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Supersymmetric codimension-two branes and U(1)_R mediation in 6D gauged supergravity
We construct a consistent supersymmetric action for brane chiral and vector
multiplets in a six-dimensional chiral gauged supergravity. A nonzero brane
tension can be accommodated by allowing for a brane-localized Fayet-Iliopoulos
term proportional to the brane tension. When the brane chiral multiplet is
charged under the bulk U(1)_R, we obtain a nontrivial coupling to the extra
component of the U(1)_R gauge field strength as well as a singular scalar
self-interaction term. Dimensionally reducing to 4D on a football
supersymmetric solution, we discuss the implication of such interactions for
obtaining the U(1)_R D-term in the 4D effective supergravity. By assuming the
bulk gaugino condensates and nonzero brane F- and/or D-term for the uplifting
potential, we have all the moduli stabilized with a vanishing cosmological
constant. The brane scalar with nonzero R charge then gets a soft mass of order
the gravitino mass. The overall sign of the soft mass squared depends on the
sign of the R charge as well as whether the brane F- or D-term dominates.Comment: 28 pages, no figures, version to appear in JHE
Fermi surface instabilities at finite Temperature
We present a new method to detect Fermi surface instabilities for interacting
systems at finite temperature. We first apply it to a list of cases studied
previously, recovering already known results in a very economic way, and
obtaining most of the information on the phase diagram analytically. As an
example, in the continuum limit we obtain the critical temperature as an
implicit function of the magnetic field and the chemical potential
. By applying the method to a model proposed to describe reentrant
behavior in , we reproduce the phase diagram obtained
experimentally and show the presence of a non-Fermi Liquid region at
temperatures above the nematic phase.Comment: 10 pages, 10 figure
From Vicious Walkers to TASEP
We propose a model of semi-vicious walkers, which interpolates between the
totally asymmetric simple exclusion process and the vicious walkers model,
having the two as limiting cases. For this model we calculate the asymptotics
of the survival probability for particles and obtain a scaling function,
which describes the transition from one limiting case to another. Then, we use
a fluctuation-dissipation relation allowing us to reinterpret the result as the
particle current generating function in the totally asymmetric simple exclusion
process. Thus we obtain the particle current distribution asymptotically in the
large time limit as the number of particles is fixed. The results apply to the
large deviation scale as well as to the diffusive scale. In the latter we
obtain a new universal distribution, which has a skew non-Gaussian form. For
particles its asymptotic behavior is shown to be
as and
as .Comment: 37 pages, 4 figures, Corrected reference
Suppression of Superconducting Critical Current Density by Small Flux Jumps in Thin Films
By doing magnetization measurements during magnetic field sweeps on thin
films of the new superconductor , it is found that in a low temperature
and low field region small flux jumps are taking place. This effect strongly
suppresses the central magnetization peak leading to reduced nominal
superconducting critical current density at low temperatures. A borderline for
this effect to occur is determined on the field-temperature (H-T) phase
diagram. It is suggested that the small size of the flux jumps in films is due
to the higher density of small defects and the relatively easy thermal
diffusion in thin films in comparison with bulk samples.Comment: 7 figures Phys. Rev. B accepted scheduled issue: 01 Feb 200
Analysis and prevention of dent defects formed during strip casting of twin-induced plasticity steels
Rapid-solidification experiments were conducted for understanding dent defects formed during strip casting of twin-induced plasticity (TWIP) steels. The rapid-solidification experiments reproduced the dent defects formed on these steels, which were generally located at valleys of the shot-blasted roughness on the substrate. The rapid-solidification experiment results reveal that the number of dips, the Mn content of the steel, and the surface roughness of the substrate affect the depth and size of dents formed on the solidified-shell surfaces, while the composition of the atmosphere gases and the carbon content of the steel are not factors. The formation of dents was attributed to the entrapment of gases inside the roughness valleys of the substrate surface and their volume expansion due to the temperature of the steel melt and the latent heat. The dents could be prevented when the thermal expansion of gases was suppressed by making longitudinal grooves on the substrate surface, which allowed the entrapped gases to escape. Sound solidified shells were obtained by optimizing the width and depth of the longitudinal grooves and by controlling the shot-blasting conditions.ope
The Potts Fully Frustrated model: Thermodynamics, percolation and dynamics in 2 dimensions
We consider a Potts model diluted by fully frustrated Ising spins. The model
corresponds to a fully frustrated Potts model with variables having an integer
absolute value and a sign. This model presents precursor phenomena of a glass
transition in the high-temperature region. We show that the onset of these
phenomena can be related to a thermodynamic transition. Furthermore this
transition can be mapped onto a percolation transition. We numerically study
the phase diagram in 2 dimensions (2D) for this model with frustration and {\em
without} disorder and we compare it to the phase diagram of the model with
frustration {\em and} disorder and of the ferromagnetic model.
Introducing a parameter that connects the three models, we generalize the exact
expression of the ferromagnetic Potts transition temperature in 2D to the other
cases. Finally, we estimate the dynamic critical exponents related to the Potts
order parameter and to the energy.Comment: 10 pages, 10 figures, new result
Modern topics in theoretical nuclear physics
Over the past five years there have been profound advances in nuclear physics
based on effective field theory and the renormalization group. In this brief,
we summarize these advances and discuss how they impact our understanding of
nuclear systems and experiments that seek to unravel their unknowns. We discuss
future opportunities and focus on modern topics in low-energy nuclear physics,
with special attention to the strong connections to many-body atomic and
condensed matter physics, as well as to astrophysics. This makes it an exciting
era for nuclear physics.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure, prepared for the Nuclear Physics Town Hall Meeting
at TRIUMF, Sept. 9-10, 2005, comments welcome, references adde
Local threshold field for dendritic instability in superconducting MgB2 films
Using magneto-optical imaging the phenomenon of dendritic flux penetration in
superconducting films was studied. Flux dendrites were abruptly formed in a 300
nm thick film of MgB2 by applying a perpendicular magnetic field. Detailed
measurements of flux density distributions show that there exists a local
threshold field controlling the nucleation and termination of the dendritic
growth. At 4 K the local threshold field is close to 12 mT in this sample,
where the critical current density is 10^7 A/cm^2. The dendritic instability in
thin films is believed to be of thermo-magnetic origin, but the existence of a
local threshold field, and its small value are features that distinctly
contrast the thermo-magnetic instability (flux jumps) in bulk superconductors.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
YREC: The Yale Rotating Stellar Evolution Code
The stellar evolution code YREC is outlined with emphasis on its applications
to helio- and asteroseismology. The procedure for calculating calibrated solar
and stellar models is described. Other features of the code such as a non-local
treatment of convective core overshoot, and the implementation of a
parametrized description of turbulence in stellar models, are considered in
some detail. The code has been extensively used for other astrophysical
applications, some of which are briefly mentioned at the end of the paper.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures, ApSS accepte
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