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Characteristics of Postural Muscle Activity in Response to A Motor-Motor Task in Elderly
The purpose of the current study was to evaluate postural muscle performance of older adults in response to a combination of two motor tasks perturbations. Fifteen older participants were instructed to perform a pushing task as an upper limb perturbation while standing on a fixed or sliding board as a lower limb perturbation. Postural responses were characterized by onsets and magnitudes of muscle activities as well as onsets of segment movements. (Please see full abstract article
Observation of recoil-induced resonances and electromagnetically induced absorption of cold atoms in diffuse light
In this paper we report an experiment on the observation of the
recoil-induced resonances (RIR) and electromagnetically induced absorption
(EIA) of cold Rb87 atoms in diffuse light. The pump light of the RIR and the
EIA comes from the diffuse light in an integrating sphere, which also serves
the cooling light. The probe light beam is a weak laser split from the cooling
laser in order to keep the cooling and probe lasers correlated. We measured the
RIR and the EIA signal varying with the detuning of the diffuse laser light,
and also measured the temperature of the cold atoms at the different detunings.
The mechanism of RIR and EIA in the configuration with diffuse-light pumping
and laser probing is discussed, and the difference of nonlinear spectra of cold
atoms between in diffuse-light cooling system and in optical molasses as well
as in a magneto-optical trap (MOT) are studied.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figure
A Maxwell-vector p-wave holographic superconductor in a particular background AdS black hole metric
We study the p-wave holographic superconductor for AdS black holes with
planar event horizon topology for a particular Lovelock gravity, in which the
action is characterized by a self-interacting scalar field nonminimally coupled
to the gravity theory which is labeled by an integer . As the Lovelock
theory of gravity is the most general metric theory of gravity based on the
fundamental assumptions of general relativity, it is a desirable theory to
describe the higher dimensional spacetime geometry. The present work is devoted
to studying the properties of the p-wave holographic superconductor by
including a Maxwell field which nonminimally couples to a complex vector field
in a higher dimensional background metric. In the probe limit, we find that the
critical temperature decreases with the increase of the index of the
background black hole metric, which shows that a larger makes it harder for
the condensation to form. We also observe that the index affects the
conductivity and the gap frequency of the holographic superconductors.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figure
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