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Scaling of the conductance distribution near the Anderson transition
The single parameter scaling hypothesis is the foundation of our
understanding of the Anderson transition. However, the conductance of a
disordered system is a fluctuating quantity which does not obey a one parameter
scaling law. It is essential to investigate the scaling of the full conductance
distribution to establish the scaling hypothesis. We present a clear cut
numerical demonstration that the conductance distribution indeed obeys one
parameter scaling near the Anderson transition
Topology dependent quantities at the Anderson transition
The boundary condition dependence of the critical behavior for the three
dimensional Anderson transition is investigated. A strong dependence of the
scaling function and the critical conductance distribution on the boundary
conditions is found, while the critical disorder and critical exponent are
found to be independent of the boundary conditions
Anderson transition in the three dimensional symplectic universality class
We study the Anderson transition in the SU(2) model and the Ando model. We
report a new precise estimate of the critical exponent for the symplectic
universality class of the Anderson transition. We also report numerical
estimation of the function.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Polarization of Lyman-β radiation from atomic hydrogen excited by electron impact from near-threshold energy to 1000 eV
The polarization of Lyman-β radiation, produced by electron-impact excitation of atomic hydrogen, has been measured over the extended energy range from near threshold to 1000 eV. Measurements were obtained in a crossed-beams experiment using a silica-reflection linear polarization analyzer in tandem with a vacuum ultraviolet monochromator to isolate the emitted line radiation. Our data are in excellent agreement with convergent close-coupling calculations over the entire energy range. The data are broadly similar to the earlier measurements of H Lyman-α polarization reported from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Sensitivity to radiation-induced chromosome damage may be a marker of genetic predisposition in young head and neck cancer patients
We previously showed that levels of chromosome damage induced by ionizing radiation were, on average, higher in G 2 and G 0 lymphocytes of breast cancer patients than of normal healthy controls, but that there was no correlation between the results in the two assays. We proposed that enhanced sensitivity to G 2 or G 0 irradiation was a marker of low-penetrance predisposition to breast cancer, and have recently demonstrated heritability of sensitivity in families of breast cancer cases. We have now applied these assays to patients with head and neck cancers, for whom there is epidemiological evidence of inherited predisposition in addition to environmental causes. The mean frequency of radiation-induced G 2 aberrations was higher in the 42 patients than in 27 normal controls, but not significantly so. However, cases less than 45 years old were significantly more sensitive than normals of the same age range (P = 0.046), whereas there was no difference between patients and normals of less than 45 years. Also, there was an inverse correlation between G 2 sensitivity and age for patients but not for normals. Radiation-induced micronuclei in G 0 cells were more frequent in 49 patients than in 31 normals (P = 0.056) but, as with the G 2 assay, the greatest difference was seen between early-onset patients and young normals. Again there was an inverse correlation with age for patients but not for normals. Six patients with enhanced toxicity to radiotherapy were G 2 tested and four other such patients were G 0 tested; levels of chromosome damage were not significantly greater than in patients with normal reactions. Both assays were used on 64 individuals (39 patients, 25 normals) and there was no significant correlation between the results. We suggest that a proportion of early-onset head and neck cancer patients are genetically predisposed and that each of the two assays detects a different subset of these cases. © 2001 Cancer Research Campaign http://www.bjcancer.co
Probability distribution of the conductance at the mobility edge
Distribution of the conductance P(g) at the critical point of the
metal-insulator transition is presented for three and four dimensional
orthogonal systems. The form of the distribution is discussed. Dimension
dependence of P(g) is proven. The limiting cases and are
discussed in detail and relation in the limit is proven.Comment: 4 pages, 3 .eps figure
Recent Decisions
Comments on recent decisions by L. D. Wichmann, Lawrence James Bradley, John F. Beggan, John A. Slevin, Robert P. Mone, and F. James Kane
Boundary conditions, the critical conductance distribution, and one-parameter scaling
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Magnetic-Field Dependence of the Localization Length in Anderson Insulators
Using the conventional scaling approach as well as the renormalization group
analysis in dimensions, we calculate the localization length
in the presence of a magnetic field . For the quasi 1D case the
results are consistent with a universal increase of by a numerical
factor when the magnetic field is in the range
\ell\ll{\ell_{\!{_H}}}\alt\xi(0), is the mean free path,
is the magnetic length . However, for
where the magnetic field does cause delocalization there is no
universal relation between and . The effect of spin-orbit
interaction is briefly considered as well.Comment: 4 pages, revtex, no figures; to be published in Europhysics Letter
Comment on the paper I. M. Suslov: Finite Size Scaling from the Self Consistent Theory of Localization
In the recent paper [I.M.Suslov, JETP {\bf 114} (2012) 107] a new scaling
theory of electron localization was proposed. We show that numerical data for
the quasi-one dimensional Anderson model do not support predictions of this
theory.Comment: Comment on the paper arXiv 1104.043
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