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2008-08-03
Superradiant Instability of Five-Dimensional Rotating Charged AdS Black Holes
We study the instability of small AdS black holes with two independent rotation parameters in minimal five-dimensional gauged supergravity to massless scalar perturbations. We analytically solve the Klein-Gordon equation for low-frequency perturbations in two regions of the spacetime of these black holes: namely, in th...
0808.0280v3
2008-08-15
Collective excitations in two-dimensional antiferromagnet in strong magnetic field
We discuss spin-$\frac12$ two-dimensional (2D) Heisenberg antiferromagnet (AF) on a square lattice at T=0 in strong magnetic field H near its saturation value $H_c$. A perturbation approach is proposed to obtain spectrum of magnons with momenta not very close to AF vector in the leading order in small parameter $(H_c-H...
0808.2127v3
2008-08-26
Nonlinear regularization techniques for seismic tomography
The effects of several nonlinear regularization techniques are discussed in the framework of 3D seismic tomography. Traditional, linear, $\ell_2$ penalties are compared to so-called sparsity promoting $\ell_1$ and $\ell_0$ penalties, and a total variation penalty. Which of these algorithms is judged optimal depends on ...
0808.3472v3
2008-09-09
Process tomography of field damping and measurement of Fock state lifetimes by quantum non-demolition photon counting in a cavity
The relaxation of a quantum field stored in a high-$Q$ superconducting cavity is monitored by non-resonant Rydberg atoms. The field, subjected to repetitive quantum non-demolition (QND) photon counting, undergoes jumps between photon number states. We select ensembles of field realizations evolving from a given Fock st...
0809.1511v1
2008-09-17
Spin-transfer torque induced reversal in magnetic domains
Using the complex stereographic variable representation for the macrospin, from a study of the nonlinear dynamics underlying the generalized Landau-Lifshitz(LL) equation with Gilbert damping, we show that the spin-transfer torque is effectively equivalent to an applied magnetic field. We study the macrospin switching o...
0809.2910v1
2008-10-01
Excitation of trapped oscillations in discs around black holes
High-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations detected in the light curves of black hole candidates can, according to one model, be identified with hydrodynamic oscillations of the accretion disc. We describe a non-linear coupling mechanism, suggested by Kato, through which inertial waves trapped in the inner regions of a...
0810.0116v1
2008-10-09
Atomistic spin dynamics of the CuMn spin glass alloy
We demonstrate the use of Langevin spin dynamics for studying dynamical properties of an archetypical spin glass system. Simulations are performed on CuMn (20% Mn) where we study the relaxation that follows a sudden quench of the system to the low temperature phase. The system is modeled by a Heisenberg Hamiltonian whe...
0810.1645v1
2008-10-20
On the Existence of Exponentially Decreasing Solutions of the Nonlinear Landau Damping Problem
In this paper we prove the existence of a large class of periodic solutions of the Vlasov-Poisson in one space dimension that decay exponentially as t goes to infinity. The exponential decay is well known for the linearized version of the Landau damping problem and it has been proved in [4] for a class of solutions of ...
0810.3456v2
2008-10-22
Thermal (in)stability of type I collagen fibrils
We measured Young's modulus at temperatures ranging from 20 to 100 ^{\circ}$C for a collagen fibril taken from rat's tendon. The hydration change under heating and the damping decrement were measured as well. At physiological temperatures $25-45^{\circ}$C Young's modulus decreases, which can be interpreted as instabili...
0810.4172v1
2008-11-03
Ion thermal effects in oscillating multi-ion plasma sheath theory
The effects of ion temperature are discussed in a two-ion electron plasma and for a model applicable to the oscillating sheath theory that has recently been much in the focus of researchers. The differences between the fluid and kinetic models have been pointed out, as well as the differences between the approximative ...
0811.0251v1
2008-12-01
Self-Diffusion in 2D Dusty Plasma Liquids: Numerical Simulation Results
We perform Brownian dynamics simulations for studying the self-diffusion in two-dimensional (2D) dusty plasma liquids, in terms of both mean-square displacement and velocity autocorrelation function (VAF). Super-diffusion of charged dust particles has been observed to be most significant at infinitely small damping rat...
0812.0338v3
2008-12-11
Reduced nonlinear description of Farley-Buneman instability
In the study on nonlinear wave-wave processes in an ionosphere and a magnetosphere usually the main attention is paid to investigation of plasma turbulence at well developed stage, when the wide spectrum of plasma wave is present. On the other side, it is well known that even if the number of cooperating waves remains ...
0812.2182v1
2008-12-16
Reconstructing Baryon Oscillations: A Lagrangian Theory Perspective
Recently Eisenstein and collaborators introduced a method to `reconstruct' the linear power spectrum from a non-linearly evolved galaxy distribution in order to improve precision in measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations. We reformulate this method within the Lagrangian picture of structure formation, to better u...
0812.2905v3
2009-02-16
Plasmon excitations in homogeneous neutron star matter
We study the possible collective plasma modes which can affect neutron-star thermodynamics and different elementary processes in the baryonic density range between nuclear saturation ($\rho_0$) and $3\rho_0$. In this region, the expected constituents of neutron-star matter are mainly neutrons, protons, electrons and mu...
0902.2552v2
2009-02-27
Monogamy Inequality and Residual Entanglement of Three Qubits under Decoherence
Exploring an analytical expression for the convex roof of the pure state squared concurrence for rank 2 mixed states the entanglement of a system of three particles under decoherence is studied, using the monogamy inequality for mixed states and the residual entanglement obtained from it. The monogamy inequality is inv...
0903.0019v2
2009-03-12
X-band crab cavities for the CLIC beam delivery system
The CLIC machine incorporates a 20 mrad crossing angle at the IP to aid the extraction of spent beams. In order to recover the luminosity lost through the crossing angle a crab cavity is proposed to rotate the bunches prior to collision. The crab cavity is chosen to have the same frequency as the main linac (11.9942 GH...
0903.2116v1
2009-03-16
Regularity of invariant sets in semilinear damped wave equations
Under fairly general assumptions, we prove that every compact invariant subset $\mathcal I$ of the semiflow generated by the semilinear damped wave equation \epsilon u_{tt}+u_t+\beta(x)u-\sum_{ij}(a_{ij} (x)u_{x_j})_{x_i}&=f(x,u),&& (t,x)\in[0,+\infty[\times\Omega, u&=0,&&(t,x)\in[0,+\infty[\times\partial\Omega in $H^1...
0903.2782v1
2009-03-20
Hawking-Unruh radiation as irreversible consequence of radiative action in dynamics
Hawking-Unruh thermal state of warm surrounding field encountered in non-inertial frames is shown to be a real phenomenon, a marker of nonstationary dynamic evolutions. In accelerated motion of a charged particle it is shown that the recoiled damping effect of Larmor radiation relaxation leads to distinctive thermal po...
0903.3529v2
2009-03-25
The covering factor of high redshift damped Lyman-$α$ systems
We have used the Very Long Baseline Array to image 18 quasars with foreground damped Lyman-$\alpha$ systems (DLAs) at 327, 610 or 1420 MHz, to measure the covering factor $f$ of each DLA at or near its redshifted HI 21cm line frequency. Including six systems from the literature, we find that none of 24 DLAs at $0.09 < ...
0903.4483v1
2009-04-15
Size dependent Acoustic Phonon Dynamics of CdTe0.68Se0.32 Nanoparticles in Borosilicate glass
Low frequency acoustic vibration and phonon linewidth for CdTe0.68Se0.32 nanoparticle embedded in borosilicate glass are calculated using two different approaches by considering the elastic continuum model and fixed boundary condition. The presence of medium significantly affects the phonon peaks and results into the b...
0904.2278v1
2009-04-19
Incorporating Human Body Mass in Standards of Helmet Impact Protection against Traumatic Brain Injury
Impact induced traumatic brain injury (ITBI) describes brain injury from head impact not necessarily accompanied by skull fracture. For sufficiently abrupt head impact decelerations, ITBI results from brain tissue stress incurred as the brain crashes into the inside of the skull wall, displacing the surrounding cerebra...
0904.2856v1
2009-04-21
Type II migration of planets on eccentric orbits
The observed extrasolar planets possess both large masses (with a median M sin i of 1.65 MJ) and a wide range in orbital eccentricity (0 < e < 0.94). As planets are thought to form in circumstellar disks, one important question in planet formation is determining whether, and to what degree, a gaseous disk affects an ec...
0904.3336v1
2009-05-13
J-transform applied to the detection of Gravitational Waves: preliminary results
We propose to apply to the detection of Gravitational Waves a new method developed for the spectral analysis of noisy time-series of damped oscillators. From the Pad\'e Approximations of the time-series Z-transform, a Jacobi Matrix (J-Matrix) is constructed. We show that the J-Matrix has bound states with eigenvalues...
0905.2000v1
2009-05-25
Non-Markovian dynamics of a biased qubit coupled to a structured bath
A new analytical approach, beyond rotating wave approximation, based on unitary transformations and the non-Markovian master equation for the density operator, is applied to treat the biased spin boson model with a Lorentzian structured bath for arbitrary detunings at zero temperature. Compared to zero bias, we find th...
0905.3965v3
2009-05-28
A black box method for solving the complex exponentials approximation problem
A common problem, arising in many different applied contexts, consists in estimating the number of exponentially damped sinusoids whose weighted sum best fits a finite set of noisy data and in estimating their parameters. Many different methods exist to this purpose. The best of them are based on approximate Maximum Li...
0905.4602v2
2009-06-10
GALEX Discovery of a Damped Ly-alpha System at Redshift z = 1
We report the first discovery of a QSO damped Ly-alpha (DLA) system by the GALEX satellite. The system was initially identified as an MgII absorption-line system (z_abs=1.028) in the spectrum of SDSS QSO J0203-0910 (z_em=1.58). The presence of unusually strong absorption due to metal lines of ZnII, CrII, MnII, and FeII...
0906.2018v1
2009-06-11
Longitudinal Stability of Recycler Bunches; Part I: Thresholds for Loss of Landau Damping
We examine the stability of intense flat bunches in barrier buckets used in the Recycler. We consider some common stationary distributions and show that they would be unstable against rigid dipole oscillations. We then discuss an analytical model for the line density that best describes measured bunch profiles. We incl...
0906.2188v1
2009-06-15
Regge poles of the Schwarzschild black hole: a WKB approach
We provide simple and accurate analytical expressions for the Regge poles of the Schwarzschild black hole. This is achieved by using third-order WKB approximations to solve the radial wave equations for spins 0, 1 and 2. These results permit us to obtain analytically the dispersion relation and the damping of the "surf...
0906.2601v3
2009-06-30
Cooling a magnetic resonance force microscope via the dynamical back-action of nuclear spins
We analyze the back-action influence of nuclear spins on the motion of the cantilever of a magnetic force resonance microscope. We calculate the contribution of nuclear spins to the damping and frequency shift of the cantilever. We show that, at the Rabi frequency, the energy exchange between the cantilever and the spi...
0906.5420v2
2009-07-03
Magnetic interference patterns in long disordered Josephson junctions
We study a diffusive superconductor - normal metal - superconductor (SNS) junction in an external magnetic field. In the limit of a long junction, we find that the form of the dependence of the Josephson current on the field and on the length of the junction depends on the ratio between the junction width and the lengt...
0907.0632v3
2009-07-12
Symmetries shape the current in ratchets induced by a bi-harmonic force
Equations describing the evolution of particles, solitons, or localized structures, driven by a zero-average, periodic, external force, and invariant under time reversal and a half-period time shift, exhibit a ratchet current when the driving force breaks these symmetries. The bi-harmonic force $f(t)=\epsilon_1\cos(q \...
0907.2029v2
2009-07-21
AFM Dissipation Topography of Soliton Superstructures in Adsorbed Overlayers
In the atomic force microscope, the nanoscale force topography of even complex surface superstructures is extracted by the changing vibration frequency of a scanning tip. An alternative dissipation topography with similar or even better contrast has been demonstrated recently by mapping the (x,y)-dependent tip damping ...
0907.3585v4
2009-07-24
Harmonic damped oscillators with feedback. A Langevin study
We consider a system in direct contact with a thermal reservoir and which, if left unperturbed, is well described by a memory-less equilibrium Langevin equation of the second order in the time coordinate. In such conditions, the strength of the noise fluctuations is set by the damping factor, in accordance with the Flu...
0907.4309v1
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
2009-12-30
Spin torque and critical currents for magnetic vortex nano-oscillator in nanopillars
We calculated the main dynamic parameters of the spin polarized current induced magnetic vortex oscillations in nanopillars, such as the range of current density, where a vortex steady oscillations exist, the oscillation frequency and orbit radius. We accounted for both the non-linear vortex frequency and non-linear vo...
0912.5521v1
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
2010-01-15
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
2010-02-03
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
2010-06-12
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
2010-07-28
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
2010-10-01
Ferromagnetic resonance study of Co/Pd/Co/Ni multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy irradiated with Helium ions
We present a ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) study of the effect of Helium ion irradiation on the magnetic anisotropy, the linewidth and the Gilbert damping of a Co/Ni multilayer coupled to Co/Pd bilayers. The perpendicular magnetic anisotropy decreases linearly with He ion fluence, leading to a transition to in-plane ma...
1010.0268v2
2010-10-08
A unified first-principles study of Gilbert damping, spin-flip diffusion and resistivity in transition metal alloys
Using a formulation of first-principles scattering theory that includes disorder and spin-orbit coupling on an equal footing, we calculate the resistivity $\rho$, spin flip diffusion length $l_{sf}$ and the Gilbert damping parameter $\alpha$ for Ni$_{1-x}$Fe$_x$ substitutional alloys as a function of $x$. For the techn...
1010.1626v3
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
2010-10-20
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
2010-11-23
Ultra-fast magnetisation rates within the Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch model
The ultra-fast magnetisation relaxation rates during the laser-induced magnetisation process are analyzed in terms of the Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch (LLB) equation for different values of spin $S$. The LLB equation is equivalent in the limit $S \rightarrow \infty$ to the atomistic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) Langevin dyna...
1011.5054v1
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
2011-02-22
Ab-initio calculation of the Gilbert damping parameter via linear response formalism
A Kubo-Greenwood-like equation for the Gilbert damping parameter $\alpha$ is presented that is based on the linear response formalism. Its implementation using the fully relativistic Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker (KKR) band structure method in combination with Coherent Potential Approximation (CPA) alloy theory allows it to b...
1102.4551v1
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
2011-05-06
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
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
2011-07-20
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