Marian Gallagher, Professional: Librarian, Scholar, Teacher

For more than three decades Marian G. Gallagher has been Law Librarian and Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law. During this time she has become one of the most highly respected and warmly regarded members of the Washington legal and university communities. Total professional competency and continued excellence in job performance have commanded the respect; a keen intellect, unfailing courtesy and consideration, and a delightful wit have engendered the affection

Security Transactions—Priority—Federal Tax Liens and Future Advance Mortgages

In American Surety Co. v. Sundberg the Washington Supreme Court made a startling encroachment upon the sanctity of a secured mortgage. Using the United States Supreme Court\u27s test of choateness, the court held that the lien of a mortgage securing future advances is subordinate to federal tax liens filed subsequent to the filing of the mortgage, but prior to advances for which the lien was claimed

Dynamical conductivity at the dirty superconductor-metal quantum phase transition

We study the transport properties of ultrathin disordered nanowires in the neighborhood of the superconductor-metal quantum phase transition. To this end we combine numerical calculations with analytical strong-disorder renormalization group results. The quantum critical conductivity at zero temperature diverges logarithmically as a function of frequency. In the metallic phase, it obeys activated scaling associated with an infinite-randomness quantum critical point. We extend the scaling theory to higher dimensions and discuss implications for experiments.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures; (v2) minor typos corrected, published versio

From stripe to checkerboard order on the square lattice in the presence of quenched disorder

We discuss the effects of quenched disorder on a model of charge density wave (CDW) ordering on the square lattice. Our model may be applicable to the cuprate superconductors, where a random electrostatic potential exists in the CuO2 planes as a result of the presence of charged dopants. We argue that the presence of a random potential can affect the unidirectionality of the CDW order, characterized by an Ising order parameter. Coupling to a unidirectional CDW, the random potential can lead to the formation of domains with 90 degree relative orientation, thus tending to restore the rotational symmetry of the underlying lattice. We find that the correlation length of the Ising order can be significantly larger than the CDW correlation length. For a checkerboard CDW on the other hand, disorder generates spatial anisotropies on short length scales and thus some degree of unidirectionality. We quantify these disorder effects and suggest new techniques for analyzing the local density of states (LDOS) data measured in scanning tunneling microscopy experiments.Comment: 10 pages, 11 figures; added referenc

North Pacific Fisheries Treaties and International Law of the Seas

Fisheries problems in the North Pacific are not new. In the past century, disputes between nations have developed over whaling, fur sealing, halibut and salmon fishing. Currently, crises are again in the making concerning the utilization of certain fishery stocks of this area. The purpose of this comment is to provide a framework of international law of the sea concepts within which the current problems can be examined

Hot stuff: Research and policy principles for heat decarbonisation through smart electrification

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available on open access from Elsevier via the DOI in this recordThere is a need for major greenhouse gas emission reductions from heating in order to meet global decarbonisation goals. Electricity is expected to meet much of the heat demand currently provided by fossil fuels in the future and heat pumps may have an important role. This electrification transformation is not without challenges. Through a detailed narrative review alongside expert elicitation, we propose four principles for heat decarbonisation via electrification: putting energy efficiency first, valuing heat as a flexible load, understanding the emission impacts of heat electrification and designing electricity tariffs to reward flexibility. As a route to heat decarbonisation, when combined, these principles can offer significant consumer and carbon reduction benefits. In the short term these principles can encourage the smooth integration of heat electrification and in the longer term these principles are expected to reduce the scale of required infrastructural expansion. We propose a number of policy mechanisms which can be used to support these principles including (building) regulation, financial support, carbon standards, energy efficiency obligations and pricing.Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC

Nonlinear ac conductivity of one-dimensional Mott insulators

We discuss a semiclassical calculation of low energy charge transport in one-dimensional (1d) insulators with a focus on Mott insulators, whose charge degrees of freedom are gapped due to the combination of short range interactions and a periodic lattice potential. Combining RG and instanton methods, we calculate the nonlinear ac conductivity and interpret the result in terms of multi-photon absorption. We compare the result of the semiclassical calculation for interacting systems to a perturbative, fully quantum mechanical calculation of multi-photon absorption in a 1d band insulator and find good agreement when the number of simultaneously absorbed photons is large.Comment: Dedicated to Thomas Nattermann on the occasion of his 60th birthday. To appear in JSTAT. 5 pages, 2 figure

Partition Functions of Non-Abelian Quantum Hall States

Partition functions of edge excitations are obtained for non-Abelian Hall states in the second Landau level, such as the anti-Read-Rezayi state, the Bonderson-Slingerland hierarchy and the Wen non-Abelian fluid, as well as for the non-Abelian spin-singlet state. The derivation is straightforward and unique starting from the non-Abelian conformal field theory data and solving the modular invariance conditions. The partition functions provide a complete account of the excitation spectrum and are used to describe experiments of Coulomb blockade and thermopower.Comment: 42 pages, 3 figures; published version; minor corrections to sect. 4.

Neutral mode heat transport and fractional quantum Hall shot noise

We study nonequilibrium edge state transport in the fractional quantum Hall regime for states with one or several counter-propagating neutral modes. We consider a setup in which the neutral modes are heated by a hot spot, and where heat transported by the neutral modes causes a temperature difference between the upper and lower edges in a Hall bar. This temperature difference is probed by the excess noise it causes for scattering across a quantum point contact. We find that the excess noise in the quantum point contact provides evidence for counter-propagating neutral modes, and we calculate its dependence on both the temperature difference between the edges and on source drain bias.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure

Portfolio Optimization and the Random Magnet Problem

Diversification of an investment into independently fluctuating assets reduces its risk. In reality, movement of assets are are mutually correlated and therefore knowledge of cross--correlations among asset price movements are of great importance. Our results support the possibility that the problem of finding an investment in stocks which exposes invested funds to a minimum level of risk is analogous to the problem of finding the magnetization of a random magnet. The interactions for this ``random magnet problem'' are given by the cross-correlation matrix {\bf \sf C} of stock returns. We find that random matrix theory allows us to make an estimate for {\bf \sf C} which outperforms the standard estimate in terms of constructing an investment which carries a minimum level of risk.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, revte