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Microcardia In The African
A CAJM article on microcardia in African patients.We have been aware for some considerable time of the existence of what 'has been called “the small or tiny” heart in our Rhodesian African adult patients admitted to Harare Hospital. It is our purpose merely to draw attention to its existence and so perhaps encourage those in other parts of Africa or other parts of the world to describe their experiences. We usually found the condition in those who appeared to be underweight rather than suffering from a specific nutritional disorder like scurvy or pellagra. Indeed in these disorders of malnutrition, the heart is either normal in size or may be enlarged. However, it was found in a large.series of children in South Africa with Kwashiorkor, that the cardiothoracic diameter was significantly decreased, (Smythe, Swanepoel, Campbell 1962) to increase again on recovery
Various series expansions for the bilayer S=1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet
Various series expansions have been developed for the two-layer, S=1/2,
square lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet. High temperature expansions are used
to calculate the temperature dependence of the susceptibility and specific
heat. At T=0, Ising expansions are used to study the properties of the
N\'{e}el-ordered phase, while dimer expansions are used to calculate the
ground-state properties and excitation spectra of the magnetically disordered
phase. The antiferromagnetic order-disorder transition point is determined to
be . Quantities computed include the staggered
magnetization, the susceptibility, the triplet spin-wave excitation spectra,
the spin-wave velocity, and the spin-wave stiffness. We also estimates that the
ratio of the intra- and inter-layer exchange constants to be for cuprate superconductor .Comment: RevTeX, 9 figure
Spin-S bilayer Heisenberg models: Mean-field arguments and numerical calculations
Spin-S bilayer Heisenberg models (nearest-neighbor square lattice
antiferromagnets in each layer, with antiferromagnetic interlayer couplings)
are treated using dimer mean-field theory for general S and high-order
expansions about the dimer limit for S=1, 3/2,...,4. We suggest that the
transition between the dimer phase at weak intraplane coupling and the Neel
phase at strong intraplane coupling is continuous for all S, contrary to a
recent suggestion based on Schwinger boson mean-field theory. We also present
results for S=1 layers based on expansions about the Ising limit: In every
respect the S=1 bilayers appear to behave like S=1/2 bilayers, further
supporting our picture for the nature of the order-disorder phase transition.Comment: 6 pages, Revtex 3.0, 8 figures (not embedded in text
Tree-level scattering amplitudes from the amplituhedron
7 pages, 2 figures, to be published in the Journal of Physics: Conference Series. Proceedings for the "7th Young Researcher Meeting", Torino, 2016A central problem in quantum field theory is the computation of scattering amplitudes. However, traditional methods are impractical to calculate high order phenomenologically relevant observables. Building on a few decades of astonishing progress in developing non-standard computational techniques, it has been recently conjectured that amplitudes in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills are given by the volume of the (dual) amplituhedron. After providing an introduction to the subject at tree-level, we discuss a special class of differential equations obeyed by the corresponding volume forms. In particular, we show how they fix completely the amplituhedron volume for next-to-maximally helicity violating scattering amplitudes.Peer reviewe
An Effective Field Theory Look at Deep Inelastic Scattering
This talk discusses the effective field theory view of deep inelastic
scattering. In such an approach, the standard factorization formula of a hard
coefficient multiplied by a parton distribution function arises from matching
of QCD onto an effective field theory. The DGLAP equations can then be viewed
as the standard renormalization group equations that determines the cut-off
dependence of the non-local operator whose forward matrix element is the parton
distribution function. As an example, the non-singlet quark splitting functions
is derived directly from the renormalization properties of the non-local
operator itself. This approach, although discussed in the literature, does not
appear to be well known to the larger high energy community. In this talk we
give a pedagogical introduction to this subject.Comment: 11 pages, 1 figure, To appear in Modern Physics Letters
Dimer Expansion Study of the Bilayer Square Lattice Frustrated Quantum Heisenberg Antiferromagnet
The ground state of the square lattice bilayer quantum antiferromagnet with
nearest () and next-nearest () neighbour intralayer interaction is
studied by means of the dimer expansion method up to the 6-th order in the
interlayer exchange coupling . The phase boundary between the spin-gap
phase and the magnetically ordered phase is determined from the poles of the
biased Pad\'e approximants for the susceptibility and the inverse energy gap
assuming the universality class of the 3-dimensional classical Heisenberg
model. For weak frustration, the critical interlayer coupling decreases
linearly with . The spin-gap phase persists down to
(single layer limit) for 0.45 \simleq \alpha \simleq 0.65. The crossover of
the short range order within the disordered phase is also discussed.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures, One reference adde
Dynamical Structure Factors for Dimerized Spin Systems
We discuss the transition strength between the disordered ground state and
the basic low-lying triplet excitation for interacting dimer materials by
presenting theoretical calculations and series expansions as well as inelastic
neutron scattering results for the material KCuCl_3. We describe in detail the
features resulting from the presence of two differently oriented dimers per
unit cell and show how energies and spectral weights of the resulting two modes
are related to each other. We present results from the perturbation expansion
in the interdimer interaction strength and thus demonstrate that the wave
vector dependence of the simple dimer approximation is modified in higher
orders. Explicit results are given in 10th order for dimers coupled in 1D, and
in 2nd order for dimers coupled in 3D with application to KCuCl_3 and TlCuCl_3.Comment: 17 pages, 6 figures, part 2 is based on cond-mat/021133
The inverse scattering problem at fixed energy based on the Marchenko equation for an auxiliary Sturm-Liouville operator
A new approach is proposed to the solution of the quantum mechanical inverse
scattering problem at fixed energy. The method relates the fixed energy phase
shifts to those arising in an auxiliary Sturm-Liouville problem via the
interpolation theory of the Weyl-Titchmarsh m-function. Then a Marchenko
equation is solved to obtain the potential.Comment: 6 pages, 8 eps figure
Ground State and Elementary Excitations of the S=1 Kagome Heisenberg Antiferromagnet
Low energy spectrum of the S=1 kagom\'e Heisenberg antiferromagnet (KHAF) is
studied by means of exact diagonalization and the cluster expansion. The
magnitude of the energy gap of the magnetic excitation is consistent with the
recent experimental observation for \mpynn. In contrast to the KHAF,
the non-magnetic excitations have finite energy gap comparable to the magnetic
excitation. As a physical picture of the ground state, the hexagon singlet
solid state is proposed and verified by variational analysis.Comment: 5 pages, 7 eps figures, 2 tables, Fig. 4 correcte
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