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2019-09-14
Measurement-Based Wide-Area Damping of Inter-Area Oscillations based on MIMO Identification
Interconnected power grid exhibits oscillatory response after a disturbance in the system. One such type of oscillations, the inter-area oscillations has the oscillation frequency in the range of 0.1 to 1 Hz. The damping of inter-area oscillations is difficult with local controllers, but it can be achieved using a Wide...
1909.06687v1
2020-02-07
Engineering Co$_2$MnAl$_x$Si$_{1-x}$ Heusler compounds as a model system to correlate spin polarization, intrinsic Gilbert damping and ultrafast demagnetization
Engineering of magnetic materials for developing better spintronic applications relies on the control of two key parameters: the spin polarization and the Gilbert damping responsible for the spin angular momentum dissipation. Both of them are expected to affect the ultrafast magnetization dynamics occurring on the femt...
2002.02686v1
2020-03-16
Spin-orbit torques originating from bulk and interface in Pt-based structures
We investigated spin-orbit torques in prototypical Pt-based spintronic devices. We found that, in Pt/Ni and Pt/Fe bilayers, the damping-like torque efficiency depends on the thickness of the Pt layer. We also found that the damping-like torque efficiency is almost identical in the Pt/Ni and Pt/Fe bilayers despite the s...
2003.07271v2
2020-03-23
Heat-like and wave-like lifespan estimates for solutions of semilinear damped wave equations via a Kato's type lemma
In this paper we study several semilinear damped wave equations with "subcritical" nonlinearities, focusing on demonstrating lifespan estimates for energy solutions. Our main concern is on equations with scale-invariant damping and mass. Under different assumptions imposed on the initial data, lifespan estimates from a...
2003.10578v1
2020-09-03
Dynamics of magnetic collective modes in the square and triangular lattice Mott insulators at finite temperature
We study the equilibrium dynamics of magnetic moments in the Mott insulating phase of the Hubbard model on the square and triangular lattice. We rewrite the Hubbard interaction in terms of an auxiliary vector field and use a recently developed Langevin scheme to study its dynamics. A thermal `noise', derivable approxim...
2009.01833v2
2020-09-15
Classification of the mechanisms of wave energy dissipation in the nonlinear oscillations of coated and uncoated bubbles
Acoustic waves are dissipated when they pass through bubbly media. Dissipation by bubbles takes place through thermal damping (Td), radiation damping (Rd) and damping due to the friction of the liquid (Ld) and friction of the coating (Cd). Knowledge of the contributions of the Td, Rd, Ld and Cd during nonlinear bubble ...
2009.07380v1
2020-11-18
The effect of redshift degeneracy and the damping effect of viscous medium on the information extracted from gravitational wave signals
Considering the cosmological redshift $z_c$ , the mass of GW source extracted from GW signal is $1+z_c$ times larger than its intrinsic value, and distance between detector and GW source should be regarded as luminosity distance. However, besides cosmological redshift, there are other kinds of redshifts should be consi...
2011.09169v2
2020-12-28
On the Efficacy of Friction Damping in the Presence of Nonlinear Modal Interactions
This work addresses friction-induced modal interactions in jointed structures, and their effects on the passive mitigation of vibrations by means of friction damping. Under the condition of (nearly) commensurable natural frequencies, the nonlinear character of friction can cause so-called nonlinear modal interactions. ...
2101.03232v1
2021-06-30
Origin of Nonlinear Damping due to Mode Coupling in Auto-Oscillatory Modes Strongly Driven by Spin-Orbit Torque
We investigate the physical origin of nonlinear damping due to mode coupling between several auto-oscillatory modes driven by spin-orbit torque in constricted Py/Pt heterostructures by examining the dependence of auto-oscillation on temperature and applied field orientation. We observe a transition in the nonlinear dam...
2107.00150v2
2021-07-15
On the long-time behavior for a damped Navier-Stokes-Bardina model
In this paper, we consider a damped Navier-Stokes-Bardina model posed on the whole three-dimensional. These equations have an important physical motivation and they arise from some oceanic model. From the mathematical point of view, they write down as the well-know Navier-Stokes equations with an additional nonlocal op...
2107.07070v2
2021-07-17
Plasmon-Exciton Coupling Effect on Plasmon Damping
Plasmon decay via the surface or interface is a critical process for practical energy conversion and plasmonic catalysis. However, the relationship between plasmon damping and the coupling between the plasmon and 2D materials is still unclear. The spectral splitting due to plasmon-exciton interaction impedes the conven...
2107.08230v1
2021-10-12
Outflows in the presence of cosmic rays and waves with cooling
Plasma outflow from a gravitational potential well with cosmic rays and self-excited Alfv\'en waves with cooling and wave damping is studied in the hydrodynamics regime. We study outflows in the presence of cosmic ray and Alfv\'en waves including the effect of cooling and wave damping. We seek physically allowable stea...
2110.06170v1
2021-11-19
Finite time extinction for a class of damped Schr{ö}dinger equations with a singular saturated nonlinearity
We present some sharper finite extinction time results for solutions of a class of damped nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equations when the nonlinear damping term corresponds to the limit cases of some ``saturating non-Kerr law'' $F(|u|^2)u=\frac{a}{\varepsilon+(|u|^2)^\alpha}u,$ with $a\in\mathbb{C},$ $\varepsilon\geqslant...
2111.10136v2
2022-01-26
Effect of Chiral Damping on the dynamics of chiral domain walls and skyrmions
Friction plays an essential role in most physical processes that we experience in our everyday life. Examples range from our ability to walk or swim, to setting boundaries of speed and fuel efficiency of moving vehicles. In magnetic systems, the displacement of chiral domain walls (DW) and skyrmions (SK) by Spin Orbit ...
2201.10742v1
2022-01-27
A Study on Monte Carlo simulation of the radiation environment above GeV at the DAMPE orbit
The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) has been undergoing a stable on-orbit operation for more than 6 years and acquired observation of over 11 billion events. And a better understanding of the overall radiation environment on the DAMPE orbit is crucial for both simulation data production and flight data analysis. ...
2201.11364v1
2022-05-10
Nonlinear damping quantification from phase-resonant tests under base excitation
The present work addresses the experimental identification of amplitude-dependent modal parameters (modal frequency, damping ratio, Fourier coefficients of periodic modal oscillation). Phase-resonant testing has emerged as an important method for this task, as it substantially reduces the amount of data required for th...
2205.04735v1
2022-09-22
Neutrino Fast Flavor Pendulum. Part 2: Collisional Damping
In compact astrophysical objects, the neutrino density can be so high that neutrino-neutrino refraction can lead to fast flavor conversion of the kind $\nu_e \bar\nu_e \leftrightarrow \nu_x \bar\nu_x$ with $x=\mu,\tau$, depending on the neutrino angle distribution. Previously, we have shown that in a homogeneous, axisy...
2209.11235v3
2022-10-12
Second order two-species systems with nonlocal interactions: existence and large damping limits
We study the mathematical theory of second order systems with two species, arising in the dynamics of interacting particles subject to linear damping, to nonlocal forces and to external ones, and resulting into a nonlocal version of the compressible Euler system with linear damping. Our results are limited to the $1$ s...
2210.06162v1
2022-10-12
Stability of the Néel quantum critical point in the presence of Dirac fermions
We investigate the stability of the N\'eel quantum critical point of two-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets, described by a non-linear $\sigma$ model (NL$\sigma$M), in the presence of a Kondo coupling to $N_f$ flavours of two-component Dirac fermion fields. The long-wavelength order parameter fluctuations are subject...
2210.06577v3
2022-11-13
Damping analysis of Floating Offshore Wind Turbine (FOWT): a new control strategy reducing the platform vibrations
In this paper, the coupled dynamics of the floating platform and the WTG rotor is analysed. In particular, the damping is explicitly derived from the coupled equations of rotor and floating platform. The analysis of the damping leads to the study of the instability phenomena and it derives the explicit conditions that ...
2211.10362v1
2022-11-22
Universal Dynamics of Damped-Driven Systems: The Logistic Map as a Normal Form for Energy Balance
Damped-driven systems are ubiquitous in engineering and science. Despite the diversity of physical processes observed in a broad range of applications, the underlying instabilities observed in practice have a universal characterization which is determined by the overall gain and loss curves of a given system. The unive...
2211.11748v1
2023-01-23
Optimal Inter-area Oscillation Damping Control: A Transfer Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach with Switching Control Strategy
Wide-area damping control for inter-area oscillation (IAO) is critical to modern power systems. The recent breakthroughs in deep learning and the broad deployment of phasor measurement units (PMU) promote the development of datadriven IAO damping controllers. In this paper, the damping control of IAOs is modeled as a M...
2301.09321v1
2023-03-15
Blow-up and decay for a class of variable coefficient wave equation with nonlinear damping and logarithmic source
In this paper, we consider the long time behavior for the solution of a class of variable coefficient wave equation with nonlinear damping and logarithmic source. The existence and uniqueness of local weak solution can be obtained by using the Galerkin method and contraction mapping principle. However, the long time be...
2303.08629v1
2023-04-13
Centralised Multimode Power Oscillation Damping Controller for Photovoltaic Plants with Communication Delay Compensation
Low-frequency oscillations are an inherent phenomena in transmission networks and renewable energy plants should be configured to damp them. Commonly, a centralised controller is used in PV plants to coordinate PV generators via communication channels. However, the communication systems of PV plants introduce delays of...
2304.06415v1
2023-05-09
Glassy heat capacity from overdamped phasons and a hypothetical phason-induced superconductivity in incommensurate structures
Phasons are collective low-energy modes that appear in disparate condensed matter systems such as quasicrystals, incommensurate structures, fluctuating charge density waves, and Moir\'e superlattices. They share several similarities with acoustic phonon modes, but they are not protected by any exact translational symme...
2305.05407v2
2023-08-03
Flavor-wave theory with quasiparticle damping at finite temperatures: Application to chiral edge modes in the Kitaev model
We propose a theoretical framework to investigate elementary excitations at finite temperatures within a localized electron model that describes the interactions between multiple degrees of freedom, such as quantum spin models and Kugel-Khomskii models. Thus far, their excitation structures have been mainly examined us...
2308.01711v1
2024-02-13
Investigating the Effect of Noise on the Training Performance of Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks
In this paper, we conduct a comprehensively analyze the influence of different quantum noise gates, including Phase Flip, Bit Flip, Phase Damping, Amplitude Damping, and the Depolarizing Channel, on the performance of HyQNNs. Our results reveal distinct and significant effects on HyQNNs training and validation accuraci...
2402.08523v1
2024-03-03
Magnonic $\varphi$ Josephson Junctions and Synchronized Precession
There has been a growing interest in non-Hermitian physics. One of its main goals is to engineer dissipation and to explore ensuing functionality. In magnonics, the effect of dissipation due to local damping on magnon transport has been explored. However, the effects of non-local damping on the magnonic analog of the J...
2403.01625v1
2024-04-09
A Frequency-Domain Beamforming Procedure for Extracting Rayleigh Wave Attenuation Coefficients and Small-Strain Damping Ratio from 2D Ambient Noise Array Measurements
The small-strain damping ratio plays a crucial role in assessing the response of soil deposits to earthquake-induced ground motions and general dynamic loading. The damping ratio can theoretically be inverted for after extracting frequency-dependent Rayleigh wave attenuation coefficients from wavefields collected durin...
2404.06650v1
1997-01-17
Evidence for Rotation in the Galaxy at z=3.15 Responsible for a Damped Lyman-alpha Absorption System in the Spectrum of Q2233+1310
Proof of the existence of a significant population of normal disk galaxies at redshift z>2 would have profound implications for theories of structure formation and evolution. We present evidence based on Keck HIRES observations that the damped Lyman-alpha absorber at z=3.15 toward the quasar Q2233+1310 may well be such...
9701116v2
1997-04-11
The Metallicity of High Redshift Galaxies: The Abundance of Zinc in 34 Damped Lyman Alpha Systems from z = 0.7 to 3.4
We report new observations of ZnII and CrII absorption lines in 10 damped \lya systems (DLAs), mostly at redshift $z_{abs} \simgt 2.5$ . By combining these results with those from our earlier survey (Pettini et al. 1994) and other recent data, we construct a sample of 34 measurements (or upper limits) of the Zn abundan...
9704102v1
1997-04-17
On the Kinematics of the Damped Lyman Alpha Protogalaxies
We present the first results of an ongoing program to investigate the kinematic characteristics of high redshift damped lya systems. Because damped lya systems are widely believed to be the progenitors of current massive galaxies, an analysis of their kinematic history allows a direct test of galaxy formation scenarios...
9704169v2
2000-11-20
H-alpha Imaging with HST+NICMOS of An Elusive Damped Ly-alpha Cloud at z=0.6
Despite previous intensive ground-based imaging and spectroscopic campaigns and wide-band HST imaging of the z=0.927 QSO 3C336 field, the galaxy that hosts the damped Ly-alpha system along this line-of-sight has eluded detection. We present a deep narrow-band H-alpha image of the field of this z=0.656 damped Ly-alpha a...
0011374v2
2005-08-17
The SDSS Damped Lya Survey: Data Release 3
We present the results from a damped Lya survey of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Data Release 3 based on over 500 new damped Lya systems at z>2.2. We measure the HI column density distribution f(N) and its zeroth and first moments (the incidence l(X) and gas mass-density O_dla of damped Lya systems, respectively) as a ...
0508361v1
2010-03-11
Damping of MHD turbulence in partially ionized gas and the observed difference of velocities of neutrals and ions
Theoretical and observational studies on the turbulence of the interstellar medium developed fast in the past decades. The theory of supersonic magnetized turbulence, as well as the understanding of projection effects of observed quantities, are still in progress. In this work we explore the characterization of the tur...
1003.2346v1
2011-09-07
Weakly collisional Landau damping and three-dimensional Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal modes: New results on old problems
Landau damping and Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal (BGK) modes are among the most fundamental concepts in plasma physics. While the former describes the surprising damping of linear plasma waves in a collisionless plasma, the latter describes exact undamped nonlinear solutions of the Vlasov equation. There does exist a relati...
1109.1353v1
2012-11-06
Torsional Alfvén waves in solar partially ionized plasma: effects of neutral helium and stratification
Ion-neutral collisions may lead to the damping of Alfven waves in chromospheric and prominence plasmas. Neutral helium atoms enhance the damping in certain temperature interval, where the ratio of neutral helium and neutral hydrogen atoms is increased. Therefore, the height-dependence of ionization degrees of hydrogen ...
1211.1348v2
2013-05-16
Application of vibration-transit theory to distinct dynamic response for a monatomic liquid
We examine the distinct part of the density autocorrelation function Fd(q,t), also called the intermediate scattering function, from the point of view of the vibration-transit (V-T) theory of monatomic liquid dynamics. A similar study has been reported for the self part, and we study the self and distinct parts separat...
1305.3954v2
2013-09-16
Two-atom system as a nano-antenna for mode switching and light routing
We determine how a system composed of two nonidentical two-level atoms with different resonance frequencies and different damping rates could work as a nano-antenna for controlled mode switching and light routing. We calculate the angular distribution of the emitted field detected in a far-field zone of the system incl...
1309.3924v1
2015-04-01
Landau damping of Gardner solitons in a dusty bi-ion plasma
The effects of linear Landau damping on the nonlinear propagation of dust-acoustic solitary waves (DASWs) are studied in a collisionless unmagnetized dusty plasma with two species of positive ions. The extremely massive, micron-seized, cold and negatively charged dust particles are described by fluid equations, whereas...
1504.00089v2
2017-03-09
Material developments and domain wall based nanosecond-scale switching process in perpendicularly magnetized STT-MRAM cells
We investigate the Gilbert damping and the magnetization switching of perpendicularly magnetized FeCoB-based free layers embedded in tunnel junctions adequate for spin-torque operated memories. We study the influence of the boron content in MgO / FeCoB /Ta systems alloys on their Gilbert damping after crystallization a...
1703.03198v3
2017-07-18
Explanations of the DAMPE high energy electron/positron spectrum in the dark matter annihilation and pulsar scenarios
Many studies have shown that either the nearby astrophysical source or dark matter (DM) annihilation/decay is required to explain the origin of high energy cosmic ray (CR) $e^\pm$, which are measured by many experiments, such as PAMELA and AMS-02. Recently, the Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) collaboration has re...
1707.05664v2
2018-06-27
In-flight performance of the DAMPE silicon tracker
DAMPE (DArk Matter Particle Explorer) is a spaceborne high-energy cosmic ray and gamma-ray detector, successfully launched in December 2015. It is designed to probe astroparticle physics in the broad energy range from few GeV to 100 TeV. The scientific goals of DAMPE include the identification of possible signatures of...
1806.10355v1
2018-10-30
Effect of Landau damping on ion acoustic solitary waves in a multi-species collisionless unmagnetized plasma consisting of nonthermal and isothermal electrons
A Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation including the effect of Landau damping is derived to study the propagation of weakly nonlinear and weakly dispersive ion acoustic waves in a collisionless unmagnetized plasma consisting of warm adiabatic ions and two different species of electrons at different temperatures. The hotter...
1810.12739v1
2019-03-28
Improving convergence of volume penalised fluid-solid interactions
We analyse and improve the volume-penalty method, a simple and versatile way to model objects in fluid flows. The volume-penalty method is a kind of fictitious-domain method that approximates no-slip boundary conditions with rapid linear damping inside the object. The method can then simulate complex, moving objects in...
1903.11914v4
2019-06-12
Study of Alfven Eigenmodes stability in plasma with multiple NBI driven energetic particle specie
The aim of this study is to analyze the destabilization of Alfven Eigenmodes (AE) by multiple energetic particles (EP) species in DIII-D and LHD discharges. We use the reduced MHD equations to describe the linear evolution of the poloidal flux and the toroidal component of the vorticity in a full 3D system, coupled wit...
1906.05701v1
2020-06-08
Stochastic re-acceleration and magnetic-field damping in Tycho's supernova remnant
A number of studies suggest that shock acceleration with particle feedback and very efficient magnetic-field amplification combined with Alfv\'{e}nic drift are needed to explain the rather soft radio spectrum and the narrow rims observed for Tycho's SNR. We show that the broadband spectrum of Tycho's SNR can alternativ...
2006.04832v1
2021-02-23
Influence of Ion-Neutral Damping on the Cosmic-Ray Streaming Instability: Magnetohydrodynamic Particle-in-cell Simulations
We explore the physics of the gyro-resonant cosmic ray streaming instability (CRSI) including the effects of ion-neutral (IN) damping. This is the main damping mechanism in (partially-ionized) atomic and molecular gas, which are the primary components of the interstellar medium (ISM) by mass. Limitation of CRSI by IN d...
2102.11878v3
2022-06-17
Quantum Dynamics of Magnetic Skyrmions: Consistent Path Integral Formulation
We present a path integral formalism for the intrinsic quantum dynamics of magnetic skyrmions coupled to a thermal background of magnetic fluctuations. Upon promoting the skyrmion's collective coordinate $\boldsymbol{R}$ to a dynamic variable and integrating out the magnonic heat bath, we derive the generalized equatio...
2206.08532v2
2024-02-05
Revisiting the role of cosmic-ray driven Alfvén waves in pre-existing magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. I. Turbulent damping rates and feedback on background fluctuations
Alfv\'en waves (AWs) excited by the cosmic-ray (CR) streaming instability (CRSI) are a fundamental ingredient for CR confinement. The effectiveness of self-confinement relies on a balance between CRSI growth rate and damping mechanisms acting on quasi-parallel AWs excited by CRs. One relevant mechanism is the so-called...
2402.02901v1
2006-10-24
Logical contradictions of Landau damping
Landau damping/growing at boundary condition of excitation of a harmonic wave in collisionless ion-electron-neutrals plasma contradicts to the law of energy conservation of a wave damping/growing in space. There is also no criterion of a choice either damping or growing solution in difference from always non-damping in...
0610220v67
2000-05-31
The afterglow of the short/intermediate-duration gamma-ray burst GRB 000301C: A jet at z=2.04
We present Ulysses and NEAR data from the detection of the short or intermediate duration (2 s) gamma-ray burst GRB000301C (2000 March 1.41 UT). The gamma-ray burst (GRB) was localised by the Inter Planetary Network (IPN) and RXTE to an area of 50 arcmin^2. A fading optical counterpart was subsequently discovered with ...
0005609v2
2011-05-16
A Measurement of the Damping Tail of the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectrum with the South Pole Telescope
We present a measurement of the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT). The data consist of 790 square degrees of sky observed at 150 GHz during 2008 and 2009. Here we present the power spectrum over the multipole range 650 < ell < 3000, where it i...
1105.3182v2
2016-10-07
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Two-Season ACTPol Spectra and Parameters
We present the temperature and polarization angular power spectra measured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol). We analyze night-time data collected during 2013-14 using two detector arrays at 149 GHz, from 548 deg$^2$ of sky on the celestial equator. We use these spectra, and the spectra measured w...
1610.02360v1
1995-02-16
Lyman alpha Emission from High-Redshift Galaxies
We summarise the results of a deep search for Lyman alpha emission from star-forming regions associated with damped Lyman alpha absorption systems and conclude that the Lyman alpha luminosity of high redshift galaxies is generally less than 10^(42) erg/s . We also present a newly discovered case, in the field of the QS...
9502076v1
1995-10-12
Limits on diffusive shock acceleration in dense and incompletely ionised media
The limits imposed on diffusive shock acceleration by upstream ion-neutral Alfven wave damping, and by ionisation and Coulomb losses of low energy particles, are calculated. Analytic solutions are given for the steady upstream wave excitation problem with ion-neutral damping and the resulting escaping upstream flux cal...
9510066v2
1995-11-28
Damping of GRR instability by direct URCA reactions
The role of direct URCA reactions in damping of the gravitational radiation driven instability is discussed. The temperature at which bulk viscosity suppresses completely this instability is calculated. The results are obtained analytically using recent calculations performed in the case of bulk viscosity due to the ...
9511136v1
1997-10-31
Abundances in Damped Lyman-alpha Systems and Chemical Evolution of High Redshift Galaxies
Recent abundance measurements in damped Lyman-alpha galaxies, supplemented with unpublished Keck observations, are discussed. The metallicity distribution with cosmic time is examined for clues about the degree of enrichment, the onset of initial star formation, and the nature of the galxies. The relative abundances of...
9710370v1
1998-05-08
Exploring the Damped Lyman-alpha Clouds with AXAF
The High Energy Transmission Grating (HETG) Spectrometer on the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) (scheduled for launch in August, 1998) will provide a new tool for the study of absorption in the X-ray spectra of high redshift quasars due to the material along the line of sight. In this paper we try to explor...
9805110v1
1998-05-28
Photon Damping of Waves in Accretion Disks
MHD turbulence is generally believed to have two important functions in accretion disks: it transports angular momentum outward, and the energy in its shortest wavelength modes is dissipated into the heat that the disks radiate. In this paper we examine a pair of mechanisms which may play an important role in regulatin...
9805358v1
1998-06-11
Damping of differential rotation in neutron stars
We derive the transport relaxation times for quasiparticle-vortex scattering processes via nuclear force, relevant for the damping of differential rotation of superfluids in the quantum liquid core of a neutron star. The proton scattering off the neutron vortices provides the dominant resistive force on the vortex latt...
9806156v1
1999-03-10
Elemental abundances at early times: the nature of Damped Lyman-alpha systems
The distribution of element abundances with redshift in Damped Ly-alpha (DLA) systems can be adequately reproduced by the same model reproducing the halo and disk components of the Milky Way Galaxy at different galactocentric distances: DLA systems are well represented by normal spiral galaxies in their early evolution...
9903150v1
1999-07-26
Are Damped Ly-alpha Systems Large, Galactic Disks ?
The hypothesis that the Damped Ly-alpha systems (DLAs) are large, galactic disks (Milky Way sized) is tested by confronting predictions of models of the formation and evolution of (large) disk galaxies with observations, in particular the Zinc abundance distribution with neutral hydrogen column density found for DLAs. ...
9907349v1
1999-11-25
Probing Solar Convection
In the solar convection zone acoustic waves are scattered by turbulent sound speed fluctuations. In this paper the scattering of waves by convective cells is treated using Rytov's technique. Particular care is taken to include diffraction effects which are important especially for high-degree modes that are confined to...
9911469v1
1999-12-14
The Gas Reservoir for present day Galaxies : Damped Ly-alpha Absorption Systems
We present results from an ongoing search for galaxy counterparts of a subgroup of Quasar Absorption Line Systems called Damped Ly-alpha Absorbers (DLAs). DLAs have several characteristics that make them essential in the process of understanding how galaxies formed in the early universe and evolved to the galaxies we s...
9912268v1
2000-06-22
Nuclear Reaction Rates in a Plasma: The Effect of Highly Damped Modes
The fluctuation-dissipation theorem is used to evaluate the screening factor of nuclear reactions due to the electromagnetic fluctuations in a plasma. We show that the commonly used Saltpeter factor is obtained if only fluctuations near the plasma eigenfrequency are assumed to be important (\omega \sim \omega_{pe}\ll T...
0006326v1
2001-01-13
Measuring Feedback in Damped Lyman Alpha Systems
We measure feedback (heating rates) in damped Lyman alpha systems from the cooling rate of the neutral gas. Since cooling occurs through [C II] 158 micron emission, we infer cooling from C II^{*} 1335.7 absorption lines detected with HIRES on the Keck I telescope. The inferred heating rates are about 30 times lower tha...
0101218v1
2001-04-18
The First Detection of Cobalt in a Damped Lyman Alpha System
We present the first ever detection of Cobalt in a Damped Lyman Alpha system (DLA) at z = 1.92. In addition to providing important clues to the star formation history of these high redshift galaxies, we discuss how studying the Co abundance in DLAs may also help to constrain models of stellar nucleosynthesis in a regim...
0104301v1
2001-05-09
Nuclear reaction rates and energy in stellar plasmas : The effect of highly damped modes
The effects of the highly damped modes in the energy and reaction rates in a plasma are discussed. These modes, with wavenumbers $k \gg k_{D}$, even being only weakly excited, with less than $k_{B}T$ per mode, make a significant contribution to the energy and screening in a plasma. When the de Broglie wavelength is muc...
0105153v1
2001-07-03
The HI Content and Extent of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies - Could LSB Galaxies be Responsible for Damped Ly-alpha Absorption?
Low surface brightness galaxies, those galaxies with a central surface brightness at least one magnitude fainter than the night sky, are often not included in discussions of extragalactic gas at z < 0.1. In this paper we review many of the properties of low surface brightness galaxies, including recent studies which in...
0107064v1
2001-09-10
H_2 molecules in damped systems
Damped Lyman alpha systems seen in the spectra of high-z QSOs arise in high-density neutral gas in which molecular hydrogen (H_2) should be conspicuous. Systematic searches to detect the H_2 lines redshifted into the Lyman alpha forest at <3400\AA are now possible thanks to the unique capabilities of UVES on the VLT. H...
0109155v1
2001-10-23
A scaling law of interstellar depletions as a tool for abundance studies of Damped Ly alpha systems
An analytical expression is presented that allows dust depletions to be estimated in different types of interstellar environments, including Damped Ly alpha systems. The expression is a scaling law of a reference depletion pattern and takes into account the possibility that the dust chemical composition may vary as a f...
0110499v1
2002-09-23
Outflows in Galaxies and Damped Ly-alpha System
Although quasar absorbers, and in particular Damped Lyman-alpha systems (DLAs) have proven a valuable tool to study the early Universe, their exact nature is so far poorly constrained. It has been suggested that outflows in galaxies might account for at least part of the DLA population. Observational evidences and mode...
0209463v1
2004-03-15
The Damping Wing of the Gunn-Peterson Absorption and Lyman-Alpha Emitters in the Pre-Reionization Era
We use a numerical simulation of cosmological reionization to estimate the likelihood of detecting Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies during the pre-reionization era. We show that it is possible to find galaxies even at z~9 that are barely affected by the dumping wing of the Gunn-Peterson absorption from the neutral IGM out...
0403345v1
2005-05-28
Cosmic ray transport in MHD turbulence
Recent advances in understanding of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence call for revisions in the picture of cosmic ray transport. In this paper we use recently obtained scaling laws for MHD modes to obtain the scattering frequency for cosmic rays. We account for the turbulence cutoff arising from both collisional and...
0505575v1
2005-06-22
A Damped Ly-alpha Absorption-line System in an Apparent Void at Redshift 2.38
We study the contents of an apparent void in the distribution of Ly-alpha emitting galaxies at redshift 2.38. We show that this void is not empty, but contains a damped Ly-alpha absorption-line system, seen in absorption against background QSO 2138-4427. Imaging does not reveal any galaxy associated with this absorptio...
0506525v1
2005-08-08
Fluorescence in damp air and comments on the radiative life time
Photon yields in damp air excited by an electron using a Sr90 $\beta$ source are compared withthose in dry air. Water vapors considerably reduce the yields, however, a further study is needed to evaluate the effects on the energy estimation of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays. The relation of fluorescence efficiency to the...
0508183v1
2006-08-17
Electron thermal conductivity owing to collisions between degenerate electrons
We calculate the thermal conductivity of electrons produced by electron-electron Coulomb scattering in a strongly degenerate electron gas taking into account the Landau damping of transverse plasmons. The Landau damping strongly reduces this conductivity in the domain of ultrarelativistic electrons at temperatures belo...
0608371v1
2006-09-19
Dust, Metals and Diffuse Interstellar Bands in Damped Lyman Alpha Systems
Although damped Lyman alpha (DLA) systems are usually considered metal-poor, it has been suggested that this could be due to observational bias against metal-enriched absorbers. I review recent surveys to quantify the particular issue of dust obscuration bias and demonstrate that there is currently no compelling observ...
0609530v1
2006-11-08
Comments on Viscous Damping of Non-Adiabatic MHD Waves in an Unbounded Solar Coronal Plasma by Kumar and Kumar
Considering thermal conduction, compressive viscosity and optically thin radiation as damping mechanisms for MHD waves, we derive a six-order general dispersion relation. We point out a fundamental flaw in the derivation of five-order dispersion relation by Kumar and Kumar (2006) who adopt as a basis vector. The correc...
0611252v2
2007-01-10
Non-gaussianity in fluctuations from warm inflation
The scalar mode density perturbations in a the warm inflationary scenario are analysed with a view to predicting the amount of non-gaussianity produced by this scenario. The analysis assumes that the inflaton evolution is strongly damped by the radiation, with damping terms that are temperature independent. Entropy flu...
0701302v2
1998-05-22
WKB for a damped spin
The master equation for a damped spin well known from the theory of superradiance, is written as a finite-difference equation and solved by a WKB-like method. The propagator thus obtained looks like the van Vleck propagator of a certain classical Hamiltonian system with one degree of freedom. A new interpretation is pr...
9805018v1
1998-11-04
Cascades of energy and helicity in the GOY shell model of turbulence
The effect of extreme hyperviscous damping, $\nu k_n^p, p=\infty$ is studied numerically in the GOY shell model of turbulence. It has resently been demonstrated [Leveque and She, Phys. Rev. Lett, 75,2690 (1995)] that the inertial range scaling in the GOY model is non-universal and depending on the viscous damping. The ...
9811009v1
1994-02-04
Effects of Disorder in a Dilute Bose Gas
We discuss the effects of a weak random external potential on the properties of the dilute Bose gas at zero temperature. The results recently obtained by Huang and Meng for the depletion of the condensate and of the superfluid density are recovered. Results for the shift of the velocity of sound as well as for its damp...
9402015v1
1997-02-13
Comment on "Collective Excitations of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Magnetic Trap"
We calculate the damping rate of collective excitations for a nearly pure Bose-Einstein condensate regarding the recent experiments in MIT [M.-O. Mews et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 988 (1996)]. The decay time of collective excitations obtained in our theoretical calculations agrees well with their experimental result. We...
9702122v1
1997-08-14
Landau damping in dilute Bose gases
Landau damping in weakly interacting Bose gases is investigated by means of perturbation theory. Our approach points out the crucial role played by Bose-Einstein condensation and yields an explicit expression for the decay rate of elementary excitations in both uniform and non uniform gases. Systematic results are deri...
9708104v1
1997-11-07
Coulomb suppression of NMR coherence peak in fullerene superconductors
The suppressed NMR coherence peak in the fullerene superconductors is explained in terms of the dampings in the superconducting state induced by the Coulomb interaction between conduction electrons. The Coulomb interaction, modelled in terms of the onsite Hubbard repulsion, is incorporated into the Eliashberg theory of...
9711060v2
1997-12-09
The Sound of Sonoluminescence
We consider an air bubble in water under conditions of single bubble sonoluminescence (SBSL) and evaluate the emitted sound field nonperturbatively for subsonic gas-liquid interface motion. Sound emission being the dominant damping mechanism, we also implement the nonperturbative sound damping in the Rayleigh-Plesset e...
9712097v1
1998-12-02
Vortex lattice melting and the damping of the dHvA oscillations in the mixed state
Phase fluctuations in the superconducting order parameter, which are responsible for the melting of the Abrikosov vortex lattice below the mean field $H_{c2}$, are shown to dramatically enhance the scattering of quasi-particles by the fluctuating pair potential, thus leading to enhanced damping of the dHvA oscillations...
9812040v1
1999-06-15
Temperature-induced resonances and Landau damping of collective modes in Bose-Einstein condensed gases in spherical traps
Interaction between collective monopole oscillations of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate and thermal excitations is investigated by means of perturbation theory. We assume spherical symmetry to calculate the matrix elements by solving the linearized Gross-Pitaevskii equations. We use them to study the resonances of t...
9906214v1
1999-08-03
Kinetic Theory of Collective Modes in Atomic Clouds above the Bose-Einstein Transition Temperature
We calculate frequencies and damping rates of the lowest collective modes of a dilute Bose gas confined in an anisotropic trapping potential above the Bose-Einstein transition temperature. From the Boltzmann equation with a simplified collision integral we derive a general dispersion relation that interpolates between ...
9908043v1
1999-09-01
Normal Fermi Liquid Behavior of Quasiholes in the Spin-Polaron Model for Copper Oxides
Based on the t-J model and the self-consistent Born approximation, the damping of quasiparticle hole states near the Fermi surface is calculated in a low doping regime. Renormalization of spin-wave excitations due to hole doping is taken into account. The damping is shown to be described by a familiar form $\text{Im}\S...
9909020v1
1999-12-01
Impurity relaxation mechanism for dynamic magnetization reversal in a single domain grain
The interaction of coherent magnetization rotation with a system of two-level impurities is studied. Two different, but not contradictory mechanisms, the `slow-relaxing ion' and the `fast-relaxing ion' are utilized to derive a system of integro-differential equations for the magnetization. In the case that the impurity...
9912014v1
2000-02-16
Dissipative dynamics of Bose condensates in optical cavities
We study the zero temperature dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates in driven high-quality optical cavities in the limit of large atom-field detuning. We calculate the stationary ground state and the spectrum of coupled atom and field mode excitations for standing wave cavities as well as for travelling wave cavities. ...
0002247v1
2000-09-13
Oscillations of the superconducting order parameter in a ferromagnet
Planar tunneling spectroscopy reveals damped oscillations of the superconducting order parameter induced into a ferromagnetic thin film by the proximity effect. The oscillations are due to the finite momentum transfer provided to Cooper pairs by the splitting of the spin up and down bands in the ferromagnet. As a conse...
0009192v1
2000-09-29
Damping and revivals of collective oscillations in a finite-temperature model of trapped Bose-Einstein condensation
We utilize a two-gas model to simulate collective oscillations of a Bose-Einstein condensate at finite temperatures. The condensate is described using a generalized Gross-Pitaevskii equation, which is coupled to a thermal cloud modelled by a Monte Carlo algorithm. This allows us to include the collective dynamics of bo...
0009468v1
2001-04-18
Effective rate equations for the over-damped motion in fluctuating potentials
We discuss physical and mathematical aspects of the over-damped motion of a Brownian particle in fluctuating potentials. It is shown that such a system can be described quantitatively by fluctuating rates if the potential fluctuations are slow compared to relaxation within the minima of the potential, and if the positi...
0104330v1
2001-09-05
Spin Excitations in a Fermi Gas of Atoms
We have experimentally investigated a spin excitation in a quantum degenerate Fermi gas of atoms. In the hydrodynamic regime the damping time of the collective excitation is used to probe the quantum behavior of the gas. At temperatures below the Fermi temperature we measure up to a factor of 2 reduction in the excitat...
0109098v2
2001-10-09
Freezing of a Stripe Liquid
The existence of a stripe-liquid phase in a layered nickelate, La(1.725)Sr(0.275)NiO(4), is demonstrated through neutron scattering measurements. We show that incommensurate magnetic fluctuations evolve continuously through the charge-ordering temperature, although an abrupt decrease in the effective damping energy is ...
0110191v2
2001-12-13
Magnon softening and damping in the ferromagnetic manganites due to orbital correlations
We present a theory for spin excitations in ferromagnetic metallic manganites and demonstrate that orbital fluctuations have strong effects on the magnon dynamics in the case these compounds are close to a transition to an orbital ordered state. In particular we show that the scattering of the spin excitations by low-l...
0112252v2