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2006-07-15
Damping and excitation variations of the solar acoustic modes using LOWL observations
We have used observations made with the helioseismic instrument LOWL collected over $\sim$ 6 years to carry out an independent study of the variations of the p-mode damping and excitation rates with solar activity. We observe significant variations in the mode height, mode width and mode velocity power over a wide rang...
0607346v1
2006-09-01
A line profile analysis of the pulsating red giant star epsilon Ophiuchi (G9.5III)
So far, solar-like oscillations have been studied using radial velocity and/or light curve variations, which reveal frequencies of the oscillation modes. Line-profile variations, however, are also a valuable diagnostic to characterise radial and non-radial oscillations, including frequencies, amplitudes, the spherical ...
0609043v1
2006-10-11
Determining the neutron star equation of state using the narrow-band gravitational wave detector Schenberg
We briefly review the properties of quasi-normal modes of neutron stars and black holes. We analyse the consequences of a possible detection of such modes via the gravitational waves associated with them, especially addressing our study to the Brazilian spherical antenna, on which a possible detection would occur at 3....
0610335v1
2006-12-14
Three dimensional numerical simulations of acoustic wave field in the upper convection zone of the Sun
Results of numerical 3D simulations of propagation of acoustic waves inside the Sun are presented. A linear 3D code which utilizes realistic OPAL equation of state was developed by authors. Modified convectively stable standard solar model with smoothly joined chromosphere was used as a background model. High order dis...
0612364v1
2006-12-15
Damp Mergers: Recent Gaseous Mergers without Significant Globular Cluster Formation?
Here we test the idea that new globular clusters (GCs) are formed in the same gaseous ("wet") mergers or interactions that give rise to the young stellar populations seen in the central regions of many early-type galaxies. We compare mean GC colors with the age of the central galaxy starburst. The red GC subpopulation ...
0612415v1
2006-12-21
Accretion of Terrestrial Planets from Oligarchs in a Turbulent Disk
We have investigated the final accretion stage of terrestrial planets from Mars-mass protoplanets that formed through oligarchic growth in a disk comparable to the minimum mass solar nebula (MMSN), through N-body simulation including random torques exerted by disk turbulence due to Magneto-Rotational-Instability. For t...
0612619v1
2007-01-18
Models of the Collisional Damping Scenario for Ice Giant Planets and Kuiper Belt Formatio
Chiang et al. 2006, hereafter C06 have recently proposed that the observed structure of the Kuiper belt could be the result of a dynamical instability of a system of ~5 primordial ice giant planets in the outer Solar System. According to this scenario, before the instability occurred, these giants were growing in a hig...
0701544v1
2007-02-05
Ion Charge States in the Fast Solar Wind: New Data Analysis and Theoretical Refinements
We present a further investigation into the increased ionization observed in element charge states in the fast solar wind compared to its coronal hole source regions. Once ions begin to be perpendicularly heated by ion cyclotron waves and execute large gyro-orbits, density gradients in the flow can excite lower hybrid ...
0702131v1
1995-10-11
Multiple Transitions to Chaos in a Damped Parametrically Forced Pendulum
We study bifurcations associated with stability of the lowest stationary point (SP) of a damped parametrically forced pendulum by varying $\omega_0$ (the natural frequency of the pendulum) and $A$ (the amplitude of the external driving force). As $A$ is increased, the SP will restabilize after its instability, destabil...
9510003v1
1996-03-04
Period Doublings in Coupled Parametrically Forced Damped Pendulums
We study period doublings in $N$ $(N=2,3,4, \dots)$ coupled parametrically forced damped pendulums by varying $A$ (the amplitude of the external driving force) and $c$ (the strength of coupling). With increasing $A$, the stationary point undergoes multiple period-doubling transitions to chaos. We first investigate the ...
9603002v1
1996-12-05
Fractal Basins of Attraction Associated with a Damped Newton's Method
An intriguing and unexpected result for students learning numerical analysis is that Newton's method, applied to the simple polynomial z^3 - 1 = 0 in the complex plane, leads to intricately interwoven basins of attraction of the roots. As an example of an interesting open question that may help to stimulate student int...
9612010v1
1999-01-28
Intrinsically localized chaos in discrete nonlinear extended systems
The phenomenon of intrinsic localization in discrete nonlinear extended systems, i.e. the (generic) existence of discrete breathers, is shown to be not restricted to periodic solutions but it also extends to more complex (chaotic) dynamical behaviour. We illustrate this with two different forced and damped systems exhi...
9901030v1
1995-03-27
Dynamics of a Strongly Damped Two-Level System: Beyond the DBGA
Dynamics of a dissipative two-level system is studied using quantum relaxation theory. This calculation for the first time goes beyond the commonly used dilute bounce gas approximation (DBGA), even for strong damping. The new results obtained here deviate from the DBGA results at low temperatures, however, the DBGA for...
9503133v1
1995-05-23
The phase-dependent linear conductance of a superconducting quantum point contact
The exact expression for the phase-dependent linear conductance of a weakly damped superconducting quantum point contact is obtained. The calculation is performed by summing up the complete perturbative series in the coupling between the electrodes. The failure of any finite order perturbative expansion in the limit of...
9505102v1
1996-02-27
Quasiparticle properties of a coupled quantum wire electron-phonon system
We study leading-order many-body effects of longitudinal optical (LO) phonons on electronic properties of one-dimensional quantum wire systems. We calculate the quasiparticle properties of a weakly polar one dimensional electron gas in the presence of both electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions. The leading...
9602143v1
1996-02-29
Dynamical response of a one dimensional quantum wire electron system
We provide a self-contained theoretical analysis of the dynamical response of a one dimensional electron system, as confined in a semiconductor quantum wire, within the random phase approximation. We carry out a detailed comparison with the corresponding two and three dimensional situations, and discuss the peculiariti...
9602157v1
1996-08-24
New Universality Class at the Superconductor--Insulator Transition
We study dynamic properties of thin films near the superconductor - insulator transition. We formulate the problem in a phase representation. The key new feature of our model is the assumption of a {\it local} ohmic dissipative mechanism. Coarse graining leads to a Ginzburg-Landau description, with non-ohmic dynamics f...
9608115v1
1996-10-07
Supersymmetric Fokker-Planck strict isospectrality
I report a study of the nonstationary one-dimensional Fokker-Planck solutions by means of the strictly isospectral method of supesymmetric quantum mechanics. The main conclusion is that this technique can lead to a space-dependent (modulational) damping of the spatial part of the nonstationary Fokker-Planck solutions, ...
9610049v2
1997-04-03
Quasiparticle Many-Body Dynamics of Highly Correlated Electronic Systems
The self-consistent theory of the correlation effects in Highly Correlated Systems(HCS) is presented. The novel Irreducible Green's Functions(IGF) method is discused in detail for the Hubbard model and random Hubbard model. The interpolative solution for the quasiparticle spectrum, which is valid for both the atomic an...
9704028v1
1997-12-17
Detecting flux creep in superconducting YBCO thin films via damping of the oscillations of a levitating permanent magnet
The damping of the oscillations of a small permanent magnet (spherical shape, radius 0.1 mm) levitating between two parallel epitaxial YBCO films is measured as a function of oscillation amplitude and temperature. At small amplitudes the dissipation is found to be orders of magnitude lower than in bulk YBCO, Q-factors ...
9712199v1
1998-02-06
Spin polaron damping in the spin-fermion model for cuprate superconductors
A self-consistent, spin rotational invariant Green's function procedure has been developed to calculate the spectral function of carrier excitations in the spin-fermion model for the CuO2 plane. We start from the mean field description of a spin polaron in the Mori-Zwanzig projection method. In order to determine the s...
9802074v1
1998-02-24
Resonant steps and spatiotemporal dynamics in the damped dc-driven Frenkel-Kontorova chain
Kink dynamics of the damped Frenkel-Kontorova (discrete sine-Gordon) chain driven by a constant external force are investigated. Resonant steplike transitions of the average velocity occur due to the competitions between the moving kinks and their radiated phasonlike modes. A mean-field consideration is introduced to g...
9802251v1
1998-05-09
The resonance peak in cuprate superconductors
We pursue the consequences of a theory in which the resonance peak observed in inelastic neutron scattering (INS) experiments on underdoped and optimally doped YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6+x}$ compounds arises from a spin-wave excitation. We find that it is heavily damped, and thus almost not observable, in the normal state, but...
9805107v1
1998-05-22
On the driven Frenkel-Kontorova model: I. Uniform sliding states and dynamical domains of different particle densities
The dynamical behavior of a harmonic chain in a spatially periodic potential (Frenkel-Kontorova model, discrete sine-Gordon equation) under the influence of an external force and a velocity proportional damping is investigated. We do this at zero temperature for long chains in a regime where inertia and damping as well...
9805287v1
1999-01-29
Acoustic radiation controls friction: Evidence from a spring-block experiment
Brittle failures of materials and earthquakes generate acoustic/seismic waves which lead to radiation damping feedbacks that should be introduced in the dynamical equations of crack motion. We present direct experimental evidence of the importance of this feedback on the acoustic noise spectrum of well-controlled sprin...
9901350v2
1999-03-02
d_{x^2-y^2}-Wave Pairing Fluctuations and Pseudo Spin Gap in Two-Dimensional Electron Systems
Pseudogap phenomena of high-T_c cuprates are examined. In terms of AFM (antiferromagnetic) and dSC (d_{x^2-y^2}-wave superconducting) auxiliary fields introduced to integrate out the fermions, the effective action for 2D electron systems with AFM and dSC fluctuations is considered. By the self-consistent renormalizatio...
9903030v2
1999-03-11
Thermally activated escape rates of uniaxial spin systems with transverse field
Classical escape rates of uniaxial spin systems are characterized by a prefactor differing from and much smaller than that of the particle problem, since the maximum of the spin energy is attained everywhere on the line of constant latitude: theta=const, 0 =< phi =< 2*pi. If a transverse field is applied, a saddle poin...
9903192v2
1999-04-19
Numerical analysis of the dissipative two-state system with the density-matrix Hilbert-space-reduction algorithm
Ground state of the dissipative two-state system is investigated by means of the Lanczos diagonalization method. We adopted the Hilbert-space-reduction scheme proposed by Zhang, Jeckelmann and White so as to reduce the overwhelming reservoir Hilbert space to being tractable in computers. Both the implementation of the ...
9904260v1
1999-05-02
Finite Temperature Time-Dependent Effective Theory For The Goldstone Field In A BCS-Type Superfluid
We extend to finite temperature the time-dependent effective theory for the Goldstone field (the phase of the pair field) $ \theta $ which is appropriate for a superfluid containing one species of fermions with s-wave interactions, described by the BCS Lagrangian. We show that, when Landau damping is neglected, the eff...
9905008v2
1999-06-29
Simulation of I-V Hysteresis Branches in An Intrinsic Stack of Josephson Junctions in High $T_c$ Superconductors
I-V characteristics of the high T$_c$ superconductor Bi$_2$Sr$_2$Ca$_1$C$_2$O$_8$ shows a strong hysteresis, producing many branches. The origin of hysteresis jumps is studied by use of the model of multi-layered Josephson junctions proposed by one of the authors (T. K.). The charging effect at superconducting layers p...
9906422v1
1999-07-05
The interplay between flattening and damping of single particle spectra in strongly correlated Fermi systems
The self-consistent theory of the fermion condensation, a specific phase transition which results in a rearrangement of the single particle degrees of freedom in strongly correlated Fermi systems is developed. Beyond the phase transition point, the single particle spectra are shown to be flat. The interplay between the...
9907061v1
1999-10-19
Zener transitions between dissipative Bloch bands. II: Current Response at Finite Temperature
We extend, to include the effects of finite temperature, our earlier study of the interband dynamics of electrons with Markoffian dephasing under the influence of uniform static electric fields. We use a simple two-band tight-binding model and study the electric current response as a function of field strength and the ...
9910290v1
1999-11-02
Shifts and widths of collective excitations in trapped Bose gases by the dielectric formalism
We present predictions for the temperature dependent shifts and damping rates. They are obtained by applying the dielectric formalism to a simple model of a trapped Bose gas. Within the framework of the model we use lowest order perturbation theory to determine the first order correction to the results of Hartree-Fock-...
9911018v1
2000-06-13
Characteristic features of anharmonic effects in the lattice dynamics of fcc metals
The dispersion in the entire Brillouin zone and the temperature dependence (right up to the melting temperature) of the anharmonic frequency shift and phonon damping in a number of fcc metals is investigated on the basis of microscopic calculations. It is found that the anharmonic effects depend sharply on the wave vec...
0006205v1
2000-06-20
Collisional damping of the collective oscillations of a trapped Fermi gas
We consider a Fermi gas confined by a harmonic trapping potential and we highlight the role of the Fermi-Dirac statistics by studying frequency and damping of collective oscillations of quadrupole type in the framework of the quantum Boltzmann equation, in which statistical corrections are taken into account in the col...
0006305v2
2000-06-21
Resonances in the dynamics of $φ^4$ kinks perturbed by ac forces
We study the dynamics of $\phi^4$ kinks perturbed by an ac force, both with and without damping. We address this issue by using a collective coordinate theory, which allows us to reduce the problem to the dynamics of the kink center and width. We carry out a careful analysis of the corresponding ordinary differential e...
0006313v1
2000-07-11
Quantum phase transitions in d-wave superconductors
Motivated by the strong, low temperature damping of nodal quasiparticles observed in some cuprate superconductors, we study quantum phase transitions in d_{x^2-y^2} superconductors with a spin-singlet, zero momentum, fermion bilinear order parameter. We present a complete, group-theoretic classification of such transit...
0007170v3
2000-07-12
Frequencies and Damping rates of a 2D Deformed Trapped Bose gas above the Critical Temperature
We derive the equation of motion for the velocity fluctuations of a 2D deformed trapped Bose gas above the critical temperature in the hydrodynamical regime. From this equation, we calculate the eigenfrequencies for a few low-lying excitation modes. Using the method of averages, we derive a dispersion relation in a def...
0007210v2
2000-09-01
The Broad Brillouin Doublet and CP of Ktao_3 : Second Sound vs. Two-Phonon Difference Scattering
Low-T Brillouin spectra of the incipient ferroelectric KTaO3 exhibit a broad central peak (CP), and additional Brillouin doublets (BD), that can both be related to phonon-density fluctuations. On the basis of new high-resolution neutron data obtained of low-lying phonon branches, we analysed the phonon-kinetics mechani...
0009011v1
2000-09-21
Landau-Khalatnikov two-fluid hydrodynamics of a trapped Bose gas
Starting from the quantum kinetic equation for the non-condensate atoms and the generalized Gross-Pitaevskii equation for the condensate, we derive the two-fluid hydrodynamic equations of a trapped Bose gas at finite temperatures. We follow the standard Chapman-Enskog procedure, starting from a solution of the kinetic ...
0009333v1
2000-12-29
Finite Temperature Time-Dependent Effective Theory for the Phase Field in two-dimensional d-wave Neutral Superconductor
We derive finite temperature time-dependent effective actions for the phase of the pairing field, which are appropriate for a 2D electron system with both non-retarded d- and s-wave attraction. As for s-wave pairing the d-wave effective action contains terms with Landau damping, but their structure appears to be differ...
0012511v4
2001-01-23
Ginzburg-Landau theory for the time-dependent phase field in a two-dimensional d-wave superconductor
We derive a finite temperature time-dependent effective theory for the phase $\theta$ of the pairing field, which is appropriate for a 2D conducting electron system with non-retarded d-wave attraction. As for s-wave pairing the effective action contains terms with Landau damping, but their structure appears to be diffe...
0101353v1
2001-06-05
Damping and frequency shift in the oscillations of two colliding Bose-Einstein condensates
We have investigated the center-of-mass oscillations of a Rb87 Bose-Einstein condensate in an elongated magneto-static trap. We start from a trapped condensate and we transfer part of the atoms to another trapped level, by applying a radio-frequency pulse. The new condensate is produced far from its equilibrium positio...
0106072v1
2001-07-12
Ferromagnetism in the Hubbard model
We investigate the possibility and stability of bandferromagnetism in the single-band Hubbard model. This model poses a highly non-trivial many-body problem the general solution of which has not been found up to now. Approximations are still unavoidable. Starting from a simple two-pole ansatz for the spectral density o...
0107255v1
2001-09-10
Finite temperature theory of the scissors mode in a Bose gas using the moment method
We use a generalized Gross-Pitaevskii equation for the condensate and a semi-classical kinetic equation for the noncondensate atoms to discuss the scissors mode in a trapped Bose-condensed gas at finite temperatures. Both equations include the effect of $C_{12}$ collisions between the condensate and noncondensate atoms...
0109149v1
2002-01-24
Dynamic light scattering from colloidal fractal monolayers
We address experimentally the problem of how the structure of a surface monolayer determines the visco-elasticity of the interface. Optical microscopy and surface quasi--elastic light scattering have been used to characterize aggregation of CaCO$_3$ particles at the air--water interface. The structures formed by cluste...
0201438v1
2002-08-08
Excitation and damping of collective modes of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a one-dimensional lattice
The mode structure of a Bose-Einstein condensate non-adiabatically loaded into a one-dimensional optical lattice is studied by analyzing the visibility of the interference pattern as well as the radial profile of the condensate after a time-of-flight. A simple model is proposed that predicts the short-time decrease of ...
0208162v1
2002-08-12
Spectral Properties of the Generalized Spin-Fermion Models
In order to account for competition and interplay of localized and itinerant magnetic behaviour in correlated many body systems with complex spectra the various types of spin-fermion models have been considered in the context of the Irreducible Green's Functions (IGF) approach. Examples are generalized d-f model and Ko...
0208227v1
2002-08-13
Itinerant Antiferromagnetism of Correlated Lattice Fermions
The problem of finding of the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic "symmetry broken" solutions of the correlated lattice fermion models beyond the mean-field approximation has been investigated. The calculation of the quasiparticle excitation spectra with damping for the single- and multi-orbital Hubbard model has been ...
0208242v1
2003-01-21
Zero temperature damping of Bose-Einstein condensate oscillations by vortex-antivortex pair creation
We investigate vortex-antivortex pair creation in a supersonically expanding and contracting quasi-2D Bose-Einstein condensate at zero temperature. For sufficiently large amplitude condensate oscillations, pair production provides the leading dissipation mechanism. The condensate oscillations decay in a nonexponential ...
0301397v3
2003-02-10
Damped orbital excitations in the titanates
A possible mechanism for the removal of the orbital degeneracy in RTiO3 (where R=La, Y, ...) is considered. The calculation is based on the Kugel-Khomskii Hamiltonian for electrons residing in the t2g orbitals of the Ti ions, and uses a self-consistent pe rturbation expansion in the interaction between the orbital and ...
0302182v1
2003-03-20
Energies and damping rates of elementary excitations in spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensed gases
Finite temperature Green's function technique is used to calculate the energies and damping rates of elementary excitations of the homogeneous, dilute, spin-1 Bose gases below the Bose-Einstein condensation temperature both in the density and spin channels. For this purpose the self-consistent dynamical Hartree-Fock mo...
0303424v3
2003-04-17
Non-Fermi liquid behavior from two-dimensional antiferromagnetic fluctuations: a renormalization-group and large-N analysis
We analyze the Hertz-Moriya-Millis theory of an antiferromagnetic quantum critical point, in the marginal case of two dimensions (d=2,z=2). Up to next-to-leading order in the number of components (N) of the field, we find that logarithmic corrections do not lead to an enhancement of the Landau damping. This is in agree...
0304415v1
2003-05-21
The path-coalescence transition and its applications
We analyse the motion of a system of particles subjected a random force fluctuating in both space and time, and experiencing viscous damping. When the damping exceeds a certain threshold, the system undergoes a phase transition: the particle trajectories coalesce. We analyse this transition by mapping it to a Kramers p...
0305491v2
2003-05-21
Magnetoresistive response of a high mobility 2DES under electromagnetic wave excitation
Oscillations of the resistance observed under electromagnetic wave excitation in the high mobility GaAs/AlGaAs 2DES are examined as a function of the radiation frequency and the power, utilizing an empirical lineshape based on exponentially damped sinusoids. The fit-analysis indicates the resistance oscillation frequen...
0305507v2
2003-06-16
Infrared Spectroscopy of Quantum Crossbars
Infrared (IR) spectroscopy can be used as an important and effective tool for probing periodic networks of quantum wires or nanotubes (quantum crossbars, QCB) at finite frequencies far from the Luttinger liquid fixed point. Plasmon excitations in QCB may be involved in resonance diffraction of incident electromagnetic ...
0306409v1
2003-06-19
Superradiant light scattering from a moving Bose-Einstein condensate
We investigate the interaction of a moving BEC with a far detuned laser beam. Superradiant Rayleigh scattering arises from the spontaneous formation of a matter-wave grating due to the interference of two wavepackets with different momenta. The system is described by the CARL-BEC model which is a generalization of the ...
0306500v2
2003-07-25
Finite temperature excitations of a trapped Bose-Fermi mixture
We present a detailed study of the low-lying collective excitations of a spherically trapped Bose-Fermi mixture at finite temperature in the collisionless regime. The excitation frequencies of the condensate are calculated self-consistently using the static Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory within the Popov approximation....
0307638v1
2003-09-18
Memory-function approach to the normal-state optical properties of the Bechgaard salt (TMTSF)_2PF_6
The gauge invariant, two-component optical conductivity model, with a correlation gap structure related to the umklapp scattering processes, is applied to the quasi-one-dimensional electronic systems and compared to the recent measurements on the Bechgaard salt (TMTSF)_2PF_6. The optical response of both the insulating...
0309419v1
2003-10-03
Effects of electrostatic fields and Casimir force on cantilever vibrations
The effect of an external bias voltage and fluctuating electromagnetic fields on both the fundamental frequency and damping of cantilever vibrations is considered. An external voltage induces surface charges causing cantilever-sample electrostatic attraction. A similar effect arises from charged defects in dielectrics ...
0310081v1
2003-10-07
Precessional switching of thin nanomagnets: analytical study
We study analytically the precessional switching of the magnetization of a thin macrospin. We analyze its response when subjected to an external field along its in-plane hard axis. We derive the exact trajectories of the magnetization. The switching versus non switching behavior is delimited by a bifurcation trajectory...
0310147v1
2003-11-27
Temperature dependent Bogoliubov approximation in the classical fields approach to weakly interacting Bose gas
A classical fields approximation to the finite temperature microcanonical thermodynamics of weakly interacting Bose gas is applied to the idealized case of atoms confined in a box with periodic boundary conditions. We analyze in some detail the microcanonical temperature in the model. We also analyze the spectral prope...
0311622v1
2003-12-29
Plasmon attenuation and optical conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas
In a ballistic two-dimensional electron gas, the Landau damping does not lead to plasmon attenuation in a broad interval of wave vectors q << k_F. Similarly, it does not contribute to the optical conductivity \sigma (\omega, q) in a wide domain of its arguments, E_F > \omega > qv_F, where E_F, k_F and v_F are, respecti...
0312684v3
2004-03-05
Mode-coupling theory and molecular dynamics simulation for heat conduction in a chain with transverse motions
We study heat conduction in a one-dimensional chain of particles with longitudinal as well as transverse motions. The particles are connected by two-dimensional harmonic springs together with bending angle interactions. The problem is analyzed by mode-coupling theory and compared with molecular dynamics. We find very g...
0403162v1
2004-03-21
Evidence for Superfluidity in a Resonantly Interacting Fermi Gas
We observe collective oscillations of a trapped, degenerate Fermi gas of $^6$Li atoms at a magnetic field just above a Feshbach resonance, where the two-body physics does not support a bound state. The gas exhibits a radial breathing mode at a frequency of 2837(05) Hz, in excellent agreement with the frequency of $\nu_...
0403540v2
2004-03-22
Parametric Driving of Dark Solitons in Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensates
A dark soliton oscillating in an elongated harmonically-confined atomic Bose-Einstein condensate continuously exchanges energy with the sound field. Periodic optical `paddles' are employed to controllably enhance the sound density and transfer energy to the soliton, analogous to parametric driving. In the absence of da...
0403566v2
2004-04-09
Network-Induced Oscillatory Behavior in Material Flow Networks
Network theory is rapidly changing our understanding of complex systems, but the relevance of topological features for the dynamic behavior of metabolic networks, food webs, production systems, information networks, or cascade failures of power grids remains to be explored. Based on a simple model of supply networks, w...
0404226v1
2004-04-28
Dynamics of the Electro-Reflective Response of TaS3
We have observed a large (~1%) change in infrared reflectance of the charge-density-wave (CDW) conductor, orthorhombic TaS3, when its CDW is depinned. The change is concentrated near one current contact. Assuming that the change in reflectance is proportional to the degree of CDW polarization, we have studied the dynam...
0404690v1
2004-05-06
Damping of the de Haas-van Alphen oscillations in the superconducting state of MgB_2
The de Haas-van Alphen (dHvA) signal arising from orbits on the $\pi$ Fermi surface sheet of the two-gap superconductor MgB$_2$ has been observed in the vortex state below $H_{c2}$. An extra attenuation of the dHvA signal, beyond those effects described in the conventional Lifshitz-Kosevich expression, is seen due to t...
0405120v1
2004-05-26
Magnetic droplets in a metal close to a ferromagnetic quantum critical point
Using analytical and path integral Monte Carlo methods, we study the susceptibility $\chi_{dc}(T)$ of a spin-S impurity with XY rotational symmetry embedded in a metal. Close to a ferromagnetic quantum critical point, the impurity polarizes conduction electrons in its vicinity and forms a large magnetic droplet with mo...
0405618v2
2004-06-29
Pairing gaps in atomic gases at the BCS-BEC crossover
Strong evidence for pairing and superfluidity has recently been found in atomic Fermi gases at the BCS-BEC crossover both in collective modes and RF excitation energies. It is argued that the scale for the effective pairing gaps measured in RF experiments is set by the lowest quasiparticle in-gap excitation energies. T...
0406714v3
2004-08-26
Decoherence of Rabi oscillations in a single quantum dot
We develop a realistic model of Rabi oscillations in a quantum-dot photodiode. Based in a multi-exciton density matrix formulation we show that for short pulses the two-level models fails and higher levels should be taken into account. This affects some of the experimental conclusions, such as the inferred efficiency o...
0408570v2
2004-08-28
Breakdown of Hydrodynamics in the Radial Breathing Mode of a Strongly-Interacting Fermi Gas
We measure the magnetic field dependence of the frequency and damping time for the radial breathing mode of an optically trapped, Fermi gas of $^6$Li atoms near a Feshbach resonance. The measurements address the apparent discrepancy between the results of Kinast et al., [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 92}, 150402 (2004)] and th...
0408634v2
2004-10-01
Magnetic Properties of Cuprate Perovskites
The magnetic susceptibility of underdoped yttrium and lanthanum cuprates is interpreted based on the self-consistent solution of the t-J model of a Cu-O plane. The calculations reproduce correctly the frequency dependencies of the susceptibility in YBa2Cu3O_{7-y} and La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO4 attributing their dissimilarity to ...
0410009v1
2004-11-12
Microwave induced resistance oscillations on a high-mobility 2DEG: absorption/reflection and temperature damping experiments
In this work we address experimentally a number of unresolved issues related to microwave induced resistance oscillations (MIRO) and the zero-resistance states observed recently on very high-mobility 2D electron gases in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures. In particular, we examine electrodynamic effects via reflection/absor...
0411338v1
2004-11-17
Path integral derivation of Bloch-Redfield equations for a qubit weakly coupled to a heat bath: Application to nonadiabatic transitions
Quantum information processing has greatly increased interest in the phenomenon of environmentally-induced decoherence. The spin boson model is widely used to study the interaction between a spin-modelling a quantum particle moving in a double well potential-and its environment-modelled by a heat bath of harmonic oscil...
0411443v1
2004-11-24
Josephson tunnel junctions with nonlinear damping for RSFQ-qubit circuit applications
We demonstrate that shunting of Superconductor-Insulator-Superconductor Josephson junctions by Superconductor-Insulator-Normal metal (S-I-N) structures having pronounced non-linear I-V characteristics can remarkably modify the Josephson dynamics. In the regime of Josephson generation the phase behaves as an overdamped ...
0411607v1
2004-12-01
Reply to Millis et al. on "A Tale of Two Theories: Quantum Griffiths Effects in Metallic Systems"
In a recent paper (cond-mat/0411197) we showed the equivalence of two seemingly contradictory theories on Griffiths-McCoy singularities (GMS) in metallic antiferromagnets close to a quantum critical point (QCP). In a recent comment, Millis {\it et al.} (cond-mat/0411738) argue that in heavy-fermion materials the electr...
0412020v2
2005-01-04
On continuum modeling of sputter erosion under normal incidence: interplay between nonlocality and nonlinearity
Under specific experimental circumstances, sputter erosion on semiconductor materials exhibits highly ordered hexagonal dot-like nanostructures. In a recent attempt to theoretically understand this pattern forming process, Facsko et al. [Phys. Rev. B 69, 153412 (2004)] suggested a nonlocal, damped Kuramoto-Sivashinsky ...
0501049v2
2005-01-18
Incommensurate spin dynamics in underdoped cuprate perovskites
The incommensurate magnetic response observed in normal-state cuprate perovskites is interpreted based on the projection operator formalism and the t-J model of Cu-O planes. In agreement with experiment the calculated dispersion of maxima in the susceptibility has the shape of two parabolas with upward and downward bra...
0501418v1
2005-02-21
Velocity dependence of atomic-scale friction: a comparative study of the one- and two-dimensional Tomlinson model
We present a comparative analysis of the velocity dependence of atomic-scale friction for the Tomlinson model, at zero and finite temperatures, in 1D and 2D, and for different values of the damping. Combining analytical arguments with numerical simulations, we show that an appreciable velocity dependence of the kinetic...
0502496v1
2005-03-12
Collective Oscillations of Strongly Correlated One-Dimensional Bosons on a Lattice
We study the dipole oscillations of strongly correlated 1D bosons, in the hard-core limit, on a lattice, by an exact numerical approach. We show that far from the regime where a Mott insulator appears in the system, damping is always present and increases for larger initial displacements of the trap, causing dramatic c...
0503302v2
2005-04-28
Coherence properties of bulk matter
We prove a theorem, using the density functional approach and relying on a classical result by Lieb and Simon on Thomas-Fermi model, showing that in the thermodynamic limit bulk matter is at most semiclassical and coherence preserving. The connection between quantum fluid dynamics and density functional theory in the f...
0504768v3
2005-05-19
Harmonic Content of Strain-induced Potential Modulation in Unidirectional Lateral Superlattices
Detailed analysis of the commensurability oscillation (CO) has been performed on unidirectional lateral superlattices with periods ranging from a=92 to 184 nm. Fourier analysis reveals the second (and the third) harmonics along with the fundamental oscillation for a>=138 nm (184 nm) at low-enough temperature, evincing ...
0505479v1
2005-06-14
Lifetime of the first and second collective excitations in metallic nanoparticles
We determine the lifetime of the surface plasmon in metallic nanoparticles under various conditions, concentrating on the Landau damping, which is the dominant mechanism for intermediate-size particles. Besides the main contribution to the lifetime, which smoothly increases with the size of the particle, our semiclassi...
0506320v2
2005-07-27
Dynamics of a nanomechanical resonator coupled to a superconducting single-electron transistor
We present an analysis of the dynamics of a nanomechanical resonator coupled to a superconducting single electron transistor (SSET) in the vicinity of the Josephson quasiparticle (JQP) and double Josephson quasiparticle (DJQP) resonances. For weak coupling and wide separation of dynamical timescales, we find that for e...
0507645v1
2005-08-01
Unexpected Effect of Internal Degrees of Freedom on Transverse Phonons in Supercooled Liquids
We show experimentally that in a supercooled liquid composed of molecules with internal degrees of freedom the internal modes contribute to the frequency dependent shear viscosity and damping of transverse phonons, which results in an additional broadening of the transverse Brillouin lines. Earlier, only the effect of ...
0508046v1
2005-08-05
Damping of vortex waves in a superfluid
The damping of vortex cyclotron modes is investigated within a generalized quantum theory of vortex waves. Similarly to the case of Kelvin modes, the friction coefficient turns out to be essentially unchanged under such oscillations, but it is shown to be affected by appreciable memory corrections. On the other hand, t...
0508167v1
2005-08-08
Collective excitations of low density fermion-boson quantum-liquid mixtures
We investigate the collective excitations of a low temperature dilute gas mixture that consists of a Bose-Einstein condensate and a Fermi-gas that is a normal (i.e. non-superfluid) Fermi-liquid. We find that the BEC-mediated fermion-fermion interactions, as a consequence of retardation, can become repulsive and support...
0508207v1
2005-09-02
Inhomogeneous soliton ratchets under two ac forces
We extend our previous work on soliton ratchet devices [L. Morales-Molina et al., Eur. Phys. J. B 37, 79 (2004)] to consider the joint effect of two ac forces including non-harmonic drivings, as proposed for particle ratchets by Savele'v et al. [Europhys. Lett. 67}, 179 (2004); Phys. Rev. E {\bf 70} 066109 (2004)]. Cur...
0509051v1
2005-10-26
Multiple electron-hole scattering effect on quasiparticle properties in a homogeneous electron gas
We present a detailed study of a contribution of the T matrix accounting for multiple scattering between an electron and a hole to the quasiparticle self-energy. This contribution is considered as an additional term to the GW self-energy. The study is based on a variational solution of the T-matrix integral equation wi...
0510684v2
2005-10-27
Acoustic damping in Li$_2$O-2B$_2$O$_3$ glass observed by inelastic x-ray and optical Brillouin scattering
The dynamic structure factor of lithium-diborate glass has been measured at several values of the momentum transfer $Q$ using high resolution inelastic x-ray scattering. Much attention has been devoted to the low $Q$-range, below the observed Ioffe-Regel crossover \qco{}$\simeq$ 2.1 nm$^{-1}$. We find that below \qco{}...
0510714v1
2005-12-07
Acoustic attenuation probe for fermion superfluidity in ultracold atom gases
Dilute gas Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC's), currently used to cool fermionic atoms in atom traps, can also probe the superfluidity of these fermions. The damping rate of BEC-acoustic excitations (phonon modes), measured in the middle of the trap as a function of the phonon momentum, yields an unambiguous signature of...
0512134v4
2006-01-11
Apparent phonon side band modes in pi-conjugated systems: polymers, oligomers and crystals
The emission spectra of many pi-conjugated polymers and oligomers contain side-band replicas with apparent frequencies that do not match the Raman active mode frequencies. Using a time dependent model we show that in such many mode systems, the increased damping of the time dependent transition dipole moment correlatio...
0601218v1
2006-03-01
Renormalization of the electron-spin-fluctuation interaction in the t-t'-U Hubbard model
We study the renormalization of the electron-spin-fluctuation (el-sp) vertex in a two-dimensional Hubbard model with nearest-neighbor (t) and next-nearest-neighbor (t') hopping by a Quantum-Monte-Carlo calculation. Our results show that for t'=0, the renormalized el-sp vertex decreases quite generally with decreasing t...
0603014v3
2006-07-18
Equilibrium and non-equilibrium dynamics of the sub-ohmic spin-boson model
Employing the non-perturbative numerical renormalization group method, we study the dynamics of the spin-boson model, which describes a two-level system coupled to a bosonic bath with spectral density J(omega) propto omega^s. We show that, in contrast to the case of ohmic damping, the delocalized phase of the sub-ohmic...
0607443v2
2006-09-29
Quantum master equation for electron transport through quantum dots and single molecules
A quantum master equation (QME) is derived for the many-body density matrix of an open current-carrying system weakly coupled to two metal leads. The dynamics and the steady-state properties of the system for arbitrary bias are studied using projection operator techniques, which keep track of number of electrons in the...
0610004v1
2006-10-25
Pulse and hold strategy for switching current measurements
We investigate by theory and experiment, the Josephson junction switching current detector in an environment with frequency dependent damping. Analysis of the circuit's phase space show that a favorable topology for switching can be obtained with overdamped dynamics at high frequencies. A pulse-and-hold method is descr...
0610704v2
2006-10-29
Experimental Studies of Low-field Landau Quantization in Two-dimensional Electron Systems in GaAs/AlGaAs Heterostructures
By applying a magnetic field perpendicular to GaAs/AlGaAs two-dimensional electron systems, we study the low-field Landau quantization when the thermal damping is reduced with decreasing the temperature. Magneto-oscillations following Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) formula are observed even when their amplitudes are so large ...
0610805v1
2006-11-18
Distributions of switching times of single-domain particles using a time quantified Monte Carlo method
Using a time quantified Monte Carlo scheme we performed simulations of the switching time distribution of single mono-domain particles in the Stoner-Wohlfarth approximation. We considered uniaxial anisotropy and different conditions for the external applied field. The results obtained show the switching time distributi...
0611494v2