Electrochemical performance of a thin film type SOFC on a porous microtubular support

This report summarizes electrochemical performances of a thin film type SOFC prepared on a porous microtubular support. The sample was prepared via the co-sintering of YSZ electrolyte and NiO-YSZ anode bilayers on a porous microtubular YSZ support, and then an LSCF-GDC cathode layer was also prepared on the electrolyte film. Evaluations were conducted using impedance analyzer and potentio/galvanostat under a humidified hydrogen flow. Film thickness of the anode layer was controlled by the composition of the anode coating suspension and the coating conditions (coating number and coating speed etc.). Impedance analyses showed that with increasing operation temperature, semi-circle at higher frequency region became small, while semi-circle at lower frequency region weakly depended on the temperature. Electrode activation energy was calculated to be approximately 80 kJ/mol using Arrhenius plot on the semi-circle at higher frequency region.open1133Nsciescopu

Triple Products and Yang-Baxter Equation (II): Orthogonal and Symplectic Ternary Systems

We generalize the result of the preceeding paper and solve the Yang-Baxter equation in terms of triple systems called orthogonal and symplectic ternary systems. In this way, we found several other new solutions.Comment: 38 page

Parity violating observables in radiative neutrino pair emission from metastable atoms

We report on a possibility of measuring parity violating effects in radiative neutrino pair emission from metastable atoms; asymmetric angular distribution of emitted photons from oriented atoms and emergent circular polarization. Their observation, along with the continuous photon energy spectrum which has 6 thresholds, may be interpreted as events being a combined weak and QED process, emission of $\gamma \nu_i \nu_j$ in the final state. The method may greatly help to perform neutrino mass spectroscopy using atoms, a systematic determination of the neutrino mass matrix.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figure

Exotic baryons from a heavy meson and a nucleon

We evaluate a hadronic molecule formed by a heavy meson and a nucleon respecting heavy quark symmetry. The tensor force of pion exchange potential plays a dominate role to produce an strong attraction in this system. Solving coupled channel Schr\"odinger equations for PN and P* N, we find many bound and resonant states with isospin I=0 while there are few resonances in I=1 state. The rich structures with I=0 indicate that the spectrum of heavy baryons near the threshold is influenced by the contributions from such hadron composite structures.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of The 5th International Workshop on Charm Physics (Charm 2012

New Universality of Lyapunov Spectra in Hamiltonian Systems

A new universality of Lyapunov spectra {\lambda_i} is shown for Hamiltonian systems. The universality appears in middle energy regime and is different from another universality which can be reproduced by random matrices in the following two points. One is that the new universality appears in a limited range of large i/N rather than the whole range, where N is degrees of freedom. The other is Lyapunov spectra do not behave linearly while random matrices give linear behavior even on 3D lattice. Quadratic terms with smaller nonlinear terms of potential functions play an intrinsic role in the new universality.Comment: 19 pages, 16 Encapsulated Postscript figures, LaTeX (100 kb

Triple Products and Yang-Baxter Equation (I): Octonionic and Quaternionic Triple Systems

We can recast the Yang-Baxter equation as a triple product equation. Assuming the triple product to satisfy some algebraic relations, we can find new solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation. This program has been completed here for the simplest triple systems which we call octonionic and quaternionic. The solutions are of rational type.Comment: 29 page

Inflation by non-minimal coupling

Inflationary scenarios based on simple non-minimal coupling and its generalizations are studied. Generalizing the form of non-minimal coupling to "K(phi)R" with an arbitrary function K(phi), we show that the flat potential still is obtainable when V(phi)/K^2(phi) is asymptotically constant. Very interestingly, if the ratio of the dimensionless self-coupling constant of the inflaton field and the non-minimal coupling constant is small the cosmological observables for general monomial cases are in good agreement with recent observational data.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figur

Semi-classical open string corrections and symmetric Wilson loops

In the AdS/CFT correspondence, an AdS_2 x S^2 D3-brane with electric flux in AdS_5 x S^5 spacetime corresponds to a circular Wilson loop in the symmetric representation or a multiply wound one in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. In order to distinguish the symmetric loop and the multiply wound loop, one should see an exponentially small correction in large 't Hooft coupling. We study semi-classically the disk open string attached to the D3-brane. We obtain the exponent of the term and it agrees with the result of the matrix model calculation of the symmetric Wilson loop.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures. v2: explanation improved. v3: argument in section 2 is improved, result not change