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Geothermal studies - Yellowstone National Park /test site 11/, Wyoming
Summary report of diamond drilling in thermal areas of Yellowstone National Park, and method for determining heat flow in thermal area
Bi-defects of Nematic Surfactant Bilayers
We consider the effects of the coupling between the orientational order of
the two monolayers in flat nematic bilayers. We show that the presence of a
topological defect on one bilayer generates a nontrivial orientational texture
on both monolayers. Therefore, one cannot consider isolated defects on one
monolayer, but rather associated pairs of defects on either monolayer, which we
call bi-defects. Bi-defects generally produce walls, such that the textures of
the two monolayers are identical outside the walls, and different in their
interior. We suggest some experimental conditions in which these structures
could be observed.Comment: RevTeX, 4 pages, 3 figure
Gapped tunneling spectra in the normal state of PrCeCuO
We present tunneling data in the normal state of the electron doped cuprate
superconductor PrCeCuO for three different values of the doping
. The normal state is obtained by applying a magnetic field greater than the
upper critical field, for . We observe an anomalous normal
state gap near the Fermi level. From our analysis of the tunneling data we
conclude that this is a feature of the normal state density of states. We
discuss possible reasons for the formation of this gap and its implications for
the nature of the charge carriers in the normal and the superconducting states
of cuprate superconductors.Comment: 7 pages ReVTeX, 11 figures files included, submitted to PR
On the uniqueness for the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with a strong angular singularity
We prove an inequality on the Wasserstein distance with quadratic cost
between two solutions of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation without
angular cutoff, from which we deduce some uniqueness results. In particular, we
obtain a local (in time) well-posedness result in the case of (possibly very)
soft potentials. A global well-posedeness result is shown for all regularized
hard and soft potentials without angular cutoff. Our uniqueness result seems to
be the first one applying to a strong angular singularity, except in the
special case of Maxwell molecules.
Our proof relies on the ideas of Tanaka: we give a probabilistic
interpretation of the Boltzmann equation in terms of a stochastic process. Then
we show how to couple two such processes started with two different initial
conditions, in such a way that they almost surely remain close to each other
Self-similar solutions with fat tails for Smoluchowski's coagulation equation with locally bounded kernels
The existence of self-similar solutions with fat tails for Smoluchowski's
coagulation equation has so far only been established for the solvable and the
diagonal kernel. In this paper we prove the existence of such self-similar
solutions for continuous kernels that are homogeneous of degree and satisfy . More precisely,
for any we establish the existence of a continuous weak
self-similar profile with decay as
Superconductivity and Field-Induced Magnetism in PrCeCuO Single Crystals
We report muon-spin rotation/relaxation (muSR) measurements on single
crystals of the electron-doped high-T_c superconductor PrCeCuO.
In zero external magnetic field, superconductivity is found to coexist with Cu
spins that are static on the muSR time scale. In an applied field, we observe a
Knight shift that is primarily due to the magnetic moment induced on the Pr
ions. Below the superconducting transition temperature T_c, an additional
source of static magnetic order appears throughout the sample. This finding is
consistent with antiferromagnetic ordering of the Cu spins in the presence of
vortices. We also find that the temperature dependence of the in-plane magnetic
penetration depth in the vortex state resembles that of the hole-doped cuprates
at temperatures above ~ 0.2 T_c.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Investigation of phonon behavior in Pr2NiMnO6 by micro-Raman spectroscopy
The temperature dependence of phonon excitations and the presence of spin
phonon coupling in polycrystalline Pr2NiMnO6 samples were studied using
micro-Raman spectroscopy and magnetometry. Magnetic properties show a single
ferromagnetic-to-paramagnetic transition at 228 K and a saturation
magnetization close to 4.95 \muB/f.u.. Three distinct Raman modes at 657, 642,
and 511 cm-1 are observed. The phonon excitations show a clear hardening due to
anharmonicity from 300 K down to 10 K. Further, temperature dependence of the
657 cm-1 mode shows only a small softening. This reflects the presence of a
relatively weak spin-phonon coupling in Pr2NiMnO6 contrary to other double
perovskites previously studied.Comment: 10 pages, 4 fig
40 Gbit/s silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) phase modulator
A 40 Gbit/s electro-optic modulator is demonstrated. The modulator is based on a slotted silicon waveguide filled with an organic material. The silicon organic hybrid (SOH) approach allows combining highly nonlinear electro-optic organic materials with CMOS-compatible silicon photonics technology
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