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The Weathering Of Placer Gold And The Quaternary Geology Of Valdez Creek, Clearwater Mountains, Alaska
Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1995Placer gold grains collected from six paleochannels in the Valdez Creek drainage, south-central Alaska, were deposited during successive interglacial/interstadial intervals since the mid-Early Pleistocene. Statistical analysis of grain size, shape, grain surface characteristics, and the gold content of the interior and exterior of the gold grains determined by electron microprobe analysis demonstrates that the grains were affected by both mechanical and chemical weathering, and that the weathering increased with time. Etch pits, observed under a scanning electron microscope, are a ubiquitous feature of the grain surfaces. Grain surfaces average 26.7% richer in gold than the interior of the grains. The gold content of the surface of the grains increases with age. No high gold fineness rims were observed in cross section on the grains. This evidence indicates that the gold grains experienced corrosion. <p
A simple parameter-free one-center model potential for an effective one-electron description of molecular hydrogen
For the description of an H2 molecule an effective one-electron model
potential is proposed which is fully determined by the exact ionization
potential of the H2 molecule. In order to test the model potential and examine
its properties it is employed to determine excitation energies, transition
moments, and oscillator strengths in a range of the internuclear distances, 0.8
< R < 2.5 a.u. In addition, it is used as a description of an H2 target in
calculations of the cross sections for photoionization and for partial
excitation in collisions with singly-charged ions. The comparison of the
results obtained with the model potential with literature data for H2 molecules
yields a good agreement and encourages therefore an extended usage of the
potential in various other applications or in order to consider the importance
of two-electron and anisotropy effects.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figure
The Existence of God: A Debate
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A Calculus of Bounded Capacities
Resource control has attracted increasing interest in foundational research on distributed systems. This paper focuses on space control and develops an analysis of space usage in the context of an ambient-like calculus with bounded capacities and weighed processes, where migration and activation require space. A type system complements the dynamics of the calculus by providing static guarantees that the intended capacity bounds are preserved throughout the computation
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Linking hypotheses underlying Class A and Class B methods
Class A psychophysical observations are based on the linking hypothesis that perceptually distinguishable stimuli must correspond to different brain events. Class B observations are related to the appearance of stimuli not their discriminability. There is no clear linking hypothesis underlying Class B observations, but they are necessary for studying the effects of context on appearance, including a large class of phenomena known as âillusions.â Class B observations are necessarily measures of observer bias (Fechnerâs âconstant errorâ) as opposed to Class A measures of sensitivity (Fechnerâs âvariable errorâ). It is therefore important that Class B observations distinguish between response biases, decisional biases, and perceptual biases. This review argues that the commonly used method of single stimuli fails to do this, and that multiple-alternative forced choice (mAFC) methods can do a better job, particularly if combined with a roving pedestal
Heat kernel of integrable billiards in a magnetic field
We present analytical methods to calculate the magnetic response of
non-interacting electrons constrained to a domain with boundaries and submitted
to a uniform magnetic field. Two different methods of calculation are
considered - one involving the large energy asymptotic expansion of the
resolvent (Stewartson-Waechter method) is applicable to the case of separable
systems, and another based on the small time asymptotic behaviour of the heat
kernel (Balian-Bloch method). Both methods are in agreement with each other but
differ from the result obtained previously by Robnik. Finally, the Balian-Bloch
multiple scattering expansion is studied and the extension of our results to
other geometries is discussed.Comment: 13 pages, Revte
On the nature of continuous physical quantities in classical and quantum mechanics
Within the traditional Hilbert space formalism of quantum mechanics, it is
not possible to describe a particle as possessing, simultaneously, a sharp
position value and a sharp momentum value. Is it possible, though, to describe
a particle as possessing just a sharp position value (or just a sharp momentum
value)? Some, such as Teller (Journal of Philosophy, 1979), have thought that
the answer to this question is No -- that the status of individual continuous
quantities is very different in quantum mechanics than in classical mechanics.
On the contrary, I shall show that the same subtle issues arise with respect to
continuous quantities in classical and quantum mechanics; and that it is, after
all, possible to describe a particle as possessing a sharp position value
without altering the standard formalism of quantum mechanics.Comment: 26 pages, LaTe
Fine-structure constant variability, equivalence principle and cosmology
It has been widely believed that variability of the fine-structure constant
alpha would imply detectable violations of the weak equivalence principle. This
belief is not justified in general. It is put to rest here in the context of
the general framework for alpha variability [J. D. Bekenstein, Phys. Rev. D 25,
1527 (1982)] in which the exponent of a scalar field plays the role of the
permittivity and inverse permeability of the vacuum. The coupling of particles
to the scalar field is necessarily such that the anomalous force acting on a
charged particle by virtue of its mass's dependence on the scalar field is
cancelled by terms modifying the usual Coulomb force. As a consequence a
particle's acceleration in external fields depends only on its charge to mass
ratio, in accordance with the principle. And the center of mass acceleration of
a composite object can be proved to be independent of the object's internal
constitution, as the weak equivalence principle requires. Likewise the widely
employed assumption that the Coulomb energy of matter is the principal source
of the scalar field proves wrong; Coulomb energy effectively cancels out in the
continuum description of the scalar field's dynamics. This cancellation
resolves a cosmological conundrum: with Coulomb energy as source of the scalar
field, the framework would predict a decrease of alpha with cosmological
expansion, whereas an increase is claimed to be observed. Because of the said
cancellation, magnetic energy of cosmological baryonic matter is the main
source of the scalar field. Consequently the expansion is accompanied by an
increase in alpha; for reasonable values of the framework's sole parameter,
this occurs at a rate consistent with the observers' claims.Comment: RevTeX-4, 22 pages, no figures, added a section on caveats as well as
several new references with discussion of them in body. To appear in Phys.
Rev.
The Origin of Degeneracies and Crossings in the 1d Hubbard Model
The paper is devoted to the connection between integrability of a finite
quantum system and degeneracies of its energy levels. In particular, we analyze
in detail the energy spectra of finite Hubbard chains. Heilmann and Lieb
demonstrated that in these systems there are crossings of levels of the same
parameter independent symmetry. We show that this apparent violation of the
Wigner-von Neumann noncrossing rule follows directly from the existence of
nontrivial conservation laws and is a characteristic signature of quantum
integrability. The energy spectra of Hubbard chains display many instances of
permanent (at all values of the coupling) twofold degeneracies that cannot be
explained by parameter independent symmetries. We relate these degeneracies to
the different transformation properties of the conserved currents under spatial
reflections and the particle-hole transformation and estimate the fraction of
doubly degenerate states. We also discuss multiply degenerate eigenstates of
the Hubbard Hamiltonian. The wave functions of many of these states do not
depend on the coupling, which suggests the existence of an additional parameter
independent symmetry.Comment: 25 pages, 12 figure
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