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Spin Gap in Two-Dimensional Heisenberg Model for CaVO
We investigate the mechanism of spin gap formation in a two-dimensional model
relevant to Mott insulators such as CaVO. From the perturbation
expansion and quantum Monte Carlo calculations, the origin of the spin gap is
ascribed to the four-site plaquette singlet in contrast to the dimer gap
established in the generalized dimerized Heisenberg model.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures available upon request (Revtex
An Examination of Chimpanzee Use in Human Cancer Research
Advocates of chimpanzee research claim the genetic similarity of humans and chimpanzees make them an indispensable research tool to combat human diseases. Given that cancer is a leading cause of human death worldwide, one might expect that if chimpanzees were needed for, or were productive in, cancer research, then they would have been widely used. This comprehensive literature analysis reveals that chimpanzees have scarcely been used in any form of cancer research, and that chimpanzee tumours are extremely rare and biologically different from human cancers. Often, chimpanzee citations described peripheral use of chimpanzee cells and genetic material in predominantly human genomic studies. Papers describing potential new cancer therapies noted significant concerns regarding the chimpanzee model. Other studies described interventions that have not been pursued clinically. Finally, available evidence indicates that chimpanzees are not essential in the development of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies. It would therefore be unscientific to claim that chimpanzees are vital to cancer research. On the contrary, it is reasonable to conclude that cancer research would not suffer, if the use of chimpanzees for this purpose were prohibited in the US. Genetic differences between humans and chimpanzees, make them an unsuitable model for cancer, as well as other human diseases
Magnetic Susceptibility for
We examine experimental magnetic susceptibility for
CaVO by fitting with fitting function .
The function is a power series of 1/T and the lowest order
term is fixed as , where is the Curie constant as determined by the
experimental -value (g=1.96). Fitting parameters are , and
expansion coefficients except for the first one in .
We determine and as 0.73 and 0 for an
experimental sample. We interpret as the volume fraction of
CaVO in the sample and as the susceptibility for the
pure CaVO. The result of means that the sample includes
nonmagnetic components. This interpretation consists with the result of a
perturbation theory and a neutron scattering experiment.Comment: 4pages, 4figure
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The original publication is available at www.springerlink.comArticleJOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH. 14(1):10-19 (2009)journal articl
Phase diagram of depleted Heisenberg model for CaV4O9
We have numerically investigated the 1/5-depleted Heisenberg square lattice
representing CaV4O9 using the Quantum Monte Carlo loop algorithm. We have
determined the phase diagram of the model as a function of the ratio of the two
different couplings: bonds within a plaquette and dimer bonds between
plaquettes. By calculating both the spin gap and the staggered magnetization we
determine the range of stability of the long range ordered (LRO) phase. At
isotropic coupling LRO survives the depletion. But the close vicinity of the
isotropic point to the spin gap phase leads us to the conclusion that already a
small frustrating next nearest neighbor interaction can drive the system into
the quantum disordered phase and thus explain the spin gap behavior of CaV4O9
Effect of Quantum Fluctuations on Magnetic Ordering in CaVO
We present a theoretical model for CaVO: the -depleted square
spin- Heisenberg model which includes both the nearest-neighbor coupling
() and the next-nearest-neighbor coupling (), where and are
antiferromagnetic. Recent experiments of the neutron diffraction by Harashina
et.al. report the magnetic ordering at low temperatures, which may be called as
a stripe phase. It is shown that the observed spin structure is not stable in
the classical theory. By employing the modified spin wave theory, we show that
the stripe phase is stabilized by the quantum fluctuations for .
In CaVO, the coupling constants are estimated as by
comparing the theoretical and experimental results.Comment: submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jp
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Quantum Wire-on-Well (WoW) Cell With Long Carrier Lifetime for Efficient Carrier Transport
A quantum wire-on-well (WoW) structure, taking advantage of the layer undulation of an In- GaAs/GaAs/GaAsP superlattice grown on a vicinal substrate, was demonstrated to enhance the carrier collection from the confinement levels and extend the carrier lifetime (220 ns) by approximately 4 times as compared with a planar reference superlattice. Strained InGaAs/GaAs/GaAsP superlattices were grown on GaAs substrates under exactly the same condition except for the substrate misorientation (0o- and 6o- off). The growth on a 6o-off substrate induced significant layer undulation as a result of step bunching and non-uniform precursor incorporation between steps and terraces whereas the growth on a substrate without miscut resulted in planar layers. The undulation was the most significant for InGaAs layers, forming periodically aligned InGaAs nanowires on planar wells, a wire-on-well structure. As for the photocurrent corresponding to the sub-bandgap range of GaAs, the light absorption by the WoW was extended to longer wavelengths and weakened as compared with the planar superlattice, and almost the same photocurrent was obtained for both the WoW and the planar superlattice. Open-circuit voltage for the WoW was not affected by the longer-wavelength absorption edge and the same value was obtained for the two structures. Furthermore, the superior carrier collection in the WoW, especially under forward biases, improved fill factor compared with the planer superlattice
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