558 research outputs found
Temperature-dependent density profiles of trapped boson-fermion mixtures
We present a semiclassical three-fluid model for a Bose-condensed mixture of
interacting Bose and Fermi gases confined in harmonic traps at finite
temperature. The model is used to characterize the experimentally relevant
behaviour of the equilibrium density profile of the fermions with varying
composition and temperature across the onset of degeneracy, for coupling
strengths relevant to a mixture of
K and K atoms.Comment: 9 pages, 2 postscript figures, accepted for publication in Eur. Phys.
Jour.
Optical emission investigation of laser-produced MgB2 plume expanding in an Ar buffer gas
Optical emission spectroscopy is used to study the dynamics of the plasma
generated by pulsed-laser irradiation of a MgB2 target, both in vacuum and at
different Ar buffer gas pressures. The analysis of the time-resolved emission
of selected species shows that the Ar background gas strongly influences the
plasma dynamics. Above a fixed pressure, plasma propagation into Ar leads to
the formation of blast waves causing both a considerable increase of the
fraction of excited Mg atoms and a simultaneous reduction of their kinetic flux
energy. These results can be particularly useful for optimizing MgB2 thin film
deposition processes.Comment: 11 pages,4 figures, Applied Physics Letters in pres
Reshaping the Museum of Zoology in Rome by Visual Storytelling and Interactive Iconography
This article summarizes the concept of a new immersive and interactive setting for the Zoology Museum in Rome, Italy. The concept, co-designed with all the museum’s curators, is aimed at enhancing the experiential involvement of the visitors by visual storytelling and interactive iconography. Thanks to immersive and interactive technologies designed by Centro Studi Logos, developed by Logosnet and known as e-REALâ and MirrorMeä, zoological findings and memoirs come to life and interact directly with the visitors in order to deepen their understanding, visualize stories and live experiences, and interact with the founder of the Museum (Mr. Arrigoni degli Oddi) who is now a virtualized avatar, or digital human, able to talk with the visitors. All the interactions are powered through simple hand gestures and, in a few cases, vocal inputs that transform into recognized commands from multimedia systems
Symmetric and asymmetric solitons in linearly coupled Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in optical lattices
We study spontaneous symmetry breaking in a system of two parallel
quasi-one-dimensional traps, equipped with optical lattices (OLs) and filled
with a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). The cores are linearly coupled by
tunneling. Analysis of the corresponding system of linearly coupled
Gross-Pitaevskii equations (GPEs) reveals that spectral bandgaps of the single
GPE split into subgaps. Symmetry breaking in two-component BEC solitons is
studied in cases of the attractive (AA) and repulsive (RR) nonlinearity in both
traps; the mixed situation, with repulsion in one trap and attraction in the
other (RA), is considered too. In all the cases, stable asymmetric solitons are
found, bifurcating from symmetric or antisymmetric ones (and destabilizing
them), in the AA and RR systems, respectively. In either case, bi-stability is
predicted, with a nonbifurcating stable branch, either antisymmetric or
symmetric, coexisting with asymmetric ones. Solitons destabilized by the
bifurcation tend to rearrange themselves into their stable asymmetric
counterparts. The impact of a phase mismatch, between the OLs in the two cores
is also studied. Also considered is a related model, for a binary BEC in a
single-core trap with the OL, assuming that the two species (representing
different spin states of the same atom) are coupled by linear interconversion.
In that case, the symmetry-breaking bifurcations in the AA and RR models switch
their character, if the inter-species nonlinear interaction becomes stronger
than the intra-species nonlinearity.Comment: 21 pages + 24 figs, accepted to Phys. Rev.
Pulsed laser deposition of SrTiO3/LaGaO3 and SrTiO3/LaAlO3: plasma plume effects
Pulsed laser deposition of SrTiO3/LaGaO3 and SrTiO3/LaAlO3 interfaces has
been analyzed with a focus on the kinetic energy of the ablated species. LaGaO3
and LaAlO3 plasma plumes were studied by fast photography and space-resolved
optical emission spectroscopy. Reflection high energy electron diffraction was
performed proving a layer-by-layer growth up to 10-1 mbar oxygen pressure. The
role of the energetic plasma plume on the two-dimensional growth and the
presence of interfacial defects at different oxygen growth pressure has been
discussed in view of the conducting properties developing at such
polar/non-polar interfaces
Subextensive singularity in the 2D Ising spin glass
The statistics of low energy states of the 2D Ising spin glass with +1 and -1
bonds are studied for square lattices with , and =
0.5, where is the fraction of negative bonds, using periodic and/or
antiperiodic boundary conditions. The behavior of the density of states near
the ground state energy is analyzed as a function of , in order to obtain
the low temperature behavior of the model. For large finite there is a
range of in which the heat capacity is proportional to .
The range of in which this behavior occurs scales slowly to as
increases. Similar results are found for = 0.25. Our results indicate that
this model probably obeys the ordinary hyperscaling relation , even though . The existence of the subextensive behavior is
attributed to long-range correlations between zero-energy domain walls, and
evidence of such correlations is presented.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures; final version, to appear in J. Stat. Phy
Three-Fluid Description of the Sympathetic Cooling of a Boson-Fermion Mixture
We present a model for sympathetic cooling of a mixture of fermionic and
bosonic atomic gases in harmonic traps, based on a three-fluid description. The
model confirms the experimentally observed cooling limit of about 0.2 T_F when
only bosons are pumped. We propose sequential cooling -- first pumping of
bosons and afterwards fermions -- as a way to obtain lower temperatures. For
this scheme, our model predicts that temperatures less than 0.1 T_F can be
reached.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figure
Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer: news from microbiota research
Recently, research has been deeply focusing on the role of the microbiota in numerous diseases, either affecting the skin or other organs. What it is well established is that its dysregulation promotes several cutaneous disorders (i.e. psoriasis and atopic dermatitis). To date, little is known about its composition, mediators and role in the genesis, progression and response to therapy of Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer (NMSC). Starting from a bibliographic study, we classified the selected articles into four sections: i) normal skin microbiota; ii) in vitro study models; iii) microbiota and NMSC and iv) probiotics, antibiotics and NMSC. What has emerged is how skin microflora changes, mainly represented by increases of Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes and Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains, modifications in the mutual quantity of \u3b2-Human papillomavirus genotypes, of Epstein Barr Virus and Malassezia or candidiasis, may contribute to the induction of a state of chronic self-maintaining inflammation, leading to cancer. In this context, the role of S. aureus and that of specific antimicrobial peptides look to be prominent. Moreover, although antibiotics may contribute to carcinogenesis, due to their ability to influence the microbiota balance, specific probiotics, such as Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus GG, Lactobacillus johnsonii NCC 533 and Bifidobacteria spp., may be protective
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