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Description of Heavy Quark Systems by means of Energy Dependent Potentials
We apply, for the first time, an energy dependent Schrodinger equation to
describe static properties of heavy quark systems, i.e. charmonium and
bottonium. We show that a good description of the eigenstates and reasonable
values for the widths can be obtained. Values of the radii and of the density
at the origin are also given. We compare the results to those deduced with a
Schrodinger equation implemented with potentials used so far. We note that the
energy dependence of the confining potential provides a natural mechanism for
the saturation of the spectra. Our results introduce a new class of potentials
for the description of heavy quark systems.Comment: 3 page
Space-contained conflict revision, for geographic information
Using qualitative reasoning with geographic information, contrarily, for
instance, with robotics, looks not only fastidious (i.e.: encoding knowledge
Propositional Logics PL), but appears to be computational complex, and not
tractable at all, most of the time. However, knowledge fusion or revision, is a
common operation performed when users merge several different data sets in a
unique decision making process, without much support. Introducing logics would
be a great improvement, and we propose in this paper, means for deciding -a
priori- if one application can benefit from a complete revision, under only the
assumption of a conjecture that we name the "containment conjecture", which
limits the size of the minimal conflicts to revise. We demonstrate that this
conjecture brings us the interesting computational property of performing a
not-provable but global, revision, made of many local revisions, at a tractable
size. We illustrate this approach on an application.Comment: 14 page
Absorption and Direct Processes in Chaotic Wave Scattering
Recent results on the scattering of waves by chaotic systems with losses and
direct processes are discussed. We start by showing the results without direct
processes nor absorption. We then discuss systems with direct processes and
lossy systems separately. Finally the discussion of systems with both direct
processes and loses is given. We will see how the regimes of strong and weak
absorption are modified by the presence of the direct processes.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, Condensed Matter Physics (IV Mexican Meeting on
Mathematical and Experimental Physics), Edited by M. Martinez-Mares and J. A.
Moreno-Raz
Metallic properties of magnesium point contacts
We present an experimental and theoretical study of the conductance and
stability of Mg atomic-sized contacts. Using Mechanically Controllable Break
Junctions (MCBJ), we have observed that the room temperature conductance
histograms exhibit a series of peaks, which suggests the existence of a shell
effect. Its periodicity, however, cannot be simply explained in terms of either
an atomic or electronic shell effect. We have also found that at room
temperature, contacts of the diameter of a single atom are absent. A possible
interpretation could be the occurrence of a metal-to-insulator transition as
the contact radius is reduced, in analogy with what it is known in the context
of Mg clusters. However, our first principle calculations show that while an
infinite linear chain can be insulating, Mg wires with larger atomic
coordinations, as in realistic atomic contacts, are alwaysmetallic. Finally, at
liquid helium temperature our measurements show that the conductance histogram
is dominated by a pronounced peak at the quantum of conductance. This is in
good agreement with our calculations based on a tight-binding model that
indicate that the conductance of a Mg one-atom contact is dominated by a single
fully open conduction channel.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figure
Chaotic scattering with direct processes: A generalization of Poisson's kernel for non-unitary scattering matrices
The problem of chaotic scattering in presence of direct processes or prompt
responses is mapped via a transformation to the case of scattering in absence
of such processes for non-unitary scattering matrices, \tilde S. In the absence
of prompt responses, \tilde S is uniformly distributed according to its
invariant measure in the space of \tilde S matrices with zero average, < \tilde
S > =0. In the presence of direct processes, the distribution of \tilde S is
non-uniform and it is characterized by the average (\neq 0). In
contrast to the case of unitary matrices S, where the invariant measures of S
for chaotic scattering with and without direct processes are related through
the well known Poisson kernel, here we show that for non-unitary scattering
matrices the invariant measures are related by the Poisson kernel squared. Our
results are relevant to situations where flux conservation is not satisfied.
For example, transport experiments in chaotic systems, where gains or losses
are present, like microwave chaotic cavities or graphs, and acoustic or elastic
resonators.Comment: Added two appendices and references. Corrected typo
Scattering of Elastic Waves in a Quasi-one-dimensional Cavity: Theory and Experiment
We study the scattering of torsional waves through a quasi-one-dimensional
cavity both, from the experimental and theoretical points of view. The
experiment consists of an elastic rod with square cross section. In order to
form a cavity, a notch at a certain distance of one end of the rod was grooved.
To absorb the waves, at the other side of the rod, a wedge, covered by an
absorbing foam, was machined. In the theoretical description, the scattering
matrix S of the torsional waves was obtained. The distribution of S is given by
Poisson's kernel. The theoretical predictions show an excellent agreement with
the experimental results. This experiment corresponds, in quantum mechanics, to
the scattering by a delta potential, in one dimension, located at a certain
distance from an impenetrable wall
Electromagnetic prompt response in an elastic wave cavity
A rapid, or prompt response, of an electromagnetic nature, is found in an
elastic wave scattering experiment. The experiment is performed with torsional
elastic waves in a quasi-one-dimensional cavity with one port, formed by a
notch grooved at a certain distance from the free end of a beam. The stationary
patterns are diminished using a passive vibration isolation system at the other
end of the beam. The measurement of the resonances is performed with
non-contact electromagnetic-acoustic transducers outside the cavity. In the
Argand plane, each resonance describes a circle over a base impedance curve
which comes from the electromagnetic components of the equipment. A model,
based on a variation of Poisson's kernel is developed. Excellent agreement
between theory and experiment is obtained.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
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