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Dynamics of quasibound state formation in the driven Gaussian potential
The quasibound states of a particle in an inverted-Gaussian potential interacting with an intense laser field are studied using complex coordinate scaling and Floquet theory. The dynamics of the driven system is different depending on whether the driving field frequency is less than or greater than the ionization frequency. As the laser field strength is increased, a new quasibound state emerges as the result of a pitchfork bifurcation in the classical phase space. Changes in the time-averaged "dressed potential" appear related to this bifurcation and provide additional confirmation of the role of the bifurcation on the emergence of a new quasibound state. The Husimi plots of the quasibound state residues reveal strong support on the periodic orbits of the bifurcation at frequencies above the ionization frequency.Physic
Preliminary data on the influence of rearing temperature on the growth and reproductive status of fathead minnows Pimephales promelas
This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund and is available from the specified link - Copyright @ 2011 Brian JV et al.An investigation into the influence of temperature on the growth and reproductive status of the fathead minnow Pimephales promelas revealed that, while there was no clear effect of treatment on sex differentiation, ovarian tissue from female fish reared under the highest temperature regime contained large amounts of undefined tissue containing no germ cells. Furthermore, both male and female fish exhibited differences in length mass, condition and somatic indices, and in the expression of secondary sexual characteristics. The patterns observed are discussed in the context of climate change
Fragility of iron-based glasses
The viscosity of various iron-based bulk-glass-forming liquids is measured around the glass transition, and the associated fragility is calculated. Fragility is found to vary broadly between compositions, from a low value of ~43, which indicates fairly “strong” liquid behavior, to ~65, well within the region of “fragile” behavior. Despite a strong covalent bonding identified in the structure of this class of metal/metalloid glasses, their liquid fragility can be remarkably high, exceeding even the very fragile palladium and platinum bulk-glass formers. An inverse correlation between glass-forming ability and fragility is identified, suggesting that iron-based glasses are effectively “kinetically” stabilized
Evidence for Solar Tether-cutting Magnetic Reconnection from Coronal Field Extrapolations
Magnetic reconnection is one of the primary mechanisms for triggering solar
eruptive events, but direct observation of its rapid process has been of
challenge. In this Letter we present, using a nonlinear force-free field
(NLFFF) extrapolation technique, a visualization of field line connectivity
changes resulting from tether-cutting reconnection over about 30 minutes during
the 2011 February 13 M6.6 flare in NOAA AR 11158. Evidence for the
tether-cutting reconnection was first collected through multiwavelength
observations and then by the analysis of the field lines traced from positions
of four conspicuous flare 1700 A footpoints observed at the event onset. Right
before the flare, the four footpoints are located very close to the regions of
local maxima of magnetic twist index. Especially, the field lines from the
inner two footpoints form two strongly twisted flux bundles (up to ~1.2 turns),
which shear past each other and reach out close to the outer two footpoints,
respectively. Immediately after the flare, the twist index of regions around
the footpoints greatly diminish and the above field lines become low lying and
less twisted (~0.6 turns), overarched by loops linking the later formed two
flare ribbons. About 10% of the flux (~3x10^19 Mx) from the inner footpoints
has undergone a footpoint exchange. This portion of flux originates from the
edge regions of the inner footpoints that are brightened first. These rapid
changes of magnetic field connectivity inferred from the NLFFF extrapolation
are consistent with the tether-cutting magnetic reconnection model.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, accepted to the Astrophysical Journal Letter
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