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Conditions for Gravitational Instability in Protoplanetary Disks
Gravitational instability is one of considerable mechanisms to explain the
formation of giant planets. We study the gravitational stability for the
protoplanetary disks around a protostar. The temperature and Toomre's Q-value
are calculated by assuming local equilibrium between viscous heating and
radiative cooling (local thermal equilibrium). We assume constant
viscosity and use a cooling function with realistic opacity. Then, we derive
the critical surface density that is necessary for a disk to
become gravitationally unstable as a function of . This critical surface
density is strongly affected by the temperature dependence of
the opacity. At the radius AU, where ices form, the value of
changes discontinuously by one order of magnitude. This
is determined only by local thermal process and criterion of
gravitational instability. By comparing a given surface density profile to
, one can discuss the gravitational instability of
protoplanetary disks. As an example, we discuss the gravitational instability
of two semi-analytic models for protoplanetary disks. One is the steady state
accretion disk, which is realized after the viscous evolution. The other is the
disk that has the same angular momentum distribution with its parent cloud
core, which corresponds to the disk that has just formed. As a result, it is
found that the disks tend to become gravitationally unstable for because ices enable the disks to become low temperature. In the region
closer to the protostar than , it is difficult for a typical
protoplanetary disk to fragment because of the high temperature and the large
Coriolis force. From this result, we conclude that the fragmentation near the
central star is possible but difficult.Comment: accepted for publication in PASJ. Draft version with 26 pages, 8
figures, 1 tabl
Hadron-hadron interaction from SU(2) lattice QCD
We evaluate interhadron interactions in two-color lattice QCD from
Bethe-Salpeter amplitudes on the Euclidean lattice. The simulations are
performed in quenched SU(2) QCD with the plaquette gauge action at and the Wilson quark action. We concentrate on S-wave scattering states
of two scalar diquarks. Evaluating different flavor combinations with various
quark masses, we try to find out the ingredients in hadronic interactions.
Between two scalar diquarks (, the lightest baryon in SU(2)
system), we observe repulsion in short-range region, even though present quark
masses are not very light. We define and evaluate the "quark-exchange part" in
the interaction, which is induced by adding quark-exchange diagrams, or
equivalently, by introducing Pauli blocking among some of quarks. The repulsive
force in short-distance region arises only from the "quark-exchange part", and
disappears when quark-exchange diagrams are omitted. We find that the strength
of repulsion grows in light quark-mass regime and its quark-mass dependence is
similar to or slightly stronger than that of the color-magnetic interaction by
one-gluon-exchange (OGE) processes. It is qualitatively consistent with the
constituent-quark model picture that a color-magnetic interaction among quarks
is the origin of repulsion. We also find a universal long-range attractive
force, which enters in any flavor channels of two scalar diquarks and whose
interaction range and strength are quark-mass independent. The weak quark-mass
dependence of interaction ranges in each component implies that meson-exchange
contributions are small and subdominant, and the other contributions, {\it ex.}
flavor exchange processes, color-Coulomb or color-magnetic interactions, are
considered to be predominant, in the quark-mass range we evaluated.Comment: 14 pages, 20 figure
Cosmological Constraints on Neutrino Injection
We derive general constraints on the relic abundances of a long-lived
particle which mainly decays into a neutrino (and something else) at
cosmological time scales. Such an exotic particle may show up in various
particle-physics models based on physics beyond the standard model. The
constraints are obtained from big-bang nucleosynthesis, cosmic microwave
background and diffuse neutrino and photon fluxes, depending on the lifetime
and the electromagnetic and hadronic branching ratios.Comment: 33 pages, 23 figure
Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge
Given the abundance of open education initiatives that aim to make educational assets freely available online, the time seems ripe to explore the potential of open education to transform the economics and ecology of education. Despite the diversity of tools and resources already available -- from well-packaged course materials to simple games, for students, self-learners, faculty, and educational institutions -- we have yet to take full advantage of shared knowledge about how these are being used, what local innovations are emerging, and how to learn from and build on the experiences of others. Opening Up Education argues that we must develop not only the technical capability but also the intellectual capacity for transforming tacit pedagogical knowledge into commonly usable and visible knowledge: by providing incentives for faculty to use (and contribute to) open education goods, and by looking beyond institutional boundaries to connect a variety of settings and open source entrepreneurs.These essays by leaders in open education describe successes, challenges, and opportunities they have found in a range of open education initiatives. They approach -- from both macro and micro perspectives -- the central question of how open education tools, resources, and knowledge can improve the quality of education. The contributors (from leading foundations, academic institutions, associations, and projects) discuss the strategic underpinnings of their efforts first in terms of technology, then content, and finally knowledge. They also address the impact of their projects, and how close they come to achieving a vision of sustainable, transformative educational opportunities that amounts to much more than pervasive technology.Contributors:Richard Baraniuk, Randy Bass, Trent Batson, Dan Bernstein, John Seely Brown, Barbara Cambridge, Tom Carey, Catherine Casserly, James Dalziel, Bernadine Chuck Fong, Richard Gale, Gerard Hanley, Diane Harley, Mary Huber, Pat Hutchings, Toru Iiyoshi, David Kahle, M. S. Vijay Kumar, Andy Lane, Diana Laurillard, Stuart Lee, Steve Lerman, Marilyn Lombardi, Phil Long, Clifford Lynch, Christopher Mackie, Anne Margulies, Owen McGrath, Flora McMartin, Shigeru Miyagawa, Diana Oblinger, Neeru Paharia, Cheryl Richardson, Marshall Smith, Candace Thille, Edward Walker, and David WileyAbout the Editors:Toru Iiyoshi is Senior Scholar and Director of the Knowledge Media Lab at the Carnegie Foundation.M. S. Vijay Kumar is Senior Associate Dean and Director of the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology at MIT
Chlorophyll a concentration of phytoplankton during a cruise of the 46th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition in 2004-2005
Peierls instability, periodic Bose-Einstein condensates and density waves in quasi-one-dimensional boson-fermion mixtures of atomic gases
We study the quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) spin-polarized bose-fermi mixture of
atomic gases at zero temperature. Bosonic excitation spectra are calculated in
random phase approximation on the ground state with the uniform BEC, and the
Peierls instabilities are shown to appear in bosonic collective excitation
modes with wave-number by the coupling between the Bogoliubov-phonon
mode of bosonic atoms and the fermion particle-hole excitations. The
ground-state properties are calculated in the variational method, and,
corresponding to the Peierls instability, the state with a periodic BEC and
fermionic density waves with the period are shown to have a lower
energy than the uniform one. We also briefly discuss the Q1D system confined in
a harmonic oscillator (HO) potential and derive the Peierls instability
condition for it.Comment: 9 pages, 3figure
Weak localization and spin splitting in inversion layers on p-type InAs
We report on the magnetoconductivity of quasi two-dimensional electron
systems in inversion layers on p-type InAs single crystals. In low magnetic
fields pronounced features of weak localization and antilocalization are
observed. They are almost perfectly described by the theory of Iordanskii,
Lyanda-Geller and Pikus. This allows us to determine the spin splitting and the
Rashba parameter of the ground electric subband as a function of the electron
density.Comment: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B, 4 page
Non-Abelian Dual Superconductor Picture for Quark Confinement
We give a theoretical framework for defining and extracting non-Abelian
magnetic monopoles in a gauge-invariant way in SU(N) Yang-Mills theory to study
quark confinement. Then we give numerical evidences that the non-Abelian
magnetic monopole defined in this way gives a dominant contribution to
confinement of fundamental quarks in SU(3) Yang-Mills theory, which is in sharp
contrast to the SU(2) case in which Abelian magnetic monopoles play the
dominant role for quark confinement.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures (4 ps files); The paper was extensively revised,
focusing especially on the lattice par
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