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2009-08-19
Quantum Energy Teleportation with Electromagnetic Field: Discrete vs. Continuous Variables
It is well known that usual quantum teleportation protocols cannot transport energy. Recently, new protocols called quantum energy teleportation (QET) have been proposed, which transport energy by local operations and classical communication with the ground states of many-body quantum systems. In this paper, we compare...
0908.2674v2
2009-08-25
Designing materials for plasmonic systems
We use electronic structure calculations based upon density functional theory to search for ideal plasmonic materials among the alkali noble intermetallics. Importantly, we use density functional perturbation theory to calculate the electron-phonon interaction and from there use a first order solution to the Boltzmann ...
0908.3707v1
2009-09-15
Quantum critical points of Helical Fermi Liquids
Following our previous work, we study the quantum phase transitions which spontaneously develop ferromagnetic spin order in helical fermi liquids which breaks continuous spin-space rotation symmetry, with application to the edge states of 3d topological band insulators. With finite fermi surface, the critical point has...
0909.2647v3
2009-09-25
Evidence for Landau's critical velocity in superfluid helium nanodroplets from wave packet dynamics of attached potassium dimers
Femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy has been used to study vibrational dynamics of potassium dimers attached to superfluid helium nanodroplets. Comparing the measured data with theoretical results based on dissipative quantum dynamics we propose that the most important effect of the helium environment is a general damp...
0909.4691v1
2009-10-23
Fragmentation of the photoabsorption strength in neutral and charged metal microclusters
The line shape of the plasma resonance in both neutral and charged small sodium clusters is calculated. The overall properties of the multipeak structure observed in the photoabsorption cross section of spherical Na_8 and Na_20 neutral clusters can be understood in terms of Landau damping. Quantal configurations are sh...
0910.4576v1
2009-10-28
Quantum Decoherence of Two Qubits
It is commonly stated that decoherence in open quantum systems is due to growing entanglement with an environment. In practice, however, surprisingly often decoherence may equally well be described by random unitary dynamics without invoking a quantum environment at all. For a single qubit, for instance, pure decoheren...
0910.5364v1
2009-10-29
System-reservoir dynamics of quantum and classical correlations
We address the system-reservoir dynamics of classical and quantum correlations in the decoherence phenomenon, regarding a two qubit composite system interacting with two independent environments. The most common noise channels (amplitude damping, phase damping, bit flip, bit-phase flip, and phase flip) was studied. By ...
0910.5711v3
2009-11-04
Nonlinear damping in a micromechanical oscillator
Nonlinear elastic effects play an important role in the dynamics of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Duffing oscillator is widely used as an archetypical model of mechanical resonators with nonlinear elastic behavior. In contrast, nonlinear dissipation effects in micromechanical oscillators are often overlooked. ...
0911.0833v2
2009-11-04
Solar-like oscillations in massive main-sequence stars. I. Asteroseismic signatures of the driving and damping regions
Motivated by the recent detection of stochastically excited modes in the massive star V1449 Aql (Belkacem et al., 2009b), already known to be a $\beta$ Cephei, we theoretically investigate the driving by turbulent convection. By using a full non-adiabatic computation of the damping rates, together with a computation of...
0911.0908v1
2009-11-11
Ginzburg-Landau equation for dynamical four-wave mixing in gain nonlinear media with relaxation
We consider the dynamical degenerate four-wave mixing (FWM) model in a cubic nonlinear medium including both the time relaxation of the induced nonlinearity and the nonlocal coupling. The initial ten-dimensional FWM system can be rewritten as a three-variable intrinsic system (namely the intensity pattern, the amplitud...
0911.2129v1
2009-12-10
Bipartite quantum channels using multipartite cluster-type entangled coherent states
We propose a particular encoding for bipartite entangled states derived from multipartite cluster-type entangled coherent states (CTECSs). We investigate the effects of amplitude damping on the entanglement content of this bipartite state, as well as its usefulness as a quantum channel for teleportation. We find intere...
0912.1949v2
2009-12-18
Oscillatory transient regime in the forced dynamics of a spin torque nano-oscillator
We demonstrate that the transient non-autonomous dynamics of a spin torque nano-oscillator (STNO) under a radio-frequency (rf) driving signal is qualitatively different from the dynamics described by the Adler model. If the external rf current $I_{rf}$ is larger than a certain critical value $I_{cr}$ (determined by the...
0912.3650v1
2009-12-19
Study of sdO models: mode trapping
We present the first description of mode trapping for sdO models. Mode trapping of gravity modes caused by the He/H chemical transition is found for a particular model, providing a selection effect for high radial order trapped modes. Low- and intermediate-radial order {\em p}-modes (mixed modes with a majority of node...
0912.3911v1
2009-12-20
Optimal Design of Fuzzy Based Power System Stabilizer Self Tuned by Robust Search Algorithm
In the interconnected power system network, instability problems are caused mainly by the low frequency oscillations of 0.2 to 2.5 Hz. The supplementary control signal in addition with AVR and high gain excitation systems are provided by means of Power System Stabilizer (PSS). Conventional power system stabilizers prov...
0912.3960v2
2009-12-23
Decoherence and Entanglement Dynamics in Fluctuating Fields
We study pure phase damping of two qubits due to fluctuating fields. As frequently employed, decoherence is thus described in terms of random unitary (RU) dynamics, i.e., a convex mixture of unitary transformations. Based on a separation of the dynamics into an average Hamiltonian and a noise channel, we are able to an...
0912.4654v2
2010-01-02
Distinguishing quantum channels via magic squares game
We study the effect of quantum memory in magic squares game when played in quantum domain. We consider different noisy quantum channels and analyze their influence on the magic squares quantum pseudo-telepathy game. We show that the probability of success can be used to distinguish the quantum channels. It is seen that...
1001.0295v1
2010-01-06
Freezing of spin dynamics and omega/T scaling in underdoped cuprates
The memory function approach to spin dynamics in doped antiferromagnetic insulator combined with the assumption of temperature independent static spin correlations and constant collective mode damping leads to omega/T scaling in a broad range. The theory involving a non universal scaling parameter is used to analyze re...
1001.0837v1
2010-01-15
Calculating Green Functions from Finite Systems
In calculating Green functions for interacting quantum systems numerically one often has to resort to finite systems which introduces a finite size level spacing. In order to describe the limit of system size going to infinity correctly, one has to introduce an artificial broadening larger than the finite size level di...
1001.2750v1
2010-02-02
Inertial Oscillations of Pinned Dislocations
Dislocation pinning plays a vital role in the plastic behaviour of a crystalline solid. Here we report the first observation of the damped oscillations of a mobile dislocation after it gets pinned at an obstacle in the presence of a constant static shear load. These oscillations are found to be inertial, instead of for...
1002.0422v1
2010-02-03
Nonlinear stability of viscous roll waves
Extending results of Oh--Zumbrun and Johnson--Zumbrun for parabolic conservation laws, we show that spectral stability implies nonlinear stability for spatially periodic viscous roll wave solutions of the one-dimensional St. Venant equations for shallow water flow down an inclined ramp. The main new issues to be overco...
1002.0788v2
2010-02-05
Damped-driven KdV and effective equation for long-time behaviour of its solutions
For the damped-driven KdV equation $$ \dot u-\nu{u_{xx}}+u_{xxx}-6uu_x=\sqrt\nu \eta(t,x), x\in S^1, \int u dx\equiv \int\eta dx\equiv0, $$ with $0<\nu\le1$ and smooth in $x$ white in $t$ random force $\eta$, we study the limiting long-time behaviour of the KdV integrals of motions $(I_1,I_2,...)$, evaluated along a so...
1002.1294v1
2010-02-09
Fate of non-Fermi liquid behavior in QED$_{3}$ at finite chemical potential
The damping rate of two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions exhibit non-Fermi liquid behavior, $\propto \epsilon^{1/2}$, due to gauge field at zero temperature and zero chemical potential. We study the fate of this behavior at finite chemical potential. We fist calculate explicitly the temporal and spatial components o...
1002.1760v3
2010-02-18
Direct Evidence for Two-Fluid Effects in Molecular Clouds
We present a combination of theoretical and simulation-based examinations of the role of two-fluid ambipolar drift on molecular line widths. The dissipation provided by ion-neutral interactions can produce a significant difference between the widths of neutral molecules and the widths of ionic species, comparable to th...
1002.3443v1
2010-03-08
Potential mechanical loss mechanisms in bulk materials for future gravitational wave detectors
Low mechanical loss materials are needed to further decrease thermal noise in upcoming gravitational wave detectors. We present an analysis of the contribution of Akhieser and thermoelastic damping on the experimental results of resonant mechanical loss measurements. The combination of both processes allows the fit of ...
1003.1613v1
2010-03-31
Non-Markovian master equation for a damped oscillator with time-varying parameters
We derive an exact non-Markovian master equation that generalizes the previous work [Hu, Paz and Zhang, Phys. Rev. D {\bf 45}, 2843 (1992)] to damped harmonic oscillators with time-varying parameters. This is achieved by exploiting the linearity of the system and operator solution in Heisenberg picture. Our equation go...
1003.5975v1
2010-04-08
Doppler cooling a microsphere
Doppler cooling the center-of-mass motion of an optically levitated microsphere via the velocity dependent scattering force from narrow whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonances is described. Light that is red detuned from the WGM resonance can be used to damp the center-of-mass motion in a process analogous to the Dopp...
1004.1443v1
2010-05-17
Concerning the statistics of cosmic magnetism
Magnetic fields appear to be a generic feature of the early universe and are a natural source of secondary CMB non-Gaussianity. In recent years the statistical nature of the stresses of a primordial magnetic field has been well studied. In this paper we confirm and extend these studies at one- and two-point level, and ...
1005.2982v1
2010-05-20
Line Solutions for the Euler and Euler-Poisson Equations with Multiple Gamma Law
In this paper, we study the Euler and Euler-Poisson equations in $R^{N}$, with multiple $\gamma$-law for pressure function: \begin{equation} P(\rho)=e^{s}\sum_{j=1}^{m}\rho^{\gamma_{j}}, \end{equation} where all $\gamma_{i+1}>\gamma_{i}\geq1$, is the constants. The analytical line solutions are constructed for the syst...
1005.3651v1
2010-06-12
Mechanical filtering in forced-oscillation of two coupled pendulums
Forced oscillation of a system composed of two pendulums coupled by a spring in the presence of damping is investigated. In the steady state and within the small angle approximation we solve the system equations of motion and obtain the amplitudes and phases of in terms of the frequency of the sinusoidal driving force....
1006.2475v1
2010-07-12
Ferromagnetic Excitations in La$_{0.82}$Sr$_{0.18}$CoO$_{3}$ Observed Using Neutron Inelastic Scattering
Polarized neutron inelastic scattering has been used to measure spin excitations in ferromagnetic La$_{0.82}$Sr$_{0.18}$CoO$_{3}$. The magnon spectrum of these spin excitations is well defined at low energies but becomes heavily damped at higher energies, and can be modeled using a quadratic dispersion. We determined a...
1007.1919v1
2010-07-28
Minimization of phonon-tunneling dissipation in mechanical resonators
Micro- and nanoscale mechanical resonators have recently emerged as ubiquitous devices for use in advanced technological applications, for example in mobile communications and inertial sensors, and as novel tools for fundamental scientific endeavors. Their performance is in many cases limited by the deleterious effects...
1007.4948v1
2010-08-05
Linear and Non-Linear Landau Resonance of Kinetic Alfvén Waves: Consequences for Electron Distribution and Wave Spectrum in the Solar Wind
Kinetic Alfven wave turbulence in solar wind is considered and it is shown that non-Maxwellian electron distribution function has a significant effect on the dynamics of the solar wind plasmas. Linear Landau damping leads to the formation of a plateau in the parallel electron distribution function which diminishes the ...
1008.0993v1
2010-08-11
Theory for a dissipative droplet soliton excited by a spin torque nanocontact
A novel type of solitary wave is predicted to form in spin torque oscillators when the free layer has a sufficiently large perpendicular anisotropy. In this structure, which is a dissipative version of the conservative droplet soliton originally studied in 1977 by Ivanov and Kosevich, spin torque counteracts the dampin...
1008.1898v1
2010-08-18
Modulation stabilization of Bloch oscillations of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices
We study the Bloch oscillations (BOs) of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) trapped in spin-dependent optical lattices. Based on the derived equations of motion of the wave packet in the basis of localized wave functions of the lattice sites, the damping effect induced by the intercomponent and intracompone...
1008.3004v1
2010-08-19
Josephson Coupling and Fiske Dynamics in Ferromagnetic Tunnel Junctions
We report on the fabrication of Nb/AlO_x/Pd_{0.82}Ni_{0.18}/Nb superconductor/insulator/ferromagnetic metal/superconductor (SIFS) Josephson junctions with high critical current densities, large normal resistance times area products, high quality factors, and very good spatial uniformity. For these junctions a transitio...
1008.3341v1
2010-09-03
A Simple Numerical Absorbing Layer Method in Elastodynamics
The numerical analysis of elastic wave propagation in unbounded media may be difficult to handle due to spurious waves reflected at the model artificial boundaries. Several sophisticated techniques such as nonreflecting boundary conditions, infinite elements or absorbing layers (e.g. Perfectly Matched Layers) lead to a...
1009.0592v1
2010-09-09
Modulation of waves due to charge-exchange collisions in magnetized partially ionized space plasma
A nonlinear time dependent fluid simulation model is developed that describes the evolution of magnetohydrodynamic waves in the presence of collisional and charge exchange interactions of a partially ionized plasma. The partially ionized plasma consists of electrons, ions and a significant number of neutral atoms. In o...
1009.1859v1
2010-09-15
A discontinuous Galerkin method for the Vlasov-Poisson system
A discontinuous Galerkin method for approximating the Vlasov-Poisson system of equations describing the time evolution of a collisionless plasma is proposed. The method is mass conservative and, in the case that piecewise constant functions are used as a basis, the method preserves the positivity of the electron distri...
1009.3046v2
2010-10-03
Measurement of damping and temperature: Precision bounds in Gaussian dissipative channels
We present a comprehensive analysis of the performance of different classes of Gaussian states in the estimation of Gaussian phase-insensitive dissipative channels. In particular, we investigate the optimal estimation of the damping constant and reservoir temperature. We show that, for two-mode squeezed vacuum probe st...
1010.0442v1
2010-10-12
Movers and shakers: Granular damping in microgravity
The response of an oscillating granular damper to an initial perturbation is studied using experiments performed in microgravity and granular dynamics mulations. High-speed video and image processing techniques are used to extract experimental data. An inelastic hard sphere model is developed to perform simulations and...
1010.2343v1
2010-10-18
K-shell photoionization of Na-like to Cl-like ions of Mg, Si, S, Ar, and Ca
We present $R$-matrix calculations of photoabsorption and photoionization cross sections across the K-edge of Mg, Si, S, Ar, and Ca ions with more than 10 electrons. The calculations include the effects of radiative and Auger damping by means of an optical potential. The wave functions are constructed from single-elect...
1010.3734v1
2010-10-19
A possible signature of cosmic neutrino decoupling in the nHz region of the spectrum of primordial gravitational waves
In this paper we study the effect of cosmic neutrino decoupling on the spectrum of cosmological gravitational waves (GWs). At temperatures T>>1 MeV, neutrinos constitute a perfect fluid and do not hinder GW propagation, while for T<<1 MeV they free-stream and have an effective viscosity that damps cosmological GWs by a...
1010.3849v2
2010-10-20
Modified Landau levels, damped harmonic oscillator and two-dimensional pseudo-bosons
In a series of recent papers one of us has analyzed in some details a class of elementary excitations called {\em pseudo-bosons}. They arise from a special deformation of the canonical commutation relation $[a,a^\dagger]=\1$, which is replaced by $[a,b]=\1$, with $b$ not necessarily equal to $a^\dagger$. Here, after a ...
1010.4221v1
2010-11-16
Forcibly driven coherent soft phonons in GeTe with intense THz-rate pump fields
We propose an experimental technique to generate large amplitude coherent phonons with irradiation of THz-rate pump pulses and to study the dynamics of phase transition in GeTe ferroelectrics. When a single pump pulse irradiates the sample at various pump power densities, the frequency of the soft phonon decreases sub-...
1011.3624v2
2010-11-21
Regular and chaotic transport of discrete solitons in asymmetric potentials
Ratchet dynamics of topological solitons of the forced and damped discrete double sine-Gordon system are studied. Directed transport occurring both in regular and in chaotic regions of the phase space and its dependence on damping, amplitude and frequency of the driving, asymmetry parameter, coupling constant, has been...
1011.4707v1
2010-11-26
Dependence of entanglement on initial states under amplitude damping channel in non-inertial frames
Under amplitude damping channel, the dependence of the entanglement on the initial states $|\Theta>_{1}$ and $|\Theta>_{2}$, which reduce to four orthogonal Bell states if we take the parameter of states $\alpha=\pm 1/\sqrt{2}$ are investigated. We find that the entanglements for different initial states will decay alo...
1011.5700v3
2010-12-21
Characterization of Decoherence from an Environmental Perspective
For the case of phase damping (pure decoherence) we investigate the extent to which environmental traits are imprinted on an open quantum system. The dynamics is described using the quantum channel approach. We study what the knowledge of the channel may reveal about the nature of its underlying dynamics and, conversel...
1012.4685v1
2010-12-28
Quantum Leptogenesis I
Thermal leptogenesis explains the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe in terms of neutrino masses, consistent with neutrino oscillation experiments. We present a full quantum mechanical calculation of the generated lepton asymmetry based on Kadanoff-Baym equations. Origin of the asymmetry is the depart...
1012.5821v3
2011-01-06
Chemical Enrichment in the Carbon-enhanced Damped Lyman $α$ System
We show that the recently observed elemental abundance pattern of the carbon-rich metal-poor Damped Lyman $\alpha$ (DLA) system is in excellent agreement with the nucleosynthesis yields of faint core-collapse supernovae of primordial stars. The observed abundance pattern is not consistent with the nucleosynthesis yield...
1101.1227v2
2011-02-08
Quantization of Damping Particle Based On New Variational Principles
In this paper a new approach is proposed to quantize mechanical systems whose equations of motion can not be put into Hamiltonian form. This approach is based on a new type of variational principle, which is adopted to a describe a relation: a damping particle may shares a common phase curve with a free particle, whose...
1102.1573v2
2011-02-15
Spin dynamics in the strong spin-orbit coupling regime
We study the spin dynamics in a high-mobility two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with generic spin-orbit interactions (SOIs). We derive a set of spin dynamic equations which capture the purely exponential to the damped oscillatory spin evolution modes observed in different regimes of SOI strength. Hence we provide a f...
1102.3170v1
2011-03-03
Collective modes and the speed of sound in the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov state
We consider the density response of a spin-imbalanced ultracold Fermi gas in an optical lattice in the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state. We calculate the collective mode spectrum of the system in the generalised random phase approximation and find that though the collective modes are damped even at zero te...
1103.0696v2
2011-03-10
Shocks in financial markets, price expectation, and damped harmonic oscillators
Using a modified damped harmonic oscillator model equivalent to a model of market dynamics with price expectations, we analyze the reaction of financial markets to shocks. In order to do this, we gather data from indices of a variety of financial markets for the 1987 Black Monday, the Russian crisis of 1998, the crash ...
1103.1992v2
2011-03-22
Inductive determination of the optimum tunnel barrier thickness in magnetic tunnelling junction stacks for spin torque memory applications
We use pulsed inductive microwave magnetometry to study the precessional magnetization dynamics of the free layer in CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB based magnetic tunnelling junction stacks with varying MgO barrier thickness. From the field dependence of the precession frequency we are able to derive the uniaxial anisotropy energy an...
1103.4248v1
2011-04-11
Algebraic damping in the one-dimensional Vlasov equation
We investigate the asymptotic behavior of a perturbation around a spatially non homogeneous stable stationary state of a one-dimensional Vlasov equation. Under general hypotheses, after transient exponential Landau damping, a perturbation evolving according to the linearized Vlasov equation decays algebraically with th...
1104.1890v2
2011-04-25
Exactly Solvable Nonhomogeneous Burgers Equations with Variable Coefficients
We consider a nonhomogeneous Burgers equation with time variable coefficients, and obtain an explicit solution of the general initial value problem in terms of solution to a corresponding linear ODE. Special exact solutions such as generalized shock and multi-shock solitary waves, triangular wave, N-wave and rational t...
1104.4717v1
2011-05-06
System-environment dynamics of X-type states in noninertial frames
The system-environment dynamics of noninertial systems is investigated. It is shown that for the amplitude damping channel: (i) the biggest difference between the decoherence effect and the Unruh radiation on the dynamics of the entanglement is the former only leads to entanglement transfer in the whole system, but the...
1105.1216v2
2011-05-10
Spontaneous magnon decays in planar ferromagnet
We predict that spin-waves in an easy-plane ferromagnet have a finite lifetime at zero temperature due to spontaneous decays. In zero field the damping is determined by three-magnon decay processes, whereas decays in the two-particle channel dominate in a transverse magnetic field. Explicit calculations of the magnon d...
1105.1893v1
2011-05-19
Scaling of the higher-order flow harmonics: implications for initial-eccentricity models and the "viscous horizon"
The scaling properties of the flow harmonics for charged hadrons $v_{n}$ and their ratios $[ v_n/(v_2)^{n/2}]_{n\geq 3}$, are studied for a broad range of transverse momenta ($p_T$) and centrality selections in Au+Au and Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=0.2 \text{and} 2.76$ TeV respectively. At relatively low $p_T$, ...
1105.3782v2
2011-05-26
Dynamics in the production of superheavy nuclei in low-energy heavy-ion collisions
We present a review of the recent progress of theoretical models on the description of the formation of superheavy nuclei in collisions of heavy systems. Two sorts of reactions that are the fusion-evaporation mechanism and the massive damped collisions to produce superheavy nuclei are discussed. Problems and further im...
1105.5224v2
2011-06-01
Effect of detuning on the phonon induced dephasing of optically driven InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots
Recently, longitudinal acoustic phonons have been identified as the main source of the intensity damping observed in Rabi rotation measurements of the ground-state exciton of a single InAs/GaAs quantum dot. Here we report experiments of intensity damped Rabi rotations in the case of detuned laser pulses, the results ha...
1106.0142v1
2011-06-03
Shear viscous effects on the primordial power spectrum from warm inflation
We compute the primordial curvature spectrum generated during warm inflation, including shear viscous effects. The primordial spectrum is dominated by the thermal fluctuations of the radiation bath, sourced by the dissipative term of the inflaton field. The dissipative coefficient \Upsilon, computed from first principl...
1106.0701v1
2011-06-06
Weakly nonlinear stochastic CGL equations
We consider the linear Schr\"odinger equation under periodic boundary condition, driven by a random force and damped by a quasilinear damping: $$ \frac{d}{dt}u+i\big(-\Delta+V(x)\big) u=\nu \Big(\Delta u-\gr |u|^{2p}u-i\gi |u|^{2q}u \Big) +\sqrt\nu\, \eta(t,x).\qquad (*) $$ The force $\eta$ is white in time and smooth ...
1106.1158v1
2011-06-09
Investigating viscous damping using a webcam
We describe an experiment involving a mass oscillating in a viscous fluid and analyze viscous damping of harmonic motion. The mechanical oscillator is tracked using a simple webcam and an image processing algorithm records the position of the geometrical center as a function of time. Interesting information can be extr...
1106.1823v1
2011-06-11
Conformal and covariant formulation of the Z4 system with constraint-violation damping
We present a new formulation of the Einstein equations based on a conformal and traceless decomposition of the covariant form of the Z4 system. This formulation combines the advantages of a conformal decomposition, such as the one used in the BSSNOK formulation (i.e. well-tested hyperbolic gauges, no need for excision,...
1106.2254v2
2011-06-14
Oscillations of hot, young neutron stars: Gravitational wave frequencies and damping times
We study how the frequencies and damping times of oscillations of a newly born, hot proto-neutron star depend on the physical quantities which characterize the star quasi-stationary evolution which follows the bounce. Stellar configurations are modeled using a microscopic equation of state obtained within the Brueckner...
1106.2736v1
2011-06-22
Samll BGK waves and nonlinear Landau damping (higher dimensions)
Consider Vlasov-Poisson system with a fixed ion background and periodic condition on the space variables, in any dimension d\geq2. First, we show that for general homogeneous equilibrium and any periodic x-box, within any small neighborhood in the Sobolev space W_{x,v}^{s,p} (p>1,s<1+(1/p)) of the steady distribution f...
1106.4368v1
2011-07-13
q-damped Oscillator and degenerate roots of constant coefficients q-difference ODE
The classical model of q-damped oscillator is introduced and solved in terms of Jackson q-exponential function for three different cases, under-damped, over-damped and the critical one. It is shown that in all three cases solution is oscillating in time but is unbounded and non-periodic. By q-periodic function modulati...
1107.2518v1
2011-07-13
Increased Brownian force noise from molecular impacts in a constrained volume
We report on residual gas damping of the motion of a macroscopic test mass enclosed in a nearby housing in the molecular flow regime. The damping coefficient, and thus the associated thermal force noise, is found to increase significantly when the distance between test mass and surrounding walls is smaller than the tes...
1107.2520v1
2011-07-13
Dimension of attractors and invariant sets of damped wave equations in unbounded domains
Under fairly general assumptions, we prove that every compact invariant set $\mathcal I$ of the semiflow generated by the semilinear damped wave equation u_{tt}+\alpha u_t+\beta(x)u-\Deltau = f(x,u), (t,x)\in[0,+\infty[\times\Omega, u = 0, (t,x)\in[0,+\infty[\times\partial\Omega in $H^1_0(\Omega)\times L^2(\Omega) has ...
1107.2589v1
2011-07-15
K-shell photoionization of Nickel ions using R-matrix
We present R-matrix calculations of photoabsorption and photoionization cross sections across the K edge of the Li-like to Ca-like ions stages of Ni. Level-resolved, Breit-Pauli calculations were performed for the Li-like to Na-like stages. Term-resolved calculations, which include the mass-velocity and Darwin relativi...
1107.3146v1
2011-07-20
Bayesian Magnetohydrodynamic Seismology of Coronal Loops
We perform a Bayesian parameter inference in the context of resonantly damped transverse coronal loop oscillations. The forward problem is solved in terms of parametric results for kink waves in one-dimensional flux tubes in the thin tube and thin boundary approximations. For the inverse problem, we adopt a Bayesian ap...
1107.3943v1
2011-07-31
Evolution of cat states in a dissipative parametric amplifier: decoherence and entanglement
The evolution of the Schr\"{o}dinger-cat states in a dissipative parametric amplifier is examined. The main tool in the analysis is the normally ordered characteristic function. Squeezing, photon-number distribution and reduced factorial moments are discussed for the single- and compound-mode cases. Also the single-mod...
1108.0127v1
2011-07-31
Second-Order, Dissipative Tâtonnement: Economic Interpretation and 2-Point Limit Cycles
This paper proposes an alternative to the classical price-adjustment mechanism (called "t\^{a}tonnement" after Walras) that is second-order in time. The proposed mechanism, an analogue to the damped harmonic oscillator, provides a dynamic equilibration process that depends only on local information. We show how such a ...
1108.0188v3
2011-08-02
PHENIX Measurements of Higher-order Flow Harmonics in Au+Au collisions at Root_s = 200 GeV
Flow coefficients $v_n$ for $n$ = 2, 3, 4, characterizing the anisotropic collective flow in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV, are presented. They indicate the expected growth of viscous damping for sound propagation in the quark gluon plasma (QGP) produced in these collisions. Hydrodynamical model compari...
1108.0457v1
2011-08-10
Critical exponents of steady-state phase transitions in fermionic lattice models
We discuss reservoir induced phase transitions of lattice fermions in the non-equilibrium steady state (NESS) of an open system with local reservoirs. These systems may become critical in the sense of a diverging correlation length upon changing the reservoir coupling. We here show that the transition to a critical sta...
1108.2263v5
2011-09-09
Observation of Spontaneous Brillouin Cooling
While radiation-pressure cooling is well known, the Brillouin scattering of light from sound is considered an acousto-optical amplification-only process. It was suggested that cooling could be possible in multi-resonance Brillouin systems when phonons experience lower damping than light. However, this regime was not ac...
1109.2084v2
2011-09-14
Oscillations of simple networks
To describe the flow of a miscible quantity on a network, we introduce the graph wave equation where the standard continuous Laplacian is replaced by the graph Laplacian. This is a natural description of an array of inductances and capacities, of fluid flow in a network of ducts and of a system of masses and springs. T...
1109.3071v2
2011-09-21
High-order explicit local time-stepping methods for damped wave equations
Locally refined meshes impose severe stability constraints on explicit time-stepping methods for the numerical simulation of time dependent wave phenomena. Local time-stepping methods overcome that bottleneck by using smaller time-steps precisely where the smallest elements in the mesh are located. Starting from classi...
1109.4480v2
2011-09-21
Anisotropic critical magnetic fluctuations in the ferromagnetic superconductor UCoGe
We report neutron scattering measurements of critical magnetic excitations in the weakly ferromagnetic superconductor UCoGe. The strong non-Landau damping of the excitations we observe, although unusual has been found in another related ferromagnet, UGe2 at zero pressure. However, we also find there is a significant an...
1109.4541v1
2011-09-30
PT-symmetry, indefinite damping and dissipation-induced instabilities
With perfectly balanced gain and loss, dynamical systems with indefinite damping can obey the exact PT-symmetry being marginally stable with a pure imaginary spectrum. At an exceptional point where the symmetry is spontaneously broken, the stability is lost via passing through a non-semisimple 1:1 resonance. In the par...
1110.0018v2
2011-10-01
Electrical measurement of antivortex wall eigenfrequency
The dynamics of a ferromagnetic antivortex wall has been experimentally studied in a magnetic nanostructure. Two different techniques have been used to independently measure the eigenfrequency of an antivortex wall such as the resonance excitation by sinusoidal microwave and the damped resonance excitation induced by s...
1110.0113v1
2011-10-06
Comparative Wakefield Analysis of a First Prototype of a DDS Structure for CLIC Main Linac
A Damped Detuned Structure (DDS) for CLIC main linac has been proposed as an alternative to the present baseline design which is based on heavy damping. A first prototype, CLIC_DDS_A, for high power tests has been already designed and is under construction. It is also foreseen to design a further prototype, CLIC_DDS_B,...
1110.1207v1
2011-10-12
Nonlinear dynamic analysis of an optimal particle damper
We study the dynamical behavior of a single degree of freedom mechanical system with a particle damper. The particle (granular) damping was optimized for the primary system operating condition by using an appropriate gap size for a prismatic enclosure. The particles absorb the kinetic energy of the vibrating structure ...
1110.2800v1
2011-10-14
Effect of Compton Scattering on the Electron Beam Dynamics at the ATF Damping Ring
Compton scattering provides one of the most promising scheme to obtain polarized positrons for the next generation of $e^-$ -- $e^+$ colliders. Moreover it is an attractive method to produce monochromatic high energy polarized gammas for nuclear applications and X-rays for compact light sources. In this framework a fou...
1110.3241v1
2011-10-28
Stability of linear and non-linear lambda and tripod systems in the presence of amplitude damping
We present the stability analysis of the dark states in the adiabatic passage for the linear and non-linear lambda and tripod systems in the presence of amplitude damping (losses). We perform an analytic evaluation of the real parts of eigenvalues of the corresponding Jacobians, the non-zero eigenvalues of which are fo...
1110.6379v2
2011-11-07
Control of Material Damping in High-Q Membrane Microresonators
We study the mechanical quality factors of bilayer aluminum/silicon-nitride membranes. By coating ultrahigh-Q Si3N4 membranes with a more lossy metal, we can precisely measure the effect of material loss on Q's of tensioned resonator modes over a large range of frequencies. We develop a theoretical model that interpret...
1111.1703v2
2011-11-15
Thermodynamic anomaly of the free damped quantum particle: the bath perspective
A possible definition of the specific heat of open quantum systems is based on the reduced partition function of the system. For a free damped quantum particle, it has been found that under certain conditions, this specific heat can become negative at low temperatures. In contrast to the conventional approaches focusin...
1111.3594v2
2011-12-02
On the propagation of binary signals in damped mechanical systems of oscillators
In the present work, we explore efficient ways to transmit binary information in discrete, semi-infinite chains of coupled oscillators using the process of nonlinear supratransmission. A previous work showed that such transmission is possible and, indeed, reliable under the idealistic condition when weak or no damping ...
1112.0585v1
2011-12-02
On the simulation of the energy transmission in the forbidden band-gap of a spatially discrete double sine-Gordon system
In this work, we present a numerical method to consistently approximate solutions of a spatially discrete, double sine-Gordon chain which considers the presence of external damping. In addition to the finite-difference scheme employed to approximate the solution of the difference-differential equations of the model und...
1112.0595v1
2011-12-11
Spin-polarized current effect on antiferromagnet magnetization in a ferromagnet - antiferromagnet nanojunction: Theory and simulation
Spin-polarized current effect is studied on the static and dynamic magnetization of the antiferromagnet in a ferromagnet - antiferromagnet nanojunction. The macrospin approximation is generalized to antiferromagnets. Canted antiferromagnetic configuration and resulting magnetic moment are induced by an external magneti...
1112.2362v1
2011-12-15
Analytic gas orbits in an arbitrary rotating galactic potential using the linear epicyclic approximation
A code, Epic5, has been developed which computes, in the two-dimensional case, the initially circular orbits of guiding centra in an arbitrary axisymmetric potential with an arbitrary, weak perturbing potential in solid body rotation. This perturbing potential is given by its Fourier expansion. The analytic solution so...
1112.3658v1
2011-12-21
A numerical method for computing radially symmetric solutions of a dissipative nonlinear modified Klein-Gordon equation
In this paper we develop a finite-difference scheme to approximate radially symmetric solutions of the initial-value problem with smooth initial conditions in an open sphere around the origin, where the internal and external damping coefficients are constant, and the nonlinear term follows a power law. We prove that ou...
1112.4921v1
2011-12-23
Temperature gradient assisted magnetodynamics in a ferromagnetic nanowire
The dynamics of the low energy excitations in a ferromagnet is studied in case a temperature gradient is coupled to the local magnetization. Due to the different time scales of changing temperature and magnetization it is argued that only the coupling between the spatially varying part of the temperature field and the ...
1112.5562v1
2012-01-04
A new candidate for probing Population III nucleosynthesis with carbon-enhanced damped Lyman-alpha systems
We report the identification of a very metal-poor damped Lyman-alpha system (DLA) at z_abs = 3.067295 that is modestly carbon-enhanced, with an iron abundance of ~1/700 solar ([Fe/H] = -2.84) and [C,O/Fe] ~ +0.6. Such an abundance pattern is likely to be the result of nucleosynthesis by massive stars. On the basis of 1...
1201.1004v2
2012-01-06
Magnetic field decay with Hall drift in neutron star crusts
The dynamics of magnetic field decay with Hall drift is investigated. Assuming that axisymmetric magnetic fields are located in a spherical crust with uniform conductivity and electron number density, long-term evolution is calculated up to Ohmic dissipation. The nonlinear coupling between poloidal and toroidal compone...
1201.1346v1
2012-01-06
Reversible Dissipative Processes, Conformal Motions and Landau Damping
The existence of a dissipative flux vector is known to be compatible with reversible processes, provided a timelike conformal Killing vector (CKV) $\chi^\alpha=\frac{V^\alpha}{T}$ (where $V^\alpha$ and $T$ denote the four-velocity and temperature respectively) is admitted by the space-time. Here we show that if a const...
1201.1390v1
2012-01-19
Wave Leakage and Resonant Absorption in a Loop Embedded in a Coronal Arcade
We investigate the temporal evolution of impulsively generated perturbations in a potential coronal arcade with an embedded loop. As the initial configuration we consider a coronal loop, represented by a density enhancement, which is unbounded in the ignorable direction of the arcade. The linearized time-dependent magn...
1201.4042v1
2012-02-07
The Fine Structure Constant and the CMB Damping Scale
The recent measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies at arcminute angular scales performed by the ACT and SPT experiments are probing the damping regime of CMB fluctuations. The analysis of these datasets unexpectedly suggests that the effective number of relativistic degrees of freedom is larger tha...
1202.1476v1
2012-02-08
Evidence of Wave Damping at Low Heights in a Polar Coronal Hole
We have measured the widths of spectral lines from a polar coronal hole using the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer onboard Hinode. Polar coronal holes are regions of open magnetic field and the source of the fast solar wind. We find that the line widths decrease at relatively low heights. Previous observations ...
1202.1743v2