137 research outputs found
Pilot Study investigating the Impact of Serial ingestion or Co-ingestion of Creatine and Sodium bicarbonate on Performance Following Completion of a Hypertrophy Type Resistance Exercise Workout.
Purpose: To examine the ergogenic potential of creatine (Cr), sodium bicarbonate (SB),and Cr+SBafter completion of a resistance exercise bout (REB).Methods: Following recruitment,27trained males (26.8±5.7 years old) completed a one repetition maximum strength (1RM) test in the parallel squat (120.9±28.2kg). Participants then followed a standardised meal plan for 4 days whilst ingesting one of 4 supplements, and on day 5 they undertook the REB. This was a double blind randomised placebo-controlled study where participants ingested one of the following: Placebo (PLA, n=7), Cr (20g/d-1& PLA, n=8), SB (0.5 g/kg-1/d-1&PLA, n=6), andCr+SB (5 g/d-1 of Cr & 0.5 g/kg-1/d-1 SB, n=6) divided in 4 doses. The REB consisted of 4x10 repetitions (70% of 1RM, 1½ min recovery). The primary performance outcome was a 5th set (70% of 1RM) performed to volitional exhaustion.Blood glucose and lactate, heart rate, ratings of perceived exertion, sickness and stomachache scales, and time to complete each set were also recorded.Results:Participants in Cr, SB, and Cr+SB completed the required number of repetitions at 70% of 1RM however in PLA they completed the same repetitions at lower intensity (68+3.4%). Participants in PLA, Cr, SB, and Cr+SB completed 8(±1.6), 11(±5.5), 9(±3.7), and 11(±3.3) repetitions respectively during the 5th set. Despite the fact that no significant differences were observed in performance, small (SB: 0.4) and moderate effect (Cr: 0.7; Cr+SB: 1.0) sizes were observed in relation to PLA. Body mass increasedsignificantly after Cr (78.1±8.9 kg pre vs 79.1±8.9 kg post, p<0.05). No other significant differences existed in recorded variables.Conclusions: Performance gains were of higher magnitude in the Cr+SB and Cr groups. Co-ingestion of a small amount of Cr (5 g/d-1) with a standard dose ofSB (0.5 g/kg-1/d-1)appears to be equally beneficial asingestion of a standard dose of Cr (20 g/d-1). The Cr+SB was not associated with significant gains in body mass which may be beneficial in sports where size gains may negate performance. Further research is required, with larger sample size, and specific athletic populations in order to confirm the findings of the current study
Canonically conjugate pairs and phase operators
For quantum mechanics on a lattice the position (``particle number'')
operator and the quasi-momentum (``phase'') operator obey canonical commutation
relations (CCR) only on a dense set of the Hilbert space. We compare exact
numerical results for a particle in simple potentials on the lattice with the
expectations, when the CCR are assumed to be strictly obeyed. Only for
sufficiently smooth eigenfunctions this leads to reasonable results. In the
long time limit the use of the CCR can lead to a qualitativel wrong dynamics
even if the initial state is in the dense set.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures. Phys. Rev. A, in pres
Nuclear Spin Qubit Dephasing Time in the Integer Quantum Hall Effect Regime
We report the first theoretical estimate of the nuclear-spin dephasing time
T_2 owing to the spin interaction with the two-dimensional electron gas, when
the latter is in the integer quantum Hall state, in a two-dimensional
heterojunction or quantum well at low temperature and in large applied magnetic
field. We establish that the leading mechanism of dephasing is due to the
impurity potentials that influence the dynamics of the spin via virtual
magnetic spin-exciton scattering. Implications of our results for
implementation of nuclear spins as quantum bits (qubits) for quantum computing
are discussed.Comment: 19 pages in plain Te
Dissipative dynamics in a quantum register
A model for a quantum register dissipatively coupled with a bosonic thermal
bath is studied. The register consists of qubits (i.e. spin degrees
of freedom), the bath is described by bosonic modes. The register-bath
coupling is chosen in such a way that the total number of excitations is
conserved. The Hilbert space splits allowing the study of the dynamics
separately in each sector. Assuming that the coupling with the bath is the same
for all qubits, the excitation sectors have a further decomposition according
the irreducible representations of the spin algebra. The stability
against environment-generated noise of the information encoded in a quantum
state of the register depends on its symmetry content. At zero
temperature we find that states belonging to the vacuum symmetry sector have
for long time vanishing fidelity, whereas each lowest spin vector is decoupled
from the bath and therefore is decoherence free. Numerical results are shown in
the one-excitation space in the case qubit-dependent bath-system coupling.Comment: to appear on Phys. Rev. A, 8 pages + 5 postscript figure
C-axis resistivity and high Tc superconductivity
Recently we had proposed a mechanism for the normal-state C-axis resistivity
of the high-T layered cuprates that involved blocking of the
single-particle tunneling between the weakly coupled planes by strong
intra-planar electron-electron scattering. This gave a C-axis resistivity that
tracks the ab-plane T-linear resistivity, as observed in the high-temperature
limit. In this work this mechanism is examined further for its implication for
the ground-state energy and superconductivity of the layered cuprates. It is
now argued that, unlike the single-particle tunneling, the tunneling of a
boson-like pair between the planes prepared in the BCS-type coherent trial
state remains unblocked inasmuch as the latter is by construction an eigenstate
of the pair annihilation operator. The resulting pair-delocalization along the
C-axis offers energetically a comparative advantage to the paired-up trial
state, and, thus stabilizes superconductivity. In this scheme the strongly
correlated nature of the layered system enters only through the blocking
effect, namely that a given electron is effectively repeatedly monitored
(intra-planarly scattered) by the other electrons acting as an environment, on
a time-scale shorter than the inter-planar tunneling time. Possible
relationship to other inter-layer pairing mechanisms proposed by several
workers in the field is also briefly discussed.Comment: typos in equations corrected, contents unchange
VLT observations of the Central Compact Object in the Vela Jr. supernova remnant
X-ray observations have unveiled the existence of enigmatic point-like
sources at the center of young (a few kyrs) supernova remnants. These sources,
known as Central Compact Objects (CCOs), are thought to be neutron stars
produced by the supernova explosion, although their X-ray phenomenology makes
them markedly different from all the other young neutron stars discovered so
far.The aim of this work is to search for the optical/IR counterpart of the
Vela Junior CCO and to understand the nature of the associated Halpha nebula
discovered by Pellizzoni et al. (2002).}{We have used deep optical (R band) and
IR (J,H,Ks bands) observations recently performed by our group with the ESO VLT
to obtain the first deep, high resolution images of the field with the goal of
resolving the nebula structure and pinpointing a point-like source possibly
associated with the neutron star.Our R-band image shows that both the nebula's
flux and its structure are very similar to the Halpha ones, suggesting that the
nebula spectrum is dominated by pure Halpha line emission. However, the nebula
is not detected in our IR observations, whick makes it impossible to to
constrain its spectrum. A faint point-like object (J>22.6, H~21.6, Ks ~ 21.4)
compatible with the neutron star's Chandra X-ray position is detected in our IR
images (H and Ks) but not in the optical one (R > 25.6), where it is buried by
the nebula background. The nebula is most likely a bow-shock produced by the
neutron star motion through the ISM or, alternatively, a photo-ionization
nebula powered by UV radiation from a hot neutron star.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, A&Aaccepte
Interference of Bose-Einstein condensates in momentum space
We suggest an experiment to investigate the linear superposition of two
spatially separated Bose-Einstein condensates. Due to the coherent combination
of the two wave functions, the dynamic structure factor, measurable through
inelastic photon scattering at high momentum transfer , is predicted to
exhibit interference fringes with frequency period where
is the distance between the condensates. We show that the coherent
configuration corresponds to an eigenstate of the physical observable measured
in the experiment and that the relative phase of the condensates is hence
created through the measurement process.Comment: 4 pages and 2 eps figure
Breakdown of time-dependent mean-field theory for a one-dimensional condensate of impenetrable bosons
We show that the time-dependent nonlinear Schrodinger equation of mean-field
theory has limited utility for a one-dimensional condensate of impenetrable
bosons. Mean-field theory with its associated order parameter predicts
interference between split condensates that are recombined, whereas an exact
many-body treatment shows minimal interference.Comment: 4 pages, 2 EPS figure
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