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    Anderson impurity in a correlated conduction band

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    We investigate the physics of a magnetic impurity with spin 1/2 in a correlated metallic host. Describing the band by a Hubbard Hamiltonian, the problem is analyzed using dynamical mean-field-theory in combination with Wilson's nonperturbative numerical renormalization group. We present results for the single-particle density of states and the dynamical spin susceptibility at zero temperature. New spectral features (side peaks) are found which should be observable experimentally. In addition, we find a general enhancement of the Kondo scale due to correlations. Nevertheless, in the metallic phase, the Kondo scale always vanishes exponentially in the limit of small hybridization.Comment: Final version, 4 pages RevTeX, 8 eps figures include

    The suppression of the Mid-Atlantic Copperhead Press

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    Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill

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    By Candice MillardNew York: Doubleday, 2016, 400 pp.When we think of Winston S. Churchill, we remember him as the British prime minister who took on Adolf Hitler and helped the Allies win World War..

    Freely and fearlessly : The 1863 New York editors\u27 resolutions

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    The eighth of June in 1863 was a cool late spring day in New York. In the Astor House Hotel, at one o\u27clock in the afternoon, sixteen journalists representing approximately two million readers assembled for what one New York paper called one of the most remarkable and important meetings which has occurred since the war started. New York journalists had met in 1848 to respond to their depiction in a play titled New York in Slices. Reporters had gathered at the Capitol in Washington, DC, at the start of the war to protest Winfield Scott\u27s decision to limit newspaper transmissions on the telegraph lines without his approval. The editors at the Astor House were standing up for their profession. They drew up nonpartisan resolutions that declared freedom of the press to be a bedrock principle of democratic society, even in wartime—even in time of civil war

    On X-ray-singularities in the f-electron spectral function of the Falicov-Kimball model

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    The f-electron spectral function of the Falicov-Kimball model is calculated within the dynamical mean-field theory using the numerical renormalization group method as the impurity solver. Both the Bethe lattice and the hypercubic lattice are considered at half filling. For small U we obtain a single-peaked f-electron spectral function, which --for zero temperature-- exhibits an algebraic (X-ray) singularity (ωα|\omega|^{-\alpha}) for ω0\omega \to 0. The characteristic exponent α\alpha depends on the Coulomb (Hubbard) correlation U. This X-ray singularity cannot be observed when using alternative (Keldysh-based) many-body approaches. With increasing U, α\alpha decreases and vanishes for sufficiently large U when the f-electron spectral function develops a gap and a two-peak structure (metal-insulator transition).Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures, revte

    Algebro-Geometric Quasi-Periodic Finite-Gap Solutions of the Toda and Kac-van Moerbeke Hierarchies

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    Combining algebro-geometric methods and factorization techniques for finite difference expressions we provide a complete and self-contained treatment of all real-valued quasi-periodic finite-gap solutions of both the Toda and Kac-van Moerbeke hierarchies. In order to obtain our principal new result, the algebro-geometric finite-gap solutions of the Kac-van Moerbeke hierarchy, we employ particular commutation methods in connection with Miura-type transformations which enable us to transfer whole classes of solutions (such as finite-gap solutions) from the Toda hierarchy to its modified counterpart, the Kac-van Moerbeke hierarchy, and vice versa.Comment: LaTeX, to appear in Memoirs of the Amer. Math. So

    Numerical renormalization group study of the symmetric Anderson-Holstein model: phonon and electron spectral functions

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    We study the symmetric Anderson-Holstein (AH) model at zero temperature with Wilson's numerical renormalization group (NRG) technique to study the interplay between the electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions. An improved method for calculating the phonon propagator using the NRG technique is presented, which turns out to be more accurate and reliable than the previous works in that it calculates the phonon renormalization explicitly and satisfies the boson sum rule better. The method is applied to calculate the renormalized phonon propagators along with the electron propagators as the onsite Coulomb repulsion UU and electron-phonon coupling constant gg are varied. As gg is increased, the phonon mode is successively renormalized, and for ggcog \gtrsim g_{co} crosses over to the regime where the mode splits into two components, one of which approaches back to the bare frequency and the other develops into a soft mode. The initial renormalization of the phonon mode, as gg is increased from 0, depends on UU and the hybridization Δ\Delta; it gets softened (hardened) for U()Us(Δ)U \gtrsim (\lesssim) U_s (\Delta). Correlated with the emergence of the soft mode is the central peak of the electron spectral function severely suppressed. These NRG calculations will be compared with the standard Green's function results for the weak coupling regime to understand the phonon renormalization and soft mode.Comment: 18 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev.

    Hydrogen contamination in Ge-doped SiO[sub 2] thin films prepared by helicon activated reactive evaporation

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    Germanium-doped silicon oxidethin films were deposited at low temperature by using an improved helicon plasma assisted reactive evaporation technique. The origins of hydrogen contamination in the film were investigated, and were found to be H incorporation during deposition and postdeposition water absorption. The H incorporation during deposition was avoided by using an effective method to eliminate the residual hydrogen present in the depositionsystem. The microstructure, chemical bonds, chemical etch rate, and optical index of the films were studied as a function of the deposition conditions. Granular microstructures were observed in low-density films, and were found to be the cause of postdeposition water absorption. The granular microstructure was eliminated and the film was densified by increasing the helicon plasma power and substrate bias during deposition. A high-density film was shown to have no postdeposition water absorption and no OH detected by using a Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer

    Quantum Monte Carlo calculation of the finite temperature Mott-Hubbard transition

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    We present clear numerical evidence for the coexistence of metallic and insulating dynamical mean field theory(DMFT) solutions in a half-filled single-band Hubbard model with bare semicircular density of states at finite temperatures. Quantum Monte Carlo(QMC) method is used to solve the DMFT equations. We discuss important technical aspects of the DMFT-QMC which need to be taken into account in order to obtain the reliable results near the coexistence region. Among them are the critical slowing down of the iterative solutions near phase boundaries, the convergence criteria for the DMFT iterations, the interpolation of the discretized Green's function and the reduction of QMC statistical and systematic errors. Comparison of our results with those of other numerical methods is presented in a phase diagram.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure

    Correlation and surface effects in Vanadium Oxides

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    Recent photoemission experiments have shown strong surface modifications in the spectra from vanadium oxides as (V,Cr)_2O_3 or (Sr,Ca)VO_3. The effective mass is enhanced at the surface and the coherent part of the surface spectrum is narrowed as compared to the bulk. The quasiparticle weight is more sensitive at the surface than in the bulk against bandwidth variations. We investigate these effects theoretically considering the single-band Hubbard model for a film geometry. A simplified dynamical mean-field scheme is used to calculate the main features of the interacting layer-dependent spectral function. It turns out that the experimentally confirmed effects are inherent properties of a system of strongly correlated electrons. The reduction of the weight and the variance of the coherent part of the surface spectrum can be traced back to the reduced surface coordination number. Surface correlation effects can be strongly amplified by changes of the hopping integrals at the surface.Comment: to appear in PRB; 8 pages, 6 figure
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