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QGP flow fluctuations and the characteristics of higher moments
The dynamical development of expanding Quark-gluon Plasma (QGP) flow is
studied in a 3+1D fluid dynamical model with a globally symmetric, initial
condition. We minimize fluctuations arising from complex dynamical processes at
finite impact parameters and from fluctuating random initial conditions to have
a conservative fluid dynamical background estimate for the statistical
distributions of the thermodynamical parameters. We also avoid a phase
transition in the equation of state, and we let the matter supercool during the
expansion.
Then central Pb+Pb collisions at TeV are studied in an
almost perfect fluid dynamical model, with azimuthally symmetric initial state
generated in a dynamical flux-tube model. The general development of
thermodynamical extensives are also shown for lower energies.
We observe considerable deviations from a thermal equilibrium source as a
consequence of the fluid dynamical expansion arising from a least fluctuating
initial state
Gene transcription analysis during interaction between potato and Ralstonia solanacearum
Bacterial wilt (BW) caused by Ralstonia solanacearum (Rs) is an important quarantine disease that spreads worldwide and infects hundreds of plant species. The BW defense response of potato is a complicated continuous process, which involves transcription of a battery of genes. The molecular mechanisms of potato-Rs interactions are poorly understood. In this study, we combined suppression subtractive hybridization and macroarray hybridization to identify genes that are differentially expressed during the incompatible interaction between Rs and potato. In total, 302 differentially expressed genes were identified and classified into 12 groups according to their putative biological functions. Of 302 genes, 81 were considered as Rs resistance-related genes based on the homology to genes of known function, and they have putative roles in pathogen recognition, signal transduction, transcription factor functioning, hypersensitive response, systemic acquired resistance, and cell rescue and protection. Additionally, 50 out of 302 genes had no match or low similarity in the NCBI databases, and they may represent novel genes. Of seven interesting genes analyzed via RNA gel blot and semi-quantitative RT-PCR, six were induced, one was suppressed, and all had different transcription patterns. The results demonstrate that the response of potato against Rs is rapid and involves the induction of numerous various genes. The genes identified in this study add to our knowledge of potato resistance to Rs
Overcoming laser diode nonlinearity issues in multi-channel radio-over-fiber systems
The authors demonstrate how external light injection into a directly modulated laser diode may be used to enhance the performance of a multi-channel radio-over-fiber system operating at a frequency of 6 GHz. Performance improvements of up to 2 dB were achieved by linearisation of the lasers-modulation response. To verify the experimental work a simulation of the complete system was carried out using Matlab. Good correlation was observed between experimental and simulated results
The Hydrodynamics of M-Theory
We consider the low energy limit of a stack of N M-branes at finite
temperature. In this limit, the M-branes are well described, via the AdS/CFT
correspondence, in terms of classical solutions to the eleven dimensional
supergravity equations of motion. We calculate Minkowski space two-point
functions on these M-branes in the long-distance, low-frequency limit, i.e. the
hydrodynamic limit, using the prescription of Son and Starinets
[hep-th/0205051]. From these Green's functions for the R-currents and for
components of the stress-energy tensor, we extract two kinds of diffusion
constant and a viscosity. The N dependence of these physical quantities may
help lead to a better understanding of M-branes.Comment: 1+19 pages, references added, section 5 clarified, eq. (72) correcte
Quantum correction to the Kubo formula in closed mesoscopic systems
We study the energy dissipation rate in a mesoscopic system described by the
parametrically-driven random-matrix Hamiltonian H[\phi(t)] for the case of
linear bias \phi=vt. Evolution of the field \phi(t) causes interlevel
transitions leading to energy pumping, and also smears the discrete spectrum of
the Hamiltonian. For sufficiently fast perturbation this smearing exceeds the
mean level spacing and the dissipation rate is given by the Kubo formula. We
calculate the quantum correction to the Kubo result that reveals the original
discreteness of the energy spectrum. The first correction to the system
viscosity scales proportional to v^{-2/3} in the orthogonal case and vanishes
in the unitary case.Comment: 4 pages, 3 eps figures, REVTeX
Role of Modified Chaplygin Gas as a Dark Energy Model in Collapsing Spherically Symmetric Cloud
In this work, gravitational collapse of a spherical cloud, consists of both
dark matter and dark energy in the form of modified Chaplygin gas is studied.
It is found that dark energy alone in the form of modified Chaplygin gas forms
black hole. Also when both components of the fluid are present then the
collapse favors the formation of black hole in cases the dark energy dominates
over dark matter. The conclusion is totally opposite to the usually known
results.Comment: 7 Latex Pages, RexTex style, No figure
The first-order phase transition between dimerized-antiferromagnetic and uniform-antiferromagnetic phases in Cu_(1-x)M_xGeO_3
We have performed detailed magnetic susceptibility measurements as well as
synchrotron x-ray diffraction studies to determine the temperature vs
concentration ( - ) phase diagram of CuMgGeO. We
observe clear double peaks in the magnetic susceptibility implying two
antiferromagnetic (AF) transition temperatures in samples with Mg
concentrations in the range 0.0237 0.0271. We also observe a
drastic change in the inverse correlation length in this concentration range by
x-ray diffraction. The drastic change of the AF transition temperature as well
as the disappearance of the spin-Peierls (SP) phase have been clarified; these
results are consistent with a first-order phase transition between dimerized AF
(D-AF) and uniform AF (U-AF) phases as reported by T. Masuda {\it et al.}
\lbrack Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 80}, 4566 (1998)\rbrack. The - phase
diagram of CuZnGeO is similar to that of
CuMgGeO, which suggests that the present phase transition
is universal for CuGeO.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures. submitted to PR
Conductance fluctuations in a quantum dot under almost periodic ac pumping
It is shown that the variance of the linear dc conductance fluctuations in an
open quantum dot under a high-frequency ac pumping depends significantly on the
spectral content of the ac field. For a sufficiently strong ac field
, where is the dephasing rate induced by
ac noise and is the electron escape rate, the dc conductance
fluctuations are much stronger for the harmonic pumping than in the case of the
noise ac field of the same intensity. The reduction factor in a static
magnetic field takes the universal value of 2 only for the white--noise
pumping. For the strictly harmonic pumping of
sufficiently large intensity the variance is almost insensitive to the static
magnetic field . For the quasi-periodic ac
field of the form with
and we predict the novel
effect of enchancement of conductance fluctuations at commensurate frequencies
.Comment: 4 pages RevTex, 4 eps figures; the final version to appear in
Phys.Rev.
Effects of aerodynamic particle interaction in turbulent non-dilute particle-laden flow
Aerodynamic four-way coupling models are necessary to handle two-phase flows with a dispersed phase in regimes in which the particles are neither dilute enough to neglect particle interaction nor dense enough to bring the mixture to equilibrium. We include an aerodynamic particle interaction model within the framework of large eddy simulation together with Lagrangian particle tracking. The particle drag coefficients are corrected depending on relative positions of the particles accounting for the strongest drag correction per particle but disregarding many-particle interactions. The approach is applied to simulate monodisperse, rigid, and spherical particles injected into crossflow as an idealization of a spray jet in crossflow. A domain decomposition technique reduces the computational cost of the aerodynamic particle interaction model. It is shown that the average drag on such particles decreases by more than 40% in the dense particle region in the near-field of the jet due to the introduction of aerodynamic four-way coupling. The jet of monodisperse particles therefore penetrates further into the crossflow in this case. The strength of the counterrotating vortex pair (CVP) and turbulence levels in the flow then decrease. The impact of the stochastic particle description on the four-way coupling model is shown to be relatively small. If particles are also allowed to break up according to a wave breakup model, the particles become polydisperse. An ad hoc model for handling polydisperse particles under such conditions is suggested. In this idealized atomizing mixture, the effect of aerodynamic four-way coupling reverses: The aerodynamic particle interaction results in a stronger CVP and enhances turbulence levels
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