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Testate amoebae record from the Laptev Sea coast and its implication for the reconstruction of Late Pleistocene and Holocene environments in the Arctic Siberia
Signature of Schwinger's pair creation rate via radiation generated in graphene by strong electric current
Electron - hole pairs are copuously created by an applied electric field near
the Dirac point in graphene or similar 2D electronic systems. It was shown
recently that for sufficiently large electric fields and ballistic times the
I-V characteristics become strongly nonlinear due to Schwinger's pair creation.
Since there is no energy gap the radiation from the pairs' annihilation is
enhanced. The spectrum of radiation is calculated. The angular and polarization
dependence of the emitted photons with respect to the graphene sheet is quite
distinctive. For very large currents the recombination rate becomes so large
that it leads to the second Ohmic regime due to radiation friction.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figure
Dynamical polarization, screening, and plasmons in gapped graphene
The one-loop polarization function of graphene has been calculated at zero
temperature for arbitrary wavevector, frequency, chemical potential (doping),
and band gap. The result is expressed in terms of elementary functions and is
used to find the dispersion of the plasmon mode and the static screening within
the random phase approximation. At long wavelengths the usual square root
behaviour of plasmon spectra for two-dimensional (2D) systems is obtained. The
presence of a small (compared to a chemical potential) gap leads to the
appearance of a new undamped plasmon mode. At greater values of the gap this
mode merges with the long-wavelength one, and vanishes when the Fermi level
enters the gap. The screening of charged impurities at large distances differs
from that in gapless graphene by slower decay of Friedel oscillations (
instead of ), similarly to conventional 2D systems.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures, v2: to match published versio
Cliffordons
At higher energies the present complex quantum theory with its unitary group
might expand into a real quantum theory with an orthogonal group, broken by an
approximate operator at lower energies. Implementing this possibility
requires a real quantum double-valued statistics. A Clifford statistics,
representing a swap (12) by a difference of Clifford units,
is uniquely appropriate. Unlike the Maxwell-Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac,
Bose-Einstein, and para- statistics, which are tensorial and single-valued, and
unlike anyons, which are confined to two dimensions, Clifford statistics are
multivalued and work for any dimensionality. Nayak and Wilczek proposed a
Clifford statistics for the fractional quantum Hall effect. We apply them to
toy quanta here. A complex-Clifford example has the energy spectrum of a system
of spin-1/2 particles in an external magnetic field. This supports the proposal
that the double-valued rotations --- spin --- seen at current energies might
arise from double-valued permutations --- swap --- to be seen at higher
energies. Another toy with real Clifford statistics illustrates how an
effective imaginary unit can arise naturally within a real quantum theory.Comment: 15 pages, no figures; original title ("Clifford statistics") changed;
to appear in J. Math. Phys., 42, 2001. Key words: Clifford statistics,
cliffordons, double-valued representations of permutation groups, spin, swap,
imaginary unit , applications to quantum space-time and the Standard
Model. Some of these results were presented at the American Physical Society
Centennial Meeting, Atlanta, March 25, 199
Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Suspended Graphene: Transport Coefficients and Electron Interaction Strength
Strongly correlated electron liquids which occur in quantizing magnetic
fields reveal a cornucopia of fascinating quantum phenomena such as
fractionally charged quasiparticles, anyonic statistics, topological order, and
many others. Probing these effects in GaAs-based systems, where electron
interactions are relatively weak, requires sub-kelvin temperatures and
record-high electron mobilities, rendering some of the most interesting states
too fragile and difficult to access. This prompted a quest for new
high-mobility systems with stronger electron interactions. Recently,
fractional-quantized Hall effect was observed in suspended graphene (SG), a
free-standing monolayer of carbon, where it was found to persist up to T=10 K.
The best results in those experiments were obtained on micron-size flakes, on
which only two-terminal transport measurements could be performed. Here we pose
and solve the problem of extracting transport coefficients of a fractional
quantum Hall state from the two-terminal conductance. We develop a method,
based on the conformal invariance of two-dimensional magnetotransport, and
illustrate its use by analyzing the measurements on SG. From the temperature
dependence of longitudinal conductivity, extracted from the measured
two-terminal conductance, we estimate the energy gap of quasiparticle
excitations in the fractional-quantized nu=1/3 state. The gap is found to be
significantly larger than in GaAs-based structures, signaling much stronger
electron interactions in suspended graphene. Our approach provides a new tool
for the studies of quantum transport in suspended graphene and other nanoscale
systems
Tunneling current between graphene layers
The physical model that allows to calculate the values of the tunneling
current be-tween graphene layers is proposed. The tunneling current according
to the pro-posed model is proportional to the area of tunneling transition. The
calculated value of tunneling conductivity is in qualitative agreement with
experimental data.Comment: 4 page
Skyrmionic textures in chiral magnets
In non-centrosymmetric magnets the chiral Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya exchange
stabilizes Skyrmion-strings as excitations which may condense into multiply
modulated phases. Such extended Skyrmionic textures are determined by the
stability of the localized "solitonic" Skyrmion cores and their geometrical
incompatibility which frustrates regular space-filling. We present numerically
exact solutions for Skyrmion lattices and formulate basic properties of the
Skyrmionic states.Comment: Conference information: The International Conference on Magnetism
(ICM), Karlsruhe, July 26 - 31, 200
Heat transport of clean spin-ladders coupled to phonons: Umklapp scattering and drag
We study the low-temperature heat transport in clean two-leg spin ladder
compounds coupled to three-dimensional phonons. We argue that the very large
heat conductivities observed in such systems can be traced back to the
existence of approximate symmetries and corresponding weakly violated
conservation laws of the effective (gapful) low--energy model, namely
pseudo-momenta. Depending on the ratios of spin gaps and Debye energy and on
the temperature, the magnetic contribution to the heat conductivity can be
positive or negative, and exhibit an activated or anti-activated behavior. In
most regimes, the magnetic heat conductivity is dominated by the spin-phonon
drag: the excitations of the two subsystems have almost the same drift
velocity, and this allows for an estimate of the ratio of the magnetic and
phononic contributions to the heat conductivity.Comment: revised version, 8 pages, 3 figures, added appendi
Optimal Path to Epigenetic Switching
We use large deviation methods to calculate rates of noise-induced
transitions between states in multistable genetic networks. We analyze a
synthetic biochemical circuit, the toggle switch, and compare the results to
those obtained from a numerical solution of the master equation.Comment: 5 pages. 2 figures, uses revtex 4. PR-E reviewed for publicatio
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