Study of the Depolarized Light Scattering Spectra of Supercooled Liquids by a Simple Mode-Coupling Model

By using simple mode coupling equations, we investigate the depolarized light scattering spectra of two so-called "fragile" glassforming liquids, salol (phenylsalicylate) and CKN (Ca_{0.4}K_{0.6}(NO_3)_{1.4}), measured by Cummins and coworkers. Nonlinear integrodifferential equations for the time evolution of the density-fluctuations autocorrelation functions are the basic input of the mode coupling theory. Restricting ourselves to a small set of such equations, we fit the numerical solution to the experimental spectra. It leads to a good agreement between model and experiment, which allows us to determine how a real system explores the parameter space of the model, but it also leads to unrealistic effective vertices in a temperature range where the theory makes critical asymptotic predictions. We finally discuss the relevance and the range of validity of these universal asymptotic predictions when applied to experimental data on supercooled liquids.Comment: 31 LaTeX pages using overcite.sty, 10 postscript figures, accepted in J. Chem. Phy

Aging, rejuvenation and memory effects in re-entrant ferromagnets

We have studied the slow dynamics of the ferromagnetic phases of the re-entrant CdCr_{2x}In_{2-2x}S_4 system for 0.85<x<=1 by means of low frequency ac susceptibility and magnetization measurements. Experimental procedures widely used in the investigation of the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of spin glasses (such as the x=0.85 compound) have been applied to search for aging, rejuvenation and memory effects, and to test their dependence on the disorder introduced by dilution of the magnetic ions. Whereas the rejuvenation effect is found in all studied samples, the memory effect is clearly enhanced for increasing dilutions. The results support a description of aging in both ferromagnetic and re-entrant spin-glass phases in terms of hierarchical reconformations of domain walls pinned by the disorder.Comment: Service de Physique de l'Etat Condense, DRECAM, DSM, CEA Saclay,91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France, 9 pages, including 7 figures, To appear in Eur. Phys. J. B (2002

Flavor-dependent eigenvolume interactions in a hadron resonance gas

Eigenvolume effects in the hadron resonance gas (HRG) model are studied for experimental hadronic yields in nucleus-nucleus collisions. If particle eigenvolumes are different for different hadron species, the excluded volume HRG (EV-HRG) improves fits to multiplicity data. In particular, using different mass~-~volume relations for strange and non-strange hadrons we observe a remarkable improvement in the quality of the fits. This effect appears to be rather insensitive to other details in the schemes employed in the EV-HRG. We show that the parameters found from fitting the data of the ALICE Collaboration in central Pb+Pb collisions at the collision energy $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 2.76$~TeV entail the same improvement for all centralities at the same collision energy, and for the RHIC and SPS data at lower collision energies. Our findings are put in the context of recent fits of lattice QCD results.Comment: 4 figure

Aging phenomena in spin glass and ferromagnetic phases: domain growth and wall dynamics

We compare aging in a disordered ferromagnet and in a spin glass, by studying the different phases of a reentrant system. We have measured the relaxation of the low-frequency ac susceptibility, in both the ferromagnetic and spin-glass phases of a CdCr_{1.9}In_{0.1}S_4 sample. A restart of aging processes when the temperature is lowered (`chaos-like' effect) is observed in both phases. The memory of previous aging at a higher temperature can be retrieved upon re-heating, but in the ferromagnetic phase it can rapidly be erased by the growth of ferromagnetic domains. We interpret the behaviour observed in the ferromagnetic phase in terms of a combination of domain growth and pinned wall reconformations, and suggest that aging in spin glasses is dominated by such wall reconformation processes.Comment: SPEC, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France, to appear in Europhys. Lett. (2000

Potencialidade do uso de imagens orbitais para detecção de mudanças temporais: estudo de caso no município de Montenegro-RS, 1993 - 2008.

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Classificação de imagens orbitais com auxílio da análise por componentes principais no município de Montenegro, RS, 2009.

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