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Facilitation of polymer looping and giant polymer diffusivity in crowded solutions of active particles
We study the dynamics of polymer chains in a bath of self-propelled particles
(SPP) by extensive Langevin dynamics simulations in a two dimensional system.
Specifically, we analyse the polymer looping properties versus the SPP activity
and investigate how the presence of the active particles alters the chain
conformational statistics. We find that SPPs tend to extend flexible polymer
chains while they rather compactify stiffer semiflexible polymers, in agreement
with previous results. Here we show that larger activities of SPPs yield a
higher effective temperature of the bath and thus facilitate looping kinetics
of a passive polymer chain. We explicitly compute the looping probability and
looping time in a wide range of the model parameters. We also analyse the
motion of a monomeric tracer particle and the polymer's centre of mass in the
presence of the active particles in terms of the time averaged mean squared
displacement, revealing a giant diffusivity enhancement for the polymer chain
via SPP pooling. Our results are applicable to rationalising the dimensions and
looping kinetics of biopolymers at constantly fluctuating and often actively
driven conditions inside biological cells or suspensions of active colloidal
particles or bacteria cells.Comment: 15 pages, 9 figures, IOPLaTe
Synchronization and fault-masking in redundant real-time systems
A real time computer may fail because of massive component failures or not responding quickly enough to satisfy real time requirements. An increase in redundancy - a conventional means of improving reliability - can improve the former but can - in some cases - degrade the latter considerably due to the overhead associated with redundancy management, namely the time delay resulting from synchronization and voting/interactive consistency techniques. The implications of synchronization and voting/interactive consistency algorithms in N-modular clusters on reliability are considered. All these studies were carried out in the context of real time applications. As a demonstrative example, we have analyzed results from experiments conducted at the NASA Airlab on the Software Implemented Fault Tolerance (SIFT) computer. This analysis has indeed indicated that in most real time applications, it is better to employ hardware synchronization instead of software synchronization and not allow reconfiguration
Thermalization of quark-gluon matter by 2-to-2 and 3-to-3 elastic scatterings
Thermalization of quark-gluon matter is studied with a transport equation
that includes contributions of 2-to-2 and 3-to-3 elastic scatterings.
Thermalization time is related to the squared amplitudes for the elastic
scatterings that are calculated in perturbative QCD.Comment: LaTex, 6 pages, 3 figures, talk presented at the 19th international
conference on ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions, Shanghai, China,
Nov. 200
Optical Weak Link between Two Spatially Separate Bose-Einstein Condensates
Two spatially separate Bose-Einstein condensates were prepared in an optical
double-well potential. A bidirectional coupling between the two condensates was
established by two pairs of Bragg beams which continuously outcoupled atoms in
opposite directions. The atomic currents induced by the optical coupling depend
on the relative phase of the two condensates and on an additional controllable
coupling phase. This was observed through symmetric and antisymmetric
correlations between the two outcoupled atom fluxes. A Josephson optical
coupling of two condensates in a ring geometry is proposed. The continuous
outcoupling method was used to monitor slow relative motions of two elongated
condensates and characterize the trapping potential.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Influence Functionals and the Accelerating Detector
The influence functional is derived for a massive scalar field in the ground
state, coupled to a uniformly accelerating DeWitt monopole detector in
dimensional Minkowski space. This confirms the local nature of the Unruh
effect, and provides an exact solution to the problem of the accelerating
detector without invoking a non-standard quantization. A directional detector
is presented which is efficiently decohered by the scalar field vacuum, and
which illustrates an important difference between the quantum mechanics of
inertial and non-inertial frames. From the results of these calculations, some
comments are made regarding the possibility of establishing a quantum
equivalence principle, so that the Hawking effect might be derived from the
Unruh effect.Comment: 32 page
Theoretical analysis for critical fluctuations of relaxation trajectory near a saddle-node bifurcation
A Langevin equation whose deterministic part undergoes a saddle-node
bifurcation is investigated theoretically. It is found that statistical
properties of relaxation trajectories in this system exhibit divergent
behaviors near a saddle-node bifurcation point in the weak-noise limit, while
the final value of the deterministic solution changes discontinuously at the
point. A systematic formulation for analyzing a path probability measure is
constructed on the basis of a singular perturbation method. In this
formulation, the critical nature turns out to originate from the neutrality of
exiting time from a saddle-point. The theoretical calculation explains results
of numerical simulations.Comment: 18pages, 17figures.The version 2, in which minor errors have been
fixed, will be published in Phys. Rev.
Perdeuterated cyanobiphenyl liquid crystals for infrared applications
Perdeuterated 4'-pentyl-4-cyanobiphenyl (D5CB) was synthesized and its physical properties evaluated and compared to those of 5CB. D5CB retains physical properties similar to those of 5CB, such as phase transition temperatures, dielectric constants, and refractive indices. An outstanding feature of D5CB is that it exhibits a much cleaner and reduced infrared absorption. Perdeuteration, therefore, extends the usable range of liquid crystals to the mid infrared by significantly reducing the absorption in the near infrared, which is essential for telecom applications
Non-ergodic transitions in many-body Langevin systems: a method of dynamical system reduction
We study a non-ergodic transition in a many-body Langevin system. We first
derive an equation for the two-point time correlation function of density
fluctuations, ignoring the contributions of the third- and fourth-order
cumulants. For this equation, with the average density fixed, we find that
there is a critical temperature at which the qualitative nature of the
trajectories around the trivial solution changes. Using a method of dynamical
system reduction around the critical temperature, we simplify the equation for
the time correlation function into a two-dimensional ordinary differential
equation. Analyzing this differential equation, we demonstrate that a
non-ergodic transition occurs at some temperature slightly higher than the
critical temperature.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure; ver.3: Calculation errors have been fixe
Singularity structure of the pi N scattering amplitude in a meson-exchange model up to energies W < 2.0 GeV
Within the previously developed Dubna-Mainz-Taipei meson-exchange model, the
singularity structure of the pi N scattering amplitudes has been investigated.
For all partial waves up to F waves and c.m. energies up to W = 2 GeV, the
T-matrix poles have been calculated by three different techniques: analytic
continuation into the complex energy plane, speed-plot and the regularization
method. For all 4-star resonances, we find a perfect agreement between the
analytic continuation and the regularization method. We also find resonance
poles for resonances that are not so well established, but in these cases the
pole positions and residues obtained by analytic continuation can substantially
differ from the results predicted by the speed-plot and regularization methods.Comment: 21 pages, 4 figures, 4 table
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