Influence of the Piezoelectric Effect on the Maxwellian Relaxation Time of Holographic Gratings in Cubic Photorefractive Crystals

The influence of the inverse piezoelectric effect on the effective permittivity, the Maxwellian relaxation time, and the space-charge field amplitude in cubic photorefractive crystals is examined. Analytical orientational dependences of the effective permittivity are derived for crystals of , , and cuts. It is demonstrated that in an external field of 10 kV/cm, the space-charge field may change by 4.9% due to the piezoelectric effect.     

Simultaneous geometrization of classical and quantum mechanics of spinless particles

It is shown that classical and quantum equations of motion of a relativistic spinless particle (the Lorentz and Klein-Gordon equations) allow for a geometrization on the same manifold ₄. A classical particle on ₄ is described as a free particle ( p=0), while the quantum particle, as a free wave ( s=0).Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 9, pp. 70–74, September, 1990.     

Interaction of a neutrino with a circularly polarized plane wave accompanied by (n¯n) pair production

We consider the processes (n )and n , induced by the interaction of the anomalous magnetic moment of the neutron with the field of a circularly polarized plane wave. Using the invariant solution of the modified Dirac equation, we obtain expressions for the total probabilities of these processes, which consist of several different contributions. The asymptotic behavior of the results at high energy is analyzed and the possibility of observing the effects is discussed.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 7, pp. 46–53, July, 1990.The authors thank V. G. Bagrov for useful discussions.     

Electromagnetic annihilation of a lepton-antilepton pair into a hyperon pair with an account of polarizations and form factors

The annihilation of a lepton-antilepton pair into a pair of or -hyperons is examined. Expressions are found for the differential cross section in the CM system with an account of the strange-particle form factors, and with separate accounts of the random polarization of the initial and final particles.In conclusion, the author thanks Doctor of Physicomathematical Sciences B. K. Kerimov for suggesting the topic and for valuable advice.     

Neutralization of antiprotons at nuclei

A method is given for calculating the cross section for neutralization of for medium and heavy nuclei in terms of the optical potential, by addition of the neutralization operator . The method is reasonable for energies . Explicit forms are obtained for the differential and total cross sections for an optical potential in the form of a complex rectangular well, V(r) = V₀., in which V₀ differs; from zero within the nucleus and . The value of V_o corresponding to the observed cross section for lead is derived. The dependence of the total cross section on V₀ for copper is given.I am indebted to P. E. Nemirovskii for direction and valuable advice.     

Elastic interaction potential in solid solutions with cubic symmetry

On the basis of a microscopic approximation, within which three parameters of interatomic binding (according to the number of elastic constants of a cubic crystal) are taken into account, an approximation for the coefficients of the expansion has been obtained for the elastic interaction potential in vs elastic constants of a cubic crystal. An analysis of the kind of dependencies of the expansion coefficients on the direction has been carried out. It has been shown that can have an accidental saddle anomaly in planes of the type 110, in addition to extrema in high-symmetry directions of the type <100>, <110>, <111>. Coefficient B always takes negative values for bcc crystals near <100> directions. An approximation has been found for the elastic interaction potential vs elastic moduli of a cubic crystal, starting from a microscopic approach.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavenenii, Fizika, No. 2, pp. 20–24, February, 1982.     

Modeling Anisotropic Single Crystal Growth Kinetics in Liquid Phase Sintered α-Al2O3

Single crystals of -alumina with {0001}, {11 and {01 2} orientations were embedded in a matrix of liquid phase sintered alumina to study -alumina single crystal growth in the presence of a calcium aluminosilicate liquid. Growth on the {11 0} and {01 2} surfaces was observed to occur by a diffusion-controlled mechanism while growth on the basal surface was controlled by two-dimensional nucleation. Growth models, which incorporate the change in matrix grain size, were derived and shown to fit the growth kinetics.     

Bethe subalgebras in twisted Yangians

We study analogues of the Yangian of the Lie algebra for the other classical Lie algebras and . We call them twisted Yangians. They are coideal subalgebras in the Yangian of and admit homomorphisms onto the universal enveloping algebras U( ) and U( ) respectively. In every twisted Yangian we construct a family of maximal commutative subalgebras parametrized by the regular semisimple elements of the corresponding classical Lie algebra. The images in U( ) and U( ) of these subalgebras are also maximal commutative.     

Spin and charge density changes in FeSn

Interpretation of the hyperfine field and isomer shift changes in terms of a spin and charge density changes is given for a series of Fe–Sn alloys. Linear correlations have been revealed for the following⁵⁷Fe site quantities: the hyperfine field H(0,0) and the isomer shift IS(0,0) of undisturbed neighbour configurations; the average hyperfine field, and the average isomer shift, ; the average hyperfine field and the average number of Sn atoms in the first two neighbour shells, . The latter correlation holds also for the Sn site measurements. From the first two correlations, the following hyperfine coupling constants have been evaluated: (a) for s-like itinerant electrons yielding 183 k0e/s-el., (b) average coupling constant yielding –319 k0e/s-el.. From the correlation between the Fe site and the change in the spin or charge density caused by one Sn atom for unit cell, has been deduced to be equal to 0.27 s-el./Sn-atom/u.c..     

Minimal affinizations of representations of quantum groups: the irregular case

Let be a finite-dimensional complex simple Lie algebra and U_q( ) the associated quantum group (q is a nonzero complex number which we assume is transcendental). IfV is a finitedimensional irreducible representation of U_q( ), an affinization ofV is an irreducible representationVV of the quantum affine algebra U_q( ) which containsV with multiplicity one and is such that all other irreducible U_q( )-components ofV have highest weight strictly smaller than the highest weight ofV. There is a natural partial order on the set of U_q( ) classes of affinizations, and we look for the minimal one(s). In earlier papers, we showed that (i) if is of typeA, B, C, F orG, the minimal affinization is unique up to U_q( )-isomorphism; (ii) if is of typeD orE and is not orthogonal to the triple node of the Dynkin diagram of , there are either one or three minimal affinizations (depending on ). In this paper, we show, in contrast to the regular case, that if U_q( ) is of typeD ₄ and is orthogonal to the triple node, the number of minimal affinizations has no upper bound independent of .As a by-product of our methods, we disprove a conjecture according to which, if is of typeA _n,every affinization is isomorphic to a tensor product of representations of U_q( ) which are irreducible under U_q( ) (in an earlier paper, we proved this conjecture whenn=1).Both authors were partially supported by the NSF, DMS-9207701.     

Preferred Invariant Symplectic Connections on Compact Coadjoint Orbits

Let be the Haag--Kastler net generated by the (2) chiral current algebra at level 1. We classify the SL(2, )-covariant subsystems by showing that they are all fixed points nets ^H for some subgroup H of the gauge automorphisms group SO(3) of . Then, using the fact that the net ₁ generated by the (1) chiral current can be regarded as a subsystem of , we classify the subsystems of ₁. In this case, there are two distinct proper subsystems: the one generated by the energy-momentum tensor and the gauge invariant subsystem .     

Slepton and squark production and decay inep collisions at the LHC

We present a detailed study of and and the subsequent decays of , , and at the LHC . We explore the relevant supersymmetry parameter range. We calculate the cross sections as well as the rates for interesting signatures such as the production of one or two leptons on the lepton side.     

How to Describe the Space-Time Structure with Nets of C*-Algebras

The major subject of algebraic quantum fieldtheory is the study of nets of local C*-algebras, i.e.,maps ( ) assigning to each open,relatively compact region of space-time (M, g) aC*-algebra ( ), whose self-adjoint elements describe localobservables measurable in the region . A question discussed recently in a number ofpapers is how much information about the geometricstructure of the underlying space-time (M, g) is encoded in the algebraicstructure of the net ( ). Followingthese ideas, it is demonstrated in this paper howspace-time-related concepts like causality and observerscan be described in a purely algebraic way, i.e., using only thelocal algebras ( ).These results are then used to show how the space-time(M, g) can be reconstructed from the set _loc := { ( )| M open, compact} of local algebras.     

On the Product of Real Spectral Triples

The product of two real spectral triples and , the first of which is necessarily even, was defined by A.Connes as given by and, in the even-even case, by . Generically it is assumed that the real structure obeys the relations , , , where the -sign table depends on the dimension n modulo 8 of the spectral triple. If both spectral triples obey Connes' >-sign table, it is seen that their product, defined in the straightforward way above, does not necessarily obey this -sign table. In this Letter, we propose an alternative definition of the product real structure such that the -sign table is also satisfied by the product.     

Covariance algebras in field theory and statistical mechanics

Starting from aC*-algebra and a locally compact groupT of automorphisms of we construct a covariance algebra with the property that the corresponding *-representations are in one-to-one correspondence with covariant representations of i.e. *-representations of in which the automorphisms are continuously unitarily implemented. We further construct for relativistic field theory an algebra yielding the *-representations of in which the space time translations have their spectrum contained inV. The problem of denumerable occurence of superselection sectors is formulated as a condition on the spectrum of . Finally we consider the covariance algebra built with space translations alone and show its relevance for the discussion of equilibrium states in statistical mechanics, namely we restore in this framework the equivalence of uniqueness of the vacuum, irreducibility and a weak clustering property.On leave of absence from Istituto di Fisica G. Marconi — Roma.     

On the Ricci Curvature of Compact Spacelike Hypersurfaces in Einstein Conformally Stationary-Closed Spacetimes

In this paper we develop an integral formula involving the Ricci and scalar curvatures of a compact spacelike hypersurface M in a spacetime equipped with a timelike closed conformal vector field K (in short, conformally stationary-closed spacetime), and we apply it, when is Einstein, in order to establish sufficient conditions for M to be a leaf of the foliation determined by K and to obtain some non-existence results. We also get some interesting consequences for the particular case when is a generalized Robertson-Walker spacetime.     

Entropy functionals of Kolmogorov-Sinai type and their limit theorems

Two functionals and are introduced forC ^*-dynamical systems with invariant states and stationary channels. It is shown that the Kolmogorov-Sinai-type theorems hold for these functionals and . Our functionals and are set within the framework of quantum information theory and generalize a quantum KS entropy by CNT and the mutual entropy by Ohya.     

Probability operator of a harmonic oscillator

A unique linear rule of constructing quantum operators defined by the probability operator for coordinates and momenta, is considered. is assumed to be a normalized, positive definite operator, establishing a dynamical correspondence between the classical and quantum Poisson brackets. It is shown that such an operator exists in the case of a harmonic oscillator. The principal implications of the suggested rule of constructing the operators of physical quantities are determined, in comparison with the corresponding results of conventional quantum mechanics.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 10, pp. 89–93, October, 1982.     

On the purification of factor states

Let be aC*-algebra and be an opposite algebra. Notions of exact andj-positive states of are introduced. It is shown, that any factor state of can be extended to a pure exactj-positive state of . The correspondence generalizes the notion of the purifications map introduced by Powers and Størmer. The factor states ₁ and ₂ are quasi-equivalent if and only if their purifications and are equivalent.     

Strange properties of early time evolution of the projection of a state vector

Using the equation for a projection of a state vector, the exponent of a damping factor for a given state, corresponding to the effective decay width appearing in the case of multiple measured unstable states, is obtained numerically in some models for early time period t 0. is found to be nonzero (even for stable states) at this time period; thus, for early times, this damping factor is always smaller than unity. It is shown that at finitet's may be smaller or greater than the standard decay width in Weisskopf-Wigner theory depending on the parameters of a model considered.