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Management controls in automotive international joint ventures involving Chinese parent companies
Key findings:
• Flexibility in international joint ventures (JVS) is important and a shared but split
control style is recommended.
• Chinese partners used to have learning as their main objective in an IJV but this
has been replaced by profit, growth and market share.
• The most significant shifts in control between partners involve human resource
management and research and development.
• When foreign partners insist on adherence to their own management philosophy,
culture clashes occur.
• Negotiation is a part of daily life in the IJVs, and it occurs at both executive and
managerial levels, depending upon the significance of the item
Lattice simulations of real-time quantum fields
We investigate lattice simulations of scalar and nonabelian gauge fields in
Minkowski space-time. For SU(2) gauge-theory expectation values of link
variables in 3+1 dimensions are constructed by a stochastic process in an
additional (5th) ``Langevin-time''. A sufficiently small Langevin step size and
the use of a tilted real-time contour leads to converging results in general.
All fixed point solutions are shown to fulfil the infinite hierarchy of
Dyson-Schwinger identities, however, they are not unique without further
constraints. For the nonabelian gauge theory the thermal equilibrium fixed
point is only approached at intermediate Langevin-times. It becomes more stable
if the complex time path is deformed towards Euclidean space-time. We analyze
this behavior further using the real-time evolution of a quantum anharmonic
oscillator, which is alternatively solved by diagonalizing its Hamiltonian.
Without further optimization stochastic quantization can give accurate
descriptions if the real-time extend of the lattice is small on the scale of
the inverse temperature.Comment: 36 pages, 15 figures, Late
Simulating nonequilibrium quantum fields with stochastic quantization techniques
We present lattice simulations of nonequilibrium quantum fields in
Minkowskian space-time. Starting from a non-thermal initial state, the
real-time quantum ensemble in 3+1 dimensions is constructed by a stochastic
process in an additional (5th) ``Langevin-time''. For the example of a
self-interacting scalar field we show how to resolve apparent unstable Langevin
dynamics, and compare our quantum results with those obtained in classical
field theory. Such a direct simulation method is crucial for our understanding
of collision experiments of heavy nuclei or other nonequilibrium phenomena in
strongly coupled quantum many-body systems.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, PRL version, minor change
Complex Langevin Equation and the Many-Fermion Problem
We study the utility of a complex Langevin (CL) equation as an alternative
for the Monte Carlo (MC) procedure in the evaluation of expectation values
occurring in fermionic many-body problems. We find that a CL approach is
natural in cases where non-positive definite probability measures occur, and
remains accurate even when the corresponding MC calculation develops a severe
``sign problem''. While the convergence of CL averages cannot be guaranteed in
principle, we show how convergent results can be obtained in three examples
ranging from simple one-dimensional integrals over quantum mechanical models to
a schematic shell model path integral.Comment: 19 pages, 10 PS figures embedded in tex
Dynamics of ripple formation on silicon surfaces by ultrashort laser pulses in sub-ablation conditions
An investigation of ultrashort pulsed laser induced surface modification due
to conditions that result in a superheated melted liquid layer and material
evaporation are considered. To describe the surface modification occurring
after cooling and resolidification of the melted layer and understand the
underlying physical fundamental mechanisms, a unified model is presented to
account for crater and subwavelength ripple formation based on a synergy of
electron excitation and capillary waves solidification. The proposed
theoretical framework aims to address the laser-material interaction in
sub-ablation conditions and thus minimal mass removal in combination with a
hydrodynamics-based scenario of the crater creation and ripple formation
following surface irradiation with single and multiple pulses, respectively.
The development of the periodic structures is attributed to the interference of
the incident wave with a surface plasmon wave. Details of the surface
morphology attained are elaborated as a function of the imposed conditions and
results are tested against experimental data
External and intrinsic anchoring in nematic liquid crystals: A Monte Carlo study
We present a Monte Carlo study of external surface anchoring in nematic cells
with partially disordered solid substrates, as well as of intrinsic anchoring
at free nematic interfaces. The simulations are based on the simple hexagonal
lattice model with a spatially anisotropic intermolecular potential. We
estimate the corresponding extrapolation length by imposing an elastic
deformation in a hybrid cell-like nematic sample. Our estimates for
increase with increasing surface disorder and are essentially
temperature--independent. Experimental values of are approached only when
both the coupling of nematic molecules with the substrate and the anisotropy of
nematic--nematic interactions are weak.Comment: Revisions primarily in section I
Field emission properties of nano-composite carbon nitride films
A modified cathodic arc technique has been used to deposit carbon nitride
thin films directly on n+ Si substrates. Transmission Electron Microscopy
showed that clusters of fullerene-like nanoparticles are embedded in the
deposited material. Field emission in vacuum from as-grown films starts at an
electric field strength of 3.8 V/micron. When the films were etched in an
HF:NH4F solution for ten minutes, the threshold field decreased to 2.6
V/micron. The role of the carbon nanoparticles in the field emission process
and the influence of the chemical etching treatment are discussed.Comment: 22 pages, 8 figures, submitted to J. Vac. Sc. Techn.
Generalized Dynamic Scaling for Critical Magnetic Systems
The short-time behaviour of the critical dynamics for magnetic systems is
investigated with Monte Carlo methods. Without losing the generality, we
consider the relaxation process for the two dimensional Ising and Potts model
starting from an initial state with very high temperature and arbitrary
magnetization. We confirm the generalized scaling form and observe that the
critical characteristic functions of the initial magnetization for the Ising
and the Potts model are quite different.Comment: 32 pages with15 eps-figure
Universal Short-time Behaviour of the Dynamic Fully Frustrated XY Model
With Monte Carlo methods we investigate the dynamic relaxation of the fully
frustrated XY model in two dimensions below or at the Kosterlitz-Thouless phase
transition temperature. Special attention is drawn to the sublattice structure
of the dynamic evolution. Short-time scaling behaviour is found and
universality is confirmed. The critical exponent is measured for
different temperature and with different algorithms.Comment: 18 pages, LaTeX, 8 ps-figure
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