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Metallic and Insulating Adsorbates on Graphene
We directly compare the effect of metallic titanium (Ti) and insulating
titanium dioxide (TiO2) on the transport properties of single layer graphene.
The deposition of Ti results in substantial n-type doping and a reduction of
graphene mobility by charged impurity scattering. Subsequent exposure to oxygen
largely reduces the doping and scattering by converting Ti into TiO2. In
addition, we observe evidence for short-range scattering by TiO2 impurities.
These results illustrate the contrasting scattering mechanisms for identical
spatial distributions of metallic and insulating adsorbates
Character Sequence Models for ColorfulWords
We present a neural network architecture to predict a point in color space
from the sequence of characters in the color's name. Using large scale
color--name pairs obtained from an online color design forum, we evaluate our
model on a "color Turing test" and find that, given a name, the colors
predicted by our model are preferred by annotators to color names created by
humans. Our datasets and demo system are available online at colorlab.us
Half-Quantum Vortices in Thin Film of Superfluid He
Stability of a half-quantum vortex (HQV) in superfluid He has been
discussed recently by Kawakami, Tsutsumi and Machida in Phys. Rev. B {\bf 79},
092506 (2009). We further extend this work here and consider the A phase of
superfluid He confined in thin slab geometry and analyze the HQV realized
in this setting. Solutions of HQV and singly quantized singular vortex are
evaluated numerically by solving the Ginzburg-Landau (GL) equation and
respective first critical angular velocities are obtained by employing these
solutions. We show that the HQV in the A phase is stable near the boundary
between the A and A phases. It is found that temperature and magnetic
field must be fixed first in the stable region and subsequently the angular
velocity of the system should be increased from zero to a sufficiently large
value to create a HQV with sufficiently large probability. A HQV does not form
if the system starts with a fixed angular velocity and subsequently the
temperature is lowered down to the A phase. It is estimated that the
external magnetic field with strength on the order of 1 T is required to have a
sufficiently large domain in the temperature-magnetic field phase diagram to
have a stable HQV.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
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