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Fractal dimension of domain walls in two-dimensional Ising spin glasses
We study domain walls in 2d Ising spin glasses in terms of a minimum-weight
path problem. Using this approach, large systems can be treated exactly. Our
focus is on the fractal dimension of domain walls, which describes via
\simL^{d_f} the growth of the average domain-wall length with %%
systems size . %% 20.07.07 OM %% Exploring systems up to L=320 we
yield for the case of Gaussian disorder, i.e. a much higher
accuracy compared to previous studies. For the case of bimodal disorder, where
many equivalent domain walls exist due to the degeneracy of this model, we
obtain a true lower bound and a (lower) estimate
as upper bound. Furthermore, we study the distributions of the domain-wall
lengths. Their scaling with system size can be described also only by the
exponent , i.e. the distributions are monofractal. Finally, we investigate
the growth of the domain-wall width with system size (``roughness'') and find a
linear behavior.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B; v2: shortened versio
Soliton Models for the Nucleon and Predictions for the Nucleon Spin Structure
In these lectures the three flavor soliton approach for baryons is reviewed.
Effects of flavor symmetry breaking in the baryon wave--functions on axial
current matrix elements are discussed. A bosonized chiral quark model is
considered to outline the computation of spin dependent nucleon structure
functions in the soliton picture.Comment: 12 pages, Lectures presented at the Advanced Study Institute Symmetry
and Spin, Prague, 2001, to appear in the proceedings. References correcte
Cross-correlations in scaling analyses of phase transitions
Thermal or finite-size scaling analyses of importance sampling Monte Carlo
time series in the vicinity of phase transition points often combine different
estimates for the same quantity, such as a critical exponent, with the intent
to reduce statistical fluctuations. We point out that the origin of such
estimates in the same time series results in often pronounced
cross-correlations which are usually ignored even in high-precision studies,
generically leading to significant underestimation of statistical fluctuations.
We suggest to use a simple extension of the conventional analysis taking
correlation effects into account, which leads to improved estimators with often
substantially reduced statistical fluctuations at almost no extra cost in terms
of computation time.Comment: 4 pages, RevTEX4, 3 tables, 1 figur
Chiral Quark Model
In this talk I review studies of hadron properties in bosonized chiral quark
models for the quark flavor dynamics. Mesons are constructed from
Bethe--Salpeter equations and baryons emerge as chiral solitons. Such models
require regularization and I show that the two--fold Pauli--Villars
regularization scheme not only fully regularizes the effective action but also
leads the scaling laws for structure functions. For the nucleon structure
functions the present approach serves to determine the regularization
prescription for structure functions whose leading moments are not given by
matrix elements of local operators. Some numerical results are presented for
the spin structure functions.Comment: Talk presented at the workshop QCD 2002, IIT Kanpur, Nov. 2002, 10
pages, proceedings style files include
Connected component identification and cluster update on GPU
Cluster identification tasks occur in a multitude of contexts in physics and
engineering such as, for instance, cluster algorithms for simulating spin
models, percolation simulations, segmentation problems in image processing, or
network analysis. While it has been shown that graphics processing units (GPUs)
can result in speedups of two to three orders of magnitude as compared to
serial codes on CPUs for the case of local and thus naturally parallelized
problems such as single-spin flip update simulations of spin models, the
situation is considerably more complicated for the non-local problem of cluster
or connected component identification. I discuss the suitability of different
approaches of parallelization of cluster labeling and cluster update algorithms
for calculations on GPU and compare to the performance of serial
implementations.Comment: 15 pages, 14 figures, one table, submitted to PR
Casimir Energies and Pressures for -function Potentials
The Casimir energies and pressures for a massless scalar field associated
with -function potentials in 1+1 and 3+1 dimensions are calculated. For
parallel plane surfaces, the results are finite, coincide with the pressures
associated with Dirichlet planes in the limit of strong coupling, and for weak
coupling do not possess a power-series expansion in 1+1 dimension. The relation
between Casimir energies and Casimir pressures is clarified,and the former are
shown to involve surface terms. The Casimir energy for a -function
spherical shell in 3+1 dimensions has an expression that reduces to the
familiar result for a Dirichlet shell in the strong-coupling limit. However,
the Casimir energy for finite coupling possesses a logarithmic divergence first
appearing in third order in the weak-coupling expansion, which seems
unremovable. The corresponding energies and pressures for a derivative of a
-function potential for the same spherical geometry generalizes the TM
contributions of electrodynamics. Cancellation of divergences can occur between
the TE (-function) and TM (derivative of -function) Casimir
energies. These results clarify recent discussions in the literature.Comment: 16 pages, 1 eps figure, uses REVTeX
Ground-State Properties of a Heisenberg Spin Glass Model with a Hybrid Genetic Algorithm
We developed a genetic algorithm (GA) in the Heisenberg model that combines a
triadic crossover and a parameter-free genetic algorithm. Using the algorithm,
we examined the ground-state stiffness of the Heisenberg model in three
dimensions up to a moderate size range. Results showed the stiffness constant
of in the periodic-antiperiodic boundary condition method and that
of in the open-boundary-twist method. We considered the
origin of the difference in between the two methods and suggested that
both results show the same thing: the ground state of the open system is stable
against a weak perturbation.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figure
Money on the Bookshelf: Using Children\u27s Books to Reach Limited Resource Families with Money Management Education
Helping families develop financial management skills and improve their communications about money is the goal of Money on the Bookshelf, a program built around children\u27s books and used by Nevada Cooperative Extension to target limited resource audiences. Results showed significant improvements in how often parents: (1) talked with their children about things that relate to money, (2) included their children in talks about how family money is used, and (3) used everyday events as opportunities to talk with their children about money
Instability of the hedgehog shape for the octet baryon in the chiral quark soliton model
In this paper the stability of the hedgehog shape of the chiral soliton is
studied for the octet baryon with the SU(3) chiral quark soliton model. The
strangeness degrees of freedom are treated by a simplified bound-state
approach, which omits the locality of the kaon wave function. The mean field
approximation for the flavor rotation is applied to the model. The classical
soliton changes shape according to the strangeness. The baryon appears as a
rotational band of the combined system of the deformed soliton and the kaon.Comment: 24 pages, LaTeX, 8 eps file
Outcomes of tuberculosis patients who start antiretroviral therapy under routine programme conditions in Malawi
SETTING: Public sector facilities in Malawi providing antiretroviral therapy (ART) to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive patients, including those with tuberculosis (TB). OBJECTIVES: To compare 6-month and 12-month cohort treatment outcomes of HIV-positive TB patients and HIV-positive non-TB patients treated with ART. DESIGN: Retrospective data collection using ART patient master cards and ART patient registers. RESULTS: Between July and September 2005, 7905 patients started ART, 6967 with a non-TB diagnosis and 938 with a diagnosis of active TB. 6-month cohort outcomes of non-TB and TB patients censored on 31 March 2006 showed significantly more TB patients alive and on ART (77%) compared with non-TB patients (71%) (P < 0.001). Between January and March 2005, 4580 patients started ART, 4179 with a non-TB diagnosis and 401 with a diagnosis of active TB. 12-month cohort outcomes of non-TB and TB patients censored on 31 March 2006 showed significantly more TB patients alive and on ART (74%) compared with non-TB patients (66%) (P < 0.001). Other outcomes of default and transfer out were also significantly less frequent in TB compared with non-TB patients. CONCLUSION: HIV-positive TB patients on ART in Malawi have generally good treatment outcomes, and more patients need to access this HIV treatment
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