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2024-02-02
Controllable frequency tunability and parabolic-like threshold current behavior in spin Hall nano-oscillators
We investigate the individual impacts of critical magnetodynamical parameters-effective magnetization and magnetic damping-on the auto-oscillation characteristics of nano-constriction-based Spin Hall Nano-Oscillators (SHNOs). Our micromagnetic simulations unveil a distinctive non-monotonic relationship between current and auto-oscillation frequency in out-of-plane magnetic fields. The influence of effective magnetization on frequency tunability varies with out-of-plane field strengths. At large out-of-plane fields, the frequency tunability is predominantly governed by effective magnetization, achieving a current tunability of 1 GHz/mA-four times larger than that observed at the lowest effective magnetization. Conversely, at low out-of-plane fields, although a remarkably high-frequency tunability of 4 GHz/mA is observed, the effective magnetization alters the onset of the transition from a linear-like mode to a spin-wave bullet mode. Magnetic damping primarily affects the threshold current with negligible impact on auto-oscillation frequency tunability. The threshold current scales linearly with increased magnetic damping at a constant out-of-plane field but exhibits a parabolic behavior with variations in out-of-plane fields. This behavior is attributed to the qualitatively distinct evolution of the auto-oscillation mode across different out-of-plane field values. Our study not only extends the versatility of SHNOs for oscillator-based neuromorphic computing with controllable frequency tunability but also unveils the intricate auto-oscillation dynamics in out-of-plane fields.
2402.01570v1
2024-03-18
Radiative loss and ion-neutral collisional effects in astrophysical plasmas
In this paper we study the role of radiative cooling in a two-fluid model consisting of coupled neutrals and charged particles. We first analyze the linearized two-fluid equations where we include radiative losses in the energy equation for the charged particles. In a 1D geometry for parallel propagation and in the limiting cases of weak and strong coupling, it can be shown analytically that the instability conditions for the thermal mode and the sound waves, the isobaric and isentropic criteria, respectively, remain unchanged with respect to one-fluid radiative plasmas. For the parameters considered in this paper, representative for the solar corona, the radiative cooling produces growth of the thermal mode and damping of the sound waves. When neutrals are included and are sufficiently coupled to the charges, the thermal mode growth rate and the wave damping both reduce by the same factor, which depends on the ionization fraction only. For a heating function which is constant in time, we find that the growth of the thermal mode and the damping of the sound waves are slightly larger. The numerical calculation of the eigenvalues of the general system of equations in a 3D geometry confirm the analytic results. We then run 2D fully nonlinear simulations which give consistent results: a higher ionization fraction or lower coupling will increase the growth rate. The magnetic field contribution is negligible in the linear phase. Ionization-recombination effects might play an important role because the radiative cooling produces a large range of temperatures in the system. In the numerical simulation, after the first condensation phase, when the minimum temperature is reached, the fraction of neutrals increases four orders of magnitude because of the recombination.
2403.11900v1
2001-01-12
Spatial gradients in the cosmological constant
It is possible that there may be differences in the fundamental physical parameters from one side of the observed universe to the other. I show that the cosmological constant is likely to be the most sensitive of the physical parameters to possible spatial variation, because a small variation in any of the other parameters produces a huge variation of the cosmological constant. It therefore provides a very powerful {\em indirect} evidence against spatial gradients or temporal variation in the other fundamental physical parameters, at least 40 orders of magnitude more powerful than direct experimental constraints. Moreover, a gradient may potentially appear in theories where the variability of the cosmological constant is connected to an anthropic selection mechanism, invoked to explain the smallness of this parameter. In the Hubble damping mechanism for anthropic selection, I calculate the possible gradient. While this mechanism demonstrates the existence of this effect, it is too small to be seen experimentally, except possibly if inflation happens around the Planck scale.
0101130v1
1999-01-22
Longitudinal wavevector- and frequency-dependent dielectric constant of the TIP4P water model
A computer adapted theory for self-consistent calculations of the wavevector- and frequency-dependent dielectric constant for interaction site models of polar systems is proposed. A longitudinal component of the dielectric constant is evaluated for the TIP4P water model in a very wide scale of wavenumbers and frequencies using molecular dynamics simulations. It is shown that values for the dielectric permittivity, calculated within the exact interaction site description, differ in a characteristic way from those obtained by the point dipole approximation which is usually used in computer experiment. It is also shown that the libration oscillations, existing in the shape of longitudinal time-dependent polarization fluctuations at small and intermediate wavevector values, vanish however for bigger wavenumbers. A comparison between the wavevector and frequency behaviour of the dielectric constant for the TIP4P water and the Stockmayer model is made. The static screening of external charges and damping of longitudinal electric excitations in water are considered as well. A special investigation is devoted to the time dependence of dielectric quantities in the free motion regime.
9901036v1
2010-07-05
On the Karman constant
Numerous studies in the past 40 years have established that turbulent flow fields are populated by transient coherent structures that represent patches of fluids moving cohesively for significant distances before they are worn out by momentum exchange with the surrounding fluid. Two particular well-documented structures are the hairpin vortices that move longitudinally above the wall and ejections inclined with respect to the wall that bring the fluid from the transient viscous layers underneath these vortices into the outer region of the boundary layer. It is proposed that the Karman universal constant in the logarithmic law the sine of the angle between the transient ejections and the direction normal to the wall. The edge of the buffer layer is represented by a combination of the Karman constant and the damping function in the wall layer. Computation of this angle from experimental data of velocity distributions in turbulent shear flows matches published traces of fronts of turbulence obtained from the time shifts in the peak of the correlation function of the velocity. Key works: Turbulence, coherent structures, Karman constant, mixing-length, shear layers
1007.0605v1
2020-01-08
Assessing different approaches to ab initio calculations of spin wave stiffness
Ab initio calculations of the spin wave stiffness constant $D$ for elemental Fe and Ni performed by different groups in the past have led to values with a considerable spread of 50-100 %. We present results for the stiffness constant $D$ of Fe, Ni, and permalloy Fe$_{0.19}$Ni$_{0.81}$ obtained by three different approaches: (i) by finding the quadratic term coefficient of the power expansion of the spin wave energy dispersion, (ii) by a damped real-space summation of weighted exchange coupling constants, and (iii) by integrating the appropriate expression in reciprocal space. All approaches are implemented by means of the same Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker (KKR) Green function formalism. We demonstrate that if properly converged, all procedures yield comparable values, with uncertainties of 5-10 % remaining. By a careful analysis of the influence of various technical parameters we estimate the margin of errors for the stiffness constants evaluated by different approaches and suggest procedures to minimize the risk of getting incorrect results.
2001.02558v2
2021-05-19
Sound attenuation derived from quenched disorder in solids
In scattering experiments, the dynamical structure factor (DSF) characterizes inter-particle correlations and their time evolution. We analytically evaluated the DSF of disordered solids with disorder in the spring constant, by averaging over quenched disorder in the values of lattice bond strength, along the acoustic branch. The width of the resulting acoustic excitation peak is treated as the effective damping constant $\Gamma(q)$, which we found to grow linearly with exchanged momentum $q$. This is verified by numerically calculating a model system consisting of harmonic linear chains with disorder in spring constant. We also found that the quenched averaging of the vibrational density of states produces a characteristic peak at a frequency related to the average acoustic resonance. Such a peak (the excess over Debye law) may be related to the "boson peak" frequently discussed in disordered solids, in our case explicitly arising from the quenched disorder in the distribution of spring constants.
2105.09393v1
2022-05-17
Acoustic gravitational interaction revised
In this paper, we deduce the expression of the gravito-acoustic force between two oscillating bubbles using the hypothesis that this type of force is a force of scattering-absorption of the energy of excitatory waves. The expression of the gravito-acoustic force at resonance highlights the dependence of this force on the product of the virtual masses of the two bubbles and on an acoustic gravitational constant. The acoustic gravitational constant depends on the absorption damping coefficient. We may say also that the expression of the acoustic gravitational constant is analogous to the expression of the gravitational constant in the electromagnetic world, that one obtained in the Einstein-Sciama model and the Dirac-Eddington large numbers hypothesis. The results obtained for this type of phenomenon in the acoustic world support the similarity between the acoustic world and the electromagnetic world.
2206.00435v1
2022-07-27
Determination of Thickness-dependent Damping Constant and Plasma Frequency for Ultrathin Ag and Au Films: Nanoscale Dielectric Function
There is an ever increasing interest in the development of plasmonic 2D nanomaterials, with widespread applications in optoelectronics, high resolution microscopy, imaging and sensing, among others. With the current ability of ultrathin noble metal film deposition down to a few monolayers in thickness, there is a need for an analytical expression of the thickness dependent complex dielectric function for predicting optical properties for arbitrary thicknesses. The free and bound electron contributions to the dielectric function are dealt with independently, since their influences affect separate wavelengths ranges. The former is dealt within the Drude model framework for large wavelengths with appropriately addressed damping constant and plasma frequency parameters to account for thickness dependence. Applying our previously developed method, we determine these parameters for specific film thicknesses, based on refractive index experimental values for Ag and Au thin films. Fitting separately each one of these parameters allowed us to find an analytical expression for their dependence on arbitrary film thickness and consequently for the free electron contribution. Concerning bound electrons, it is seen that its contribution for small wavelengths is the same for all analyzed thicknesses and may be set equal to the bulk bound contribution. Taking all these facts into account, the complex dielectric function can be rewritten analytically, in terms of the bulk dielectric function plus corrective film thickness dependent terms. In particular, the fitting process for the damping constant allows us to determine that the electron scattering at the film boundary is mainly diffusive (inelastic) for both silver and gold thin films. It is also shown that, in accordance with theoretical studies, plasma frequency shows a red shift as the film thickness decreases.
2207.13580v1
1999-11-03
Tensor Microwave Anisotropies from a Stochastic Magnetic Field
We derive an expression for the angular power spectrum of cosmic microwave background anisotropies due to gravity waves generated by a stochastic magnetic field and compare the result with current observations; we take into account the non-linear nature of the stress energy tensor of the magnetic field. For almost scale invariant spectra, the amplitude of the magnetic field at galactic scales is constrained to be of order 10^{-9} Gauss. If we assume that the magnetic field is damped below the Alfven damping scale, we find that its amplitude at 0.1 h^{-1}Mpc, B_\lambda, is constrained to be B_\lambda<7.9 x10^{-6} e^{3n} Gauss, for n<-3/2, and B_\lambda<9.5x10^{-8} e^{0.37n} Gauss, for n>-3/2, where n is the spectral index of the magnetic field and H_0=100h km s^{-1}Mpc^{-1} is the Hubble constant today.
9911040v1
2002-07-15
On the Structure of the Iron K-Edge
It is shown that the commonly held view of a sharp Fe K edge must be modified if the decay pathways of the series of resonances converging to the K thresholds are adequately taken into account. These resonances display damped Lorentzian profiles of nearly constant widths that are smeared to impose continuity across the threshold. By modeling the effects of K damping on opacities, it is found that the broadening of the K edge grows with the ionization level of the plasma and that the appearance at high ionization of a localized absorption feature at 7.2 keV is identified as the K-beta unresolved transition array.
0207324v2
2006-12-15
Damp Mergers: Recent Gaseous Mergers without Significant Globular Cluster Formation?
Here we test the idea that new globular clusters (GCs) are formed in the same gaseous ("wet") mergers or interactions that give rise to the young stellar populations seen in the central regions of many early-type galaxies. We compare mean GC colors with the age of the central galaxy starburst. The red GC subpopulation reveals remarkably constant mean colors independent of galaxy age. A scenario in which the red GC subpopulation is a combination of old and new GCs (formed in the same event as the central galaxy starburst) can not be ruled out; although this would require an age-metallicity relation for the newly formed GCs that is steeper than the Galactic relation. However, the data are also well described by a scenario in which most red GCs are old, and few, if any, are formed in recent gaseous mergers. This is consistent with the old ages inferred from some spectroscopic studies of GCs in external systems. The event that induced the central galaxy starburst may have therefore involved insufficient gas mass for significant GC formation. We term such gas-poor events "damp" mergers.
0612415v1
1998-02-24
Resonant steps and spatiotemporal dynamics in the damped dc-driven Frenkel-Kontorova chain
Kink dynamics of the damped Frenkel-Kontorova (discrete sine-Gordon) chain driven by a constant external force are investigated. Resonant steplike transitions of the average velocity occur due to the competitions between the moving kinks and their radiated phasonlike modes. A mean-field consideration is introduced to give a precise prediction of the resonant steps. Slip-stick motion and spatiotemporal dynamics on those resonant steps are discussed. Our results can be applied to studies of the fluxon dynamics of 1D Josephson-junction arrays and ladders, dislocations, tribology and other fields.
9802251v1
1999-03-11
Thermally activated escape rates of uniaxial spin systems with transverse field
Classical escape rates of uniaxial spin systems are characterized by a prefactor differing from and much smaller than that of the particle problem, since the maximum of the spin energy is attained everywhere on the line of constant latitude: theta=const, 0 =< phi =< 2*pi. If a transverse field is applied, a saddle point of the energy is formed, and high, moderate, and low damping regimes (similar to those for particles) appear. Here we present the first analytical and numerical study of crossovers between the uniaxial and other regimes for spin systems. It is shown that there is one HD-Uniaxial crossover, whereas at low damping the uniaxial and LD regimes are separated by two crossovers.
9903192v2
2006-11-18
Distributions of switching times of single-domain particles using a time quantified Monte Carlo method
Using a time quantified Monte Carlo scheme we performed simulations of the switching time distribution of single mono-domain particles in the Stoner-Wohlfarth approximation. We considered uniaxial anisotropy and different conditions for the external applied field. The results obtained show the switching time distribution can be well described by two relaxation times, either when the applied field is parallel to the easy axis or for an oblique external field and a larger damping constant. We found that in the low barrier limit these relaxation times are in very good agreement with analytical results obtained from solutions of the Fokker-Planck equation related to this problem. When the damping is small and the applied field is oblique the shape of the distribution curves shows several peaks and resonance effects.
0611494v2
2006-11-22
Magnetization damping in a local-density approximation
The linear response of itinerant transition metal ferromagnets to transverse magnetic fields is studied in a self-consistent adiabatic local-density approximation. The susceptibility is calculated from a microscopic Hamiltonian, including spin-conserving impurities, impurity induced spin-orbit interaction and magnetic impurities using the Keldysh formalism. The Gilbert damping constant in the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation is identified, parametrized by an effective transverse spin dephasing rate, and is found to be inversely proportional to the exchange splitting. Our result justify the phenomenological treatment of transverse spin dephasing in the study of current-induced magnetization dynamics in weak, itinerant ferromagnets by Tserkovnyak \textit{et al.}. We show that neglect of gradient corrections in the quasiclassical transport equations leads to incorrect results when the exchange potential becomes of the order of the Fermi energy.
0611588v1
2004-01-13
Highly Damped Quasinormal Modes of Kerr Black Holes: A Complete Numerical Investigation
We compute for the first time very highly damped quasinormal modes of the (rotating) Kerr black hole. Our numerical technique is based on a decoupling of the radial and angular equations, performed using a large-frequency expansion for the angular separation constant_{s}A_{l m}. This allows us to go much further in overtone number than ever before. We find that the real part of the quasinormal frequencies approaches a non-zero constant value which does not depend on the spin s of the perturbing field and on the angular index l: \omega_R=m\varpi(a). We numerically compute \varpi(a). Leading-order corrections to the asymptotic frequency are likely to be of order 1/\omega_I. The imaginary part grows without bound, the spacing between consecutive modes being a monotonic function of a.
0401052v1
1992-06-21
Gauge Dependence of the Resummed Thermal Gluon Self Energy
The gauge dependence of the hot gluon self energy is examined in the context of Pisarski's method for resumming hard thermal loops. Braaten and Pisarski have used the Ward identities satisfied by the hard corrections to the n-point functions to argue the gauge fixing independence of the leading order resummed QCD plasma damping rate in covariant and strict Coulomb gauges. We extend their analysis to include all linear gauges that preserve rotational invariance and display explicitly the conditions required for gauge fixing independence. It is shown that in covariant gauges the resummed damping constant is gauge fixing independent only if an infrared regulator is explicitly maintained throughout the calculation.
9206239v1
1993-05-07
Thermal quark production in pure glue and quark gluon plasmas
We calculate production rates for massless $(u,d)$ and massive $(s,c,b)$ quarks in pure glue and quark gluon plasmas to leading order in the strong coupling constant $g$. The leading contribution comes from gluon decay into $q\bar q$ pairs, using a thermal gluon propagator with finite thermal mass and damping rate. The rate behaves as $\alpha_S^2(\ln 1/\alpha_S)^2 T^4$ when $m, \alpha_S \rightarrow 0$ and depends linearly on the transverse gluon damping rate for all values of the quark mass $m$. The light quark ($u$, $d$, $s$) chemical equilibration time is approximately 10-100 $T^{-1}$ for $g=$2-3, so that quarks are likely to remain far from chemical equilibrium in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions.
9305227v1
2005-06-28
Liouville Decoherence in a Model of Flavour Oscillations in the presence of Dark Energy
We study in some detail the master equation, and its solution in a simplified case modelling flavour oscillations of a two-level system, stemming from the Liouville-string approach to quantum space time foam. In this framework we discuss the appearance of diffusion terms and decoherence due to the interaction of low-energy string matter with space-time defects, such as D-particles in the specific model of ``D-particle foam'', as well as dark energy contributions. We pay particular attention to contrasting the decoherent role of a cosmological constant in inducing exponential quantum damping in the evolution of low-energy observables, such as the probability of flavour oscillations, with the situation where the dark energy relaxes to zero for asymptotically large times, in which case such a damping is absent. Our findings may be of interest to (astrophysical) tests of quantum space-time foam models in the not-so-distant future.
0506242v1
2006-04-07
Quasi-periodic attractors, Borel summability and the Bryuno condition for strongly dissipative systems
We consider a class of ordinary differential equations describing one-dimensional analytic systems with a quasi-periodic forcing term and in the presence of damping. In the limit of large damping, under some generic non-degeneracy condition on the force, there are quasi-periodic solutions which have the same frequency vector as the forcing term. We prove that such solutions are Borel summable at the origin when the frequency vector is either any one-dimensional number or a two-dimensional vector such that the ratio of its components is an irrational number of constant type. In the first case the proof given simplifies that provided in a previous work of ours. We also show that in any dimension $d$, for the existence of a quasi-periodic solution with the same frequency vector as the forcing term, the standard Diophantine condition can be weakened into the Bryuno condition. In all cases, under a suitable positivity condition, the quasi-periodic solution is proved to describe a local attractor.
0604162v1
1998-02-27
New collective mode due to collisional coupling
Starting from a nonmarkovian conserving relaxation time approximation for collisions we derive coupled dispersion relations for asymmetric nuclear matter. The isovector and isoscalar modes are coupled due to asymmetric nuclear meanfield acting on neutrons and protons differently. A further coupling is observed by collisional correlations. The latter one leads to the appearance of a new soft mode besides isoscalar and isovector modes in the system. We suggest that this mode might be observable in asymmetric systems. This soft mode approaches the isovector mode for high temperatures. At the same time the isovector mode remains finite and approaches a constant value at higher temperatures showing a transition from zero sound like damping to first sound. The damping of the new soft mode is first sound like at all temperatures.
9802083v1
2000-08-14
Design of a 3 GHz Accelerator Structure for the CLIC Test Facility (CTF 3) Drive Beam
For the CLIC two-beam scheme, a high-current, long-pulse drive beam is required for RF power generation. Taking advantage of the 3 GHz klystrons available at the LEP injector once LEP stops, a 180 MeV electron accelerator is being constructed for a nominal beam current of 3.5 A and 1.5 microsecond pulse length. The high current requires highly effective suppression of dipolar wakes. Two concepts are investigated for the accelerating structure design: the "Tapered Damped Structure" developed for the CLIC main beam, and the "Slotted Iris - Constant Aperture" structure. Both use 4 SiC loads per cell for effective higher-order mode damping. A full-size prototype of the TDS structure has been built and tested successfully at full power. A first prototype of the SICA structure is being built.
0008052v1
2004-11-02
Supersymmetric free-damped oscillators: Adaptive observer estimation of the Riccati parameter
A supersymmetric class of free damped oscillators with three parameters has been obtained in 1998 by Rosu and Reyes through the factorization of the Newton equation. The supplementary parameter is the integration constant of the general Riccati solution. The estimation of the latter parameter is performed here by employing the recent adaptive observer scheme of Besancon et al., but applied in a nonstandard form in which a time-varying quantity containing the unknown Riccati parameter is estimated first. Results of computer simulations are presented to illustrate the good feasibility of this approach for a case in which the estimation is not easily accomplished by other means
0411019v2
2007-01-30
Charge Fluctuation of Dust Grain and Its Impact on Dusty-Acoustic Wave Damping
We consider the influence of dust charge fluctuations on damping of the dust-ion-acoustic waves. It is assumed that all grains have equal masses but charges are not constant in time - they may fluctuate in time. The dust charges are not really independent of the variations in the plasma potentials. All modes will influence the charging mechanism, and feedback will lead to several new interesting and unexpected phenomena. The charging of the grains depends on local plasma characteristics. If the waves disturb these characteristic, then charging of the grains is affected and the grain charge is modified, with a resulting feedback on the wave mode. In the case considered here, when the temperature of electrons is much greater than the temperature of the ions and the temperature of electrons is not great enough for further ionization of the ions, we show that attenuation of the acoustic wave depends only on one phenomenological coefficient
0701336v1
2004-01-28
Bloch Equations and Completely Positive Maps
The phenomenological dissipation of the Bloch equations is reexamined in the context of completely positive maps. Such maps occur if the dissipation arises from a reduction of a unitary evolution of a system coupled to a reservoir. In such a case the reduced dynamics for the system alone will always yield completely positive maps of the density operator. We show that, for Markovian Bloch maps, the requirement of complete positivity imposes some Bloch inequalities on the phenomenological damping constants. For non-Markovian Bloch maps some kind of Bloch inequalities involving eigenvalues of the damping basis can be established as well. As an illustration of these general properties we use the depolarizing channel with white and colored stochastic noise.
0401177v1
2006-01-10
Quantum Brownian motion and the Third Law of thermodynamics
The quantum thermodynamic behavior of small systems is investigated in presence of finite quantum dissipation. We consider the archetype cases of a damped harmonic oscillator and a free quantum Brownian particle. A main finding is that quantum dissipation helps to ensure the validity of the Third Law. For the quantum oscillator, finite damping replaces the zero-coupling result of an exponential suppression of the specific heat at low temperatures by a power-law behavior. Rather intriguing is the behavior of the free quantum Brownian particle. In this case, quantum dissipation is able to restore the Third Law: Instead of being constant down to zero temperature, the specific heat now vanishes proportional to temperature with an amplitude that is inversely proportional to the ohmic dissipation strength. A distinct subtlety of finite quantum dissipation is the result that the various thermodynamic functions of the sub-system do not only depend on the dissipation strength but depend as well on the prescription employed in their definition.
0601056v1
2007-08-26
Geodesic plasma flows instabilities of Riemann twisted solar loops
Riemann and sectional curvatures of magnetic twisted flux tubes in Riemannian manifold are computed to investigate the stability of the plasma astrophysical tubes. The geodesic equations are used to show that in the case of thick magnetic tubes, the curvature of planar (Frenet torsion-free) tubes have the effect ct of damping the flow speed along the tube. Stability of geodesic flows in the Riemannian twisted thin tubes (almost filaments), against constant radial perturbations is investigated by using the method of negative sectional curvature for unstable flows. No special form of the flow like Beltrami flows is admitted, and the proof is general for the case of thin magnetic flux tubes. In the magnetic equilibrium state, the twist of the tube is shown to display also a damping effect on the toroidal velocity of the plasma flow. It is found that for positive perturbations and angular speed of the flow, instability is achieved, since the sectional Ricci curvature of the magnetic twisted tube metric is negative. Solar flare production may appear from these geometrical instabilities of the twisted solar loops.
0708.3473v1
2009-01-28
Location- and observation time-dependent quantum-tunneling
We investigate quantum tunneling in a translation invariant chain of particles. The particles interact harmonically with their nearest neighbors, except for one bond, which is anharmonic. It is described by a symmetric double well potential. In the first step, we show how the anharmonic coordinate can be separated from the normal modes. This yields a Lagrangian which has been used to study quantum dissipation. Elimination of the normal modes leads to a nonlocal action of Caldeira-Leggett type. If the anharmonic bond defect is in the bulk, one arrives at Ohmic damping, i.e. there is a transition of a delocalized bond state to a localized one if the elastic constant exceeds a critical value $C_{crit}$. The latter depends on the masses of the bond defect. Superohmic damping occurs if the bond defect is in the site $M$ at a finite distance from one of the chain ends. If the observation time $T$ is smaller than a characteristic time $\tau_M \sim M$, depending on the location M of the defect, the behavior is similar to the bulk situation. However, for $T \gg \tau_M$ tunneling is never suppressed.
0901.4518v1
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 recent inelastic neutron scattering results for underdoped cuprates. Adopting modified damping function also the emerging central peak in low-doped cuprates at low temperatures can be explained within the same framework.
1001.0837v1
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 forced as obtained in the studies of internal friction of solid. The rate of damping enables us to determine the effective mass of the dislocation. Nevertheless, the observed relation between the oscillation frequency and the link length is found to be anomalous, when compared with the theoretical results in the framework of Koehler's vibrating string model. We assign this anomaly to the improper boundary conditions employed in the treatment. Finally, we propose that the inertial oscillations may offer a plausible explanation of the electromagnetic emissions during material deformation and seismic activities.
1002.0422v1
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 systems. It is novel to discover the analytical solutions to handle the systems with mixed pressure function. And our solutions can be extended to the systems with the generalized multiple damping and pressure function.
1005.3651v1
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 spin wave stiffness constant of $D=94\pm 3$\,meV\,\AA$^{2}$. Assuming a nearest-neighbor Heisenberg model we find reasonable agreement between the exchange determined from D and the bulk Curie temperature. Several possible mechanisms to account for the observed spin-wave damping are discussed.
1007.1919v1
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 distribution function and weakly enforces continuity of the electric field through mesh interfaces and boundary conditions. The performance of the method is investigated by computing several examples and error estimates associated system's approximation are stated. In particular, computed results are benchmarked against established theoretical results for linear advection and the phenomenon of linear Landau damping for both the Maxwell and Lorentz distributions. Moreover, two nonlinear problems are considered: nonlinear Landau damping and a version of the two-stream instability are computed. For the latter, fine scale details of the resulting long-time BGK-like state are presented. Conservation laws are examined and various comparisons to theory are made. The results obtained demonstrate that the discontinuous Galerkin method is a viable option for integrating the Vlasov-Poisson system.
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 states, the quantum-limited accuracy of both parameters can be achieved simultaneously. Moreover, we show that for both parameters two-mode squeezed vacuum states are more efficient than either coherent, thermal or single-mode squeezed states. This suggests that at high energy regimes two-mode squeezed vacuum states are optimal within the Gaussian setup. This optimality result indicates a stronger form of compatibility for the estimation of the two parameters. Indeed, not only the minimum variance can be achieved at fixed probe states, but also the optimal state is common to both parameters. Additionally, we explore numerically the performance of non-Gaussian states for particular parameter values to find that maximally entangled states within D-dimensional cutoff subspaces perform better than any randomly sampled states with similar energy. However, we also find that states with very similar performance and energy exist with much less entanglement than the maximally entangled ones.
1010.0442v1
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-electron orbital bases obtained using a Thomas--Fermi--Dirac statistical model potential. Configuration interaction is considered among all states up to $n=3$. The damping processes affect the resonances converging to the K-thresholds causing them to display symmetric profiles of constant width that smear the otherwise sharp edge at the photoionization threshold. These data are important for modeling of features found in photoionized plasmas.
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 constant amount. In the intermediate regime, corresponding to neutrino decoupling, the damping is frequency-dependent. GWs entering the horizon during neutrino decoupling have a frequency f ~ 1 nHz, corresponding to a frequency region that will be probed by Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs). In particular, we show how neutrino decoupling induces a spectral feature in the spectrum of cosmological GWs just below 1 nHz. We briefly discuss the conditions for a detection of this feature and conclude that it is unlikely to be observed by PTAs.
1010.3849v2
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 type solutions are found and discussed. As exactly solvable models, we study forced Burgers equations with constant damping and an exponentially decaying diffusion coefficient. Different type of exact solutions are obtained for the critical, over and under damping cases, and their behavior is illustrated explicitly. In particular, the existence of inelastic type of collisions is observed by constructing multi-shock solitary wave solutions, and for the rational type solutions the motion of the pole singularities is described.
1104.4717v1
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 relativistic corrections, were performed for the Mg-like to Ca-like ion stages. This data set is extended up to Fe-like Ni using the distorted wave approximation as implemented by AUTOSTRUCTURE. The R-matrix calculations include the effects of radiative and Auger dampings by means of an optical potential. The damping processes affect the absorption resonances converging to the K thresholds causing them to display symmetric profiles of constant width that smear the otherwise sharp edge at the K-shell photoionization threshold. These data are important for the modeling of features found in photoionized plasmas.
1107.3146v1
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 our scheme is consistent of second order when the nonlinearity is identically equal to zero, and provide a necessary condition for it to be stable order n. Part of our study will be devoted to compare the physical effects of the damping coefficients.
1112.4921v1
2012-02-25
Fractional Order Phase Shaper Design with Routh's Criterion for Iso-damped Control System
Phase curve of an open loop system is flat in nature if the derivative of phase with respect to frequency is zero. With a flat phase curve, the corresponding closed-loop system exhibits an iso-damped property i.e. maintains constant overshoot with the change of gain and with other parametric variations. In recent past application, fractional order (FO) phase shapers have been proposed by contemporary researchers to achieve enhanced parametric robustness. In this paper, a simple Routh tabulation based methodology is proposed to design an appropriate FO phase shaper to achieve phase flattening in a control loop, comprising a system, controlled by a classical PID controller. The method is demonstrated using MATLAB simulation of a second order DC motor plant and also a first order with time delay system.
1202.5667v1
2012-07-18
Attractiveness of periodic orbits in parametrically forced systemswith time-increasing friction
We consider dissipative one-dimensional systems subject to a periodic force and study numerically how a time-varying friction affects the dynamics. As a model system, particularly suited for numerical analysis, we investigate the driven cubic oscillator in the presence of friction. We find that, if the damping coefficient increases in time up to a final constant value, then the basins of attraction of the leading resonances are larger than they would have been if the coefficient had been fixed at that value since the beginning. From a quantitative point of view, the scenario depends both on the final value and the growth rate of the damping coefficient. The relevance of the results for the spin-orbit model are discussed in some detail.
1207.4319v1
2012-07-19
Acoustic damping and dispersion in vitreous germanium oxide
New Brillouin scattering measurements of velocity and attenuation of sound in the hypersonic regime are presented. The data are analyzed together with the literature results at sonic and ultrasonic frequencies. As usual, thermally activated relaxation of structural entities describes the attenuation at sonic and ultrasonic frequencies. As already shown in vitreous silica, we conclude that the damping by network viscosity, resulting from relaxation of thermal phonons, must be taken into account to describe the attenuation at hypersonic frequencies. In addition, the bare velocity obtained by subtracting to the experimental data the effect of the two above mechanisms is constant for temperatures below 250 K, but increases almost linearly above, up to the glass transition temperature. This might indicate the presence of a progressive local polyamorphic transition, as already suggested for vitreous silica.
1207.4582v1
2012-08-21
Brownian transport in corrugated channels with inertia
The transport of suspended Brownian particles dc-driven along corrugated narrow channels is numerically investigated in the regime of finite damping. We show that inertial corrections cannot be neglected as long as the width of the channel bottlenecks is smaller than an appropriate particle diffusion length, which depends on the the channel corrugation and the drive intensity. Being such a diffusion length inversely proportional to the damping constant, transport through sufficiently narrow obstructions turns out to be always sensitive to the viscosity of the suspension fluid. The inertia corrections to the transport quantifiers, mobility and diffusivity, markedly differ for smoothly and sharply corrugated channels.
1208.4401v2
2012-09-26
Damping of giant dipole resonance in highly excited nuclei
The giant dipole resonance's (GDR) width and shape at finite temperature and angular momentum are described within the phonon damping model (PDM), which predicts an overall increase in the GDR's total width at low and moderate temperature T, and its saturation at high T. At T< 1 MeV the GDR width remains nearly constant because of thermal pairing. The PDM description is compared with the experimental systematics obtained from heavy-ion fusion, inelastic scattering of light particles on heavy targets, and alpha induced fusion reactions, as well as with predictions by other theoretical approaches. The results obtained within the PDM and GDR's experimental data are also employed to predict the viscosity of hot medium and heavy nuclei.
1209.5820v2
2012-10-12
Threshold current for switching of a perpendicular magnetic layer induced by spin Hall effect
We theoretically investigate the switching of a perpendicular magnetic layer by in-plane charge current due to the spin Hall effect. We find that, in the high damping regime, the threshold switching current is independent of the damping constant, and is almost linearly proportional to both effective perpendicular magnetic anisotropy field and external in-plane field applied along the current direction. We obtain an analytic expression of the threshold current, in excellent agreement with numerical results. This expression can be used to determine the physical quantities associated with spin Hall effect, and to design relevant magnetic devices based on the switching of perpendicular magnetic layers.
1210.3442v2
2012-10-15
Symmetries of the quantum damped harmonic oscillator
For the non-conservative Caldirola-Kanai system, describing a quantum damped harmonic oscillator, a couple of constant-of-motion operators generating the Heisenberg-Weyl algebra can be found. The inclusion of the standard time evolution generator (which is not a symmetry) as a symmetry in this algebra, in a unitary manner, requires a non-trivial extension of this basic algebra and hence of the physical system itself. Surprisingly, this extension leads directly to the so-called Bateman dual system, which now includes a new particle acting as an energy reservoir. In addition, the Caldirola-Kanai dissipative system can be retrieved by imposing constraints. The algebra of symmetries of the dual system is presented, as well as a quantization that implies, in particular, a first-order Schr\"odinger equation. As opposed to other approaches, where it is claimed that the spectrum of the Bateman Hamiltonian is complex and discrete, we obtain that it is real and continuous, with infinite degeneracy in all regimes.
1210.4058v1
2013-01-23
Characterization of magnetostatic surface spin waves in magnetic thin films: evaluation for microelectronic applications
The authors have investigated the possibility of utilizing spin waves for inter- and intra-chip communications, and as logic elements using both simulations and experimental techniques. Through simulations it has been shown that the decay lengths of magnetostatic spin waves are affected most by the damping parameter, and least by the exchange stiffness constant. The damping and dispersion properties of spin waves limit the attenuation length to several tens of microns. Thus, we have ruled out the possibility of inter-chip communications via spin waves. Experimental techniques for the extraction of the dispersion relationship have also been demonstrated, along with experimental demonstrations of spin wave interference for amplitude modulation. The effectiveness of spin wave modulation through interference, along with the capability of determining the spin wave dispersion relationships electrically during manufacturing and testing phase of chip production may pave the way for using spin waves in analog computing wherein the circuitry required for performing similar functionality becomes prohibitive.
1301.5395v1
2013-04-15
Energy dissipation in DC-field driven electron lattice coupled to fermion baths
Electron transport in electric-field-driven tight-binding lattice coupled to fermion baths is comprehensively studied. We reformulate the problem by using the scattering state method within the Coulomb gauge. Calculations show that the formulation justifies direct access to the steady-state bypassing the time-transient calculations, which then makes the steady-state methods developed for quantum dot theories applicable to lattice models. We show that the effective temperature of the hot-electron induced by a DC electric field behaves as $T_{\rm eff}=C\gamma(\Omega/\Gamma)$ with a numerical constant $C$, tight-binding parameter $\gamma$, the Bloch oscillation frequency $\Omega$ and the damping parameter $\Gamma$. In the small damping limit $\Gamma/\Omega\to 0$, the steady-state has a singular property with the electron becoming extremely hot in an analogy to the short-circuit effect. This leads to the conclusion that the dissipation mechanism cannot be considered as an implicit process, as treated in equilibrium theories. Finally, using the energy flux relation, we derive a steady-state current for interacting models where only on-site Green's functions are necessary.
1304.4269v1
2013-05-07
Micromagnetic modelling of anisotropic damping in ferromagnet
We report a numerical implementation of the Landau-Lifshitz-Baryakhtar theory, which dictates that the micromagnetic relaxation term obeys the symmetry of the magnetic crystal, i. e. replacing the single intrinsic damping constant with a tensor of corresponding symmetry. The effect of anisotropic relaxation is studied in thin saturated ferromagnetic disk and ellipse with and without uniaxial magneto-crystalline anisotropy. We investigate the angular dependency of the linewidth of magnonic resonances with respect to the given structure of the relaxation tensor. The simulations suggest that the anisotropy of the magnonic linewidth is determined by only two factors: the projection of the relaxation tensor onto the plane of precession and the ellipticity of the later.
1305.1641v2
2013-07-14
Asteroseismic effects in close binary stars
Turbulent processes in the convective envelopes of the sun and stars have been shown to be a source of internal acoustic excitations. In single stars, acoustic waves having frequencies below a certain cutoff frequency propagate nearly adiabatically and are effectively trapped below the photosphere where they are internally reflected. This reflection essentially occurs where the local wavelength becomes comparable to the pressure scale height. In close binary stars, the sound speed is a constant on equipotentials, while the pressure scale height, which depends on the local effective gravity, varies on equipotentials and may be much greater near the inner Lagrangian point (L_1). As a result, waves reaching the vicinity of L_1 may propagate unimpeded into low density regions, where they tend to dissipate quickly due to non-linear and radiative effects. We study the three dimensional propagation and enhanced damping of such waves inside a set of close binary stellar models using a WKB approximation of the acoustic field. We find that these waves can have much higher damping rates in close binaries, compared to their non-binary counterparts. We also find that the relative distribution of acoustic energy density at the visible surface of close binaries develops a ring-like feature at specific acoustic frequencies and binary separations.
1307.3709v1
2013-07-31
Dynamics of ions in the selectivity filter of the KcsA channel: Towards a coupled Brownian particle description
The statistical and dynamical properties of ions in the selectivity filter of the KcsA ion channel are considered on the basis of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the KcsA protein embedded in a lipid membrane surrounded by an ionic solution. A new approach to the derivation of a Brownian dynamics (BD) model of ion permeation through the filter is discussed, based on unbiased MD simulations. It is shown that depending on additional assumptions, ion's dynamics can be described either by under-damped Langevin equation with constant damping and white noise or by Langevin equation with a fractional memory kernel. A comparison of the potential of the mean force derived from unbiased MD simulations with the potential produced by the umbrella sampling method demonstrates significant differences in these potentials. The origin of these differences is an open question that requires further clarifications.
1307.8298v1
2013-10-09
Improved Coincident and Coherent Detection Statistics for Searches for Gravitational Wave Ringdown Signals
We study an improved method for detecting gravitational wave (GW) signals from perturbed black holes by earth-based detectors in the quest for searching for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs). Such signals, called ringdowns, are damped sinusoids whose frequency and damping constant can be used to measure a black hole's mass and spin. Utilizing the output from a matched filter analysis pipeline, we present an improved statistic for the detection of a ringdown signal that is found to be coincident in multiple detectors. The statistic addresses the non-Gaussianity of the data without the use of an additional signal-based waveform consistency test. We also develop coherent network statistics to check for consistency of signal amplitudes and phases in the different detectors with their different orientations and signal arrival times. We find that the detection efficiency can be improved at least by a few tens of percent by applying these multi-detector statistics primarily because of the ineffectiveness of single-detector based discriminators of non-stationary noise, such as the chi-square test, in the case of ringdown signals studied here.
1310.2341v2
2014-04-25
Nonlinear and Linear Timescales near Kinetic Scales in Solar Wind Turbulence
The application of linear kinetic treatments to plasma waves, damping, and instability requires favorable inequalities between the associated linear timescales and timescales for nonlinear (e.g., turbulence) evolution. In the solar wind these two types of timescales may be directly compared using standard Kolmogorov-style analysis and observational data. The estimated local nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic cascade times, evaluated as relevant kinetic scales are approached, remain slower than the cyclotron period, but comparable to, or faster than, the typical timescales of instabilities, anisotropic waves, and wave damping. The variation with length scale of the turbulence timescales is supported by observations and simulations. On this basis the use of linear theory - which assumes constant parameters to calculate the associated kinetic rates - may be questioned. It is suggested that the product of proton gyrofrequency and nonlinear time at the ion gyroscales provides a simple measure of turbulence influence on proton kinetic behavior.
1404.6569v1
2014-09-01
Damping of Bloch oscillations: Variational solutions of the Boltzmann equation beyond linear response
Variational solutions of the Boltzmann equation usually rely on the concept of linear response. We extend the variational approach for tight-binding models at high entropies to a regime far beyond linear response. We analyze both weakly interacting fermions and incoherent bosons on a lattice. We consider a case where the particles are driven by a constant force, leading to the well-known Bloch oscillations, and we consider interactions that are weak enough not to overdamp these oscillations. This regime is computationally demanding and relevant for ultracold atoms in optical lattices. We derive a simple theory in terms of coupled dynamic equations for the particle density, energy density, current and heat current, allowing for analytic solutions. As an application, we identify damping coefficients for Bloch oscillations in the Hubbard model at weak interactions and compute them for a one-dimensional toy model. We also approximately solve the long-time dynamics of a weakly interacting, strongly Bloch-oscillating cloud of fermionic particles in a tilted lattice, leading to a subdiffusive scaling exponent.
1409.0560v2
2014-12-12
Spin waves in micro-structured yttrium iron garnet nanometer-thick films
We investigated the spin-wave propagation in a micro-structured yttrium iron garnet waveguide of $40$ nm thickness. Utilizing spatially-resolved Brillouin light scattering microscopy, an exponential decay of the spin-wave amplitude of $(10.06 \pm 0.83)$ $\mu$m was observed. This leads to an estimated Gilbert damping constant of $\alpha=(8.79\pm 0.73)\times 10^{-4}$, which is larger than damping values obtained through ferromagnetic resonance measurements in unstructured films. The theoretically calculated spatial interference of waveguide modes was compared to the spin-wave pattern observed experimentally by means of Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy.
1412.4032v1
2015-10-01
Production of charged Higgs boson pairs in the $pp \to ppH^{+}H^{-}$ reaction at the LHC and FCC
We present differential cross sections for the $pp \to ppH^{+}H^{-}$ reaction via photon-photon fusion with exact kinematics. We show predictions for $\sqrt{s}$ = 14 TeV (LHC) and at the Future Circular Collider (FCC) for $\sqrt{s}$ = 100 TeV. The integrated cross section for $\sqrt{s}$ = 14~TeV (LHC) is about 0.1~fb and about 0.9~fb at the FCC for $\sqrt{s}$ = 100~TeV when assuming $m_{H^{\pm}} = 150$~GeV. We present distributions in diHiggs boson invariant mass. The results are compared with those obtained within equivalent-photon approximation. We discuss also first calculations of cross section for exclusive diffractive pQCD mechanism with estimated limits on the $g_{hH^{+}H^{-}}$ coupling constant within 2HDM based on the LHC experimental data. The diffractive contribution is much smaller than the $\gamma \gamma$ one. Absorption corrections are calculated differentially for various distributions. In general, they lead to a damping of the cross section. The damping depends on $M_{H^{+}H^{-}}$ invariant mass and on four-momentum transfers squared in the proton line. We discuss a possibility to measure the exclusive production of $H^{\pm}$ bosons.
1510.00171v1
2015-10-15
On the global existence and blowup of smooth solutions of 3-D compressible Euler equations with time-depending damping
In this paper, we are concerned with the global existence and blowup of smooth solutions of the 3-D compressible Euler equation with time-depending damping $$ \partial_t\rho+\operatorname{div}(\rho u)=0, \quad \partial_t(\rho u)+\operatorname{div}\left(\rho u\otimes u+p\,I_{3}\right)=-\,\frac{\mu}{(1+t)^{\lambda}}\,\rho u, \quad \rho(0,x)=\bar \rho+\varepsilon\rho_0(x),\quad u(0,x)=\varepsilon u_0(x), $$ where $x\in\mathbb R^3$, $\mu>0$, $\lambda\geq 0$, and $\bar\rho>0$ are constants, $\rho_0,\, u_0\in C_0^{\infty}(\mathbb R^3)$, $(\rho_0, u_0)\not\equiv 0$, $\rho(0,\cdot)>0$, and $\varepsilon>0$ is sufficiently small. For $0\leq\lambda\leq1$, we show that there exists a global smooth solution $(\rho, u)$ when $\operatorname{curl} u_0\equiv 0$, while for $\lambda>1$, in general, the solution $(\rho, u)$ will blow up in finite time. Therefore, $\lambda=1$ appears to be the critical value for the global existence of small amplitude smooth solutions.
1510.04613v1
2015-12-16
Back to Maupertuis' least action principle for dissipative systems: not all motions in Nature are most energy economical
It is shown that an oldest form of variational calculus of mechanics, the Maupertuis least action principle, can be used as a simple and powerful approach for the formulation of the variational principle for damped motions, allowing a simple derivation of the Lagrangian mechanics for any dissipative systems and an a connection of the optimization of energy dissipation to the least action principles. On this basis, it is shown that not all motions of classical mechanics obey the rule of least energy dissipation or follow the path of least resistance, and that the least action is equivalent to least dissipation for two kinds of motions : all stationary motions with constant velocity and all motions damped by Stokes drag.
1512.05339v1
2016-05-01
Optical trapping by Laguerre-Gaussian beams: Symmetries, stability and equilibria
We use the T-matrix formalism in combination with the method of far-field matching to evaluate the optical force exerted by Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) light beams on a spherical (Mie) particle. For both non-vortex and optical vortex LG beams, the theoretical results are used to analyze the optical-force-induced dynamics of the scatterer near the trapping points represented by the equilibrium (zero-force) positions. The regimes of linearized dynamics are described in terms of the stiffness matrix spectrum and the damping constant of the ambient medium. For the purely azimuthal LG beams, the dynamics is found to be locally non-conservative and is characterized by the presence of conditionally stable equilibria (unstable zero-force points that can be stabilized by the ambient damping). The effects related to the Mie resonances that under certain conditions manifest themselves as the points changing the trapping properties of the particles are discussed.
1605.00243v2
2016-05-05
Relaxation of Ferroelectric States in 2D Distributions of quantum Dots:EELS Simulation
The relaxation time of collective electronic states in a 2D distribution of quantum dots is investigated theoretically by simulating EELS experiments. From the numerical calculation of the probability of energy loss of an electron beam, traveling parallel to the distribution, it is possible to estimate the damping time of ferroelectric-like states. We generate this collective response of the distribution by introducing a mean field interaction among the quantum dots, and then, the model is extended incorporating effects of long-range correlations through a Bragg-Williams approximation. The behavior of the dielectric function, the energy loss function, and the relaxation time of ferroelectric-like states is then investigated as a function of the temperature of the distribution and the damping constant of the electronic states in the single quantum dots. The robustness of the trends and tendencies of our results indicate that this scheme of analysis can guide experimentalists to develop tailored quantum dots distributions for specific applications.
1605.01642v1
2016-07-27
Linear and nonlinear viscoelastic arterial wall models: application on animals
This work deals with the viscoelasticity of the arterial wall and its influence on the pulse waves. We describe the viscoelasticity by a non-linear Kelvin-Voigt model in which the coefficients are fitted using experimental time series of pressure and radius measured on a sheep's arterial network. We obtained a good agreement between the results of the nonlinear Kelvin-Voigt model and the experimental measurements. We found that the viscoelastic relaxation time-defined by the ratio between the viscoelastic coefficient and the Young's modulus-is nearly constant throughout the network. Therefore, as it is well known that smaller arteries are stiffer, the viscoelastic coefficient rises when approaching the peripheral sites to compensate the rise of the Young's modulus, resulting in a higher damping effect. We incorporated the fitted viscoelastic coefficients in a nonlinear 1D fluid model to compute the pulse waves in the network. The damping effect of viscoelasticity on the high frequency waves is clear especially at the peripheral sites.
1607.07973v1
2016-08-19
Cooling a harmonic oscillator by optomechanical modification of its bath
Optomechanical systems show tremendous promise for high sensitivity sensing of forces and modification of mechanical properties via light. For example, similar to neutral atoms and trapped ions, laser cooling of mechanical motion by radiation pressure can take single mechanical modes to their ground state. Conventional optomechanical cooling is able to introduce additional damping channel to mechanical motion, while keeping its thermal noise at the same level, and as a consequence, the effective temperature of the mechanical mode is lowered. However, the ratio of temperature to quality factor remains roughly constant, preventing dramatic advances in quantum sensing using this approach. Here we propose an approach for simultaneously reducing the thermal load on a mechanical resonator while improving its quality factor. In essence, we use the optical interaction to dynamically modify the dominant damping mechanism, providing an optomechanically-induced effect analogous to a phononic band gap. The mechanical mode of interest is assumed to be weakly coupled to its heat bath but strongly coupled to a second mechanical mode, which is cooled by radiation pressure coupling to a red detuned cavity field. We also identify a realistic optomechanical design that has the potential to realize this novel cooling scheme.
1608.05717v1
2016-09-30
Origin of the effective mobility in non-linear active micro-rheology
The distinction between the damping coefficient and the effective non-linear mobility of driven particles in active micro-rheology of supercooled liquids is explained in terms of individual and collective dynamics. The effective mobility arises as a collective effect which gives insight into the energy landscape of the system. On the other hand, the damping coefficient is a constant that modulates the effect of external forces over the thermal energy which particles have at their disposition to perform Brownian motion. For long times, these thermal fluctuations become characterized in terms of an effective temperature that is a consequence of the dynamic coupling between kinetic and configurational degrees of freedom induced by the presence of the strong external force. The interplay between collective mobility and effective temperature allows to formulate a generalized Stokes-Einstein relation that may be used to determine the collective diffusion coefficient. The explicit relations we deduce reproduce simulation data remarkably well.
1609.09853v1
2016-10-16
Pulse-noise approach for classical spin systems
For systems of classical spins interacting with the bath via damping and thermal noise, the approach is suggested to replace the white noise by a pulse noise acting at regular time intervals $\Delta t$, within which the system evolves conservatively. The method is working well in the typical case of a small dimensionless damping constant $\lambda$ and allows a considerable speed-up of computations by using high-order numerical integrators with a large time step $\delta t$ (up to a fraction of the precession period), while keeping $\delta t\ll\Delta t$ to reduce the relative contribution of noise-related operations. In cases when precession can be discarded, $\delta t$ can be increased up to a fraction of the relaxation time $\propto1/\lambda$ that leads to a further speed-up. This makes equilibration speed comparable with that of Metropolis Monte Carlo. The pulse-noise approach is tested on single-spin and multi-spin models.
1610.04914v2
2017-03-22
New versions of Newton method: step-size choice, convergence domain and under-determined equations
Newton method is one of the most powerful methods for finding solutions of nonlinear equations and for proving their existence. In its "pure" form it has fast convergence near the solution, but small convergence domain. On the other hand damped Newton method has slower convergence rate, but weaker conditions on the initial point. We provide new versions of Newton-like algorithms, resulting in combinations of Newton and damped Newton method with special step-size choice, and estimate its convergence domain. Under some assumptions the convergence is global. Explicit complexity results are also addressed. The adaptive version of the algorithm (with no a priori constants knowledge) is presented. The method is applicable for under-determined equations (with $m<n$, $m$ being the number of equations and $n$ being the number of variables). The results are specified for systems of quadratic equations, for composite mappings and for one-dimensional equations and inequalities.
1703.07810v2
2017-05-21
Plasmon modes in graphene-GaAs heterostructures
We investigate the plasmon dispersion relation and damping rate of collective excitations in a double-layer system consisting of bilayer graphene and GaAs quantum well, separated by a distance, at zero temperature with no interlayer tunneling. We use the random-phase-approximation dielectric function and take into account the nonhomogeneity of the dielectric background of the system. We show that the plasmon frequencies and damping rates depend considerably on interlayer correlation parameters, electron densities and dielectric constants of the contacting media.
1705.07389v1
2017-06-05
Consistent microscopic analysis of spin pumping effects
We present a consistent microscopic study of spin pumping effects for both metallic and insulating ferromagnets. As for metallic case, we present a simple quantum mechanical picture of the effect as due to the electron spin flip as a result of a nonadiabatic (off-diagonal) spin gauge field. The effect of interface spin-orbit interaction is briefly discussed. We also carry out field-theoretic calculation to discuss on the equal footing the spin current generation and torque effects such as enhanced Gilbert damping constant and shift of precession frequency both in metallic and insulating cases. For thick ferromagnetic metal, our study reproduces results of previous theories such as the correspondence between the dc component of the spin current and enhancement of the damping. For thin metal and insulator, the relation turns out to be modified. For the insulating case, driven locally by interface $sd$ exchange interaction due to magnetic proximity effect, physical mechanism is distinct from the metallic case. Further study of proximity effect and interface spin-orbit interaction would be crucial to interpret experimental results in particular for insulators.
1706.01185v1
2017-08-02
Global existence of solutions for semi-linear wave equation with scale-invariant damping and mass in exponentially weighted spaces
In this paper we consider the following Cauchy problem for the semi-linear wave equation with scale-invariant dissipation and mass and power non-linearity: \begin{align}\label{CP abstract} \begin{cases} u_{tt}-\Delta u+\dfrac{\mu_1}{1+t} u_t+\dfrac{\mu_2^2}{(1+t)^2}u=|u|^p, \\ u(0,x)=u_0(x), \,\, u_t(0,x)=u_1(x), \end{cases}\tag{$\star$} \end{align} where $\mu_1, \mu_2^2$ are nonnegative constants and $p>1$. On the one hand we will prove a global (in time) existence result for \eqref{CP abstract} under suitable assumptions on the coefficients $\mu_1, \mu_2^2$ of the damping and the mass term and on the exponent $p$, assuming the smallness of data in exponentially weighted energy spaces. On the other hand a blow-up result for \eqref{CP abstract} is proved for values of $p$ below a certain threshold, provided that the data satisfy some integral sign conditions. Combining these results we find the critical exponent for \eqref{CP abstract} in all space dimensions under certain assumptions on $\mu_1$ and $\mu_2^2$. Moreover, since the global existence result is based on a contradiction argument, it will be shown firstly a local (in time) existence result.
1708.00738v1
2017-08-21
Solar Line Asymmetries: Modelling the Effect of Granulation on the Solar Spectrum
A parametric model of granulation employing a small number of parameters was developed. Synthetic spectra calculated using this model closely match observed spectra and, in particular, reproduce the asymmetries observed in spectral lines. Both the microturbulent motions and the large-scale flow velocity decrease exponentially with a scale height of 368 km as the height within the photosphere increases. The model agrees with observations of the solar granulation (from which it was derived). The horizontal motions associated with granulation were found and used to calculate spectra emergent away from disk centre. These calculated spectra were compared to observed spectra, with the agreement supporting the accuracy of the granular model. Also in the course of this work, the Brueckner-O'Mara damping theory was found to predict damping constants accurately. The photospheric abundances of a number of elements were determined. The abundance obtained for iron agrees with the meteoric iron abundance. Astrophysical f-values for some lines were also determined.
1708.06408v1
2017-11-01
Plasmon modes in bilayer-monolayer graphene heterostructures
We investigate the dispersion relation and damping of plasmon modes in a bilayer-monolayer graphene heterostructure with carrier densities and at zero temperature within the random-phase-approximation taking into account the nonhomogeneity of the dielectric background of the system. We derive analytical expressions for plasmon frequencies by using long wavelength expansion of response and bare Coulomb interaction functions. We show that optical plasmon dispersion curve of the bilayer-monolayer system lies slightly below that of double-layer graphene (DLG) and the acoustic one lies much lower than that of DLG. We find that while decay rates of acoustic modes of the system and DLG are remarkably different, those of optical modes in both double-layer systems are similar. Except the damping rate of acoustic mode, properties of plasmon excitations in considered system depend remarkably on the interlayer distance, inhomogeneity of the background, density ratio and spacer dielectric constant, especially at large wave-vectors.
1711.00334v1
2018-07-15
Asymptotic profile of solutions for semilinear wave equations with structural damping
This paper is concerned with the initial value problem for semilinear wave equation with structural damping $u_{tt}+(-\Delta)^{\sigma}u_t -\Delta u =f(u)$, where $\sigma \in (0,\frac{1}{2})$ and $f(u) \sim |u|^p$ or $u |u|^{p-1}$ with $p> 1 + {2}/(n - 2 \sigma)$. We first show the global existence for initial data small in some weighted Sobolev spaces on $\mathcal R^n$ ($n \ge 2$). Next, we show that the asymptotic profile of the solution above is given by a constant multiple of the fundamental solution of the corresponding parabolic equation, provided the initial data belong to weighted $L^1$ spaces.
1807.05509v3
2018-12-28
Axion Misalignment Driven to the Bottom
Several theoretical motivations point to ultralight QCD axions with large decay constants $f_a \simeq \mathcal{O}(10^{16}-10^{17})$ GeV, to which experimental proposals are dedicated. This regime is known to face the problem of overproduction of axion dark matter from the misalignment mechanism unless the misalignment angle $\theta_{\rm mis}$ is as small as $\mathcal{O}(10^{-3}-10^{-4})$, which is generally considered a fine-tuning problem. We investigate a dynamical explanation for a small $\theta_{\rm mis}$. The axion mass arises from strong dynamics and may be sufficiently enhanced by early dynamics so as to overcome Hubble friction and drive the field value to the bottom of the potential long before the QCD phase transition. Together with an approximate CP symmetry in the theory, this minimum is very closely related to today's value and thus $\theta_{\rm mis}$ can automatically be well under unity. Owing to such efficient relaxation, the isocurvature perturbations are essentially damped. As an existence proof, using supersymmetric theories we illustrate that the Higgs coupling with the inflaton energy can successfully achieve this axion damping in a consistent inflationary cosmology.
1812.11186v2
2019-04-09
Ferromagnetic Resonance Studies of Strain tuned Bi:YIG Films
Bismuth-doped Yttrium iron garnet (Bi:YIG) thin films known for large Magneto-optical activity with low losses still needs to get probed for its magnetization dynamics. We demonstrate a controlled tuning of magnetocrystalline anisotropy in Bi-doped Y_3 Fe_5 O_12 (Bi:YIG) films of high crystalline quality using growth induced epitaxial strain on [111]-oriented Gd_3 Ga_5 O_12 (GGG) substrate. We optimize a growth protocol to get thick highly-strained epitaxial films showing large magneto-crystalline anisotropy, compare to thin films prepared using a different protocol. Ferromagnetic resonance measurements establish a linear dependence of the out-of-plane uniaxial anisotropy on the strain induced rhombohedral distortion of Bi:YIG lattice. Interestingly, the enhancement in the magnetoelastic constant due to an optimum substitution of Bi^(3+) ions with strong spin orbit coupling does not strongly affect the precessional damping (~2x10^(-3) ). Large magneto-optical activity, reasonably low damping, large magnetocrystalline anisotropy and large magnetoelastic coupling in BiYIG are the properties that may help BiYIG emerge as a possible material for photo-magnonics and other spintronics applications.
1904.04800v2
2019-04-25
Low damping magnetic properties and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy with strong volume contribution in the Heusler alloy Fe1.5CoGe
We present a study of the dynamic magnetic properties of TiN-buffered epitaxial thin films of the Heusler alloy Fe$_{1.5}$CoGe. Thickness series annealed at different temperatures are prepared and the magnetic damping is measured, a lowest value of $\alpha=2.18\times 10^{-3}$ is obtained. The perpendicular magnetic anisotropy properties in Fe$_{1.5}$CoGe/MgO are also characterized. The evolution of the interfacial perpendicular anisotropy constant $K^{\perp}_{\rm S}$ with the annealing temperature is shown and compared with the widely used CoFeB/MgO interface. A large volume contribution to the perpendicular anisotropy of $(4.3\pm0.5)\times 10^{5}$ $\rm J/m^3$ is also found, in contrast with vanishing bulk contribution in common Co- and Fe-based Heusler alloys.
1904.11247v1
2019-04-26
Terahertz spin dynamics driven by a field-derivative torque
Efficient manipulation of magnetization at ultrashort time scales is of particular interest for future technology. Here, we numerically investigate the influence of the so-called field-derivative torque, which was derived earlier based on relativistic Dirac theory [Mondal et al., Phys. Rev. B 94, 144419 (2016)], on the spin dynamics triggered by ultrashort laser pulses. We find that only considering the THz Zeeman field can underestimate the spin excitation in antiferromagnetic oxide systems as, e.g., NiO and CoO. However, accounting for both, the THz Zeeman torque and the field-derivative torque, the amplitude of the spin excitation increases significantly. Studying the damping dependence of field-derivative torque we observe larger effects for materials having larger damping constants.
1904.11768v2
2019-05-30
Predicting New Iron Garnet Thin Films with Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy
Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) is a necessary condition for many spintronic applications like spin-orbit torques switching, logic and memory devices. An important class of magnetic insulators with low Gilbert damping at room temperature are iron garnets, which only have a few PMA types such as terbium and samarium iron garnet. More and stable PMA garnet options are necessary for researchers to be able to investigate new spintronic phenomena. In this study, we predict 20 new substrate/magnetic iron garnet film pairs with stable PMA at room temperature. The effective anisotropy energies of 10 different garnet films that are lattice-matched to 5 different commercially available garnet substrates have been calculated using shape, magnetoelastic and magnetocrystalline anisotropy terms. Strain type, tensile or compressive depending on substrate choice, as well as the sign and the magnitude of the magnetostriction constants of garnets determine if a garnet film may possess PMA. We show the conditions in which Samarium, Gadolinium, Terbium, Holmium, Dysprosium and Thulium garnets may possess PMA on the investigated garnet substrate types. Guidelines for obtaining garnet films with low damping are presented. New PMA garnet films with tunable saturation moment and field may improve spin-orbit torque memory and compensated magnonic thin film devices.
1905.13042v1
2019-05-30
Intrinsically Undamped Plasmon Modes in Narrow Electron Bands
Surface plasmons in 2-dimensional electron systems with narrow Bloch bands feature an interesting regime in which Landau damping (dissipation via electron-hole pair excitation) is completely quenched. This surprising behavior is made possible by strong coupling in narrow-band systems characterized by large values of the "fine structure" constant $\alpha=e^2/\hbar \kappa v_{\rm F}$. Dissipation quenching occurs when dispersing plasmon modes rise above the particle-hole continuum, extending into the forbidden energy gap that is free from particle-hole excitations. The effect is predicted to be prominent in moir\'e graphene, where at magic twist-angle values, flat bands feature $\alpha\gg1$. The extinction of Landau damping enhances spatial optical coherence. Speckle-like interference, arising in the presence of disorder scattering, can serve as a telltale signature of undamped plasmons directly accessible in near-field imaging experiments.
1905.13088v2
2019-06-21
Control of eigenfunctions on surfaces of variable curvature
We prove a microlocal lower bound on the mass of high energy eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on compact surfaces of negative curvature, and more generally on surfaces with Anosov geodesic flows. This implies controllability for the Schr\"odinger equation by any nonempty open set, and shows that every semiclassical measure has full support. We also prove exponential energy decay for solutions to the damped wave equation on such surfaces, for any nontrivial damping coefficient. These results extend previous works [arXiv:1705.05019], [arXiv:1712.02692], which considered the setting of surfaces of constant negative curvature. The proofs use the strategy of [arXiv:1705.05019], [arXiv:1712.02692] and rely on the fractal uncertainty principle of [arXiv:1612.09040]. However, in the variable curvature case the stable/unstable foliations are not smooth, so we can no longer associate to these foliations a pseudodifferential calculus of the type used in [arXiv:1504.06589]. Instead, our argument uses Egorov's Theorem up to local Ehrenfest time and the hyperbolic parametrix of [arXiv:0706.3242], together with the $C^{1+}$ regularity of the stable/unstable foliations.
1906.08923v2
2019-07-17
Inhomogeneous domain walls in spintronic nanowires
In case of a spin-polarized current, the magnetization dynamics in nanowires are governed by the classical Landau-Lifschitz equation with Gilbert damping term, augmented by a typically non-variational Slonczewski term. Taking axial symmetry into account, we study the existence of domain wall type coherent structure solutions, with focus on one space dimension and spin-polarization, but our results also apply to vanishing spin-torque term. Using methods from bifurcation theory for arbitrary constant applied fields, we prove the existence of domain walls with non-trivial azimuthal profile, referred to as inhomogeneous. We present an apparently new type of domain wall, referred to as non-flat, whose approach of the axial magnetization has a certain oscillatory character. Additionally, we present the leading order mechanism for the parameter selection of flat and non-flat inhomogeneous domain walls for an applied field below a threshold, which depends on anisotropy, damping, and spin-transfer. Moreover, numerical continuation results of all these domain wall solutions are presented.
1907.07470v2
2019-09-06
The interplay of large two-magnon ferromagnetic resonance linewidths and low Gilbert damping in Heusler thin films
We report on broadband ferromagnetic resonance linewidth measurements performed on epitaxial Heusler thin films. A large and anisotropic two-magnon scattering linewidth broadening is observed for measurements with the magnetization lying in the film plane, while linewidth measurements with the magnetization saturated perpendicular to the sample plane reveal low Gilbert damping constants of $(1.5\pm0.1)\times 10^{-3}$, $(1.8\pm0.2)\times 10^{-3}$, and $<8\times 10^{-4}$ for Co$_2$MnSi/MgO, Co$_2$MnAl/MgO, and Co$_2$FeAl/MgO, respectively. The in-plane measurements are fit to a model combining Gilbert and two-magnon scattering contributions to the linewidth, revealing a characteristic disorder lengthscale of 10-100 nm.
1909.02738v2
2019-12-10
Stability of traveling waves in a driven Frenkel-Kontorova model
In this work we revisit a classical problem of traveling waves in a damped Frenkel-Kontorova lattice driven by a constant external force. We compute these solutions as fixed points of a nonlinear map and obtain the corresponding kinetic relation between the driving force and the velocity of the wave for different values of the damping coefficient. We show that the kinetic curve can become non-monotone at small velocities, due to resonances with linear modes, and also at large velocities where the kinetic relation becomes multivalued. Exploring the spectral stability of the obtained waveforms, we identify, at the level of numerical accuracy of our computations, a precise criterion for instability of the traveling wave solutions: monotonically decreasing portions of the kinetic curve always bear an unstable eigendirection. We discuss why the validity of this criterion in the {\it dissipative} setting is a rather remarkable feature offering connections to the Hamiltonian variant of the model and of lattice traveling waves more generally. Our stability results are corroborated by direct numerical simulations which also reveal the possible outcomes of dynamical instabilities.
1912.05052v2
2020-05-20
Dynamic Peach-Koehler self-force, inertia, and radiation damping of a regularized dislocation
The elastodynamic Peach-Koehler force is computed for a fully-regularized straight dislocation with isotropic core in continuum isotropic elastic elasticity, in compact forms involving partial mass or impulsion functions relative to shear and compressional waves. The force accounts for both dynamic radiation damping and inertia. The expressions are valid indifferently for subsonic or supersonic velocities. Results are compared with the case of a flat-core dislocation of the Peierls-Eshelby type, for a motion of jump from rest to constant velocity. In the steady-state limit, the Lagrangian function relevant to expressing the force in the flat-core case must be replaced by a related but different function for the regularized dislocation. However, by suitably defining the regularizing dislocation width, the steady-state limits of the force for the fully-regularized and flat-core dislocations can be matched exactly.
2005.12704v2
2020-06-29
Collective excitations in spin-polarized bilayer graphene
We calculate the plasmon frequency and damping rate of plasma oscillations in a spin-polarized BLG system. Using the long wavelength approximation for dynamical dielectric function, we obtain an analytical expression for plasmon frequency showing that the degree of spin polarization P has negligible effect on the long wavelength plasmon frequency. Numerical calculations demonstrate that the degree of spin polarization affects slightly (strongly) plasmon frequency at small (large) wave-vectors and the maximum value of damping rate increases with increasing P. We also study the effects of carrier density and substrate dielectric constant on plasmon properties for different value of spin polarization. The numerically calculated critical wave-vector, at which the plasmon dispersion curve hits the edge of electron-hole continuum, decreases with P and can be used to determine experimentally the degree of spin polarization.
2006.16042v2
2020-08-14
Testing Dissipative Collapse Models with a Levitated Micromagnet
We present experimental tests of dissipative extensions of spontaneous wave function collapse models based on a levitated micromagnet with ultralow dissipation. The spherical micromagnet, with radius $R=27$ $\mu$m, is levitated by Meissner effect in a lead trap at $4.2$ K and its motion is detected by a SQUID. We perform accurate ringdown measurements on the vertical translational mode with frequency $57$ Hz, and infer the residual damping at vanishing pressure $\gamma/2\pi<9$ $\mu$Hz. From this upper limit we derive improved bounds on the dissipative versions of the CSL (continuous spontaneous localization) and the DP (Di\'{o}si-Penrose) models with proper choices of the reference mass. In particular, dissipative models give rise to an intrinsic damping of an isolated system with the effect parameterized by a temperature constant; the dissipative CSL model with temperatures below 1 nK is ruled out, while the dissipative DP model is excluded for temperatures below $10^{-13}$ K. Furthermore, we present the first bounds on dissipative effects in a more recent model, which relates the wave function collapse to fluctuations of a generalized complex-valued spacetime metric.
2008.06245v2
2020-08-14
Large enhancement of spin pumping due to the surface bound states in normal metal/superconductor structures
We show that the spin pumping from ferromagnetic insulator into the adjacent metallic spin sink can be strongly stimulated by the superconducting correlations. The key physical mechanism responsible for this effect is the presence of quasiparticle surface states at the ferromagnetic insulator/superconductor interface. We consider the minimal model when these states appear because of the suppressed pairing constant within the interfacial normal layer. For thin normal layers we obtain a strongly peaked temperature dependence of the Gilbert damping coefficient which has been recently observed in such systems. For thicker normal layers the Gilbert damping monotonically increases down to the temperatures much smaller than the critical one. The suggested model paves the way to controlling the temperature dependence of the spin pumping by fabricating hybrid normal metal/superconductor spin sinks.
2008.06253v1
2020-10-28
Spin-valley collective modes of the electron liquid in graphene
We develop the theory of collective modes supported by a Fermi liquid of electrons in pristine graphene. Under reasonable assumptions regarding the electron-electron interaction, all the modes but the plasmon are over-damped. In addition to the $SU(2)$ symmetric spin mode, these include also the valley imbalance modes obeying a $U(1)$ symmetry, and a $U(2)$ symmetric valley spin imbalance mode. We derive the interactions and diffusion constants characterizing the over-damped modes. The corresponding relaxation rates set fundamental constraints on graphene valley- and spintronics applications.
2010.15154v2
2020-11-14
Oscillating charge currents of one-dimensional Hubbard model in an electric field
The time evolution properties of charge current for the one-dimensional Hubbard model in an electric field have been studied in a rigorous manner. We find that there is a complete and orthonormal set of time-evolution states for which the charge current can only keep zero or oscillate constantly, differing from the possible picture of damped or over-damped Bloch oscillations due to strong correlations. It is also found that, associated with these states, there is a set of constant phase factors, which are uniquely determined and are very useful on discussing the long-time evolution behaviors of the system.
2011.07220v2
2021-01-15
Efficient Spin-Orbit Torque Generation in Semiconducting WTe2 with Hopping Transport
Spin-orbit torques (SOTs) from transition metal dichalcogenides systems (TMDs) in conjunction with ferromagnetic materials are recently attractive in spintronics for their versatile features. However, most of the previously studied crystalline TMDs are prepared by mechanical exfoliation, which limits their potentials for industrial applications. Here we show that amorphous WTe2 heterostructures deposited by magnetron sputtering possess a sizable damping-like SOT efficiency {\xi}_DL^WTe2 ~ 0.20 and low damping constant {\alpha} = 0.009/pm0.001. Only an extremely low critical switching current density J_c ~ 7.05\times10^9 A/m^2 is required to achieve SOT-driven magnetization switching. The SOT efficiency is further proved to depend on the W and Te relative compositions in the co-sputtered W_100-xTe_x samples, from which a sign change of {\xi}_DL^WTe2 is observed. Besides, the electronic transport in amorphous WTe2 is found to be semiconducting and is governed by a hopping mechanism. With the above advantages and rich tunability, amorphous and semiconducting WTe2 serves as a unique SOT source for future spintronics applications.
2101.06047v1
2021-03-13
Dissipative structures in a parametrically driven dissipative lattice: chimera, localized disorder, continuous-wave, and staggered state
Discrete dissipative coupled systems exhibit complex behavior such as chaos, spatiotemporal intermittence, chimera among others. We construct and investigate chimera states, in the form of confined stationary and dynamical states in a chain of parametrically driven sites with onsite damping and cubic nonlinearity. The system is modeled by the respective discrete parametrically driven damped nonlinear Schrodinger equation. Chimeras feature quasi-periodic or chaotic dynamic in the filled area, quantified by time dependence of the total norm (along with its power spectrum), and by the largest Lyapunov exponent. Systematic numerical simulations, in combination with some analytical results, reveal regions in the parameter space populated by stable localized states of different types. A phase transition from the stationary disorder states to spatially confined dynamical chaotic one is identified. Essential parameters of the system are the strength and detuning of the forcing, as well as the lattice's coupling constant.
2103.07748v1
2021-05-31
Machine-Learning Non-Conservative Dynamics for New-Physics Detection
Energy conservation is a basic physics principle, the breakdown of which often implies new physics. This paper presents a method for data-driven "new physics" discovery. Specifically, given a trajectory governed by unknown forces, our Neural New-Physics Detector (NNPhD) aims to detect new physics by decomposing the force field into conservative and non-conservative components, which are represented by a Lagrangian Neural Network (LNN) and a universal approximator network (UAN), respectively, trained to minimize the force recovery error plus a constant $\lambda$ times the magnitude of the predicted non-conservative force. We show that a phase transition occurs at $\lambda$=1, universally for arbitrary forces. We demonstrate that NNPhD successfully discovers new physics in toy numerical experiments, rediscovering friction (1493) from a damped double pendulum, Neptune from Uranus' orbit (1846) and gravitational waves (2017) from an inspiraling orbit. We also show how NNPhD coupled with an integrator outperforms previous methods for predicting the future of a damped double pendulum.
2106.00026v2
2021-07-29
$n$-dimensional PDM-damped harmonic oscillators: Linearizability, and exact solvability
We consider position-dependent mass (PDM) Lagrangians/Hamiltonians in their standard textbook form, where the long-standing \emph{gain-loss balance} between the kinetic and potential energies is kept intact to allow conservation of total energy (i.e., $L=T-V$, $H=T+V$, and $dH/dt=dE/dt=0$). Under such standard settings, we discuss and report on $n$-dimensional PDM damped harmonic oscillators (DHO). We use some $n$-dimensional point canonical transformation to facilitate the linearizability of their $n$-PDM dynamical equations into some $n$-linear DHOs' dynamical equations for constant mass setting. Consequently, the well know exact solutions for the linear DHOs are mapped, with ease, onto the exact solutions for PDM DHOs. A set of one-dimensional and a set of $n$-dimensional PDM-DHO illustrative examples are reported along with their phase-space trajectories.
2107.14617v1
2021-11-16
Ultrathin ferrimagnetic GdFeCo films with very low damping
Ferromagnetic materials dominate as the magnetically active element in spintronic devices, but come with drawbacks such as large stray fields, and low operational frequencies. Compensated ferrimagnets provide an alternative as they combine the ultrafast magnetization dynamics of antiferromagnets with a ferromagnet-like spin-orbit-torque (SOT) behavior. However to use ferrimagnets in spintronic devices their advantageous properties must be retained also in ultrathin films (t < 10 nm). In this study, ferrimagnetic Gdx(Fe87.5Co12.5)1-x thin films in the thickness range t = 2-20 nm were grown on high resistance Si(100) substrates and studied using broadband ferromagnetic resonance measurements at room temperature. By tuning their stoichiometry, a nearly compensated behavior is observed in 2 nm Gdx(Fe87.5Co12.5)1-x ultrathin films for the first time, with an effective magnetization of Meff = 0.02 T and a low effective Gilbert damping constant of {\alpha} = 0.0078, comparable to the lowest values reported so far in 30 nm films. These results show great promise for the development of ultrafast and energy efficient ferrimagnetic spintronic devices.
2111.08768v1
2021-11-30
First and second order magnetic anisotropy and damping of europium iron garnet under high strain
Understanding and tailoring static and dynamic properties of magnetic insulator thin films is important for spintronic device applications. Here, we grow atomically flat epitaxial europium iron garnet (EuIG) thin films by pulsed laser deposition on (111)-oriented garnet substrates with a range of lattice parameters. By controlling the lattice mismatch between EuIG and the substrates, we tune the strain in EuIG films from compressive to tensile regime, which is characterized by X-ray diffraction. Using ferromagnetic resonance, we find that in addition to the first-order perpendicular magnetic anisotropy which depends linearly on the strain, there is a significant second-order one that has a quadratic strain dependence. Inhomogeneous linewidth of the ferromagnetic resonance increases notably with increasing strain, while the Gilbert damping parameter remains nearly constant (~ 2x10^-2). These results provide valuable insight into the spin dynamics in ferrimagnetic insulators and useful guidance for material synthesis and engineering of next-generation spintronics applications.
2111.15142v1
2022-07-17
Locational Aspect of Fast Frequency Reserves in Low-Inertia Systems -- Control Performance Analysis
This paper evaluates the frequency performance of an AC system when primary frequency response is provided by inverter-based resources located at remote-areas. Due to potentially larger wave propagation constants over longer lines, fast active power response from inverter based resources may have a negative impact on the system frequency response. Within this context, this paper presents a control performance analysis is presented in order to identify limitations for improving the frequency stability when inverter-based resources in remote locations use local frequency measurements. Our results suggest that there exists a trafeoff between disturbance rejection and stability robustness when allocating primary frequency control. In particular, fast frequency control can have a negative impact on the damping ratio of poorly damped electromechanical modes.
2207.08188v1
2022-08-17
Linking fluctuation and dissipation in spatially extended out-of-equilibrium systems
For systems in equilibrium at a temperature $T$, thermal noise and energy damping are related to $T$ through the fluctuation-dissipation theorem (FDT). We study here an extension of the FDT to an out of equilibrium steady state: a microcantilever subject to a constant heat flux. The resulting thermal profile in this spatially extended system interplays with the local energy dissipation field to prescribe the amplitude of mechanical fluctuations. Using three samples with different damping profiles (localized or distributed), we probe this approach and experimentally demonstrate the link between fluctuations and dissipation. The thermal noise can therefore be predicted a priori from the measurement of the dissipation as a function of the maximum temperature of the micro-oscillator.
2208.08356v2
2022-09-07
Classical correlations for Generic States are Fragile under Decoherence
Quantum correlations typically decrease with increasing noise, although classical correlators (CCors) may rise for a particular class of states with noise. To analyse the behavior of classical correlation (CC) in the presence of local noise, we scrutinize the set of classical correlators, axiomatic CC measures like classical discord, and local work for Haar uniformly generated states. Like quantum correlation measures, we illustrate that when noise levels rise, the average value of the CC measures for noisy output states obtained from random input states decreases for most of the channels. We also demonstrate a connection between the CCors of the noise-affected multipartite states that are produced and the CCors of the initial states that exhibit exponential, polynomial, and constant behavior as the noise level changes. Moreover, based on CCors of the generalised N-qubit W state as input, we determine a method to discriminate between the quantum channels, namely phase damping, depolarizing, and amplitude damping channels. We also relate classical, quantum, and total correlation measures that exhibit a comparable reaction to decoherence for generic states.
2209.03334v1
2022-10-19
Global well-posedness of the partially damped 2D MHD equations via a direct normal mode method for the anisotropic linear operator
We prove the global well-posedness of the 2D incompressible non-resistive MHD equations with a velocity damping term near the non-zero constant background magnetic field. To this end, we newly design a normal mode method of effectively leveraging the anisotropy of the linear propagator that encodes both the partially dissipative nature of the non-resistive MHD system and the stabilizing mechanism of the underlying magnetic field. Isolating new key quantities and estimating them with themselves in an entangling way via the eigenvalue analysis based on Duhamel's formulation, we establish the global well-posedness for any initial data $(v_0,B_0)$ that is sufficiently small in a space rougher than $H^{4}\cap L^1$. This improves the recent work in SIAM J. Math. Anal. 47, 2630-2656 (2015) where the similar result was obtained provided that $(v_0,B_0)$ was small enough in a space strictly embedded in $H^{20}\cap W^{6,1}$.
2210.10283v1
2022-11-07
On Vacuum Free Boundary Problem of the Spherically Symmetric Euler Equations with Damping and Solid Core
In this paper, the global existence of smooth solution and the long-time asymptotic stability of the equilibrium to vacuum free boundary problem of the spherically symmetric Euler equations with damping and solid core have been obtained for arbitrary finite positive gas constant $A$ in the state equation $p=A \rho^\gamma$ with $p$ being the pressure and $\rho$ the density, provided that $\gamma>4/3,$ initial perturbation is small and the radius of the equilibrium $R$ is suitably larger than the radius of the solid core $r_0$. Moreover, we obtain the pointwise convergence from the smooth solution to the equilibrium in a surprisingly exponential time-decay rate. The proof is mainly based on weighted energy method in Lagrangian coordinate.
2211.03347v2
2022-11-16
Endemic Oscillations for SARS-CoV-2 Omicron -- A SIRS model analysis
The SIRS model with constant vaccination and immunity waning rates is well known to show a transition from a disease-free to an endemic equilibrium as the basic reproduction number $r_0$ is raised above threshold. It is shown that this model maps to Hethcote's classic endemic model originally published in 1973. In this way one obtains unifying formulas for a whole class of models showing endemic bifurcation. In particular, if the vaccination rate is smaller than the recovery rate and $r_- < r_0 < r_+$ for certain upper and lower bounds $r_\pm$, then trajectories spiral into the endemic equilibrium via damped infection waves. Latest data of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant suggest that according to this simplified model continuous vaccination programs will not be capable to escape the oscillating endemic phase. However, in view of the strong damping factors predicted by the model, in reality these oscillations will certainly be overruled by time-dependent contact behaviors.
2211.09005v2