814 research outputs found
Quantum Dew
We consider phase separation in nonequilibrium Bose gas with an attractive
interaction between the particles. Using numerical integrations on a lattice,
we show that the system evolves into a state that contains drops of
Bose-Einstein condensate suspended in uncondensed gas. When the initial gas is
sufficiently rarefied, the rate of formation of this quantum dew scales with
the initial density as expected for a process governed by two-particle
collisions.Comment: 4 pages, revtex, 5 figure
Patterns from preheating
The formation of regular patterns is a well-known phenomenon in condensed
matter physics. Systems that exhibit pattern formation are typically driven and
dissipative with pattern formation occurring in the weakly non-linear regime
and sometimes even in more strongly non-linear regions of parameter space. In
the early universe, parametric resonance can drive explosive particle
production called preheating. The fields that are populated then decay quantum
mechanically if their particles are unstable. Thus, during preheating, a
driven-dissipative system exists. In this paper, we show that a self-coupled
inflaton oscillating in its potential at the end of inflation can exhibit
pattern formation.Comment: 4 pages, RevTex, 6 figure
Heavy-to-heavy quark decays at NNLO
Details of a recent calculation of O(alpha_s^2) corrections to the decay b ->
c,l,nu_l, taking into account the c-quark mass, are described. Construction of
the expansion in the mass ratio m_c/m_b as well as the evaluation of new
four-loop master integrals are presented. The same techniques are applicable to
the muon decay, mu -> e,nu_mu,anti-nu_e. Analytical results are presented, for
the physical cases as well as for a model with purely-vector couplings.Comment: 11 page
Statistics of clustering of ultra-high energy cosmic rays and the number of their sources
Observation of clustering of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) suggests
that they are emitted by compact sources. Assuming small deflection of UHECR
during the propagation, the statistical analysis of clustering allows to
estimate the spatial density of the sources, h, including those which have not
yet been observed directly. When applied to astrophysical models involving
extra-galactic sources, the estimate based on 14 events with energy E>10^{20}
eV gives h ~ 6 X 10^{-3} Mps^{-3}. With increasing statistics, this estimate
may lead to exclusion of the models which associate the production of UHECR
with exceptional galaxies such as AGN, powerful radio-galaxies, dead quasars,
and models based on gamma ray bursts.Comment: The version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett. Notations
changed to conventional ones. The estimate of the effective GZK radius
replaced by the result of numerical simulatio
Ab initio-based prediction and TEM study of silicide precipitation in titanium
In this work we applied our recently developed thermodynamic model to predict the structure of Ti-Si precipitates in α-Ti matrix of the Ti-Si alloy with total Si concentration of 0.7 wt.%. We considered all prominent Ti-Si phases such as Ti₃Si; Ti₅Si₃; Ti₅Si₄; TiSi and two TiSi₂ phases and discovered that formation of the Ti₅Si₃ phase is more favorable than that of the Ti₃Si in contradiction with the known phase diagrams. Theoretical result was confirmed by experimental investigation of microstructure and phase composition of the model Ti-0.7Si alloy annealed at 873 K for 10 h. Indeed, the only observed phase has hexagonal Ti₅Si₃ structure. To ensure the completeness of the results we calculated ab initio elastic constants for all considered Ti-Si phase
Constrained Simulations of the Magnetic Field in the Local Universe and the Propagation of UHECRs
We use simulations of LSS formation to study the build-up of magnetic fields
(MFs) in the ICM. Our basic assumption is that cosmological MFs grow in a MHD
amplification process driven by structure formation out of a seed MF present at
high z. Our LCDM initial conditions for the density fluctuations have been
statistically constrained by the observed galaxies, based on the IRAS 1.2-Jy
all-sky redshift survey. As a result, prominent galaxy clusters in our
simulation coincide closely with their real counterparts. We find excellent
agreement between RMs of our simulated clusters and observational data. The
improved resolution compared to previous work also allows us to study the MF in
large-scale filaments, sheets and voids. By tracing the propagation of UHE
protons in the simulated MF we construct full-sky maps of expected deflection
angles of protons with arrival energies E=1e20eV and 4e19eV, respectively.
Strong deflections are only produced if UHE protons cross clusters, however
covering only a small area on the sky. Multiple crossings of sheets and
filaments over larger distances may give rise to noticeable deflections,
depending on the model adopted for the magnetic seed field. Based on our
results we argue that over a large fraction of the sky the deflections are
likely to remain smaller than the present experimental angular sensitivity.
Therefore, we conclude that forthcoming air shower experiments should be able
to locate sources of UHE protons and shed more light on the nature of
cosmological MFs.Comment: 3revised version, JCAP, accepte
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