A theory for the tunneling of one atom out of a trap containing two interacting cold atoms is developed. The quasiparticle wave function, dressed by the interaction with the companion atom in the trap, replaces the noninteracting orbital at resonance in the tunneling matrix element. The computed decay time for two ^{6}Li atoms agrees with recent experimental results [G. Zürn, F. Serwane, T. Lom...

introduction climate change is an important environmental hazard that has been discussed in recent years. increasing the number or frequency of extreme climatic events such as severe droughts, floods, storms, heat and cold waves and heavy rains are the evidences of climate change. any of these events, due to the severity and persistence and their spread are a natural hazard that adverse effects...

BACKGROUND The association between cardiovascular mortality and winter cold spells was evaluated in the population of the Czech Republic over 21-yr period 1986-2006. No comprehensive study on cold-related mortality in central Europe has been carried out despite the fact that cold air invasions are more frequent and severe in this region than in western and southern Europe. METHODS Cold spells...

Superfluids support many different types of sound waves. We investigate the relation between the sound waves in a relativistic and a non-relativistic superfluid by using hydrodynamics to calculate the various sound speeds. Then, using a particular holographic scalar gravity realization of a strongly interacting superfluid, we compute first, second and fourth sound speeds as a function of the te...

The semirigid vibrating rotor target model is applied to study the isotope effect in reaction H1CH4→H21CH3 using time-dependent wave-packet method. The reaction probabilities for producing H2 and HD product channels are calculated. The energy dependence of the reaction probabilities shows oscillating structures for both reaction channels. At low temperature or collision energies, the H atom abs...

The indistinguishability of identical particles has profound effects at low temperatures and/or high density where quantum mechanical wave packets overlap appreciably. The occupation representation is used to study the statistical mechanics and thermodynamics of ideal quantum gases satisfying FermiDirac or Bose-Einstein statistics. This notebook concentrates on formal and conceptual development...

Cold plasma theory and parallel wave propagation are often assumed when approximating the whistler mode magnetic field wave power from electric field observations. The current study is the first to include the wave normal angle from the Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science package on board the Van Allen Probes in the conversion factor, thus allowing for the accura...

Cardiovascular-related mortality peaks during cold winter months, particularly in older adults. Acute physiological responses, such as increases in blood pressure, in response to cold exposure may contribute to these associations. To determine whether the blood pressure-raising effect (pressor response) of non-internal body temperature-reducing cold stress is greater with age, we measured physi...