Miocene Central Volcanoes, NW New South Wales: Genesis over a Lithospheric Cavity (?)

Basalt fields and central volcanoes form a curved south-migrating trace through NW New South Wales. A segment of East Australian intraplate volcanism, it traces Australia’s northern plate motion north over a mantle plume system. This created the western New England basalt field (24 – 21 Ma), Nandewar central volcano (19 – 18 Ma), Warrumbungle central volcano (18 – 15 mya), Mount Canobolas central volcano (13 – 11 Ma) and minor alkaline eruptions near Oberon (10 – 9 Ma). This ‘boomerang-shaped’ segment initially swelled south-westerly with increasing mantle melting and basaltic evolution. After initial fluid basaltic outpourings in New England, it formed two large central volcanoes along its outward curve before bending southerly to form a smaller central volcano and a scattered tail of small late-eruptions. This volcanic trace did not match Australia’s linear plate motion trend between 24 – 9 Ma. Neither did it correspond with adjacent plume trend seen in the leucititic lavas to the west, the coastal NSW plume volcanoes and Tasman Sea submarine plume chains to the east. Recent seismic tomography has revealed ‘cavities’ within the underlying lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB). The anomalous NW New South Wales plume upwelling underwent diversion by its interaction along the western edge of a LAB ‘cavity’

Thermalization of acoustic excitations in a strongly interacting one-dimensional quantum liquid

We study inelastic decay of bosonic excitations in a Luttinger liquid. In a model with linear excitation spectrum the decay rate diverges. We show that this difficulty is resolved when the interaction between constituent particles is strong, and the excitation spectrum is nonlinear. Although at low energies the nonlinearity is weak, it regularizes the divergence in the decay rate. We develop a theoretical description of the approach of the system to thermal equilibrium. The typical relaxation rate scales as the fifth power of temperature

UV-light-driven prebiotic synthesis of iron–sulfur clusters

Iron–sulfur clusters are ancient cofactors that play a fundamental role in metabolism and may have impacted the prebiotic chemistry that led to life. However, it is unclear whether iron–sulfur clusters could have been synthesized on prebiotic Earth. Dissolved iron on early Earth was predominantly in the reduced ferrous state, but ferrous ions alone cannot form polynuclear iron–sulfur clusters. Similarly, free sulfide may not have been readily available. Here we show that UV light drives the synthesis of [2Fe–2S] and [4Fe–4S] clusters through the photooxidation of ferrous ions and the photolysis of organic thiols. Iron–sulfur clusters coordinate to and are stabilized by a wide range of cysteine-containing peptides and the assembly of iron–sulfur cluster-peptide complexes can take place within model protocells in a process that parallels extant pathways. Our experiments suggest that iron–sulfur clusters may have formed easily on early Earth, facilitating the emergence of an iron–sulfur-cluster-dependent metabolism

Long Range Interaction Models and Yangian Symmetry

The generalized Sutherland-Romer models and Yan models with internal spin degrees are formulated in terms of the Polychronakos' approach and RTT relation associated to the Yang-Baxter equation in consistent way. The Yangian symmetry is shown to generate both models. We finally introduce the reflection algebra K(u) to the long range models.Comment: 13 pages, preprint of Nankai Institute of Mathematics ( Theoretical Physics Division ), published in Physical Review E of 1995. For hard copy, write to Prof. Mo-lin GE directly. Do not send emails to this accoun

Thermalisation of self-interacting solar flare fast electrons

Most theoretical descriptions of the production of solar flare bremsstrahlung radiation assume the collision of dilute accelerated particles with a cold, dense target plasma, neglecting interactions of the fast particles with each other. This is inadequate for situations where collisions with this background plasma are not completely dominant, as may be the case in, for example, low-density coronal sources. We aim to formulate a model of a self-interacting, entirely fast electron population in the absence of a dense background plasma, to investigate its implications for observed bremsstrahlung spectra and the flare energy budget. We derive approximate expressions for the time-dependent distribution function of the fast electrons using a Fokker-Planck approach. We use these expressions to generate synthetic bremsstrahlung X-ray spectra as would be seen from a corresponding coronal source. We find that our model qualitatively reproduces the observed behaviour of some flares. As the flare progresses, the model's initial power-law spectrum is joined by a lower energy, thermal component. The power-law component diminishes, and the growing thermal component proceeds to dominate the total emission over timescales consistent with flare observations. The power-law exhibits progressive spectral hardening, as is seen in some flare coronal sources. We also find that our model requires a factor of 7 - 10 fewer accelerated electrons than the cold, thick target model to generate an equivalent hard X-ray flux. This model forms the basis of a treatment of self-interactions among flare fast electrons, a process which affords a more efficient means to produce bremsstrahlung photons and so may reduce the efficiency requirements placed on the particle acceleration mechanism. It also provides a useful description of the thermalisation of fast electrons in coronal sources.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, accepted for Astronomy & Astrophysics; this version clarifies arguments around Eqs. (11) and (20

Some formal results for the valence bond basis

In a system with an even number of SU(2) spins, there is an overcomplete set of states--consisting of all possible pairings of the spins into valence bonds--that spans the S=0 Hilbert subspace. Operator expectation values in this basis are related to the properties of the closed loops that are formed by the overlap of valence bond states. We construct a generating function for spin correlation functions of arbitrary order and show that all nonvanishing contributions arise from configurations that are topologically irreducible. We derive explicit formulas for the correlation functions at second, fourth, and sixth order. We then extend the valence bond basis to include triplet bonds and discuss how to compute properties that are related to operators acting outside the singlet sector. These results are relevant to analytical calculations and to numerical valence bond simulations using quantum Monte Carlo, variational wavefunctions, or exact diagonalization.Comment: 22 pages, 14 figure

Quantum integrable system with two color components in two dimensions

The Davey-Stewartson 1(DS1) system[9] is an integrable model in two dimensions. A quantum DS1 system with 2 colour-components in two dimensions has been formulated. This two-dimensional problem has been reduced to two one-dimensional many-body problems with 2 colour-components. The solutions of the two-dimensional problem under consideration has been constructed from the resulting problems in one dimensions. For latters with the $\delta$-function interactions and being solved by the Bethe ansatz, we introduce symmetrical and antisymmetrical Young operators of the permutation group and obtain the exact solutions for the quantum DS1 system. The application of the solusions is discussed.Comment: 14 pages, LaTeX fil

Dynamics of Giant-Gravitons in the LLM geometry and the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

The LLM's 1/2 BPS solutions of IIB supergravity are known to be closely related to the integer quantum Hall droplets with filling factor $\nu=1$, and the giant gravitons in the LLM geometry behave like the quasi-holes in those droplets. In this paper we consider how the fractional quantum Hall effect may arise in this context, by studying the dynamics of giant graviton probes in a special LLM geometry, the AdS_5 X S^5 background, that corresponds to a circular droplet. The giant gravitons we study are D3-branes wrapping on a 3-sphere in S^5. Their low energy world-volume theory, truncated to the 1/2 BPS sector, is shown to be described by a Chern-Simons finite-matrix model. We demonstrate that these giant gravitons may condense at right density further into fractional quantum Hall fluid due to the repulsive interaction in the model, giving rise to the new states in IIB string theory. Some features of the novel physics of these new states are discussed.Comment: 32 pages, 1 figure; v.2: references added, the relation between the level shift and filling fraction elaborate

A quinazoline-based HDAC inhibitor affects gene expression pathways involved in cholesterol biosynthesis and mevalonate in prostate cancer cells

Chronic inflammation can lead to the development of cancers and resolution of inflammation is an ongoing challenge.</p