Numerical Computation of Thermoelectric and Thermomagnetic Effects

Phenomenological equations describing the Seebeck, Hall, Nernst, Peltier, Ettingshausen, and Righi-Leduc effects are numerically solved for the temperature, electric current, and electrochemical potential distributions of semiconductors under magnetic field. The results are compared to experiments.Comment: 4 pages, 7 figures. Submitted to Proceedings of XVII International Conference on Thermoelectrics (ICT98), 1998 Nagoya, Japa

Microcomputer system for medium-sized and experimental finite element analysis

The development of a microcomputer system is described. A series of finite element analysis programs are evaluated in terms of their cost effective application within the microcomputer system. It is shown that the system is practically maintenance free and can be sustained by individual laboratories of standard scale in the educational or academic environment

A Field-Theoretic Approach to Connes' Gauge Theory on M4×Z2M_4\times Z_2

Connes' gauge theory on $M_4\times Z_2$ is reformulated in the Lagrangian level. It is pointed out that the field strength in Connes' gauge theory is not unique. We explicitly construct a field strength different from Connes' one and prove that our definition leads to the generation-number independent Higgs potential. It is also shown that the nonuniqueness is related to the assumption that two different extensions of the differential geometry are possible when the extra one-form basis $\chi$ is introduced to define the differential geometry on $M_4\times Z_2$. Our reformulation is applied to the standard model based on Connes' color-flavor algebra. A connection between the unimodularity condition and the electric charge quantization is then discussed in the presence or absence of $\nu_R$.Comment: LaTeX file, 16 page

BRST invariant Lagrangian of spontaneously broken gauge theories in noncommutative geometry

The quantization of spontaneously broken gauge theories in noncommutative geometry(NCG) has been sought for some time, because quantization is crucial for making the NCG approach a reliable and physically acceptable theory. Lee, Hwang and Ne'eman recently succeeded in realizing the BRST quantization of gauge theories in NCG in the matrix derivative approach proposed by Coquereaux et al. The present author has proposed a characteristic formulation to reconstruct a gauge theory in NCG on the discrete space $M_4\times Z_{_N}$. Since this formulation is a generalization of the differential geometry on the ordinary manifold to that on the discrete manifold, it is more familiar than other approaches. In this paper, we show that within our formulation we can obtain the BRST invariant Lagrangian in the same way as Lee, Hwang and Ne'eman and apply it to the SU(2)$\times$U(1) gauge theory.Comment: RevTeX, page

Reconstruction of the spontaneously broken gauge theory in non-commutative geometry

The scheme previously proposed by the present authors is modified to incorporate the strong interaction by affording the direct product internal symmetry. We do not need to prepare the extra discrete space for the color gauge group responsible for the strong interaction to reconstruct the standard model and the left-right symmetric gauge model(LRSM). The approach based on non-commutative geometry leads us to presents many attractive points such as the unified picture of the gauge and Higgs field as the generalized connection on the discrete space; Minkowski space multipied by N-points discrete space. This approach leads us to unified picture of gauge and Higgs fields as the generalized connection. The standard model needs N=2 discrete space for reconstruction in this formalism. \lr is still alive as a model with the intermediate symmetry of the spontaneously broken SO(10) grand unified theory(GUT). N=3 discrete space is needed for the reconstruction of LRSM to include two Higgs bosons $\phi$ and $\xi$ which are as usual transformed as (2,2*,0)$ and (1,3,-2) under left-handed SU(2)x right-handed SU(2)x U(1), respectively. xi is responsible to make the right handed-neutrino Majorana fermion and so well explains the seesaw mechanism. Up and down quarks have the different masses through the vacuum expectation value of phi.Comment: 21 page

Windows in the Milky Way

The objectives were twofold: (1) to study the IRAS emission levels in the vicinity of Baade's Window and in other optically transparent regions near the Galactic Center; and (2) to study the IRAS emission levels along sightlines in the Milky Way that exhibit very little CO emission. Tests were attempted to see whether the optically transparent 'windows' near the Galactic center can be identified (as FIR-weak regions) in the IRAS data base; and if so, whether the CO weak regions found elsewhere in the Milky Way represent similarly FIR weak and thus optically transparent sightlines through the Galaxy. The CO weak regions were also targeted in an effort to study the diffuse intercloud dust and its warming by the interstellar radiation field