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Impact Assessment of Hypothesized Cyberattacks on Interconnected Bulk Power Systems
The first-ever Ukraine cyberattack on power grid has proven its devastation
by hacking into their critical cyber assets. With administrative privileges
accessing substation networks/local control centers, one intelligent way of
coordinated cyberattacks is to execute a series of disruptive switching
executions on multiple substations using compromised supervisory control and
data acquisition (SCADA) systems. These actions can cause significant impacts
to an interconnected power grid. Unlike the previous power blackouts, such
high-impact initiating events can aggravate operating conditions, initiating
instability that may lead to system-wide cascading failure. A systemic
evaluation of "nightmare" scenarios is highly desirable for asset owners to
manage and prioritize the maintenance and investment in protecting their
cyberinfrastructure. This survey paper is a conceptual expansion of real-time
monitoring, anomaly detection, impact analyses, and mitigation (RAIM) framework
that emphasizes on the resulting impacts, both on steady-state and dynamic
aspects of power system stability. Hypothetically, we associate the
combinatorial analyses of steady state on substations/components outages and
dynamics of the sequential switching orders as part of the permutation. The
expanded framework includes (1) critical/noncritical combination verification,
(2) cascade confirmation, and (3) combination re-evaluation. This paper ends
with a discussion of the open issues for metrics and future design pertaining
the impact quantification of cyber-related contingencies
Triatomic continuum resonances for large negative scattering lengths
We study triatomic systems in the regime of large negative scattering lengths
which may be more favorable for the formation of condensed trimers in trapped
ultracold monoatomic gases as the competition with the weakly bound dimers is
absent. The manipulation of the scattering length can turn an excited weakly
bound Efimov trimer into a continuum resonance. Its energy and width are
described by universal scaling functions written in terms of the scattering
length and the binding energy, , of the shallowest triatomic molecule. For
the excited Efimov state turns into a
continuum resonance.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Universality of Brunnian (-body Borromean) four and five-body systems
We compute binding energies and root mean square radii for weakly bound
systems of and identical bosons. Ground and first excited states of
an -body system appear below the threshold for binding the system with
particles. Their root mean square radii approach constants in the limit of weak
binding. Their probability distributions are on average located in
non-classical regions of space which result in universal structures. Radii
decrease with increasing particle number. The ground states for more than five
particles are probably non-universal whereas excited states may be universal
Critical currents in Josephson junctions with macroscopic defects
The critical currents in Josephson junctions of conventional superconductors
with macroscopic defects are calculated for different defect critical current
densities as a function of the magnetic field. We also study the evolution of
the different modes with the defect position, at zero external field. We study
the stability of the solutions and derive simple arguments, that could help the
defect characterization. In most cases a reentrant behavior is seen, where both
a maximum and a minimum current exist.Comment: 17 pages with 16 figures, submitted to Supercond. Sci. Techno
Universality of three-body systems in 2D: parametrization of the bound states energies
Universal properties of mass-imbalanced three-body systems in 2D are studied
using zero-range interactions in momentum space. The dependence of the
three-particle binding energy on the parameters (masses and two-body energies)
is highly non-trivial even in the simplest case of two identical particles and
a distinct one. This dependence is parametrized for ground and excited states
in terms of {\itshape supercircles} functions in the most general case of three
distinguishable particles.Comment: 3 pages, 1 figure, published versio
Correct Effective Potential of Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory on M^4\times S^1
We study an supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory defined on
. The vacuum expectation values for adjoint scalar field in
vector multiplet, though important, has been overlooked in evaluating one-loop
effective potential of the theory. We correctly take the vacuum expectation
values into account in addition to the Wilson line phases to give an expression
for the effective potential, and gauge symmetry breaking is discussed. In
evaluating the potential, we employ the Scherk-Schwarz mechanism and introduce
bare mass for gaugino in order to break supersymmetry. We also obtain masses
for the scalars, the adjoint scalar, and the component gauge field for the
direction in case of the SU(2) gauge group. We observe that large
supersymmetry breaking gives larger mass for the scalar. This analysis is
easily applied to the case.Comment: 12 pages, 1 figur
Universality in Four-Boson Systems
We report recent advances on the study of universal weakly bound four-boson
states from the solutions of the Faddeev-Yakubovsky equations with zero-range
two-body interactions. In particular, we present the correlation between the
energies of successive tetramers between two neighbor Efimov trimers and
compare it to recent finite range potential model calculations. We provide
further results on the large momentum structure of the tetramer wave function,
where the four-body scale, introduced in the regularization procedure of the
bound state equations in momentum space, is clearly manifested. The results we
are presenting confirm a previous conjecture on a four-body scaling behavior,
which is independent of the three-body one. We show that the correlation
between the positions of two successive resonant four-boson recombination peaks
are consistent with recent data, as well as with recent calculations close to
the unitary limit. Systematic deviations suggest the relevance of range
corrections.Comment: Accepted for publication in special issue of Few-Body Systems devoted
to the Sixth Workshop on the Critical Stability of Quantum Few-Body Systems,
October 2011, Erice, Sicily, Ital
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