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Formation of molecules in an expanding Bose-Einstein condensate
A mean field theory of expanding hybrid atom-molecule Bose-Einstein
condensates is applied to the recent MPI experiments on Rb that
demonstrated the formation of ultracold molecules due to Feshbach resonance.
The subsequent dissociation of the molecules is treated using a non-mean-field
parametric approximation. The latter method is also used in determining optimal
conditions for the formation of molecular BECComment: 5 pages with 5 figure
Classical Group Field Theory
The ordinary formalism for classical field theory is applied to dynamical
group field theories. Focusing first on a local group field theory over one
copy of SU(2) and, then, on more involved nonlocal theories (colored and non
colored) defined over a tensor product of the same group, we address the issue
of translation and dilatation symmetries and the corresponding Noether theorem.
The energy momentum tensor and dilatation current are derived and their
properties identified for each case
Cell motility: a viscous fingering analysis of active gels
The symmetry breaking of the actin network from radial to longitudinal
symmetry has been identified as the major mechanism for keratocytes (fish
cells) motility on solid substrate. For strong friction coefficient, the two
dimensional actin flow which includes the polymerisation at the edge and
depolymerisation in the bulk can be modelled as a Darcy flow, the cell shape
and dynamics being then modelled by standard complex analysis methods. We use
the theory of active gels to describe the orientational order of the filaments
which varies from the border to the bulk. We show analytically that the
reorganisation of the cortex is enough to explain the motility of the cell and
find the velocity as a function of the orientation order parameter in the bulk.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in EPJ - Plu
Formation of molecules from a Cs Bose-Einstein condensate
Conversion of an expanding Bose-Einstein condensate of Cs atoms to a
molecular one with an efficiency of more than 30% was observed recently in
experiments by M. Mark et al., Europhys. Lett. 69, 706 (2005). The theory
presented here describes the experimental results. Values of resonance strength
of 8 mG and rate coefficients for atom-molecule deactivation of cms and molecule-molecule one of
cms are estimated by a fit of the theoretical results to the
experimental data. Near the resonance, where the highest conversion efficiency
was observed, the results demonstrate strong sensitivity to the magnetic field
ripple and inhomogeneity. A conversion efficiency of about 60% is predicted by
non-mean-field calculations for the densities and sweep rates lower than the
ones used in the experiments.Comment: 9 pages, 10 figure
Fast and Slow Coherent Cascades in Anti-de Sitter Spacetime
We study the phase and amplitude dynamics of small perturbations in 3+1
dimensional Anti-de Sitter spacetime using the truncated resonant
approximation, also known as the Two Time Framework (TTF). We analyse the phase
spectrum for different classes of initial data and find that higher frequency
modes turn on with coherently aligned phases. Combining numerical and
analytical results, we conjecture that there is a class of initial conditions
that collapse in infinite slow time and to which the well-studied case of the
two-mode, equal energy initial data belongs. We additionally study
perturbations that collapse in finite time, and find that the energy spectrum
approaches a power law, with the energy per mode scaling approximately as the
inverse first power of the frequency.Comment: 19 pages, multiple figures. v2: version published in CQ
Radial distribution and strong lensing statistics of satellite galaxies and substructure using high resolution LCDM hydrodynamical simulations
We analyse the number density and radial distribution of substructures and
satellite galaxies using cosmological simulations that follow the gas dynamics
of a baryonic component, including shock heating, radiative cooling and star
formation within the hierarchical concordance LCDM model. We find that the
dissipation of the baryons greatly enhances the survival of subhaloes,
expecially in the galaxy core, resulting in a radial distribution of satellite
galaxies that closely follows the overall mass distribution in the inner part
of the halo. Hydrodynamical simulations are necessary to resolve the adiabatic
contraction and dense cores of galaxies, resulting in a total number of
satellites a factor of two larger than found in pure dark matter simulation, in
good agreement with the observed spatial distribution of satellite galaxies
within galaxies and clusters. Convergence tests show that the cored
distribution found by previous authors in pure N-body simulations was due to
physical overmerging of dark matter only structures.
We proceed to use a ray-shooting technique in order to study the impact of
these additional substructures on the number of violations of the cusp caustic
magnification relation. We develop a new approach to try to disentangle the
effect of substructures from the intrinsic discreteness of N-Body simulations.
Even with the increased number of substructures in the centres of galaxies, we
are not able to reproduce the observed high numbers of discrepancies observed
in the flux ratios of multiply lensed quasars.Comment: 11 pages, 15 figures, comparison with previous works updated, one
more plot added, minor changes to match the accepted version by MNRA
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