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Anyons and transmutation of statistics via vacuum induced Berry phase
2004
We show that bosonic fields may present anyonic behavior when interacting with a fermion in a Jaynes-Cummings-like model. The proposal is accomplished via the interaction of a two-level system with two quantized modes of a harmonic oscillator; under suitable conditions, the system acquires a fractional geometric phase. A crucial role is played by the entanglement of the system eigenstates, which provides a two-dimensional confinement in the effective evolution of the system, leading to the anyonic behavior. For a particular choice of parameters, we show that it is possible to transmute the statistics of the system continually from fermions to bosons. We also present an experimental proposal…
Pseudobosons, Riesz bases, and coherent states
2010
In a recent paper, Trifonov suggested a possible explicit model of a PT-symmetric system based on a modification of the canonical commutation relation. Although being rather intriguing, in his treatment many mathematical aspects of the model have just been neglected, making most of the results of that paper purely formal. For this reason we are re-considering the same model and we repeat and extend the same construction paying particular attention to all the subtle mathematical points. From our analysis the crucial role of Riesz bases clearly emerges. We also consider coherent states associated to the model.
NTD-GE-based microcalorimeter performance
2000
Our group has been developing x-ray microcalorimeters consisting of neutron transmutation doped (NTD) germanium thermistors attached to superconducting tin absorbers. We discuss the performance of single pixel x-ray detectors, and describe an array technology. In this paper we describe the read-out circuit that allows us to measure fast signals in our detectors as this will be important in understanding the primary cause of resolution broadening. We describe briefly a multiplexing scheme that allows a number of different calorimeters to be read out using a single JFET. We list the possible causes of broadening and give a description of the experiment which best demonstrates the cause of the…
Complete next-to-leading order gluino contributions to and
2011
Abstract We present the first complete order α s corrections to the Wilson coefficients (at the high scale) of the various versions of magnetic and chromomagnetic operators which are induced by a squark–gluino exchange. For this matching calculation, we work out the on-shell amplitudes b → s γ and b → s g , both in the full and in the effective theory up to order α s 2 . The most difficult part of the calculation is the evaluation of the two-loop diagrams in the full theory; these can be split into two classes: a) diagrams with one gluino and a virtual gluon; b) diagrams with two gluinos or with one gluino and a four-squark vertex. Accordingly, the Wilson coefficients can be split into a pa…
Miss Piggy, a californium-252 fission fragment source as a generator of short-lived radionuclides
2003
Abstract Carrier-free short-lived nuclides are employed in many different fields of modern nuclear chemistry. The two main production strategies are either thermal neutron-induced fission of 235U or 239Pu at nuclear reactors or spallation neutron sources or charged particle-induced nuclear reactions at accelerator facilities. An alternative method is to use a spontaneously fissioning nuclide. A facility applying this technique (“Miss Piggy”) was built at the University of Berne (Switzerland). Californium-252 (252Cf), which has a 3% fission branch and a half-life of 2.645 a, is used for the production of short-lived fission products that are stopped in an adjacent recoil chamber. Short-lived…
A Tutorial Approach to the Renormalization Group and the Smooth Feshbach Map
2006
2.1 Relative Bounds on the Interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2 The Feshbach Map and Pull-Through Formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.3 Elimination of High-Energy Degrees of Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.4 Normal form of Hamiltonians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.5 Banach Space of Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.6 The Renormalization Map Rρ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
The Pauli Principle and Systems Consisting of Composite Particles
1993
In nature we often deal with many-body systems that are described in terms of particles that are not elementary but themselves composite. Examples of such composite particles are hadrons, atoms, phonons, and Cooper pairs. For the description of systems consisting of such composite particles in terms of the underlying degrees of freedom group theory plays an important role, in particular the symmetric group to describe the permutational symmetry of the wave function of the system, and unitary groups to describe the symmetry forced on the system by the interaction between the particles.
Regulation of aerobic and anaerobic D-malate metabolism of Escherichia coli by the LysR-type regulator DmlR (YeaT).
2010
ABSTRACT Escherichia coli K-12 is able to grow under aerobic conditions on d -malate using DctA for d -malate uptake and the d -malate dehydrogenase DmlA (formerly YeaU) for converting d -malate to pyruvate. Induction of dmlA encoding DmlA required an intact dmlR (formerly yeaT ) gene, which encodes DmlR, a LysR-type transcriptional regulator. Induction of dmlA by DmlR required the presence of d -malate or l - or meso -tartrate, but only d -malate supported aerobic growth. The regulator of general C 4 -dicarboxylate metabolism (DcuS-DcuR two-component system) had some effect on dmlA expression. The anaerobic l -tartrate regulator TtdR or the oxygen sensors ArcB-ArcA and FNR did not have a m…
Arabidopsis copper transport protein COPT2 participates in the crosstalk between iron deficiency responses and low phosphate signaling
2013
[EN] Copper and iron are essential micronutrients for most living organisms because they participate as cofactors in biological processes, including respiration, photosynthesis, and oxidative stress protection. In many eukaryotic organisms, including yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and mammals, copper and iron homeostases are highly interconnected; yet, such interdependence is not well established in higher plants. Here, we propose that COPT2, a high-affinity copper transport protein, functions under copper and iron deficiencies in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). COPT2 is a plasma membrane protein that functions in copper acquisition and distribution. Characterization of the COPT2 expr…
Zebrafish as a Model for the Study of Chaperonopathies.
2016
There is considerable information on the clinical manifestations and mode of inheritance for many genetic chaperonopathies but little is known on the molecular mechanisms underlying the cell and tissue abnormalities that characterize them. This scarcity of knowledge is mostly due to the lack of appropriate animal models that mimic closely the human molecular, cellular, and histological characteristics. In this article we introduce zebrafish as a suitable model to study molecular and cellular mechanisms pertaining to human chaperonopathies. Genetic chaperonopathies manifest themselves from very early in life so it is necessary to examine the impact of mutant chaperone genes during developmen…