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Edge-induced spin polarization in two-dimensional electron gas
We characterize the role of the spin-orbit coupling between electrons and the confining potential of the edge in nonequilibrium two-dimensional homogeneous electronic gas. We derive a simple analytical result for the magnitude of the current-induced spin polarization at the edge and prove that it is independent of the details of the confinement edge potential and the electronic density within realistic values of the parameters of the considered models. While the amplitude of the spin accumulation is comparable to the experimental values of extrinsic spin-Hall effect in similar samples, the spatial extent of edge-induced effect is restricted to the distances on the order of Fermi wavelength (similar to 10 nm)
Cosmological Brightness Distribution Fits of Gamma Ray Burst Sources
We discuss detailed fits of the BATSE and PVO gamma-ray burst peak-flux
distributions with Friedman models taking into account possible density
evolution and standard candle or power law luminosity functions. A chi-square
analysis is used to estimate the goodness of the fits and we derive the
significance level of limits on the density evolution and luminosity function
parameters. Cosmological models provide a good fit over a range of parameter
space which is physically reasonable.Comment: Ap.J. in press, uuencoded .ps file, 9 pages manuscript plus 5 figure
An assessment of the newest magnetar-SNR associations
Anomalous X-ray Pulsars and Soft-Gamma Repeaters groups are magnetar
candidates featuring low characteristic ages ().
At least some of them they should still be associated with the remnants of the
explosive events in which they were born, giving clues to the type of events
leading to their birth and the physics behind the apparent high value of the
magnetar magnetic fields. To explain the high values of , a self-consistent
picture of field growth also suggests that energy injection into the SNR is
large and unavoidable, in contrast with the evolution of {\it conventional}
SNR. This modified dynamics, in turn, has important implications for the
proposed associations. We show that this scenario yields low ages for the new
candidates CXOU J171405.7-381031/CTB 37B and XMMU J173203.3-344518/G353.6-0.7,
and predicted values agree with recently found , giving support to
the overall picture.Comment: Contributed talk to the ASTRONS 2010 Conference, Cesme, Turkey, Aug.
2-6 201
Analysis of the BATSE Continuous MER data
The CGRO/BATSE database includes many types of data such as the 16-channel
continuous background or medium energy resolution burst data (CONT and MER data
types). We have calculated some four hundred burst's medium energy resolution
spectra and Principal Component Analysis has been applied. We found five
components can describe GRBs' spectra.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, accepted in Nuovo Ciment
Strings in plane-fronted gravitational waves
Brinkmann's plane-fronted gravitational waves with parallel rays --~shortly
pp-waves~-- are shown to provide, under suitable conditions, exact string vacua
at all orders of the sigma-model perturbation expansion.Comment: 7 pages, no figure
Berry phase correction to electron density in solids and "exotic" dynamics
Recent results on the semiclassical dynamics of an electron in a solid are
explained using techniques developed for ``exotic'' Galilean dynamics. The
system is indeed Hamiltonian and Liouville's theorem holds for the symplectic
volume form. Suitably defined quantities satisfy hydrodynamic equations.Comment: Affiliation of the first Author expanded. One more reference added.
To appear in Mod. Phys. Lett. B. 5 page
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