Electromagnetic interactions are incorporated into Heavy Hadron Chiral Perturbation Theory. Short and long distance magnetic moment contributions to the chiral Lagrangian are identified, and M1 radiative decays of heavy vector mesons and sextet baryons are studied. Using recent CLEO D branching fraction ratio data, we fit the meson coupling to the axial vector Goldstone current and find g 1 = 0...

Ions in Hall effect thrusters are often characterized by a low collisionality. In the presence of acceleration fields and azimuthal electric field waves, this results strong deviations from thermodynamic equilibrium, introducing kinetic effects. This work investigates application 14-moment maximum-entropy model to problem. method consists set 14 partial differential equations (PDEs) for density...

Theory and experiment on the London moment is reviewed. A simple mathematical model is motivated and then used to study the responses of a spherical superconductor to an external field and to rotation. It reveals a connection between perfect diamagnetism (Meissner effect) and the London moment. In the model neither of these are exact but the deviation from B = 0 internal field in the former and...

Magnetotactic bacteria possess organelles called magnetosomes that confer a magnetic moment on the cells, resulting in their partial alignment with external magnetic fields. Here we show that analysis of the trajectories of cells exposed to an external magnetic field can be used to measure the average magnetic dipole moment of a cell population in at least five different ways. We apply this ana...

The composite-fermion approach as formulated in the Fermion Chern-Simons theory has been very successful in describing the physics of the lowest Landau level near Landau level filling factor ν = 1/2. Recent work has emphasized the fact that the true low energy quasiparticles at this filling factors are electrically neutral and carry an electric dipole moment. In a previous work, we discussed at...

Using recent progress on moment problems, and their connections with semidefinite optimization, we present in this paper a new methodology based on semidefinite optimization, to obtain a hierarchy of upper and lower bounds on linear functionals defined on solutions of linear partial differential equations. We apply the proposed method to examples of PDEs in one and two dimensions, with very enc...

This paper studies estimation of a conditional moment restriction model using the nonparametric maximum likelihood approach proposed by Gallant and Nychka (1987). Under some sufficient conditions, we show that the estimator of some finite dimensional parameters is asymptotically normally distributed and attains the semiparametric efficiency bound and that the estimator of the density function i...