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Time-domain sensitivity enhancement in pulsed Pb-TDL gas monitors
A Pb-salt tunable diode laser (TDL) has found many applications in the field of atmospheric gas analysis. Its continuous tunablility and fine spectral purity in the mid infrared region are outstanding from other lasers. The only shortcoming is that it requires cryogenic operating temperatures, though, it is improved year by year towards the room temperature operation. A repeated pulse operation of Pb salt diode lasers is possible with a thermoelectric cooling device, which allows an instrument a portable geometry disusing a heavy, bulky and power consuming mechanical refrigerator. A derivative spectrometry was exploiting the quick tunability of Pb salt diode lasers, though they are continuous wave (cw) operated with refrigerator or liquid nitrogen so far. A new system for derivative spectrometry with a pulsed diode laser will extend its field of applications because of reduced weights and size of measuring instruments. A preliminary results is shown that demonstrates the feasibility of an attempt to implement the derivative spectrmetry with repeatedly pulse driven diode lasers. Atmospheric methane was measured with 8 ppm/m sensitivity. Further results of parametric optimization for the best signal to noise ratios under any given device characteristics as well as for available real devices is given
First-order quantum phase transition in the orthogonal-dimer spin chain
We investigate the low-energy properties of the orthogonal-dimer spin chain
characterized by a frustrated dimer-plaquette structure. When the competing
antiferromagnetic couplings are varied, the first-order quantum phase
transition occurs between the dimer and the plaquette phases, which is
accompanied by nontrivial features due to frustration: besides the
discontinuity in the lowest excitation gap at the transition point, a sharp
level-crossing occurs for the spectrum in the plaquette phase. We further
reveal that the plateau in the magnetization curve at 1/4 of the full moment
dramatically changes its character in the vicinity of the critical point. It is
argued that the first-order phase transition in this system captures some
essential properties found in the two-dimensional orthogonal-dimer model
proposed for .Comment: 7 pages, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Hund's coupling and the metal-insulator transition in the two-band Hubbard model
The Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition is investigated in a two-band
Hubbard model within dynamical mean-field theory. To this end, we use a
suitable extension of Wilson's numerical renormalization group for the solution
of the effective two-band single-impurity Anderson model. This method is
non-perturbative and, in particular, allows to take into account the full
exchange part of the Hund's rule coupling between the two orbitals. We discuss
in detail the influence of the various Coulomb interactions on thermodynamic
and dynamic properties, for both the impurity and the lattice model. The
exchange part of the Hund's rule coupling turns out to play an important role
for the physics of the two-band Hubbard model and for the nature of the
Mott-transition
Plasma simulation using the massively parallel processor
Two dimensional electrostatic simulation codes using the particle-in-cell model are developed on the Massively Parallel Processor (MPP). The conventional plasma simulation procedure that computes electric fields at particle positions by means of a gridded system is found inefficient on the MPP. The MPP simulation code is thus based on the gridless system in which particles are assigned to processing elements and electric fields are computed directly via Discrete Fourier Transform. Currently, the gridless model on the MPP in two dimensions is about nine times slower that the gridded system on the CRAY X-MP without considering I/O time. However, the gridless system on the MPP can be improved by incorporating a faster I/O between the staging memory and Array Unit and a more efficient procedure for taking floating point sums over processing elements. The initial results suggest that the parallel processors have the potential for performing large scale plasma simulations
A large area detector for neutrons between 2 and 100 MeV
A neutron detector sensitive from 2 to 100 MeV is described. The detector is designed for high altitude balloon flight to measure the flux, energy and direction of albedo neutrons from the earth and to search for solar neutrons. A neutron scatter from a proton is required in each of two liquid scintillator tanks spaced 1 meter apart. The energy of the recoil proton in the first tank is obtained from pulse height analysis of the scintillator output. The energy of the recoil neutron is obtained from its time of flight between the tanks. The detector has been calibrated with 15.3 MeV neutrons and mu mesons. The minimum detectable flux is 10(-4) neutron/sq cm/sec at a counting rate of one per minute; the energy resolution is 12% at 15 MeV and 30% at 100 MeV. The angle between the incoming neutron and the recoil neutron is measured to + or - 10 deg
Orbital Localization and Delocalization Effects in the U 5f^2 Configuration: Impurity Problem
Anderson models, based on quantum chemical studies of the molecule of
U(C_8H_8)_2, are applied to investigate the problem of an U impurity in a
metal. The special point here is that the U 5f-orbitals are divided into two
subsets: an almost completely localized set and a considerably delocalized one.
Due to the crystal field, both localized and delocalized U 5f-orbitals affect
the low-energy physics. A numerical renormalization group study shows that
every fixed point is characterized by a residual local spin and a phase shift.
The latter changes between 0 and \pi/2, which indicates the competition between
two different fixed points. Such a competition between the different local
spins at the fixed points reflects itself in the impurity magnetic
susceptibility at high temperatures. These different features cannot be
obtained if the special characters of U 5f-orbitals are neglected.Comment: 4 pages, REVTeX, email to [email protected]
Numerical Renormalization Group Study of non-Fermi-liquid State on Dilute Uranium Systems
We investigate the non-Fermi-liquid (NFL) behavior of the impurity Anderson
model (IAM) with non-Kramers doublet ground state of the f configuration
under the tetragonal crystalline electric field (CEF). The low energy spectrum
is explained by a combination of the NFL and the local-Fermi-liquid parts which
are independent with each other. The NFL part of the spectrum has the same form
to that of two-channel-Kondo model (TCKM). We have a parameter range that the
IAM shows the divergence of the magnetic susceptibility together with
the positive magneto resistance. We point out a possibility that the anomalous
properties of UThRuSi including the decreasing resistivity
with decreasing temperature can be explained by the NFL scenario of the TCKM
type. We also investigate an effect of the lowering of the crystal symmetry. It
breaks the NFL behavior at around the temperature, , where
is the orthorhombic CEF splitting. The NFL behavior is still expected above the
temperature, .Comment: 25 pages, 12 figure
A search for solar neutrons on a long duration balloon flight
The EOSCOR 3 detector, designed to measure the flux of solar neutrons, was flown on a long duration RACOON balloon flight from Australia during Jan. through Feb, 1983. The Circum-global flight lasted 22 days. No major solar activity occurred during the flight and thus only an upper limit to the solar flare neutrons flux is given. The atmospheric neutron response is compared with that obtained on earlier flights from Palestine, Texas
Asymptotic symmetries on Kerr--Newman horizon without anomaly of diffeomorphism invariance
We analyze asymptotic symmetries on the Killing horizon of the
four-dimensional Kerr--Newman black hole. We first derive the asymptotic
Killing vectors on the Killing horizon, which describe the asymptotic
symmetries, and find that the general form of these asymptotic Killing vectors
is the universal one possessed by arbitrary Killing horizons. We then construct
the phase space associated with the asymptotic symmetries. It is shown that the
phase space of an extreme black hole either has the size comparable with a
non-extreme black hole, or is small enough to exclude degeneracy, depending on
whether or not the global structure of a Killing horizon particular to an
extreme black hole is respected. We also show that the central charge in the
Poisson brackets algebra of these asymptotic symmetries vanishes, which implies
that there is not an anomaly of diffeomorphism invariance. By taking into
account other results in the literature, we argue that the vanishing central
charge on a black hole horizon, in an effective theory, looks consistent with
the thermal feature of a black hole. We furthermore argue that the vanishing
central charge implies that there are infinitely many classical configurations
that are associated with the same macroscopic state, while these configurations
are distinguished physically.Comment: 14 pages, v2: references added, minor corrections, v3: new pars and
refs. added and corresponding correction
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