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Thermoelectric studies of KxFe2-ySe2: weakly correlated superconductor
We report thermal transport measurement of KxFe2-ySe2 superconducting single
crystal. Significant peak anomaly in thermal conductivity is observed at nearly
TC/2 indicating a large phonon mean-free-path in the superconducting state. The
zero-temperature extrapolated thermoelectric power is smaller than the value in
typical strongly correlated superconductors, implying large normalized Fermi
temperature. In contrast to other iron superconductors, thermoelectric power in
our sample does not exhibit significant anomalies. These findings indicate that
KxFe2-ySe2 is a weakly or intermediately correlated superconductor without
significant Fermi surface nesting.Comment: Revised version, 5 pages, 5 figures, Will appear in Physical Review
Relation between geometric phases of entangled bi-partite systems and their subsystems
This paper focuses on the geometric phase of entangled states of bi-partite
systems under bi-local unitary evolution. We investigate the relation between
the geometric phase of the system and those of the subsystems. It is shown that
(1) the geometric phase of cyclic entangled states with non-degenerate
eigenvalues can always be decomposed into a sum of weighted non-modular pure
state phases pertaining to the separable components of the Schmidt
decomposition, though the same cannot be said in the non-cyclic case, and (2)
the geometric phase of the mixed state of one subsystem is generally different
from that of the entangled state even by keeping the other subsystem fixed, but
the two phases are the same when the evolution operator satisfies conditions
where each component in the Schmidt decomposition is parallel transported
A C 0 interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin Method for fourth-order total variation flow. II: Existence and uniqueness
We prove the existence and uniqueness of a solution of a C0 Interior Penalty Discontinuous Galerkin (C0 IPDG) method for the numerical solution of a fourth‐order total variation flow problem that has been developed in part I of the paper. The proof relies on a nonlinear version of the Lax‐Milgram Lemma. It requires to establish that the nonlinear operator associated with the C0 IPDG approximation is Lipschitz continuous and strongly monotone on bounded sets of the underlying finite element space
Geographical inequalities in health in a time of austerity: Baseline findings from the Stockton-on-Tees cohort study
Stockton-on-Tees has the highest geographical inequalities in health in England with the life expectancy at birth gap between the most and deprived neighbourhoods standing at over 17 years for men and 11 years for women. In this study, we provide the first detailed empirical examination of this geographical health divide by: estimating the gap in physical and general health (as measured by EQ. 5D, EQ. 5D-VAS and SF8PCS) between the most and least deprived areas; using a novel statistical technique to examining the causal role of compositional and contextual factors and their interaction; and doing so in a time of economic recession and austerity. Using a stratified random sampling technique, individual-level survey data was combined with secondary data sources and analysed using multi-level models with 95% confidence intervals obtained from nonparametric bootstrapping. The main findings indicate that there is a significant gap in health between the two areas, and that compositional level material factors, contextual factors and their interaction appear to be the major explanations of this gap. Contrary to the dominant policy discourse in this area, individual behavioural and psychosocial factors did not make a significant contribution towards explaining health inequalities in the study area. The findings are discussed in relation to geographical theories of health inequalities and the context of austerity
Studies on Microbiological Corrosion of Metals: Part I Isolation and Identification of Sulphate Reducing Bacteria from Jodhpur Soil
A strain of sulphate reducing bacteria present in Jodhpur soil has been isolate and identified as Desulphovibrio desulphuricans
Evaluation of the performance of microprocessor-based colorimeter
Colorimetric estimations have an important role in quantitative
studies. An inexpensive and portable microprocessor-based colorimeter
developed by the authors is described in this paper. The
colorimeter uses a light emitting diode as the light source; a pinphotodiode
as the detector and an 8085A microprocessor. Blood
urea, glucose, total protein, albumin and bilirubin from patient
blood samples were analysed with the instrument and results
obtained were compared with assays of the same blood using a
Spectronic 21. A good correlation was found between the results
from the two instruments
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