A new picture of the Lifshitz critical behavior

New field theoretic renormalization group methods are developed to describe in a unified fashion the critical exponents of an m-fold Lifshitz point at the two-loop order in the anisotropic (m not equal to d) and isotropic (m=d close to 8) situations. The general theory is illustrated for the N-vector phi^4 model describing a d-dimensional system. A new regularization and renormalization procedure is presented for both types of Lifshitz behavior. The anisotropic cases are formulated with two independent renormalization group transformations. The description of the isotropic behavior requires only one type of renormalization group transformation. We point out the conceptual advantages implicit in this picture and show how this framework is related to other previous renormalization group treatments for the Lifshitz problem. The Feynman diagrams of arbitrary loop-order can be performed analytically provided these integrals are considered to be homogeneous functions of the external momenta scales. The anisotropic universality class (N,d,m) reduces easily to the Ising-like (N,d) when m=0. We show that the isotropic universality class (N,m) when m is close to 8 cannot be obtained from the anisotropic one in the limit d --> m near 8. The exponents for the uniaxial case d=3, N=m=1 are in good agreement with recent Monte Carlo simulations for the ANNNI model.Comment: 48 pages, no figures, two typos fixe

Avaliação do crescimento de mudas de pinhão manso (Jatropha curcas L.) em recipientes de diferentes volumes e acompanhamento do desenvolvimento em campo.

O objetivo deste trabalho foi quantificar o efeito dos diferentes volumes de recipiente na formação de mudas de pinhão-manso (Jatropha curcas L.) e no crescimento em campo aos seis meses após o plantio.bitstream/CPAF-RO-2010/14513/1/107-pinhaomanso.pd

Curva de dissipação de imazapyr em água de drenos de irrigação, após a aplicação para controle da taboa.

O herbicida sistémico imazapyr foi usado no controle da taboa (Typha subulata Crespo & Peres-Moreau f.) em drenos de irrigação, como alternativa ao controle mecânico. O resíduo do princípio ativo do herbicida na água foi analisado por cromatografia líquida de alta performance (HPLC). A curv a de di ss ip ação de imazapyr mostrou que o herbicida pode ser usado para o contro le de taboa em drenos de irr iga ção, sem causar danos a culturas vizinhas, desde que a água seja usada, no mínimo, depois de 1,6 a 3,7 dias da aplicação das doses de 500 a 1500 g ha-1, respectivamente

Charge and spin distributions in GaMnAs/GaAs Ferromagnetic Multilayers

A self-consistent electronic structure calculation based on the Luttinger-Kohn model is performed on GaMnAs/GaAs multilayers. The Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor layers are assumed to be metallic and ferromagnetic. The high Mn concentration (considered as 5% in our calculation) makes it possible to assume the density of magnetic moments as a continuous distribution, when treating the magnetic interaction between holes and the localized moment on the Mn(++) sites. Our calculation shows the distribution of heavy holes and light holes in the structure. A strong spin-polarization is observed, and the charge is concentrated mostly on the GaMnAs layers, due to heavy and light holes with their total angular momentum aligned anti-parallel to the average magnetization. The charge and spin distributions are analyzed in terms of their dependence on the number of multilayers, the widths of the GaMnAs and GaAs layers, and the width of lateral GaAs layers at the borders of the structure.Comment: 12 pages,7 figure

Is abscisic acid involved in the drought responses of brazilian green dwarf coconut?

Abscisic acid (ABA) accumulation in leaves of drought-stressed coconut palms and its involvement with stomatal regulation of gas exchange during and after stress were investigated. Two Brazilian Green Dwarf coconut ecotypes from hot/humid and hot/dry environments were submitted to three consecutive drying/recovery cycles under greenhouse conditions. ABA accumulated in leaflets before significant changes in pre-dawn leaflet water potential ( PD ) and did not recover completely in the two ecotypes after 8 days of rewatering. Stomatal conductance was influenced by ABA under mild drought and by PD under severe drought. There were no significant differences between the ecotypes for most variables measured. However, the ecotype from a hot/dry environment showed higher water use efficiency after repeated cycles of water stress

Erodibilidade de latossolos no Vale do Rio Doce, região centro-leste do Estado de Minas Gerais.

A capacidade de um solo sofrer erosão hídrica, ou seja, a sua susceptibilidade à erosão pode ser obtida através do fator erodibilidade, o qual é um atributo intrínseco de cada solo. O objetivo deste trabalho foi determinar os valores de erodibilidade para um Latossolo Vermelho (LV) e um Latossolo Vermelho-Amarelo (LVA) no Vale do Rio Doce, região Centro-Leste do Estado de Minas Gerais. Foram utilizados dados de perdas de solo e água coletados durante o período de 2002 a 2008, em parcelas (4 x 24 m) instaladas no campo, sob chuva natural, em solo sem cobertura