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Validation of CTmax Protocols Using Cased and Uncased \u3ci\u3ePycnopsyche Guttifer\u3c/i\u3e (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae) Larvae
The critical thermal maximum (CTmax) of a northern Lower Michigan population of Pycnopsyche guttifer was determined using four rates of temperature increase (0.10, 0.33, 0.50, and 0.70oC per minute), and two case states (intact and removed). Across all temperature increase rates, larvae removed from their cases had a significantly lower mean CTmax than those remaining in their cases, suggesting that the case can increase the larva’s ability to tolerate thermal stress, possibly due to respiratory advantages. Regardless of case state, mean CTmax was significantly lower at the 0.10oC per minute increase rate than the other three rates, likely due to increased exposure time. Our results indicate that CTmax studies done using 0.33–0.70oC per minute increase protocols would be comparable with each other, but not with studies using an increase rate of 0.10oC per minute
China Maritime Report No. 33: China\u27s Sea-Based Nuclear Deterrent: Organizational, Operational, and Strategic Implications
China’s development of a credible sea-based deterrent has important implications for the PLAN, for China’s nuclear strategy, and for U.S.-China strategic stability. For the PLAN, the need to protect the SSBN force may divert resources away from other missions; it may also provide justification for further expansion of the PLAN fleet size. For China’s nuclear strategy and operations, the SSBN force may increase operational and bureaucratic pressures for adopting a more forward-leaning nuclear strategy. For U.S.-China strategic stability, the SSBN force will have complex effects, decreasing risks that Chinese decisionmakers confront use-or-lose escalation pressures, making China less susceptible to U.S. nuclear threats and intimidation and therefore perceiving lower costs to conventional aggression, and potentially introducing escalation risks from conventional-nuclear entanglement to the maritime domain.https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cmsi-maritime-reports/1032/thumbnail.jp
Two-channel Kondo physics in two-impurity Kondo models
We consider the non-Fermi liquid quantum critical state of the spin-S
two-impurity Kondo model, and its potential realization in a quantum dot
device. Using conformal field theory (CFT) and the numerical renormalization
group (NRG), we show the critical point to be identical to that of the
two-channel Kondo model with additional potential scattering, for any spin-S.
Distinct conductance signatures are shown to arise as a function of device
asymmetry; with the `smoking gun' square-root behavior, commonly believed to
arise at low-energies, dominant only in certain regimes.Comment: 4.5 pages (with 3 figures) + 9 pages (with 4 figures) supplementary
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Single-particle dynamics of the Anderson model: a two-self-energy description within the numerical renormalization group approach
Single-particle dynamics of the Anderson impurity model are studied using
both the numerical renormalization group (NRG) method and the local moment
approach (LMA). It is shown that a 'two-self-energy' description of dynamics
inherent to the LMA, as well as a conventional 'single-self-energy'
description, arise within NRG; each yielding correctly the same local
single-particle spectrum. Explicit NRG results are obtained for the broken
symmetry spectral constituents arising in a two-self-energy description, and
the total spectrum. These are also compared to analytical results obtained from
the LMA as implemented in practice. Very good agreement between the two is
found, essentially on all relevant energy scales from the high-energy Hubbard
satellites to the low-energy Kondo resonance.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure
Dynamics of capacitively coupled double quantum dots
We consider a double dot system of equivalent, capacitively coupled
semiconducting quantum dots, each coupled to its own lead, in a regime where
there are two electrons on the double dot. Employing the numerical
renormalization group, we focus here on single-particle dynamics and the
zero-bias conductance, considering in particular the rich range of behaviour
arising as the interdot coupling is progressively increased through the strong
coupling (SC) phase, from the spin-Kondo regime, across the SU(4) point to the
charge-Kondo regime; and then towards and through the quantum phase transition
to a charge-ordered (CO) phase. We first consider the two-self-energy
description required to describe the broken symmetry CO phase, and implications
thereof for the non-Fermi liquid nature of this phase. Numerical results for
single-particle dynamics on all frequency scales are then considered, with
particular emphasis on universality and scaling of low-energy dynamics
throughout the SC phase. The role of symmetry breaking perturbations is also
briefly discussed.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figure
Validation of CTmax Protocols Using Cased and Uncased \u3ci\u3ePycnopsyche Guttifer\u3c/i\u3e (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae) Larvae
The critical thermal maximum (CTmax) of a northern Lower Michigan population of Pycnopsyche guttifer was determined using four rates of temperature increase (0.10, 0.33, 0.50, and 0.70oC per minute), and two case states (intact and removed). Across all temperature increase rates, larvae removed from their cases had a significantly lower mean CTmax than those remaining in their cases, suggesting that the case can increase the larva’s ability to tolerate thermal stress, possibly due to respiratory advantages. Regardless of case state, mean CTmax was significantly lower at the 0.10oC per minute increase rate than the other three rates, likely due to increased exposure time. Our results indicate that CTmax studies done using 0.33–0.70oC per minute increase protocols would be comparable with each other, but not with studies using an increase rate of 0.10oC per minute
Finite temperature dynamics of the Anderson model
The recently introduced local moment approach (LMA) is extended to encompass
single-particle dynamics and transport properties of the Anderson impurity
model at finite-temperature, T. While applicable to arbitrary interaction
strengths, primary emphasis is given to the strongly correlated Kondo regime
(characterized by the T=0 Kondo scale ). In particular the
resultant universal scaling behaviour of the single-particle spectrum
D(\omega; T) \equiv F(\frac{\w}{\omega_{\rm K}}; \frac{T}{\omega_{\rm K}})
within the LMA is obtained in closed form; leading to an analytical description
of the thermal destruction of the Kondo resonance on all energy scales.
Transport properties follow directly from a knowledge of . The -dependence of the resulting resistivity , which is
found to agree rather well with numerical renormalization group calculations,
is shown to be asymptotically exact at high temperatures; to concur well with
the Hamann approximation for the s-d model down to ,
and to cross over smoothly to the Fermi liquid form in the low-temperature limit. The underlying
approach, while naturally approximate, is moreover applicable to a broad range
of quantum impurity and related models
Zero-bias conductance in carbon nanotube quantum dots
We present numerical renormalization group calculations for the zero-bias
conductance of quantum dots made from semiconducting carbon nanotubes. These
explain and reproduce the thermal evolution of the conductance for different
groups of orbitals, as the dot-lead tunnel coupling is varied and the system
evolves from correlated Kondo behavior to more weakly correlated regimes. For
integer fillings of an SU(4) model, we find universal scaling
behavior of the conductance that is distinct from the standard SU(2) universal
conductance, and concurs quantitatively with experiment. Our results also agree
qualitatively with experimental differential conductance maps.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Anderson impurity in a semiconductor
We consider an Anderson impurity model in which the locally correlated
orbital is coupled to a host with a gapped density of states. Single-particle
dynamics are studied, within a perturbative framework that includes both
explicit second-order perturbation theory and self-consistent perturbation
theory to all orders in the interaction. Away from particle-hole symmetry the
system is shown to be a generalized Fermi liquid (GFL) in the sense of being
perturbatively connectable to the non-interacting limit; and the exact Friedel
sum rule for the GFL phase is obtained. We show by contrast that the
particle-hole symmetric point of the model is not perturbatively connected to
the non-interacting limit, and as such is a non-Fermi liquid for all non-zero
gaps. Our conclusions are in agreement with NRG studies of the problem.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
Single-particle dynamics of the Anderson model: a local moment approach
A non-perturbative local moment approach to single-particle dynamics of the
general asymmetric Anderson impurity model is developed. The approach
encompasses all energy scales and interaction strengths. It captures thereby
strong coupling Kondo behaviour, including the resultant universal scaling
behaviour of the single-particle spectrum; as well as the mixed valent and
essentially perturbative empty orbital regimes. The underlying approach is
physically transparent and innately simple, and as such is capable of practical
extension to lattice-based models within the framework of dynamical mean-field
theory.Comment: 26 pages, 9 figure
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