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Long-term X-ray emission from Swift J1644+57
The X-ray emission from Swift J1644+57 is not steadily decreasing instead it
shows multiple pulses with declining amplitudes. We model the pulses as reverse
shocks from collisions between the late ejected shells and the externally
shocked material, which is decelerated while sweeping the ambient medium. The
peak of each pulse is taken as the maximum emission of each reverse shock. With
a proper set of parameters, the envelope of peaks in the light curve as well as
the spectrum can be modelled nicely.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in MNRA
Constraining the bulk Lorentz factor from the photosphere emission
We propose a direct and model-independent method to constrain the Lorentz
factor of a relativistically expanding object, like gamma-ray bursts. Only the
measurements, such as thermal component of the emission, the distance and the
variable time scale of the light curve, are used. If the uncertainties are
considered, we will obtain lower limits of the Lorentz factor instead. We apply
this method to GRB 090618 and get a lower limit of the Lorentz factor to be 22.
The method can be used to any relativistically moving object, such as gamma-ray
bursts, blazars, and soft gamma-ray repeaters, providing the thermal component
of the emission being observed.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figur
A rapid cosmic-ray increase in BC 3372-3371 from ancient buried tree rings in China
Cosmic rays interact with the Earth's atmosphere to produce C, which
can be absorbed by trees. Therefore, rapid increases of C in tree rings
can be used to probe previous cosmic-ray events. By this method, three C
rapidly increasing events have been found. Plausible causes of these events
include large solar proton events, supernovae or short gamma-ray bursts.
However, due to the lack of measurements of C by year, the occurrence
frequency of such C rapidly increasing events is poorly known. In
addition, rapid increases may be hidden in the IntCal13 data with five-year
resolution. Here we report the result of C measurements using an ancient
buried tree during the period between BC 3388 and 3358. We find a rapid
increase of about 9\textperthousand~ in the C content from BC 3372 to BC
3371. We suggest that this event could originate from a large solar proton
event.Comment: 23 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, published in Nature Communication
Recurrence networks - A novel paradigm for nonlinear time series analysis
This paper presents a new approach for analysing structural properties of
time series from complex systems. Starting from the concept of recurrences in
phase space, the recurrence matrix of a time series is interpreted as the
adjacency matrix of an associated complex network which links different points
in time if the evolution of the considered states is very similar. A critical
comparison of these recurrence networks with similar existing techniques is
presented, revealing strong conceptual benefits of the new approach which can
be considered as a unifying framework for transforming time series into complex
networks that also includes other methods as special cases.
It is demonstrated that there are fundamental relationships between the
topological properties of recurrence networks and the statistical properties of
the phase space density of the underlying dynamical system. Hence, the network
description yields new quantitative characteristics of the dynamical complexity
of a time series, which substantially complement existing measures of
recurrence quantification analysis
Sigma_c Dbar and Lambda_c Dbar states in a chiral quark model
The S-wave Sigma_c Dbar and Lambda_c Dbar states with isospin I=1/2 and spin
S=1/2 are dynamically investigated within the framework of a chiral constituent
quark model by solving a resonating group method (RGM) equation. The results
show that the interaction between Sigma_c and Dbar is attractive, which
consequently results in a Sigma_c Dbar bound state with the binding energy of
about 5-42 MeV, unlike the case of Lambda_c Dbar state, which has a repulsive
interaction and thus is unbound. The channel coupling effect of Sigma_c Dbar
and Lambda_c Dbar is found to be negligible due to the fact that the gap
between the Sigma_c Dbar and Lambda_c Dbar thresholds is relatively large and
the Sigma_c Dbar and Lambda_c Dbar transition interaction is weak.Comment: 7 pages,2 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:nucl-th/0606056 by other author
Artificial Gauge Field and Quantum Spin Hall States in a Conventional Two-dimensional Electron Gas
Based on the Born-Oppemheimer approximation, we divide total electron
Hamiltonian in a spinorbit coupled system into slow orbital motion and fast
interband transition process. We find that the fast motion induces a gauge
field on slow orbital motion, perpendicular to electron momentum, inducing a
topological phase. From this general designing principle, we present a theory
for generating artificial gauge field and topological phase in a conventional
two-dimensional electron gas embedded in parabolically graded
GaAs/InGaAs/GaAs quantum wells with antidot lattices. By tuning
the etching depth and period of antidot lattices, the band folding caused by
superimposed potential leads to formation of minibands and band inversions
between the neighboring subbands. The intersubband spin-orbit interaction opens
considerably large nontrivial minigaps and leads to many pairs of helical edge
states in these gaps.Comment: 9 pages and 4 figure
Electronic States and Magnetism of Mn Impurities and Dimers in Narrow-Gap and Wide-Gap III-V Semiconductors
Electronic states and magnetic properties of single impurity and dimer
doped in narrow-gap and wide-gap - semiconductors have been studied
systematically. It has been found that in the ground state for single
impurity, - complex is antiferromagnetic (AFM) coupling when -
hybridization is large and both the hole level and the
impurity level are close to the midgap; or very weak ferromagnetic (FM)
when is small and both and are deep in the valence band.
In dimer situation, the spins are AFM coupling for half-filled or
full-filled orbits; on the contrast, the Mn spins are double-exchange-like
FM coupling for any -orbits away from half-filling. We propose the strong
{\it p-d} hybridized double exchange mechanism is responsible for the FM order
in diluted - semiconductors
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