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Electronic transport coefficients from ab initio simulations and application to dense liquid hydrogen
Using Kubo's linear response theory, we derive expressions for the
frequency-dependent electrical conductivity (Kubo-Greenwood formula),
thermopower, and thermal conductivity in a strongly correlated electron system.
These are evaluated within ab initio molecular dynamics simulations in order to
study the thermoelectric transport coefficients in dense liquid hydrogen,
especially near the nonmetal-to-metal transition region. We also observe
significant deviations from the widely used Wiedemann-Franz law which is
strictly valid only for degenerate systems and give an estimate for its valid
scope of application towards lower densities
Unified description of ballistic and diffusive carrier transport in semiconductor structures
A unified theoretical description of ballistic and diffusive carrier
transport in parallel-plane semiconductor structures is developed within the
semiclassical model. The approach is based on the introduction of a
thermo-ballistic current consisting of carriers which move ballistically in the
electric field provided by the band edge potential, and are thermalized at
certain randomly distributed equilibration points by coupling to the background
of impurity atoms and carriers in equilibrium. The sum of the thermo-ballistic
and background currents is conserved, and is identified with the physical
current. The current-voltage characteristic for nondegenerate systems and the
zero-bias conductance for degenerate systems are expressed in terms of a
reduced resistance. For arbitrary mean free path and arbitrary shape of the
band edge potential profile, this quantity is determined from the solution of
an integral equation, which also provides the quasi-Fermi level and the
thermo-ballistic current. To illustrate the formalism, a number of simple
examples are considered explicitly. The present work is compared with previous
attempts towards a unified description of ballistic and diffusive transport.Comment: 23 pages, 10 figures, REVTEX
Spin dependent point potentials in one and three dimensions
We consider a system realized with one spinless quantum particle and an array
of spins 1/2 in dimension one and three. We characterize all the
Hamiltonians obtained as point perturbations of an assigned free dynamics in
terms of some ``generalized boundary conditions''. For every boundary condition
we give the explicit formula for the resolvent of the corresponding
Hamiltonian. We discuss the problem of locality and give two examples of spin
dependent point potentials that could be of interest as multi-component
solvable models.Comment: 15 pages, some misprints corrected, one example added, some
references modified or adde
Capim-elefante anĂŁo sob pastejo. II. Valor nutritivo.
O valor nutritivo do capim-elefante anĂŁo (Pennisetum purpureum Schum.) foi estudado num ensaio de pastejo. PressĂŁo de pastejo (PP) e ciclo de pastejo (CP) foram aplicados em cinco nĂveis cada: PP-500, 1.000, 1.500, 2.000 e 2.500 kg de MS de folha residual ha-1 apĂłs o pastejo e CP-0 (pastejo contĂnuo), 14, 28, 42 e 56 dias. Cada CP incluiu dois dias de pastejo e um perĂodo de descanso especĂfico para cada nĂvel. O desenho experimental foi um composto central, nĂŁo-rotável, com treze combinações em duas repetições. O modelo usado foi o polinĂ´mio completo do segundo grau. A proteĂna bruta das folhas e dos colmos aumentou com a elevação da PP e diminuição do CP. A digestibilidade in vitro das folhas, colmos e "forragem consumida" pareceu responder quadraticamente ao CP. As PPs mais altas tenderam a favorecer a digestibilidade dos colmos. A proteĂna da "forragem consumida" foi estimulada por CPs curtos. O ponto Ăłtimo para digestibilidade da "forragem consumida" ficou em torno da combinação de 1.500 kg de MS de folha residual ha-1 de PP com 14 dias de CP. O valor nutritivo das folhas foi bem maior que o dos colmos, e a excelente qualidade da "forragem consumida" revelou o grande potencial desse capim sob pastejo
Time-Dependent Current Partition in Mesoscopic Conductors
The currents at the terminals of a mesoscopic conductor are evaluated in the
presence of slowly oscillating potentials applied to the contacts of the
sample. The need to find a charge and current conserving solution to this
dynamic current partition problem is emphasized. We present results for the
electro-chemical admittance describing the long range Coulomb interaction in a
Hartree approach. For multiply connected samples we discuss the symmetry of the
admittance under reversal of an Aharonov-Bohm flux.Comment: 22 pages, 3 figures upon request, IBM RC 1971
Limit on suppression of ionization in metastable neon traps due to long-range anisotropy
This paper investigates the possibility of suppressing the ionization rate in
a magnetostatic trap of metastable neon atoms by spin-polarizing the atoms.
Suppression of the ionization is critical for the possibility of reaching
Bose-Einstein condensation with such atoms. We estimate the relevant long-range
interactions for the system, consisting of electric quadrupole-quadrupole and
dipole-induced dipole terms, and develop short-range potentials based on the
Na_2 singlet and triplet potentials. The auto-ionization widths of the system
are also calculated. With these ingredients we calculate the ionization rate
for spin-polarized and for spin-isotropic samples, caused by anisotropy of the
long-range interactions. We find that spin-polarization may allow for four
orders of magnitude suppression of the ionization rate for Ne. The results
depend sensitively on a precise knowledge of the interaction potentials,
however, pointing out the need for experimental input. The same model gives a
suppression ratio close to unity for metastable xenon in accordance with
experimental results, due to a much increased anisotropy in this case.Comment: 15 pages including figures, LaTex/RevTex, uses epsfig.st
The Numerical Renormalization Group Method for correlated electrons
The Numerical Renormalization Group method (NRG) has been developed by Wilson
in the 1970's to investigate the Kondo problem. The NRG allows the
non-perturbative calculation of static and dynamic properties for a variety of
impurity models. In addition, this method has been recently generalized to
lattice models within the Dynamical Mean Field Theory. This paper gives a brief
historical overview of the development of the NRG and discusses its application
to the Hubbard model; in particular the results for the Mott metal-insulator
transition at low temperatures.Comment: 14 pages, 7 eps-figures include
Transport regimes of cold gases in a two-dimensional anisotropic disorder
We numerically study the dynamics of cold atoms in a two-dimensional
disordered potential. We consider an anisotropic speckle potential and focus on
the classical regime, which is relevant to some recent experiments. First, we
study the behavior of particles with a fixed energy and identify different
transport regimes. For low energy, the particles are classically localized due
to the absence of a percolating cluster. For high energy, the particles undergo
normal diffusion and we show that the diffusion constants scale algebraically
with the particle energy, with an anisotropy factor which significantly differs
from that of the disordered potential. For intermediate energy, we find a
transient sub-diffusive regime, which is relevant to the time scale of typical
experiments. Second, we study the behavior of a cold-atomic gas with an
arbitrary energy distribution, using the above results as a groundwork. We show
that the density profile of the atomic cloud in the diffusion regime is
strongly peaked and, in particular, that it is not Gaussian. Its behavior at
large distances allows us to extract the energy-dependent diffusion constants
from experimental density distributions. For a thermal cloud released into the
disordered potential, we show that our numerical predictions are in agreement
with experimental findings. Not only does this work give insights to recent
experimental results, but it may also serve interpretation of future
experiments searching for deviation from classical diffusion and traces of
Anderson localization.Comment: 19 pages, 16 figure
All-sky convolution for polarimetry experiments
We discuss all-sky convolution of the instrument beam with the sky signal in
polarimetry experiments, such as the Planck mission which will map the
temperature anisotropy and polarization of the cosmic microwave background
(CMB). To account properly for stray light (from e.g. the galaxy, sun, and
planets) in the far side-lobes of such an experiment, it is necessary to
perform the beam convolution over the full sky. We discuss this process in
multipole space for an arbitrary beam response, fully including the effects of
beam asymmetry and cross-polarization. The form of the convolution in multipole
space is such that the Wandelt-Gorski fast technique for all-sky convolution of
scalar signals (e.g. temperature) can be applied with little modification. We
further show that for the special case of a pure co-polarized, axisymmetric
beam the effect of the convolution can be described by spin-weighted window
functions. In the limits of a small angle beam and large Legendre multipoles,
the spin-weight 2 window function for the linear polarization reduces to the
usual scalar window function used in previous analyses of beam effects in CMB
polarimetry experiments. While we focus on the example of polarimetry
experiments in the context of CMB studies, we emphasise that the formalism we
develop is applicable to anisotropic filtering of arbitrary tensor fields on
the sphere.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure; Minor changes to match version accepted by Phys.
Rev.
Correlated electrons in the presence of disorder
Several new aspects of the subtle interplay between electronic correlations
and disorder are reviewed. First, the dynamical mean-field theory
(DMFT)together with the geometrically averaged ("typical") local density of
states is employed to compute the ground state phase diagram of the
Anderson-Hubbard model at half-filling. This non-perturbative approach is
sensitive to Anderson localization on the one-particle level and hence can
detect correlated metallic, Mott insulating and Anderson insulating phases and
can also describe the competition between Anderson localization and
antiferromagnetism. Second, we investigate the effect of binary alloy disorder
on ferromagnetism in materials with -electrons described by the periodic
Anderson model. A drastic enhancement of the Curie temperature caused by
an increase of the local -moments in the presence of disordered conduction
electrons is discovered and explained.Comment: 17 pages, 7 figures, final version, typos corrected, references
updated, submitted to Eur. Phys. J. for publication in the Special Topics
volume "Cooperative Phenomena in Solids: Metal-Insulator Transitions and
Ordering of Microscopic Degrees of Freedom
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