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Correlation between subgrains and coherently scattering domains
Crystallite size determined by X-ray line profile analysis is often smaller than the grain or subgrain size obtained by transmission electron microscopy, especially when the material has been produced by plastic deformation. It is shown that besides differences in orientation between grains or subgrains, dipolar dislocation walls without differences in orientation also break down coherency of X-rays scattering. This means that the coherently scattering domain size provided by X-ray line profile analysis provides subgrain or cell size bounded by dislocation boundaries or dipolar walls
Alternatives to standard puncture initial data for binary black hole evolution
Standard puncture initial data have been widely used for numerical binary
black hole evolutions despite their shortcomings, most notably the inherent
lack of gravitational radiation at the initial time that is later followed by a
burst of spurious radiation. We study the evolution of three alternative
initial data schemes. Two of the three alternatives are based on post-Newtonian
expansions that contain realistic gravitational waves. The first scheme is
based on a second-order post-Newtonian expansion in Arnowitt, Deser, and Misner
transverse-traceless (ADMTT) gauge that has been resummed to approach standard
puncture data at the black holes. The second scheme is based on asymptotic
matching of the 4-metrics of two tidally perturbed Schwarzschild solutions to a
first-order post-Newtonian expansion in ADMTT gauge away from the black holes.
The final alternative is obtained through asymptotic matching of the 4-metrics
of two tidally perturbed Schwarzschild solutions to a second-order
post-Newtonian expansion in harmonic gauge away from the black holes. When
evolved, the second scheme fails to produce quasicircular orbits (and instead
leads to a nearly head-on collision). This failure can be traced back to
inaccuracies in the extrinsic curvature due to low order matching. More
encouraging is that the latter two alternatives lead to quasicircular orbits
and show gravitational radiation from the onset of the evolution, as well as a
reduction of spurious radiation. Current deficiencies compared to standard
punctures data include more eccentric trajectories during the inspiral and
larger constraint violations, since the alternative data sets are only
approximate solutions of Einstein's equations. The eccentricity problem can be
ameliorated by adjusting the initial momentum parameters.Comment: 11 pages, 11 figures, 1 appendix, typos corrected, removed duplicate
reference, matches published versio
Entanglement and the Born-Oppenheimer approximation in an exactly solvable quantum many-body system
We investigate the correlations between different bipartitions of an exactly
solvable one-dimensional many-body Moshinsky model consisting of Nn "nuclei"
and Ne "electrons". We study the dependence of entanglement on the
inter-particle interaction strength, on the number of particles, and on the
particle masses. Consistent with kinematic intuition, the entanglement between
two subsystems vanishes when the subsystems have very different masses, while
it attains its maximal value for subsystems of comparable mass. We show how
this entanglement feature can be inferred by means of the Born-Oppenheimer
Ansatz, whose validity and breakdown can be understood from a quantum
information point of view.Comment: Accepted in Eur. Phys. J. D (2014
Asymptotic Conditional Distribution of Exceedance Counts: Fragility Index with Different Margins
Let be a random vector, whose components are not
necessarily independent nor are they required to have identical distribution
functions . Denote by the number of exceedances among
above a high threshold . The fragility index, defined by
if this limit exists, measures the
asymptotic stability of the stochastic system as the threshold
increases. The system is called stable if and fragile otherwise. In this
paper we show that the asymptotic conditional distribution of exceedance counts
(ACDEC) , , exists, if the
copula of is in the domain of attraction of a multivariate extreme
value distribution, and if
exists for
and some . This enables the computation of
the FI corresponding to and of the extended FI as well as of the
asymptotic distribution of the exceedance cluster length also in that case,
where the components of are not identically distributed
A single-domain spectral method for black hole puncture data
We calculate puncture initial data corresponding to both single and binary
black hole solutions of the constraint equations by means of a pseudo-spectral
method applied in a single spatial domain. Introducing appropriate coordinates,
these methods exhibit rapid convergence of the conformal factor and lead to
highly accurate solutions. As an application we investigate small mass ratios
of binary black holes and compare these with the corresponding test mass limit
that we obtain through a semi-analytical limiting procedure. In particular, we
compare the binding energy of puncture data in this limit with that of a test
particle in the Schwarzschild spacetime and find that it deviates by 50% from
the Schwarzschild result at the innermost stable circular orbit of
Schwarzschild, if the ADM mass at each puncture is used to define the local
black hole masses.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figures; published version with one important change, see
Fig. 4 and the corresponding changes to the tex
Numerical stability of the AA evolution system compared to the ADM and BSSN systems
We explore the numerical stability properties of an evolution system
suggested by Alekseenko and Arnold. We examine its behavior on a set of
standardized testbeds, and we evolve a single black hole with different gauges.
Based on a comparison with two other evolution systems with well-known
properties, we discuss some of the strengths and limitations of such simple
tests in predicting numerical stability in general.Comment: 16 pages, 12 figure
20th Workshop on Automotive Software Engineering (ASE’23)
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