4,485 research outputs found
A Variational Principle for the Asymptotic Speed of Fronts of the Density Dependent Diffusion--Reaction Equation
We show that the minimal speed for the existence of monotonic fronts of the
equation with , and in
derives from a variational principle. The variational principle allows
to calculate, in principle, the exact speed for arbitrary . The case
when is included as an extension of the results.Comment: Latex, postcript figure availabl
Relaxation under outflow dynamics with random sequential updating
In this paper we compare the relaxation in several versions of the Sznajd
model (SM) with random sequential updating on the chain and square lattice. We
start by reviewing briefly all proposed one dimensional versions of SM. Next,
we compare the results obtained from Monte Carlo simulations with the mean
field results obtained by Slanina and Lavicka . Finally, we investigate the
relaxation on the square lattice and compare two generalizations of SM, one
suggested by Stauffer and another by Galam. We show that there are no
qualitative differences between these two approaches, although the relaxation
within the Galam rule is faster than within the well known Stauffer rule.Comment: 9 figure
On a Conjecture of Goriely for the Speed of Fronts of the Reaction--Diffusion Equation
In a recent paper Goriely considers the one--dimensional scalar
reaction--diffusion equation with a polynomial reaction
term and conjectures the existence of a relation between a global
resonance of the hamiltonian system and the asymptotic
speed of propagation of fronts of the reaction diffusion equation. Based on
this conjecture an explicit expression for the speed of the front is given. We
give a counterexample to this conjecture and conclude that additional
restrictions should be placed on the reaction terms for which it may hold.Comment: 9 pages Revtex plus 4 postcript figure
Neutron, electron and X-ray scattering investigation of Cr1-xVx near Quantum Criticality
The weakness of electron-electron correlations in the itinerant
antiferromagnet Cr doped with V has long been considered the reason that
neither new collective electronic states or even non Fermi liquid behaviour are
observed when antiferromagnetism in CrV is suppressed to zero
temperature. We present the results of neutron and electron diffraction
measurements of several lightly doped single crystals of CrV in
which the archtypal spin density wave instability is progressively suppressed
as the V content increases, freeing the nesting-prone Fermi surface for a new
striped charge instability that occurs at x=0.037. This novel nesting
driven instability relieves the entropy accumulation associated with the
suppression of the spin density wave and avoids the formation of a quantum
critical point by stabilising a new type of charge order at temperatures in
excess of 400 K. Restructuring of the Fermi surface near quantum critical
points is a feature found in materials as diverse as heavy fermions, high
temperature copper oxide superconductors and now even elemental metals such as
Cr.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures. Accepted to Physical Review
Test of Special Relativity and Equivalence principle from K Physics
A violation of Local Lorentz Invariance (VLI) and hence the special theory of
relativity or a violation of equivalence principle (VEP) in the Kaon system
can, in principle, induce oscillations between and . We
construct a general formulation in which simultaneous pairwise diagonalization
of mass, momemtum, weak or gravitational eigenstates is not assumed. %and the
maximum attainable %velocities of the velocity eigenstates are different. We
discuss this problem in a general way and point out that, as expected, the VEP
and VLI contributions are indistinguishable. We then insist on the fact that
VEP or VLI can occur even when CPT is conserved. A possible CP violation of the
superweak type induced by VEP or VLI is introduced and discussed. We show that
the general VEP mechanism (or the VLI mechanism, but not both simultaneously),
with or without conserved CPT, could be clearly tested experimentally through
the energy dependence of the mass difference and of ,
, . Constraints imposed by present experiments are
calculated.Comment: Latex, 15 pages, 1 figure, version to appear in Phys. Rev.
Recommended from our members
Practice patterns and outcomes of equivocal bone scans for patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer: Results from SEARCH.
ObjectiveTo review follow-up imaging after equivocal bone scans in men with castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) and examine the characteristics of equivocal bone scans that are associated with positive follow-up imaging.MethodsWe identified 639 men from five Veterans Affairs Hospitals with a technetium-99m bone scan after CRPC diagnosis, of whom 99 (15%) had equivocal scans. Men with equivocal scans were segregated into "high-risk" and "low-risk" subcategories based upon wording in the bone scan report. All follow-up imaging (bone scans, computed tomography [CT], magnetic resonance imaging [MRI], and X-rays) in the 3 months after the equivocal scan were reviewed. Variables were compared between patients with a positive vs. negative follow-up imaging after an equivocal bone scan.ResultsOf 99 men with an equivocal bone scan, 43 (43%) received at least one follow-up imaging test, including 32/82 (39%) with low-risk scans and 11/17 (65%) with high-risk scans (p = 0.052). Of follow-up tests, 67% were negative, 14% were equivocal, and 19% were positive. Among those who underwent follow-up imaging, 3/32 (9%) low-risk men had metastases vs. 5/11 (45%) high-risk men (p = 0.015).ConclusionWhile 19% of all men who received follow-up imaging had positive follow-up imaging, only 9% of those with a low-risk equivocal bone scan had metastases versus 45% of those with high-risk. These preliminary findings, if confirmed in larger studies, suggest follow-up imaging tests for low-risk equivocal scans can be delayed while high-risk equivocal scans should receive follow-up imaging
Application of elastostatic Green function tensor technique to electrostriction in cubic, hexagonal and orthorhombic crystals
The elastostatic Green function tensor approach, which was recently used to
treat electrostriction in numerical simulation of domain structure formation in
cubic ferroelectrics, is reviewed and extended to the crystals of hexagonal and
orthorhombic symmetry. The tensorial kernels appearing in the expressions for
effective nonlocal interaction of electrostrictive origin are derived
explicitly and their physical meaning is illustrated on simple examples. It is
argued that the bilinear coupling between the polarization gradients and
elastic strain should be systematically included in the Ginzburg-Landau free
energy expansion of electrostrictive materials.Comment: 4 page
Taxonomic corpus-based concept summary generation for document annotation.
Semantic annotation is an enabling technology which links documents to concepts that unambiguously describe their content. Annotation improves access to document contents for both humans and software agents. However, the annotation process is a challenging task as annotators often have to select from thousands of potentially relevant concepts from controlled vocabularies. The best approaches to assist in this task rely on reusing the annotations of an annotated corpus. In the absence of a pre-annotated corpus, alternative approaches suffer due to insufficient descriptive texts for concepts in most vocabularies. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised method for recommending document annotations based on generating node descriptors from an external corpus. We exploit knowledge of the taxonomic structure of a thesaurus to ensure that effective descriptors (concept summaries) are generated for concepts. Our evaluation on recommending annotations show that the content that we generate effectively represents the concepts. Also, our approach outperforms those which rely on information from a thesaurus alone and is comparable with supervised approaches
- …