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Dynamical Response of Fermi Condensate to Varying Magnetic Fields
We investigate the dynamical response of strongly interacting ultra-cold
fermionic atoms near Feshbach resonance to varying magnetic fields. Following
the experimental practices, we calculate the response of the atoms to
oscillating and to linearly ramped magnetic fields respectively. For
oscillating magnetic fields, depending on the frequencies and the amplitudes of
the oscillations, the response of the pair excitation gap shows either linear
or rich non-linear behaviour. In addition, both the spectral studies through
the linear response theory and the time-domain simulations suggest the
existence of a resonant frequency corresponding to the pair dissociation
threshold. For linearly ramped magnetic fields, the response of the excitation
gap shows damped oscillations. The final value of the excitation gap depends on
the rate of the field sweep.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figure
(2317) meson production at RHIC
Production of (2317) mesons in relativistic heavy ion collisions at
RHIC is studied. Using the quark coalescence model, we first determine the
initial number of (2317) mesons produced during hadronization of
created quark-gluon plasma. The predicted (2317) abundance depends
sensitively on the quark structure of the (2317) meson. An
order-of-magnitude larger yield is obtained for a conventional two-quark than
for an exotic four-quark (2317) meson. To include the hadronic effect
on the (2317) meson yield, we have evaluated the absorption cross
sections of the (2317) meson by pion, rho, anti-kaon, and vector
anti-kaon in a phenomenological hadronic model. Taking into consideration the
absorption and production of (2317) mesons during the hadronic stage of
heavy ion collisions via a kinetic model, we find that the final yield of
(2317) mesons remains sensitive to its initial number produced from the
quark-gluon plasma, providing thus the possibility of studying the quark
structure of the (2317) meson and its production mechanism in
relativistic heavy ion collisions.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure
Simultaneous planar growth of amorphous and crystalline Ni silicides
We report a solid-state interdiffusion reaction induced by rapid thermal annealing and vacuum furnace annealing in evaporated Ni/Si bilayers. Upon heat treatment of a Ni film overlaid on a film of amorphous Si evaporated from a graphite crucible, amorphous and crystalline silicide layers grow uniformly side by side as revealed by cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy and backscattering spectrometry. This phenomenon contrasts with the silicide formation behavior previously observed in the Ni-Si system, and constitutes an interesting counterpart of the solid-state interdiffusion-induced amorphization in Ni/Zr thin-film diffusion couples. Carbon impurity contained in the amorphous Si film stabilizes the amorphous phase. Kinetic and thermodynamic factors that account for the experimental findings are discussed
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