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Optical Constants of Silver and Barium in the Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectral Region
Optical constants of silver and barium in vacuum ultraviolet spectral regio
An Evening Spent with Bill van Zwet
Willem Rutger van Zwet was born in Leiden, the Netherlands, on March 31,
1934. He received his high school education at the Gymnasium Haganum in The
Hague and obtained his Masters degree in Mathematics at the University of
Leiden in 1959. After serving in the army for almost two years, he obtained his
Ph.D. at the University of Amsterdam in 1964, with Jan Hemelrijk as advisor. In
1965, he was appointed Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of
Leiden and promoted to Full Professor in 1968. He remained in Leiden until his
retirement in 1999, while also serving as Associate Professor at the University
of Oregon (1965), William Newman Professor at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill (1990--1996), frequent visitor and Miller Professor (1997) at
the University of California at Berkeley, director of the Thomas Stieltjes
Institute of Mathematics in the Netherlands (1992--1999), and founding director
of the European research institute EURANDOM (1997--2000). At Leiden, he was
Dean of the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (1982--1984). He served
as chair of the scientific council and member of the board of the Mathematics
Centre at Amsterdam (1983--1996) and the Leiden University Fund (1993--2005).Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-STS261 the Statistical
Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Remembering Wassily Hoeffding
Wasssily Hoeffding's terminal illness and untimely death in 1991 put an end
to efforts that were made to interview him for Statistical Science. An account
of his scientific work is given in Fisher and Sen [The Collected Works of
Wassily Hoeffding (1994) Springer], but the present authors felt that the
statistical community should also be told about the life of this remarkable
man. He contributed much to statistical science, but will also live on in the
memory of those who knew him as a kind and modest teacher and friend, whose
courage and learning were matched by a wonderful sense of humor.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-STS271 the Statistical
Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Preparation and evaluation of fiber metal nickel battery plaques third quarterly progress report, feb. 1 - apr. 30, 1965
Effect of fiber size opon internal surface area and pore size of nickel fiber metal plaque
The tunneling conductance between a superconducting STM tip and an out-of-equilibrium carbon nanotube
We calculate the current and differential conductance for the junction
between a superconducting (SC) STM tip and a Luttinger liquid (LL). For an
infinite single-channel LL, the SC coherence peaks are preserved in the
tunneling conductance for interactions weaker than a critical value, while for
strong interactions (g <0.38), they disappear and are replaced by cusp-like
features. For a finite-size wire in contact with non-interacting leads, we find
however that the peaks are restored even for extremely strong interactions. In
the presence of a source-drain voltage the peaks/cusps split, and the split is
equal to the voltage. At zero temperature, even very strong interactions do not
smear the two peaks into a broader one; this implies that the recent
experiments of Y.-F. Chen et. al. (Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 036804 (2009)) do not
rule out the existence of strong interactions in carbon nanotubes.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
Exact dynamical AdS black holes and wormholes with a Klein-Gordon field
We present several classes of exact solutions in the Einstein-Klein-Gordon
system with a cosmological constant. The spacetime has spherical, plane, or
hyperbolic symmetry and the higher-dimensional solutions are obtained in a
closed form only in the plane symmetric case. Among them, the class-I solution
represents an asymptotically locally anti-de Sitter (AdS) dynamical black hole
or wormhole. In four and higher dimensions, the generalized Misner-Sharp
quasi-local mass blows up at AdS infinity, inferring that the spacetime is only
locally AdS. In three dimensions, the scalar field becomes trivial and the
solution reduces to the BTZ black hole.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables; v2, results strengthened, argument on
trapping horizon corrected; v3, argument on locally AdS property added,
accepted for publication in Physical Review
Pinpointing Gap Minima in Ba(FeCoAs \textit{via} Band Structure Calculations and Electronic Raman Scattering
A detailed knowledge of the gap structure for the Fe-pnictide superconductors
is still rather rudimentary, with several conflicting reports of either nodes,
deep gap minima, or fully isotropic gaps on the Fermi surface sheets, both in
the plane and along the c-axis. In this paper we present
considerations for electronic Raman scattering which can help clarify the gap
structure and topology using different light scattering geometries. Using
density functional calculations for the Raman vertices, it is shown that the
location of the gap minima may occur on loops stretching over a portion of the
c-axis in Ba(FeCoAs.Comment: 4+ pages, three figure
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