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Special Issue: Intercultural discourse in domain-specific English
This monographic issue focuses on intercultural communication
in specialist fields and its realizations in English for specific purposes.
The concept of interculturality on which this issue is built is
rooted in discourse, in line with recent research on interaction in
specialized domains. Indeed, language is approached here as inseparable
from a given socio-cultural configuration – not merely consistent
with it, but deeply involved in its construction of reality and its
representations. From single phrases to generic patterns, linguistic
constructs encode a culture-bound world view. The analysis of discourse
often shows that texts are not only where cultures are built,
but also where at times they are distorted, rejected or ignored
Effect of topology on the transport properties of two interacting dots
The transport properties of a system of two interacting dots, one of them
directly connected to the leads constituting a side-coupled configuration
(SCD), are studied in the weak and strong tunnel-coupling limits. The
conductance behavior of the SCD structure has new and richer physics than the
better studied system of two dots aligned with the leads (ACD). In the weak
coupling regime and in the case of one electron per dot, the ACD configuration
gives rise to two mostly independent Kondo states. In the SCD topology, the
inserted dot is in a Kondo state while the side-connected one presents Coulomb
blockade properties. Moreover, the dot spins change their behavior, from an
antiferromagnetic coupling to a ferromagnetic correlation, as a consequence of
the interaction with the conduction electrons. The system is governed by the
Kondo effect related to the dot that is embedded into the leads. The role of
the side-connected dot is to introduce, when at resonance, a new path for the
electrons to go through giving rise to the interferences responsible for the
suppression of the conductance. These results depend on the values of the
intra-dot Coulomb interactions. In the case where the many-body interaction is
restricted to the side-connected dot, its Kondo correlation is responsible for
the scattering of the conduction electrons giving rise to the conductance
suppression
Scalable Ion Trap Quantum Computing without Moving Ions
A hybrid quantum computing scheme is studied where the hybrid qubit is made
of an ion trap qubit serving as the information storage and a solid-state
charge qubit serving as the quantum processor, connected by a superconducting
cavity. In this paper, we extend our previous work [1] and study the
decoherence, coupling and scalability of the hybrid system. We present our
calculations of the decoherence of the coupled ion - charge system due to the
charge fluctuations in the solid-state system and the dissipation of the
superconducting cavity under laser radiation. A gate scheme that exploits rapid
state flips of the charge qubit to reduce decoherence by the charge noise is
designed. We also study a superconducting switch that is inserted between the
cavity and the charge qubit and provides tunable coupling between the qubits.
The scalability of the hybrid scheme is discussed together with several
potential experimental obstacles in realizing this scheme
Hund's coupling and the metal-insulator transition in the two-band Hubbard model
The Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition is investigated in a two-band
Hubbard model within dynamical mean-field theory. To this end, we use a
suitable extension of Wilson's numerical renormalization group for the solution
of the effective two-band single-impurity Anderson model. This method is
non-perturbative and, in particular, allows to take into account the full
exchange part of the Hund's rule coupling between the two orbitals. We discuss
in detail the influence of the various Coulomb interactions on thermodynamic
and dynamic properties, for both the impurity and the lattice model. The
exchange part of the Hund's rule coupling turns out to play an important role
for the physics of the two-band Hubbard model and for the nature of the
Mott-transition
Probing dense and hot matter with low-mass dileptons and photons
Results on low-mass dileptons, covering the very broad energy range from the
BEVALAC up to SPS are reviewed. The emphasis is on the open questions raised by
the intriguing results obtained so far and the prospects for addressing them in
the near future with the second generation of experiments, in particular HADES,
NA60 and PHENIX.Comment: 6 pages, 8 figures, Proceedings of Hard Probes 2004 Conference,
Ericeira, November 4-10, 2004. Caption of Figure 2 corrected. To be published
in Eur. Phys. J. C. The orginal version is available at www.springerlink.co
Geometric Phase of a qubit interacting with a squeezed-thermal bath
We study the geometric phase of an open two-level quantum system under the
influence of a squeezed, thermal environment for both non-dissipative as well
as dissipative system-environment interactions. In the non-dissipative case,
squeezing is found to have a similar influence as temperature, of suppressing
geometric phase, while in the dissipative case, squeezing tends to counteract
the suppressive influence of temperature in certain regimes. Thus, an
interesting feature that emerges from our work is the contrast in the interplay
between squeezing and thermal effects in non-dissipative and dissipative
interactions. This can be useful for the practical implementation of geometric
quantum information processing. By interpreting the open quantum effects as
noisy channels, we make the connection between geometric phase and quantum
noise processes familiar from quantum information theory.Comment: Accepted for publication in Eur. Phys. J. D; slightly abridged
version of v2; 10 pages, 12 figure
On relativistic approaches to the pion self-energy in nuclear matter
We argue that, in contrast to the non-relativistic approach, a relativistic
evaluation of the nucleon--hole and delta-isobar--nucleon hole contributions to
the pion self-energy incorporates the s-wave scattering, which requires a more
accurate evaluation. Therefore relativistic approach containing only these
diagrams does not describe appropriately the pion self-energy in isospin
symmetric nuclear matter. We conclude that, a correct relativistic approach to
the pion self-energy should involve a more sophisticated calculation in order
to satisfy the known experimental results on the near-threshold behaviour of
the pion-nucleon (forward) scattering amplitude.Comment: 7 pages,1 figur
Strange particle production in proton-proton collisions at TeV with ALICE at the LHC
The production of mesons containing strange quarks (K, ) and both
singly and doubly strange baryons (, Anti-, and
+Anti-) are measured at central rapidity in pp collisions at
= 0.9 TeV with the ALICE experiment at the LHC. The results are
obtained from the analysis of about 250 k minimum bias events recorded in 2009.
Measurements of yields (dN/dy) and transverse momentum spectra at central
rapidities for inelastic pp collisions are presented. For mesons, we report
yields () of 0.184 0.002 stat. 0.006 syst. for K and
0.021 0.004 stat. 0.003 syst. for . For baryons, we find
= 0.048 0.001 stat. 0.004 syst. for , 0.047
0.002 stat. 0.005 syst. for Anti- and 0.0101 0.0020 stat.
0.0009 syst. for +Anti-. The results are also compared with
predictions for identified particle spectra from QCD-inspired models and
provide a baseline for comparisons with both future pp measurements at higher
energies and heavy-ion collisions.Comment: 33 pages, 21 captioned figures, 10 tables, authors from page 28,
published version, figures at
http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/387
Criminal liability of employees of financial intermediaries for money laundering: a British perspective
The money laundering rules, both those contained in the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (and the legislation which preceded it) and the provisions of the Money Laundering Regulations 1993, impose considerable liabilities not just on institutions but on their individual officers and employees. Although the Money Laundering Reporting Officer / Compliance Officer has particular responsibilities, this does not absolve the other employees of the firm from the requirement to exercise considerable diligence on their own account
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