Meson decay in the Fock-Tani Formalism

The Fock-Tani formalism is a first principle method to obtain effective interactions from microscopic Hamiltonians. Usually this formalism was applied to scattering, here we introduced it to calculate partial decay widths for mesons.Comment: Presented at HADRON05 XI. "International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy" Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 21 to 26, 200

Time-dependent Robin boundary conditions in the dynamical Casimir effect

Motivated by experiments in which moving boundaries are simulated by time-dependent properties of static systems, we discuss the model of a massless scalar field submitted to a time-dependent Robin boundary condition (BC) at a static mirror in 1+1 dimensions. Using a perturbative approach, we compute the spectral distribution of the created particles and the total particle creation rate, considering a thermal state as the initial field state.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures. To appear in proceedings of Conference on Quantum Field Theory under the Influence of External Condition

Alterações na biomassa e atividade microbiana do solo devido ao uso de compostos orgânicos em um Argissolo Amarelo Eutrófico no Semiárido brasileiro.

A biomassa e respiração microbiana do solo são indicadores sensíveis das mudanças no solo. O objetivo deste trabalho foi comparar as alterações na biomassa e atividade microbiana do solo em um Argissolo Amarelo Eutrófico no Semiárido nordestino nos sistema de manejo orgânico, sistema de manejo convencional e caatinga. O estudo ocorreu no campo experimental de Bebedouro pertencente a EMBRAPA Semiárido - Petrolina-PE. Foi utilizado o delineamento em blocos casualizados com 6 tratamentos, correspondentes a área de sistema de manejo orgânico (SMO), submetido aos 5 compostos orgânicos e testemunha e as áreas de referencias compostas por área de sistema de manejo convencional (SMC) e área de caatinga hiperxerófila alterada (CAA). Foi avaliado os atributos do solo referente à RM, Cmic, qMic e qCO2. Os valores de RM, Cmic e qMic são semelhante para a área de CAA e SMO onde foi utilizado composto orgânico.Ref. 14562. Edição dos Resumos do VIII Congresso Brasileiro de Agroecologia, Porto Alegre, nov. 2013

Magnetic susceptibility anisotropies in a two-dimensional quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions

The magnetic and thermodynamic properties of the two-dimensional quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet that incorporates both a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and pseudo-dipolar interactions are studied within the framework of a generalized nonlinear sigma model (NLSM). We calculate the static uniform susceptibility and sublattice magnetization as a function of temperature and we show that: i) the magnetic-response is anisotropic and differs qualitatively from the expected behavior of a conventional easy-axis QHAF; ii) the Neel second-order phase transition becomes a crossover, for a magnetic field B perpendicular to the CuO(2) layers. We provide a simple and clear explanation for all the recently reported unusual magnetic anisotropies in the low-field susceptibility of La(2)CuO(4), L. N. Lavrov et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 017007 (2001), and we demonstrate explicitly why La(2)CuO(4) can not be classified as an ordinary easy-axis antiferromagnet.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, Revtex4, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.

Lorentz-violating effects in the Bose-Einstein condensation of an ideal bosonic gas

We have studied the effects of Lorentz-violation in the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of an ideal boson gas, by assessing both the nonrelativistic and ultrarelativistic limits. Our model describes a massive complex scalar field coupled to a CPT-even and Lorentz-violating background. We irst analyze the nonrelativistic case, at this level by using experimental data, we obtain upper-bounds for some LIV parameters. In the sequel, we have constructed the partition function for the relativistic ideal boson gas which to be able of a consistent description requires the imposition of severe restrictions on some LIV coefficients. In both cases, we have demonstrated that the LIV contributions are contained in an overall factor, which multiplies almost all thermodynamical properties. An exception is the fraction of the condensed particles.Comment: 7 pages Latex2e. To be published in Modern Physics Letters