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Vertical distribution of ozone and the variation of tropopause heights based on ozonesonde and satellite observations
The distribution of atmospheric ozone is nonuniform both in space and time. Local ozone concentration vary with altitude, latitude, longitude, and season. Two year ozonesonde data, January 1981 to December 1982, observed at four Canadian stations and 2.5 year backscattered ultraviolet experiment data on the Nimbus-4 satellite, April 1970 to August 1972, observed over five American stations were used to study the relationship between the total ozone, vertical height distribution of the ozone mixing ratio, vertical height distribution of half total ozone, and the local tropopause height. The results show that there is a postive correlation between total ozone in Dobson Units and the tropopause height in terms of atmospheric pressure. This result suggests that local intrusion of the statosphere into the troposphere, or the local decreasing of tropopause height could occur if there is a local increasing of total ozone. A comparison of the vertical height distribution of the ozone mixing ratio, the modified pressure height of half total ozone and the tropopause height shows that the pressure height of an ozone mixing ratio of 0.3 micrograms/g, and the modified pressure height of half total ozone are very well correlated with the tropopause pressure height
Geometrical interpretation and graphical solution to minimum energy discrete-data control Scientific report no. 9
Linear PAM regulator minimum energy design by geometric interpretation and graphical solutio
Mining and Incentive Concession Contracts
This paper studies the design of a mining concession contract as a multi-period autoselection problem where production is the depletion of a non renewable resource. As compared to symmetric information, we show that overproduction (resp. underproduction) is optimal in the initial phase (resp. terminal phase ) of the resource extraction program. Also, asymmetric information lengthens the contract duration but reduces the scarcity rent. Finally, when there are several agents competing for contract bid, we show that optimal auctioning could be used to award the concession, assigning the lowest cost agent to carry out the extraction.ADVERSE SELECTION; EXHAUSTIBILITY; OVERPRODUCTION
On 1-loop diagrams in AdS space and the random disorder problem
We study the complex scalar loop corrections to the boundary-boundary gauge
two point function in pure AdS space in Poincare coordinates, in the presence
of a boundary quadratic perturbation to the scalar. These perturbations
correspond to double trace perturbations in the dual CFT and modify the
boundary conditions of the bulk scalars in AdS. We find that, in addition to
the usual UV divergences, the 1-loop calculation suffers from a divergence
originating in the limit as the loop vertices approach the AdS horizon. We show
that this type of divergence is independent of the boundary coupling, and
making use of which we extract the finite relative variation of the imaginary
part of the loop via Cutkosky rules as the boundary perturbation varies.
Applying our methods to compute the effects of a time-dependent impurity to the
conductivities using the replica trick in AdS/CFT, we find that generally an
IR-relevant disorder reduces the conductivity and that in the extreme low
frequency limit the correction due to the impurities overwhelms the planar CFT
result even though it is supposedly suppressed. Comments on the effect
of time-independent impurity in such a system are presented.Comment: 22 pages, 3 figures, Boundary conditions clarified, some typos fixed,
presentations improved and references adde
Split Two-Higgs-Doublet Model and Neutrino Condensation
We split the two-Higgs-doublet model by assuming very different vevs for the
two doublets: the vev is at weak scale (174 GeV) for the doublet \Phi_1 and at
neutrino-mass scale (10^{-2} \sim 10^{-3} eV) for the doublet \Phi_2. \Phi_1 is
responsible for giving masses to all fermions except neutrinos; while \Phi_2 is
responsible for giving neutrino masses through its tiny vev without introducing
see-saw mechanism. Among the predicted five physical scalars H, h, A^0 and
H^{\pm}, the CP-even scalar h is as light as 10^{-2} \sim 10^{-3}eV while
others are at weak scale. We identify h as the cosmic dark energy field and the
other CP-even scalar H as the Standard Model Higgs boson; while the CP-odd A^0
and the charged H^{\pm} are the exotic scalars to be discovered at future
colliders. Also we demonstrate a possible dynamical origin for the doublet
\Phi_2 from neutrino condensation caused by some unknown dynamics.Comment: version in Europhys. Lett. (discussions added
Enhanced thermoelectric figure of merit in vertical graphene junctions
In this work, we investigate thermoelectric properties of junctions
consisting of two partially overlapped graphene sheets coupled to each other in
the cross-plane direction. It is shown that because of the weak van-der Waals
interactions between graphene layers, the phonon conductance in these junctions
is strongly reduced, compared to that of single graphene layer structures,
while their electrical performance is weakly affected. By exploiting this
effect, we demonstrate that the thermoelectric figure of merit can reach values
higher than 1 at room temperature in junctions made of gapped graphene
materials, for instance, graphene nanoribbons and graphene nanomeshes. The
dependence of thermoelectric properties on the junction length is also
discussed. This theoretical study hence suggests an efficient way to enhance
thermoelectric efficiency of graphene devices.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, submitte
Complete Set of Homogeneous Isotropic Analytic Solutions in Scalar-Tensor Cosmology with Radiation and Curvature
We study a model of a scalar field minimally coupled to gravity, with a
specific potential energy for the scalar field, and include curvature and
radiation as two additional parameters. Our goal is to obtain analytically the
complete set of configurations of a homogeneous and isotropic universe as a
function of time. This leads to a geodesically complete description of the
universe, including the passage through the cosmological singularities, at the
classical level. We give all the solutions analytically without any
restrictions on the parameter space of the model or initial values of the
fields. We find that for generic solutions the universe goes through a singular
(zero-size) bounce by entering a period of antigravity at each big crunch and
exiting from it at the following big bang. This happens cyclically again and
again without violating the null energy condition. There is a special subset of
geodesically complete non-generic solutions which perform zero-size bounces
without ever entering the antigravity regime in all cycles. For these, initial
values of the fields are synchronized and quantized but the parameters of the
model are not restricted. There is also a subset of spatial curvature-induced
solutions that have finite-size bounces in the gravity regime and never enter
the antigravity phase. These exist only within a small continuous domain of
parameter space without fine tuning initial conditions. To obtain these
results, we identified 25 regions of a 6-parameter space in which the complete
set of analytic solutions are explicitly obtained.Comment: 38 pages, 29 figure
String Junctions and Holographic Interfaces
In this paper we study half-BPS type IIB supergravity solutions with multiple
asymptotic regions, where is either or
. These solutions were first constructed in [1] and have geometries given
by the warped product of over , where
is a Riemann surface. We show that the holographic boundary has the
structure of a star graph, i.e. half-lines joined at a point. The attractor
mechanism and the relation of the solutions to junctions of self-dual strings
in six-dimensional supergravity are discussed. The solutions of [1] are
constructed introducing two meromorphic and two harmonic functions defined on
. We focus our analysis on solutions corresponding to junctions of
three different conformal field theories and show that the conditions for
having a solution charged only under Ramond-Ramond three-form fields reduce to
relations involving the positions of the poles and the residues of the relevant
harmonic and meromorphic functions. The degeneration limit in which some of the
poles collide is analyzed in detail. Finally, we calculate the holographic
boundary entropy for a junction of three CFTs and obtain a simple expression in
terms of poles and residues.Comment: 54 pages, 6 figures, pdf-LaTeX, v2: minor change
Theory of Polaron Resonance in Quantum Dots and Quantum-Dot Molecules
The theory of exciton coupling to photons and LO phonons in quantum dots
(QDs) and quantum-dot molecules (QDMs) is presented. Resonant-round trips of
the exciton between the ground (bright) and excited (dark or bright) states
mediated by the LO-phonon alter the decay time and yield the Rabi oscillation.
The initial distributions of the population in the ground and the excited
states dominate the oscillating amplitude and frequency. This property provides
a detectable signature to the information stored in a qubit made from QD or QDM
for a wide range of temperature T. Our results presented herein provide an
explanation to the anomaly on T-dependent decay in self-assembled InGaAs/GaAs
QDMs recently reported by experiment.Comment: 30 pages, 8 figure
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