338 research outputs found
The various power decays of the survival probability at long times for free quantum particle
The long time behaviour of the survival probability of initial state and its
dependence on the initial states are considered, for the one dimensional free
quantum particle. We derive the asymptotic expansion of the time evolution
operator at long times, in terms of the integral operators. This enables us to
obtain the asymptotic formula for the survival probability of the initial state
, which is assumed to decrease sufficiently rapidly at large .
We then show that the behaviour of the survival probability at long times is
determined by that of the initial state at zero momentum . Indeed,
it is proved that the survival probability can exhibit the various power-decays
like for an arbitrary non-negative integers as ,
corresponding to the initial states with the condition as .Comment: 15 pages, to appear in J. Phys.
'Sexercise': Working out heterosexuality in Jane Fonda’s fitness books
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Leisure Studies, 30(2), 237 - 255, 2011, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02614367.2010.523837.This paper explores the connection between the promotion of heterosexual norms in women’s fitness books written by or in the name of Jane Fonda during the 1980s and the commodification of women’s fitness space in both the public and private spheres. The paper is set in the absence of overt discussions of normative heterosexuality in leisure studies and draws on critical heterosexual scholarship as well as the growing body of work theorising geographies of corporeality and heterosexuality. Using the principles of media discourse analysis, the paper identifies three overlapping characteristics of heterosexuality represented in Jane Fonda’s fitness books, and embodied through the exercise regimes: respectable heterosexual desire, monogamous procreation and domesticity. The paper concludes that the promotion and prescription of exercise for women in the Jane Fonda workout books centred on the reproduction and embodiment of heterosexual corporeality. Set within an emerging commercial landscape of women’s fitness in the 1980s, such exercise practices were significant in the legitimation and institutionalisation of heteronormativity
Damped harmonic oscillators in the holomorphic representation
Quantum dynamical semigroups are applied to the study of the time evolution
of harmonic oscillators, both bosonic and fermionic. Explicit expressions for
the density matrices describing the states of these systems are derived using
the holomorphic representation. Bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom are
then put together to form a supersymmetric oscillator; the conditions that
assure supersymmetry invariance of the corresponding dynamical equations are
explicitly derived.Comment: 19 pages, plain-TeX, no figure
Reflection and Transmission in a Neutron-Spin Test of the Quantum Zeno Effect
The dynamics of a quantum system undergoing frequent "measurements", leading
to the so-called quantum Zeno effect, is examined on the basis of a
neutron-spin experiment recently proposed for its demonstration. When the
spatial degrees of freedom are duely taken into account, neutron-reflection
effects become very important and may lead to an evolution which is totally
different from the ideal case.Comment: 26 pages, 6 figure
Effect of the measurement on the decay rate of a quantum system
We investigated the electron tunneling out of a quantum dot in the presence
of a continuous monitoring by a detector. It is shown that the Schr\"odinger
equation for the whole system can be reduced to new Bloch-type rate equations
describing the time-development of the detector and the measured system at
once. Using these equations we find that the continuous measurement of the
unstable system does not affect its exponential decay, ,
contrary to expectations based on the Quantum Zeno effect . However, the width
of the energy distribution of the tunneling electron is no more , but
increases due to the decoherence, generated by the detector.Comment: Additional explanations are added. Accepted for publications in Phys.
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Can Doubly Strange Dibaryon Resonances be Discovered at RHIC?
The baryon-baryon continuum invariant mass spectrum generated from
relativistic nucleus + nucleus collision data may reveal the existence of
doubly-strange dibaryons not stable against strong decay if they lie within a
few MeV of threshold. Furthermore, since the dominant component of these states
is a superposition of two color-octet clusters which can be produced
intermediately in a color-deconfined quark-gluon plasma (QGP), an enhanced
production of dibaryon resonances could be a signal of QGP formation. A total
of eight, doubly-strange dibaryon states are considered for experimental search
using the STAR detector (Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC) at the new Relativistic
Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). These states may decay to Lambda-Lambda and/or
proton-Cascade-minus, depending on the resonance energy. STAR's large
acceptance, precision tracking and vertex reconstruction capabilities, and
large data volume capacity, make it an ideal instrument to use for such a
search. Detector performance and analysis sensitivity are studied as a function
of resonance production rate and width for one particular dibaryon which can
directly strong decay to proton-Cascade-minus but not Lambda-Lambda. Results
indicate that such resonances may be discovered using STAR if the resonance
production rates are comparable to coalescence model predictions for dibaryon
bound states.Comment: 28 pages, 5 figures, revised versio
Laboratory predictors of uphill cycling performance in trained cyclists
This study aimed to assess the relationship between an uphill time-trial (TT) performance and both aerobic and anaerobic parameters obtained from laboratory tests. Fifteen cyclists performed a Wingate anaerobic test, a graded exercise test (GXT) and a field-based 20-min TT with 2.7% mean gradient. After a 5-week non-supervised training period, 10 of them performed a second TT for analysis of pacing reproducibility. Stepwise multiple regressions demonstrated that 91% of TT mean power output variation (W kg-1) could be explained by peak oxygen uptake (ml kg-1.min-1) and the respiratory compensation point (W kg-1), with standardised beta coefficients of 0.64 and 0.39, respectively. The agreement between mean power output and power at respiratory compensation point showed a bias ± random error of 16.2 ± 51.8 W or 5.7 ± 19.7%. One-way repeated-measures analysis of variance revealed a significant effect of the time interval (123.1 ± 8.7; 97.8 ± 1.2 and 94.0 ± 7.2% of mean power output, for epochs 0-2, 2-18 and 18-20 min, respectively; P < 0.001), characterising a positive pacing profile. This study indicates that an uphill, 20-min TT-type performance is correlated to aerobic physiological GXT variables and that cyclists adopt reproducible pacing strategies when they are tested 5 weeks apart (coefficients of variation of 6.3; 1 and 4%, for 0-2, 2-18 and 18-20 min, respectively)
Planck's scale dissipative effects in atom interferometry
Atom interferometers can be used to study phenomena leading to
irreversibility and dissipation, induced by the dynamics of fundamental objects
(strings and branes) at a large mass scale. Using an effective, but physically
consistent description in terms of a master equation of Lindblad form, the
modifications of the interferometric pattern induced by the new phenomena are
analyzed in detail. We find that present experimental devices can in principle
provide stringent bounds on the new effects.Comment: 12 pages, plain-Te
Zeno and anti-Zeno effects for photon polarization dephasing
We discuss a simple, experimentally feasible scheme, which elucidates the
principles of controlling ("engineering") the reservoir spectrum and the
spectral broadening incurred by repeated measurements. This control can yield
either the inhibition (Zeno effect) or the acceleration (anti-Zeno effect) of
the quasi-exponential decay of the observed state by means of frequent
measurements. In the discussed scheme, a photon is bouncing back and forth
between two perfect mirrors, each time passing a polarization rotator. The
horizontal and vertical polarizations can be viewed as analogs of an excited
and a ground state of a two level system (TLS). A polarization beam splitter
and an absorber for the vertically polarized photon are inserted between the
mirrors, and effect measurements of the polarization. The polarization angle
acquired in the electrooptic polarization rotator can fluctuate randomly, e.g.,
via noisy modulation. In the absence of an absorber the polarization
randomization corresponds to TLS decay into an infinite-temperature reservoir.
The non-Markovian nature of the decay stems from the many round-trips required
for the randomization. We consider the influence of the polarization
measurements by the absorber on this non-Markovian decay, and develop a theory
of the Zeno and anti-Zeno effects in this system.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figure
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