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Vibrations and diverging length scales near the unjamming transition
We numerically study the vibrations of jammed packings of particles
interacting with finite-range, repulsive potentials at zero temperature. As the
packing fraction is lowered towards the onset of unjamming at
, the density of vibrational states approaches a non-zero value in
the limit of zero frequency. For , there is a crossover
frequency, below which the density of states drops towards zero.
This crossover frequency obeys power-law scaling with .
Characteristic length scales, determined from the dominant wavevector
contributing to the eigenmode at , diverge as power-laws at the
unjamming transition.Comment: Submitted to PRL, 4 pages + 7 .eps figure
Structural signatures of the unjamming transition at zero temperature
We study the pair correlation function for zero-temperature,
disordered, soft-sphere packings just above the onset of jamming. We find
distinct signatures of the transition in both the first and split second peaks
of this function. As the transition is approached from the jammed side (at
higher packing fraction) the first peak diverges and narrows on the small-
side to a delta-function. On the high- side of this peak, decays as a
power-law. In the split second peak, the two subpeaks are both singular at the
transition, with power-law behavior on their low- sides and step-function
drop-offs on their high- sides. These singularities at the transition are
reminiscent of empirical criteria that have previously been used to distinguish
glassy structures from liquid ones.Comment: 8 pages, 13 figure
Scattering of Dirac and Majorana Fermions off Domain Walls
We investigate the interaction of fermions having both Dirac and left-handed
and right-handed Majorana mass terms with vacuum domain walls. By solving the
equations of motion in thin-wall approximation, we calculate the reflection and
transmission coefficients for the scattering of fermions off walls.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure, some typos corrected, one reference added, major
revisions, title changed, version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
The young stellar population of NGC 4214 as observed with HST. I. Data and methods
We present the data and methods that we have used to perform a detailed
UV-optical study of the nearby dwarf starburst galaxy NGC 4214 using
multifilter HST/WFPC2+STIS photometry. We explain the process followed to
obtain high-quality photometry and astrometry of the stellar and cluster
populations of this galaxy. We describe the procedure used to transform
magnitudes and colors into physical parameters using spectral energy
distributions. The data show the existence of both young and old stellar
populations that can be resolved at the distance of NGC 4214 (2.94 Mpc) and we
perform a general description of those populations.Comment: 33 pages, 9 figures, and 8 table
Helical Magnetic Fields from Inflation
We analyze the generation of seed magnetic fields during de Sitter inflation
considering a non-invariant conformal term in the electromagnetic Lagrangian of
the form , where
is a pseudoscalar function of a non-trivial background field .
In particular, we consider a toy model, that could be realized owing to the
coupling between the photon and either a (tachyonic) massive pseudoscalar field
and a massless pseudoscalar field non-minimally coupled to gravity, where
follows a simple power-law behavior during
inflation, while it is negligibly small subsequently. Here, is a positive
dimensionless constant, the wavenumber, the conformal time, and
a real positive number. We find that only when and astrophysically interesting fields can be produced as
excitation of the vacuum, and that they are maximally helical.Comment: 17 pages, 1 figure, subsection IIc and references added; accepted for
publication in IJMP
Gravitational waves from extreme mass-ratio inspirals in Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity
Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity is an interesting extension of General
Relativity, which finds its way in many different contexts, including string
theory, cosmological settings and loop quantum gravity. In this theory, the
gravitational field is coupled to a scalar field by a parity-violating term,
which gives rise to characteristic signatures. Here we investigate how
Chern-Simons gravity would affect the quasi-circular inspiralling of a small,
stellar-mass object into a large non-rotating supermassive black hole, and the
accompanying emission of gravitational and scalar waves. We find the relevant
equations describing the perturbation induced by the small object, and we solve
them through the use of Green's function techniques. Our results show that for
a wide range of coupling parameters, the Chern-Simons coupling gives rise to an
increase in total energy flux, which translates into a fewer number of
gravitational-wave cycles over a certain bandwidth. For space-based
gravitational-wave detectors such as LISA, this effect can be used to constrain
the coupling parameter effectively.Comment: RevTex4, 18 pages, 7 figures, 1 tabl
From vocational training to education: the development of a no-frontiers education policy for Europe?
This article focuses on developments towards an EU educational policy. Education was not included as one of the Community competencies in the Treaty of Rome. The first half of the article analyses the way that the European Court of Justice and the Commission of the European Communities between them managed to develop a series of substantial Community programmes out of Article 128 on vocational training. The second half of the article discusses educational developments in the community following the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty of Amsterdam. Whilst the legal competence of the community now includes education, the author's argument is that the inclusion of an educational competence will not result in further developments to mirror those in the years before the Treaty on Europe</p
Vibrational origin of the fast relaxation processes in molecular glass-formers
We study the interaction of the relaxation processes with the density
fluctuations by molecular dynamics simulation of a flexible molecule model for
o-terphenyl (oTP) in the liquid and supercooled phases. We find evidence,
besides the structural relaxation, of a secondary vibrational relaxation whose
characteristic time, few ps, is slightly temperature dependent. This i)
confirms the result by Monaco et al. [Phys. Rev, E 62, 7595 (2000)] of the
vibrational nature of the fast relaxation observed in Brillouin Light
Scattering (BLS) experiments in oTP; and ii) poses a caveat on the
interpretation of the BLS spectra of molecular systems in terms of a purely
center of mass dynamics.Comment: RevTeX, 5 pages, 4 eps figure
Numerical relativity for D dimensional axially symmetric space-times: formalism and code tests
The numerical evolution of Einstein's field equations in a generic background
has the potential to answer a variety of important questions in physics: from
applications to the gauge-gravity duality, to modelling black hole production
in TeV gravity scenarios, analysis of the stability of exact solutions and
tests of Cosmic Censorship. In order to investigate these questions, we extend
numerical relativity to more general space-times than those investigated
hitherto, by developing a framework to study the numerical evolution of D
dimensional vacuum space-times with an SO(D-2) isometry group for D\ge 5, or
SO(D-3) for D\ge 6.
Performing a dimensional reduction on a (D-4)-sphere, the D dimensional
vacuum Einstein equations are rewritten as a 3+1 dimensional system with source
terms, and presented in the Baumgarte, Shapiro, Shibata and Nakamura (BSSN)
formulation. This allows the use of existing 3+1 dimensional numerical codes
with small adaptations. Brill-Lindquist initial data are constructed in D
dimensions and a procedure to match them to our 3+1 dimensional evolution
equations is given. We have implemented our framework by adapting the LEAN code
and perform a variety of simulations of non-spinning black hole space-times.
Specifically, we present a modified moving puncture gauge which facilitates
long term stable simulations in D=5. We further demonstrate the internal
consistency of the code by studying convergence and comparing numerical versus
analytic results in the case of geodesic slicing for D=5,6.Comment: 31 pages, 6 figures; v2 Minor changes and added two references.
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Pengaruh Pelatihan, Penempatan Kerja, Dan Kompensasi Terhadap Kinerja Karyawan Pada PT. Bank Sulutgo Kantor Pusat Manado
Sumber daya manusia memiliki peran penting bagi Perusahaan, karena sumber daya manusia merupakan kombinasi antara tenaga, fisik, ide, bakat, pengetahuan, kreatifitas dan keterampilan yang dibutuhkan untuk menggerakan Perusahaan. Kinerja seorang karyawan merupakan awal yang penting bagi terciptanya kinerja Perusahaan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh pelatihan, penempatan kerja, dan kompensasi terhadap kinerja karyawan PT. Bank Sulutgo Kantor Pusat Manado. Sampel dalam penelitian ini berjumlah 103 orang. Metode analisis yang digunakan adalah asosiatif dengan teknis analisis regresi linear berganda. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan pelatihan, penempatan kerja, dan kompensasi baik secara simultan maupun parsial mempunyai pengaruh positif terhadap kinerja karyawan. Pimpinan PT. Bank Sulutgo Kantor Pusat Manado sebaiknya mempertahankan dan mengembangkan pelatihan yang telah dilaksanakan setiap tahunnya dan juga memperhatikan penempatan kerja dan kompensasi untuk meningkatkan kinerja karyawan dalam pelaksanaan tugasnya
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