28 research outputs found
Micromagnetic study of magnetic droplet solitons in Spin Torque Oscillators
Treballs Finals de Grau de Física, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Any: 2015, Tutor: Ferran Macià BrosSpin transfer torque allows excitation of magnetization dynamics in ferromagnetic thin films. An electric current
owing through a nanocontact to a ferromagnetic thin film can create spin waves, which are governed by the Landau-Lifschitz-Gilbert-Slonczewski equation. In this project we study the behavior of localized spin-wave modes, which are called magnetic droplet solitons. The system is analyzed with micromagnetic numerical simulations of an array of spins. We study the stability of magnetic droplet solitons. We analyzed the conditions for creation and annihilation and the effect of external applied fields
Holographic collisions in large effective theory
We study collisions of Gaussian mass-density blobs in a holographic plasma,
using a large effective theory, as a model for holographic shockwave
collisions. The simplicity of the effective theory allows us to perform the
first 4+1 collisions in Einstein-Maxwell theory, which are dual to collisions
of matter with non-zero baryonic number. We explore several collision scenarios
with different blob shapes, impact parameters and charge values and find that
collisions with impact parameter below the transverse width of the blobs are
equivalent under rescaling. We also observe that charge weakly affects the rest
of quantities. Finally, we study the entropy generated during collisions, both
by charge diffusion and viscous dissipation. Multiple stages of linear entropy
growth are identified, whose rates are not independent of the initial
conditions.Comment: v3: Matches published versio
Strong cosmic censorship: The nonlinear story
A satisfactory formulation of the laws of physics entails that the future
evolution of a physical system should be determined from appropriate initial
conditions. The existence of Cauchy horizons in solutions of the Einstein field
equations is therefore problematic, and expected to be an unstable artifact of
General Relativity. This is asserted by the Strong Cosmic Censorship
Conjecture, which was recently put into question by an analysis of the
linearized equations in the exterior of charged black holes in an expanding
universe. Here, we numerically evolve the nonlinear Einstein-Maxwell-scalar
field equations with a positive cosmological constant, under spherical
symmetry, and provide strong evidence that mass inflation indeed does not occur
in the near extremal regime. This shows that nonlinear effects might not
suffice to save the Strong Cosmic Censorship Conjecture.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures. v2: Matches published versio
Cosmic censorship violation in black hole collisions in higher dimensions
We argue that cosmic censorship is violated in the collision of two black
holes in high spacetime dimension D when the initial total angular momentum is
sufficiently large. The two black holes merge and form an unstable bar-like
horizon, which grows a neck in its middle that pinches down with diverging
curvature. When D is large, the emission of gravitational radiation is strongly
suppressed and cannot spin down the system to a stable rotating black hole
before the neck grows. The phenomenon is demonstrated using simple numerical
simulations of the effective theory in the 1/D expansion. We propose that, even
though cosmic censorship is violated, the loss of predictability is small
independently of D.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures. v2: matches published versio
Holographic duals of evaporating black holes
We describe the dynamical evaporation of a black hole as the classical
evolution in time of a black hole in an Anti-de Sitter braneworld. A bulk black
hole whose horizon intersects the brane yields the classical bulk dual of a
black hole coupled to quantum conformal fields. The evaporation of this black
hole happens when the bulk horizon slides off the brane, making the horizon on
the brane shrink. We use a large-D effective theory of the bulk Einstein
equations to solve the time evolution of these systems. With this method, we
study the dual evaporation of a variety of black holes interacting with colder
radiation baths. We also obtain the dual of the collapse of holographic
radiation to form a black hole on the brane. Finally, we discuss the evolution
of the Page curve of the radiation in our evaporation setups, with entanglement
islands appearing and then shrinking during the decreasing part of the curve.Comment: 27 pages, 13 figures. v2: 31 pages, 16 figures. Improved discussions,
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Kicks in charged black hole binaries
We compute the emission of linear momentum (kicks) by both gravitational and electromagnetic
radiation in fully general-relativistic numerical evolutions of quasi-circular charged black hole binaries. We derive analytical expressions for slowly moving bodies and explore numerically a variety
of mass ratios and charge-to-mass ratios. We find that for the equal mass case our analytical expression is in excellent agreement with the observed values and, contrarily to what happens in the
vacuum case, we find that in presence of electromagnetic fields there is emission of momentum
by gravitational waves. We also find that the strong gravitational kicks of binaries with unequal
masses affect the electromagnetic kicks, causing them to strongly deviate from Keplerian predictions. For the values of charge-to-mass ratio considered in this work, we observe that magnitudes
of the electromagnetic kicks are always smaller than the gravitational ones.publishe