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Experiment requirements and implementation plan (Erip) for semiconductor materials growth in low-G environment
The MEA-2 A facility was used to test the effect of the low gravity environment on suppressing convective mixing in the growth of Pb(1-x)Sn(x)Te crystals. The need to eliminate convection, the furnace characteristics and operation that will be required for successful experimental implementation, and to the level that is presently known, the measured physical properties of the Pb(1-x)Sn(x)Te system were discussed. In addition, a brief background of the present and potential utilization of Pb(1-x)Sn(x)Te is given. Additional experiments are anticipated in future MEA-A, improved MEA and other dedicated materials processing in space flight apparatus
A variational problem on Stiefel manifolds
In their paper on discrete analogues of some classical systems such as the
rigid body and the geodesic flow on an ellipsoid, Moser and Veselov introduced
their analysis in the general context of flows on Stiefel manifolds. We
consider here a general class of continuous time, quadratic cost, optimal
control problems on Stiefel manifolds, which in the extreme dimensions again
yield these classical physical geodesic flows. We have already shown that this
optimal control setting gives a new symmetric representation of the rigid body
flow and in this paper we extend this representation to the geodesic flow on
the ellipsoid and the more general Stiefel manifold case. The metric we choose
on the Stiefel manifolds is the same as that used in the symmetric
representation of the rigid body flow and that used by Moser and Veselov. In
the extreme cases of the ellipsoid and the rigid body, the geodesic flows are
known to be integrable. We obtain the extremal flows using both variational and
optimal control approaches and elucidate the structure of the flows on general
Stiefel manifolds.Comment: 30 page
Eukaryotic RNases H1 act processively by interactions through the duplex RNA-binding domain
Ribonucleases H have mostly been implicated in eliminating short RNA primers used for initiation of lagging strand DNA synthesis. Escherichia coli RNase HI cleaves these RNA–DNA hybrids in a distributive manner. We report here that eukaryotic RNases H1 have evolved to be processive enzymes by attaching a duplex RNA-binding domain to the RNase H region. Highly conserved amino acids of the duplex RNA-binding domain are required for processivity and nucleic acid binding, which leads to dimerization of the protein. The need for a processive enzyme underscores the importance in eukaryotic cells of processing long hybrids, most of which remain to be identified. However, long RNA–DNA hybrids formed during immunoglobulin class-switch recombination are potential targets for RNase H1 in the nucleus. In mitochondria, where RNase H1 is essential for DNA formation during embryogenesis, long hybrids may be involved in DNA replication
Existence of solutions for a higher order non-local equation appearing in crack dynamics
In this paper, we prove the existence of non-negative solutions for a
non-local higher order degenerate parabolic equation arising in the modeling of
hydraulic fractures. The equation is similar to the well-known thin film
equation, but the Laplace operator is replaced by a Dirichlet-to-Neumann
operator, corresponding to the square root of the Laplace operator on a bounded
domain with Neumann boundary conditions (which can also be defined using the
periodic Hilbert transform). In our study, we have to deal with the usual
difficulty associated to higher order equations (e.g. lack of maximum
principle). However, there are important differences with, for instance, the
thin film equation: First, our equation is nonlocal; Also the natural energy
estimate is not as good as in the case of the thin film equation, and does not
yields, for instance, boundedness and continuity of the solutions (our case is
critical in dimension in that respect)
Mesoscopic Coulomb Blockade in One-channel Quantum Dots
Signatures of "mesoscopic Coulomb blockade" are reported for quantum dots
with one fully transmitting point-contact lead, T1 = 1, T2 << 1. Unlike Coulomb
blockade (CB) in weak-tunneling devices (T1, T2 << 1), one-channel CB is a
mesoscopic effect requiring quantum coherence. Several distinctive features of
mesoscopic CB are observed, including a reduction in CB upon breaking
time-reversal symmetry with a magnetic field, relatively large fluctuations of
peak position as a function of magnetic field, and strong temperature
dependence on the scale of the quantum level spacing.Comment: 12 pages, including 4 figure
Detection of Coulomb Charging around an Antidot in the Quantum Hall Regime
We have detected oscillations of the charge around a potential hill (antidot)
in a two-dimensional electron gas as a function of a large magnetic field B.
The field confines electrons around the antidot in closed orbits, the areas of
which are quantised through the Aharonov-Bohm effect. Increasing B reduces each
state's area, pushing electrons closer to the centre, until enough charge
builds up for an electron to tunnel out. This is a new form of the Coulomb
blockade seen in electrostatically confined dots. Addition and excitation
spectra in DC bias confirm the Coulomb blockade of tunnelling.Comment: 4 pages, 4 Postscript figure
Tunneling Conductance and Coulomb Blockade Peak Splitting of Two Quantum Dots Connected by a Quantum Point Contact
By using bosonization method and unitary transformation, we give a general
relation between the dimensionless tunneling conductance and the fractional
Coulomb blockade conductance peak splitting which is valid both for weak and
strong transmission between two quantum dots, and show that the tunneling
conductance has a linear temperature dependence in the low energy and low
temperature limit.Comment: 12 pages, Revtex, no figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Higher-Order Results for the Relation between Channel Conductance and the Coulomb Blockade for Two Tunnel-Coupled Quantum Dots
We extend earlier results on the relation between the dimensionless tunneling
channel conductance and the fractional Coulomb blockade peak splitting
for two electrostatically equivalent dots connected by an arbitrary number
of tunneling channels with bandwidths much larger than the
two-dot differential charging energy . By calculating through second
order in in the limit of weak coupling (), we illuminate
the difference in behavior of the large- and
small- regimes and make more plausible extrapolation to the
strong-coupling () limit. For the special case of
and strong coupling, we eliminate an apparent ultraviolet
divergence and obtain the next leading term of an expansion in . We show
that the results we calculate are independent of such band structure details as
the fraction of occupied fermionic single-particle states in the weak-coupling
theory and the nature of the cut-off in the bosonized strong-coupling theory.
The results agree with calculations for metallic junctions in the
limit and improve the previous good
agreement with recent two-channel experiments.Comment: 27 pages, 1 RevTeX file with 4 embedded Postscript figures. Uses eps
Corrections to the universal behavior of the Coulomb-blockade peak splitting for quantum dots separated by a finite barrier
Building upon earlier work on the relation between the dimensionless interdot
channel conductance g and the fractional Coulomb-blockade peak splitting f for
two electrostatically equivalent dots, we calculate the leading correction that
results from an interdot tunneling barrier that is not a delta-function but,
rather, has a finite height V and a nonzero width xi and can be approximated as
parabolic near its peak. We develop a new treatment of the problem for g much
less than 1 that starts from the single-particle eigenstates for the full
coupled-dot system. The finiteness of the barrier leads to a small upward shift
of the f-versus-g curve at small values of g. The shift is a consequence of the
fact that the tunneling matrix elements vary exponentially with the energies of
the states connected. Therefore, when g is small, it can pay to tunnel to
intermediate states with single-particle energies above the barrier height V.
The correction to the zero-width behavior does not affect agreement with recent
experimental results but may be important in future experiments.Comment: Title changed from ``Non-universal...'' to ``Corrections to the
universal...'' No other changes. 10 pages, 1 RevTeX file with 2 postscript
figures included using eps
Cubic polynomials on Lie groups: reduction of the Hamiltonian system
This paper analyzes the optimal control problem of cubic polynomials on
compact Lie groups from a Hamiltonian point of view and its symmetries. The
dynamics of the problem is described by a presymplectic formalism associated
with the canonical symplectic form on the cotangent bundle of the semidirect
product of the Lie group and its Lie algebra. Using these control geometric
tools, the relation between the Hamiltonian approach developed here and the
known variational one is analyzed. After making explicit the left trivialized
system, we use the technique of Marsden-Weinstein reduction to remove the
symmetries of the Hamiltonian system. In view of the reduced dynamics, we are
able to guarantee, by means of the Lie-Cartan theorem, the existence of a
considerable number of independent integrals of motion in involution.Comment: 20 pages. Final version which incorporates the Corrigendum recently
published (J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 46 189501, 2013
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