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Magnetic monopole and string excitations in a two-dimensional spin ice
We study the magnetic excitations of a square lattice spin-ice recently
produced in an artificial form, as an array of nanoscale magnets. Our analysis,
based upon the dipolar interaction between the nanomagnetic islands, correctly
reproduces the ground-state observed experimentally. In addition, we find
magnetic monopole-like excitations effectively interacting by means of the
usual Coulombic plus a linear confining potential, the latter being related to
a string-like excitation binding the monopoles pairs, what indicates that the
fractionalization of magnetic dipoles may not be so easy in two dimensions.
These findings contrast this material with the three-dimensional analogue,
where such monopoles experience only the Coulombic interaction. We discuss,
however, two entropic effects that affect the monopole interactions: firstly,
the string configurational entropy may loose the string tension and then, free
magnetic monopoles should also be found in lower dimensional spin ices;
secondly, in contrast to the string configurational entropy, an entropically
driven Coulomb force, which increases with temperature, has the opposite effect
of confining the magnetic defects.Comment: 8 pages. Accepted by Journal of Applied Physics (2009
Transversely projective foliations on surfaces: existence of normal forms and prescription of the monodromy
We introduce a notion of normal form for transversely projective structures
of singular foliations on complex manifolds. Our first main result says that
this normal form exists and is unique when ambient space is two-dimensional.
From this result one obtains a natural way to produce invariants for
transversely projective foliations on surfaces. Our second main result says
that on projective surfaces one can construct singular transversely projective
foliations with prescribed monodromy
Radial Alignment in Simulated Clusters
Observational evidence for the radial alignment of satellites with their dark
matter host has been accumulating steadily in the past few years. The effect is
seen over a wide range of scales, from massive clusters of galaxies down to
galaxy-sized systems, yet the underlying physical mechanism has still not been
established. To this end, we have carried out a detailed analysis of the shapes
and orientations of dark matter substructures in high-resolution N-body
cosmological simulations. We find a strong tendency for radial alignment of the
substructure with its host halo: the distribution of halo major axes is very
anisotropic, with the majority pointing towards the center of mass of the host.
The alignment peaks once the sub-halo has passed the virial radius of the host
for the first time, but is not subsequently diluted, even after the halos have
gone through as many as four pericentric passages. This evidence points to the
existence of a very rapid dynamical mechanism acting on these systems and we
argue that tidal torquing throughout their orbits is the most likely candidate.Comment: v2: 13 pages, 10 figures, ApJ in press. Revisions include a new
section (4.2) comparing our results with observations, and a few added
reference
Caracterização dos sistemas de produção de milho para altas produtividades.
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Photon-number-resolving segmented avalanche-photodiode detectors
We investigate the feasibility and performance of photon-number-resolved
photodetection employing avalanche photodiodes (APDs) with low dark counts. The
main idea is to split n photons over m modes such that every mode has no more
than one photon, which is detected alongside propagation by an APD. We
characterize performance by evaluating the purities of positive-operator-valued
measurements (POVMs), in terms of APD number and photon loss.Comment: 5 pages, 7 figures, submitted for publicatio
Severidade média da mancha angular do feijoeiro comum em ensaios de VCU no período de 2003-2009.
O objetivo deste trabalho foi estimar a severidade média da mancha angular em cultivares suscetíveis, em diferentes municípios, safras, e anos de cultivo
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