Metal-insulator transition in an aperiodic ladder network: an exact result

We show, in a completely analytical way, that a tight binding ladder network composed of atomic sites with on-site potentials distributed according to the quasiperiodic Aubry model can exhibit a metal-insulator transition at multiple values of the Fermi energy. For specific values of the first and second neighbor electron hopping, the result is obtained exactly. With a more general model, we calculate the two-terminal conductance numerically. The numerical results corroborate the analytical findings and yield a richer variety of spectrum showing multiple mobility edges.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure

Mechanistic Studies on the Reaction of cis-Diaquobisbiguanide-cobalt(III) Ion & Phenylbiguanide in Aqueous Acidic Solution: Formation of Mixed Chelate of Cobalt(III)

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Isovector Channel Role of Relativistic Mean Field Models in the Neutrino Mean Free Path

An improvement in the treatment of the isovector channel of relativistic mean field (RMF) models based on effective field theory (E-RMF) is suggested, by adding an isovector scalar (delta) meson and using a similar procedure to the one used by Horowitz and Piekarewicz to adjust the isovector-vector channel in order to achieve a softer density dependent symmetry energy of the nuclear matter at high density. Their effects on the equation of state (EOS) at high density and on the neutrino mean free path (NMFP) in neutron stars are discussed.Comment: 20 pages, 8 figure

Flavor origin of dark matter and its relation with leptonic nonzero θ13 and Dirac CP phase δ

We propose a minimal extension of the standard model by including a U(1) flavor symmetry to establish a correlation between the relic abundance of dark matter, measured by WMAP and PLANCK satellite experiments and non-zero value of sinθ13 observed at DOUBLE CHOOZ, Daya Bay, RENO and T2K. The flavour symmetry is allowed to be broken at a high scale to a remnant Z2 symmetry, which not only ensures the stability to the dark matter, but also gives rise to a modification to the existing A4-based tri-bimaximal neutrino mixing. This deviation in turn suggests the required non-zero value of sinθ13. We assume the dark matter to be neutral under the existing A4 symmetry while charged under the U(1) flavor symmetry. Hence in this set-up, the non-zero value of sinθ13 predicts the dark matter charge under U(1), which can be tested at various ongoing and future direct and collider dark matter search experiments. We also point out the involvement of nonzero leptonic CP phase δ, which plays an important role in the analysi

Unifying the flavor origin of dark matter with leptonic nonzero θ13

We propose a flavor symmetric approach to unify the origin of dark matter (DM) with the nonzero θ13 in the lepton sector. In this framework, the breaking of a U(1) flavor symmetry to a remnant Z2 ensures the stability of the DM and gives rise to a modification to the existing A4-based tribimaximal neutrino mixing to attain the required nonzero values of sinθ13. This results in a range of Higgs portal coupling of the DM which can be potentially accessible at various ongoing and future direct and collider search experiments

Neutrino Electromagnetic Form Factors Effect on the Neutrino Cross Section in Dense Matter

The sensitivity of the differential cross section of the interaction between neutrino-electron with dense matter to the possibly nonzero neutrino electromagnetic properties has been investigated. Here, the relativistic mean field model inspired by effective field theory has been used to describe non strange dense matter, both with and without the neutrino trapping. We have found that the cross section becomes more sensitive to the constituent distribution of the matter, once electromagnetic properties of the neutrino are taken into account. The effects of electromagnetic properties of neutrino on the cross section become more significant for the neutrino magnetic moment mu_nu > 10^{-10} mu_B and for the neutrino charge radius R > 10^{-5} MeV^{-1}.Comment: 24 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Physical Review