175 research outputs found
Effects of Phase Transition induced density fluctuations on pulsar dynamics
We show that density fluctuations during phase transitions in pulsar cores
may have non-trivial effects on pulsar timings, and may also possibly account
for glitches and anti-glitches. These density fluctuations invariably lead to
non-zero off-diagonal components of the moment of inertia, leading to transient
wobbling of star. Thus, accurate measurements of pulsar timing and intensity
modulations (from wobbling) may be used to identify the specific pattern of
density fluctuations, hence the particular phase transition, occurring inside
the pulsar core. Changes in quadrupole moment from rapidly evolving density
fluctuations during the transition, with very short time scales, may provide a
new source for gravitational waves.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figure. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with
arXiv:1412.427
Strings with a confining core in a Quark-Gluon Plasma
We consider the intersection of N different interfaces interpolating between
different vacua of an SU(N) gauge theory using the Polyakov loop order
parameter. Topological arguments show that at such a string-like junction, the
order parameter should vanish, implying that the core of this string (i.e. the
junction region of all the interfaces) is in the confining phase. Using the
effective potential for the Polyakov loop proposed by Pisarski for QCD, we use
numerical minimization technique and estimate the energy per unit length of the
core of this string to be about 2.7 GeV/fm at a temperature about twice the
critical temperature. For the parameters used, the interface tension is
obtained to be about 7 GeV/fm. Lattice simulation of pure gauge theories
should be able to investigate properties of these strings. For QCD with quarks,
it has been discussed in the literature that this symmetry may still be
meaningful, with quark contributions leading to explicit breaking of this
symmetry. With this interpretation, such {\it QGP} strings may play important
role in the evolution of the quark-gluon plasma phase and in the dynamics of
quark-hadron transition.Comment: 18 pages, 6 figures, RevTe
Disaster-Resilient Control Plane Design and Mapping in Software-Defined Networks
Communication networks, such as core optical networks, heavily depend on
their physical infrastructure, and hence they are vulnerable to man-made
disasters, such as Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) or Weapons of Mass Destruction
(WMD) attacks, as well as to natural disasters. Large-scale disasters may cause
huge data loss and connectivity disruption in these networks. As our dependence
on network services increases, the need for novel survivability methods to
mitigate the effects of disasters on communication networks becomes a major
concern. Software-Defined Networking (SDN), by centralizing control logic and
separating it from physical equipment, facilitates network programmability and
opens up new ways to design disaster-resilient networks. On the other hand, to
fully exploit the potential of SDN, along with data-plane survivability, we
also need to design the control plane to be resilient enough to survive network
failures caused by disasters. Several distributed SDN controller architectures
have been proposed to mitigate the risks of overload and failure, but they are
optimized for limited faults without addressing the extent of large-scale
disaster failures. For disaster resiliency of the control plane, we propose to
design it as a virtual network, which can be solved using Virtual Network
Mapping techniques. We select appropriate mapping of the controllers over the
physical network such that the connectivity among the controllers
(controller-to-controller) and between the switches to the controllers
(switch-to-controllers) is not compromised by physical infrastructure failures
caused by disasters. We formally model this disaster-aware control-plane design
and mapping problem, and demonstrate a significant reduction in the disruption
of controller-to-controller and switch-to-controller communication channels
using our approach.Comment: 6 page
A disaster-resilient multi-content optical datacenter network architecture
Cloud services based on datacenter networks are becoming very important. Optical networks are well suited to meet the demands set by the high volume of traffic between datacenters, given their high bandwidth and low-latency characteristics. In such networks, path protection against network failures is generally ensured by providing a backup path to the same destination, which is link-disjoint to the primary path. This protection fails to protect against disasters covering an area which disrupts both primary and backup resources. Also, content/service protection is a fundamental problem in datacenter networks, as the failure of a single datacenter should not cause the disappearance of a specific content/service from the network. Content placement, routing and protection of paths and content are closely related to one another, so the interaction among these should be studied together. In this work, we propose an integrated ILP formulation to design an optical datacenter network, which solves all the above-mentioned problems simultaneously. We show that our disaster protection scheme exploiting anycasting provides more protection, but uses less capacity, than dedicated single-link protection. We also show that a reasonable number of datacenters and selective content replicas with intelligent network design can provide survivability to disasters while supporting user demands
Baryon Inhomogeneity Generation in the Quark-Gluon Plasma Phase
We discuss the possibility of generation of baryon inhomogeneities in a
quark-gluon plasma phase due to moving Z(3) interfaces. By modeling the
dependence of effective mass of the quarks on the Polyakov loop order
parameter, we study the reflection of quarks from collapsing Z(3) interfaces
and estimate resulting baryon inhomogeneities in the context of the early
universe. We argue that in the context of certain low energy scale inflationary
models, it is possible that large Z(3) walls arise at the end of the reheating
stage. Collapse of such walls could lead to baryon inhomogeneities which may be
separated by large distances near the QCD scale. Importantly, the generation of
these inhomogeneities is insensitive to the order, or even the existence, of
the quark-hadron phase transition. We also briefly discuss the possibility of
formation of quark nuggets in this model, as well as baryon inhomogeneity
generation in relativistic heavy-ion collisions.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures, revtex4, more detailed discussion added about
formation and evolution of Z(3)domain walls in the univers
Excited hadrons as a signal for quark-gluon plasma formation
At the quark-hadron transition, when quarks get confined to hadrons, certain
orbitally excited states, namely those which have excitation energies above the
respective states of the same order as the transition temperature
, may form easily because of thermal velocities of quarks at the
transition temperature. We propose that the ratio of multiplicities of such
excited states to the respective states can serve as an almost model
independent signal for the quark-gluon plasma formation in relativistic
heavy-ion collisions. For example, the ratio of multiplicities of
and when plotted
with respect to the center of mass energy of the collision (or vs.
centrality/number of participants), should show a jump at the value of
beyond which the QGP formation occurs. This should happen
irrespective of the shape of the overall plot of vs. . Recent
data from RHIC on vs. N for large values of
N may be indicative of such a behavior, though there are large error
bars. We give a list of several other such candidate hadronic states.Comment: 19 pages, RevTex, no figures, minor change
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