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Multiphonon anharmonic decay of a quantum mode
A nonperturbative theory of multiphonon anharmonic transitions between energy
levels of a local mode is presented. It is shown that the rate of transitions
rearranges near the critical level number : at smaller the process
slows down, while at larger it accelerates in time, causing a jump-like
loss of energy followed by the generation of phonon bursts. Depending on
parameters, phonons are emitted in pairs, triplets etc.Comment: submitted to Europhys.Let
Wire GEM detector
A wire GEM (WGEM) detector with a gas gap between meshes was constructed. The
detector provides the amplification 5x10E5 for the gas mixture of Ar +20% CO2
at atmospheric pressure. As compared with well-known GEM detectors produced by
perforation the plastic plate metalized on both sides the WGEM does not suffer
from breakdowns between its electrodes and the effect of accumulation of
charges on holes walls is absent. As a result the WGEM has high reliability and
stability.Comment: Presented at the RD51 Collaboration Meeting, CERN, November 2009,
submitted to the Prib. Tech. Expe
RETGEM with polyvinylchloride (PVC) electrodes
This paper presents a new design of the RETGEM (Resistive Electrode Thick
GEM) based on electrodes made of a polyvinylchloride material (PVC). Our device
can operate with gains of 10E5 as a conventional TGEM at low counting rates and
as RPC in the case of high counting rates without of the transit to the violent
sparks. The distinct feature of present RETGEM is the absent of the metal
coating and lithographic technology for manufacturing of the protective
dielectric rms. The electrodes from PVC permit to do the holes by a simple
drilling machine. Detectors on a RETGEM basis could be useful in many fields of
an application requiring a more cheap manufacturing and safe operation, for
example, in a large neutrino experiments, in TPC, RICH systems.Comment: Presented at the RD51 Collaboration Meeting, CERN, November 200
Non-radially symmetric solutions to the Ginzburg-Landau equation
We study an atom with finitely many energy levels in contact with a heat bath consisting of photons (black body radiation) at a temperature . The dynamics of this system is described by a Liouville operator, or thermal Hamiltonian, which is the sum of an atomic Liouville operator, of a Liouville operator describing the dynamics of a free, massless Bose field, and a local operator describing the interactions between the atom and the heat bath. We show that an arbitrary initial state which is normal with respect to the equilibrium state of the uncoupled system at temperature converges to an equilibrium state of the coupled system at the same temperature, as time tends to $+ \infty
On collapse of wave maps
We derive the universal collapse law of degree 1 equivariant wave maps
(solutions of the sigma-model) from the 2+1 Minkowski space-time,to the
2-sphere. To this end we introduce a nonlinear transformation from original
variables to blowup ones. Our formal derivations are confirmed by numerical
simulations.Comment: 1 figur
Collapse of an Instanton
We construct a two parameter family of collapsing solutions to the 4+1
Yang-Mills equations and derive the dynamical law of the collapse. Our
arguments indicate that this family of solutions is stable. The latter fact is
also supported by numerical simulations.Comment: 17 pages, 1 figur
The Fermi surface and the role of electronic correlations in SmCeCuO
Using LDA+GTB (local density approximation+generalized tight-binding) hybrid
scheme we investigate the band structure of the electron-doped high-
material SmCeCuO. Parameters of the minimal tight-binding
model for this system (the so-called 3-band Emery model) were obtained within
the NMTO (-th order Muffin-Tin orbital) method. Doping evolution of the
dispersion and Fermi surface in the presence of electronic correlations was
investigated in two regimes of magnetic order: short-range (spin-liquid) and
long-range (antiferromagnetic metal). Each regime is characterized by the
specific topologies of the Fermi surfaces and we discuss their relation to
recent experimental data.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, Published versio
Wandering breathers and self-trapping in weakly coupled nonlinear chains: classical counterpart of macroscopic tunneling quantum dynamics
We present analytical and numerical studies of phase-coherent dynamics of
intrinsically localized excitations (breathers) in a system of two weakly
coupled nonlinear oscillator chains. We show that there are two qualitatively
different dynamical regimes of the coupled breathers, either immovable or
slowly-moving: the periodic transverse translation (wandering) of low-amplitude
breather between the chains, and the one-chain-localization of high-amplitude
breather. These two modes of coupled nonlinear excitations, which involve large
number of anharmonic oscillators, can be mapped onto two solutions of a single
pendulum equation, detached by a separatrix mode. We also study two-chain
breathers, which can be considered as bound states of discrete breathers with
different symmetry and center locations in the coupled chains, and bifurcation
of the anti-phase two-chain breather into the one-chain one. Delocalizing
transition of 1D breather in 2D system of a large number of parallel coupled
nonlinear chains is described, in which the breather, initially excited in a
given chain, abruptly spreads its vibration energy in the whole 2D system upon
decreasing breather frequency or amplitude below the threshold one. The
threshold breather frequency is above the cut off phonon frequency in 2D
system, and the threshold breather amplitude scales as square root of the
inter-chain coupling constant. Delocalizing transition of discrete vibrational
breather in 2D and 3D systems of coupled nonlinear chains has an analogy with
delocalizing transition for Bose-Einstein condensates in 2D and 3D optical
lattices.Comment: 33 pages, 16 figure
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