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High Rate Discharge Studies of LI/SO2 Batteries
A battery composed of twelve lithium/sulfur dioxide D size cells in series is forced discharged at 21 amperes. This current is established by the proposed use of the battery and represented a discharge condition which might produce venting. Discharge of the battery into voltage reversal results not only in cells venting but also in the violent rupture of at least one cell
The linear tearing instability in three dimensional, toroidal gyrokinetic simulations
Linear gyro-kinetic simulations of the classical tearing mode in
three-dimensional toroidal geometry were performed using the global gyro
kinetic turbulence code, GKW . The results were benchmarked against a
cylindrical ideal MHD and analytical theory calculations. The stability, growth
rate and frequency of the mode were investigated by varying the current
profile, collisionality and the pressure gradients. Both collision-less and
semi-collisional tearing modes were found with a smooth transition between the
two. A residual, finite, rotation frequency of the mode even in the absense of
a pressure gradient is observed which is attributed to toroidal finite
Larmor-radius effects. When a pressure gradient is present at low
collisionality, the mode rotates at the expected electron diamagnetic
frequency. However the island rotation reverses direction at high
collisionality. The growth rate is found to follow a scaling with
collisional resistivity in the semi-collisional regime, closely following the
semi-collisional scaling found by Fitzpatrick. The stability of the mode
closely follows the stability using resistive MHD theory, however a
modification due to toroidal coupling and pressure effects is seen
Generic Bell correlation between arbitrary local algebras in quantum field theory
We prove that for any two commuting von Neumann algebras of infinite type,
the open set of Bell correlated states for the two algebras is norm dense. We
then apply this result to algebraic quantum field theory -- where all local
algebras are of infinite type -- in order to show that for any two spacelike
separated regions, there is an open dense set of field states that dictate Bell
correlations between the regions. We also show that any vector state cyclic for
one of a pair of commuting nonabelian von Neumann algebras is entangled (i.e.,
nonseparable) across the algebras -- from which it follows that every field
state with bounded energy is entangled across any two spacelike separated
regions.Comment: Third version; correction in the proof of Proposition
Thermal correlators of anyons in two dimensions
The anyon fields have trivial -commutator for not integer.
For integer the commutators become temperature-dependent operator
valued distributions. The -point functions do not factorize as for quasifree
states.Comment: 14 pages, LaTeX (misprints corrected, a reference added
Towards a construction of inclusive collision cross-sections in the massless Nelson model
The conventional approach to the infrared problem in perturbative quantum
electrodynamics relies on the concept of inclusive collision cross-sections. A
non-perturbative variant of this notion was introduced in algebraic quantum
field theory. Relying on these insights, we take first steps towards a
non-perturbative construction of inclusive collision cross-sections in the
massless Nelson model. We show that our proposal is consistent with the
standard scattering theory in the absence of the infrared problem and discuss
its status in the infrared-singular case.Comment: 23 pages, LaTeX. As appeared in Ann. Henri Poincar\'
Intrinsic and extrinsic x-ray absorption effects in soft x-ray diffraction from the superstructure in magnetite
We studied the (001/2) diffraction peak in the low-temperature phase of
magnetite (Fe3O4) using resonant soft x-ray diffraction (RSXD) at the Fe-L2,3
and O-K resonance. We studied both molecular-beam-epitaxy (MBE) grown thin
films and in-situ cleaved single crystals. From the comparison we have been
able to determine quantitatively the contribution of intrinsic absorption
effects, thereby arriving at a consistent result for the (001/2) diffraction
peak spectrum. Our data also allow for the identification of extrinsic effects,
e.g. for a detailed modeling of the spectra in case a "dead" surface layer is
present that is only absorbing photons but does not contribute to the
scattering signal.Comment: to appear in Phys. Rev.
Regulation of thyroid hormone-induced development \u3cem\u3ein vivo\u3c/em\u3e by thyroid hormone transporters and cytosolic binding proteins
Differential tissue sensitivity/responsivity to hormones can explain developmental asynchrony among hormone-dependent events despite equivalent exposure of each tissue to circulating hormone levels. A dramatic vertebrate example is during frog metamorphosis, where transformation of the hind limb, brain, intestine, liver, and tail are completely dependent on thyroid hormone (TH) but occurs asynchronously during development. TH transporters (THTs) and cytosolic TH binding proteins (CTHBPs) have been proposed to affect the timing of tissue transformation based on expression profiles and in vitro studies, but they have not been previously tested in vivo. We used a combination of expression pattern, relative expression level, and in vivo functional analysis to evaluate the potential for THTs (LAT1, OATP1c1, and MCT8) and CTHBPs (PKM2, CRYM, and ALDH1) to control the timing of TH-dependent development. Quantitative PCR analysis revealed complex expression profiles of THTs and CTHBPs with respect to developmental stage, tissue, and TH receptor β (TRβ) expression. For some tissues, the timing of tissue transformation was associated with a peak in the expression of some THTs or CTHBPs. An in vivo overexpression assay by tail muscle injection showed LAT1, PKM2, and CRYM increased TH-dependent tail muscle cell disappearance. Co-overexpression of MCT8 and CRYM had a synergistic effect on cell disappearance. Our data show that each tissue examined has a unique developmental expression profile of THTs and CTHBPs and provide direct in vivo evidence that the ones tested are capable of affecting the timing of developmental responses to TH
Anyons and the Bose-Fermi duality in the finite-temperature Thirring model
Solutions to the Thirring model are constructed in the framework of algebraic
QFT. It is shown that for all positive temperatures there are fermionic
solutions only if the coupling constant is . These fermions are inequivalent and only for they are canonical
fields. In the general case solutions are anyons. Different anyons (which are
uncountably many) live in orthogonal spaces and obey dynamical equations (of
the type of Heisenberg's "Urgleichung") characterized by the corresponding
values of the statistic parameter. Thus statistic parameter turns out to be
related to the coupling constant and the whole Hilbert space becomes
non-separable with a different "Urgleichung" satisfied in each of its sectors.
This feature certainly cannot be seen by any power expansion in .
Moreover, since the latter is tied to the statistic parameter, it is clear that
such an expansion is doomed to failure and will never reveal the true structure
of the theory.
The correlation functions in the temperature state for the canonical dressed
fermions are shown by us to coincide with the ones for bare fields, that is in
agreement with the uniqueness of the -KMS state over the CAR algebra
( being the shift automorphism). Also the -anyon two-point
function is evaluated and for scalar field it reproduces the result that is
known from the literature.Comment: 25 pages, LaTe
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