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Coherent potential approximation for diffusion and wave propagation in topologically disordered systems

2013

Using Gaussian integral transform techniques borrowed from functional-integral field theory and the replica trick we derive a version of the coherent-potential approximation (CPA) suited for describing ($i$) the diffusive (hopping) motion of classical particles in a random environment and ($ii$) the vibrational properties of materials with spatially fluctuating elastic coefficients in topologically disordered materials. The effective medium in the present version of the CPA is not a lattice but a homogeneous and isotropic medium, representing an amorphous material on a mesoscopic scale. The transition from a frequency-independent to a frequency-dependent diffusivity (conductivity) is shown …

PhysicsMesoscopic physicsWave propagationGaussianIsotropyFOS: Physical sciencesDisordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)Condensed Matter - Disordered Systems and Neural NetworksCondensed Matter PhysicsCondensed Matter::Disordered Systems and Neural NetworksElectronic Optical and Magnetic Materialssymbols.namesakeQuantum mechanicsGaussian integralsymbolsCoherent potential approximationStatistical physicsRayleigh scatteringReplica trick
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Effect of reactant spatial distribution in theA+B→0reaction kinetics in one dimension with Coulomb interaction

1996

The effect of nonequilibrium charge screening in the kinetics of the one-dimensional, diffusion-controlled $A+B\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0$ reaction between charged reactants in solids and liquids is studied. The incorrectness of the static, Debye-H\"uckel theory is shown. Our microscopic formalism is based on the Kirkwood superposition approximation for three-particle densities and the self-consistent treatment of the electrostatic interactions defined by the nonuniform spatial distribution of similar and dissimilar reactants treated in terms of the relevant joint correlation functions. Special attention is paid to the pattern formation due to a reaction-induced non-Poissonian fluctuation sp…

PhysicsMesoscopic physicsmedia_common.quotation_subjectKirkwood approximationCoulombThermodynamicsNon-equilibrium thermodynamicsAtomic physicsElectrostaticsFluctuation spectrumAsymmetryCritical exponentmedia_commonPhysical Review E
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Filter performance parameters for vectorial high-aperture wave fields.

2008

Performance parameters have been presented that can be used to compare the focusing performance of different optical systems, including the effect of pupil filters. These were originally given for the paraxial case and recently extended to the high-aperture scalar regime. We generalize these parameters to the full vectorial case for an aplanatic optical system illuminated by a plane-polarized wave. The behavior of different optical systems is compared.

PhysicsMicroscopyParabolic reflectorAperturebusiness.industryParaxial approximationScalar (physics)Physics::OpticsSignal Processing Computer-AssistedFilter (signal processing)Image EnhancementAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsOpticsElectric fieldImage Interpretation Computer-AssistedOptical filterbusinessImage resolutionAlgorithmsFiltrationOptics letters
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RPA in wavefunction representation

1992

The RPA is formulated in subspaces of coordinate-like and momentum-like I ph operators. This allows to embed a large class of approximative schemes into a generalized RPA treatment. We give a detailed formulation in terms of wavefunctions in coordinate space which is ideally suited to practical programming. In particular, we work out the reduction to spherical tensors in the case of spherical symmetry which is most often the starting point in finite Fermion systems.

PhysicsMomentum operatorQuantum mechanicsPosition operatorGeneral Physics and AstronomyCircular symmetryCoordinate spaceWave functionRepresentation (mathematics)Random phase approximationLinear subspaceMathematical physicsAnnalen der Physik
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Neutrinoless double beta decays of 106Cd revisited

2011

Abstract Neutrinoless double beta ( 0 ν 2 β ) decays of 106 Cd are studied for the transitions to the ground state, 0 gs + , and 0 + excited states in 106 Pd by using realistic many-body wave functions calculated in the framework of the quasiparticle random-phase approximation and its extensions. Effective, G-matrix-based nuclear forces are used in large single-particle model spaces. Both the β + β + and β + EC channels of the 0 ν 2 β decay are discussed and half-lives are computed. Particular attention is devoted to the study of the detectability of the resonant neutrinoless double electron capture ( R 0 ν ECEC ) process in 106 Cd. The calculations of the present article constitute the thu…

PhysicsMultiple-commutator modelNuclear and High Energy PhysicsElectron captureNuclear physicsDouble beta decayExcited stateQuasiparticleNuclear forceQuasiparticle random-phase approximationBeta (velocity)Neutrinoless double beta decaysResonant neutrinoless double electron captureGround stateRandom phase approximationPhysics Letters B
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Comment on "Highly nonlinear, sign-varying shift of hydrogen spectral lines in dense plasmas".

2004

The shift of hydrogen and hydrogenlike spectral lines in dense plasmas, calculated with the full computer simulation method, in nonquenching, classical path, dipole approximation for plasma-emitter interaction, is equal to zero. In the paper commented on, Escarguel et al., Phys. Rev. E 62, 2667 (2000) the electron concentrations ${N}_{e}$ and the corresponding temperature values T are shown to have been determined incorrectly.

PhysicsNonlinear systemHydrogenchemistrychemistry.chemical_elementPhysics::Atomic PhysicsElectronPlasmaDiscrete dipole approximationAtomic physicsHydrogen spectral seriesSpectral lineSign (mathematics)Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
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The eikonal model of reactions involving exotic nuclei; Roy Glauber's legacy in today's nuclear physics

2020

In this contribution, the eikonal approximation developed by Roy Glauber to describe high-energy quantum collisions is presented. This approximation has been-and still is-extensively used to analyse reaction measurements performed to study the structure of nuclei far from stability. This presentation focuses more particularly on the application of the eikonal approximation to the study of halo nuclei in modern nuclear physics. To emphasise Roy Glauber's legacy in today's nuclear physics, recent extensions of this model are reviewed.

PhysicsNuclear Theory010308 nuclear & particles physicsEikonal equationPhysicsQC1-999Nuclear TheoryPhysics - History and Philosophy of PhysicsStructure (category theory)FOS: Physical sciences01 natural sciencesEikonal approximationNuclear physicsNuclear Theory (nucl-th)0103 physical sciencesHistory and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)HaloNuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)010306 general physicsNuclear ExperimentNuclear ExperimentGlauberQuantumNuclear theory
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A Quantum Mechanical Model of the Reissner-Nordstrom Black Hole

1997

We consider a Hamiltonian quantum theory of spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat electrovacuum spacetimes. The physical phase space of such spacetimes is spanned by the mass and the charge parameters $M$ and $Q$ of the Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black hole, together with the corresponding canonical momenta. In this four-dimensional phase space, we perform a canonical transformation such that the resulting configuration variables describe the dynamical properties of Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black holes in a natural manner. The classical Hamiltonian written in terms of these variables and their conjugate momenta is replaced by the corresponding self-adjoint Hamiltonian operator, and an eigenv…

PhysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsCanonical quantizationVacuum stateFOS: Physical sciencesCanonical transformationGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)WKB approximationGeneral Relativity and Quantum CosmologyBlack holesymbols.namesakeGeneral Relativity and Quantum CosmologyQuantum mechanicsPhase spacesymbolsHamiltonian (quantum mechanics)Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
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Electromagnetic properties of some positive parity dipole states described in terms of quadrupole and octupole interacting bosons

1990

The first three positive parity dipole states predicted by a phenomenological quadrupole-octupole boson Hamiltonian are extensively studied. Their coupling to the neighboring positive and negative parity states, due to the {ital M}1 and {ital E}{lambda} ({lambda}=1,3) transitions, respectively, are considered. Special attention is paid to the lowest two states which are of collective {ital M}1 nature. The signature which distinguishes them from the {ital M}1 state describing the scissors mode is also discussed.

PhysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsComputer Science::Information RetrievalParity (physics)LambdaMathematical OperatorsDipolesymbols.namesakeQuantum mechanicsQuadrupolesymbolsRandom phase approximationHamiltonian (quantum mechanics)BosonPhysical Review C
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Influence of Coulomb distortion on polarization observables in elastic electromagnetic lepton hadron scattering at low energies

2011

The formal expression for the most general polarization observable in elastic electromagnetic lepton hadron scattering at low energies is derived for the nonrelativistic regime. For the explicit evaluation the influence of Coulomb distortion on various polarization observables is calculated in a distorted wave Born approximation. Besides the hyperfine interaction also the spin-orbit interactions of lepton and hadron are included. For like charges the Coulomb repulsion reduces strongly the size of polarization observables compared to the plane wave Born approximation whereas for opposite charges the Coulomb attraction leads to a substantial increase of these observables for hadron lab kineti…

PhysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsCoulomb's constantNuclear TheoryScatteringHadronHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyFOS: Physical sciencesMott scatteringNuclear Theory (nucl-th)Quantum electrodynamicsCoulombHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentBorn approximationWave functionLepton
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