348 research outputs found
Fluctuation-dissipation relation in a sheared fluid
In a fluid out of equilibrium, the fluctuation dissipation theorem (FDT) is
usually violated. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we study in detail the
relationship between correlation and response functions in a fluid driven into
a stationary non-equilibrium state. Both the high temperature fluid state and
the low temperature glassy state are investigated. In the glassy state, the
violation of the FDT is quantitatively identical to the one observed previously
in an aging system in the absence of external drive. In the fluid state,
violations of the FDT appear only when the fluid is driven beyond the linear
response regime, and are then similar to those observed in the glassy state.
These results are consistent with the picture obtained earlier from theoretical
studies of driven mean-field disordered models, confirming the similarity
between these models and real glasses.Comment: 4 pages, latex, 3 ps figure
High-Resolution Observations in B1-IRS: ammonia, CCS and water masers
We present a study of the structure and dynamics of the star forming region
B1-IRS (IRAS 03301+3057) using the properties of different molecules at high
angular resolution (~4''). We have used VLA observations of NH3, CCS, and H2O
masers at 1 cm. CCS emission shows three clumps around the central source, with
a velocity gradient from red to blueshifted velocities towards the protostar,
probably due to the interaction with outflowing material. Water maser emission
is elongated in the same direction as a reflection nebula detected at 2micron
by 2MASS, with the maser spots located in a structure of some hundreds of AU
from the central source, possibly tracing a jet. We propose a new outflow model
to explain all our observations, consisting of a molecular outflow near the
plane of the sky. Ammonia emission is extended and anticorrelated with CCS. We
have detected for the first time this anticorrelation at small scales (1400 AU)
in a star forming region.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of the 2004 European
Workshop: "Dense Molecular Gas around Protostars and in Galactic Nuclei",
Eds. Y.Hagiwara, W.A.Baan, H.J.van Langevelde, 2004, a special issue of ApSS,
Kluwe
Non-Markovian entanglement dynamics in coupled superconducting qubit systems
We theoretically analyze the entanglement generation and dynamics by coupled
Josephson junction qubits. Considering a current-biased Josephson junction
(CBJJ), we generate maximally entangled states. In particular, the entanglement
dynamics is considered as a function of the decoherence parameters, such as the
temperature, the ratio between the reservoir cutoff
frequency and the system oscillator frequency , % between
the characteristic frequency of the %quantum system of interest, and
the cut-off frequency of %Ohmic reservoir and the energy levels
split of the superconducting circuits in the non-Markovian master equation. We
analyzed the entanglement sudden death (ESD) and entanglement sudden birth
(ESB) by the non-Markovian master equation. Furthermore, we find that the
larger the ratio and the thermal energy , the shorter the
decoherence. In this superconducting qubit system we find that the entanglement
can be controlled and the ESD time can be prolonged by adjusting the
temperature and the superconducting phases which split the energy
levels.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figure
Comparison of three experimental designs employed in gentamicin microbiological assay through agar diffusion
Crossover between Equilibrium and Shear-controlled Dynamics in Sheared Liquids
We present a numerical simulation study of a simple monatomic Lennard-Jones
liquid under shear flow, as a function of both temperature and shear rate. By
investigating different observables we find that i) It exists a line in the
(temperature-shear) plane that sharply marks the boarder between an
``equilibrium'' and a ``shear-controlled'' region for both the dynamic and the
thermodynamic quantities; and ii) Along this line the structural relaxation
time, is proportional to the inverse shear rate, i.e. to the typical time-scale
introduced by the shear flow. Above the line the liquid dynamics is unaffected
by the shear flow, while below it both temperature and shear rate control the
particle motion.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figure
Robust stationary entanglement of two coupled qubits in independent environments
The dissipative dynamics of two interacting qubits coupled to independent
reservoirs at nonzero temperatures is investigated, paying special attention to
the entanglement evolution. The counter-rotating terms in the qubit-qubit
interaction give rise to stationary entanglement, traceable back to the ground
state structure. The robustness of this entanglement against thermal noise is
thoroughly analyzed, establishing that it can be detected at reasonable
experimental temperatures. Some effects linked to a possible reservoir
asymmetry are brought to light.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures; version accepted for publication on Eur. Phys. J.
Measurement of Two-Qubit States by a Two-Island Single Electron Transistor
We solve the master equations of two charged qubits measured by a
single-electron transistor (SET) consisted of two islands. We show that in the
sequential tunneling regime the SET current can be used for reading out results
of quantum calculations and providing evidences of two-qubit entanglement,
especially when the interaction between the two qubits is weak
Measurement of and charged current inclusive cross sections and their ratio with the T2K off-axis near detector
We report a measurement of cross section and the first measurements of the cross section
and their ratio
at (anti-)neutrino energies below 1.5
GeV. We determine the single momentum bin cross section measurements, averaged
over the T2K -flux, for the detector target material (mainly
Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen and Copper) with phase space restricted laboratory
frame kinematics of 500 MeV/c. The
results are and $\sigma(\nu)=\left( 2.41\
\pm0.022{\rm{(stat.)}}\pm0.231{\rm (syst.)}\ \right)\times10^{-39}^{2}R\left(\frac{\sigma(\bar{\nu})}{\sigma(\nu)}\right)=
0.373\pm0.012{\rm (stat.)}\pm0.015{\rm (syst.)}$.Comment: 18 pages, 8 figure
Search for direct production of charginos and neutralinos in events with three leptons and missing transverse momentum in âs = 7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
A search for the direct production of charginos and neutralinos in final states with three electrons or muons and missing transverse momentum is presented. The analysis is based on 4.7 fbâ1 of protonâproton collision data delivered by the Large Hadron Collider and recorded with the ATLAS detector. Observations are consistent with Standard Model expectations in three signal regions that are either depleted or enriched in Z-boson decays. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set in R-parity conserving phenomenological minimal supersymmetric models and in simplified models, significantly extending previous results
Jet size dependence of single jet suppression in lead-lead collisions at sqrt(s(NN)) = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
Measurements of inclusive jet suppression in heavy ion collisions at the LHC
provide direct sensitivity to the physics of jet quenching. In a sample of
lead-lead collisions at sqrt(s) = 2.76 TeV corresponding to an integrated
luminosity of approximately 7 inverse microbarns, ATLAS has measured jets with
a calorimeter over the pseudorapidity interval |eta| < 2.1 and over the
transverse momentum range 38 < pT < 210 GeV. Jets were reconstructed using the
anti-kt algorithm with values for the distance parameter that determines the
nominal jet radius of R = 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 and 0.5. The centrality dependence of
the jet yield is characterized by the jet "central-to-peripheral ratio," Rcp.
Jet production is found to be suppressed by approximately a factor of two in
the 10% most central collisions relative to peripheral collisions. Rcp varies
smoothly with centrality as characterized by the number of participating
nucleons. The observed suppression is only weakly dependent on jet radius and
transverse momentum. These results provide the first direct measurement of
inclusive jet suppression in heavy ion collisions and complement previous
measurements of dijet transverse energy imbalance at the LHC.Comment: 15 pages plus author list (30 pages total), 8 figures, 2 tables,
submitted to Physics Letters B. All figures including auxiliary figures are
available at
http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HION-2011-02
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