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Excitation of zonal flow by the modulational instability in electron temperature gradient driven turbulence
The generation of large-scale zonal flows by small-scale electrostatic drift
waves in electron temperature gradient(ETG) driven turbulence model is
considered. The generation mechanism is based on the modulational instability
of a finite amplitude monochromatic drift wave. The threshold and growth rate
of the instability as well as the optimal spatial scale of zonal flow are
obtained.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figure
Two-dimensional nonlinear vector states in Bose-Einstein condensates
Two-dimensional (2D) vector matter waves in the form of soliton-vortex and
vortex-vortex pairs are investigated for the case of attractive intracomponent
interaction in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates. Both attractive and
repulsive intercomponent interactions are considered. By means of a linear
stability analysis we show that soliton-vortex pairs can be stable in some
regions of parameters while vortex-vortex pairs turn out to be always unstable.
The results are confirmed by direct numerical simulations of the 2D coupled
Gross-Pitaevskii equations.Comment: 6 pages, 9 figure
Hadron Resonance Gas Model with Induced Surface Tension
Here we present a physically transparent generalization of the multicomponent
Van der Waals equation of state in the grand canonical ensemble. For the
one-component case the third and fourth virial coefficients are calculated
analytically. It is shown that an adjustment of a single model parameter allows
us to reproduce the third and fourth virial coefficients of the gas of hard
spheres with small deviations from their exact values. A thorough comparison of
the compressibility factor and speed of sound of the developed model with the
one and two component Carnahan-Starling equation of state is made. It is shown
that the model with the induced surface tension is able to reproduce the
results of the Carnahan-Starling equation of state up to the packing fractions
0.2-0.22 at which the usual Van der Waals equation of state is inapplicable. At
higher packing fractions the developed equation of state is softer than the gas
of hard spheres and, hence, it breaks causality in the domain where the
hadronic description is expected to be inapplicable. Using this equation of
state we develop an entirely new hadron resonance gas model and apply it to a
description of the hadron yield ratios measured at AGS, SPS, RHIC and ALICE
energies of nuclear collisions. The achieved quality of the fit per degree of
freedom is about 1.08. We confirm that the strangeness enhancement factor has a
peak at low AGS energies, while at and above the highest SPS energy of
collisions the chemical equilibrium of strangeness is observed. We argue that
the chemical equilibrium of strangeness, i.e. , observed
above the center of mass collision energy 4.3 GeV may be related to the
hadronization of quark gluon bags which have the Hagedorn mass spectrum, and,
hence, it may be a new signal for the onset of deconfinement
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