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Beach impact study, Padre Island National Seashore
Prepared for Office of Natural Science, Southwest Region, National Park Service, under contract CX70005044830 April 1976Vegetative differences between heavily and very lightly trafficked beaches show that more beach traffic correlates with quantitative decreases in variety and density of plants and with declines of grasses relative to forbs. The vegetated portions of all beaches continue to grow in volume. However, this is at the expense of the more seaward (more trafficked) parts of the beaches and has lead to overall loss of total beach volume except where vehicular traffic is prohibited. The very lightly trafficked beach is the only study site wherein the entire beach to mean sea level has grown. The effect of these trends on resistance to storm surge erosion remains to be tested.Marine Scienc
Metallic spin glasses
Recent work on the zero temperature phases and phase transitions of strongly
random electronic system is reviewed. The transition between the spin glass and
quantum paramagnet is examined, for both metallic and insulating systems.
Insight gained from the solution of infinite range models leads to a quantum
field theory for the transition between a metallic quantum paramagnetic and a
metallic spin glass. The finite temperature phase diagram is described and
crossover functions are computed in mean field theory. A study of fluctuations
about mean field leads to the formulation of scaling hypotheses.Comment: Contribution to the Proceedings of the ITP Santa Barbara conference
on Non-Fermi liquids, 25 pages, requires IOP style file
Critical behavior of density of states near Fermi energy in low-dimensional disordered metals
We study the effect of electron-electron interaction on the one-particle
density of states (\emph{DOS}) of low-dimensional
disordered metals near Fermi energy within the framework of the finite
temperature conventional impurity diagram technique. We consider only diffusive
limit and by a geometric re-summation of the most singular first order
self-energy corrections via the Dyson equation we obtain a non-divergent
solution for the \emph{DOS} at low energies, while for higher energies the
well-known Altshuler-Aronov corrections are recovered. At the Fermi level
, this indicates that interacting disordered
two- and quasi-one-dimensional systems are in insulating state at zero
temperature. The obtained results are in good agreement with recent tunneling
experiments on two-dimensional GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures and
quasi-one-dimensional doped multiwall carbon nanotubes.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
Two-Stage Kondo Effect and Kondo Box Level Spectroscopy in a Carbon Nanotube
The concept of the "Kondo box" describes a single spin, antiferromagnetically
coupled to a quantum dot with a finite level spacing. Here, a Kondo box is
formed in a carbon nanotube interacting with a localized electron. We
investigate the spins of its first few eigenstates and compare them to a recent
theory. In an 'open' Kondo-box, strongly coupled to the leads, we observe a
non-monotonic temperature dependence of the nanotube conductance, which results
from a competition between the Kondo-box singlet and the 'conventional' Kondo
state that couples the nanotube to the leads.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Right eigenvalue equation in quaternionic quantum mechanics
We study the right eigenvalue equation for quaternionic and complex linear
matrix operators defined in n-dimensional quaternionic vector spaces. For
quaternionic linear operators the eigenvalue spectrum consists of n complex
values. For these operators we give a necessary and sufficient condition for
the diagonalization of their quaternionic matrix representations. Our
discussion is also extended to complex linear operators, whose spectrum is
characterized by 2n complex eigenvalues. We show that a consistent analysis of
the eigenvalue problem for complex linear operators requires the choice of a
complex geometry in defining inner products. Finally, we introduce some
examples of the left eigenvalue equations and highlight the main difficulties
in their solution.Comment: 24 pages, AMS-Te
Collapse of Charge Gap in Random Mott Insulators
Effects of randomness on interacting fermionic systems in one dimension are
investigated by quantum Monte-Carlo techniques. At first, interacting spinless
fermions are studied whose ground state shows charge ordering. Quantum phase
transition due to randomness is observed associated with the collapse of the
charge ordering. We also treat random Hubbard model focusing on the Mott gap.
Although the randomness closes the Mott gap and low-lying states are created,
which is observed in the charge compressibility, no (quasi-) Fermi surface
singularity is formed. It implies localized nature of the low-lying states.Comment: RevTeX with 3 postscript figure
Top Management Team Diversity: A systematic Review
Empirical research investigating the impact of top management team (TMT)
diversity on executivesâ decision making has produced inconclusive results.
To synthesize and aggregate the results on the diversity-performance
link, a meta-regression analysis (MRA) is conducted. It integrates more
than 200 estimates from 53 empirical studies investigating TMT diversity
and its impact on the quality of executivesâ decision making as reflected
in corporate performance. The analysis contributes to the literature by
theoretically discussing and empirically examining the effects of TMT diversity
on corporate performance. Our results do not show a link between TMT
diversity and performance but provide evidence for publication bias. Thus,
the findings raise doubts on the impact of TMT diversity on performance
`Third' Quantization of Vacuum Einstein Gravity and Free Yang-Mills Theories
Based on the algebraico-categorical (:sheaf-theoretic and sheaf
cohomological) conceptual and technical machinery of Abstract Differential
Geometry, a new, genuinely background spacetime manifold independent, field
quantization scenario for vacuum Einstein gravity and free Yang-Mills theories
is introduced. The scheme is coined `third quantization' and, although it
formally appears to follow a canonical route, it is fully covariant, because it
is an expressly functorial `procedure'. Various current and future Quantum
Gravity research issues are discussed under the light of 3rd-quantization. A
postscript gives a brief account of this author's personal encounters with
Rafael Sorkin and his work.Comment: 43 pages; latest version contributed to a fest-volume celebrating
Rafael Sorkin's 60th birthday (Erratum: in earlier versions I had wrongly
written that the Editor for this volume is Daniele Oriti, with CUP as
publisher. I apologize for the mistake.
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