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Fabrication of a repulsive-type magnetic bearing using a novel arrangement of permanent magnets for vertical-rotor suspension
A repulsive-type magnetic bearing system has been fabricated in which the rotor of a vertical-shaft-type motor is levitated due to the repulsive force between two sets of permanent magnets. A novel arrangement of permanent magnets has been reported here, which has made the suspension of the rotor possible. The system is planned to be applied for pumping milks and other related products in the New Zealand dairy industry
Quantum shutter approach to tunneling time scales with wave packets
The quantum shutter approach to tunneling time scales (G. Garc\'{\i
}a-Calder\'{o}n and A. Rubio, Phys. Rev. A \textbf{55}, 3361 (1997)), which
uses a cutoff plane wave as the initial condition, is extended in such a way
that a certain type of wave packet can be used as the initial condition. An
analytical expression for the time evolved wave function is derived. The
time-domain resonance, the peaked structure of the probability density (as the
function of time) at the exit of the barrier, originally found with the cutoff
plane wave initial condition, is studied with the wave packet initial
conditions. It is found that the time-domain resonance is not very sensitive to
the width of the packet when the transmission process is in the tunneling
regime.Comment: 6 page
Spin-Torque-Induced Rotational Dynamics of a Magnetic Vortex Dipole
We study, both experimentally and by numerical modeling, the magnetic
dynamics that can be excited in a magnetic thin-film nanopillar device using
the spin torque from a spatially localized current injected via a
10s-of-nm-diameter aperture. The current-driven magnetic dynamics can produce
large amplitude microwave emission at zero magnetic field, with a frequency
well below that of the uniform ferromagnetic resonance mode. Micromagnetic
simulations indicate that the physical origin of this efficient microwave
nano-oscillator is the nucleation and subsequent steady-state rotational
dynamics of a magnetic vortex dipole driven by the localized spin torque. These
results show this novel implementation of a spintronic nano-oscillator is a
promising candidate for microwave technology applications.Comment: 19 pages, 4 figures
Scattering Rule in Soliton Cellular Automaton associated with Crystal Base of
In terms of the crystal base of a quantum affine algebra ,
we study a soliton cellular automaton (SCA) associated with the exceptional
affine Lie algebra . The solitons therein are labeled
by the crystals of quantum affine algebra . The scatteing rule
is identified with the combinatorial matrix for -crystals.
Remarkably, the phase shifts in our SCA are given by {\em 3-times} of those in
the well-known box-ball system.Comment: 25 page
Heavy-light decay constants using clover valence quarks and three flavors of dynamical improved staggered quarks
Starting in 2001, the MILC Collaboration began a large scale calculation of
heavy-light meson decay constants using clover valence quarks on ensembles of
three flavor configurations. For the coarse configurations, with a=0.12 fm,
eight combinations of dynamical light and strange quarks have been analyzed.
For the fine configurations, with a=0.09 fm, three combinations of quark masses
are studied. Since we last reported on this calculation, statistics have been
increased on the fine ensembles, and, more importantly, a preliminary value for
the perturbative renormalization of the axial-vector current has become
available. Thus, results for f_B, f_{B_s}, f_D and f_{D_s} can, in principle,
be calculated in MeV, in addition to decay-constant ratios that were calculated
previously.Comment: Talk presented at Lattice2004(heavy), Fermilab, June 21-26, 2004; 3
pages, 3 color figure
Time-reversible Dynamical Systems for Turbulence
Dynamical Ensemble Equivalence between hydrodynamic dissipative equations and
suitable time-reversible dynamical systems has been investigated in a class of
dynamical systems for turbulence. The reversible dynamics is obtained from the
original dissipative equations by imposing a global constraint. We find that,
by increasing the input energy, the system changes from an equilibrium state to
a non-equilibrium stationary state in which an energy cascade, with the same
statistical properties of the original system, is clearly detected.Comment: 16 pages Latex, 4 PS figures, on press on J. Phy
Nearly Instantaneous Alternatives in Quantum Mechanics
Usual quantum mechanics predicts probabilities for the outcomes of
measurements carried out at definite moments of time. However, realistic
measurements do not take place in an instant, but are extended over a period of
time. The assumption of instantaneous alternatives in usual quantum mechanics
is an approximation whose validity can be investigated in the generalized
quantum mechanics of closed systems in which probabilities are predicted for
spacetime alternatives that extend over time. In this paper we investigate how
alternatives extended over time reduce to the usual instantaneous alternatives
in a simple model in non-relativistic quantum mechanics. Specifically, we show
how the decoherence of a particular set of spacetime alternatives becomes
automatic as the time over which they extend approaches zero and estimate how
large this time can be before the interference between the alternatives becomes
non-negligible. These results suggest that the time scale over which coarse
grainings of such quantities as the center of mass position of a massive body
may be extended in time before producing significant interference is much
longer than characteristic dynamical time scales.Comment: 12 pages, harvmac, no figure
B Physics on the Lattice: Present and Future
Recent experimental measurements and lattice QCD calculations are now
reaching the precision (and accuracy) needed to over-constrain the CKM
parameters and . In this brief review, I discuss the
current status of lattice QCD calculations needed to connect the experimental
measurements of meson properties to quark flavor-changing parameters.
Special attention is given to , which is becoming a competitive
way to determine , and to mixings, which now include
reliable extrapolation to the physical light quark mass. The combination of the
recent measurement of the mass difference and current lattice
calculations dramatically reduces the uncertainty in . I present an
outlook for reducing dominant lattice QCD uncertainties entering CKM fits, and
I remark on lattice calculations for other decay channels.Comment: Invited brief review for Mod. Phys. Lett. A. 15 pages. v2: typos
corrected, references adde
Surface tension in a compressible liquid-drop model: Effects on nuclear density and neutron skin thickness
We examine whether or not the surface tension acts to increase the nucleon
density in the nuclear interior within a compressible liquid-drop model. We
find that it depends on the density dependence of the surface tension, which
may in turn be deduced from the neutron skin thickness of stable nuclei.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, to be published in Physical Review
Two-particle renormalizations in many-fermion perturbation theory: Importance of the Ward identity
We analyze two-particle renormalizations within many-fermion perturbation
expansion. We show that present diagrammatic theories suffer from lack of a
direct diagrammatic control over the physical two-particle functions. To
rectify this we introduce and prove a Ward identity enabling an explicit
construction of the self-energy from a given two-particle irreducible vertex.
Approximations constructed in this way are causal, obey conservation laws and
offer an explicit diagrammatic control of singularities in dynamical
two-particle functions.Comment: REVTeX4, 4 pages, 2 EPS figure
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