A Wage-Increase Permit Plan to Stop Inflation

macroeconomics, inflation, policy, wage-increase

Scaling Theory for Steady State Plastic Flows in Amorphous Solids

Strongly correlated amorphous solids are a class of glass-formers whose inter-particle potential admits an approximate inverse power-law form in a relevant range of inter-particle distances. We study the steady-state plastic flow of such systems, firstly in the athermal, quasi-static limit, and secondly at finite temperatures and strain rates. In all cases we demonstrate the usefulness of scaling concepts to reduce the data to universal scaling functions where the scaling exponents are determined a-priori from the inter-particle potential. In particular we show that the steady plastic flow at finite temperatures with efficient heat extraction is uniquely characterized by two scaled variables; equivalently, the steady state displays an equation of state that relates one scaled variable to the other two. We discuss the range of applicability of the scaling theory, and the connection to density scaling in supercooled liquid dynamics. We explain that the description of transient states calls for additional state variables whose identity is still far from obvious.Comment: 9 pages, 9 figure

Analysis of microwave radiometric measurements from Skylab

There are no author-identified significant results in this report

Pseudo diamagnetism of four component exciton condensates

We analyze the spin structure of the ground state of four-component exciton condensates in coupled quantum wells as a function of spin-dependent interactions and applied magnetic field. The four components correspond to the degenerate exciton states characterized by $\pm2$ and $\pm1$ spin projections to the axis of the structure. We show that in a wide range of parameters, the chemical potential of the system increases as a function of magnetic field, which manifests a pseudo-diamagnetism of the system. The transitions to polarized two- and one-component condensates can be of the first-order in this case. The predicted effects are caused by energy conserving mixing of $\pm2$ and $\pm1$ excitons.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure

Investigation of battery active nickel oxides Final report

Identification and characterization of battery active compound structures formed on nickel oxide electrode during charging and dischargin

On pointwise and weighted estimates for commutators of Calder\'on-Zygmund operators

In recent years, it has been well understood that a Calder\'on-Zygmund operator $T$ is pointwise controlled by a finite number of dyadic operators of a very simple structure (called the sparse operators). We obtain a similar pointwise estimate for the commutator $[b,T]$ with a locally integrable function $b$. This result is applied into two directions. If $b\in BMO$, we improve several weighted weak type bounds for $[b,T]$. If $b$ belongs to the weighted $BMO$, we obtain a quantitative form of the two-weighted bound for $[b,T]$ due to Bloom-Holmes-Lacey-Wick.Comment: V3: Lemma 5.1 is corrected. We would like to thank Irina Holmes for pointing out an error in the previous versio

Statistical Physics of Elasto-Plastic Steady States in Amorphous Solids: Finite Temperatures and Strain Rates

The effect of finite temperature $T$ and finite strain rate $\dot\gamma$ on the statistical physics of plastic deformations in amorphous solids made of $N$ particles is investigated. We recognize three regimes of temperature where the statistics are qualitatively different. In the first regime the temperature is very low, $T<T_{\rm cross}(N)$, and the strain is quasi-static. In this regime the elasto-plastic steady state exhibits highly correlated plastic events whose statistics are characterized by anomalous exponents. In the second regime $T_{\rm cross}(N)<T<T_{\rm max}(\dot\gamma)$ the system-size dependence of the stress fluctuations becomes normal, but the variance depends on the strain rate. The physical mechanism of the cross-over is different for increasing temperature and increasing strain rate, since the plastic events are still dominated by the mechanical instabilities (seen as an eigenvalue of the Hessian matrix going to zero), and the effect of temperature is only to facilitate the transition. A third regime occurs above the second cross-over temperature $T_{\rm max}(\dot\gamma)$ where stress fluctuations become dominated by thermal noise. Throughout the paper we demonstrate that scaling concepts are highly relevant for the problem at hand, and finally we present a scaling theory that is able to collapse the data for all the values of temperatures and strain rates, providing us with a high degree of predictability.Comment: 12 pages, 13 figure