118 research outputs found
Atomtronics with holes: Coherent transport of an empty site in a triple well potential
We investigate arrays of three traps with two fermionic or bosonic atoms. The
tunneling interaction between neighboring sites is used to prepare multi-site
dark states for the empty site, i.e., the hole, allowing for the coherent
manipulation of its external degrees of freedom. By means of an ab initio
integration of the Schr\"odinger equation, we investigate the adiabatic
transport of a hole between the two extreme traps of a triple-well potential.
Furthermore, a quantum-trajectory approach based on the de Broglie-Bohm
formulation of quantum mechanics is used to get physical insight into the
transport process. Finally, we discuss the use of the hole for the construction
of a coherent single hole diode and a coherent single hole transistor.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figure
A new view of k-essence
K-essence models, relying on scalar fields with non-canonical kinetic terms,
have been proposed as an alternative to quintessence in explaining the observed
acceleration of the Universe. We consider the use of field redefinitions to
cast k-essence in a more familiar form. While k-essence models cannot in
general be rewritten in the form of quintessence models, we show that in
certain dynamical regimes an equivalence can be made, which in particular can
shed light on the tracking behaviour of k-essence. In several cases, k-essence
cannot be observationally distinguished from quintessence using the homogeneous
evolution, though there may be small effects on the perturbation spectrum. We
make a detailed analysis of two k-essence models from the literature and
comment on the nature of the fine tuning arising in the models.Comment: 7 pages RevTeX4 file with four figures incorporate
Interacting polytropic gas model of phantom dark energy in non-flat universe
By introducing the polytropic gas model of interacting dark energy, we obtain
the equation of state for the polytropic gas energy density in a non-flat
universe. We show that for even polytropic index by choosing
, one can obtain , which
corresponds to a universe dominated by phantom dark energy.Comment: 7 page
Nonlinear Spinor Fields and its role in Cosmology
Different characteristic of matter influencing the evolution of the Universe
has been simulated by means of a nonlinear spinor field. Exploiting the spinor
description of perfect fluid and dark energy evolution of the Universe given by
an anisotropic Bianchi type-VI, VI, V, III, I or isotropic
Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) one has been studied. It is shown that due to
some restrictions on metric functions, initial anisotropy in the models Bianchi
type-VI, VI, V and III does not die away, while the anisotropic Bianchi
type-I models evolves into the isotropic one.Comment: 22 pages, 12 Figure
Holographic dark energy in a non-flat universe with Granda-Oliveros cut-off
Motivated by Granda and Oliveros (GO) model, we generalize their work to the
non-flat case. We obtain the evolution of the dark energy density, the
deceleration and the equation of state parameters for the holographic dark
energy model in a non-flat universe with GO cut-off. In the limiting case of a
flat universe, i.e. , all results given in GO model are obtained.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figure
Nonlinear spinor field in Bianchi type-I Universe filled with viscous fluid: numerical solutions
We consider a system of nonlinear spinor and a Bianchi type I gravitational
fields in presence of viscous fluid. The nonlinear term in the spinor field
Lagrangian is chosen to be , with being a self-coupling
constant and being a function of the invariants an constructed from
bilinear spinor forms and . Self-consistent solutions to the spinor and
BI gravitational field equations are obtained in terms of , where
is the volume scale of BI universe. System of equations for and \ve,
where \ve is the energy of the viscous fluid, is deduced. This system is
solved numerically for some special cases.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figure
Reconstructing the Equation of State of Tachyon
Recent progress in theoretical physics suggests that the dark energy in the
universe might be resulted from the rolling tachyon field of string theory.
Measurements to SNe Ia can be helpful to reconstruct the equation of state of
the rolling tachyon which is a possible candidate of dark energy. We present a
numerical analysis for the evolution of the equation of state of the rolling
tachyon and derive the reconstruction equations for the equation of state as
well as the potential.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, to appear Phys. Rev.
Bianchi type-I model with cosmic string in the presence of a magnetic field: spinor description
A Bianchi type-I cosmological model in the presence of a magnetic flux along
a cosmic string is investigated. A nonlinear spinor field is used to simulate
the cosmological cloud of strings. It is shown that the spinor field simulation
offer the possibility to solve the system of Einstein's equation without any
additional assumptions. It is shown that the present model is nonsingular at
the end of the evolution and does not allow the anisotropic Universe to turn
into an isotropic one.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures, new figus are added, singularity and
isotropization process are discussed in detai
Spinors, Inflation, and Non-Singular Cyclic Cosmologies
We consider toy cosmological models in which a classical, homogeneous, spinor
field provides a dominant or sub-dominant contribution to the energy-momentum
tensor of a flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe. We find that, if such a
field were to exist, appropriate choices of the spinor self-interaction would
generate a rich variety of behaviors, quite different from their widely studied
scalar field counterparts. We first discuss solutions that incorporate a stage
of cosmic inflation and estimate the primordial spectrum of density
perturbations seeded during such a stage. Inflation driven by a spinor field
turns out to be unappealing as it leads to a blue spectrum of perturbations and
requires considerable fine-tuning of parameters. We next find that, for simple,
quartic spinor self-interactions, non-singular cyclic cosmologies exist with
reasonable parameter choices. These solutions might eventually be incorporated
into a successful past- and future-eternal cosmological model free of
singularities. In an Appendix, we discuss the classical treatment of spinors
and argue that certain quantum systems might be approximated in terms of such
fields.Comment: 12 two-column pages, 3 figures; uses RevTeX
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