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Two-fluid behavior of the Kondo lattice in the 1/N slave boson approach
It has been recently shown by Nakatsuji, Pines, and Fisk [S. Nakatsuji, D.
Pines, and Z. Fisk, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 016401 (2004)] from the
phenomenological analysis of experiments in Ce1-xLaxCoIn5 and CeIrIn5 that
thermodynamic and transport properties of Kondo lattices below coherence
temperature can be very successfully described in terms of a two-fluid model,
with Kondo impurity and heavy electron Fermi liquid contributions. We analyze
thermodynamic properties of Kondo lattices using 1/N slave boson treatment of
the periodic Anderson model and show that these two contributions indeed arise
below the coherence temperature. We find that the Kondo impurity contribution
to thermodynamics corresponds to thermal excitations into the flat portion of
the energy spectrum.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figure
Two-Dimensional Bosonization from Variable Shifts in the Path Integral
A method to perform bosonization of a fermionic theory in (1+1) dimensions in
a path integral framework is developed. The method relies exclusively on the
path integral property of allowing variable shifts, and does not depend on the
explicit form of Greens functions. Two examples, the Schwinger model and the
massless Thirring model, are worked out.Comment: 4 page
What can we learn from Dijet suppression at RHIC?
We present a systematic study of the dijet suppression at RHIC using the
VNI/BMS parton cascade. We examine the modification of the dijet asymmetry A_j
and the within-cone transverse energy distribution (jet-shape) along with
partonic fragmentation distributions z and j_t in terms of: qhat; the path
length of leading and sub-leading jets; cuts on the jet energy distributions;
jet cone angle and the jet-medium interaction mechanism. We find that A_j is
most sensitive to qhat and relatively insensitive to the nature of the
jet-medium interaction mechanism. The jet profile is dominated by qhat and the
nature of the interaction mechanism. The partonic fragmentation distributions
clearly show the jet modification and differentiate between elastic and
radiative+elastic modes
Evaluation of remote sensing in control of pink bollworm in cotton
The author has identified the following significant results. This project is to identify and map cotton fields in the southern deserts of California. Cotton in the Imperial, Coachella, and Palo Verde Valleys is heavily infested by the pink bollworm which affects both the quantity and quality of cotton produced. In California the growing season of cotton is regulated by establishing planting and plowdown dates. These procedures ensure that the larvae, whose diapause or resting period occurs during the winter months, will have no plant material on which to feed, thus inhibiting spring moth emergence. the underflight data from the U-2 aircraft has shound that it is possible to detect the differences between a growing, a defoliated, and plowed down field providing the locations of the fields are known. The ERTS-1 MSS data are being analyzed using an I2S optical color combiner to determine which combinations of dates and colors will identify cotton fields and thus provide the data needed to produce maps of the fields for the forthcoming season
Evaluation of remote sensing in control of pink bollworm in cotton
The author has identified the following significant results. This investigation is to evaluate the use of a satellite in monitoring the cotton production regulation program of the State of California as an aid in controlling pink bollworm infestation in the southern deserts of California. Color combined images of ERTS-1 multispectral images simulating color infrared are being used for crop identification. The status of each field (crop, bare, harvested, wet, plowed) is mapped from the imagery and is then compared to ground survey information taken at the time of ERTS-1 overflights. A computer analysis has been performed to compare field and satellite data to a crop calendar. Correlation to date has been 97% for field condition. Actual crop identification varies; cotton identification is only 63% due to lack of full season coverage
Large Weinberg-Tomozawa interaction and spin-flavor symmetry
The construction of an extended version of the Weinberg-Tomozawa Lagrangian,
in which baryons and mesons form spin-flavor multiplets, is reviewed and some
of its properties discussed, for an arbitrary number of colors and flavors. The
coefficient tables of spin-flavor irreducible representations related by
crossing between the -, - and -channels are explicitly constructed.Comment: 3 pages, no figures. Presented at the IVth International Conference
on Quarks and Nuclear Physics, Madrid, June 5th-10th 200
The non-perturbative part of the plaquette in quenched QCD
We define the non-perturbative part of a quantity as the difference between
its numerical value and the perturbative series truncated by dropping the order
of minimal contribution and the higher orders. For the anharmonic oscillator,
the double-well potential and the single plaquette gauge theory, the
non-perturbative part can be parametrized as A (lambda)^B exp{-C/lambda} and
the coefficients can be calculated analytically. For lattice QCD in the
quenched approximation, the perturbative series for the average plaquette is
dominated at low order by a singularity in the complex coupling plane and the
asymptotic behavior can only be reached by using extrapolations of the existing
series. We discuss two extrapolations that provide a consistent description of
the series up to order 20-25. These extrapolations favor the idea that the
non-perturbative part scales like (a/r_0)^4 with a/r_0 defined with the force
method. We discuss the large uncertainties associated with this statement. We
propose a parametrization of ln((a/r_0)) as the two-loop universal terms plus a
constant and exponential corrections. These corrections are consistent with
a_{1-loop}^2 and play an important role when beta<6. We briefly discuss the
possibility of calculating them semi-classically at large beta.Comment: 13 pages, 16 figures, uses revtex, contains a new section with the
uncertainties on the extrapolations, refs. adde
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Upper bound for the conductivity of nanotube networks
Films composed of nanotube networks have their conductivities regulated by
the junction resistances formed between tubes. Conductivity values are enhanced
by lower junction resistances but should reach a maximum that is limited by the
network morphology. By considering ideal ballistic-like contacts between
nanotubes we use the Kubo formalism to calculate the upper bound for the
conductivity of such films and show how it depends on the nanotube
concentration as well as on their aspect ratio. Highest measured conductivities
reported so far are approaching this limiting value, suggesting that further
progress lies with nanowires other than nanotubes.Comment: 3 pages, 1 figure. Minor changes. Accepted for publication in Applied
Physics Letter
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