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Hole doped Hubbard ladders
The formation of stripes in six-leg Hubbard ladders with cylindrical boundary
conditions is investigated for two different hole dopings, where the amplitude
of the hole density modulation is determined in the limits of vanishing DMRG
truncation errors and infinitely long ladders. The results give strong evidence
that stripes exist in the ground state of these systems for strong but not for
weak Hubbard couplings. The doping dependence of these findings is analysed.Comment: 2 pages, 2 figures, submitted to SCES0
Effect of damper on overall and blade-element performance of a compressor rotor having a tip speed of 1151 feet per second and an aspect ratio of 3.6
The overall and blade-element performance of two configurations of a moderately high aspect ratio transonic compressor rotor are presented. The subject rotor has conventional blade dampers. The performance is compared with a rotor utilizing dual wire friction dampers. At design speed the subject achieved a pressure ratio of 1.52 and efficiency of 0.89 at a near design weight flow of 72.1 pounds per second. The rotor with wire dampers gave consistently higher pressure ratios at each speed, but efficiencies for the two rotors were about the same. Stall margin for the subject rotor was 20.4 percent, but for the wire damped rotor only 4.0 percent
Onto new horizons: Learnings from the WeObserve project to strengthen awareness, acceptability and sustainability of Citizen Observatories in Europe
This presentation, delivered at the ECSA conference 2020, discusses key insights and recommendations acquired from the WeObserve project, to inform the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme as well as other funding programmes and CO practitioners more generally. WeObserve delivers the first European-wide Citizen Observatory (CO) knowledge platform to share and highlight best practices and to identify and address challenges to inform practitioners, policy makers and funders of (future) COs
Herbicide resistance: Experiences east of the Mississippi River
The continual evolution of weed species and populations resistant to herbicides from one or more mechanism-of-action families represents one of the most daunting challenges faced by weed management practitioners. Waterhemp has evolved resistance to more herbicide mechanisms of action than any other Illinois weed species, including resistance to inhibitors of acetolactate synthase (ALS), photosystem II (PSII), protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO), enolpyruvyl shikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS) and hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD). Not every individual waterhemp plant is r esistant to one or more herbicides, but the majority of field-level waterhemp populations contain one or more types of herbicide resistance. Perhaps even more daunting is the occurrence of multiple herbicide resistances within individual plants and/or fields. Waterhemp plants and populations demonstrating multiple herbicide resistance are becoming increasingly common and greatly reduce the number of herbicide options that remain effective for their control
Luttinger liquid versus charge density wave behaviour in the one-dimensional spinless fermion Holstein model
We discuss the nature of the different ground states of the half-filled
Holstein model of spinless fermions in 1D. In the metallic regime we determine
the renormalised effective coupling constant and the velocity of the charge
excitations by a density-matrix renormalisation group (DMRG) finite-size
scaling approach. At low (high) phonon frequencies the Luttinger liquid is
characterised by an attractive (repulsive) effective interaction. In the
charge-density wave Peierls-distorted state the charge structure factor scales
to a finite value indicating long-range order.Comment: 2 pages, 3 figures, submitted to SCES'0
Empirical testing of hypotheses about the evolution of genomic imprinting in mammals
The close interaction between mother and offspring in mammals is thought to contribute to the evolution of genomic imprinting or parent-of-origin dependent gene expression. Empirical tests of theories about the evolution of imprinting have been scant for several reasons. Models make different assumptions about the traits affected by imprinted genes and the scenarios in which imprinting is predicted to have been selected for. Thus, competing hypotheses cannot readily be tested against each other. Further, it is far from clear how predictions about expression patterns of genes with specific phenotypic effects can be tested given current methodology of assaying gene expression levels, be it in the brain or in other tissues. We first set out a scenario for testing competing hypotheses and delineate the different assumptions and predictions of models. We then outline how predictions may be tested using mouse models such as intercrosses or recombinant inbred (RI) systems that can be phenotyped for traits relevant to imprinting theories. Further, we briefly discuss different molecular approaches that may be used in conjunction with experiments to ascertain expression patterns of imprinted genes and thus the testing of predictions
Parallelization Strategies for Density Matrix Renormalization Group Algorithms on Shared-Memory Systems
Shared-memory parallelization (SMP) strategies for density matrix
renormalization group (DMRG) algorithms enable the treatment of complex systems
in solid state physics. We present two different approaches by which
parallelization of the standard DMRG algorithm can be accomplished in an
efficient way. The methods are illustrated with DMRG calculations of the
two-dimensional Hubbard model and the one-dimensional Holstein-Hubbard model on
contemporary SMP architectures. The parallelized code shows good scalability up
to at least eight processors and allows us to solve problems which exceed the
capability of sequential DMRG calculations.Comment: 18 pages, 9 figure
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