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The effect of supersymmetry breaking in the Mass Varying Neutrinos
We discuss the effect of the supersymmetry breaking on the Mass Varying
Neutrinos(MaVaNs) scenario. Especially, the effect mediated by the
gravitational interaction between the hidden sector and the dark energy sector
is studied. A model including a chiral superfield in the dark sector and the
right handed neutrino superfield is proposed. Evolutions of the neutrino mass
and the equation of state parameter are presented in the model. It is remarked
that only the mass of a sterile neutrino is variable in the case of the
vanishing mixing between the left-handed and a sterile neutrino on cosmological
time scale. The finite mixing makes the mass of the left-handed neutrino
variable.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures, RevTeX4, references added, discussions and
figures revise
Pre-K-Edge Structure on Anomalous X-Ray Scattering in LaMnO3
We study the pre-K-edge structure of the resonant X-ray scattering for
forbidden reflections (anomalous scattering) in LaMnO3, using the band
calculation based on the local density approximation. We find a two-peak
structure with an intensity approximately 1/100 of that of the main peak. This
originates from a mixing of 4p states of Mn to 3d states of neighboring Mn
sites. The effect is enhanced by an interference with the tail of the main
peak. The effect of the quadrupole transition is found to be one order of
magnitude smaller than that of the dipole transition, modifying slightly the
azimuthal-angle dependence.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jp
Very Rapid High-Amplitude Gamma-ray Variability in Luminous Blazar PKS 1510-089 Studied with Fermi-LAT
Here we report on the detailed analysis of the gamma-ray light curve of a
luminous blazar PKS1510-089 observed in the GeV range with the Large Area
Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi satellite during the period 2011 September --
December. By investigating the properties of the detected three major flares
with the shortest possible time binning allowed by the photon statistics, we
find a variety of temporal characteristics and variability patterns. This
includes a clearly asymmetric profile (with a faster flux rise and a slower
decay) of the flare resolved on sub-daily timescales, a superposition of many
short uncorrelated flaring events forming the apparently coherent
longer-duration outburst, and a huge single isolated outburst unresolved down
to the timescale of three-hours. In the latter case we estimate the
corresponding gamma-ray flux doubling timescale to be below one hour, which is
extreme and never previously reported for any active galaxy in the GeV range.
The other unique finding is that the total power released during the studied
rapid and high-amplitude flares constitute the bulk of the power radiatively
dissipated in the source, and a significant fraction of the total kinetic
luminosity of the underlying relativistic outflow. Our analysis allows us to
access directly the characteristic timescales involved in shaping the energy
dissipation processes in the source, and to provide constraints on the location
and the structure of the blazar emission zone in PKS1510-089.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in the
Astrophysical Journal Letter
Multi-photon Rabi oscillations in high spin paramagnetic impurity
We report on multiple photon monochromatic quantum oscillations (Rabi
oscillations) observed by pulsed EPR (Electron Paramagnetic Resonance) of
Mn (S=5/2) impurities in MgO. We find that when the microwave magnetic
field is similar or large than the anisotropy splitting, the Rabi oscillations
have a spectrum made of many frequencies not predicted by the S=1/2 Rabi model.
We show that these new frequencies come from multiple photon coherent
manipulation of the multi-level spin impurity. We develop a model based on the
crystal field theory and the rotating frame approximation, describing the
observed phenomenon with a very good agreement.Comment: International Conference: Resonance in Condensed Matter Altshuler 10
Restricted equilibrium ensembles: Exact equation of state of a model glass
We investigate the thermodynamic properties of a toy model of glasses: a
hard-core lattice gas with nearest neighbor interaction in one dimension. The
time-evolution is Markovian, with nearest-neighbor and next-nearest neighbor
hoppings, and the transition rates are assumed to satisfy detailed balance
condition, but the system is non-ergodic below a glass temperature. Below this
temperature, the system is in restricted thermal equilibrium, where both the
number of sectors, and the number of accessible states within a sector grow
exponentially with the size of the system. Using partition functions that sum
only over dynamically accessible states within a sector, and then taking a
quenched average over the sectors, we determine the exact equation of state of
this system.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure
3-point off-shell vertex in scalar QED in arbitrary gauge and dimension
We calculate the complete one-loop off-shell three-point scalar-photon vertex
in arbitrary gauge and dimension for Scalar Quantum Electrodynamics. Explicit
results are presented for the particular cases of dimensions 3 and 4 both for
massive and massless scalars. We then propose non-perturbative forms of this
vertex that coincide with the perturbative answer to order .Comment: Uses axodra
Magnetic susceptibility and low-temperature specific-heat of integrable 1-D Hubbard model under open-boundary conditions
The magnetic susceptibility and the low-temperature specific heat of the
1-dimensional Hubbard model under the integrable open-boundary conditions are
discussed through the Bethe ansatz with the string hypothesis. The
contributions of the boundary fields to both the susceptibility and the
specific heat are obtained, and their exact expressions are analytically
derived.Comment: 14 pages, Latex, No figures, to appear in J. Phys. A: Gen. & Mat
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