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Relativistic graphene ratchet on semidisk Galton board
Using extensive Monte Carlo simulations we study numerically and analytically
a photogalvanic effect, or ratchet, of directed electron transport induced by a
microwave radiation on a semidisk Galton board of antidots in graphene. A
comparison between usual two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) and electrons in
graphene shows that ratchet currents are comparable at very low temperatures.
However, a large mean free path in graphene should allow to have a strong
ratchet transport at room temperatures. Also in graphene the ratchet transport
emerges even for unpolarized radiation. These properties open promising
possibilities for room temperature graphene based sensitive photogalvanic
detectors of microwave and terahertz radiation.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures. Research done at Quantware
http://www.quantware.ups-tlse.fr/. More detailed analysis is give
Toward a High-Frequency Pulsed-Detonation Actuator
This paper describes the continued development of an actuator, energized by pulsed detonations, that provides a pulsed jet suitable for flow control in high-speed applications. A high-speed valve, capable of delivering a pulsed stream of reactants a mixture of H2 and air at rates of up to 1500 pulses per second, has been constructed. The reactants burn in a resonant tube and the products exit the tube as a pulsed jet. High frequency pressure transducers have been used to monitor the pressure fluctuations in the device at various reactant injection frequencies, including both resonant and off-resonant conditions. Pulsed detonations have been demonstrated in the lambda/4 mode of an 8 inch long tube at approx. 600 Hz. The pulsed jet at the exit of the device has been observed using shadowgraph and an infrared camera
A Polynomial Spectral Calculus for Analysis of DG Spectral Element Methods
We introduce a polynomial spectral calculus that follows from the summation
by parts property of the Legendre-Gauss-Lobatto quadrature. We use the calculus
to simplify the analysis of two multidimensional discontinuous Galerkin
spectral element approximations
Fatty Acid Methyl Esters as Biosolvents of Epoxy Resins: A Physicochemical Study
The C8 to C18 fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) have been compared as solvents for two epoxy resin pre-polymers, bisphenol A diglycidyl ether (DGEBA) and triglycidyl paminophenol ether (TGPA). It was found that the solubilization limits vary according to the ester and that methyl caprylate is the best solvent of both resins. To explain these solubility performances, physical and chemical properties of FAME were studied, such as the Hansen parameters, viscosity, binary diffusion coefficient and vaporization enthalpy. Determination of the physicochemical parameters of FAME was carried out by laboratory experimentations and by calculation from bibliographic data. The Hansen parameters of FAME and epoxy resins pre-polymers were theoretically and experimentally determined. The FAME chain length showed a long dependence on the binary diffusion parameters and kinematic viscosity, which are mass and momentum transport properties. Moreover, the vaporization enthalpy of these compounds was directly correlated with the solubilization limits
Neutrino Propagation in a Strongly Magnetized Medium
We derive general expressions at the one-loop level for the coefficients of
the covariant structure of the neutrino self-energy in the presence of a
constant magnetic field. The neutrino energy spectrum and index of refraction
are obtained for neutral and charged media in the strong-field limit () using the lowest Landau level
approximation. The results found within the lowest Landau level approximation
are numerically validated, summing in all Landau levels, for strong and weakly-strong fields. The neutrino energy in
leading order of the Fermi coupling constant is expressed as the sum of three
terms: a kinetic-energy term, a term of interaction between the magnetic field
and an induced neutrino magnetic moment, and a rest-energy term. The leading
radiative correction to the kinetic-energy term depends linearly on the
magnetic field strength and is independent of the chemical potential. The other
two terms are only present in a charged medium. For strong and weakly-strong
fields, it is found that the field-dependent correction to the neutrino energy
in a neutral medium is much larger than the thermal one. Possible applications
to cosmology and astrophysics are considered.Comment: 23 pages, 4 figures. Corrected misprints in reference
Time--delay autosynchronization of the spatio-temporal dynamics in resonant tunneling diodes
The double barrier resonant tunneling diode exhibits complex spatio-temporal
patterns including low-dimensional chaos when operated in an active external
circuit. We demonstrate how autosynchronization by time--delayed feedback
control can be used to select and stabilize specific current density patterns
in a noninvasive way. We compare the efficiency of different control schemes
involving feedback in either local spatial or global degrees of freedom. The
numerically obtained Floquet exponents are explained by analytical results from
linear stability analysis.Comment: 10 pages, 16 figure
Future Directions in Parity Violation: From Quarks to the Cosmos
I discuss the prospects for future studies of parity-violating (PV)
interactions at low energies and the insights they might provide about open
questions in the Standard Model as well as physics that lies beyond it. I cover
four types of parity-violating observables: PV electron scattering; PV hadronic
interactions; PV correlations in weak decays; and searches for the permanent
electric dipole moments of quantum systems.Comment: Talk given at PAVI 06 workshop on parity-violating interactions,
Milos, Greece (May, 2006); 10 page
Seminal magnetic fields from Inflato-electromagnetic Inflation
We extend some previous attempts to explain the origin and evolution of
primordial magnetic fields during inflation induced from a 5D vacuum. We show
that the usual quantum fluctuations of a generalized 5D electromagnetic field
cannot provide us with the desired magnetic seeds. We show that special fields
without propagation on the extra non-compact dimension are needed to arrive to
appreciable magnetic strengths. We also identify a new magnetic tensor field
in this kind of extra dimensional theories. Our results are in very
good agreement with observational requirements, in particular from TeV Blazars
and CMB radiation limits we obtain that primordial cosmological magnetic fields
should be close scale invariance.Comment: Improved version. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1007.3891
by other author
An analysis of the FIR/RADIO Continuum Correlation in the Small Magellanic Cloud
The local correlation between far-infrared (FIR) emission and radio-continuum
(RC) emission for the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is investigated over scales
from 3 kpc to 0.01 kpc. Here, we report good FIR/RC correlation down to ~15 pc.
The reciprocal slope of the FIR/RC emission correlation (RC/FIR) in the SMC is
shown to be greatest in the most active star forming regions with a power law
slope of ~1.14 indicating that the RC emission increases faster than the FIR
emission. The slope of the other regions and the SMC are much flatter and in
the range of 0.63-0.85. The slopes tend to follow the thermal fractions of the
regions which range from 0.5 to 0.95. The thermal fraction of the RC emission
alone can provide the expected FIR/RC correlation. The results are consistent
with a common source for ultraviolet (UV) photons heating dust and Cosmic Ray
electrons (CRe-s) diffusing away from the star forming regions. Since the CRe-s
appear to escape the SMC so readily, the results here may not provide support
for coupling between the local gas density and the magnetic field intensity.Comment: 19 pages, 7 Figure
The Proton Spin and Flavor Structure in the Chiral Quark Model
After a pedagogical review of the simple constituent quark model and deep
inelastic sum rules, we describe how a quark sea as produced by the emission of
internal Goldstone bosons by the valence quarks can account for the observed
features of proton spin and flavor structures. Some issues concerning the
strange quark content of the nucleon are also discussed.Comment: 59 pages with table of contents, Lecture delivered at the Schladming
Winter School (March 1997), to be published by Springer-Verlag under the
title "Computing Particle Properties" (eds. C. B. Lang and H. Gausterer
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