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Spinor model of a perfect fluid
Different characteristic of matter influencing the evolution of the Universe
has been simulated by means of a nonlinear spinor field. We have considered two
cases where the spinor field nonlinearity occurs either as a result of
self-action or due to the interaction with a scalar field.Comment: 5 pages, some misprints are corrected, some new expressions are adde
Nonlinear Spinor Fields and its role in Cosmology
Different characteristic of matter influencing the evolution of the Universe
has been simulated by means of a nonlinear spinor field. Exploiting the spinor
description of perfect fluid and dark energy evolution of the Universe given by
an anisotropic Bianchi type-VI, VI, V, III, I or isotropic
Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) one has been studied. It is shown that due to
some restrictions on metric functions, initial anisotropy in the models Bianchi
type-VI, VI, V and III does not die away, while the anisotropic Bianchi
type-I models evolves into the isotropic one.Comment: 22 pages, 12 Figure
Interacting scalar and spinor fields in Bianchi type I universe filled with magneto-fluid
Self-consistent system of spinor, scalar and BI gravitational fields in
presence of magneto-fluid and -term is considered. Assuming that the
expansion of the BI universe is proportional to the component of
the shear tensor, exact solutions for the metric functions, as well as for
scalar and spinor fields are obtained. For a non-positive the
initially anisotropic space-time becomes isotropic one in the process of
expansion, whereas, for an oscillatory mode of expansion of the
BI model occurs.Comment: RevTex4, 8 pages, no figure
Application of terahertz spectroscopy to the characterization of biological samples using birefringence silicon grating
We present a device and method for performing vector transmission spectroscopy on biological
specimens at terahertz (THz) frequencies. The device consists of artificial dielectric birefringence obtained
from silicon microfluidic grating structures. The device can measure the complex dielectric function of a liquid,
across a wide THz band of 2 to 5.5 THz, using a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer. Measurement data from a
range of liquid specimens, including sucrose, salmon deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), herring DNA, and bovine
serum albumin protein solution in water are presented. The specimen handling is simple, using a microfluidic
channel. The transmission through the device is improved significantly and thus the measurement accuracy
and bandwidth are increase
Noncommutative quantum mechanics of a harmonic oscillator under linearized gravitational waves
We consider the quantum dynamics of a harmonic oscillator in noncommutative
space under the influence of linearized gravitational waves (GW) in the long
wave-length and low-velocity limit. Following the prescription in \cite{ncgw1}
we quantize the system. The Hamiltonian of the system is solved by using
standard algebraic iterative methods. The solution shows signatures of the
coordinate noncommutativity via alterations in the oscillation frequency of the
harmonic oscillator system from its commutative counterpart. Moreover, it is
found that the response of the harmonic oscillator to periodic GW, when their
frequencies match, will oscillate with a time scale imposed by the NC
parameter. We expect this noncommutative signature to show up as some noise
source in the GW detection experiments since the recent phenomenological
upper-bounds set on spatial noncommutative parameter implies a length-scale
comparable to the length-variations due to the passage of gravitational waves,
detectable in the present day GW detectors.Comment: 6 pages Late
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