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Electron transport phenomena and dense plasmas produced by ultra-short pulse laser interaction
Recent experiments with femtosecond lasers provide a test bed for theoretical ideas about electron processes in hot dense plasmas. We briefly review aspects of electron conduction theory likely to prove relevant to femtosecond laser absorption. We show that the Mott-Ioffe-Regel limit implies a maximum inverse bremsstrahlung absorption of about 50% at temperatures near the Fermi temperature. We also propose that sheath inverse bremsstrahlung leads to a minimum absorption of 7-10% at high laser intensity
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Near-LTE linear response calculations with a collisional-radiative model for He-like Al ions
We investigate the non-equilibrium atomic kinetics using a collisional-radiative (CR) model modified to include line absorption. Steady-state emission is calculated for He-like aluminum ions immersed in a specified radiation field having fixed deviations from a Planck spectrum. The net emission is interpreted in terms of NLTE population changes. The calculation provides an NLTE response matrix, and in agreement with a general relation of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, the response matrix is symmetric. We compute the response matrix for 1% and 50% changes in the photon temperature and find linear response over a surprisingly large range
On the Thermodynamic Geometry of BTZ Black Holes
We investigate the Ruppeiner geometry of the thermodynamic state space of a
general class of BTZ black holes. It is shown that the thermodynamic geometry
is flat for both the rotating BTZ and the BTZ Chern Simons black holes in the
canonical ensemble. We further investigate the inclusion of thermal
fluctuations to the canonical entropy of the BTZ Chern Simons black holes and
show that the leading logartithmic correction due to Carlip is reproduced. We
establish that the inclusion of thermal fluctuations induces a non zero scalar
curvature to the thermodynamic geometry.Comment: 1+17 pages, LaTeX, 4 eps figure
On Thermodynamical Properties of Some Coset CFT Backgrounds
We investigate the thermodynamical features of two Lorentzian signature
backgrounds that arise in string theory as exact CFTs and possess more than two
disconnected asymptotic regions: the 2-d charged black hole and the
Nappi-Witten cosmological model. We find multiple smooth disconnected Euclidean
versions of the charged black hole background. They are characterized by
different temperatures and electro-chemical potentials. We show that there is
no straightforward analog of the Hartle-Hawking state that would express these
thermodynamical features. We also obtain multiple Euclidean versions of the
Nappi-Witten cosmological model and study their singularity structure. It
suggests to associate a non-isotropic temperature with this background.Comment: 1+39 pages, harvmac, 8 eps figure
On the Resolution of the Time-Like Singularities in Reissner-Nordstrom and Negative-Mass Schwarzschild
Certain time-like singularities are shown to be resolved already in classical
General Relativity once one passes from particle probes to scalar waves. The
time evolution can be defined uniquely and some general conditions for that are
formulated. The Reissner-Nordstrom singularity allows for communication through
the singularity and can be termed "beam splitter" since the transmission
probability of a suitably prepared high energy wave packet is 25%. The high
frequency dependence of the cross section is w^{-4/3}. However, smooth
geometries arbitrarily close to the singular one require a finite amount of
negative energy matter. The negative-mass Schwarzschild has a qualitatively
different resolution interpreted to be fully reflecting. These 4d results are
similar to the 2d black hole and are generalized to an arbitrary dimension d>4.Comment: 47 pages, 5 figures. v2: See end of introduction for an important
note adde
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