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IG/OG program for generating and displaying NASTRAN input and output data
A software system was provided for structural analysis fields using NASTRAN. The HITAC users in Japan can use IG/OG (input generator/output generator) program for NASTRAN. The IG/OG saves time required to make a structure analysis for interpreting NASTRAN results
Polyamorphism of ice at low temperatures from constant-pressure simulations
We report results of MD simulations of amorphous ice in the pressure range 0
- 22.5 kbar. The high-density amorphous ice (HDA) prepared by compression of Ih
ice at T = 80 K is annealed to T = 170 K at intermediate pressures in order to
generate relaxed states. We confirm the existence of recently observed
phenomena, the very high-density amorphous ice and a continuum of HDA forms. We
suggest that both phenomena have their origin in the evolution of the network
topology of the annealed HDA phase with decreasing volume, resulting at low
temperatures in the metastability of a range of densities.Comment: 11 pages, 5 postscript figures. To be published in Physical Review
Letter
An Analytic Model with Critical Behavior in Black Hole Formation
A simple analytic model is presented which exhibits a critical behavior in
black hole formation, namely, collapse of a thin shell coupled with outgoing
null fluid. It is seen that the critical behavior is caused by the
gravitational nonlinearity near the event horizon. We calculate the value of
the critical exponent analytically and find that it is very dependent on the
coupling constants of the system.Comment: 21pp., ReVTeX, 7 figures (postscript, compressed and uuencoded),
TIT/HEP-266/COSMO-4
Theory of Myelin Coiling
A new model is proposed to explain coiling of myelins composed of fluid
bilayers. This model allows the constituent bilayer cylinders of a myelin to be
non-coaxial and the bilayer lateral tension to vary from bilayer to bilayer.
The calculations show that a myelin would bend or coil to lower its free energy
when the bilayer lateral tension is sufficiently large. From a mechanical point
of view, the proposed coiling mechanism is analogous to the classical Euler
buckling of a thin elastic rod under axial compression. The analysis of a
simple two-bilayer case suggests that a bilayer lateral tension of about 1
dyne/cm can easily induce coiling of myelins of typical lipid bilayers. This
model signifies the importance of bilayer lateral tension in determining the
morphology of myelinic structures.Comment: 17 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Eur. Phys. J.
The Black Di-Ring: An Inverse Scattering Construction
We use the inverse scattering method (ISM) to derive concentric
non-supersymmetric black rings. The approach used here is fully
five-dimensional, and has the modest advantage that it generalizes readily to
the construction of more general axi-symmetric solutions.Comment: v3: 2 subsections added, typos fixed, more refs, journal version. v4:
a transcription error in the ADM mass fixe
A black ring with a rotating 2-sphere
We present a solution of the vacuum Einstein's equations in five dimensions
corresponding to a black ring with horizon topology S^1 x S^2 and rotation in
the azimuthal direction of the S^2. This solution has a regular horizon up to a
conical singularity, which can be placed either inside the ring or at infinity.
This singularity arises due to the fact that this black ring is not balanced.
In the infinite radius limit we correctly reproduce the Kerr black string, and
taking another limit we recover the Myers-Perry black hole with a single
angular momentum.Comment: 10 page
Instability of Myelin Tubes under Dehydration: deswelling of layered cylindrical structures
We report experimental observations of an undulational instability of myelin
figures. Motivated by this, we examine theoretically the deformation and
possible instability of concentric, cylindrical, multi-lamellar membrane
structures. Under conditions of osmotic stress (swelling or dehydration), we
find a stable, deformed state in which the layer deformation is given by \delta
R ~ r^{\sqrt{B_A/(hB)}}, where B_A is the area compression modulus, B is the
inter-layer compression modulus, and h is the repeat distance of layers. Also,
above a finite threshold of dehydration (or osmotic stress), we find that the
system becomes unstable to undulations, first with a characteristic wavelength
of order \sqrt{xi d_0}, where xi is the standard smectic penetration depth and
d_0 is the thickness of dehydrated region.Comment: 5 pages + 3 figures [revtex 4
Pressure-induced amorphization and polyamorphism in one-dimensional single crystal TiO2 nanomaterials
The structural phase transitions of single crystal TiO2-B nanoribbons were
investigated in-situ at high-pressure using the synchrotron X-ray diffraction
and the Raman scattering. Our results have shown a pressure-induced
amorphization (PIA) occurred in TiO2-B nanoribbons upon compression, resulting
in a high density amorphous (HDA) form related to the baddeleyite structure.
Upon decompression, the HDA form transforms to a low density amorphous (LDA)
form while the samples still maintain their pristine nanoribbon shape. HRTEM
imaging reveals that the LDA phase has an {\alpha}-PbO2 structure with short
range order. We propose a homogeneous nucleation mechanism to explain the
pressure-induced amorphous phase transitions in the TiO2-B nanoribbons. Our
study demonstrates for the first time that PIA and polyamorphism occurred in
the one-dimensional (1D) TiO2 nanomaterials and provides a new method for
preparing 1D amorphous nanomaterials from crystalline nanomaterials.Comment: 4 figure
Chargino Contributions in Asymmetry
CP asymmetry in decay is studied in a special context of
supersymmetry theories, in which the charginos play an important role. We find
that in addition to the gluino, chargino can also make large contributions to
CP asymmetry in decay. After considering the constraints from
decay, we study three special scenarios: (a). Large mixing on
left-handed charm and top squarks (LL mixing); (b). Large mixing on
right-handed charm and top squarks (RR mixing); (c). Large mixing on
left-handed charm and top squarks plus right-handed charm and top squarks (LL +
RR mixing). We show quantitatively that because of large squark mixing within
second and third generations, an (1) effect on CP violation in is possible
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