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Dust-cooling--induced Fragmentation of Low-metallicity Clouds
Dynamical collapse and fragmentation of low-metallicity cloud cores is
studied using three-dimensional hydrodynamical calculations, with particular
attention devoted whether the cores fragment in the dust-cooling phase or not.
The cores become elongated in this phase, being unstable to non-spherical
perturbation due to the sudden temperature decrease. In the metallicity range
of 10^{-6}-10^{-5}Z_sun, cores with an initial axis ratio >2 reach a critical
value of the axis ratio (>30) and fragment into multiple small clumps. This
provides a possible mechanism to produce low-mass stars in ultra-metal-poor
environments.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, ApJ Letters in pres
Quantitative rescattering theory for laser-induced high-energy plateau photoelectron spectra
A comprehensive quantitative rescattering (QRS) theory for describing the
production of high-energy photoelectrons generated by intense laser pulses is
presented. According to the QRS, the momentum distributions of these electrons
can be expressed as the product of a returning electron wave packet with the
elastic differential cross sections (DCS) between free electrons with the
target ion. We show that the returning electron wave packets are determined
mostly by the lasers only, and can be obtained from the strong field
approximation. The validity of the QRS model is carefully examined by checking
against accurate results from the solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger
equation for atomic targets within the single active electron approximation. We
further show that experimental photoelectron spectra for a wide range of laser
intensity and wavelength can be explained by the QRS theory, and that the DCS
between electrons and target ions can be extracted from experimental
photoelectron spectra. By generalizing the QRS theory to molecular targets, we
discuss how few-cycle infrared lasers offer a promising tool for dynamic
chemical imaging with temporal resolution of a few femtoseconds.Comment: 19 pages, 19 figure
Combinatorial biomaterials discovery strategy to identify new macromolecular cryoprotectants
Cryoprotective agents (CPAs) are typically solvents or small molecules, but there is a need for innovative CPAs to reduce toxicity and increase cell yield, for the banking and transport of cells. Here we use a photochemical high-throughput discovery platform to identify macromolecular cryoprotectants, as rational design approaches are currently limited by the lack of structure–property relationships. Using liquid handling systems, 120 unique polyampholytes were synthesized using photopolymerization with RAFT agents. Cryopreservation screening identified “hit” polymers and nonlinear trends between composition and function, highlighting the requirement for screening, with polymer aggregation being a key factor. The most active polymers reduced the volume of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) required to cryopreserve a nucleated cell line, demonstrating the potential of this approach to identify materials for cell storage and transport
Hierarchical and cooperative model predictive control of electrical grids by using overlapping information
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Dynamical stabilization of matter-wave solitons revisited
We consider dynamical stabilization of Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) by
time-dependent modulation of the scattering length. The problem has been
studied before by several methods: Gaussian variational approximation, the
method of moments, method of modulated Townes soliton, and the direct averaging
of the Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation. We summarize these methods and find that
the numerically obtained stabilized solution has different configuration than
that assumed by the theoretical methods (in particular a phase of the
wavefunction is not quadratic with ). We show that there is presently no
clear evidence for stabilization in a strict sense, because in the numerical
experiments only metastable (slowly decaying) solutions have been obtained. In
other words, neither numerical nor mathematical evidence for a new kind of
soliton solutions have been revealed so far. The existence of the metastable
solutions is nevertheless an interesting and complicated phenomenon on its own.
We try some non-Gaussian variational trial functions to obtain better
predictions for the critical nonlinearity for metastabilization but
other dynamical properties of the solutions remain difficult to predict
Effect of nuclear motion on tunneling ionization rates of molecules
ISSN:1094-1622ISSN:0556-2791ISSN:1050-294
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