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Patterns formation in axially symmetric Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert-Slonczewski equations
The Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert-Slonczewski equation describes magnetization
dynamics in the presence of an applied field and a spin polarized current. In
the case of axial symmetry and with focus on one space dimension, we
investigate the emergence of space-time patterns in the form of wavetrains and
coherent structures, whose local wavenumber varies in space. A major part of
this study concerns existence and stability of wavetrains and of front- and
domain wall-type coherent structures whose profiles asymptote to wavetrains or
the constant up-/down-magnetizations. For certain polarization the Slonczewski
term can be removed which allows for a more complete charaterization, including
soliton-type solutions. Decisive for the solution structure is the polarization
parameter as well as size of anisotropy compared with the difference of field
intensity and current intensity normalized by the damping
Continuum Electromechanics Group - Traveling Wave Bulk Electroconvection Induced Across a Temperature Gradient
Traveling wave bulk electroconvection induced across temperature gradien
Fooling the eyes: the influence of a sound-induced visual motion illusion on eye movements
The question of whether perceptual illusions influence eye movements is critical for the long-standing debate regarding the separation between action and perception. To test the role of auditory context on a visual illusion and on eye movements, we took advantage of the fact that the presence of an auditory cue can successfully modulate illusory motion perception of an otherwise static flickering object (sound-induced visual motion effect). We found that illusory motion perception modulated by an auditory context consistently affected saccadic eye movements. Specifically, the landing positions of saccades performed towards flickering static bars in the periphery were biased in the direction of illusory motion. Moreover, the magnitude of this bias was strongly correlated with the effect size of the perceptual illusion. These results show that both an audio-visual and a purely visual illusion can significantly affect visuo-motor behavior. Our findings are consistent with arguments for a tight link between perception and action in localization tasks
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Speaking of Wine : Verbal and Perceptual Expertise Mediate Verbal Overshadowing in a Taste Recognition Task
When subjects generate a detailed, memory-based description of complex visual stimuli such as faces, their recognition performance can be worse than nondescribing controls. This effect, termed verbal overshadowing. typically occurs when the stimulus is difficult to describe, not normally verbalized in detail, and when subjects are naive about the task demands. Verbal overshadowing has previously been shown to effect visually based memory (for faces and colors). This experiment was designed to: 1) detect verbal overshadowing in another sense modality, taste, and 2) to determine if domain-related expertise modulates susceptibility to verbal overshadowing. Wine tasting was chosen as a domain in which to attempt to control subjects' relative levels of verbal and perceptual expertise. Based on suggestive data from previous face recognition studies, it was hypothesized that subjects whose perceptual expertise was greater than their domain-related verbal expertise (termed Intermediates) would show verbal overshadowing. On the other hand, subjects with relatively equal perceptual and verbal expertise, either low/low (Novices) or high/high (Experts) would not show verbalization effects. After tasting a target red wine Verbalization subjects wrote detailed taste descriptions from memory while controls participated in an unrelated verbal task. All subjects then attempted to identify the target wine from among three foils. As predicted, the verbalizing Intermediates performed significantly worse than the nonverbalizing controls on Trial 1. No-effect of verbalization was observed for either the novices or experts. The results are explained in terms of the differential development of perceptual and verbal skills in the course of becoming an expert
Maxwell stress in fluid mixtures
We examine the structure of Maxwell stress in binary fluid mixtures under an
external electric field and discuss its consequence. In particular, we show
that, in immiscible blends, it is intimately related to the statistics of
domain structure. This leads to a compact formula, which may be useful in the
investigation of electro-rheological effects in such systems. The stress tensor
calculated in a phase separated fluid under a steady electric field is in a
good agreement with recent experiments.Comment: 5 page
The effect of linguistic and visual salience in visual world studies
Research using the visual world paradigm has demonstrated that visual input has a rapid effect on language interpretation tasks such as reference resolution and, conversely, that linguistic material-including verbs, prepositions and adjectives-can influence fixations to potential referents. More recent research has started to explore how this effect of linguistic input on fixations is mediated by properties of the visual stimulus, in particular by visual salience. In the present study we further explored the role of salience in the visual world paradigm manipulating language-driven salience and visual salience. Specifically, we tested how linguistic salience (i.e., the greater accessibility of linguistically introduced entities) and visual salience (bottom-up attention grabbing visual aspects) interact. We recorded participants' eye-movements during a MapTask, asking them to look from landmark to landmark displayed upon a map while hearing direction-giving instructions. The landmarks were of comparable size and color, except in the Visual Salience condition, in which one landmark had been made more visually salient. In the Linguistic Salience conditions, the instructions included references to an object not on the map. Response times and fixations were recorded. Visual Salience influenced the time course of fixations at both the beginning and the end of the trial but did not show a significant effect on response times. Linguistic Salience reduced response times and increased fixations to landmarks when they were associated to a Linguistic Salient entity not present itself on the map. When the target landmark was both visually and linguistically salient, it was fixated longer, but fixations were quicker when the target item was linguistically salient only. Our results suggest that the two types of salience work in parallel and that linguistic salience affects fixations even when the entity is not visually present. © 2014 Cavicchio, Melcher and Poesio
The Construction of a Partially Regular Solution to the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert Equation in
We establish a framework to construct a global solution in the space of
finite energy to a general form of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation in
. Our characterization yields a partially regular solution,
smooth away from a 2-dimensional locally finite Hausdorff measure set. This
construction relies on approximation by discretization, using the special
geometry to express an equivalent system whose highest order terms are linear
and the translation of the machinery of linear estimates on the fundamental
solution from the continuous setting into the discrete setting. This method is
quite general and accommodates more general geometries involving targets that
are compact smooth hypersurfaces.Comment: 43 pages, 2 figure
Kaon Distribution Amplitude from QCD Sum Rules
We present a new calculation of the first Gegenbauer moment of the
kaon light-cone distribution amplitude. This moment is determined by the
difference between the average momenta of strange and nonstrange valence quarks
in the kaon. To calculate , QCD sum rule for the diagonal correlation
function of local and nonlocal axial-vector currents is used. Contributions of
condensates up to dimension six are taken into account, including
-corrections to the quark-condensate term. We obtain
, differing by the sign and magnitude from the recent
sum-rule estimate from the nondiagonal correlation function of pseudoscalar and
axial-vector currents. We argue that the nondiagonal sum rule is numerically
not reliable. Furthermore, an independent indication for a positive is
given, based on the matching of two different light-cone sum rules for the
form factor. With the new interval of we update our previous
numerical predictions for SU(3)-violating effects in form
factors and charmless (B) decays.Comment: a comment and a reference added, version to appear in Phys.Rev.D, 17
pages, 7 figure
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