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Dispersionless motion in a driven periodic potential
Recently, dispersionless (coherent) motion of (noninteracting) massive
Brownian particles, at intermediate time scales, was reported in a sinusoidal
potential with a constant tilt. The coherent motion persists for a finite
length of time before the motion becomes diffusive. We show that such coherent
motion can be obtained repeatedly by applying an external zero-mean square-wave
drive of appropriate period and amplitude, instead of a constant tilt. Thus,
the cumulative duration of coherent motion of particles is prolonged. Moreover,
by taking an appropriate combination of periods of the external field, one can
postpone the beginning of the coherent motion and can even have coherent motion
at a lower value of position dispersion than in the constant tilt case.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Are violations to temporal Bell inequalities there when somebody looks?
The possibility of observing violations of temporal Bell inequalities,
originally proposed by Leggett as a mean of testing the quantum mechanical
delocalization of suitably chosen macroscopic bodies, is discussed by taking
into account the effect of the measurement process. A general criterion
quantifying this possibility is defined and shown not to be fulfilled by the
various experimental configurations proposed so far to test inequalities of
different forms.Comment: 7 pages, 1 eps figure, needs europhys.sty and euromacr.tex, enclosed
in the .tar.gz file; accepted for publication in Europhysics Letter
DMRG analysis of the SDW-CDW crossover region in the 1D half-filled Hubbard-Holstein model
In order to clarify the physics of the crossover from a spin-density-wave
(SDW) Mott insulator to a charge-density-wave (CDW) Peierls insulator in
one-dimensional (1D) systems, we investigate the Hubbard-Holstein Hamiltonian
at half filling within a density matrix renormalisation group (DMRG) approach.
Determining the spin and charge correlation exponents, the momentum
distribution function, and various excitation gaps, we confirm that an
intervening metallic phase expands the SDW-CDW transition in the weak-coupling
regime.Comment: revised versio
The Impact of Strong Gravitational Lensing on Observed Lyman-Break Galaxy Numbers at 4<z<8 in the GOODS and the XDF Blank Fields
Detection of Lyman-Break Galaxies (LBGs) at high-redshift can be affected by
gravitational lensing induced by foreground deflectors not only in galaxy
clusters, but also in blank fields. We quantify the impact of strong
magnification in the samples of , , , LBGs () observed in the XDF and GOODS/CANDELS fields, by investigating the
proximity of dropouts to foreground objects. We find that of bright
LBGs () by
foreground objects. This fraction decreases from at to
at . Since the observed fraction of strongly lensed
galaxies is a function of the shape of the luminosity function (LF), it can be
used to derive Schechter parameters, and , independently
from galaxy number counts. Our magnification bias analysis yields
Schechter-function parameters in close agreement with those determined from
galaxy counts albeit with larger uncertainties. Extrapolation of our analysis
to suggests that future surveys with JSWT, WFIRST and EUCLID
should find excess LBGs at the bright-end, even if there is an intrinsic
exponential cutoff of number counts. Finally, we highlight how the
magnification bias measurement near the detection limit can be used as probe of
the population of galaxies too faint to be detected. Preliminary results using
this novel idea suggest that the magnification bias at is not
as strong as expected if extends well below the current
detection limits in the XDF. At face value this implies a flattening of the LF
at . However, selection effects and completeness estimates
are difficult to quantify precisely. Thus, we do not rule out a steep LF
extending to .Comment: Submitted to ApJ on 18/12/201
Noise Thermometry with Two Weakly Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates
Here we report on the experimental investigation of thermally induced
fluctuations of the relative phase between two Bose-Einstein condensates which
are coupled via tunneling. The experimental control over the coupling strength
and the temperature of the thermal background allows for the quantitative
analysis of the phase fluctuations. Furthermore, we demonstrate the application
of these measurements for thermometry in a regime where standard methods fail.
With this we confirm that the heat capacity of an ideal Bose gas deviates from
that of a classical gas as predicted by the third law of thermodynamics.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Monte-Carlo simulation of events with Drell-Yan lepton pairs from antiproton-proton collisions
The complete knowledge of the nucleon spin structure at leading twist
requires also addressing the transverse spin distribution of quarks, or
transversity, which is yet unexplored because of its chiral-odd nature.
Transversity can be best extracted from single-spin asymmetries in fully
polarized Drell-Yan processes with antiprotons, where valence contributions are
involved anyway. Alternatively, in single-polarized Drell-Yan the transversity
happens convoluted with another chiral-odd function, which is likely to be
responsible for the well known (and yet unexplained) violation of the Lam-Tung
sum rule in the corresponding unpolarized cross section. We present Monte-Carlo
simulations for the unpolarized and single-polarized Drell-Yan at different center-of-mass energies in both
configurations where the antiproton beam hits a fixed proton target or it
collides on another proton beam. The goal is to estimate the minimum number of
events needed to extract the above chiral-odd distributions from future
measurements at the HESR ring at GSI. It is important to study the feasibility
of such experiments at HESR in order to demonstrate that interesting spin
physics can be explored already using unpolarized antiprotons.Comment: Deeply revised text with improved discussion of kinematics and
results; added one table; 12 figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
High--Energy Photon--Hadron Scattering in Holographic QCD
This article provides an in-depth look at hadron high energy scattering by
using gravity dual descriptions of strongly coupled gauge theories. Just like
deeply inelastic scattering (DIS) and deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS)
serve as clean experimental probes into non-perturbative internal structure of
hadrons, elastic scattering amplitude of a hadron and a (virtual) "photon" in
gravity dual can be exploited as a theoretical probe. Since the scattering
amplitude at sufficiently high energy (small Bjorken x) is dominated by parton
contributions (= Pomeron contributions) even in strong coupling regime, there
is a chance to learn a lesson for generalized parton distribution (GPD) by
using gravity dual models. We begin with refining derivation of
Brower-Polchinski-Strassler-Tan (BPST) Pomeron kernel in gravity dual, paying
particular attention to the role played by complex spin variable j. The BPST
Pomeron on warped spacetime consists of a Kaluza-Klein tower of 4D Pomerons
with non-linear trajectories, and we clarify the relation between Pomeron
couplings and Pomeron form factor. We emphasize that the saddle point value j^*
of the scattering amplitude in the complex j-plane representation is a very
important concept in understanding qualitative behavior of the scattering
amplitude. The total Pomeron contribution to the scattering is decomposed into
the saddle point contribution and at most a finite number of pole
contributions, and when the pole contributions are absent (which we call saddle
point phase), kinematical variable (q,x,t) dependence of ln (1/q) evolution and
ln(1/x) evolution parameters gamma_eff. and lambda_eff. in DIS and t-slope
parameter B of DVCS in HERA experiment are all reproduced qualitatively in
gravity dual
Phenomenological study of the atypical heavy flavor production observed at the Fermilab Tevatron
We address known discrepancies between the heavy flavor properties of jets
produced at the Tevatron collider and the prediction of conventional-QCD
simulations. In this study, we entertain the possibility that these effects are
real and due to new physics. We show that all anomalies can be simultaneously
fitted by postulating the additional pair production of light bottom squarks
with a 100% semileptonic branching fraction.Comment: 30 pages, 13 figures, 3 tables. Submitted to Phys. Rev.
Josephson Vortex Bloch Oscillations: Single Pair Tunneling Effect
We consider the Josephson vortex motion in a long one--dimensional Josephson
junction in a thin film. We show that this Josephson vortex is similar to a
mesoscopic capacitor. We demonstrate that a single Cooper pair tunneling
results in nonlinear Bloch--type oscillations of a Josephson vortex in a
current-biased Josephson junction. We find the frequency and the amplitude of
this motion.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures included as postscript files, LaTe
A spectroscopically confirmed z=1.327 galaxy-scale deflector magnifying a z~8 Lyman-Break galaxy in the Brightest of Reionizing Galaxies survey
We present a detailed analysis of an individual case of gravitational lensing
of a Lyman-Break galaxy (LBG) in a blank field, identified in Hubble
Space Telescope imaging obtained as part of the Brightest of Reionizing
Galaxies survey. To investigate the close proximity of the bright
() -dropout to a small group of foreground galaxies, we
obtained deep spectroscopy of the dropout and two foreground galaxies using
VLT/X-Shooter. We detect H-, H-, [OIII] and [OII] emission in
the brightest two foreground galaxies (unresolved at the natural seeing of
arcsec), placing the pair at . We can rule out emission lines
contributing all of the observed broadband flux in band at
, allowing us to exclude the candidate as a low redshift
interloper with broadband photometry dominated by strong emission lines. The
foreground galaxy pair lies at the peak of the luminosity, redshift and
separation distributions for deflectors of strongly lensed objects,
and we make a marginal detection of a demagnified secondary image in the
deepest () filter. We show that the configuration can be accurately
modelled by a singular isothermal ellipsoidal deflector and a S\'{e}rsic source
magnified by a factor of . The reconstructed source in the
best-fitting model is consistent with luminosities and morphologies of
LBGs in the literature. The lens model yields a group mass of
and a stellar mass-to-light ratio for the
brightest deflector galaxy of within its effective radius. The foreground galaxies'
redshifts would make this one of the few strong lensing deflectors discovered
at .Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 16 pages, 11 figures, 3 table
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