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gravity theories in the Palatini Formalism constrained from strong lensing
gravity, capable of driving the late-time acceleration of the
universe, is emerging as a promising alternative to dark energy. Various
gravity models have been intensively tested against probes of the expansion
history, including type Ia supernovae (SNIa), the cosmic microwave background
(CMB) and baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO). In this paper we propose to use
the statistical lens sample from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search
Data Release 3 (SQLS DR3) to constrain gravity models. This sample can
probe the expansion history up to , higher than what probed by
current SNIa and BAO data. We adopt a typical parameterization of the form
with and
constants. For (CDM), we obtain the best-fit value of the
parameter , for which the 95% confidence interval that is
[-4.633, -3.754]. This best-fit value of corresponds to the matter
density parameter , consistent with constraints from other
probes. Allowing to be free, the best-fit parameters are . Consequently, we give and the
deceleration parameter . At the 95% confidence level, and
are constrained to [-4.67, -2.89] and [-0.078, 0.202] respectively.
Clearly, given the currently limited sample size, we can only constrain
within the accuracy of and thus can not distinguish
between CDM and gravity with high significance, and actually,
the former lies in the 68% confidence contour. We expect that the extension of
the SQLS DR3 lens sample to the SDSS DR5 and SDSS-II will make constraints on
the model more stringent.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRA
Intermediate-pressure phases of cerium studied by an LDA + Gutzwiller method
The thermodynamic stable phase of cerium metal in the intermediate pressure
regime (5.0--13.0 GPa) is studied in detail by the newly developed
local-density approximation (LDA)+ Gutzwiller method, which can include the
strong correlation effect among the 4\textit{f} electrons in cerium metal
properly. Our numerical results show that the phase, which has the
distorted body-centered-tetragonal structure, is the thermodynamic stable phase
in the intermediate pressure regime and all the other phases including the
phase (-U structure), phase (fcc structure), and bct
phases are either metastable or unstable. Our results are quite consistent with
the most recent experimental data.Comment: 17 pages, 7 figure
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