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An ab-initio study of the electron-phonon coupling within a Cr(001)-surface
It is experimentally well established that the Cr(001)-surface exhibits a
sharp resonance around the Fermi level. However, there is no consensus about
its physical origin. It is proposed to be either due to a single particle dz2
surface state renormalised by electron-phonon coupling or the orbital Kondo
effect involving the degenerate dxz/dyz states. In this work we examine the
electron-phonon coupling of the Cr(001)-surface by means of ab-initio
calculations in the form of density functional perturbation theory. More
precisely, the electron-phonon mass-enhancement factor of the surface layer is
investigated for the 3d states. For the majority and minority spin dz2 surface
states we find values of 0.19 and 0.16. We show that these calculated
electron-phonon mass-enhancement factors are not in agreement with the
experimental data even if we use realistic values for the temperature range and
surface Debye frequency for the fit of the experimental data. More precisely,
then experimentally an electron-phonon mass-enhancement factor of 0.70~0.10 is
obtained, which is not in agreement with our calculated values of 0.19 and
0.16. Therefore, we conclude that the experimentally observed resonance at the
Cr(001)-surface is not due to polaronic effects, but due to electron-electron
correlation effects
Magnetic properties of Co doped Nb clusters
From magnetic deflection experiments on isolated Co doped Nb clusters we made
the interesting observation of some clusters being magnetic, while others
appear to be non-magnetic. There are in principle two explanations for this
behavior. Either the local moment at the Co site is completely quenched or it
is screened by the delocalized electrons of the cluster, i.e. the Kondo effect.
In order to reveal the physical origin, we conducted a combined theoretical and
experimental investigation. First, we established the ground state geometry of
the clusters by comparing the experimental vibrational spectra with those
obtained from a density functional theory study. Then, we performed an analyses
based on the Anderson impurity model. It appears that the non-magnetic clusters
are due to a complete quenching of the local Co moment and not due to the Kondo
effect. In addition, the magnetic behavior of the clusters can be understood
from an inspection of their electronic structure. Here magnetism is favored
when the effective hybridization around the chemical potential is small, while
the absence of magnetism is signalled by a large effective hybridization around
the chemical potential.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figure
Non-locality and Medium Effects in the Exclusive Photoproduction of Eta Mesons on Nuclei
A relativistic model for the quasifree exclusive photoproduction of
mesons on nuclei is extended to include both non-local and medium effects. The
reaction is assumed to proceed via the dominant contribution of the
S(1535) resonance. The complicated integrals resulting from the
non-locality are simplified using a modified version of a method given by
Cooper and Maxwell. The non-locality effects are found to affect the magnitude
of the cross section. Some possibilities reflecting the effects of the medium
on the propagation and properties of the intermediate S resonance are
studied. The effects of allowing the S to interact with the medium via
mean field scalar and vector potentials are considered. Both broadening of
width and reduction in mass of the resonance lead to a suppression of the
calculated cross sections.Comment: 19 pages, 7 figure
Enhancement of the Curie temperature in small particles of weak itinerant ferromagnets
Self consistent renormalization theory of itinerant ferromagnets is used to
calculate the Curie temperature of clusters down to approximately 100 atoms in
size. In these clusters the electrons responsible for the magnetic properties
are assumed to be (weakly) itinerant. It is shown that the Curie temperature
can be larger than in the bulk. The effect originates from the phenomenon of
level repulsion in chaotic quantum systems, which suppresses spin fluctuations.
Since the latter destroy the magnetic order the resulting Curie temperature
increases, contrary to expectations of the naive Stoner picture. The
calculations are done assuming that the energy levels of the cluster are
described by the Gaussian Orthogonal Ensemble of random matrix theory.Comment: Phys. Rev. B, accepted for publicatio
Topologies of nodal sets of random band limited functions
It is shown that the topologies and nestings of the zero and nodal sets of
random (Gaussian) band limited functions have universal laws of distribution.
Qualitative features of the supports of these distributions are determined. In
particular the results apply to random monochromatic waves and to random real
algebraic hyper-surfaces in projective space.Comment: 62 pages. Major revision following referee repor
Thin front propagation in random shear flows
Front propagation in time dependent laminar flows is investigated in the
limit of very fast reaction and very thin fronts, i.e. the so-called
geometrical optics limit. In particular, we consider fronts evolving in time
correlated random shear flows, modeled in terms of Ornstein-Uhlembeck
processes. We show that the ratio between the time correlation of the flow and
an intrinsic time scale of the reaction dynamics (the wrinkling time ) is
crucial in determining both the front propagation speed and the front spatial
patterns. The relevance of time correlation in realistic flows is briefly
discussed in the light of the bending phenomenon, i.e. the decrease of
propagation speed observed at high flow intensities.Comment: 5 Revtex4 pages, 4 figures include
Detecting Distracted Driving with Deep Learning
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017Driver distraction is the leading factor in most car crashes and near-crashes. This paper discusses the types, causes and impacts of distracted driving. A deep learning approach is then presented for the detection of such driving behaviors using images of the driver, where an enhancement has been made to a standard convolutional neural network (CNN). Experimental results on Kaggle challenge dataset have confirmed the capability of a convolutional neural network (CNN) in this complicated computer vision task and illustrated the contribution of the CNN enhancement to a better pattern recognition accuracy.Peer reviewe
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