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    Modeling near-field tsunami observations to improve finite-fault slip models for the 11 March 2011 Tohoku earthquake

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    The massive tsunami generated by the 11 March 2011 Tohoku earthquake (M_w 9.0) was widely recorded by GPS buoys, wave gauges, and ocean bottom pressure sensors around the source. Numerous inversions for finite-fault slip time histories have been performed using seismic and/or geodetic observations, yielding generally consistent patterns of large co-seismic slip offshore near the hypocenter and/or up-dip near the trench, where estimated peak slip is ~60 m. Modeling the tsunami generation and near-field wave processes using two detailed rupture models obtained from either teleseismic P waves or high-rate GPS recordings in Japan allows evaluation of how well the finite-fault models account for the regional tsunami data. By determining sensitivity of the tsunami calculations to rupture model features, we determine model modifications that improve the fit to the diverse tsunami data while retaining the fit to the seismic and geodetic observations

    Charmless decays B->pipi, piK and KK in broken SU(3)symmetry

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    Charmless B decay modes Bππ,πKB \to \pi \pi, \pi K and KKKK aresystematically investigated with and without flavor SU(3) symmetry. Independent analyses on ππ\pi \pi and πK\pi K modes both favor a large ratio between color-suppressed tree (CC) and tree (T)T) diagram, which suggests that they are more likely to originate from long distance effects. The sizes of QCD penguin diagrams extracted individually from ππ\pi\pi, πK\pi K and KKKK modes are found to follow a pattern of SU(3) breaking in agreement with the naive factorization estimates. Global fits to these modes are done under various scenarios of SU(3)relations. The results show good determinations of weak phase γ\gamma in consistency with the Standard Model (SM), but a large electro-weak penguin (P_{\tmop{EW}}) relative to T+CT + C with a large relative strong phase are favored, which requires an big enhancement of color suppressed electro-weak penguin (P_{\tmop{EW}}^C) compatible in size but destructively interfering with P_{\tmop{EW}} within the SM, or implies new physics. Possibility of sizable contributions from nonfactorizable diagrams such as WW-exchange (EE), annihilation(AA) and penguin-annihilation diagrams(PAP_A) are investigated. The implications to the branching ratios and CP violations in KKK Kmodes are discussed.Comment: 27 pages, 9 figures, reference added, to appear in Phy.Rev.

    Generalized tt-jj Model

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    By parameterizing the t-j model we present a new electron correlation model with one free parameter for high-temperature superconductivity. This model is of SUq(1,2)SU_{q}(1,2) symmetry. The energy spectrums are shown to be modulated by the free parameter in the model. The solution and symmetric structures of the Hilbert space, as well as the Bethe ansatz approach are discussed for special cases.Comment: 13 page, Latex, to appear in J. Phys.

    Identification of the white dwarf companion to millisecond pulsar J2317+1439

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    We report identification of the optical counterpart to the companion of the millisecond pulsar J2317+1439. At the timing position of the pulsar, we find an object with g=22.96±0.05g=22.96\pm0.05, r=22.86±0.04r=22.86\pm0.04 and i=22.82±0.05i=22.82\pm0.05. The magnitudes and colors of the object are consistent with it being a white dwarf. By comparing with white dwarf cooling models, we estimate that it has a mass of 0.390.10+0.130.39^{+0.13}_{-0.10} M_{\odot}, an effective temperature of 8077470+5508077^{+550}_{-470} K and a cooling age of 10.9±0.310.9\pm0.3 Gyr. Combining our results with published constraints on the orbital parameters obtained through pulsar timing, we estimate the pulsar mass to be 3.41.1+1.43.4^{+1.4}_{-1.1} M_{\odot}. Although the constraint on the pulsar mass is still weak, there is a significant possibility that the pulsar could be more massive than two solar mass.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Ap

    Effect of Peierls transition in armchair carbon nanotube on dynamical behaviour of encapsulated fullerene

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    The changes of dynamical behaviour of a single fullerene molecule inside an armchair carbon nanotube caused by the structural Peierls transition in the nanotube are considered. The structures of the smallest C20 and Fe@C20 fullerenes are computed using the spin-polarized density functional theory. Significant changes of the barriers for motion along the nanotube axis and rotation of these fullerenes inside the (8,8) nanotube are found at the Peierls transition. It is shown that the coefficients of translational and rotational diffusions of these fullerenes inside the nanotube change by several orders of magnitude. The possibility of inverse orientational melting, i.e. with a decrease of temperature, for the systems under consideration is predicted.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures, 1 tabl

    CP Measurement in Quantum Teleportation of Neutral Mesons

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    Quantum teleportation using neutral pseudoscalar mesons shows novel connections between particle physics and quantum information. The projection basis, which is crucial in the teleportation process, is determined by the conservation laws of particle physics, and is different from the Bell basis, as in the usual case. Here we show that one can verify the teleportation process by CP measurement. This method significantly simplifies the high energy quantum teleportation protocol. Especially, it is rigorous, and is independent of whether CP is violated in weak decays. This method can also be applied to general verification of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations in particle physics.Comment: 7 page
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