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Endochronic theory of transient creep and creep recovery
Short time creep and creep recovery were investigated by means of the endochronic theory of viscoplasticity. It is shown that the constitutive equations for constant-strain-rate stress-strain behavior, creep, creep recovery, and stress relaxation can all ber derived from the general constitutive equation by imposing appropriate constraints. In this unified approach, the effect of strain-hardening is naturally accounted for when describing creep and creep recovery. The theory predicts with reasonable accuracy the creep and creep recovery behaviors for Aluminum 1100-0 at 150 C. It was found that the strain-rate history at prestraining stage affects the subsequent creep. A critical stress was also established for creep recovery. The theory predicts a forward creep for creep recovery stress greater than the critical stress. For creep recovery stress less than the critical stress, the theory then predicts a normal strain recovery
Ground-state Competition of Two-Component Bosons in Optical Lattice near a Feshbach Resonance
We investigate the ground state properties of an equal mixture of two species
of bosons in its Mott-insulator phase at a filling factor two per site. We
identify one type of spin triplet-singlet transition through the competition of
ground state. When the on-site interaction is weak () the two particles
prefer to stay in the lowest band and with weak tunnelling between neighboring
sites the system is mapped into an effective spin-1 ferromagnetic exchange
Hamiltonian. When the interaction is tuned by a Feshbach resonance to be large
enough (), higher band will be populated. Due to the orbital coupling
term in the Hamiltonian, the two atoms in different orbits on a site
would form an on-site singlet. For a non-SU(2)-symmetric model, easy-axis or
easy-plane ferromagnetic spin exchange models may be realized corresponding to
phase separation or counter-flow superfluidity, respectively.Comment: Final version in PR
Study of basic physical processes in liquid rocket engines
Inconsistencies between analytical results and measurements for liquid rocket thrust chamber performance, which escape suitable explanations, have motivated the examination of the basic phys ical modeling formulations as to their unlimited application. The publication of Prof. D. Straub's book, 'Thermofluid-dynamics of Optimized Rocket Propulsions,' further stimulated the interest of understanding the gas dynamic relationships in chemically reacting mixtures. A review of other concepts proposed by Falk-Ruppel (Gibbsian Thermodynamics), Straub (Alternative Theory, AT), Prigogine (Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics), Boltzmann (Kinetic Theory), and Truesdell (Rational Mechanism) has been made to obtain a better understanding of the Navier-Stokes equation, which is now used extensively for chemically reacting flow treatment in combustion chambers. In addition to the study of the different concepts, two workshops were conducted to clarify some of the issues. The first workshop centered on Falk-Ruppel's new 'dynamics' concept, while the second one concentrated on Straub's AT. In this report brief summaries of the reviewed philosophies are presented and compared with the classical Navier-Stokes formulation in a tabular arrangement. Also the highlights of both workshops are addressed
Quantum Nonlocality of N-qubit W states
An experimental setup for testing quantum nonlocality of N qubits is
proposed. This method is a generalization of the optical setup proposed by
Banaszek and Wodkiewicz [1]. The quantum nonlocality of N qubits can be
obtained through its violation of N-qubit Bell inequalities. The correlation
function measured in the experiment is described by the Wigner function. The
effect of inefficient detector is also considered.Comment: 5 pages and 2 figures, some errors are corrected in v
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