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Stress-free BCS pairing in color superconductors is impossible
Cold, asymptotically dense three-flavor quark matter is in the color-flavor
locked (CFL) phase, in which all quarks pair in a particularly symmetric
fashion. At smaller densities, taking into account a nonzero strange quark mass
and electric and color neutrality, the CFL phase requires pairing of quarks
with mismatched Fermi momenta. We present a classification of all other
possible, less symmetric, pairing patterns and prove that none of them can
avoid this mismatch. This result suggests unconventional, e.g., spatially
inhomogeneous, superconducting phases for moderate densities.Comment: 3 pages, to appear in the proceedings of "Quark Confinement and the
Hadron Spectrum VII", Ponta Delgada, Azores (Portugal), Sept 2 - 7, 200
Multi-winding flux tubes in CFL quark matter
Color-flavor locked quark matter can be described as a three-component
superconductor and thus shows unconventional behavior in the transition regime
from type-I to type-II superconductivity. We discuss this behavior by studying
magnetic line defects in a Ginzburg-Landau approach, taking into account all
possible values of the three winding numbers. After a brief discussion of the
defects that include baryon circulation we focus on pure magnetic flux tubes.
We show that at strong coupling, relevant for neutron stars, type-II behavior
is conceivable and the most preferred configuration has minimal total winding.
Only at weak coupling we find a regime where multi-winding flux tubes are
preferred, although this regime most likely requires an unrealistically large
superconducting gap.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, proceedings contribution to "XIIIth Quark
Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum", 31 July - 6 August 2018, Maynooth
University, Irelan
Works Councils, Wages, and Job Satisfaction
We investigate the effects of works councils on employeesâ wages and job satisfaction in general and for subgroups with respect to sex and occupational status. Making use of a German representative sample of employees, we find that employees, who move to a firm with a works council, report increases in job satisfaction, but do not receive particular wage increases. Especially the job satisfaction of female employees is affected by a change in works council status. However, we do not find support for the hypothesis that the introduction of a works council itself increases wages or job satisfaction for the employees staying at the firm.wages, job satisfaction, works councils
Chiral transition in dense, magnetized matter
In the presence of a chemical potential, the effect of a magnetic field on
chiral symmetry breaking goes beyond the well-known magnetic catalysis. Due to
a subtle interplay with the chemical potential, the magnetic field may work not
only in favor but also against the chirally broken phase. At sufficiently large
coupling, the magnetic field favors the broken phase only for field strengths
beyond any conceivable value in nature. Therefore, in the interior of
magnetars, a possible transition from chirally broken hadronic matter to
chirally symmetric quark matter might occur at smaller densities than
previously thought.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, contribution to proceedings of "QCD@Work 2012",
Lecce, Ital
Curvelet Approach for SAR Image Denoising, Structure Enhancement, and Change Detection
In this paper we present an alternative method for SAR image denoising, structure enhancement, and change detection based on the curvelet transform. Curvelets can be denoted as a two dimensional further development of the well-known wavelets. The original image is decomposed into linear ridge-like structures, that appear in different scales (longer or shorter structures), directions (orientation of the structure) and locations. The influence of these single components on the original image is weighted by the corresponding coefficients. By means of these coefficients one has direct access to the linear structures present in the image. To suppress noise in a given SAR image weak structures indicated by low coefficients can be suppressed by setting the corresponding coefficients to zero. To enhance structures only coefficients in the scale of interest are preserved and all others are set to zero. Two same-sized images assumed even a change detection can be done in the curvelet coefficient domain. The curvelet coefficients of both images are differentiated and manipulated in order to enhance strong and to suppress small scale (pixel-wise) changes. After the inverse curvelet transform the resulting image contains only those structures, that have been chosen via the coefficient manipulation. Our approach is applied to TerraSAR-X High Resolution Spotlight images of the city of Munich. The curvelet transform turns out to be a powerful tool for image enhancement in fine-structured areas, whereas it fails in originally homogeneous areas like grassland. In the change detection context this method is very sensitive towards changes in structures instead of single pixel or large area changes. Therefore, for purely urban structures or construction sites this method provides excellent and robust results. While this approach runs without any interaction of an operator, the interpretation of the detected changes requires still much knowledge about the underlying objects
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