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Comparative study of ordered and disordered Y1-xSrxCoO3-d
We have succeeded in preparing A-site ordered- and disordered-Y1/4Sr3/4CoO3-d
with various oxygen deficiencies delta, and have made comparative study of
their structural and physical properties. In the A-site ordered structure,
oxygen vacancies order, and d = 0.34 sample shows a weak ferromagnetic
transition beyond 300 K. On the other hand, in the A-site disordered structure,
no oxygen vacancy ordering is observed, and d = 0.16 sample shows a
ferromagnetic metallic transition around 150 K. A-site disordering destroys the
orderings of oxygen-vacancies and orbitals, leading to the strong modification
of the electronic phases.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figures, proceeding of 52nd Mangetism and Magnetic
Materials Conference (MMM 2007), published in Journal of Applied Physic
Cosmic Sculpture: A new way to visualise the Cosmic Microwave Background
3D printing presents an attractive alternative to visual representation of
physical datasets such as astronomical images that can be used for research,
outreach or teaching purposes, and is especially relevant to people with a
visual disability. We here report the use of 3D printing technology to produce
a representation of the all-sky Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) intensity
anisotropy maps produced by the Planck mission. The success of this work in
representing key features of the CMB is discussed as is the potential of this
approach for representing other astrophysical data sets. 3D printing such
datasets represents a highly complementary approach to the usual 2D projections
used in teaching and outreach work, and can also form the basis of
undergraduate projects. The CAD files used to produce the models discussed in
this paper are made available.Comment: Accepted for publication in the European Journal of Physic
Casimir invariants and characteristic identities for
A full set of (higher order) Casimir invariants for the Lie algebra
is constructed and shown to be well defined in the category
generated by the highest weight (unitarizable) irreducible
representations with only a finite number of non-zero weight components.
Moreover the eigenvalues of these Casimir invariants are determined explicitly
in terms of the highest weight. Characteristic identities satisfied by certain
(infinite) matrices with entries from are also determined and
generalize those previously obtained for by Bracken and Green.Comment: 10 pages, PlainTe
Point interactions in one dimension and holonomic quantum fields
We introduce and study a family of quantum fields, associated to
delta-interactions in one dimension. These fields are analogous to holonomic
quantum fields of M. Sato, T. Miwa and M. Jimbo. Corresponding field operators
belong to an infinite-dimensional representation of the group SL(2,\Rb) in
the Fock space of ordinary harmonic oscillator. We compute form factors of such
fields and their correlation functions, which are related to the determinants
of Schroedinger operators with a finite number of point interactions. It is
also shown that these determinants coincide with tau functions, obtained
through the trivialization of the -bundle over a Grassmannian
associated to a family of Schroedinger operators.Comment: 17 page
Affleck-Dine Baryogenesis and heavy elements production from Inhomogeneous Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
We study the impact of possible high density baryonic bubbles on the early
formed QSO, IGM, and metal poor stars. Such bubbles could be created, under
certain conditions, in Affleck-Dine model of baryogenesis and may occupy a
relatively small fraction of space, while the dominant part of the cosmological
volume has the normal observed baryon-to-photon ratio .
The value of in the bubbles, could be much larger than the usually
accepted one (it might be even close to unity) without contradicting the
existing data on light element abundances and the observed angular spectrum of
CMBR. We find upper bounds on by comparing heavy elements' abundances
produced in BBN and those of metal poor stars. We conclude that should
be smaller than in some metal poor star regions.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures, PTPTeX ; added references, changed introduction,
acknowledgments and figure
Hiding cosmic strings in supergravity D-term inflation
The influence of higher-order terms in the K\"{a}hler potential of the
supergravity D-term inflation model on the density perturbation is studied. We
show that these terms can make the inflaton potential flatter, which lowers the
energy scale of inflation under the COBE/WMAP normalization. As a result, the
mass per unit length of cosmic strings, which are produced at the end of
inflation, can be reduced to a harmless but detectable level without
introducing a tiny Yukawa coupling. Our scenario can naturally be implemented
in models with a low cut-off as in Type I or Type IIB orientifold models.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figure
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