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Quasiparticle Berry curvature and Chern numbers in spin-orbit coupled bosonic Mott insulators
We study the ground-state topology and quasiparticle properties in bosonic
Mott insulators with two- dimensional spin-orbit couplings in cold atomic
optical lattices. We show that the many-body Chern and spin-Chern number can be
expressed as an integral of the quasihole Berry curvatures over the Brillouin
zone. Using a strong-coupling perturbation theory, for an experimentally
feasible spin-orbit coupling, we compute the Berry curvature and the spin Chern
number and find that these quantities can be generated purely by interactions.
We also compute the quasiparticle dispersions, spectral weights, and the
quasimomentum space distribution of particle and spin density, which can be
accessed in cold-atom experiments and used to deduce the Berry curvature and
Chern numbers
A Modified "Bottom-up" Thermalization in Heavy Ion Collisions
In the initial stage of the bottom-up picture of thermalization in heavy ion
collisions, the gluon distribution is highly anisotropic which can give rise to
plasma instability. This has not been taken account in the original paper. It
is shown that in the presence of instability there are scaling solutions, which
depend on one parameter, that match smoothly onto the late stage of bottom-up
when thermalization takes place.Comment: 8 pages and 1 embedded figure, talk presented at the Workshop on
"Quark-Gluon Plasma Thermalization", Vienna, Austria, 10-12 August 200
Electronic visualization of gas bearing behavior
Visualization technique produces a visual simulation of gas bearing operation by electronically combining the outputs from the clearance probes used to monitor bearing component motion. Computerized recordings of the probes output are processed, displayed on an oscilloscope screen and recorded with a high-speed motion picture camera
Spin-Seebeck effect in a strongly interacting Fermi gas
We study the spin-Seebeck effect in a strongly interacting, two-component
Fermi gas and propose an experiment to measure this effect by relatively
displacing spin up and spin down atomic clouds in a trap using spin-dependent
temperature gradients. We compute the spin-Seebeck coefficient and related
spin-heat transport coefficients as functions of temperature and interaction
strength. We find that when the inter-spin scattering length becomes larger
than the Fermi wavelength, the spin-Seebeck coefficient changes sign as a
function of temperature, and hence so does the direction of the
spin-separation. We compute this zero-crossing temperature as a function of
interaction strength and in particular in the unitary limit for the inter-spin
scattering
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