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Innermost Stable Circular Orbits and Epicyclic Frequencies Around a Magnetized Neutron Star
A full-relativistic approach is used to compute the radius of the innermost
stable circular orbit (ISCO), the Keplerian, frame-dragging, precession and
oscillation frequencies of the radial and vertical motions of neutral test
particles orbiting the equatorial plane of a magnetized neutron star. The
space-time around the star is modelled by the six parametric solution derived
by Pachon et al. It is shown that the inclusion of an intense magnetic field,
such as the one of a neutron star, have non-negligible effects on the above
physical quantities, and therefore, its inclusion is necessary in order to
obtain a more accurate and realistic description of the physical processes
occurring in the neighbourhood of this kind of objects such as the dynamics of
accretion disk. The results discussed here also suggest that the consideration
of strong magnetic fields may introduce non-negligible corrections in, e.g.,
the relativistic precession model and therefore on the predictions made on the
mass of neutron stars.Comment: LaTeX file, 13 pages, 4 figure
Stern-Gerlach Entanglement in Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates
Entanglement of spin and position variables produced by spatially
inhomogeneous magnetic fields of Stern-Gerlach type acting on spinor
Bose-Einstein condensates may lead to interference effects at the level of
one-boson densities. A model is worked out for these effects which is amenable
to analytical calculation for gaussian shaped condensates. The resulting
interference effects are sensitive to the spin polarization properties of the
condensate.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figure
Violation of the Ikeda sum rule and the self-consistency in the renormalized quasiparticle random phase approximation and the nuclear double-beta decay
The effect of the inclusion of ground state correlations into the QRPA
equation of motion for the two-neutrino double beta () decay
is carefully analyzed. The resulting model, called renormalized QRPA (RQRPA),
does not collapse near the physical value of the nuclear force strength in the
particle-particle channel, as happens with the ordinary QRPA. Still, the
transition amplitude is only slightly less sensitive on
this parameter in the RQRPA than that in the plain QRPA. It is argued that this
fact reveals once more that the characteristic behaviour of the
transition amplitude within the QRPA is not an artifact of
the model, but a consequence of the partial restoration of the spin-isospin
symmetry. It is shown that the price paid for bypassing the collapse in
the RQRPA is the violation of the Ikeda sum rule.Comment: 16 pages, latex, 3 postscript figure
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