging analysis was used to determine grain boundary sliding displacements, which appear to be the critical driving force responsible for cavity nucleation and early growth. Effort in the pore sintering phase focussed on characterization of pore evolution during intermediate and final stage sintering of alumina using both single and multiple scattering techniques. Electron microscopy, density measurements, and mercury intrusion porosimetry measurements complemented the scattering results. The effects of sintering trajectory, green state, powder morphology, and additives were evaluated. These results were compared to current sintering models
Weyl Group Invariance and p-brane Multiplets
In this paper, we study the actions of the Weyl groups of the U duality
groups for type IIA string theory toroidally compactified to all dimensions
. We show how these Weyl groups implement permutations of the field
strengths, and we discuss the Weyl group multiplets of all supersymmetric
-brane solitons.Comment: 31 pages, Late
Model fluid in a porous medium: results for a Bethe lattice
We consider a lattice gas with quenched impurities or `quenched-annealed
binary mixture' on the Bethe lattice. The quenched part represents a porous
matrix in which the (annealed) lattice gas resides. This model features the 3
main factors of fluids in random porous media: wetting, randomness and
confinement. The recursive character of the Bethe lattice enables an exact
treatment, whose key ingredient is an integral equation yielding the
one-particle effective field distribution. Our analysis shows that this
distribution consists of two essentially different parts. The first one is a
continuous spectrum and corresponds to the macroscopic volume accessible to the
fluid, the second is discrete and comes from finite closed cavities in the
porous medium. Those closed cavities are in equilibrium with the bulk fluid
within the grand canonical ensemble we use, but are inaccessible in real
experimental situations. Fortunately, we are able to isolate their
contributions. Separation of the discrete spectrum facilitates also the
numerical solution of the main equation. The numerical calculations show that
the continuous spectrum becomes more and more rough as the temperature
decreases, and this limits the accuracy of the solution at low temperatures.Comment: 13 pages, 12 figure
Structure of pair winds from compact objects with application to emission from bare strange stars
We present the results of numerical simulations of stationary, spherically
outflowing, electron-positron pair winds, with total luminosities in the range
10^{34}- 10^{42} ergs/s. In the concrete example described here, the wind
injection source is a hot, bare, strange star, predicted to be a powerful
source of electron-positron pairs created by the Coulomb barrier at the quark
surface. We find that photons dominate in the emerging emission, and the
emerging photon spectrum is rather hard and differs substantially from the
thermal spectrum expected from a neutron star with the same luminosity. This
might help distinguish the putative bare strange stars from neutron stars.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, added references, to appear in the
proceedings of the conference "Isolated Neutron Stars: from the Surface to
the Interior", London, UK, 24-28 April 200
Black holes as mirrors: quantum information in random subsystems
We study information retrieval from evaporating black holes, assuming that
the internal dynamics of a black hole is unitary and rapidly mixing, and
assuming that the retriever has unlimited control over the emitted Hawking
radiation. If the evaporation of the black hole has already proceeded past the
"half-way" point, where half of the initial entropy has been radiated away,
then additional quantum information deposited in the black hole is revealed in
the Hawking radiation very rapidly. Information deposited prior to the half-way
point remains concealed until the half-way point, and then emerges quickly.
These conclusions hold because typical local quantum circuits are efficient
encoders for quantum error-correcting codes that nearly achieve the capacity of
the quantum erasure channel. Our estimate of a black hole's information
retention time, based on speculative dynamical assumptions, is just barely
compatible with the black hole complementarity hypothesis.Comment: 18 pages, 2 figures. (v2): discussion of decoding complexity
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Slow dynamics of a confined supercooled binary mixture II: Q space analysis
We report the analysis in the wavevector space of the density correlator of a
Lennard Jones binary mixture confined in a disordered matrix of soft spheres
upon supercooling. In spite of the strong confining medium the behavior of the
mixture is consistent with the Mode Coupling Theory predictions for bulk
supercooled liquids. The relaxation times extracted from the fit of the density
correlator to the stretched exponential function follow a unique power law
behavior as a function of wavevector and temperature. The von Schweidler
scaling properties are valid for an extended wavevector range around the peak
of the structure factor. The parameters extracted in the present work are
compared with the bulk values obtained in literature.Comment: 8 pages with 8 figures. RevTeX. Accepted for publication in Phys.
Rev.
Particle motion in the field of a five-dimensional charged black hole
In this paper, we have investigated the geodesics of neutral particles near a
five-dimensional charged black hole using a comparative approach. The effective
potential method is used to determine the location of the horizons and to study
radial and circular trajectories. This also helps us to analyze the stability
of radial and circular orbits. The radius of the innermost stable circular
orbits have also been determined. Contrary to the case of massive particles for
which, the circular orbits may have up to eight possible values of specific
radius, we find that the photons will only have two distinct values for the
specific radii of circular trajectories. Finally we have used the dynamical
systems analysis to determine the critical points and the nature of the
trajectories for the timelike and null geodesics.Comment: 15 pages, accepted for publication in Astrophysics and Space Scienc
Instanton Cosmology and Domain Walls from M-theory and String Theory
The recent proposal by Hawking and Turok for obtaining an open inflationary
universe from singular instantons makes use of low-energy effective Lagrangians
describing gravity coupled to scalars and non-propagating antisymmetric
tensors. In this paper we derive some exact results for Lagrangians of this
type, obtained from spherical compactifications of M-theory and string theory.
In the case of the S^7 compactification of M-theory, we give a detailed
discussion of the cosmological solutions. We also show that the
lower-dimensional Lagrangians admit domain-wall solutions, which preserve one
half of the supersymmetry, and which approach AdS spacetimes near their
horizons.Comment: 51 pages, Latex (3 times). Discussion and references adde
M-theory/heterotic Duality: a Kaluza-Klein Perspective
We study the duality relationship between M-theory and heterotic string
theory at the classical level, emphasising the transformations between the
Kaluza-Klein reductions of these two theories on the K3 and T^3 manifolds.
Particular attention is devoted to the corresponding structures of sigma-model
cosets and the correspondence between the p-brane charge lattices. We also
present simple and detailed derivations of the global symmetries and coset
structures of the toroidally-compactified heterotic theory in all dimensions D
\ge 3, making use of the formalism of solvable Lie algebras.Comment: Latex, 60 pages, Latex 3 time
Constraints on diffuse neutrino background from primordial black holes
We calculated the energy spectra and the fluxes of electron neutrino emitted
in the process of evaporation of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the early
universe. It was assumed that PBHs are formed by a blue power-law spectrum of
primordial density fluctuations. We obtained the bounds on the spectral index
of density fluctuations assuming validity of the standard picture of
gravitational collapse and using the available data of several experiments with
atmospheric and solar neutrinos. The comparison of our results with the
previous constraints (which had been obtained using diffuse photon background
data) shows that such bounds are quite sensitive to an assumed form of the
initial PBH mass function.Comment: 18 pages,(with 7 figures
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