Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Physical Sciences and Mathematics Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Discipline
Keyword
Publication Year

Articles 91 - 120 of 1762

Full-Text Articles in Physical Sciences and Mathematics

On-Demand Generation Of Dark-Bright Soliton Trains In Bose-Einstein Condensates, A. Romero-Ros, Garyfallia C. Katsimiga, P. G. Kevrekidis, B. Prinari, G. Biondini, P. Schmelcher Feb 2022

On-Demand Generation Of Dark-Bright Soliton Trains In Bose-Einstein Condensates, A. Romero-Ros, Garyfallia C. Katsimiga, P. G. Kevrekidis, B. Prinari, G. Biondini, P. Schmelcher

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

The controlled creation of dark-bright (DB) soliton trains in multicomponent Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) is a topic of ongoing interest. In this work we generalize earlier findings on the creation of dark soliton trains in single-component BECs [A. Romero-Ros, Phys. Rev. A 103, 023329 (2021)2469-992610.1103/PhysRevA.103.023329] to two-component BECs. By choosing suitable filled box-type initial configurations (FBTCs) and solving the direct scattering problem for the defocusing vector nonlinear Schrödinger equation with nonzero boundary conditions we obtain analytical expressions for the DB soliton solutions produced by a general FBTC. It is found that the size of the initial box and the amount of …


High Harmonic Generation In Mixed Xuv And Nir Fields At A Free-Electron Laser, Jan Troß, Shashank Pathak, Adam Summers, Dimitrios Rompotis, Benjamin Erk, Christopher Passow, Bastian Manschwetus, Rebecca Boll, Patrik Grychtol, Sadia Bari, Vinod Kumarappan, Anh(Anh-Thu) Thu Le, Cheng Jin, Carlos Trallero Feb 2022

High Harmonic Generation In Mixed Xuv And Nir Fields At A Free-Electron Laser, Jan Troß, Shashank Pathak, Adam Summers, Dimitrios Rompotis, Benjamin Erk, Christopher Passow, Bastian Manschwetus, Rebecca Boll, Patrik Grychtol, Sadia Bari, Vinod Kumarappan, Anh(Anh-Thu) Thu Le, Cheng Jin, Carlos Trallero

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We Present the Results of an Experiment Investigating the Generation of High-Order Harmonics by a Femtosecond Near-Infrared (NIR) Laser Pulse in the Presence of an Extreme Ultraviolet (XUV) Field Provided by a Free-Electron Laser (FEL), a Process Referred to as XUV-Assisted High-Order Harmonic Generation (HHG). Our Experimental Findings Show that the XUV Field Can Lead to a Small Enhancement in the Harmonic Yield When the XUV and NIR Pulses overlap in Time, while a Strong Decrease of the HHG Yield and a Red Shift of the HHG Spectrum is Observed When the XUV Precedes the NIR Pulse. the Latter Observations …


Metallic Networks And Hydrogen Compensation In Highly Nonstoichiometric Amorphous In₂O₃₋ₓ, Julia E. Medvedeva, E. Caputa-Hatley, I. Zhuravlev Feb 2022

Metallic Networks And Hydrogen Compensation In Highly Nonstoichiometric Amorphous In₂O₃₋ₓ, Julia E. Medvedeva, E. Caputa-Hatley, I. Zhuravlev

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

The unique response of amorphous ionic oxides to changes in oxygen stoichiometry is investigated using computationally intensive ab initio molecular dynamics simulations, comprehensive structural analysis, and hybrid density-functional calculations for the oxygen defect formation energy and electronic properties of amorphous In2O3-x with x = 0-0.185. In marked contrast to nonstoichiometric crystalline nanocomposites with clusters of metallic inclusions inside an insulating matrix, the lack of oxygen in amorphous indium oxide is distributed between a large fraction of undercoordinated In atoms, leading to an extended shallow state for x < 0.037, a variety of weakly and strongly localized states for 0.074 < x < 0.148, and a percolation-like network of single-atom chains of metallic In-In bonds for x > 0.185. The calculated carrier concentration increases from 3.3 x 10 …


Metallic Networks And Hydrogen Compensation In Highly Nonstoichiometric Amorphous In2 O3-X, Julia E. Medvedeva, E. Caputa-Hatley, I. Zhuravlev Feb 2022

Metallic Networks And Hydrogen Compensation In Highly Nonstoichiometric Amorphous In2 O3-X, Julia E. Medvedeva, E. Caputa-Hatley, I. Zhuravlev

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

The unique response of amorphous ionic oxides to changes in oxygen stoichiometry is investigated using computationally intensive ab initio molecular dynamics simulations, comprehensive structural analysis, and hybrid density-functional calculations for the oxygen defect formation energy and electronic properties of amorphous In2O3-x with x=0-0.185. In marked contrast to nonstoichiometric crystalline nanocomposites with clusters of metallic inclusions inside an insulating matrix, the lack of oxygen in amorphous indium oxide is distributed between a large fraction of undercoordinated In atoms, leading to an extended shallow state for x0.185. The calculated carrier concentration increases from 3.3x1020cm-3 at x=0.037 to 6.6x1020cm-3 at x=0.074 and decreases …


Characterization Of Single-Shot Attosecond Pulses With Angular Streaking Photoelectron Spectra, Xi Zhao, Siqi Li, Taran Driver, Van Hung Hoang, Anh-Thu Le, James P. Cryan, Agostino Marinelli, C. D. Lin Jan 2022

Characterization Of Single-Shot Attosecond Pulses With Angular Streaking Photoelectron Spectra, Xi Zhao, Siqi Li, Taran Driver, Van Hung Hoang, Anh-Thu Le, James P. Cryan, Agostino Marinelli, C. D. Lin

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Most of the traditional attosecond pulse retrieval algorithms are based on a so-called attosecond streak camera technique, in which the momentum of the electron is shifted by an amount depending on the relative time delay between the attosecond pulse and the streaking infrared pulse. Thus, temporal information of the attosecond pulse is encoded in the amount of momentum shift in the streaked photoelectron momentum spectrogram S(p, τ), where p is the momentum of the electron along the polarization direction and τ is the time delay. An iterative algorithm is then employed to reconstruct the attosecond pulse from the streaking spectrogram. …


Search For Continuous Gravitational Waves From 20 Accreting Millisecond X-Ray Pulsars In O3 Ligo Data, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Jan 2022

Search For Continuous Gravitational Waves From 20 Accreting Millisecond X-Ray Pulsars In O3 Ligo Data, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Results are presented of searches for continuous gravitational waves from 20 accreting millisecond x-ray pulsars with accurately measured spin frequencies and orbital parameters, using data from the third observing run of the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. The search algorithm uses a hidden Markov model, where the transition probabilities allow the frequency to wander according to an unbiased random walk, while the J-statistic maximum-likelihood matched filter tracks the binary orbital phase. Three narrow subbands are searched for each target, centered on harmonics of the measured spin frequency. The search yields 16 candidates, consistent with a false alarm probability of …


Stripe Order, Impurities, And Symmetry Breaking In A Diluted Frustrated Magnet, Xuecheng Ye, Rajesh Narayanan, Thomas Vojta Jan 2022

Stripe Order, Impurities, And Symmetry Breaking In A Diluted Frustrated Magnet, Xuecheng Ye, Rajesh Narayanan, Thomas Vojta

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We investigate the behavior of the frustrated J1-J2 Ising model on a square lattice under the influence of random dilution and spatial anisotropies. Spinless impurities generate a random-field type disorder for the spin-density wave (stripe) order parameter. These random fields destroy the long-range stripe order in the case of spatially isotropic interactions. Combining symmetry arguments, percolation theory, and large-scale Monte Carlo simulations, we demonstrate that arbitrarily weak spatial interaction anisotropies restore the stripe phase. More specifically, the transition temperature Tc into the stripe phase depends on the interaction anisotropy ΔJ via Tc∼1/|ln(ΔJ)| for small …


Proton Radius: A Puzzle Or A Solution!?, Ulrich D. Jentschura Jan 2022

Proton Radius: A Puzzle Or A Solution!?, Ulrich D. Jentschura

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

The proton radius puzzle is known as the discrepancy of the proton radius, obtained from muonic hydrogen spectroscopy (obtained as being roughly equal to 0.84 fm), and the proton radius obtained from (ordinary) hydrogen spectroscopy where a number of measurements involving highly excited states have traditionally favored a value of about 0.88 fm. Recently, a number of measurements of hydrogen transitions by the Munich (Garching) groups (notably, several hyperfine-resolved sublevels of the 2S-4P) and by the group at the University of Toronto (2S-2P 1/2) have led to transition frequency data consistent with the smaller proton radius of about 0.84 fm. …


Enhancing Gravitational-Wave Science With Machine Learning, Elena Cuoco, Jade Powell, Marco Cavaglia, Kendall Ackley, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Dec 2021

Enhancing Gravitational-Wave Science With Machine Learning, Elena Cuoco, Jade Powell, Marco Cavaglia, Kendall Ackley, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Machine learning has emerged as a popular and powerful approach for solving problems in astrophysics. We review applications of machine learning techniques for the analysis of ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector data. Examples include techniques for improving the sensitivity of Advanced Laser Interferometer GW Observatory and Advanced Virgo GW searches, methods for fast measurements of the astrophysical parameters of GW sources, and algorithms for reduction and characterization of non-astrophysical detector noise. These applications demonstrate how machine learning techniques may be harnessed to enhance the science that is possible with current and future GW detectors.


Anomalous Normal Fluid Response In A Chiral Superconductor Ute₂, Seokjin Bae, Hyunsoo Kim, Yun Suk Eo, Sheng Ran, I. Lin Liu, Wesley T. Fuhrman, Johnpierre Paglione, Nicholas P. Butch, Steven M. Anlage Dec 2021

Anomalous Normal Fluid Response In A Chiral Superconductor Ute₂, Seokjin Bae, Hyunsoo Kim, Yun Suk Eo, Sheng Ran, I. Lin Liu, Wesley T. Fuhrman, Johnpierre Paglione, Nicholas P. Butch, Steven M. Anlage

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Chiral superconductors have been proposed as one pathway to realize Majorana normal fluid at its boundary. However, the long-sought 2D and 3D chiral superconductors with edge and surface Majorana normal fluid are yet to be conclusively found. Here, we report evidence for a chiral spin-triplet pairing state of UTe2 with surface normal fluid response. The microwave surface impedance of the UTe2 crystal was measured and converted to complex conductivity, which is sensitive to both normal and superfluid responses. The anomalous residual normal fluid conductivity supports the presence of a significant normal fluid response. The superfluid conductivity follows the …


Molecular Structure Retrieval Directly From Laboratory-Frame Photoelectron Spectra In Laser-Induced Electron Diffraction, A. Sanchez, K. Amini, S. J. Wang, T. Steinle, B. Belsa, J. Danek, Anh-Thu Le, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Dec 2021

Molecular Structure Retrieval Directly From Laboratory-Frame Photoelectron Spectra In Laser-Induced Electron Diffraction, A. Sanchez, K. Amini, S. J. Wang, T. Steinle, B. Belsa, J. Danek, Anh-Thu Le, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Ubiquitous to most molecular scattering methods is the challenge to retrieve bond distance and angle from the scattering signals since this requires convergence of pattern matching algorithms or fitting methods. This problem is typically exacerbated when imaging larger molecules or for dynamic systems with little a priori knowledge. Here, we employ laser-induced electron diffraction (LIED) which is a powerful means to determine the precise atomic configuration of an isolated gas-phase molecule with picometre spatial and attosecond temporal precision. We introduce a simple molecular retrieval method, which is based only on the identification of critical points in the oscillating molecular interference …


Triply Differential Positron And Electron Impact Ionization Of Argon: Systematic Features And Scaling, Robert D. Dubois, O. G. De Lucio Dec 2021

Triply Differential Positron And Electron Impact Ionization Of Argon: Systematic Features And Scaling, Robert D. Dubois, O. G. De Lucio

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Triply differential data are presented for the 200 eV positron and electron impact ionization of argon. Six electron emission energies between 2.6 and 19 eV, and for scattering angles of 2, 3, and 4 degrees cover a momentum transfer range of 0.16 to 0.31 a.u. The binary and recoil intensities are fitted using a double peak structure in both regions, which, for the present kinematic conditions, are unresolved. The fitted peak intensities and angular positions are shown to have systematic dependences as a function of the momentum transfer and kinematic emission angle, respectively, and illustrate projectile charge effects. A comparison …


Formation And Quench Of Homonuclear And Heteronuclear Quantum Droplets In One Dimension, Simeon I. Mistakidis, T. Mithun, P. G. Kevrekidis, H. R. Sadeghpour, P. Schmelcher Dec 2021

Formation And Quench Of Homonuclear And Heteronuclear Quantum Droplets In One Dimension, Simeon I. Mistakidis, T. Mithun, P. G. Kevrekidis, H. R. Sadeghpour, P. Schmelcher

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We Study The Impact Of Beyond Lee-Huang-Yang (LHY) Physics, Especially Due To Intercomponent Correlations, In The Ground State And The Quench Dynamics Of One-Dimensional Quantum Droplets With An Ab Initio Nonperturbative Approach. It Is Found That The Droplet Gaussian-Shaped Configuration Arising For Intercomponent Attractive Couplings Becomes Narrower For Stronger Intracomponent Repulsion And Transits Towards A Flat-Top Structure Either For Larger Particle Numbers Or Weaker Intercomponent Attraction. Additionally, A Harmonic Trap Prevents The Flat-Top Formation. At The Balance Point Where Mean-Field Interactions Cancel Out, We Show That A Correlation Hole Is Present In The Few-Particle Limit Of LHY Fluids As Well …


Detecting And Reconstructing Gravitational Waves From The Next Galactic Core-Collapse Supernova In The Advanced Detector Era, Marek J. Szczepańczyk, Javier M. Antelis, Michael Benjamin, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Nov 2021

Detecting And Reconstructing Gravitational Waves From The Next Galactic Core-Collapse Supernova In The Advanced Detector Era, Marek J. Szczepańczyk, Javier M. Antelis, Michael Benjamin, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We performed a detailed analysis of the detectability of a wide range of gravitational waves derived from core-collapse supernova simulations using gravitational-wave detector noise scaled to the sensitivity of the upcoming fourth and fifth observing runs of the Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo, and KAGRA. We use the coherent WaveBurst algorithm, which was used in the previous observing runs to search for gravitational waves from core-collapse supernovae. As coherent WaveBurst makes minimal assumptions on the morphology of a gravitational-wave signal, it can play an important role in the first detection of gravitational waves from an event in the Milky Way. We …


Experimental Verification Of Principal Losses In A Regulatory Particulate Matter Emissions Sampling System For Aircraft Turbine Engines, D. B. Kittelson, J. Swanson, M. Aldridge, R. A. Giannelli, J. S. Kinsey, J. A. Stevens, D. S. Liscinsky, Donald E. Hagen, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Nov 2021

Experimental Verification Of Principal Losses In A Regulatory Particulate Matter Emissions Sampling System For Aircraft Turbine Engines, D. B. Kittelson, J. Swanson, M. Aldridge, R. A. Giannelli, J. S. Kinsey, J. A. Stevens, D. S. Liscinsky, Donald E. Hagen, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

A sampling system for measuring emissions of nonvolatile particulate matter (nvPM) from aircraft gas turbine engines has been developed to replace the use of smoke number and is used for international regulatory purposes. This sampling system can be up to 35 m in length. The sampling system length in addition to the volatile particle remover (VPR) and other sampling system components lead to substantial particle losses, which are a function of the particle size distribution, ranging from 50 to 90% for particle number concentrations and 10-50% for particle mass concentrations. The particle size distribution is dependent on engine technology, operating …


Magnetic Dichroism In Few-Photon Ionization Of Polarized Atoms, B. P. Acharya, M. Dodson, S. Dubey, K. L. Romans, A. H.N.C. De Silva, K. Foster, O. Russ, K. Bartschat, N. Douguet, Daniel Fischer Nov 2021

Magnetic Dichroism In Few-Photon Ionization Of Polarized Atoms, B. P. Acharya, M. Dodson, S. Dubey, K. L. Romans, A. H.N.C. De Silva, K. Foster, O. Russ, K. Bartschat, N. Douguet, Daniel Fischer

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We consider few-photon ionization of atomic lithium by linearly polarized femtosecond laser pulses and demonstrate that asymmetries of the electron angular distribution can occur for initially polarized (2p, m=+1) target atoms. The dependence of the photoelectron emission angle relative to the electric field direction is investigated at different laser intensities and wavelengths. The experimental spectra show excellent agreement with numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. In the perturbative picture, the angular shift is traced back to interferences between partial waves with mean magnetic quantum number (m)≠0. This observation allows us to obtain quantum mechanical information on the final electronic …


Correcting Correlation Functions For Redshift-Dependent Interloper Contamination, Daniel J. Farrow, Ariel G. Sánchez, Robin Ciardullo, Shun Saito, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Nov 2021

Correcting Correlation Functions For Redshift-Dependent Interloper Contamination, Daniel J. Farrow, Ariel G. Sánchez, Robin Ciardullo, Shun Saito, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

The construction of catalogues of a particular type of galaxy can be complicated by interlopers contaminating the sample. In spectroscopic galaxy surveys this can be due to the misclassification of an emission line; for example in the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) low-redshift [O ii] emitters may make up a few per cent of the observed Ly α emitter (LAE) sample. The presence of contaminants affects the measured correlation functions and power spectra. Previous attempts to deal with this using the cross-correlation function have assumed sources at a fixed redshift, or not modelled evolution within the adopted redshift bins. …


Spontaneous Formation Of Star-Shaped Surface Patterns In A Driven Bose-Einstein Condensate, K. Kwon, K. Mukherjee, S. J. Huh, K. Kim, Simeon I. Mistakidis, D. K. Maity, P. G. Kevrekidis, S. Majumder, P. Schmelcher, J. Y. Choi Sep 2021

Spontaneous Formation Of Star-Shaped Surface Patterns In A Driven Bose-Einstein Condensate, K. Kwon, K. Mukherjee, S. J. Huh, K. Kim, Simeon I. Mistakidis, D. K. Maity, P. G. Kevrekidis, S. Majumder, P. Schmelcher, J. Y. Choi

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We Observe Experimentally The Spontaneous Formation Of Star-Shaped Surface Patterns In Driven Bose-Einstein Condensates. Two-Dimensional Star-Shaped Patterns With L-Fold Symmetry, Ranging From Quadrupole (L=2) To Heptagon Modes (L=7), Are Parametrically Excited By Modulating The Scattering Length Near The Feshbach Resonance. An Effective Mathieu Equation And Floquet Analysis Are Utilized, Relating The Instability Conditions To The Dispersion Of The Surface Modes In A Trapped Superfluid. Identifying The Resonant Frequencies Of The Patterns, We Precisely Measure The Dispersion Relation Of The Collective Excitations. The Oscillation Amplitude Of The Surface Excitations Increases Exponentially During The Modulation. We Find That Only The L=6 Mode …


Statistical Mechanics Of One-Dimensional Quantum Droplets, T. Mithun, Simeon I. Mistakidis, P. Schmelcher, P. G. Kevrekidis Sep 2021

Statistical Mechanics Of One-Dimensional Quantum Droplets, T. Mithun, Simeon I. Mistakidis, P. Schmelcher, P. G. Kevrekidis

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We Study The Statistical Mechanics And The Dynamical Relaxation Process Of Modulationally Unstable One-Dimensional Quantum Droplets Described By A Modified Gross-Pitaevskii Equation. To Determine The Classical Partition Function Thereof, We Leverage The Semi-Analytical Transfer Integral Operator (TIO) Technique. The Latter Predicts A Distribution Of The Observed Wave-Function Amplitudes And Yields Two-Point Correlation Functions Providing Insights Into The Emergent Dynamics Involving Quantum Droplets. We Compare The Ensuing TIO Results With The Probability Distributions Obtained At Large Times Of The Modulationally Unstable Dynamics As Well As With The Equilibrium Properties Of A Suitably Constructed Langevin Dynamics. We Find That The Instability Leads …


Few-Body Correlations In Two-Dimensional Bose And Fermi Ultracold Mixtures, G. Bougas, Simeon I. Mistakidis, P. Giannakeas, P. Schmelcher Sep 2021

Few-Body Correlations In Two-Dimensional Bose And Fermi Ultracold Mixtures, G. Bougas, Simeon I. Mistakidis, P. Giannakeas, P. Schmelcher

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Few-Body Correlations Emerging In Two-Dimensional Harmonically Trapped Mixtures, Are Comprehensively Investigated. The Presence Of The Trap Leads To The Formation Of Atom-Dimer And Trap States, In Addition To Trimers. The Tan's Contacts Of These Eigenstates Are Studied For Varying Interspecies Scattering Lengths And Mass Ratio, While Corresponding Analytical Insights Are Provided Within The Adiabatic Hyperspherical Formalism. The Two- And Three-Body Correlations Of Trimer States Are Substantially Enhanced Compared To The Other Eigenstates. The Two-Body Contact Of The Atom-Dimer And Trap States Features An Upper Bound Regardless Of The Statistics, Treated Semi-Classically And Having An Analytical Prediction In The Limit Of …


Nnetfix: An Artificial Neural Network-Based Denoising Engine For Gravitational-Wave Signals, Kentaro Mogushi, Ryan Quitzow-James, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Sep 2021

Nnetfix: An Artificial Neural Network-Based Denoising Engine For Gravitational-Wave Signals, Kentaro Mogushi, Ryan Quitzow-James, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Instrumental and environmental transient noise bursts in gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, or glitches, may impair astrophysical observations by adversely affecting the sky localization and the parameter estimation of GW signals. Denoising of detector data is especially relevant during low-latency operations because electromagnetic follow-up of candidate detections requires accurate, rapid sky localization and inference of astrophysical sources. NNETFIX is a machine learning, artificial neural network-based algorithm designed to estimate the data containing a transient GW signal with an overlapping glitch as though the glitch was absent. The sky localization calculated from the denoised data may be significantly more accurate than the sky …


Polarons And Their Induced Interactions In Highly Imbalanced Triple Mixtures, Kevin Keiler, Simeon I. Mistakidis, Peter Schmelcher Sep 2021

Polarons And Their Induced Interactions In Highly Imbalanced Triple Mixtures, Kevin Keiler, Simeon I. Mistakidis, Peter Schmelcher

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We Unravel The Polaronic Properties Of Impurities Immersed In A Correlated Trapped One-Dimensional Bose-Bose Mixture. This Setup Allows The Impurities To Couple Either Attractively Or Repulsively To A Specific Host, Thus Offering A Highly Flexible Platform For Steering The Emergent Polaronic Properties. Specifically, The Impurity Residue Peak And Strength Of Induced Interactions Can Be Controlled By Varying The Coupling Of The Impurities To The Individual Bosonic Components. In Particular, It Is Possible To Maintain The Quasiparticle Character For Larger Interaction Strengths As Compared To The Case Of Impurities Immersed In A Single Bosonic Species. We Explicate A Hierarchy Of The …


Absolute Triple Differential Cross Sections For Low-Energy Electron Impact Ionization Of Biochemically Relevant Systems: Water, Tetrahydrofuran, And Hydrated Tetrahydrofuran, Jiaqi Zhou, Esam Ali, Maomao Gong, Shaokui Jia, Yutian Li, Yingying Wang, Zhen Zhang, Xiaorui Xue, Dmitry V. Fursa, Igor Bray, Xiangjun Chen, Don H. Madison, Alexander Dorn, Xueguang Ren Jul 2021

Absolute Triple Differential Cross Sections For Low-Energy Electron Impact Ionization Of Biochemically Relevant Systems: Water, Tetrahydrofuran, And Hydrated Tetrahydrofuran, Jiaqi Zhou, Esam Ali, Maomao Gong, Shaokui Jia, Yutian Li, Yingying Wang, Zhen Zhang, Xiaorui Xue, Dmitry V. Fursa, Igor Bray, Xiangjun Chen, Don H. Madison, Alexander Dorn, Xueguang Ren

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

An experimental procedure is reported, which provides the absolute triple differential cross sections (ATDCSs) for electron-impact ionization of large (bio)molecules. This type of measurements represents the most stringent tests for new or existing theoretical models. We will use this procedure to test the accuracy of the best currently available theoretical models for the problems of electron-impact (65 eV) ionization of the molecules water (H2O), tetrahydrofuran (C4H8O), and their hydrogen-bonded dimer H2O · C4H8O. The cross sections were calculated using the molecular three-body distorted-wave (M3DW) model, the multicenter three-distorted-wave …


Upper Limits On The Isotropic Gravitational-Wave Background From Advanced Ligo And Advanced Virgo's Third Observing Run, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, S. Abraham, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Jul 2021

Upper Limits On The Isotropic Gravitational-Wave Background From Advanced Ligo And Advanced Virgo's Third Observing Run, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, S. Abraham, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We report results of a search for an isotropic gravitational-wave background (GWB) using data from Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's third observing run (O3) combined with upper limits from the earlier O1 and O2 runs. Unlike in previous observing runs in the advanced detector era, we include Virgo in the search for the GWB. The results of the search are consistent with uncorrelated noise, and therefore we place upper limits on the strength of the GWB. We find that the dimensionless energy density ΩGW ≤ 5.8 x 10-9 at the 95% credible level for a flat (frequency-independent) GWB, …


Search For Anisotropic Gravitational-Wave Backgrounds Using Data From Advanced Ligo And Advanced Virgo's First Three Observing Runs, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, S. Abraham, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Jul 2021

Search For Anisotropic Gravitational-Wave Backgrounds Using Data From Advanced Ligo And Advanced Virgo's First Three Observing Runs, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, S. Abraham, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We report results from searches for anisotropic stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds using data from the first three observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. For the first time, we include Virgo data in our analysis and run our search with a new efficient pipeline called pystoch on data folded over one sidereal day. We use gravitational-wave radiometry (broadband and narrow band) to produce sky maps of stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds and to search for gravitational waves from point sources. A spherical harmonic decomposition method is employed to look for gravitational-wave emission from spatially-extended sources. Neither technique found evidence of …


Search For Gravitational Waves Associated With Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected By Fermi And Swift During The Ligo-Virgo Run O3a, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, S. Abraham, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Jul 2021

Search For Gravitational Waves Associated With Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected By Fermi And Swift During The Ligo-Virgo Run O3a, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, S. Abraham, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We search for gravitational-wave transients associated with gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Fermi and Swift satellites during the first part of the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo (2019 April 1 15:00 UTC-2019 October 1 15:00 UTC). A total of 105 GRBs were analyzed using a search for generic gravitational-wave transients; 32 GRBs were analyzed with a search that specifically targets neutron star binary mergers as short GRB progenitors. We find no significant evidence for gravitational-wave signals associated with the GRBs that we followed up, nor for a population of unidentified subthreshold signals. We consider several …


Observation Of Gravitational Waves From Two Neutron Star-Black Hole Coalescences, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Jul 2021

Observation Of Gravitational Waves From Two Neutron Star-Black Hole Coalescences, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We report the observation of gravitational waves from two compact binary coalescences in LIGO's and Virgo's third observing run with properties consistent with neutron star-black hole (NSBH) binaries. The two events are named GW200105_162426 and GW200115_042309, abbreviated as GW200105 and GW200115; the first was observed by LIGO Livingston and Virgo and the second by all three LIGO-Virgo detectors. The source of GW200105 has component masses 8.9+1.2-1.5 and 1.9+.03-.02 M, whereas the source of GW200115 has component masses and 5.7+1.8-2.1 and 1.5+0.7-0.3 M (all measurements quoted at the 90% credible …


Antimatter Free-Fall Experiments And Charge Asymmetry, Ulrich D. Jentschura Jul 2021

Antimatter Free-Fall Experiments And Charge Asymmetry, Ulrich D. Jentschura

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We propose a method by which one could use modified antimatter gravity experiments in order to perform a high-precision test of antimatter charge neutrality. The proposal is based on the application of a strong, external, vertically oriented electric field during an antimatter free-fall gravity experiment in the gravitational field of the Earth. The proposed experimental setup has the potential to drastically improve the limits on the charge-asymmetry parameter ɛq of antimatter. On the theoretical side, we analyze possibilities to describe a putative charge-asymmetry of matter and antimatter, proportional to the parameters ɛq and ɛq, by Lagrangian methods. We found that …


Vibronic Coherence And Quantum Beats Of O₂⁺ Based On Laser Pump-Probe Dissociation Dynamics, Shan Xue, Shengjun Yue, Hongchuan Du, Bitao Hu, Anh-Thu Le Jul 2021

Vibronic Coherence And Quantum Beats Of O₂⁺ Based On Laser Pump-Probe Dissociation Dynamics, Shan Xue, Shengjun Yue, Hongchuan Du, Bitao Hu, Anh-Thu Le

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We report theoretical investigations of vibronic quantum beats (QBs) which can be observed in the molecular dissociation under the intense infrared (IR) laser pump-IR laser probe scheme. We show how the vibronic coherences can be probed by analyzing the interchannel QB signals obtained from the numerical solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation (TDSE) and the quantum Liouville equation in combination with the strong-field approximation for the treatment of coherences between multiple states of the target ion. The validities of our methods are first tested on a one-dimensional model of H2+, for which exact solutions of the TDSE …


Localization Of The Higgs Mode At The Superfluid-Mott Glass Transition, Jack Crewse, Thomas Vojta Jul 2021

Localization Of The Higgs Mode At The Superfluid-Mott Glass Transition, Jack Crewse, Thomas Vojta

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

The amplitude (Higgs) mode near the two-dimensional superfluid-Mott glass quantum phase transition is studied. We map the Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian of disordered interacting bosons onto an equivalent classical model in (2+1) dimensions and compute the scalar susceptibility of the order parameter amplitude via Monte Carlo simulation. Analytic continuation of the scalar susceptibilities from imaginary to real frequency to obtain the spectral densities is performed by a modified maximum entropy technique. Our results show that the introduction of disorder into the system leads to unconventional dynamical behavior of the Higgs mode that violates naive scaling, despite the underlying thermodynamics of the transition …