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Onset of Electron Acceleration in a Flare Loop
We carried out detailed analysis of X-ray and radio observations of a simple
flare loop that occurred on 12th August 2002, with the impulsive hard X-ray
(HXR) light curves dominated by a single pulse. The emission spectra of the
early impulsive phase are consistent with an isothermal model in the coronal
loop with a temperature reaching several keVs. A power-law high-energy spectral
tail is evident near the HXR peak time, in accordance with the appearance of
footpoints at high energies, and is well correlated with the radio emission.
The energy content of the thermal component keeps increasing gradually after
the disappearance of this nonthermal component. These results suggest that
electron acceleration only covers a central period of a longer and more gradual
energy dissipation process and that the electron transport within the loop
plays a crucial role in the formation of the inferred power-law electron
distribution. The spectral index of power-law photons shows a very gradual
evolution indicating a quasi-steady state of the electron accelerator, which is
confirmed by radio observations. These results are consistent with the theory
of stochastic electron acceleration from a thermal background. Advanced
modeling with coupled electron acceleration and spatial transport processes is
needed to explain these observations more quantitatively, which may reveal the
dependence of the electron acceleration on the spatial structure of the
acceleration region
Multiple and virtual photon processes in radiation-induced magnetoresistance oscillations in two-dimensional electron systems
Recently discovered new structures and zero-resistance states outside the
well-known oscillations are demonstrated to arise from multiphoton assisted
processes, by a detailed analysis of microwave photoresistance in
two-dimensional electron systems under enhanced radiation. The concomitant
resistance dropping and peak narrowing observed in the experiments are also
reproduced. We show that the radiation-induced suppression of average
resistance comes from virtual photon effect and exists throughout the whole
magnetic field range.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, published versio
Critical gravity with a scalar field in four dimensions
We consider the critical gravity theory with a scalar field in four
dimensions. We find that this theory has the solution corresponding to the de
Sitter (dS), anti-de Sitter (AdS), and Minkowski background depending on
whether the action includes the cosmological term or not. The Minkowski
background is the solution which cannot be obtained in the model without a
scalar field. At the critical point, we show that the Abbott-Deser (AD) mass of
the Schwarzschild-de Sitter (SdS) black hole and the energy for the massless
graviton vanish, whose situation is not changed from the model without a scalar
field.Comment: 6 page
Magnetoresistance oscillations in two-dimensional electron systems under monochromatic and bichromatic radiations
The magnetoresistance oscillations in high-mobility two-dimensional electron
systems induced by two radiation fields of frequencies 31 GHz and 47 GHz, are
analyzed in a wide magnetic-field range down to 100 G, using the
balance-equation approach to magnetotransport for high-carrier-density systems.
The frequency mixing processes are shown to be important. The predicted peak
positions, relative heights, radiation-intensity dependence and their relation
with monochromatic resistivities are in good agreement with recent experimental
finding [M. A. Zudov {\it et al.} Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 236804 (2006)].Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Local electronic structures on the superconducting interface
Motivated by the recent discovery of superconductivity on the heterointerface
, we theoretically investigate its local electronic
structures near an impurity considering the influence of Rashba-type spin-orbit
interaction (RSOI) originated in the lack of inversion symmetry. We find that
local density of states near an impurity exhibits the in-gap resonance peaks
due to the quasiparticle scattering on the Fermi surface with the reversal sign
of the pairing gap caused by the mixed singlet and RSOI-induced triplet
superconducting state. We also analyze the evolutions of density of states and
local density of states with the weight of triplet pairing component determined
by the strength of RSOI, which will be widely observed in thin films of
superconductors with surface or interface-induced RSOI, or various
noncentrosymmetric superconductors in terms of point contact tunneling and
scanning tunneling microscopy, and thus reveal an admixture of the spin singlet
and RSOI-induced triplet superconducting states.Comment: Phys. Rev. B 81, 144504 (2010)
Light-cone Distribution Amplitudes of Xi and their Applications
We present the light-cone distribution amplitudes of the Xi baryons up to
twist six on the basis of QCD conformal partial wave expansion to the leading
order conformal spin accuracy. The nonperturbative parameters relevant to the
DAs are determined in the framework of the QCD sum rule. The light-cone QCD sum
rule approach is used to investigate both the electromagnetic form factors of
Xi and the exclusive semileptonic decay of Xi_c as applications. Our
estimations on the magnetic moments are and
. The decay width of the process Xi_c->Xi
e^+\nu_e is evaluated to be , which is in
accordance with the experimental measurements and other theoretical approaches.Comment: 23 pages, 8 figures, version to appear in Phys. Rev.
Radiation-induced magnetoresistance oscillation in a two-dimensional electron gas in Faraday geometry
Microwave-radiation induced giant magnetoresistance oscillations recently
discovered in high-mobility two-dimensional electron systems in a magnetic
field, are analyzed theoretically. Multiphoton-assisted impurity scatterings
are shown to be the primary origin of the oscillation. Based on a model which
considers the interaction of electrons with the electromagnetic fields in
Faraday geometry, we are able not only to reproduce the correct period, phase
and the negative resistivity of the main oscillation, but also to obtain
secondary peaks and additional maxima and minima in the resistivity curve, some
of which were already observed in the experiments.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, revised version to be published in Phys. Rev. Let
The Spatial-Kinematic Structure of the Region of Massive Star Formation S255N on Various Scales
The results of a detailed analysis of SMA, VLA, and IRAM observations of the
region of massive star formation S255N in CO(2---1), \nh, \nhh, \co and some
other lines is presented. Combining interferometer and single-dish data has
enabled a more detailed investigation of the gas kinematics in the moleclar
core on various spatial scales. There are no signs of rotation or isotropic
compression on the scale of the region as whole. The largest fragments of gas
(0.3 pc) are located near the boundary of the regions of ionized
hydrogen S255 and S257. Some smaller-scale fragments are associated with
protostellar clumps. The kinetic temperatures of these fragments lie in the
range 10---80 K. A circumstellar torus with inner radius R
8000 AU and outer radius R 12 000 AU has been detected around the clump
SMA1. The rotation profile indicates the existence of a central object with
mass 8.5/ sin 2 (i) M . SMA1 is resolved into two clumps,
SMA1---NE and SMA1---SE, whose temperatures are 150 K and 25
K, respectively. To all appearances, the torus is involved in the accretion of
surrounding gas onto the two protostellar clumps
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