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Dynamics of quasi-one-dimensional bright and vortex solitons of a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate with repulsive atomic interaction
By numerical and variational analysis of the three-dimensional
Gross-Pitaevskii equation we study the formation and dynamics of bright and
vortex-bright solitons in a cigar-shaped dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate for
large repulsive atomic interactions. Phase diagram showing the region of
stability of the solitons is obtained. We also study the dynamics of breathing
oscillation of the solitons as well as the collision dynamics of two solitons
at large velocities. Two solitons placed side-by-side at rest coalesce to form
a stable bound soliton molecule due to dipolar attraction.Comment: To obtain the included video clips S1, S2, S3 and S4, please download
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Duality invariance and cosmological dynamics
A duality transformation that interrelates expanding and contracting
cosmological models is shown to single out a duality invariant, interacting
two-component description of any irrotational, geodesic and shearfree cosmic
medium with vanishing three curvature scalar. We apply this feature to a system
of matter and radiation, to a mixture of dark matter and dark energy, to
minimal and conformal scalar fields, and to an enlarged Chaplygin gas model of
the cosmic substratum. We extend the concept of duality transformations to
cosmological perturbations and demonstrate the invariance of adiabatic pressure
perturbations under these transformations.Comment: 14 pages, Discussion enlarged, accepted for publication in IJMP
Phase Diagram of Half Doped Manganites
An analysis of the properties of half-doped manganites is presented. We build
up the phase diagram of the system combining a realistic calculation of the
electronic properties and a mean field treatment of the temperature effects.
The electronic structure of the manganites are described with a double exchange
model with cooperative Jahn-Teller phonons and antiferromagnetic coupling
between the core spins. At zero temperature a variety of electronic phases
as ferromagnetic (FM) charge ordered (CO) orbital ordered (OO), CE-CO-OO and FM
metallic, are obtained. By raising the temperature the CE-CO-OO phase becomes
paramagnetic (PM), but depending on the electron-phonon coupling and the
exchange coupling the transition can be direct or trough intermediate states: a
FM disorder metallic, a PM-CO-OO or a FM-CO-OO. We also discus the nature of
the high temperature PM phase in the regime of finite electron phonon coupling.
In this regime half of the oxygen octahedra surrounding the ions are
distorted. In the weak coupling regime the octahedra are slightly deformed and
only trap a small amount of electronic charge, rendering the system metallic
consequentially. However in the strong coupling regime the octahedra are
strongly distorted, the charge is fully localized in polarons and the system is
insulator.Comment: 10 pagses, 9 figures include
Self-isospectrality, mirror symmetry, and exotic nonlinear supersymmetry
We study supersymmetry of a self-isospectral one-gap Poschl-Teller system in
the light of a mirror symmetry that is based on spatial and shift reflections.
The revealed exotic, partially broken nonlinear supersymmetry admits seven
alternatives for a grading operator. One of its local, first order supercharges
may be identified as a Hamiltonian of an associated one-gap, non-periodic
Bogoliubov-de Gennes system. The latter possesses a nonlinear supersymmetric
structure, in which any of the three non-local generators of a Clifford algebra
may be chosen as the grading operator. We find that the supersymmetry
generators for the both systems are the Darboux-dressed integrals of a free
spin-1/2 particle in the Schrodinger picture, or of a free massive Dirac
particle. Nonlocal Foldy- Wouthuysen transformations are shown to be involved
in the supersymmetric structure.Comment: 20 pages, comment added. Published versio
Extended Dualization: a method for the Bosonization of Anomalous Fermion Systems in Arbitrary Dimension
The technique of extended dualization developed in this paper is used to
bosonize quantized fermion systems in arbitrary dimension in the low energy
regime. In its original (minimal) form, dualization is restricted to models
wherein it is possible to define a dynamical quantized conserved charge. We
generalize the usual dualization prescription to include systems with dynamical
non--conserved quantum currents. Bosonization based on this extended
dualization requires the introduction of an additional rank (scalar) field
together with the usual antisymmetric tensor field of rank . Our
generalized dualization prescription permits one to clearly distinguish the
arbitrariness in the bosonization from the arbitrariness in the quantization of
the system. We study the bosonization of four--fermion interactions with large
mass in arbitrary dimension. First, we observe that dualization permits one to
formally bosonize these models by invoking the bosonization of the free massive
Dirac fermion and adding some extra model--dependent bosonic terms. Secondly,
we explore the potential of extended dualization by considering the particular
case of \underbar{chiral} four--fermion interactions. Here minimal dualization
is inadequate for calculating the extra bosonic terms. We demonstrate the
utility of extended dualization by successfully completing the bosonization of
this chiral model. Finally, we consider two examples in two dimensions which
illuminate the utility of using extended dualization by showing how
quantization ambiguities in a fermionic theory propagate into the bosonized
version. An explicit parametrization of the quantization ambiguities of the
chiral current in the Chiral Schwinger model is obtained. Similarly, for the
sine--Gordon interaction in the massive Thirring model the quantizationComment: Revised version including major changes in section 3, to be published
in Phys. Rev.
Variable rest masses in 5-dimensional gravitation confronted with experimental data
Cosmological solutions of Einstein equation for a \mbox{5-dimensional}
space-time, in the case of a dust-filled universe, are presented. With these
solutions we are able to test a hypothetical relation between the rest mass of
a particle and the dimension. Comparison with experiment strongly
refutes the implied dependence of the rest mass on the cosmological time.Comment: Some references adde
Self consistent description of the interplay between shape and pairing deformations : Static properties
The competition between pairing and multipole fields is studied within the framework of a two-level model, employing different theoretical approaches. The importance of a self-consistent tretment is clearly revealed. Special attention is payed to the microscopic mechanisms that take place when the system undergoes various phase transitions.Departamento de Físic
BCYCLIC: A parallel block tridiagonal matrix cyclic solver
13 pages, 6 figures.A block tridiagonal matrix is factored with minimal fill-in using a cyclic reduction algorithm that is easily parallelized. Storage of the factored blocks allows the application of the inverse to multiple right-hand sides which may not be known at factorization time. Scalability with the number of block rows is achieved with cyclic reduction, while scalability with the block size is achieved using multithreaded routines (OpenMP, GotoBLAS) for block matrix manipulation. This dual scalability is a noteworthy feature of this new solver, as well as its ability to efficiently handle arbitrary (non-powers-of-2) block row and processor numbers. Comparison with a state-of-the art parallel sparse solver is presented. It is expected that this new solver will allow many physical applications to optimally use the parallel resources on current supercomputers. Example usage of the solver in magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD), three-dimensional equilibrium solvers for high-temperature fusion plasmas is cited.This research has been sponsored by the US Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with UT-Battelle, LLC. This research used resources of the National Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is supported by the Office of Science of the Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC05-00OR22725.Publicad
Nuclear Bar, Star Formation and Gas Fueling in the Active Galaxy NGC 4303
A combination of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) WFPC2 and NICMOS images are
used to investigate the gas/dust and stellar structure inside the central 300
pc of the nearby active galaxy NGC 4303.
The NICMOS H-band (F160W) image reveals a bright core and a nuclear elongated
bar-like structure of 250 pc in diameter. The bar is centered on the bright
core, and its major axis is oriented in proyection along the spin axis of the
nuclear gaseous rotating disk recently detected (Colina & Arribas 1999).
The V-H (F606W - F160W) image reveals a complex gas/dust distribution with a
two-arm spiral structure of about 225 pc in radius. The southwestern arm is
traced by young star-forming knots while the northeastern arm is detected by
the presence of dust lanes. These spirals do not have a smooth structure but
rather they are made of smaller flocculent spirals or filament-like structures.
The magnitudes and colors of the star-forming knots are typical of clusters of
young stars with masses of 0.5 to 1 x yr^{-1} for about 80 Myr.Comment: ApJ, in press (February 1, 2000
Effective Dielectric Response of Metamaterials
We use a homogenization procedure for Maxwell's equations in order to obtain
in the local limit the frequency () dependent macroscopic dielectric
response of metamaterials made of natural constituents
with any geometrical shape repeated periodically with any structure. We
illustrate the formalism calculating for several
structures. For dielectric rectangular inclusions within a conducting material
we obtained a very anisotropic response which changes along one direction from
conductor-like at low to a resonant dielectric-like at large ,
attaining a very small reflectance at intermediate frequencies unrelated to
surface plasmon excitation and which can be tuned through geometrycal
tayloring. A similar behavior is obtained for other shapes close to the
percolation threshold.Comment: 16 pages 7 figures. Accepted in Phys. Rev. B (2009-06-08
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