scholarly journals Macroscopic quantum tunneling of two coupled particles in the presence of a transverse magnetic field

2013 ◽  
Vol 91 (9) ◽  
pp. 722-727
Author(s):  
Solomon Akaraka Owerre

Two coupled particles of identical mass but opposite charge are studied, with a constant transverse external magnetic field and an external potential, interacting with a bath of harmonic oscillators. We show that the problem cannot be mapped to a one-dimensional problem like the one in Ao (Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 1898 (1994)), it strictly remains two-dimensional. We calculate the effective action both for the case of linear coupling to the bath and without a linear coupling using imaginary time path integral at finite temperature. At zero temperature we use Leggett’s prescription to derive the effective action. In the limit of zero magnetic field we recover a two-dimensional version of the result derived in Chudnovsky (Phys. Rev. B, 54, 5777 (1996)) for the case of two identical particles. We find that in the limit of strong dissipation, the effective action reduces to a two-dimensional version of the Caldeira–Leggett form in terms of the reduced mass and the magnetic field. The case of ohmic dissipation with the motion of the two particles damped by the ohmic frictional constant η is studied in detail.

1964 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Apostolos E. Germeles

The most general steady state solution is derived for the laminar flow of an incompressible, viscous and electrically conducting fluid in a one-dimensional channel under an applied transverse magnetic field. The channel can act as an electromagnetic flowmeter or pump. The effect of the conductivity of the walls is included. The solution has two unknown constants and, by choosing them properly, it can be made to fit the solution of all two-dimensional channels whose geometry approaches in the limit that of the one-dimensional channel. This is done in detail for the two-dimensional channels with rectangular and annular cross-section.


2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (05) ◽  
pp. 1709-1732 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. M. BAKER ◽  
M. E. KIDWELL ◽  
R. P. KLINE ◽  
I. POPOVICI

We study the orbits, stability and coexistence of orbits in the two-dimensional dynamical system introduced by Kline and Baker to model cardiac rhythmic response to periodic stimulation — as a function of (a) kinetic parameters (two amplitudes, two rate constants) and (b) stimulus period. The original paper focused mostly on the one-dimensional version of this model (one amplitude, one rate constant), whose orbits, stability properties, and bifurcations were analyzed via the theory of skew-tent (hence unimodal) maps; the principal family of orbits were so-called "n-escalators", with n a positive integer. The two-dimensional analog (motivated by experimental results) has led to the current study of continuous, piecewise smooth maps of a polygonal planar region into itself, whose dynamical behavior includes the coexistence of stable orbits. Our principal results show (1) how the amplitude parameters control which escalators can come into existence, (2) escalator bifurcation behavior as the stimulus period is lowered — leading to a "1/n bifurcation law", and (3) the existence of basins of attraction via the coexistence of three orbits (two of them stable, one unstable) at the first (largest stimulus period) bifurcation. We consider the latter result our most important, as it is conjectured to be connected with arrhythmia.


2019 ◽  
Vol 286 ◽  
pp. 07002
Author(s):  
M. Mouda ◽  
M. Nabhani ◽  
M. El Khlifi

This paper presents a numerical investigation of lubricating slider bearings with conducting couple stress fluids using externally applied magnetics fields. The modified two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic couple stress Reynolds-type equation is obtained. This governing equation is resolved numerically by using finite difference scheme, which involves the Gauss–Seidel method to compute the bearing characteristics. Numerical results using different considered values of the couple stress and Hartman number are presented. These results demonstrate that the transverse magnetic field and couple stress effects are significant.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Rizwan Sadiq Iqbal

The effect of air shear on the hydromagnetic instability is studied through (i) linear stability, (ii) weakly nonlinear theory, (iii) sideband stability of the filtered wave, and (iv) numerical integration of the nonlinear equation. Additionally, a discussion on the equilibria of a truncated bimodal dynamical system is performed. While the linear and weakly nonlinear analyses demonstrate the stabilizing (destabilizing) tendency of the uphill (downhill) shear, the numerics confirm the stability predictions. They show that (a) the downhill shear destabilizes the flow, (b) the time taken for the amplitudes corresponding to the uphill shear to be dominated by the one corresponding to the zero shear increases with magnetic fields strength, and (c) among the uphill shear-induced flows, it takes a long time for the wave amplitude corresponding to small shear values to become smaller than the one corresponding to large shear values when the magnetic field intensity increases. Simulations show that the streamwise and transverse velocities increase when the downhill shear acts in favor of inertial force to destabilize the flow mechanism. However, the uphill shear acts oppositely. It supports the hydrostatic pressure and magnetic field in enhancing films stability. Consequently, reduced constant flow rates and uniform velocities are observed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher P. Herzog ◽  
Itamar Shamir

Abstract In previous work, we showed that an anomaly in the one point function of marginal operators is related by the Wess-Zumino condition to the Euler density anomaly on a two dimensional defect or boundary. Here we analyze in detail the two point functions of marginal operators with the stress tensor and with the displacement operator in three dimensions. We show how to get the boundary anomaly from these bulk two point functions and find perfect agreement with our anomaly effective action. For a higher dimensional conformal field theory with a four dimensional defect, we describe for the first time the anomaly effective action that relates the Euler density term to the one point function anomaly, generalizing our result for two dimensional defects.


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