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Anomalous Rashba spin-orbit interaction in InAs/GaSb quantum wells
We investigate theoretically the Rashba spin-orbit interaction in InAs/GaSb
quantum wells(QWs). We find that the Rashba spin-splitting (RSS) depends
sensitively on the thickness of the InAs layer. The RSS exhibits nonlinear
behavior for narrow InAs/GaSb QWs and the oscillating feature for wide
InAs/GaSb QWs. The nonlinear and oscillating behaviors arise from the weakened
and enhanced interband coupling. The RSS also show asymmetric features respect
to the direction of the external electric field.Comment: 3 pages, 4 figures. Appl. Phys. Lett. (in press
Chinese Internet AS-level Topology
We present the first complete measurement of the Chinese Internet topology at
the autonomous systems (AS) level based on traceroute data probed from servers
of major ISPs in mainland China. We show that both the Chinese Internet AS
graph and the global Internet AS graph can be accurately reproduced by the
Positive-Feedback Preference (PFP) model with the same parameters. This result
suggests that the Chinese Internet preserves well the topological
characteristics of the global Internet. This is the first demonstration of the
Internet's topological fractality, or self-similarity, performed at the level
of topology evolution modeling.Comment: This paper is a preprint of a paper submitted to IEE Proceedings on
Communications and is subject to Institution of Engineering and Technology
Copyright. If accepted, the copy of record will be available at IET Digital
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Two-component model for the chemical evolution of the Galactic disk
In the present paper, we introduce a two-component model of the Galactic disk
to investigate its chemical evolution. The formation of the thick and thin
disks occur in two main accretion episodes with both infall rates to be
Gaussian. Both the pre-thin and post-thin scenarios for the formation of the
Galactic disk are considered. The best-fitting is obtained through
-test between the models and the new observed metallicity distribution
function of G dwarfs in the solar neighbourhood (Hou et al 1998). Our results
show that post-thin disk scenario for the formation of the Galactic disk should
be preferred. Still, other comparison between model predictions and
observations are given.Comment: 23 pages, 7 figure
Helicity Probabilities For Heavy Quark Fragmentation Into Excited Mesons
In the fragmentation of a heavy quark into a heavy meson whose light degrees
of freedom have angular momentum , all the helicity probabilities are
completely determined in the heavy quark limit up to a single probability
. We point out that this probability depends on the longitudinal
momentum fraction of the meson and on its transverse momentum
relative to the jet axis. We calculate as a function of scaling
variables corresponding to and for the heavy quark limit of the
perturbative QCD fragmentation functions for quark to fragment into mesons. In this model, the light degrees of freedom prefer to have
their angular momentum aligned transverse to, rather than along, the jet axis.
Implications for the production of excited heavy mesons, like and
, are discussed.Comment: 10 pages, Latex file plus 3 figures with postscript files appended at
the en
Thermodynamic properties of tetrameric bond-alternating spin chains
Thermodynamic properties of a tetrameric bond-alternating Heisenberg spin
chain with ferromagnetic-ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic
exchange interactions are studied using the transfer-matrix renormalization
group and compared to experimental measurements. The temperature dependence of
the uniform susceptibility exhibits typical ferrimagnetic features. Both the
uniform and staggered magnetic susceptibilities diverge in the limit ,
indicating that the ground state has both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic
long-range orders. A double-peak structure appears in the temperature
dependence of the specific heat. Our numerical calculation gives a good account
for the temperature and field dependence of the susceptibility, the
magnetization, and the specific heat for Cu(3-Clpy)(N)
(3-Clpy=3-Chloroyridine).Comment: 8 pages, 12 figures; Replaced with final version accepted in Phys.
Rev.
Anisotropic superconducting properties of aligned SmLaFeAsOF microcrystalline powder
The SmLaFeAsOF compound is a quasi-2D
layered superconductor with a superconducting transition temperature T = 52
K. Due to the Fe spin-orbital related anisotropic exchange coupling
(antiferromagnetic or ferromagnetic fluctuation), the tetragonal
microcrystalline powder can be aligned at room temperature using the
field-rotation method where the tetragonal -plane is parallel to the
aligned magnetic field B and -axis along the rotation axis.
Anisotropic superconducting properties with anisotropic diamagnetic ratio
2.4 + 0.6 was observed from low field susceptibility
(T) and magnetization M(B). The anisotropic low-field phase diagram
with the variation of lower critical field gives a zero-temperature penetration
depth (0) = 280 nm and (0) = 120 nm. The magnetic
fluctuation used for powder alignment at 300 K may be related with the pairing
mechanism of superconductivity at lower temperature.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figure
Influence of Fermion Velocity Renormalization on Dynamical Mass Generation in QED
We study dynamical fermion mass generation in (2+1)-dimensional quantum
electrodynamics with a gauge field coupling to massless Dirac fermions and
non-relativistic scalar bosons. We calculate the fermion velocity
renormalization and then examine its influence on dynamical mass generation by
using the Dyson-Schwinger equation. It is found that dynamical mass generation
takes place even after including the scalar bosons as long as the bosonic
compressibility parameter is sufficiently small. In addition, the fermion
velocity renormalization enhances the dynamically generated mass.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, Chinese Physics Letter, Vol 29, page 057401(2012
Functional Hand Proportion is Approximated by the Fibonacci Series
The debatable relationship of functional human hand proportion with the Fibonacci series has remained an obscure scientific enigma short of clinical interest. The main difficulty of proving such a relationship lies in defining what should constitute true "functional" proportion. In this study, we re-evaluate this unique relationship using hand flexion creases as anatomical surrogates for the functional axes of joint rotation. Standardized desktop photocopies of palmar views of both hands in full digital extension and abduction were obtained from 100 healthy male volunteers of Chinese ethnicity. The functional axes were represented by the distal digital crease (distal interphalangeal joint, DIPJ), proximal digital crease (proximal interphalangeal joint, PIPJ), as well as the midpoint between the palmar digital and transverse palmar creases (metacarpophalangeal joint, MCPJ). The ratio of DIPJ-Fingertip:PIPJ-DIPJ:MCPJ-PIPJ (p3:p2:p1) were measured by two independent observers and represented as standard deviation about the mean, and then compared to the theoretical ratio of 1:1:2. Our results showed that, for the 2nd to 5th digits, the p2:p3 ratios were 0.97±0.09, 1.10±0.10, 1.04±0.12 and 0.80±0.08 respectively; whilst the p1:p2 ratios were 1.91±0.17, 1.98±0.14, 1.89±0.16 and 2.09±0.24 respectively. When the data were analyzed for all digits, they showed a combined p3:p2:p1 ratio of 1:0.98:2.01. In conclusion, our results suggest that functional human hand proportion, as defined by flexion creases, is approximated by the Fibonacci series
Additive Negative Effects of Decadal Warming and Nitrogen Addition on Grassland Community Stability
Much recent research has explored how global warming and increased nitrogen (N) deposition, two important components of global environmental changes, influence the structure and functioning of natural ecosystems. However, how ecosystem dynamics respond to the combination of long-term warming and N enrichment remains largely unexplored. The impact of warming and N addition on the temporal stability of plant communities were investigated in a decade-long field experiment. The study was conducted in northern China in a desert steppe, using a split-plot design with warming as the main-plot factor and N addition as the splitplot factor. Long-term warming and N addition had additive, negative effects on plant community stability. A warming-induced decrease in species richness was not a significant driver of decreased community stability, which was instead driven by the decreased stability of dominant species under warming. On the other hand, an N-induced decrease in community stability was ascribed to both decreased stability of dominant and common species and decreased asynchronous population dynamics under N addition. Our results suggest that ongoing anthropogenic environmental changes may have appreciable consequences for the stability of natural grassland functions and services while also highlighting the different mechanisms associated with the similar effects of climate warming and increased N deposition on grassland community stability
Multidimensional Conservation Laws: Overview, Problems, and Perspective
Some of recent important developments are overviewed, several longstanding
open problems are discussed, and a perspective is presented for the
mathematical theory of multidimensional conservation laws. Some basic features
and phenomena of multidimensional hyperbolic conservation laws are revealed,
and some samples of multidimensional systems/models and related important
problems are presented and analyzed with emphasis on the prototypes that have
been solved or may be expected to be solved rigorously at least for some cases.
In particular, multidimensional steady supersonic problems and transonic
problems, shock reflection-diffraction problems, and related effective
nonlinear approaches are analyzed. A theory of divergence-measure vector fields
and related analytical frameworks for the analysis of entropy solutions are
discussed.Comment: 43 pages, 3 figure
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