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Crystalline Bi4Ge3O12 fibers fabricated by micro-pulling down technique for optical high voltage sensing
AbstractCommonly optical high voltage sensors employ the Pockels effect in a bulk electro-optic crystal such as Bi4Ge3O12 (BGO). Typically, the maximum crystal length is 100-200mm and determined by the limits of the conventional growth technique (Czochralski). In this paper we report on the growth by a micro-pulling down technique of long single crystalline BGO fibers as an alternative to bulk crystals and their characterization for voltage sensing. The fiber thickness may range from a few 100μm to a few mm. The parameters needed for stable growth over the entire length of the crystal were analyzed and optimized. Thin rods with a length of up to 850mm were grown. Samples were characterized with respect to homogeneity of growth, residual birefringence (BGO is free of natural birefringence), crystal orientation, and performance under voltage
Transport, optical and electronic properties of the half metal CrO2
The electronic structure of CrO_2 is critically discussed in terms of the
relation of existing experimental data and well converged LSDA and GGA
calculations of the electronic structure and transport properties of this half
metal magnet, with a particular emphasis on optical properties. We find only
moderate manifestations of many body effects. Renormalization of the density of
states is not large and is in the typical for transition metals range. We find
substantial deviations from Drude behavior in the far-infrared optical
conductivity. These appear because of the unusually low energy of interband
optical transitions. The calculated mass renormalization is found to be rather
sensitive to the exchange-correlation functional used and varies from 10%
(LSDA) to 90% (GGA), using the latest specific heat data. We also find that
dressing of the electrons by spin fluctuations, because of their high energy,
renormalizes the interband optical transition at as high as 4 eV by about 20%.
Although we find no clear indications of strong correlations of the Hubbard
type, strong electron-magnon scattering related to the half metallic band
structure is present and this leads to a nontrivial temperature dependence of
the resistivity and some renormalization of the electron spectra.Comment: 9 Revtex 2 column pages, including 8 postscript figures. Two more
figures are included in the submission that are not embedded in the paper,
representing DOS and bandstructure of the paramagnetic CrO
Five-Dimensional Moving Brane Solutions with Four-Dimensional Limiting Behaviour
Under certain conditions some solutions to five-dimensional heterotic
M-theory can be accurately described by the four-dimensional action of the
theory - they have a four-dimensional limit. We consider the connection between
solutions of four and five-dimensional heterotic M-theory when moving
five-branes are present in the bulk. We begin by describing how to raise the
known four-dimensional moving brane solutions to obtain approximate solutions
to the five-dimensional theory, presenting for the first time the metric
template necessary for this procedure. We then present the first solutions to
the five-dimensional theory containing moving five-branes. We can then discuss
the connection between our new exact five-dimensional solution and the
four-dimensional ones. It is shown that our new solution corresponds to a
solution with a static brane in four-dimensions. In other words our new
solution could not have been identified as containing a moving brane from a
purely four-dimensional viewpoint.Comment: 18 pages, 6 figure
Stability Walls in Heterotic Theories
We study the sub-structure of the heterotic Kahler moduli space due to the
presence of non-Abelian internal gauge fields from the perspective of the
four-dimensional effective theory. Internal gauge fields can be supersymmetric
in some regions of the Kahler moduli space but break supersymmetry in others.
In the context of the four-dimensional theory, we investigate what happens when
the Kahler moduli are changed from the supersymmetric to the non-supersymmetric
region. Our results provide a low-energy description of supersymmetry breaking
by internal gauge fields as well as a physical picture for the mathematical
notion of bundle stability. Specifically, we find that at the transition
between the two regions an additional anomalous U(1) symmetry appears under
which some of the states in the low-energy theory acquire charges. We compute
the associated D-term contribution to the four-dimensional potential which
contains a Kahler-moduli dependent Fayet-Iliopoulos term and contributions from
the charged states. We show that this D-term correctly reproduces the expected
physics. Several mathematical conclusions concerning vector bundle stability
are drawn from our arguments. We also discuss possible physical applications of
our results to heterotic model building and moduli stabilization.Comment: 37 pages, 4 figure
On the asymptotic behaviour of solutions to the fractional porous medium equation with variable density
We are concerned with the long time behaviour of solutions to the fractional
porous medium equation with a variable spatial density. We prove that if the
density decays slowly at infinity, then the solution approaches the
Barenblatt-type solution of a proper singular fractional problem. If, on the
contrary, the density decays rapidly at infinity, we show that the minimal
solution multiplied by a suitable power of the time variable converges to the
minimal solution of a certain fractional sublinear elliptic equation.Comment: To appear in DCDS-
The view of young Spaniards towards online activism: advantages, scepticism and supported causes
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This document is the Accepted version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in EMPIRIA. Revista de Metodología de Ciencias Sociales. To access the final edited and published work see DOI/ Empiria.56.2022.34440Los nuevos procesos de comunicación pública entre los jóvenes han facilitado una nueva forma de entender la participación ciudadana colectiva: la llamada e- participación. No se ha publicado e investigado lo suficiente sobre este fenómeno que supone una nueva perspectiva de entender estos procesos sociales. Este estudio muestra opiniones de los jóvenes sobre la participación online y aporta las posibles ventajas e inconvenientes de esta vía de participación, así como se señalan las principales causas apoyadas y las plataformas más conocidas y utilizadas. Se analiza hasta qué punto el activismo online de los jóvenes es un activismo proactivo o no. Se trata de un trabajo exploratorio que apunta nuevas vías de investigación sobre una tendencia comunicativa y participativa que en el actual contexto de comunicación global se verá potenciada y justificada en años venideros. Se utilizan datos primarios en metodología mixta. Se recogen datos mediante una encuesta original (N=463) y se emplean grupos de discusión, buscando una triangulación metodológica en jóvenes entre 18 y 22 años. Los resultados muestran cómo el activismo online está arraigado entre los jóvenes estudiados y que lo ven como una forma complementaria a las vías tradicionales, y no como una alternativa. Además, destacan sobre todo el seguimiento decausas sociopolíticas y medioambientales como los grandes ejes en este tipo de e-participación frente a causas de carácter más tradicional.New public communication processes among young people have facilitated a new way of understanding collective citizen participation: the so-called e-participation. Not much has been published and researched on this phenomenon, which represents a new perspective for understanding these social processes. This study aims to present the general opinion of this phenomenon among young Spaniards and to provide the possible advantages and disadvantages of this new form of participation, as well as to point out the main causes supported and the most widely known and used platforms. Finally, the aim is to analyse to what extent young people's online activism is a proactive activism or not. It is an exploratory study that opens up new avenues of research into a communicative and participatory trend that, in the current context of global communication, will be strengthened and justified in the years to come. Primary data are used in a mixed methodology, using an original survey (N=463) and qualitative methodology based on discussion groups, seeking a methodological triangulation in youth people (18 to 22 years). The results show how this phenomenon is deeply rooted among young Spaniards, who see it as a complementary form of traditional methods, and not as a substitute. Moreover, they highlight above all the monitoring of socio-political and environmental causes as the main axes in this type of e-participation as opposed to more traditiona
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