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Cavity-mediated electron-photon superconductivity
We investigate electron paring in a two-dimensional electron system mediated
by vacuum fluctuations inside a nanoplasmonic terahertz cavity. We show that
the structured cavity vacuum can induce long-range attractive interactions
between current fluctuations which lead to pairing in generic materials with
critical temperatures in the low-Kelvin regime for realistic parameters. The
induced state is a pair density wave superconductor which can show a transition
from a fully gapped to a partially gapped phase - akin to the pseudogap phase
in high- superconductors. Our findings provide a promising tool for
engineering intrinsic electron interactions in two-dimensional materials.Comment: 11 page
Shared Arrangements: practical inter-query sharing for streaming dataflows
Current systems for data-parallel, incremental processing and view
maintenance over high-rate streams isolate the execution of independent
queries. This creates unwanted redundancy and overhead in the presence of
concurrent incrementally maintained queries: each query must independently
maintain the same indexed state over the same input streams, and new queries
must build this state from scratch before they can begin to emit their first
results. This paper introduces shared arrangements: indexed views of maintained
state that allow concurrent queries to reuse the same in-memory state without
compromising data-parallel performance and scaling. We implement shared
arrangements in a modern stream processor and show order-of-magnitude
improvements in query response time and resource consumption for interactive
queries against high-throughput streams, while also significantly improving
performance in other domains including business analytics, graph processing,
and program analysis
Igazolt hiányzás? A pull-out tehetséggondozó módszer működése Izraelben
Pedagógusként talán nehéz elképzelni, hogy tehetséges diákok esetében léteznek olyan helyzetek, mikor pedagógiai szempontból az az előnyös, ha a tanulók rendszeresen hiányoznak az iskolából. Sőt, annál nagyobb nyereségre tehetnek szert, minél hosszabb időn át, és minél rendszeresebben, lehetőleg hetente teszik ezt. Természetesen ez a rendszeres „iskolakerülés” nem azt jelenti, hogy ellenőrizetlen körülmények között vesztegetik el az idejüket, hanem épp az ellenkezőjét
Community in the Classroom
Research prior to the COVID-19 pandemic has heavily supported the importance of a classroom environment in which students feel as if they belong. A sense of belonging and inclusion from one’s peers is a basic human need and has been found to increase a student’s engagement in class and, in turn, their academic achievement. As students return to in-person learning, deficits in social and emotional skills of students have been the focus of many teachers in the field, stressing the need for strategies that foster relationships in the classroom. This study was conducted to test whether implementing different community building activities weekly, in addition to the traditional ice breakers used during the first week of school, provided increased benefits for student sense of belonging, sense of engagement, and achievement in the tenth grade life science classroom. The activities used in this study were developed to help students get to know one another and embrace their own individuality. The results of this study found that while student belonging and engagement survey scores did not significant increase from the community building activities conducted, student sense of belonging and engagement did seem to improve based on student interviews. Survey responses were subjective as opposed to concrete achievement scores. That being said, student achievement was found to increase significantly from the implemented community building activities throughout the course of the study
Concentration, Spin and Shape of Dark Matter Haloes as a Function of the Cosmological Model: WMAP1, WMAP3 and WMAP5 results
We investigate the effects of changes in the cosmological parameters between
the WMAP 1st, 3rd, and 5th year results on the structure of dark matter haloes.
We use a set of simulations that cover 5 decades in halo mass ranging from the
scales of dwarf galaxies (V_c ~30 km/s) to clusters of galaxies (V_c ~ 1000
km/s). We find that the concentration mass relation is a power law in all three
cosmologies. However the slope is shallower and the zero point is lower moving
from WMAP1 to WMAP5 to WMAP3. For haloes of mass log(M_200/Msun) = 10, 12, and
14 the differences in the concentration parameter between WMAP1 and WMAP3 are a
factor of 1.55, 1.41, and 1.29, respectively. As we show, this brings the
central densities of dark matter haloes in good agreement with the central
densities of dwarf and low surface brightness galaxies inferred from their
rotation curves, for both the WMAP3 and WMAP5 cosmologies. We also show that
none of the existing toy models for the concentration-mass relation can
reproduce our simulation results over the entire range of masses probed. In
particular, the model of Bullock et al (B01) fails at the higher mass end (M >
1e13 Msun), while the NFW model of Navarro, Frenk & White (1997) fails
dramatically at the low mass end (M < 1e12 Msun). We present a new model, based
on a simple modification of that of B01, which reproduces the
concentration-mass relations in our simulations over the entire range of masses
probed (1e10 Msun < M < 1e15 Msun). Haloes in the WMAP3 cosmology (at a fixed
mass) are more flatted compared to the WMAP1 cosmology, with a medium to long
axis ration reduced by ~10 %. Finally, we show that the distribution of halo
spin parameters is the same for all three cosmologies.Comment: 16 pages, 16 figures, references updated, minor changes. Accepted for
publication on MNRAS. WMAP5 simulations available upon reques
Terahertz field control of interlayer transport modes in cuprate superconductors
We theoretically show that terahertz pulses with controlled amplitude and
frequency can be used to switch between stable transport modes in layered
superconductors, modelled as stacks of Josephson junctions. We find pulse
shapes that deterministically switch the transport mode between
superconducting, resistive and solitonic states. We develop a simple model that
explains the switching mechanism as a destablization of the centre of mass
excitation of the Josephson phase, made possible by the highly non-linear
nature of the light-matter coupling
Reviews
Anne Brockbank, Ian McGill and Nic Beech, Reflective Learning in Practice, Aldershot: Gower Publishing, ISBN: 0 566 08377 9. ÂŁ49.50
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