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Slow cross-symmetry phase relaxation in complex collisions
We discuss the effect of slow phase relaxation and the spin off-diagonal
-matrix correlations on the cross section energy oscillations and the time
evolution of the highly excited intermediate systems formed in complex
collisions. Such deformed intermediate complexes with strongly overlapping
resonances can be formed in heavy ion collisions, bimolecular chemical
reactions and atomic cluster collisions. The effects of quasiperiodic energy
dependence of the cross sections, coherent rotation of the hyperdeformed
intermediate complex, Schr\"odinger cat states and
quantum-classical transition are studied for Mg+Si heavy ion
scattering.Comment: 10 pages including 2 color ps figures. To be published in Physics of
Atomic Nuclei (Yadernaya fizika
Thermalized non-equilibrated matter and high temperature superconducting state in quantum many-body systems
A characteristic feature of thermalized non-equilibrated matter is that, in
spite of energy relaxation--equilibration, a phase memory of the way the
many-body system was excited remains. As an example, we analyze data on a
strong forward peaking of thermal proton yield in the Bi(,p)
photonuclear reaction. New analysis shows that the phase relaxation in
highly-excited heavy nuclei can be 8 orders of magnitude or even much longer
than the energy relaxation. We argue that thermalized non-equilibrated matter
resembles a high temperature superconducting state in quantum many-body
systems. We briefly present results on the time-dependent correlation function
of the many-particle density fluctuations for such a superconducting state. It
should be of interest to experimentally search for manifestations of
thermalized non-equilibrated matter in many-body mesoscopic systems and
nanostructures.Comment: 12 pages, 1 eps figure. To be published in Radiation Effects and
Defects in Solid
Quantum-classical transition for an analog of double-slit experiment in complex collisions: Dynamical decoherence in quantum many-body systems
We study coherent superpositions of clockwise and anti-clockwise rotating
intermediate complexes with overlapping resonances formed in bimolecular
chemical reactions. Disintegration of such complexes represents an analog of
famous double-slit experiment. The time for disappearance of the interference
fringes is estimated from heuristic arguments related to fingerprints of
chaotic dynamics of a classical counterpart of the coherently rotating complex.
Validity of this estimate is confirmed numerically for the H+D chemical
reaction. Thus we demonstrate the quantum--classical transition in temporal
behavior of highly excited quantum many-body systems in the absence of external
noise and coupling to an environment.Comment: 5 pages, 2 ps color figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
Zeeman and Orbital Effects of an in-Plane Magnetic Field in Cuprate Superconductors
We discuss the effects of a magnetic field applied parallel to the Cu-O
() plane of the high cuprate superconductors. After briefly reviewing
the Zeeman effect of the field, we study the orbital effects, using the
Lawrence-Doniach model for layered superconductors as a guide to the physics.
We argue that the orbital effect is qualitatively different for in-plane and
inter-layer mechanisms for superconductivity. In the case of in-plane
mechanisms, interlayer couplings may be modeled as a weak interlayer Josephson
coupling, whose effects disappear as ; in this case Zeeman
dominates the effect of the field. In contrast, in the inter-layer mechanism
the Josephson coupling {\em is} the driving force of superconductivity, and we
argue that the in-plane field suppresses superconductivity and provides an
upper bound for which we estimate very crudely.Comment: 4 pages with 1 embedded ps figure. Manuscript submitted to the MMM'99
conferenc
Bose-Einstein Condensate Dark Matter Halos confronted with galactic rotation curves
We present a comparative confrontation of both the Bose-Einstein Condensate
(BEC) and the Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) dark halo models with galactic rotation
curves. We employ 6 High Surface Brightness (HSB), 6 Low Surface Brightness
(LSB), and 7 dwarf galaxies with rotation curves falling into two classes. In
the first class rotational velocities increase with radius over the observed
range.The BEC and NFW models give comparable fits for HSB and LSB galaxies of
this type, while for dwarf galaxies the fit is significantly better with the
BEC model. In the second class the rotational velocity of HSB and LSB galaxies
exhibits long flat plateaus, resulting in better fit with the NFW model for HSB
galaxies and comparable fits for LSB galaxies. We conclude that due to its
central density cusp avoidance the BEC model fits better dwarf galaxy dark
matter distribution. Nevertheless it suffers from sharp cutoff in larger
galaxies, where the NFW model performs better. The investigated galaxy sample
obeys the Tully-Fisher relation, including the particular characteristics
exhibited by dwarf galaxies. In both models the fitting enforces a relation
between dark matter parameters: the characteristic density and the
corresponding characteristic distance scale with an inverse power.Comment: published versio
Entanglement Entropy and Mutual Information in Bose-Einstein Condensates
In this paper we study the entanglement properties of free {\em
non-relativistic} Bose gases. At zero temperature, we calculate the bipartite
block entanglement entropy of the system, and find it diverges logarithmically
with the particle number in the subsystem. For finite temperatures, we study
the mutual information between the two blocks. We first analytically study an
infinite-range hopping model, then numerically study a set of long-range
hopping models in one-deimension that exhibit Bose-Einstein condensation. In
both cases we find that a Bose-Einstein condensate, if present, makes a
divergent contribution to the mutual information which is proportional to the
logarithm of the number of particles in the condensate in the subsystem. The
prefactor of the logarithmic divergent term is model dependent.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure
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