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Nonlinear conductance of nanowires - A signature of Luttinger liquid effects?
We analyze recent measurements of the room temperature current-voltage
characteristics of gold nanowires, whose zero current conductance is quantized
in units of . A faster than linear increase of current with voltage was
observed at low voltages beginning from V. We analyze the nonlinear
behavior in terms of a dynamic Coulomb blockade of conducting modes and show
that it may be explained as a Luttinger-liquid effect.Comment: 13 pages, latex with supplied stylefile, 3 figures in eps format,
submitted to Superlattices and Microstructure
No other recourse but to sue? The implications of Alex McKinnon’s lawsuit against the NRL
The article examines the legal, insurance, compensation and impact of spinal cord injury perspectives on the Alex McKinnon case. Alex McKinnon had a spinal cord injury caused by a tackle in the National Rugby League in 2014. The cases brought into sharp focus in series of workplace, sport insurance an
Volatility and Agent Adaptability in a Self-Organizing Market
We present results for the so-called `bar-attendance' model of market
behavior: adaptive agents, each possessing prediction rules chosen
randomly from a pool, attempt to attend a bar whose cut-off is . The global
attendance time-series has a mean near, but not equal to, . The variance, or
`volatility', can show a minimum with increasing adaptability of the individual
agents.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figs. [email protected], [email protected]
Entanglement of distant optomechanical systems
We theoretically investigate the possibility to generate non-classical states
of optical and mechanical modes of optical cavities, distant from each other. A
setup comprised of two identical cavities, each with one fixed and one movable
mirror and coupled by an optical fiber, is studied in detail. We show that with
such a setup there is potential to generate entanglement between the distant
cavities, involving both optical and mechanical modes. The scheme is robust
with respect to dissipation, and nonlocal correlations are found to exist in
the steady state at finite temperatures.Comment: 12 pages (published with minor modifications
High-temperature excess current and quantum suppression of electronic backscattering in a 1-D system
We consider the electronic current through a one-dimensional conductor in the
ballistic transport regime and show that the quantum oscillations of a weakly
pinned single scattering target results in a temperature- and bias-voltage
independent excess current at large bias voltages. This is a genuine effect on
transport that derives from an exponential reduction of electronic
backscattering in the elastic channel due to quantum delocalization of the
scatterer and from suppression of low-energy electron backscattering in the
inelastic channels caused by the Pauli exclusion principle. We show that both
the mass of the target and the frequency of its quantum vibrations can be
measured by studying the differential conductance and the excess current. We
apply our analysis to the particular case of a weakly pinned C60 molecule
encapsulated by a single-wall carbon nanotube and find that the discussed
phenomena are experimentally observable.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Electrical Manipulation of Nanomagnets
We demonstrate a possibility to manipulate the magnetic coupling between two
nanomagnets with a help of ac electric field. In the scheme suggested the
magnetic coupling in question is mediated by a magnetic particle contacting
with both of the nanomagnets through the tunnel barriers. The electric field
providing a successive suppression of the barriers leads to pumping of
magnetization through the mediating particle. Time dependent dynamics of the
particle magnetization allows to to switch between ferro- and antiferromagnetic
couplings.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
VARIATION AND TREND OF SEA LEVEL DERIVED FROM ALTIMETRY SATELLITE AND TIDE GAUGE IN CILACAP AND BENOA COASTAL AREAS
Observation of sea levels continuously is very important in order to adapt the disasters in the coastal areas. Conventionally observations of sea level using tide gauge, but the number of tide gauge installed along the coast of Indonesia is still limited. Altimetry satellite data is one solution; therefore it is necessary to assess the potential and accuracy of altimetry satellite data to complement the sea level data from tide gauges. The study was conducted in the coastal waters of Cilacap and Bali by analysis data Envisat satellite altimetry for period 2003 to 2010 and data compiled from a variety of satellite altimetry from 2006 to 2014. Data tidal was used as a comparison of altimetry satellite data. The altimetry satellite data in Cilacap and Benoa waters more than 90% could be used to assess the variation and the sea level rise during the period 2003-2010. The rate of sea level rise both the data of tidal and satellite altimetry data indicates the same rate was 3.5 mm/year in Cilacap. in Benoa are 4.7 mm/year and 5.60 mm/year respectively
COASTAL UPWELLING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF WESTERLY WIND BURST IN THE NORTH OF PAPUA CONTINENT, WESTERN PACIFIC
Coastal upwelling play an important role in biological productivity and the carbon cycle in the ocean. This research aimed to examine the phenomenon of coastal upwelling that occur in the coastal waters north of Papua continent under the influence of Westerly Wind Burst(WWB) prior to the development of El Nino in the Pacific. Data consisted of sea surface temperature, vertical oceanic temperature, ocean color satellite image, wind stress and vector wind speed image, sea surface high, and Nino 3.4 index. Coastal upwelling events in the northern coastal waters of Papua continent occurred in response to westerly winds and westerly wind burst (WWBs) during December to March characterizing by low sea surface temperature (SST) (25 - 28C), negative sea surface high deviation and phytoplankton blooming, except during pre-development of the El Nino 2006/2007 where weak upwelling followed by positive sea surface high deviation. Strong coastal upwelling occurred during two WWBs in December and March1996/1997 with maximum wind speed in March produced a strong El Nino 1997/1998. Upwelling generally occurred along coastal waters of Jayapura to Papua New Guinea with more intensive in coastal waters north of Papua New Guinea indicated by Ekman transport and Ekman layer depth maximum
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