Kamala Markandaya's A Silence of Desire and Possession (Exploring Psychological Dimensions of Spirituality)

Kamala Markandaya belonged to that pioneering group of Indian women writers who made their mark not just through their subject matter, but also through their fluid, polished fictional technique. The works of Kamala Markandaya reflect the modern, traditional and spiritual values of the Indian societies. Her characters represent these values in a very subtle manner. The psychological conflict in Kamala Markandaya’s A Silence of Desire takes its roots in the basic opposition between Sarojini’s unreasoned belief in the healing faculty of the Swamy and Dandekar’s rational belief to disapprove it whereas in Possession Vals journey through negative freedom and an escape from responsibility to the self-realization reveals his psychic problems. The present paper is an attempt to explore the psychological dimensions of spirituality in Kamala Markandaya’s A Silence of Desire. and Possession.Kamala Markandaya belonged to that pioneering group of Indian women writers who made their mark not just through their subject matter, but also through their fluid, polished fictional technique. The works of Kamala Markandaya reflect the modern, traditional and spiritual values of the Indian societies. Her characters represent these values in a very subtle manner. The psychological conflict in Kamala Markandaya’s A Silence of Desire takes its roots in the basic opposition between Sarojini’s unreasoned belief in the healing faculty of the Swamy and Dandekar’s rational belief to disapprove it whereas in Possession Vals journey through negative freedom and an escape from responsibility to the self-realization reveals his psychic problems. The present paper is an attempt to explore the psychological dimensions of spirituality in Kamala Markandaya’s A Silence of Desire. and Possession.Kamala Markandaya belonged to that pioneering group of Indian women writers who made their mark not just through their subject matter, but also through their fluid, polished fictional technique. The works of Kamala Markandaya reflect the modern, traditional and spiritual values of the Indian societies. Her characters represent these values in a very subtle manner. The psychological conflict in Kamala Markandaya’s A Silence of Desire takes its roots in the basic opposition between Sarojini’s unreasoned belief in the healing faculty of the Swamy and Dandekar’s rational belief to disapprove it whereas in Possession Vals journey through negative freedom and an escape from responsibility to the self-realization reveals his psychic problems. The present paper is an attempt to explore the psychological dimensions of spirituality in Kamala Markandaya’s A Silence of Desire. and Possession.Kamala Markandaya belonged to that pioneering group of Indian women writers who made their mark not just through their subject matter, but also through their fluid, polished fictional technique. The works of Kamala Markandaya reflect the modern, traditional and spiritual values of the Indian societies. Her characters represent these values in a very subtle manner. The psychological conflict in Kamala Markandaya’s A Silence of Desire takes its roots in the basic opposition between Sarojini’s unreasoned belief in the healing faculty of the Swamy and Dandekar’s rational belief to disapprove it whereas in Possession Vals journey through negative freedom and an escape from responsibility to the self-realization reveals his psychic problems. The present paper is an attempt to explore the psychological dimensions of spirituality in Kamala Markandaya’s A Silence of Desire. and Possession

Quantum chaos in the mesoscopic device for the Josephson flux qubit

We show that the three-junction SQUID device designed for the Josephson flux qubit can be used to study quantum chaos when operated at high energies. In the parameter region where the system is classically chaotic we analyze the spectral statistics. The nearest neighbor distributions $P(s)$ are well fitted by the Berry Robnik theory employing as free parameters the pure classical measures of the chaotic and regular regions of phase space in the different energy regions. The phase space representation of the wave functions is obtained via the Husimi distributions and the localization of the states on classical structures is analyzed.Comment: Final version, to be published in Phys. Rev. B. References added, introduction and conclusions improve

Pengaruh Reputasi Perusahaan Dan Kualitas Pelayanan Terhadap Kepuasan Pasien (Kasus Rumah Sakit Islam Ibnu Sina Pekanbaru)

This study aims to look at the Effect of Corporate Reputation and Quality Service Patient Satisfaction (Case Islam Ibn Sina Hospital Pekanbaru). The study was conducted with descriptive analysis method, by collecting 100 questionnaires data then tabulated into a table that is further described systematically and to determine which variables are most dominant in determining patient satisfaction by using SPSS 21:00 as data processing tools. Rated R Square of 0.667 which indicates that customer satisfaction is able to be explained by the company\u27s reputation and the quality of services by 66.7% while the remaining 33.3% is explained by other causes. The influence of the company\u27s reputation and quality of service to positive patient satisfaction, which means that every increase in the implementation of the company\u27s reputation and the quality of service it will cause an increase in the patient satisfaction

Composite fermion wave functions as conformal field theory correlators

It is known that a subset of fractional quantum Hall wave functions has been expressed as conformal field theory (CFT) correlators, notably the Laughlin wave function at filling factor $\nu=1/m$ ($m$ odd) and its quasiholes, and the Pfaffian wave function at $\nu=1/2$ and its quasiholes. We develop a general scheme for constructing composite-fermion (CF) wave functions from conformal field theory. Quasiparticles at $\nu=1/m$ are created by inserting anyonic vertex operators, $P_{\frac{1}{m}}(z)$, that replace a subset of the electron operators in the correlator. The one-quasiparticle wave function is identical to the corresponding CF wave function, and the two-quasiparticle wave function has correct fractional charge and statistics and is numerically almost identical to the corresponding CF wave function. We further show how to exactly represent the CF wavefunctions in the Jain series $\nu = s/(2sp+1)$ as the CFT correlators of a new type of fermionic vertex operators, $V_{p,n}(z)$, constructed from $n$ free compactified bosons; these operators provide the CFT representation of composite fermions carrying $2p$ flux quanta in the $n^{\rm th}$ CF Landau level. We also construct the corresponding quasiparticle- and quasihole operators and argue that they have the expected fractional charge and statistics. For filling fractions 2/5 and 3/7 we show that the chiral CFTs that describe the bulk wave functions are identical to those given by Wen's general classification of quantum Hall states in terms of $K$-matrices and $l$- and $t$-vectors, and we propose that to be generally true. Our results suggest a general procedure for constructing quasiparticle wave functions for other fractional Hall states, as well as for constructing ground states at filling fractions not contained in the principal Jain series.Comment: 26 pages, 3 figure

Statistical wave scattering through classically chaotic cavities in the presence of surface absorption

We propose a model to describe the statistical properties of wave scattering through a classically chaotic cavity in the presence of surface absorption. Experimentally, surface absorption could be realized by attaching an "absorbing patch" to the inner wall of the cavity. In our model, the cavity is connected to the outside by a waveguide with N open modes (or channels), while an experimental patch is simulated by an "absorbing mirror" attached to the inside wall of the cavity; the mirror, consisting of a waveguide that supports Na channels, with absorption inside and a perfectly reflecting wall at its end, is described by a subunitary scattering matrix Sa. The number of channels Na, as a measure of the geometric cross section of the mirror, and the lack of unitarity of Sa as a measure of absorption, are under our control: these parameters have an important physical significance for real experiments. The absorption strength in the cavity is quantified by the trace of the lack of unitarity. The statistical distribution of the resulting S matrix for N=1 open channel and only one absorbing channel, Na =1, is solved analytically for the orthogonal and unitary universality classes, and the results are compared with those arising from numerical simulations. The relation with other models existing in the literature, in some of which absorption has a volumetric character, is also studied.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.

Solitons and Quasielectrons in the Quantum Hall Matrix Model

We show how to incorporate fractionally charged quasielectrons in the finite quantum Hall matrix model.The quasielectrons emerge as combinations of BPS solitons and quasiholes in a finite matrix version of the noncommutative $\phi^4$ theory coupled to a noncommutative Chern-Simons gauge field. We also discuss how to properly define the charge density in the classical matrix model, and calculate density profiles for droplets, quasiholes and quasielectrons.Comment: 15 pages, 9 figure

Statistical Properties of Cross-Correlation in the Korean Stock Market

We investigate the statistical properties of the correlation matrix between individual stocks traded in the Korean stock market using the random matrix theory (RMT) and observe how these affect the portfolio weights in the Markowitz portfolio theory. We find that the distribution of the correlation matrix is positively skewed and changes over time. We find that the eigenvalue distribution of original correlation matrix deviates from the eigenvalues predicted by the RMT, and the largest eigenvalue is 52 times larger than the maximum value among the eigenvalues predicted by the RMT. The $\beta_{473}$ coefficient, which reflect the largest eigenvalue property, is 0.8, while one of the eigenvalues in the RMT is approximately zero. Notably, we show that the entropy function $E(\sigma)$ with the portfolio risk $\sigma$ for the original and filtered correlation matrices are consistent with a power-law function, $E(\sigma) \sim \sigma^{-\gamma}$, with the exponent $\gamma \sim 2.92$ and those for Asian currency crisis decreases significantly

Bosonizing one-dimensional cold atomic gases

We present results for the long-distance asymptotics of correlation functions of mesoscopic one-dimensional systems with periodic and open (Dirichlet) boundary conditions, as well as at finite temperature in the thermodynamic limit. The results are obtained using Haldane's harmonic-fluid approach (also known as ``bosonization''), and are valid for both bosons and fermions, in weakly and strongly interacting regimes. The harmonic-fluid approach and the method to compute the correlation functions using conformal transformations are explained in great detail. As an application relevant to one-dimensional systems of cold atomic gases, we consider the model of bosons interacting with a zero-range potential. The Luttinger-liquid parameters are obtained from the exact solution by solving the Bethe-ansatz equations in finite-size systems. The range of applicability of the approach is discussed, and the prefactor of the one-body density matrix of bosons is fixed by finding an appropriate parametrization of the weak-coupling result. The formula thus obtained is shown to be accurate, when compared with recent diffusion Montecarlo calculations, within less than 10%. The experimental implications of these results for Bragg scattering experiments at low and high momenta are also discussed.Comment: 39 pages + 14 EPS figures; typos corrected, references update

Scattering phases in quantum dots: an analysis based on lattice models

The properties of scattering phases in quantum dots are analyzed with the help of lattice models. We first derive the expressions relating the different scattering phases and the dot Green functions. We analyze in detail the Friedel sum rule and discuss the deviation of the phase of the transmission amplitude from the Friedel phase at the zeroes of the transmission. The occurrence of such zeroes is related to the parity of the isolated dot levels. A statistical analysis of the isolated dot wave-functions reveals the absence of significant correlations in the parity for large disorder and the appearance, for weak disorder, of certain dot states which are strongly coupled to the leads. It is shown that large differences in the coupling to the leads give rise to an anomalous charging of the dot levels. A mechanism for the phase lapse observed experimentally based on this property is discussed and illustrated with model calculations.Comment: 18 pages, 9 figures. to appear in Physical Review

Chaotic scattering with direct processes: A generalization of Poisson's kernel for non-unitary scattering matrices

The problem of chaotic scattering in presence of direct processes or prompt responses is mapped via a transformation to the case of scattering in absence of such processes for non-unitary scattering matrices, \tilde S. In the absence of prompt responses, \tilde S is uniformly distributed according to its invariant measure in the space of \tilde S matrices with zero average, < \tilde S > =0. In the presence of direct processes, the distribution of \tilde S is non-uniform and it is characterized by the average (\neq 0). In contrast to the case of unitary matrices S, where the invariant measures of S for chaotic scattering with and without direct processes are related through the well known Poisson kernel, here we show that for non-unitary scattering matrices the invariant measures are related by the Poisson kernel squared. Our results are relevant to situations where flux conservation is not satisfied. For example, transport experiments in chaotic systems, where gains or losses are present, like microwave chaotic cavities or graphs, and acoustic or elastic resonators.Comment: Added two appendices and references. Corrected typo