Precise quark-mass dependence of the instanton determinant

The fermion determinant in an instanton background for a quark field of arbitrary mass is determined exactly using an efficient numerical method to evaluate the determinant of a partial-wave radial differential operator. The bare sum over partial waves is divergent but can be renormalized in the minimal subtraction scheme using the result of WKB analysis of the large partial-wave contribution. Previously, only a few leading terms in the extreme small and large mass limits were known for the corresponding effective action. Our approach works for any quark-mass and interpolates smoothly between the analytically known small and large mass expansions.     

Approach to the spectroscopic measurement of the energy barrier to electron transfer through a macromolecule in soliton

A new method for the study of electron transport in macromolecules in solution is described. Preliminary results suggest that the electron transfer gaps in solvated proteins are an order of magnitude less than the data obtained for dehydrated solid samples.     

Search for isovector giant monopole resonances via the Pb(3He,tp) reaction

The (nat)Pb(3He,tp) reaction at E(3He) = 177 MeV was studied to identify 2Planck's over 2piomega isovector monopole strength in Bi isotopes. Monopole strength was found in the region -45相似文献   

Analogy between unconventional superconductivity and unconventional states of liquid crystals

An analogy is stressed between the order-parameter symmetries of the two-dimensional d-pairing wave superconductors and of liquid-crystal mesophases formed from achiral bent-shaped molecules. It leads to a definition of a class of liquid-crystal states which are the analogs of the unconventional superconducting states, and are characterized by a loss of discrete symmetry operations of the parent state.     

Creatine kinase B deficient neurons exhibit an increased fraction of motile mitochondria

Background  

Neurons require an elaborate system of intracellular transport to distribute cargo throughout axonal and dendritic projections. Active anterograde and retrograde transport of mitochondria serves in local energy distribution, but at the same time also requires input of ATP. Here we studied whether brain-type creatine kinase (CK-B), a key enzyme for high-energy phosphoryl transfer between ATP and CrP in brain, has an intermediary role in the reciprocal coordination between mitochondrial motility and energy distribution. Therefore, we analysed the impact of brain-type creatine kinase (CK-B) deficiency on transport activity and velocity of mitochondria in primary murine neurons and made a comparison to the fate of amyloid precursor protein (APP) cargo in these cells, using live cell imaging.     

Efficient Extreme Value Prediction for Nonlinear Beam Vibrations Using Measured Random Response Histories

Predicted extreme exceedance probabilities associated withexperimental measurements of highly non-linear clamped-clamped beamvibrations driven by band-limited white-noise, are compared using twodifferent approaches for application to short data sets. The firstapproach uses response history measurements to calibrate a discretedynamic model using a Markov moment method appropriately matched toextreme value prediction via finite element solution of theFokker–Planck (FPK) equation. The dynamic model is obtained via theWoinowsky–Krieger equation with added empirical damping. Stationary FPKsolutions are used to obtain mean crossing rates, and for the purpose ofextreme value prediction, crossings are assumed to be independent. Thesecond approach uses a Weissman type I asymptotic estimator, justifiedby use of the Hasofer–Wang hypothesis test. Both methods are comparedwith exceedance probabilities obtained using data from long experiments in which dependence between extreme values is excluded. Thepaper shows that by exploiting the Weissman estimator in a forwardpredictive mode, very accurate exceedance probabilities can be obtainedfrom relatively small amounts of measured data. The calibrated modelbased predictions are consistently in error as a result of non-linearcoupling effects not included in the model – this coupling isimplicitly accounted for in the Weissman predictions.     

Instantons and Asymmetric Vacua

It is shown that with asymmetric classical vacua the quantum mechanical instanton approach to the energy splitting of degenerate states applies even though the degenerate state in one well is not the quantum mechanical ground state of that well. The instanton approach leads to the correct leading exponential behavior of the energy splitting E, but the prefactor is much more difficult to compute due to the asymmetric nature of the fluctuation potential V(_c(t)), which is in turn a direct consequence of the asymmetry of the two classical minima between which the instanton interpolates.     

Critical petermann K factor for intensity noise squeezing

We investigate the impact of the Petermann-excess-noise factor K>/=1 on the possibility of intensity noise squeezing of laser light below the standard quantum limit. Using an N-mode model, we show that squeezing is limited to a floor level of 2(K-1) times the shot noise limit. Thus, even a modest Petermann factor significantly impedes squeezing, which becomes impossible when K>/=1.5. This appears as a serious limitation for obtaining sub-shot-noise light from practical semiconductor lasers. We present experimental evidence for our theory.     

Tris(oxazolinyl)boratomagnesium-catalyzed cross-dehydrocoupling of organosilanes with amines, hydrazine, and ammonia

We report magnesium-catalyzed cross-dehydrocoupling of Si-H and N-H bonds to give Si-N bonds and H(2). A number of silazanes are accessible using this method, as well as silylamines from NH(3) and silylhydrazines from N(2)H(4). Kinetic studies of the overall catalytic cycle and a stoichiometric Si-N bond-forming reaction suggest nucleophilic attack by a magnesium amide as the turnover-limiting step.