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Baryon states with open charm in the extended local hidden gauge approach
In this paper we examine the interaction of and states,
together with their coupled channels, by using an extension of the local hidden
gauge formalism from the light meson sector, which is based on heavy quark spin
symmetry. The scheme is based on the use of the impulse approximation at the
quark level, with the heavy quarks acting as spectators, which occurs for the
dominant terms where there is the exchange of a light meson. The pion exchange
and the Weinberg-Tomozawa interactions are generalized and with this dynamics
we look for states generated from the interaction, with a unitary coupled
channels approach that mixes the pseudoscalar-baryon and vector-baryon states.
We find two states with nearly zero width which are associated to the
and . The lower state, with ,
couples to and , and the second one, with , to . In addition to these two states, we find four more states with
, one of them nearly degenerate in two states of .
Furthermore we find three states in , two of them degenerate in .Comment: v3: version to appear in Eur.Phys.J.
A discrete time-dependent method for metastable atoms in intense fields
The full-dimensional time-dependent Schrodinger equation for the electronic
dynamics of single-electron systems in intense external fields is solved
directly using a discrete method.
Our approach combines the finite-difference and Lagrange mesh methods. The
method is applied to calculate the quasienergies and ionization probabilities
of atomic and molecular systems in intense static and dynamic electric fields.
The gauge invariance and accuracy of the method is established. Applications to
multiphoton ionization of positronium and hydrogen atoms and molecules are
presented. At very high intensity above saturation threshold, we extend the
method using a scaling technique to estimate the quasienergies of metastable
states of the hydrogen molecular ion. The results are in good agreement with
recent experiments.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figure, 4 table
No Evidence for Orbital Loop Currents in Charge Ordered YBaCuO from Polarized Neutron Diffraction
It has been proposed that the pseudogap state of underdoped cuprate
superconductors may be due to a transition to a phase which has circulating
currents within each unit cell. Here, we use polarized neutron diffraction to
search for the corresponding orbital moments in two samples of underdoped
YBaCuO with doping levels and 0.123. In contrast to
some other reports using polarized neutrons, but in agreement with nuclear
magnetic resonance and muon spin rotation measurements, we find no evidence for
the appearance of magnetic order below 300 K. Thus, our experiment suggests
that such order is not an intrinsic property of high-quality cuprate
superconductor single crystals. Our results provide an upper bound for a
possible orbital loop moment which depends on the pattern of currents within
the unit cell. For example, for the CC- pattern proposed by Varma,
we find that the ordered moment per current loop is less than 0.013 for
.Comment: Comments in arXiv:1710.08173v1 fully addresse
Understanding the effect resonant magnetic perturbations have on ELMs
All current estimations of the energy released by type I ELMs indicate that,
in order to ensure an adequate lifetime of the divertor targets on ITER, a
mechanism is required to decrease the amount of energy released by an ELM, or
to eliminate ELMs altogether. One such amelioration mechanism relies on
perturbing the magnetic field in the edge plasma region, either leading to more
frequent, smaller ELMs (ELM mitigation) or ELM suppression. This technique of
Resonant Magnetic Perturbations (RMPs) has been employed to suppress type I
ELMs at high collisionality/density on DIII-D, ASDEX Upgrade, KSTAR and JET and
at low collisionality on DIII-D. At ITER-like collisionality the RMPs enhance
the transport of particles or energy and keep the edge pressure gradient below
the 2D linear ideal MHD critical value that would trigger an ELM, whereas at
high collisionality/density the type I ELMs are replaced by small type II ELMs.
Although ELM suppression only occurs within limitied operational ranges, ELM
mitigation is much more easily achieved. The exact parameters that determine
the onset of ELM suppression are unknown but in all cases the magnetic
perturbations produce 3D distortions to the plasma and enhanced particle
transport. The incorporation of these 3D effects in codes will be essential in
order to make quantitative predictions for future devices.Comment: 32 pages, 9 figure
Resolving the nature of electronic excitations in resonant inelastic x-ray scattering
The study of elementary bosonic excitations is essential toward a complete
description of quantum electronic solids. In this context, resonant inelastic
X-ray scattering (RIXS) has recently risen to becoming a versatile probe of
electronic excitations in strongly correlated electron systems. The nature of
the radiation-matter interaction endows RIXS with the ability to resolve the
charge, spin and orbital nature of individual excitations. However, this
capability has been only marginally explored to date. Here, we demonstrate a
systematic method for the extraction of the character of excitations as
imprinted in the azimuthal dependence of the RIXS signal. Using this novel
approach, we resolve the charge, spin, and orbital nature of elastic
scattering, (para-)magnon/bimagnon modes, and higher energy dd excitations in
magnetically-ordered and superconducting copper-oxide perovskites (Nd2CuO4 and
YBa2Cu3O6.75). Our method derives from a direct application of scattering
theory, enabling us to deconstruct the complex scattering tensor as a function
of energy loss. In particular, we use the characteristic tensorial nature of
each excitation to precisely and reliably disentangle the charge and spin
contributions to the low energy RIXS spectrum. This procedure enables to
separately track the evolution of spin and charge spectral distributions in
cuprates with doping. Our results demonstrate a new capability that can be
integrated into the RIXS toolset, and that promises to be widely applicable to
materials with intertwined spin, orbital, and charge excitations
Jet break time -- flux density relationship and constraints on physical parameters of GRB afterglows
We derive a relation between the flux density at the light-curve
break of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow and the break time . The
break is due to the transition from the spherical-like to jet-like evolution of
the afterglow, when the Lorentz factor of the jet equals the inverse of the
initial half-opening angle, i.e., . We show that this
relation indeed behaves as among GRBs for the
slow-cooling case, where is the power-law index of electron distribution. A
statistical analysis of the optical jet breaks of nine GRBs gives , which is consistent with the shock acceleration theory. The value of
derived in this way is different from the observed temporal index
() of the late-time light curve after ,
which suffers several uncertainties from the unclear hydrodynamics of the
sideways expansion and exhibits a large dispersion. Our results not only
confirm that the remnants of GRBs are standard candles, but also provide the
first evidence that the physical parameters of relativistic shocks are
universal, with the favored values and .Comment: 11 pages including 3 color figure
Survival of the d-wave superconducting state near the edge of antiferromagnetism in the cuprate phase diagram
In the cuprate superconductor , hole doping in the
layers is controlled by both oxygen content and the degree of oxygen-ordering.
At the composition , the ordering can occur at room
temperature, thereby tuning the hole doping so that the superconducting
critical temperature gradually rises from zero to 20 K. Here we exploit this to
study the c-axis penetration depth as a function of temperature and doping. The
temperature dependence shows the d-wave superconductor surviving to very low
doping, with no sign of another ordered phase interfering with the nodal
quasiparticles. The only apparent doping dependence is a smooth decline of
superfluid density as Tc decreases.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Suppression of Quantum Phase Interference in Molecular Magnets Fe₈ with Dipolar-Dipolar Interaction
Renormalized tunnel splitting with a finite distribution in the biaxial spin
model for molecular magnets is obtained by taking into account the dipolar
interaction of enviromental spins. Oscillation of the resonant tunnel splitting
with a transverse magnetic field along the hard axis is smeared by the finite
distribution which subsequently affects the quantum steps of hysteresis curve
evaluated in terms of the modified Landau-Zener model of spin flipping induced
by the sweeping field. We conclude that the dipolar-dipolar interaction drives
decoherence of quantum tunnelling in molcular magnets Fe₈, which explains
why the quenching points of tunnel spliting between odd and even resonant
tunnelling predcited theoretically were not observed experimentally.Comment: 5 pages including 3 figure and 1 table. To appear in Physical Review
Competing charge, spin, and superconducting orders in underdoped YBa2Cu3Oy
To explore the doping dependence of the recently discovered charge density
wave (CDW) order in YBa2Cu3Oy, we present a bulk-sensitive high-energy x-ray
study for several oxygen concentrations, including strongly underdoped
YBa2Cu3O6.44. Combined with previous data around the so-called 1/8 doping, we
show that bulk CDW order exists at least for hole concentrations (p) in the
CuO2 planes of 0.078 <~ p <~ 0.132. This implies that CDW order exists in close
vicinity to the quantum critical point for spin density wave (SDW) order. In
contrast to the pseudogap temperature T*, the onset temperature of CDW order
decreases with underdoping to T_CDW ~ 90K in YBa2Cu3O6.44. Together with a
weakened order parameter this suggests a competition between CDW and SDW
orders. In addition, the CDW order in YBa2Cu3O6.44 shows the same type of
competition with superconductivity as a function of temperature and magnetic
field as samples closer to p = 1/8. At low p the CDW incommensurability
continues the previously reported linear increasing trend with underdoping. In
the entire doping range the in-plane correlation length of the CDW order in
b-axis direction depends only very weakly on the hole concentration, and
appears independent of the type and correlation length of the oxygen-chain
order. The onset temperature of the CDW order is remarkably close to a
temperature T^\dagger that marks the maximum of 1/(T_1T) in planar 63^Cu
NQR/NMR experiments, potentially indicating a response of the spin dynamics to
the formation of the CDW. Our discussion of these findings includes a detailed
comparison to the charge stripe order in La2-xBaxCuO4.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figure
Neutrino decay as a possible interpretation to the MiniBooNE observation with unparticle scenario
In a new measurement on neutrino oscillation , the
MiniBooNE Collaboration observes an excess of electron-like events at low
energy and the phenomenon may demand an explanation which obviously is beyond
the oscillation picuture. We propose that heavier neutrino decaying
into a lighter one via the transition process
where denotes any light products, could be a natural mechanism. The
theoretical model we employ here is the unparticle scenario established by
Georgi. We have studied two particular modes \nu_\mu\to \nu_e+\Un and
. Unfortunately, the number coming out from
the computation is too small to explain the observation. Moreover, our results
are consistent with the cosmology constraint on the neutrino lifetime and the
theoretical estimation made by other groups, therefore we can conclude that
even though neutrino decay seems plausible in this case, it indeed cannot be
the source of the peak at lower energy observed by the MiniBooNE collaboration
and there should be other mechanisms responsible for the phenomenon.Comment: 14 pages, conclusions are changed; published version for EPJ
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