Colossal Ambitions: Confederate Planning for a Post-Civil War World

Adrian Brettle pushes revisionist interpretations of the Confederate state another important step farther. Colossal Ambitions is a thorough examination of confident, expansionist ideas about the Confederate future. Learn more about Brettle\u27s book in my interview with him, which you can find on the homepage

Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era

The Confederate President and His Presidency This slim volume contains much more than first meets the eye. William J. Cooper, Jr., Boyd Professor of History at Louisiana State University, is the author of important works on southern politics and a recent biography of Jefferson Davis, e...

Cwbr Author Interview: What Shall We Do With The Negro? : Lincoln, White Racism, And Civil War America

Interview with Dr. Paul D. Escott, Reynolds Professor of History at Wake Forest University Interviewed by Christopher Childers Civil War Book Review (CWBR): Your latest book is titled What Shall We Do with The Negro? : Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America. Now in this book, you attempt to revise what is really a celebratory depiction of Abraham Lincoln as the great emancipator by noting his reticence in many ways to ending the institution of slavery by force. How have historians, in your opinion, erred in chronicling Lincoln\u27s record on the slavery issue? Paul D. Escott (PDE): There is a deep celebratory impulse..

The Civil War as Global Conflict: Transnational Meanings of the American Civil War

Putting the Civil War in a Transnational Context This diverse but useful volume had its origin in a conference held at the College of Charleston in 2011. Thanks to rather small print, the volume contains no fewer than twelve essays, plus an introduction by the editors and the text of a ro...

Proficiency of Nucleic Acid Tests for Avian Influenza Viruses, Australasia

An avian influenza quality assurance program was used to provide information for laboratories on the sensitivity and specificity of their avian influenza nucleic acid testing. Most laboratories were able to correctly detect clinically relevant amounts of influenza virus (H5N1), and results improved as each subsequent panel was tested

Path integral simulation of exchange interactions in CMOS spin qubits

The boom of semiconductor quantum computing platforms created a demand for computer-aided design and fabrication of quantum devices. Path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) can have an important role in this effort because it intrinsically integrates strong quantum correlations that often appear in these multi-electron systems. In this paper we present a PIMC algorithm that estimates exchange interactions of three-dimensional electrically defined quantum dots. We apply this model to silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) devices and we benchmark our method against well-tested full configuration interaction (FCI) simulations. As an application, we study the impact of a single charge trap on two exchanging dots, opening the possibility of using this code to test the tolerance to disorder of CMOS devices. This algorithm provides an accurate description of this system, setting up an initial step to integrate PIMC algorithms into development of semiconductor quantum computers.Comment: 10 pages , 5 figure