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Supporting Pluralism by Artificial Intelligence: Conceptualizing Epistemic Disagreements as Digital Artifacts
A crucial concept in philosophy and social sciences, epistemic disagreement, has not yet been adequately reflected in the Web. In this paper, we call for development of intelligent tools dealing with epistemic disagreements on the Web to support pluralism. As a first step, we present Polyphony, an ontology for representing and annotating epistemic disagreements
Effective One-Dimensional Coupling in the Highly-Frustrated Square-Lattice Itinerant Magnet CaCoAs
Inelastic neutron scattering measurements on the itinerant antiferromagnet
(AFM) CaCoAs at a temperature of 8 K reveal two
orthogonal planes of scattering perpendicular to the Co square lattice in
reciprocal space, demonstrating the presence of effective one-dimensional spin
interactions. These results are shown to arise from near-perfect bond
frustration within the - Heisenberg model on a square lattice with
ferromagnetic , and hence indicate that the extensive previous
experimental and theoretical study of the - Heisenberg model on
local-moment square spin lattices should be expanded to include itinerant spin
systems
Radiative polarization of electrons in a strong laser wave
We reanalyze the problem of radiative polarization of electrons brought into
collision with a circularly polarized strong plane wave. We present an
independent analytical verification of formulae for the cross section given by
D.\,Yu. Ivanov et al [Eur.\ Phys.\ J. C \textbf{36}, 127 (2004)]. By choosing
the exact electron's helicity as the spin quantum number we show that the
self-polarization effect exists only for the moderately relativistic electrons
with energy and only for a non-head-on collision
geometry. In these conditions polarization degree may achieve the values up to
65%, but the effective polarization time is found to be larger than 1\,s even
for a high power optical or infrared laser with intensity parameter (). This
makes such a polarization practically unrealizable. We also compare these
results with the ones of some papers where the high degree of polarization was
predicted for ultrarelativistic case. We argue that this apparent contradiction
arises due to the different choice of the spin quantum numbers. In particular,
the quantum numbers which provide the high polarization degree represent
neither helicity nor transverse polarization, that makes the use of them
inconvenient in practice.Comment: minor changes compared to v3; to appear in PR
Improved Astrometry and Photometry for the Luyten Catalog. I. Bright Stars
We outline the construction of an updated version of the New Luyten
Two-Tenths (NLTT) catalog of high proper motion stars, which will contain
improved astrometry and photometry for the vast majority of the ~59,000 stars
in NLTT. The bright end is constructed by matching NLTT stars to Hipparcos,
Tycho-2, and Starnet; the faint end by matching to USNO-A and 2MASS. In this
first paper, we detail the bright-end matching procedure. We show that for the
majority of stars in his catalog, Luyten measured positions accurate to 1" even
though he recorded his results much more coarsely. However, there is a long
tail of position errors, with one error as large as 11 deg. Proper-motion
errors for the stars with small position errors are 24 mas/yr (1 sigma) but
deteriorate to 34 mas/yr for stars with inferior positions. NLTT is virtually
100% complete for V15 deg, but completeness in this magnitude
range falls to about 75% at the Galactic plane. Incompleteness near the plane
is not uniform, but is rather concentrated in the interval -80<l<20, where the
Milky Way is brightest.Comment: Submitted to ApJ, 28 pages including 7 figure
Anomalous latent heat in non-equilibrium phase transitions
We study first-order phase transitions in a two-temperature system, where due
to the time-scale separation all the basic thermodynamical quantities (free
energy, entropy, etc) are well-defined. The sign of the latent heat is found to
be counterintuitive: it is positive when going from the phase where the
temperatures and the entropy are higher to the one where these quantities are
lower. The effect exists only out of equilibrium and requires conflicting
interactions. It is displayed on a lattice gas model of ferromagnetically
interacting spin-1/2 particles.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Measuring topology in a laser-coupled honeycomb lattice: From Chern insulators to topological semi-metals
Ultracold fermions trapped in a honeycomb optical lattice constitute a
versatile setup to experimentally realize the Haldane model [Phys. Rev. Lett.
61, 2015 (1988)]. In this system, a non-uniform synthetic magnetic flux can be
engineered through laser-induced methods, explicitly breaking time-reversal
symmetry. This potentially opens a bulk gap in the energy spectrum, which is
associated with a non-trivial topological order, i.e., a non-zero Chern number.
In this work, we consider the possibility of producing and identifying such a
robust Chern insulator in the laser-coupled honeycomb lattice. We explore a
large parameter space spanned by experimentally controllable parameters and
obtain a variety of phase diagrams, clearly identifying the accessible
topologically non-trivial regimes. We discuss the signatures of Chern
insulators in cold-atom systems, considering available detection methods. We
also highlight the existence of topological semi-metals in this system, which
are gapless phases characterized by non-zero winding numbers, not present in
Haldane's original model.Comment: 30 pages, 12 figures, 4 Appendice
Measurements of the ClO radical vibrational band intensity and the ClO + ClO + M reaction product
There is considerable interest in the kinetics and concentrations of free radicals in the stratosphere. Chlorine monoxide is a critically important radical because of its role in catalytic cycles for ozone depletion. Depletion occurs under a wide variety of conditions including the Antarctic spring when unusual mechanisms such as the BrO sub x/ClO sub x, ClO dimer (Cl sub 2 O sub 2), and ClO sub x/HO sub x cycles are suggested to operate. Infrared spectroscopy is one of the methods used to measure ClO in the stratosphere (Menzies 1979 and 1983; Mumma et al., 1983). To aid the quantification of such infrared measurements, researchers measured the ClO ground state fundamental band intensity
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