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Optically-Induced Polarons in Bose-Einstein Condensates: Monitoring Composite Quasiparticle Decay
Nonresonant light-scattering off atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) is
predicted to give rise to hitherto unexplored composite quasiparticles:
unstable polarons, i.e., local ``impurities'' dressed by virtual phonons.
Optical monitoring of their spontaneous decay can display either Zeno or
anti-Zeno deviations from the Golden Rule, and thereby probe the temporal
correlations of elementary excitations in BECs.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Lattice vibrations and structural instability in Cesium near the cubic to tetragonal transition
Under pressure cesium undergoes a transition from a high-pressure fcc phase
(Cs-II) to a collapsed fcc phase (Cs-III) near 4.2GPa. At 4.4GPa there follows
a transition to the tetragonal Cs-IV phase. In order to investigate the lattice
vibrations in the fcc phase and seek a possible dynamical instability of the
lattice, the phonon spectra of fcc-Cs at volumes near the III-IV transition are
calculated using Savrasov's density functional linear-response LMTO method.
Compared with quasiharmonic model calculations including non-central
interatomic forces up to second neighbours, at the volume (
is the experimental volume of bcc-Cs with =6.048{\AA}), the
linear-response calculations show soft intermediate wavelength
phonons. Similar softening is also observed for
short wavelength and phonons and intermediate
wavelength phonons. The Born-von K\'{a}rm\'{a}n analysis of
dispersion curves indicates that the interplanar force constants exhibit
oscillating behaviours against plane spacing and the large softening of
intermediate wavelength phonons results from a
negative (110)-interplanar force-constant . The frequencies of the
phonons with around 1/3 become imaginary
and the fcc structure becomes dynamically unstable for volumes below .
It is suggested that superstructures corresponding to the
soft mode should be present as a precursor of tetragonal Cs-IV structure.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figure
Chiral Dynamics of Deeply Bound Pionic Atoms
We present and discuss a systematic calculation, based on two-loop chiral
perturbation theory, of the pion-nuclear s-wave optical potential. A proper
treatment of the explicit energy dependence of the off-shell pion self-energy
together with (electromagnetic) gauge invariance of the Klein-Gordon equation
turns out to be crucial. Accurate data for the binding energies and widths of
the 1s and 2p levels in pionic ^{205}Pb and ^{207}Pb are well reproduced, and
the notorious "missing repulsion" in the pion-nuclear s-wave optical potential
is accounted for. The connection with the in-medium change of the pion decay
constant is clarified.Comment: preprint ECT*-02-16, 4 pages, 3 figure
Hadron Production in Neutrino-Nucleon Interactions at High Energies
The multi-particle production at high energy neutrino- nucleon collisions are
investigated through the analysis of the data of the experiment CERN-WA-025 at
neutrino energy less than 260GeV and the experiments FNAL-616 and FNAL-701 at
energy range 120-250 GeV. The general features of these experiments are used as
base to build a hypothetical model that views the reaction by a Feynman diagram
of two vertices. The first of which concerns the weak interaction between the
neutrino and the quark constituents of the nucleon. At the second vertex, a
strong color field is assumed to play the role of particle production, which
depend on the momentum transferred from the first vertex. The wave function of
the nucleon quarks are determined using the variation method and relevant
boundary conditions are applied to calculate the deep inelastic cross sections
of the virtual diagram.Comment: 6 pages PDF forma
Do stringy corrections stabilize coloured black holes?
We consider hairy black hole solutions of Einstein-Yang-Mills-Dilaton theory,
coupled to a Gauss-Bonnet curvature term, and we study their stability under
small, spacetime-dependent perturbations. We demonstrate that the stringy
corrections do not remove the sphaleronic instabilities of the coloured black
holes with the number of unstable modes being equal to the number of nodes of
the background gauge function. In the gravitational sector, and in the limit of
an infinitely large horizon, the coloured black holes are also found to be
unstable. Similar behaviour is exhibited by the magnetically charged black
holes while the bulk of the neutral black holes are proven to be stable under
small, gauge-dependent perturbations. Finally, the electrically charged black
holes are found to be characterized only by the existence of a gravitational
sector of perturbations. As in the case of neutral black holes, we demonstrate
that for the bulk of electrically charged black holes no unstable modes arise
in this sector.Comment: 17 pages, Revtex, comments and a reference added, version to appear
in Physical Review
Spin-dependent transport in p+-CdBxF2-x - n-CdF2 planar structures
The CV measurements and tunneling spectroscopy are used to study the
ballistic transport of the spin-polarized holes by varying the value of the
Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in the p-type quantum well prepared on the
surface of the n-CdF2 bulk crystal. The findings of the hole conductance
oscillations in the plane of the p-type quantum well that are due to the
variations of the Rashba SOI are shown to be evidence of the spin transistor
effect, with the amplitude of the oscillations close to e2/h.Comment: 5 pages, 6 figure
Particle Survival and Polydispersity in Aggregation
We study the probability, , of a cluster to remain intact in
one-dimensional cluster-cluster aggregation when the cluster diffusion
coefficient scales with size as . exhibits a
stretched exponential decay for and the power-laws for
, and for . A random walk picture
explains the discontinuous and non-monotonic behavior of the exponent. The
decay of determines the polydispersity exponent, , which
describes the size distribution for small clusters. Surprisingly,
is a constant for .Comment: submitted to Europhysics Letter
Cosmic String Wakes in Scalar-Tensor Gravities
The formation and evolution of cosmic string wakes in the framework of a
scalar-tensor gravity are investigated in this work. We consider a simple model
in which cold dark matter flows past an ordinary string and we treat this
motion in the Zel'dovich approximation. We make a comaprison between our
results and previous results obtained in the context of General Relativity. We
propose a mechanism in which the contribution of the scalar field to the
evolution of the wakes may lead to a cosmological observation.Comment: Replaced version to be published in the Classical and Quantum Gravit
Phase structure of matrix quantum mechanics at finite temperature
We study matrix quantum mechanics at finite temperature by Monte Carlo
simulation. The model is obtained by dimensionally reducing 10d U(N) pure
Yang-Mills theory to 1d. Following Aharony et al., one can view the same model
as describing the high temperature regime of (1+1)d U(N) super Yang-Mills
theory on a circle. In this interpretation an analog of the deconfinement
transition was conjectured to be a continuation of the black-hole/black-string
transition in the dual gravity theory. Our detailed analysis in the critical
regime up to N=32 suggests the existence of the non-uniform phase, in which the
eigenvalue distribution of the holonomy matrix is non-uniform but gapless. The
transition to the gapped phase is of second order. The internal energy is
constant (giving the ground state energy) in the uniform phase, and rises
quadratically in the non-uniform phase, which implies that the transition
between these two phases is of third order.Comment: 17 pages, 9 figures, (v2) refined arguments in section 3 ; reference
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