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Magnetic field mapper
Magnetic field mapper locates imperfections in cadmium sulphide solar cells by detecting and displaying the variations of the normal component of the magnetic field resulting from current density variations. It can also inspect for nonuniformities in other electrically conductive materials
Coreless and singular vortex lattices in rotating spinor Bose-Einstein condensates
We theoretically investigate vortex-lattice phases of rotating spinor
Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) with the ferromagnetic spin-interaction by
numerically solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. The spinor BEC under slow
rotation can sustain a rich variety of exotic vortices due to the
multi-component order parameters, such as the Mermin-Ho and Anderson-Toulouse
coreless vortices (the 2-dimensional skyrmion and meron) and the
non-axisymmetric vortices with the sifting vortex cores. Here, we present the
spin texture of various vortex-lattice states at higher rotation rates and in
the presence of the external magnetic field. In addition, the vortex phase
diagram is constructed in the plane by the total magnetization and the
external rotation frequency by comparing the free energies of possible
vortices. It is shown that the vortex phase diagram in a - plane may
be divided into two categories; (i) the coreless vortex lattice formed by the
several types of Mermin-Ho vortices and (ii) the vortex lattice filling in the
cores with the pure polar (antiferromagnetic) state. In particular, it is found
that the type-(ii) state forms the composite lattices of coreless and
polar-core vortices. The difference between the type-(i) and type-(ii) results
from the existence of the singularity of the spin textures, which may be
experimentally confirmed by the spin imaging within polarized light recently
proposed by Carusotto and Mueller. We also discussed on the stability of
triangular and square lattice states for rapidly rotating condensates.Comment: to be published in Phys. Rev.
Spin textures in rotating two-component Bose-Einstein condensates
We investigate two kinds of coreless vortices with axisymmetric and
nonaxisymmetric configurations in rotating two-component Bose-Einstein
condensates. Starting from the Gross-Pitaevskii energy functional in a rotating
frame, we derive a nonlinear sigma model generalized to the two-component
condensates. In terms of a pseudospin representation, an axisymmetric vortex
and a nonaxisymmetric one correspond to spin textures referred to as a
"skyrmion" and a "meron-pair", respectively. A variational method is used to
investigate the dependence of the sizes of the stable spin textures on system
parameters, and the optimized variational function is found to reproduce well
the numerical solution. In the SU(2) symmetric case, the optimal skyrmion and
meron-pair are degenerate and transform to each other by a rotation of the
pseudospin. An external rf-field that couples coherently the hyperfine states
of two components breaks the degeneracy in favor of the meron-pair texture due
to an effective transverse pseudomagnetic field. The difference between the
intracomponent and intercomponent interactions yields a longitudinal
pseudomagnetic field and a ferromagnetic or an antiferromagnetic pseudospin
interaction, leading to a meron-pair texture with an anisotropic distribution
of vorticity.Comment: 14 pages, 15 figure
Dynamic analysis of groundwater discharge and partial-area contribution to Pukemanga Stream, New Zealand
The proportion and origin of groundwater contribution to streamflow from agricultural catchments is relevant to estimation of the effects of nitrate leached from the soil on the quality of surface waters. This study addresses the partitioning of streamflow contributions from near-surface runoff and from groundwater, each with different contributing land area, on a steep pastoral hillslope in a humid climate. The 3 ha headwater catchment of the perennial Pukemanga Stream, in the North Island of New Zealand, was instrumented for continuous observation of climatic data, streamflow and groundwater level. The dynamics of groundwater levels and groundwater contribution to streamflow were analysed by means of a one-parameter, eigenvalue-eigenfunction description of a 1-D aquifer model. Model results for seven years of daily data predict that 36–44% of the topographical catchment contributes groundwater to the stream. The remaining groundwater generated within the catchment contributes to streamflow outside the catchment. Groundwater was calculated to be 58–83% of observed annual streamflow from the topographical catchment. When the smaller groundwater catchment is taken into account, the groundwater contribution to streamflow is 78–93% on a unit area basis. Concurrent hourly data for streamflow and groundwater levels at two sites indicate the dynamic behaviour of a local groundwater system. Groundwater flow dynamics that support the perennial nature of this headwater stream are consistent with the size of the groundwater body, porosity of the subsurface material, and hydraulic conductivity derived from partitioning of streamflow contributions
Vortex structure in spinor F=2 Bose-Einstein condensates
Extended Gross-Pitaevskii equations for the rotating F=2 condensate in a
harmonic trap are solved both numerically and variationally using trial
functions for each component of the wave function. Axially-symmetric vortex
solutions are analyzed and energies of polar and cyclic states are calculated.
The equilibrium transitions between different phases with changing of the
magnetization are studied. We show that at high magnetization the ground state
of the system is determined by interaction in "density" channel, and at low
magnetization spin interactions play a dominant role. Although there are five
hyperfine states, all the particles are always condensed in one, two or three
states. Two novel types of vortex structures are also discussed.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
Ultra-precise measurement of optical frequency ratios
We developed a novel technique for frequency measurement and synthesis, based
on the operation of a femtosecond comb generator as transfer oscillator. The
technique can be used to measure frequency ratios of any optical signals
throughout the visible and near-infrared part of the spectrum. Relative
uncertainties of for averaging times of 100 s are possible. Using a
Nd:YAG laser in combination with a nonlinear crystal we measured the frequency
ratio of the second harmonic at 532 nm to the fundamental at
1064 nm, .Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Potential theoretic methods for far field sound radiation calculations
In the area of computational acoustics, procedures which accurately predict the far-field sound radiation are much sought after. A systematic development of such procedures are found in a sequence of papers by Atassi. The method presented here is an alternate approach to predicting far field sound based on simple layer potential theoretic methods. The main advantages of this method are: it requires only a simple free space Green's function, it can accommodate arbitrary shapes of Kirchoff surfaces, and is readily extendable to three-dimensional problems. Moreover, the procedure presented here, though tested for unsteady lifting airfoil problems, can easily be adapted to other areas of interest, such as jet noise radiation problems. Results are presented for lifting airfoil problems and comparisons are made with the results reported by Atassi. Direct comparisons are also made for the flat plate case
A laser-driven target of high-density nuclear polarized hydrogen gas
We report the best figure-of-merit achieved for an internal nuclear polarized
hydrogen gas target and a Monte Carlo simulation of spin-exchange optical
pumping. The dimensions of the apparatus were optimized using the simulation
and the experimental results were in good agreement with the simulation. The
best result achieved for this target was 50.5% polarization with 58.2% degree
of dissociation of the sample beam exiting the storage cell at a hydrogen flow
rate of atoms/s.Comment: Accepted as a Rapid Communication article in Phys. Rev.
Instabilities of wave function monopoles in Bose-Einstein condensates
We present analytic and numerical results for a class of monopole solutions
to the two-component Gross-Pitaevski equation for a two-species Bose condensate
in an effectively two-dimensional trap. We exhibit dynamical instabilities
involving vortex production as one species pours through another, from which we
conclude that the sub-optical sharpness of potentials exerted by matter waves
makes condensates ideal tools for manipulating condensates. We also show that
there are two equally valid but drastically different hydrodynamic descriptions
of a two-component condensate, and illustrate how different phenomena may
appear simpler in each.Comment: 4 pages, 9 figures (compressed figures become legible when zoomed or
when paper is actually printed
Fermions, Gauge Theories, and the Sinc Function Representation for Feynman Diagrams
We extend our new approach for numeric evaluation of Feynman diagrams to
integrals that include fermionic and vector propagators. In this initial
discussion we begin by deriving the Sinc function representation for the
propagators of spin-1/2 and spin-1 fields and exploring their properties. We
show that the attributes of the spin-0 propagator which allowed us to derive
the Sinc function representation for scalar field Feynman integrals are shared
by fields with non-zero spin. We then investigate the application of the Sinc
function representation to simple QED diagrams, including first order
corrections to the propagators and the vertex.Comment: 10 pages, Latex, 9 figure
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