Magnetoconductivity of low-dimensional disordered conductors at the onset of the superconducting transition

Magnetoconductivity of the disordered two- and three-dimensional superconductors is addressed at the onset of superconducting transition. In this regime transport is dominated by the fluctuation effects and we account for the interaction corrections coming from the Cooper channel. In contrast to many previous studies we consider strong magnetic fields and various temperature regimes, which allow to resolve the existing discrepancies with the experiments. Specifically, we find saturation of the fluctuations induced magneto-conductivity for both two- and three-dimensional superconductors at already moderate magnetic fields and discuss possible dimensional crossover at the immediate vicinity of the critical temperature. The surprising observation is that closer to the transition temperature weaker magnetic field provides the saturation. It is remarkable also that interaction correction to magnetoconductivity coming from the Cooper channel, and specifically the so called Maki-Thompson contribution, remains to be important even away from the critical region.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur

Economic Impacts of Red Tide Events on Restaurant Sales

The economic impact of red tide events were examined for three Southwest Florida waterfront restaurants. Daily gross sales from January 1996 through September were analyzed using a multiple regression time series model to examine whether the presence of a red tide, as measured within three and six miles of the beach, reduced sales revenues. Preliminary results indicate that red tide blooms closer to shore had a significantly large negative influence on sales revenues across restaurant locations.Agribusiness,

A constrained random-force model for weakly bending semiflexible polymers

The random-force (Larkin) model of a directed elastic string subject to quenched random forces in the transverse directions has been a paradigm in the statistical physics of disordered systems. In this brief note, we investigate a modified version of the above model where the total transverse force along the polymer contour and the related total torque, in each realization of disorder, vanish. We discuss the merits of adding these constraints and show that they leave the qualitative behavior in the strong stretching regime unchanged, but they reduce the effects of the random force by significant numerical prefactors. We also show that a transverse random force effectively makes the filament softer to compression by inducing undulations. We calculate the related linear compression coefficient in both the usual and the constrained random force model.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in PR

Suppression or enhancement of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov order in a one-dimensional optical lattice with particle correlated tunnelling

We study through controlled numerical simulation the ground state properties of spin-polarized strongly interacting fermi gas in an anisotropic optical lattice, which is described by an effective one-dimensional general Hubbard model with particle correlated hopping rate. We show that the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) type of state, while enhanced by a negative correlated hopping rate, can be completely suppressed by positive particle correlated hopping, yielding to an unusual magnetic phase even for particles with on-site attractive interaction We also find several different phase separation patterns for these atoms in an inhomogeneous harmonic trap, depending on the correlated hopping rate

FIRM-LEVEL HEDONIC ANALYSIS OF U.S. PRODUCED SURIMI: IMPLICATIONS FOR PROCESSORS AND RESOURCE MANAGERS

Firm-level data on U.S. produced surimi, the only seafood product that is graded on the objective measurement of several quality characteristics, are used to estimate the effect of production variables (e.g., hours between harvest and processing) and policy variables (e.g., fishing seasons) on product characteristics. Transactions data are then used to estimate hedonic equations and derive implicit prices for each characteristic of surimi used to produce seafood analogs and traditional products in the U.S. and Japanese markets, respectively. Implicit prices are also estimated for surimi grade, production location (onshore, at-sea), and production date. Results indicate that several factors (including species) significantly affect surimi characteristics. Color and gel strength have the largest price impact, and market conditions alter the relative prices associated with improving certain characteristics. Overall results demonstrate that management decisions that affect fish quality—and, therefore, processed product quality and price—directly affect the wholesale value of the fishery.Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,

Conventional and charge six superfluids from melting hexagonal Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov phases in two dimensions

We consider defect mediated melting of Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) and pair density wave (PDW) phases in two dimensions. Examining mean-field ground states in which the spatial oscillations of the FFLO/PDW superfluid order parameter exhibit hexagonal lattice symmetry, we find that thermal melting leads to a variety of novel phases. We find that a spatially homogeneous charge six superfluid can arise from melting a hexagonal vortex-anitvortex lattice FFLO/PDW phase. The charge six superfluid has an order parameter corresponding to a bound state of six fermions. We further find that a hexagonal vortex-free FFLO/PDW phase can melt to yield a conventional (charge two) homogeneous superfluid. A key role is played by topological defects that combine fractional vortices of the superfluid order and fractional dislocations of the lattice order.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure

Nonequilibrium mesoscopic conductance fluctuations

We investigate the amplitude of mesoscopic fluctuations of the differential conductance of a metallic wire at arbitrary bias voltage V. For non-interacting electrons, the variance increases with V. The asymptotic large-V behavior is \sim V/V_c (where eV_c=D/L^2 is the Thouless energy), in agreement with the earlier prediction by Larkin and Khmelnitskii. We find, however, that this asymptotics has a very small numerical prefactor and sets in at very large V/V_c only, which strongly complicates its experimental observation. This high-voltage behavior is preceded by a crossover regime, V/V_c \lesssim 30, where the conductance variance increases by a factor \sim 3 as compared to its value in the regime of universal conductance fluctuations (i.e., at V->0). We further analyze the effect of dephasing due to the electron-electron scattering on at high voltages. With the Coulomb interaction taken into account, the amplitude of conductance fluctuations becomes a non-monotonic function of V. Specifically, drops as 1/V for voltages V >> gV_c, where g is the dimensionless conductance. In this regime, the conductance fluctuations are dominated by quantum-coherent regions of the wire adjacent to the reservoirs.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures. Fig.2 and one more appendix added, accepted for publication in PR

Thermal conductivity in a mixed state of a superconductor at low magnetic fields

We evaluate accurate low-field/low-temperature asymptotics of the thermal conductivity perpendicular to magnetic field for one-band and two-band s-wave superconductors using Keldysh-Usadel formalism. We show that heat transport in this regime is limited by tunneling of quasiparticles between adjacent vortices across a number of local points and therefore widely-used approximation of averaging over circular unit cell is not valid. In the single-band case, we obtain parameter-free analytical solution which provides theoretical lower limit for heat transport in the mixed state. In the two-band case, we show that heat transport is controlled by the ratio of gaps and diffusion constants in different bands. Presence of a weaker second band strongly enhances the thermal conductivity at low fieldsComment: 7 pages, 1 figure, discussion of the clean case and discussion of experiment adde

Detecting the breached pair phase in a polarized ultracold Fermi gas

We propose a method for the experimental detection of a new quantum phase, the breached pair state, in a strongly interacting ultracold Fermi gas with population imbalance. We show that through the time-of-flight Raman imaging, the presence of such a phase can be unambiguously determined with a measurement of the momentum-space phase separation of the minority spin component. To guide the experimental efforts, the momentum-space density profiles are calculated under typical experimental conditions.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, replaced with the published versio