Particle transport in magnetized plasmas is investigated with a fluid model of drift wave turbulence. An analytical calculation shows that magnetic field curvature and thermodiffusion drive an anomalous pinch. The curvature driven pinch velocity is consistent with the prediction of turbulence equipartition theory. The thermodiffusion flux is found to be directed inward for a small ratio of elec...

Transmembrane potential (V(m)) responses in cardiac strands with different curvature were characterized during uniform electric-field stimulation with the use of modeling and experimental approaches. Linear and U-shaped strands (width 100-150 micrometer) were stained with voltage-sensitive dye. V(m) was measured by optical mapping across the width and at sites of beginning curvature. Field puls...

A simple extension of the minimal supersymmetric standard model which naturally and simultaneously solves the strong CP and μ problems via a PecceiQuinn and a continuous R symmetry is considered. This model is supplemented with hybrid inflation and leptogenesis, but without taking the specific details of these scenarios. It is shown that the Peccei-Quinn field can successfully act as a curvaton...

The idea that the Einstein action should be modified by the addition of interactions involving higher powers of the Riemann curvature tensor has a long history stretching back to the early days of general relativity. Such higher curvature theories originally appeared in proposals by Weyl and Eddington for a geometric unification of electromagnetism and gravity[1]. Much later, interest arose in ...

We show that the Gödel type Metrics in three dimensions with arbitrary two dimensional background space satisfy the Einstein-perfect fluid field equations identically. There exists only one first order partial differential equation satisfied by the components of fluid’s velocity vector field. We then show that the same metrics solve the field equations of the topologically massive gravity where...

We investigate the γ-ray emission from a outer-gap accelerator, which is located in the outer-magnetosphere of a pulsar. The charge depletion from the Goldreich-Julian density causes a large electric field along the magnetic field lines. The electric field accelerates electrons and positrons to high energies. We solve the formation of the electric field self-consistently with the radiation and ...

In this paper we mainly focus on the curvature perturbation generated at the end of multi-field inflation, such as the multi-brid inflation. Since the curvature perturbation is produced on the super-horizon scale, the bispectrum and trispectrum have a local shape. The size of bispectrum is measured by fNL and the trispectrum is characterized by two parameters τNL and gNL. For simplicity, the tr...

Current methodologies used for the inference of thin film stress through curvature measurements are strictly restricted to stress and curvature states which are assumed to remain uniform over the entire film/substrate system. By considering a circular thin-film/substrate system subject to arbitrarily non-uniform misfit strain distributions, we derive relations between the film stresses and the ...