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Alternative approach to computing transport coefficients: application to conductivity and Hall coefficient of hydrogenated amorphous silicon
We introduce a theoretical framework for computing transport coefficients for
complex materials. As a first example, we resolve long-standing inconsistencies
between experiment and theory pertaining to the conductivity and Hall mobility
for amorphous silicon and show that the Hall sign anomaly is a consequence of
localized states. Next, we compute the AC conductivity of amorphous
polyanaline. The formalism is applicable to complex materials involving defects
and band-tail states originating from static topological disorder and extended
states. The method may be readily integrated with current \textit{ab initio}
methods.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Let
Diving Deep into Sentiment: Understanding Fine-tuned CNNs for Visual Sentiment Prediction
Visual media are powerful means of expressing emotions and sentiments. The
constant generation of new content in social networks highlights the need of
automated visual sentiment analysis tools. While Convolutional Neural Networks
(CNNs) have established a new state-of-the-art in several vision problems,
their application to the task of sentiment analysis is mostly unexplored and
there are few studies regarding how to design CNNs for this purpose. In this
work, we study the suitability of fine-tuning a CNN for visual sentiment
prediction as well as explore performance boosting techniques within this deep
learning setting. Finally, we provide a deep-dive analysis into a benchmark,
state-of-the-art network architecture to gain insight about how to design
patterns for CNNs on the task of visual sentiment prediction.Comment: Preprint of the paper accepted at the 1st Workshop on Affect and
Sentiment in Multimedia (ASM), in ACM MultiMedia 2015. Brisbane, Australi
Signatures of Dark Matter Scattering Inelastically Off Nuclei
Direct dark matter detection focuses on elastic scattering of dark matter
particles off nuclei. In this study, we explore inelastic scattering where the
nucleus is excited to a low-lying state of 10-100 keV, with subsequent prompt
de-excitation. We calculate the inelastic structure factors for the odd-mass
xenon isotopes based on state-of-the-art large-scale shell-model calculations
with chiral effective field theory WIMP-nucleon currents. For these cases, we
find that the inelastic channel is comparable to or can dominate the elastic
channel for momentum transfers around 150 MeV. We calculate the inelastic
recoil spectra in the standard halo model, compare these to the elastic case,
and discuss the expected signatures in a xenon detector, along with
implications for existing and future experiments. The combined information from
elastic and inelastic scattering will allow to determine the dominant
interaction channel within one experiment. In addition, the two channels probe
different regions of the dark matter velocity distribution and can provide
insight into the dark halo structure. The allowed recoil energy domain and the
recoil energy at which the integrated inelastic rates start to dominate the
elastic channel depend on the mass of the dark matter particle, thus providing
a potential handle to constrain its mass.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures. Matches resubmitted version to Phys. Rev. D. One
figure added; supplemental material (fits to the structure functions) added
as an Appendi
Photoemission spectra of many-polaron systems
The cross over from low to high carrier densities in a many-polaron system is
studied in the framework of the one-dimensional spinless Holstein model, using
unbiased numerical methods. Combining a novel quantum Monte Carlo approach and
exact diagonalization, accurate results for the single-particle spectrum and
the electronic kinetic energy on fairly large systems are obtained. A detailed
investigation of the quality of the Monte Carlo data is presented. In the
physically most important adiabatic intermediate electron-phonon coupling
regime, for which no analytical results are available, we observe a
dissociation of polarons with increasing band filling, leading to normal
metallic behavior, while for parameters favoring small polarons, no such
density-driven changes occur. The present work points towards the inadequacy of
single-polaron theories for a number of polaronic materials such as the
manganites.Comment: 15 pages, 13 figures; final version, accepted for publication in
Phys. Rev.
Phase transition and phase diagram at a general filling in the spinless one-dimensional Holstein Model
Among the mechanisms for lattice structural deformation, the electron-phonon
interaction mediated Peierls charge-density-wave (CDW) instability in single
band low-dimensional systems is perhaps the most ubiquitous. The standard
mean-field picture predicts that the CDW transition occurs at all fillings and
all values of the electron-phonon coupling and the adiabaticity parameter
. Here, we correct the mean-field expression for the Peierls
instability condition by showing that the non-interacting static
susceptibility, at twice the Fermi momentum, should be replaced by the dynamic
one. We derive the Luttinger liquid (LL) to CDW transition condition, {\it
exact to second order in a novel blocked perturbative approach}, for the
spinless one-dimensional Holstein model in the adiabatic regime. The small
parameter is the ratio . We present the phase diagram at
non-half-filling by obtaining the surprising result that the CDW occurs in a
more restrictive region of a two parameter ( and )
space than at half-filling.Comment: Made changes in the appendices and also in notatio
Effects of the electron-phonon coupling near and within the insulating Mott phase
The role of the electron-phonon interaction in the Holstein-Hubbard model is
investigated in the metallic phase close to the Mott transition and in the
insulating Mott phase. The model is studied by means of a variational slave
boson technique. At half-filling, mean-field static quantities are in good
agreement with the results obtained by numerical techniques. By taking into
account gaussian fluctuations, an analytic expression of the spectral density
is derived in the Mott insulating phase showing that an increase of the
electron-phonon coupling leads to a sensitive reduction of the Mott gap through
a reduced effective repulsion. The relation of the results with recent
experimental observations in strongly correlated systems is discussed.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Analogue of the Kubo Formula for Conductivity of Spatially Inhomogeneous Systems and Electric Fields
The average of densities of currents and charges, induced by a weak
electromagnetic field in spatially inhomogeneous are calculated at final
temperatures. The Kubo formula for a conductivity tensor is generalized for
spatially inhomogeneous systems and fields. The contributions containing
electric fields and derivative from fields on coordinates are allocated. The
Semiconductor quantum wells, wires and dots may be considered as spatially
inhomogeneous systems.Comment: 10 page
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