The Borromean nucleus 17Ne (15O+p+ p) is investigated by using the hyperspheric adiabatic expansion for a a three-body system. The measured size of 15O and the low-lying resonances of 16F (15O+p) are first used as constraints to determine both central and spin-dependent two-body interactions. Then, the ground state structure of 17Ne is found to be an almost equal mixture of s2 and d2 proton-15O...

The computed α particle momentum distributions from the decay of low-lying C resonances are shown. The wave function of the decaying fragments is computed by means of the complex scaled hyperspherical adiabatic expansion method. The large-distance part of the wave functions is crucial and has to be accurately calculated. We discuss energy distributions, angular distributions and Dalitz plots fo...

Calculation of free-energy differences using exponential-work averaging methods is examined, focusing on the amount of sampling required to converge to an accurate result. We review prior research that has demonstrated that the necessary amount of sampling scales exponentially with the dissipated work associated with the reverse trajectory. We demonstrate the result through a pedagogical applic...

In quintessential inflationary model, the same master field that drives inflation becomes, later on, the dynamical source of the (present) accelerated expansion. Quintessential inflationary models require a curvature scale at the end of inflation around 10MP in order to explain the large scale fluctuations observed in the microwave sky. If the curvature scale at the end of inflation is much sma...

A method is proposed to drive an ultrafast non-adiabatic dynamics of an ultracold gas trapped in a time-dependent box potential. The resulting state is free from spurious excitations associated with the breakdown of adiabaticity, and preserves the quantum correlations of the initial state up to a scaling factor. The process relies on the existence of an adiabatic invariant and the inversion of ...

A double-sheeted double many-body expansion potential energy surface is reported for the coupled 12A'/22A' states of HN2 by fitting about 6000 ab initio energies. All crossing seams are described to their full extent on the basis of converged results. The lowest adiabatic sheet is fitted with a rmsd of 0.8 kcal mol-1 with respect to the calculated energies up to 100 kcal mol-1 above the absolut...

The dynamics of the ablation plume of a partially ionized plasma produced by a nanosecond UV laser with different irradiation spot geometries has been explored. We have used an ensemble of quartz crystal microbalances to make the first systematic and quantitative study of how the shape of the plume varies as the aspect ratio (b/a) of the elliptical laser spot is varied by about a factor of ten....

We compute the quantum rate constant based on two extended stationary phase approximations to the imaginary-time formulation of the quantum rate theory. The optimized stationary phase approximation to the imaginary-time flux-flux correlation function employs the optimized quadratic reference system to overcome the inaccuracy of the quadratic expansion in the standard stationary phase approximat...

Using self-generated analogies has been proposed as a method in a constructivist tradition for students to learn about a new subject, by use of what they previously know. We report on a group exercise on using self-generated analogies to make sense of two thermodynamic processes, reversible adiabatic expansion and free adiabatic expansion of an ideal gas. The participants (N = 8) were physics p...

The ultrasonic velocity, density and refractive indices have been measured for systems at 303.15, 308.15, 313.15, 318.15 and 323.15 K. From the experimental data adiabatic compressibility (βs), intermolecular free length (L f ), internal pressure (π), acoustic impedance (Z), molar refraction (Rm), Polarisability, (αp), thermal expansion coefficient (α), Rao’s molar sound function (R), solvation...