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Charge and Spin Ordering in the Mixed Valence Compound LuFe2O4
Landau theory and symmetry considerations lead us to propose an explanation
for several seemingly paradoxical behaviors of charge ordering (CO) and spin
ordering (SO) in the mixed valence compound LuFe2O4. Both SO and CO are highly
frustrated. We analyze a lattice gas model of CO within mean field theory and
determine the magnitude of several of the phenomenological interactions. We
show that the assumption of a continuous phase transition at which CO or SO
develops implies that both CO and SO are incommensurate. To explain how
ferroelectric fluctuations in the charge disordered phase can be consistent
with an antiferroelectric ordered phase, we invoke an electron-phonon
interaction in which a low energy (20meV) zone-center transverse phonon plays a
key role. The energies of all the zone-center phonons are calculated from first
principles. We give a Landau analysis which explains SO and we discuss a model
of interactions which stabilizes the SO state, if it is assumed commensurate.
However, we suggest a high resolution experimental determination to see whether
this phase is really commensurate, as believed up to now. The applicability of
representation analysis is discussed. A tentative explanation for the
sensitivity of the CO state to an applied magnetic field in field-cooled
experiments is given.Comment: 36 pages, 17 figure
Spin Dynamics of Trimers on a Distorted Kagom\'e Lattice
We treat the ground state, elementary excitations, and neutron scattering
cross section for a system of trimers consisting of three tightly bound spins
1/2 on a distorted Kagom\'e lattice, subject to isotropic nearest neighbor
(usually antiferromagnetic) Heisenberg interactions. The interactions between
trimers are assumed to be weak compared to the intra trimer interactions. We
compare the spin-wave excitation spectrum of trimers with that obtained from
standard spin-wave theory and attribute the differences at low energy to the
fact that the trimer formulation includes exactly the effects of intra-trimer
zero point motion. Application to existing systems is briefly discussed.Comment: 20 pages, 10 figure
Magnetic Structure and Spin Waves in the Kagom\'{e} Jarosite compound
We present a detailed study of the magnetic structure and spin waves in the
Fe jarosite compound for the most general
Hamiltonian involving one- and two-spin interactions which are allowed by
symmetry. We compare the calculated spin-wave spectrum with the recent neutron
scattering data of Matan {\it et al.} for various model Hamiltonians which
include, in addition to isotropic Heisenberg exchange interactions between
nearest () and next-nearest () neighbors, single ion anisotropy and
Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions. We concluded that DM interactions are
the dominant anisotropic interaction, which not only fits all the splittings in
the spin-wave spectrum but also reproduces the small canting of the spins out
of the Kagom\'e plane. A brief discussion of how representation theory
restricts the allowed magnetic structure is also given.Comment: 23 pages, 17 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B (March 2006
A Global Preconditioning Method for the Euler Equations
This study seeks to validate a recently introduced global preconditioning technique for the Euler equations. Energy and enthalpy equations are nondimensionalized by means of a reference enthalpy, resulting in increased numerical accuracy for low-speed flows. A cellbased, finite volume formulation is used, with Roe flux difference splitting and both explicit and implicit time integration schemes. A Newton-linearized iterative implicit algorithm is implemented, with Symmetric Gauss-Seidel (LU/SGS) nested sub-iterations. This choice allows one to retain time accuracy, and eliminates approximate factorization errors, which become dominant at low speed flows. The linearized flux Jacobians are evaluated by numerical differentiation. Higher-order discretization is constructed by means of the MUSCL approach. Locally one-dimensional characteristic variable boundary conditions are implemented at the farfield boundary. The preconditioned scheme is successfully applied to the following traditional test cases used as benchmarks for local preconditioning techniques: point disturbance, flow angle disturbance, and stagnation point arising from the impingement of two identical jets. The flow over a symmetric airfoil and a convergentdivergent nozzle are then simulated for arbitrary Mach numbers. The preconditioned scheme greatly enhances accuracy and convergence rate for low-speed flows (all the way down to M ≈ 10E − 4). Some preliminary tests of fully unsteady flows are also conducted
Multinational Corporations and Governance of Political Activity
This article builds a conceptual framework to help explain the political behavior of multinational corporations (MNCs). I build on three streams of literature, i.e. heterogenous firms, global value chains, and governance, and provide an overarching framework to help understand firms’ political activities undertaken across value chain networks. I put forward a model that outlines MNCs’ coordination of political mobilization using their affiliates and subsidiaries in different jurisdictions and demonstrate models of governance they have at their disposal to reach political goals. I argue that the spread of global value chains allows firms to develop legal links with enterprises across borders through which they orchestrate political activity or delegate policy goals. The degree of flexibility between MNCs and associated firms determine the model of governance they undertake with corporations in their network. They engage in such costly coordination either to obtain legal standing in foreign jurisdictions or to cultivate a sort of critical mass that goes after a policy objective. I demonstrate the plausibility of my propositions with anecdotal evidence and identify future lines of research
Self-Supervised Intrinsic Image Decomposition
Intrinsic decomposition from a single image is a highly challenging task, due
to its inherent ambiguity and the scarcity of training data. In contrast to
traditional fully supervised learning approaches, in this paper we propose
learning intrinsic image decomposition by explaining the input image. Our
model, the Rendered Intrinsics Network (RIN), joins together an image
decomposition pipeline, which predicts reflectance, shape, and lighting
conditions given a single image, with a recombination function, a learned
shading model used to recompose the original input based off of intrinsic image
predictions. Our network can then use unsupervised reconstruction error as an
additional signal to improve its intermediate representations. This allows
large-scale unlabeled data to be useful during training, and also enables
transferring learned knowledge to images of unseen object categories, lighting
conditions, and shapes. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method
performs well on both intrinsic image decomposition and knowledge transfer.Comment: NIPS 2017 camera-ready version, project page:
http://rin.csail.mit.edu
Structural, Vibrational and Thermodynamic Properties of AgnCu34-n Nanoparticles
We report results of a systematic study of structural, vibrational and
thermodynamical properties of 34-atom bimetallic nanoparticles from the
AgnCu34-n family using model interaction potentials as derived from the
embedded atom method and in the harmonic approximation of lattice dynamics.
Systematic trends in the bond length and dynamical properties can be explained
largely on arguments based on local coordination and elemental environment.
Thus increase in the number of silver atoms in a given neighborhood introduces
a monotonic increase in bond length while increase of the copper content does
the reverse. Moreover, based on bond lengths of the lowest coordinated (6 and
8) copper atoms with their nearest neighbors (Cu atoms), we find that the
nanoparticles divide into two groups with average bond length either close to
(~ 2.58 A) or smaller (~ 2.48 A) than that in bulk copper, accompanied by
characteristic features in their vibrational density of states. For the entire
set of nanoparticles, vibrational modes are found above the bulk bands of
copper/silver. Furthermore, a blue shift in the high frequency end with
increasing number of copper atoms in the nanoparticles is traced to a shrinkage
of bond lengths from bulk values. The vibrational densities of states at the
low frequency end of the spectrum scale linearly with frequency as for single
element nanoparticles, however, the effect is more pronounced for these
nanoalloys. The Debye temperature was found to be about one third of that of
the bulk for pure copper and silver nanoparticles with a non-linear increase
with increasing number of copper atoms in the nanoalloys.Comment: 37 pages, 12 figure
A new lower bounding scheme for the total weighted tardiness problem
Cataloged from PDF version of article.We propose a new dominance rule that provides a sufficient condition for local optimality for the 1\\Sigma w(i)T(i) problem. We prove that if any sequence violates the proposed dominance rule, then switching the violating jobs either lowers the total weighted tardiness or leaves it unchanged. Therefore, it can be used in reducing the number of alternatives for finding the optimal solution in any exact approach. We introduce an algorithm based on the dominance rule, which is compared to a number of competing approaches for a set of randomly generated problems. We also test the impact of the dominance rule on different lower bounding schemes. Our computational results over 30,000 problems indicate that the amount of improvement is statistically significant for both upper and lower bounding schemes. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved
Distance to Headquarter and Real Estate Equity Performance
We study the effect of geographic portfolio diversification of real estate firms on their investment performance before and after the global financial crisis (GFC). In addition to previously used dispersion metrics, we also account for the distance of the properties to the corporate headquarters. We document a notable shift in the non-market performance of real estate companies after the crisis. Pre-GFC, we do not find a difference in non-market performance across equities based on geographic diversification. Post-GFC, equities with high geographic dispersion significantly outperform the market, while firms with concentrated property holdings do not deliver a significant alpha. Increased real estate equity market sophistication and strong institutional presence can explain why this effect is only observed for dispersed small firms, those invested outside gateway metro areas, or companies with low institutional ownership
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