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Isospin Dependence of the Spin-Orbit Force and Effective Nuclear Potentials,
The isospin dependence of the spin-orbit potential is investigated for an
effective Skyrme-like energy functional suitable for density dependent
Hartree-Fock calculations. The magnitude of the isospin dependence is obtained
from a fit to experimental data on finite spherical nuclei. It is found to be
close to that of relativistic Hartree models. Consequently, the anomalous kink
in the isotope shifts of Pb nuclei is well reproduced.Comment: Revised, 11 pages (Revtex) and 2 figures available upon request,
Preprint MPA-833, Physical Review Letters (in press)
Decoherence of tripartite states - a trapped ion coupled to an optical cavity
We investigate the non-dissipative decoherence of three qubit system obtained
by manipulating the state of a trapped two-level ion coupled to an optical
cavity. Modelling the environment as a set of noninteracting harmonic
oscillators, analytical expressions for the state operator of tripartite
composite system, the probability of generating maximally entangled GHZ state,
and the population inversion have been obtained. The pointer observable is the
energy of the isolated quantum system. Coupling to environment results in
exponential decay of off diagonal matrix elements of the state operator with
time as well as a phase decoherence of the component states.
Numerical calculations to examine the time evolution of GHZ state generation
probability and population inversion for different system environment coupling
strengths are performed. Using negativity as an entanglement measure and linear
entropy as a measure of mixedness, the entanglement dynamics of the tripartite
system in the presence of decoherence is analysed.Comment: Revised version, errors corrected and references added. 12 pages, 6
figures, Presented at ICSSUR May 2005, Besancon, Franc
Sea-surface circulation, sediment transport, and marine mammal distribution, Alaska continental shelf
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The BCS theory of q-deformed nucleon pairs - qBCS
We construct a coherent state of q-deformed zero coupled nucleon pairs
distributed in several single-particle orbits. Using a variational approach,
the set of equations of qBCS theory, to be solved self consistently for
occupation probabilities, gap parameter Delta, and the chemical potential
lambda, is obtained. Results for valence nucleons in nuclear degenerate sdg
major shell show that the strongly coupled zero angular momentum nucleon pairs
can be substituted by weakly coupled q-deformed zero angular momentum nucleon
pairs. A study of Sn isotopes reveals a well defined universe of (G, q) values,
for which qBCS converges. While the qBCS and BCS show similar results for Gap
parameter Delta in Sn isotopes, the ground state energies are lower in qBCS.
The pairing correlations in N nucleon system, increase with increasing q (for q
real).Comment: 8 pages, REVTEX, 3 eps figure
All-electron Exact Exchange Treatment of Semiconductors: Effect of Core-valence Interaction on Band-gap and -band Position
Exact exchange (EXX) Kohn-Sham calculations within an all-electron
full-potential method are performed on a range of semiconductors and insulators
(Ge, GaAs, CdS, Si, ZnS, C, BN, Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe). We find that the band-gaps
are not as close to experiment as those obtained from previous pseudopotential
EXX calculations. Full-potential band-gaps are also not significantly better
for semiconductors than for insulators, as had been found for
pseudopotentials. The locations of -band states, determined using the
full-potential EXX method, are in excellent agreement with experiment,
irrespective of whether these states are core, semi-core or valence. We
conclude that the inclusion of the core-valence interaction is necessary for
accurate determination of EXX Kohn-Sham band structures, indicating a possible
deficiency in pseudopotential calculations.Comment: 4 pages 2 fig
Turbulence and Mixing in the Intracluster Medium
The intracluster medium (ICM) is stably stratified in the hydrodynamic sense
with the entropy increasing outwards. However, thermal conduction along
magnetic field lines fundamentally changes the stability of the ICM, leading to
the "heat-flux buoyancy instability" when and the "magnetothermal
instability" when . The ICM is thus buoyantly unstable regardless of
the signs of and . On the other hand, these
temperature-gradient-driven instabilities saturate by reorienting the magnetic
field (perpendicular to when and parallel to when ), without generating sustained convection. We show that
after an anisotropically conducting plasma reaches this nonlinearly stable
magnetic configuration, it experiences a buoyant restoring force that resists
further distortions of the magnetic field. This restoring force is analogous to
the buoyant restoring force experienced by a stably stratified adiabatic
plasma. We argue that in order for a driving mechanism (e.g, galaxy motions or
cosmic-ray buoyancy) to overcome this restoring force and generate turbulence
in the ICM, the strength of the driving must exceed a threshold, corresponding
to turbulent velocities . For weaker driving, the ICM
remains in its nonlinearly stable magnetic configuration, and turbulent mixing
is effectively absent. We discuss the implications of these findings for the
turbulent diffusion of metals and heat in the ICM.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figs., submitted to the conference proceedings of "The
Monster's Fiery Breath;" a follow up of arXiv:0901.4786 focusing on the
general mixing properties of the IC
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