Two-Photon Spectroscopy of the NaLi Triplet Ground State

We employ two-photon spectroscopy to study the vibrational states of the triplet ground state potential ($a^3\Sigma^+$) of the $^{23}$Na$^{6}$Li molecule. Pairs of Na and Li atoms in an ultracold mixture are photoassociated into an excited triplet molecular state, which in turn is coupled to vibrational states of the triplet ground potential. Vibrational state binding energies, line strengths, and potential fitting parameters for the triplet ground $a^3\Sigma^+$ potential are reported. We also observe rotational splitting in the lowest vibrational state.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure

Universal four-component Fermi gas in one dimension

A four-component Fermi gas in one dimension with a short-range four-body interaction is shown to exhibit a one-dimensional analog of the BCS-BEC crossover. Its low-energy physics is governed by a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid with three spin gaps. The spin gaps are exponentially small in the weak coupling (BCS) limit where they arise from the charge-density-wave instability, and become large in the strong coupling (BEC) limit because of the formation of tightly-bound tetramers. We investigate the ground-state energy, the sound velocity, and the gap spectrum in the BCS-BEC crossover and discuss exact relationships valid in our system. We also show that a one-dimensional analog of the Efimov effect occurs for five bosons while it is absent for fermions. Our work opens up a very rich new field of universal few-body and many-body physics in one dimension.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures; (v2) Efimov effect for 5 bosons in 1D is discussed; (v3) expanded versio

Shear viscosity from R-charged AdS black holes

We compute the shear viscosity in the supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory dual to the STU background. This is a thermal gauge theory with a chemical potential. The quotient of the shear viscosity over the entropy density exhibits no deviation from the well known result 1/4\pi.Comment: 9 pages, some references updated, abstract and some typos correcte

On the sign of the dilaton in the soft wall models

We elaborate on the existence of a spurious massless scalar mode in the vector channel of soft-wall models with incorrectly chosen sign of the exponential profile defining the wall. We re-iterate the point made in our earlier paper and demonstrate that the presence of the mode is robust, depending only on the infra-red asymptotics of the wall. We also re-emphasize that desired confinement properties can be realized with the correct sign choice.Comment: 10 page

Address at the Funeral of the Late Orville E. Babcock, by Rev. T. S. Wynkoop, June 7, 1884

This pamphlet contains the prayer and funeral address delivered by Reverend T. S. Wynkoop, the minister of the Western Presbyterian Church during the funeral service for Orville E. Babcock, June 7, 1884. The address is seven pages of typed print and the pamphlet notes that the address was not originally written and that this is reproduced in substance, as nearly as may be, at the request of friends.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/orville-elias-babcock-documents/1021/thumbnail.jp

Magnetized Domain Walls in the Deconfined Sakai-Sugimoto Model at Finite Baryon Density

The magnetized pure pion gradient ($\mathcal{5}\phi$) phase in the deconfined Sakai-Sugimoto model is explored at zero and finite temperature. We found that the temperature has very small effects on the phase. The thermodynamical properties of the phase shows that the excitations behave like a scalar solitonic free particles. By comparing the free energy of the pion gradient phase to the competing multiquark-pion gradient (MQ-$\mathcal{5}\phi$) phase, it becomes apparent that the pure pion gradient is less thermodynamically preferred than the MQ-$\mathcal{5}\phi$ phase. However, in the parameter space where the baryonic chemical potential is smaller than the onset value of the multiquark, the dominating magnetized nuclear matter is the pion gradient phase.Comment: 20 pages, 9 figure

Photoassociation of Ultracold NaLi

We perform photoassociation spectroscopy in an ultracold $^{23}$Na-$^6$Li mixture to study the $c^3\Sigma^+$ excited triplet molecular potential. We observe 50 vibrational states and their substructure to an accuracy of 20 MHz, and provide line strength data from photoassociation loss measurements. An analysis of the vibrational line positions using near-dissociation expansions and a full potential fit is presented. This is the first observation of the $c^3\Sigma^+$ potential, as well as photoassociation in the NaLi system.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure

Long-Lived Ultracold Molecules with Electric and Magnetic Dipole Moments

We create fermionic dipolar $^{23}$Na$^6$Li molecules in their triplet ground state from an ultracold mixture of $^{23}$Na and $^6$Li. Using magneto-association across a narrow Feshbach resonance followed by a two-photon STIRAP transfer to the triplet ground state, we produce $3\,{\times}\,10^4$ ground state molecules in a spin-polarized state. We observe a lifetime of $4.6\,\text{s}$ in an isolated molecular sample, approaching the $p$-wave universal rate limit. Electron spin resonance spectroscopy of the triplet state was used to determine the hyperfine structure of this previously unobserved molecular state.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure

Mesoscopic transport beyond linear response

We present an approach to steady-state mesoscopic transport based on the maximum entropy principle formulation of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. Our approach is not limited to the linear response regime. We show that this approach yields the quantization observed in the integer quantum Hall effect at large currents, which until now has been unexplained. We also predict new behaviors of non-local resistances at large currents in the presence of dirty contacts.Comment: 14 pages plus one figure (with an insert) (post-script codes appended), RevTeX 3.0, UCF-CM-93-004 (Revised