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On the number of trees with n terminal nodes
Number of trees with arbitrary number of terminal node
Outline bibliography, and KWIC index on mechanical theorem proving and its applications
Bibliography and KWIC index on mechanical theorem proving and its application
The value of improved (ERS) information based on domestic distribution effects of U.S. agriculture crops
The value of improving information for forecasting future crop harvests was investigated. Emphasis was placed upon establishing practical evaluation procedures firmly based in economic theory. The analysis was applied to the case of U.S. domestic wheat consumption. Estimates for a cost of storage function and a demand function for wheat were calculated. A model of market determinations of wheat inventories was developed for inventory adjustment. The carry-over horizon is computed by the solution of a nonlinear programming problem, and related variables such as spot and future price at each stage are determined. The model is adaptable to other markets. Results are shown to depend critically on the accuracy of current and proposed measurement techniques. The quantitative results are presented parametrically, in terms of various possible values of current and future accuracies
Polymers for spacecraft hardware materials specifications and engineering information Monthly technical progress report no. 18, Nov. 10 - Dec. 9, 1965
Chemical test procedures for analyzing potting compound bases for spacecraft construction material
Double Exchange in a Magnetically Frustrated System
This work examines the magnetic order and spin dynamics of a double-exchange
model with competing ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic Heisenberg
interactions between the local moments. The Heisenberg interactions are
periodically arranged in a Villain configuration in two dimensions with
nearest-neighbor, ferromagnetic coupling and antiferromagnetic coupling
. This model is solved at zero temperature by performing a
expansion in the rotated reference frame of each local moment.
When exceeds a critical value, the ground state is a magnetically
frustrated, canted antiferromagnet. With increasing hopping energy or
magnetic field , the local moments become aligned and the ferromagnetic
phase is stabilized above critical values of or . In the canted phase, a
charge-density wave forms because the electrons prefer to sit on lines of sites
that are coupled ferromagnetically. Due to a change in the topology of the
Fermi surface from closed to open, phase separation occurs in a narrow range of
parameters in the canted phase. In zero field, the long-wavelength spin waves
are isotropic in the region of phase separation. Whereas the average spin-wave
stiffness in the canted phase increases with or , it exhibits a more
complicated dependence on field. This work strongly suggests that the jump in
the spin-wave stiffness observed in PrCaMnO with at a field of 3 T is caused by the delocalization of the electrons rather
than by the alignment of the antiferromagnetic regions.Comment: 28 pages, 12 figure
Polymers for spacecraft hardware materials specifications and engineering information Monthly technical progress report no. 19, Dec. 10, 1965 - Jan. 9, 1966
Thermal vacuum weight loss determinations of polymers for spacecraft construction material application
Particle Acceleration and Radiation associated with Magnetic Field Generation from Relativistic Collisionless Shocks
Shock acceleration is an ubiquitous phenomenon in astrophysical plasmas.
Plasma waves and their associated instabilities (e.g., the Buneman instability,
two-streaming instability, and the Weibel instability) created in the shocks
are responsible for particle (electron, positron, and ion) acceleration. Using
a 3-D relativistic electromagnetic particle (REMP) code, we have investigated
particle acceleration associated with a relativistic jet front propagating
through an ambient plasma with and without initial magnetic fields. We find
only small differences in the results between no ambient and weak ambient
magnetic fields. Simulations show that the Weibel instability created in the
collisionless shock front accelerates particles perpendicular and parallel to
the jet propagation direction. The simulation results show that this
instability is responsible for generating and amplifying highly nonuniform,
small-scale magnetic fields, which contribute to the electron's transverse
deflection behind the jet head. The ``jitter'' radiation from deflected
electrons has different properties than synchrotron radiation which is
calculated in a uniform magnetic field. This jitter radiation may be important
to understanding the complex time evolution and/or spectral structure in
gamma-ray bursts, relativistic jets, and supernova remnants.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, submitted to Proceedings of 2003 Gamma Ray Burst
Conferenc
Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Jets due to Weibel Instability
Shock acceleration is an ubiquitous phenomenon in astrophysical plasmas.
Plasma waves and their associated instabilities (e.g., the Buneman instability,
two-streaming instability, and the Weibel instability) created in the shocks
are responsible for particle (electron, positron, and ion) acceleration. Using
a 3-D relativistic electromagnetic particle (REMP) code, we have investigated
particle acceleration associated with a relativistic jet front propagating
through an ambient plasma with and without initial magnetic fields. We find
only small differences in the results between no ambient and weak ambient
magnetic fields. Simulations show that the Weibel instability created in the
collisionless shock front accelerates particles perpendicular and parallel to
the jet propagation direction. While some Fermi acceleration may occur at the
jet front, the majority of electron acceleration takes place behind the jet
front and cannot be characterized as Fermi acceleration. The simulation results
show that this instability is responsible for generating and amplifying highly
nonuniform, small-scale magnetic fields, which contribute to the electron's
transverse deflection behind the jet head. The ``jitter'' radiation (Medvedev
2000) from deflected electrons has different properties than synchrotron
radiation which is calculated in a uniform magnetic field. This jitter
radiation may be important to understanding the complex time evolution and/or
spectral structure in gamma-ray bursts, relativistic jets, and supernova
remnants.Comment: ApJ, in press, Sept. 20, 2003 (figures with better resolution:
http://gammaray.nsstc.nasa.gov/~nishikawa/apjweib.pdf
Particle Acceleration and Magnetic Field Generation in Electron-Positron Relativistic Shocks
Shock acceleration is an ubiquitous phenomenon in astrophysical plasmas.
Plasma waves and their associated instabilities (e.g., Buneman, Weibel and
other two-stream instabilities) created in collisionless shocks are responsible
for particle (electron, positron, and ion) acceleration. Using a 3-D
relativistic electromagnetic particle (REMP) code, we have investigated
particle acceleration associated with a relativistic electron-positron jet
front propagating into an ambient electron-positron plasma with and without
initial magnetic fields. We find small differences in the results for no
ambient and modest ambient magnetic fields. New simulations show that the
Weibel instability created in the collisionless shock front accelerates jet and
ambient particles both perpendicular and parallel to the jet propagation
direction. Furthermore, the non-linear fluctuation amplitudes of densities,
currents, electric, and magnetic fields in the electron-positron shock are
larger than those found in the electron-ion shock studied in a previous paper
at the comparable simulation time. This comes from the fact that both electrons
and positrons contribute to generation of the Weibel instability. Additionally,
we have performed simulations with different electron skin depths. We find that
growth times scale inversely with the plasma frequency, and the sizes of
structures created by the Weibel instability scale proportional to the electron
skin depth. This is the expected result and indicates that the simulations have
sufficient grid resolution. The simulation results show that the Weibel
instability is responsible for generating and amplifying nonuniform,
small-scale magnetic fields which contribute to the electron's (positron's)
transverse deflection behind the jet head.Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures, revised and accepted for ApJ, A full resolution
of the paper can be found at
http://gammaray.nsstc.nasa.gov/~nishikawa/apjep1.pd
Magnetic Interaction in the Geometrically Frustrated Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnet
The spin wave excitations of the geometrically frustrated triangular lattice
antiferromagnet (TLA) have been measured using high resolution
inelastic neutron scattering. Antiferromagnetic interactions up to third
nearest neighbors in the ab plane (J_1, J_2, J_3, with
and ), as well as out-of-plane coupling (J_z, with
) are required to describe the spin wave dispersion
relations, indicating a three dimensional character of the magnetic
interactions. Two energy dips in the spin wave dispersion occur at the
incommensurate wavevectors associated with multiferroic phase, and can be
interpreted as dynamic precursors to the magnetoelectric behavior in this
system.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, published in Phys. Rev. Let
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