The shear dependent location of the isotropic-nematic spinodals in suspensions of bacteriophage fd is studied by means of time resolved birefringence experiments. The hysteresis in the birefringence on increasing and subsequently decreasing the shear-rate allows the determination of the location of points in the shear-rate vs concentration phase diagram between the isotropic-to-nematic and the ...

We study the interactions of the octet baryons in a relativistic meson exchange approach connecting free-space and in-medium interactions with those in finite (hyper)nuclei. A short sketch of the model including the relativistic T-and G-matrix and the mapping of the G-matrix onto density dependent vertex functionals in the density dependent rel-ativistic hadron field theory (DDRH) is given. Fro...

We study the most general, relativistic, constituent qq meson wave function within a new covariant framework. We find that by including a tensor wave function component, a pure valence quark model is now capable of reproducing not only all static pion data (fπ, 〈r2 π〉) but also the distribution amplitude, form factor (Fπ(Q)), and structure functions. Further, our generalized spin wave function ...

We compute the elastic constants tensor and the seismic properties of KAlSi3O8 and K0.8Na0.2AlSi3O8 up to the ferroelastic transition using density-functional theory and density-functional perturbation theory in the ABINIT implementation. We observe a softening of the tetragonal shear with pressure that precedes the ferroelastic transition. The Reuss shear moduli become negative at respectively...

I review the progress made in extracting transport properties of the quark-gluon plasma from lattice QCD simulations. The information on shear and bulk viscosity, the “low-energy constants” of hydrodynamics, is encoded in the retarded correlators of Tμν, the energy-momentum tensor. Euclidean correlators, computable on the lattice, are related to the retarded correlators by an integral transform...

The process of teleportation of a completely unknown one-particle state of a free relativistic quantum field is considered. In contrast to the non-relativistic quantum mechanics, the telepor-tation of an unknown state of the quantum field cannot be in principle described in terms of a measurement in a tensor product of two Hilbert spaces to which the unknown state and the state of the EPR-pair ...

We consider the evolution equations for bulk viscous pressure, diffusion current and shear tensor derived within second-order relativistic dissipative hydrodynamics from kinetic theory. By matching higher order moments directly to quantities, all terms which are of second in Knudsen number Kn vanish, leaving only $\mathcal{O}(\textrm{Re}^{-1} \textrm{Kn})$ $\mathcal{O}(\textrm{Re}^{-2})$ relaxa...

Many astrophysical plasmas and some laboratory plasmas are relativistic: either the thermal speed or the local ow speed (in a convenient frame) approaches the speed of light. Many such plasmas are also magnetized, in the sense that the thermal Larmor radius is smaller than gradient scale lengths. Relativistic MHD, conventionally used to describe such systems, requires the collision time to be s...

The transfer of polarized radiation in magnetized and non-magnetized relativistic plasmas is an area of research with numerous flaws and gaps. The present paper is aimed at filling some gaps and eliminating the flaws. Starting from a Trubnikov’s linear response tensor for a vacuum wave with k = ω/c in thermal plasma, the analytic expression for the dielectric tensor is found in the limit of hig...

The gravitational properties of a local cosmic string in the framework of scalar-tensor gravity are examined. We find the metric in the weak-field approximation and we show that, contrary to the General Relativity case, the cosmic string in scalar-tensor gravitation exerces a force on non-relativistic, neutral test particle. This force is proportional to the derivative of the conformal factor A...