We study the evolution of a viscous fluid drop rotating about a fixed axis at constant angular velocity Ω or constant angular momentum L surrounded by another viscous fluid. The problem is considered in the limit of large Ekman number and small Reynolds number. The analysis is carried out by combining asymptotic analysis and full numerical simulation by means of the boundary element method. We ...

thin films of polymer doped with nonlinear optical organic dye, disperse red 1, at thickness of 1 to 2 micrometers, were prepared and studied. in order to induce an axial and orientational alignment of dye molecules within polymer matrix, a contact electric field poling was used. by this process the inherent inversion symmetry in the polymer matrix was eliminated to achieve the desired macrosco...

The definition of chiral transformations in light-front field theory is very different from the conventional form in equal-time formalism. We study the consistency of chiral transformations and chiral symmetry in light-front QCD and derive a complete new light-front axial-vector current for QCD. The breaking of chiral symmetry in light-front QCD is only associated with helicity flip interaction...

Gluonic degrees of freedom play an important role in the physics of the flavour-singlet J = 1 channel [1] through the QCD axial anomaly [2]. The most famous example is the axial U(1) problem: the masses of the η and η′ mesons are much greater than the values they would have if these mesons were pure Goldstone bosons associated with spontaneously broken chiral symmetry [3]. This extra mass is in...