ERICH FRIED: AN AUSTRIAN POET WHO PLAYS WITH WORDS

Erich Fried is considered to be somebody who plays with words only to criticize the thoughtless use some Germans show in every day life towards their own language. As a poet with four homelands (Austria, England, Israel and Germany) Fried seems to have enough inner distance towards the German language. He was born in Vienna in 1921 and died in 1988. He and his family suffered under the Nazi regime, because they were Jewish; several members of his family were murdered.　Fried lived most of his life in England. He came, however, regularly to Germany for lectures and readings from his works. He published 38 books of poetry, one novel, tales, essays, and translated among other English writers 27 dramas of Shakespeare into German.　A number of his poems stand in relation to his biography; e.g.in ”Deutsche Worte vom Meer” he analyzes one word for its three different meanings. He considers Israel as one of his homelands, but he is very critical about their war. Fried did not believe very much in the Germans ability to learn from their past.　Many of his poems are very short. He uses few words to express a maximum of meaning. By doing this he experiments with language and uses many different kinds of structures. His main message ist against force and against war.　The students of the late sixties appreciated him very much. He was one of the few poets who wrote love poems after 1945 and influenced later generations in this field. Some critics loved him, some hated him.　Recently, since 1998, there has been a slight revival in the publishing of his poems, even in English in the Internet and in publcations on his works. He might be looked upon as someone who makes unconscious use of language public and recognizable.

Quarter-filled spin density wave states with long-range Coulomb interaction

Spin density wave (SDW) states at quarter-filling, which coexist with charge density wave (CDW) states, have been examined where the critical temperature is calculated for an extended Hubbard model with long range repulsive interactions. Within the mean-field theory, it is shown that the first order transition occurs with decreasing temperature for interactions located around the boundary between SDW state and CDW state.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, Proceedings of CREST International Workshop (Nagoya, Japan, 24-26 January, 2000), submitted to J. Phys. Chem. Solid

Multi-decadal survival of an antarctic nematode, Plectus murrayi, in a -20°C stored moss sample

第2回極域科学シンポジウム/第33回極域生物シンポジウム 11月18日（金） 統計数理研究所 3階セミナー室

南極線虫の乾燥耐性遺伝子LEA

第6回極域科学シンポジウム分野横断セッション：[IB2] 地球環境変動の解析と地球生命システム学の構築11月19日（木）　統計数理研究所 セミナー室1（D305

Peierls instability, periodic Bose-Einstein condensates and density waves in quasi-one-dimensional boson-fermion mixtures of atomic gases

We study the quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) spin-polarized bose-fermi mixture of atomic gases at zero temperature. Bosonic excitation spectra are calculated in random phase approximation on the ground state with the uniform BEC, and the Peierls instabilities are shown to appear in bosonic collective excitation modes with wave-number $2k_F$ by the coupling between the Bogoliubov-phonon mode of bosonic atoms and the fermion particle-hole excitations. The ground-state properties are calculated in the variational method, and, corresponding to the Peierls instability, the state with a periodic BEC and fermionic density waves with the period $\pi/k_F$ are shown to have a lower energy than the uniform one. We also briefly discuss the Q1D system confined in a harmonic oscillator (HO) potential and derive the Peierls instability condition for it.Comment: 9 pages, 3figure

Effect of Inter-Site Repulsions on Magnetic Susceptibility of One-Dimensional Electron Systems at Quarter-Filling

The temperature dependence of the magnetic susceptibility, \chi (T), is investigated for one-dimensional interacting electron systems at quarter-filling within the Kadanoff-Wilson renormalization-group method. The forward scattering on the same branch (the g_4-process) is examined together with the backward (g_1) and forward (g_2) scattering amplitudes on opposite branches. In connection with lattice models, we show that \chi (T) is strongly enhanced by the nearest-neighbor interaction, an enhancement that surpasses one of the next-nearest-neighbor interaction. A connection between our predictions for \chi (T) and experimental results for \chi (T) in quasi-one-dimensional organic conductors is presented.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, vol. 74, No. 1

Density waves in quasi-one-dimensional atomic gas mixture of boson and two-component fermion

We study the density-wave states of quasi-one-dimensional atomic gas mixture of one- and two-component boson and fermion using the mean-field approximation. Owing to the Peierls instability in the quasi-one-dimensional fermion system, the ground state of the system shows the fermion density wave and the periodic Bose-Einstein condensation induced by the boson-fermion interatomic interaction. For the two-component fermions, two density waves appear in these components, and the phase difference between them distinguishes two types of ground states, the in-phase and the out-phase density-waves. In this paper, a self-consistent method in the mean-field approximation is presented to treat the density-wave states in boson-fermion mixture with two-component fermions. From the analysis of the effective potential and the interaction energies calculated by this method, the density-waves are shown to appear in the ground state, which are in-phase or out-phase depending on the strength of the inter-fermion interaction. It is also shown that the periodic Bose-Einstein condensate coexists with the in-phase density-wave of fermions, but, in the case of the out-phase one, only the uniform condensate appears. The phase diagram of the system is given for the effective coupling constants.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figures, revise

Synthesis, Crystal Structure and Magnetic Properties of the Linear-Chain Cobalt Oxide Sr5Pb3CoO12

The novel spin-chain cobalt oxide Sr5Pb3CoO12 [P-62m, a = 10.1093(2) A and c = 3.562 51(9) A at 295 K] is reported. Polycrystalline sample of the compound was studied by neutron diffraction (at 6 and 295 K) and magnetic susceptibility measurements (5 to 390 K). The cobalt oxide was found to be analogous to the copper oxide Sr5Pb3CoO12, which is comprised of magnetic-linear chains at inter-chain distance of 10 A. Although the cobalt oxide chains (mu_eff of 3.64 mu_B per Co) are substantially antiferromagnetic (theta_W = -38.8 K), neither low-dimensional magnetism nor long-range ordering has been found; a local-structure disorder in the chains might impact on the magnetism. This compound is highly electrically insulating.Comment: To be published in J. Solid State Che

Unusual Low-Temperature Phase in VO2_2 Nanoparticles

We present a systematic investigation of the crystal and electronic structure and the magnetic properties above and below the metal-insulator transition of ball-milled VO$_2$ nanoparticles and VO$_2$ microparticles. For this research, we performed a Rietveld analysis of synchrotron radiation x-ray diffraction data, O $K$ x-ray absorption spectroscopy, V $L_3$ resonant inelastic x-ray scattering, and magnetic susceptibility measurements. This study reveals an unusual low-temperature phase that involves the formation of an elongated and less-tilted V-V pair, a narrowed energy gap, and an induced paramagnetic contribution from the nanoparticles. We show that the change in the crystal structure is consistent with the change in the electronic states around the Fermi level, which leads us to suggest that the Peierls mechanism contributes to the energy splitting of the $a_{1g}$ state. Furthermore, we find that the high-temperature rutile structure of the nanoparticles is almost identical to that of the microparticles.Comment: 7 pages, 8 figures, 2 table