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Climate change Social divisions in belief and behaviour
As a global problem, climate change affects everyone. But within Britain opinion is divided. This chapter asks to what extent people in Britain believe humans cause climate change, think it is a problem, and feel that citizens and governments are likely to be able to reduce it. Also, what are the main social divisions in attitudes to climate change, and how much does opinion differ between supporters of different political parties
Evidence for realignment of the charge density wave state in ErTe and TmTe under uniaxial stress via elastocaloric and elastoresistivity measurements
We report the evolution of a charge density wave (CDW) state in the quasi-2D
rare-earth tritellurides (Te for =Er,Tm) as a function of in-plane
uniaxial stress. Measurements of the elastocaloric effect, resistivity, and
elastoresistivity allow us to demonstrate the importance of in-plane
antisymmetric strain on the CDW and to establish a phase diagram. We show that
modest tensile stress parallel to the in-plane -axis can reversibly switch
the direction of the ordering wavevector between the two in-plane directions.
This work establishes Te as a promising model system for the study of
strain-CDW interactions in a quasi-2D square lattice.Comment: 18 pages, 12 figure
NEW SPECIES OF BUPRESTIDAE FROM JAVA (COL.).
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Anti-de Sitter massless scalar field spacetimes in arbitrary dimensions
We consider -dimensional static spacetimes in Einstein gravity with a
cosmological constant in the presence of a minimally coupled massless scalar
field. The spacetimes have a -dimensional base manifold given by an
Einstein space and the massless scalar field depends only on the radial
coordinate. The field equations are decoupled in the general case, and can be
solved exactly for the cases when either the cosmological constant vanishes or
the base manifold is Ricci flat. We focus on the case of a negative
cosmological constant and a Ricci-flat base manifold. The solution has a
curvature singularity located at the origin, where also the scalar field
diverges. Since there is no event horizon surrounding this singularity, the
solution describes a naked singularity dressed with a nontrivial scalar field.
This spacetime is an asymptotically locally anti-de Sitter one when the
Ricci-flat base manifold is locally flat. The asymptotic solution for an
arbitrary Einstein base manifold is found and the corresponding mass,
calculated through the canonical generator of the time-translation invariance,
is shown to be finite. The contribution to the mass from the scalar field at
infinity is also discussed.Comment: 14 pages, 1 figure. Typos correcte
Transport in Graphene Tunnel Junctions
We present a technique to fabricate tunnel junctions between graphene and Al
and Cu, with a Si back gate, as well as a simple theory of tunneling between a
metal and graphene. We map the differential conductance of our junctions versus
probe and back gate voltage, and observe fluctuations in the conductance that
are directly related to the graphene density of states. The conventional
strong-suppression of the conductance at the graphene Dirac point can not be
clearly demonstrated, but a more robust signature of the Dirac point is found:
the inflection in the conductance map caused by the electrostatic gating of
graphene by the tunnel probe. We present numerical simulations of our
conductance maps, confirming the measurement results. In addition, Al causes
strong n-doping of graphene, Cu causes a moderate p-doping, and in high
resistance junctions, phonon resonances are observed, as in STM studies.Comment: 22 pages, 5 figure
Isospin fractionation and isoscaling in dynamical nuclear collisions
Isoscaling is found to hold for fragment yields in the antisymmetrized
molecular dynamics (AMD) simulations for collisions of calcium isotopes at 35
MeV/nucleon. This suggests the applicability of statistical considerations to
the dynamical fragment emission. The observed linear relationship between the
isoscaling parameters and the isospin asymmetry of fragments supports the above
suggestion. The slope of this linear function yields information about the
symmetry energy in low density region where multifragmentation occurs.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figure
Fluctuating loops and glassy dynamics of a pinned line in two dimensions
We represent the slow, glassy equilibrium dynamics of a line in a
two-dimensional random potential landscape as driven by an array of
asymptotically independent two-state systems, or loops, fluctuating on all
length scales. The assumption of independence enables a fairly complete
analytic description. We obtain good agreement with Monte Carlo simulations
when the free energy barriers separating the two sides of a loop of size L are
drawn from a distribution whose width and mean scale as L^(1/3), in agreement
with recent results for scaling of such barriers.Comment: 11 pages, 4 Postscript figure
Distributions of gaps and end-to-end correlations in random transverse-field Ising spin chains
A previously introduced real space renormalization-group treatment of the
random transverse-field Ising spin chain is extended to provide detailed
information on the distribution of the energy gap and the end-to-end
correlation function for long chains with free boundary conditions. Numerical
data, using the mapping of the problem to free fermions, are found to be in
good agreement with the analytic finite size scaling predictions.Comment: 12 pages revtex, 10 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Radial Redshift Space Distortions
The radial component of the peculiar velocities of galaxies cause
displacements in their positions in redshift space. We study the effect of the
peculiar velocities on the linear redshift space two point correlation
function. Our analysis takes into account the radial nature of the redshift
space distortions and it highlights the limitations of the plane parallel
approximation. We consider the problem of determining the value of \beta and
the real space two point correlation function from the linear redshift space
two point correlation function. The inversion method proposed here takes into
account the radial nature of the redshift space distortions and can be applied
to magnitude limited redshift surveys that have only partial sky coverage.Comment: 26 pages including 11 figures, to appear in Ap
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