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Generic continuous spectrum for multi-dimensional quasi periodic Schr\"odinger operators with rough potentials
We study the multi-dimensional operator , where is the shift of the torus
\T^d. When , we show the spectrum of is almost surely purely
continuous for a.e. and generic continuous potentials. When ,
the same result holds for frequencies under an explicit arithmetic criterion.
We also show that general multi-dimensional operators with measurable
potentials do not have eigenvalue for generic
2-Resonant fullerenes
A fullerene graph is a planar cubic graph with exactly 12 pentagonal
faces and other hexagonal faces. A set of disjoint hexagons of
is called a resonant pattern (or sextet pattern) if has a perfect
matching such that every hexagon in is -alternating.
is said to be -resonant if any () disjoint hexagons of
form a resonant pattern. It was known that each fullerene graph is
1-resonant and all 3-resonant fullerenes are only the nine graphs. In this
paper, we show that the fullerene graphs which do not contain the subgraph
or as illustrated in Fig. 1 are 2-resonant except for the specific eleven
graphs. This result implies that each IPR fullerene is 2-resonant.Comment: 34 pages, 25 figure
Detection of diffuse gamma-ray emission near the young massive cluster NGC 3603
We report the Fermi Large Area Telescope's detection of extended gamma-ray
emission towards the direction of the young massive star cluster NGC 3603. The
emission shows a hard spectrum with a photon index of 2.3 from 1 GeV to 250
GeV. The large size and high luminosity of this structure make it unlikely a
pulsar wind nebular. On the other hand the spatial correlation with the ionised
gas indicate a hadronic origin. The total cosmic ray (CR) protons energy are
estimated to be of the order assuming the gamma-ray are
produced in the interaction of CRs with ambient gas . The environment and
spectral features show significant similarity with the Cygnus cocoon. It
reveals that the young star clusters may be a gamma-ray source population and
they can potentially accelerate a significant fraction of the Galactic cosmic
rays.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, submitted to A&
Interpretation of the excess of antiparticles within a modified paradigm of galactic cosmic rays
We argue that the anomalously high fluxes of positrons and antiprotons found
in cosmic rays (CR) can be satisfactorily explained by introducing two
additional elements to the current "standard" paradigm of Galactic CRs. First,
we propose that the antiparticles are effectively produced in interactions of
primary CRs with the surrounding gas not only in the interstellar medium (ISM)
but also inside the accelerators. Secondly, we postulate the existence of two
source populations injecting CRs into the ISM with different, (1) soft (close
to ) and (2) hard ( or harder),
energy distributions. Assuming that CRs in the 2nd population of accelerators
accumulate "grammage" of the order of before their leakage
into ISM, we can explain the energy distributions and absolute fluxes of both
positrons and antiprotons, as well as the fluxes of secondary nuclei of the
(Li,Be,B) group. The superposition of contributions of two source populations
also explains the reported hardening of the spectra of CR protons and nuclei
above 200 GV. The 2nd source population accelerating CRs with a rate at the
level below 10 percent of the power of the 1st source population, can be
responsible for the highest energy protons and nuclei of Galactic CRs up to the
"knee" around .Comment: accepted for publication in PR
On the photofragmentation of SF: Experimental evidence for a predissociation channel
We report on the first observation of the photofragmentation dynamics of
SF. With the aid of state-of-the-art ab initio calculations on the
low-lying excited cationic states of SF performed by Lee et al. [J. Chem.
Phys. 125, 104304 (2006)], a predissociation channel of SF is evidenced
by means of resonance-enhanced multilphoton ionization spectroscopy. This work
represents a second experimental investigation on the low-lying excited
cationic states of SF. [The first one is the He I photoelectron spectrum
of SF reported by de Leeuw et al. three decades ago, see Chem. Phys. 34,
287 (1978).]Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, submitted to JCP as a Not
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