We determine the curvature of the phase transition line in the μ −T plane through an analysis of various observables, including the Polyakov loop, the quark number susceptibilities and the susceptibility of the chiral condensate. The second derivative of these quantities with respect to μ was calculated. The measurements were carried out on NT = 4,6,8 and 10 lattices generated with a Symanzik i...

We determine the curvature of the phase transition line in the μ −T plane through an analysis of various observables, including the Polyakov loop, the quark number susceptibilities and the susceptibility of the chiral condensate. The second derivative of these quantities with respect to μ was calculated. The measurements were carried out on NT = 4,6,8 and 10 lattices generated with a Symanzik i...

[1] The widely used transmission-line (TL) model of lightning return stroke in a vertical channel is most rigorously represented by a vertical phased array of current sources that produce a spherical transverse electromagnetic (TEM) wave in the case of return-stroke speed v equal to the speed of light c. If the radius of the lightning channel were equal to zero, the equivalent representation co...

The fundamental mechanisms which control the phase coherence of the polariton Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) are determined. It is shown that the combination of number fluctuations and interactions leads to decoherence with a characteristic Gaussian decay of the first-order correlation function. This line shape, and the long decay times ( approximately 150 ps) of both first- and second-order co...

We determine the curvature of the phase transition line in the µ − T plane through an analysis of various observables, including the Polyakov loop, the quark number susceptibilities and the susceptibility of the chiral condensate. The second derivative of these quantities with respect to µ was calculated. The measurements were carried out on N T = 4, 6, 8 and 10 lattices generated with a Symanz...

An alternative quantum field theory for gravity is proposed for low energies based on an attractive effect between contaminants in a BoseEinstein Condensate rather than on particle exchange. In the “contaminant in condensate effect,” contaminants cause a potential in an otherwise uniform condensate, forcing the condensate between two contaminants to a higher energy state. The energy of the syst...

It is shown that the interface in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with a dipole-dipole interaction spontaneously develops patterns similar to those formed in a ferrofluid. Hexagonal, labyrinthine, solitonlike structures, and hysteretic behavior are numerically demonstrated. Superflow is found to circulate around the hexagonal pattern at rest, offering evidence of supersolidity. T...

Tests were applied to extended, chilled boar semen to further define those factors associated with return to estrus in inseminated female pigs (sows and gilts). Females were each inseminated twice with the same batch of extended chilled single-sire semen that was concurrently assessed at the Charles Sturt University Andrology Laboratory (CSUAL) in Australia. Semen traits tested were pH, clump s...

The physics of the color glass condensate [1–3] covers and unifies under the same banner topics which have originally appeared and developed under various names — “small–x physics”, “BFKL evolution”, “unitarity corrections”, “parton saturation”, “multiple pomeron exchanges”, “higher twist effects”, etc. —, but which are modernly understood as manifestations or consequences of the same basic phy...