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A Martian Quarantine Risk Model
Structured model using loss functions to assess risk of using given decontamination procedure on all Martian unmanned landing craf
Refined Simulations of the Reaction Front for Diffusion-Limited Two-Species Annihilation in One Dimension
Extensive simulations are performed of the diffusion-limited reaction
AB in one dimension, with initially separated reagents. The reaction
rate profile, and the probability distributions of the separation and midpoint
of the nearest-neighbour pair of A and B particles, are all shown to exhibit
dynamic scaling, independently of the presence of fluctuations in the initial
state and of an exclusion principle in the model. The data is consistent with
all lengthscales behaving as as . Evidence of
multiscaling, found by other authors, is discussed in the light of these
findings.Comment: Resubmitted as TeX rather than Postscript file. RevTeX version 3.0,
10 pages with 16 Encapsulated Postscript figures (need epsf). University of
Geneva preprint UGVA/DPT 1994/10-85
The Reaction-Diffusion Front for in One Dimension
We study theoretically and numerically the steady state diffusion controlled
reaction , where currents of and particles
are applied at opposite boundaries. For a reaction rate , and equal
diffusion constants , we find that when the
reaction front is well described by mean field theory. However, for , the front acquires a Gaussian profile - a result of
noise induced wandering of the reaction front center. We make a theoretical
prediction for this profile which is in good agreement with simulation.
Finally, we investigate the intrinsic (non-wandering) front width and find
results consistent with scaling and field theoretic predictions.Comment: 11 pages, revtex, 4 separate PostScript figure
Observation of Vortex Pinning in Bose-Einstein Condensates
We report the observation of vortex pinning in rotating gaseous Bose-Einstein
condensates (BEC). The vortices are pinned to columnar pinning sites created by
a co-rotating optical lattice superimposed on the rotating BEC. We study the
effects of two different types of optical lattice, triangular and square. With
both geometries we see an orientation locking between the vortex and the
optical lattices. At sufficient intensity the square optical lattice induces a
structural cross-over in the vortex lattice.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures. Replaced by final version to appear in Phys. Rev.
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Critical temperature of Bose-Einstein condensation in trapped atomic Bose-Fermi mixtures
We calculate the shift in the critical temperature of Bose-Einstein
condensation for a dilute Bose-Fermi mixture confined by a harmonic potential
to lowest order in both the Bose-Bose and Bose-Fermi coupling constants. The
relative importance of the effect on the critical temperature of the
boson-boson and boson-fermion interactions is investigated as a function of the
parameters of the mixture. The possible relevance of the shift of the
transition temperature in current experiments on trapped Bose-Fermi mixtures is
discussed.Comment: 15 pages, 2 figures, submitted to J. Phys.
Recent Experiments with Bose-Condensed Gases at JILA
We consider a binary mixture of two overlapping Bose-Einstein condensates in
two different hyperfine states of \Rb87 with nearly identical magnetic moments.
Such a system has been simply realized through application of radiofrequency
and microwave radiation which drives a two-photon transition between the two
states. The nearly identical magnetic moments afford a high degree of spatial
overlap, permitting a variety of new experiments. We discuss some of the
conditions under which the magnetic moments are identical, with particular
emphasis placed on the requirements for a time-averaged orbiting potential
(TOP) magnetic trap.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures; corrected post-publication editio
Experimental studies of equilibrium vortex properties in a Bose-condensed gas
We characterize several equilibrium vortex effects in a rotating
Bose-Einstein condensate. Specifically we attempt precision measurements of
vortex lattice spacing and the vortex core size over a range of condensate
densities and rotation rates. These measurements are supplemented by numerical
simulations, and both experimental and numerical data are compared to theory
predictions of Sheehy and Radzihovsky [17] (cond-mat/0402637) and Baym and
Pethick [25] (cond-mat/0308325). Finally, we study the effect of the
centrifugal weakening of the trapping spring constants on the critical
temperature for quantum degeneracy and the effects of finite temperature on
vortex contrast.Comment: Fixed minor notational inconsistencies in figures. 12 pages, 8
figure
Persistence in systems with conserved order parameter
We consider the low-temperature coarsening dynamics of a one-dimensional
Ising ferromagnet with conserved Kawasaki-like dynamics in the domain
representation. Domains diffuse with size-dependent diffusion constant, with . We generalize this model to arbitrary
, and derive an expression for the domain density, with , using a scaling argument. We also
investigate numerically the persistence exponent characterizing the
power-law decay of the number, , of persistent (unflipped) spins at
time , and find where depends on
. We show how the results for and are related to
similar calculations in diffusion-limited cluster-cluster aggregation (DLCA)
where clusters with size-dependent diffusion constant diffuse through an
immobile `empty' phase and aggregate irreversibly on impact. Simulations show
that, while is the same in both models, is different except for
. We also investigate models that interpolate between symmetric
domain diffusion and DLCA.Comment: 9 pages, minor revision
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