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Reversable heat flow through the carbon nanotube junctions
Microscopic mechanisms of externally controlled reversable heat flow through
the carbon nanotube junctions (NJ) are studied theoretically. Our model
suggests that the heat is transfered along the tube section by
electrons () and holes () moving ballistically in either in parallel or
in opposite directions and accelerated by the bias source-drain voltage (Peltier effect). We compute the Seebeck coefficient , electric
and thermal conductivities and find that their magnitudes
strongly depend on and . The sign reversal of
versus the sign of formerly observed experimentally is interpreted
in this work in terms of so-called chiral tunneling phenomena (Klein paradox)
Solvable Examples of Drift and Diffusion of Ions in Non-uniform Electric Fields
The drift and diffusion of a cloud of ions in a fluid are distorted by an
inhomogeneous electric field. If the electric field carries the center of the
distribution in a straight line and the field configuration is suitably
symmetric, the distortion can be calculated analytically. We examine the
specific examples of fields with cylindrical and spherical symmetry in detail
assuming the ion distributions to be of a generally Gaussian form. The effects
of differing diffusion coefficients in the transverse and longitudinal
directions are included
The Localization Length of Stationary States in the Nonlinear Schreodinger Equation
For the nonlinear Schreodinger equation (NLSE), in presence of disorder,
exponentially localized stationary states are found. In the present Letter it
is demonstrated analytically that the localization length is typically
independent of the strength of the nonlinearity and is identical to the one
found for the corresponding linear equation. The analysis makes use of the
correspondence between the stationary NLSE and the Langevin equation as well as
of the resulting Fokker-Planck equation. The calculations are performed for the
``white noise'' random potential and an exact expression for the exponential
growth of the eigenstates is obtained analytically. It is argued that the main
conclusions are robust
A proposal for a new type of thin-film field-emission display by edge breakdown of MIS structure
A new type of field emission display(FED) based on an edge-enhance electron
emission from metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) thin film structure is
proposed. The electrons produced by an avalanche breakdown in the semiconductor
near the edge of a top metal electrode are initially injected to the thin film
of an insulator with a negative electron affinity (NEA), and then are injected
into vacuum in proximity to the top electrode edge. The condition for the
deep-depletition breakdown near the edge of the top metal electrode is
analytically found in terms of ratio of the insulator thickness to the maximum
(breakdown) width of the semiconductor depletition region: this ratio should be
less than 2/(3 \pi - 2) = 0.27. The influence of a neighboring metal electrode
and an electrode thickness on this condition are analyzed. Different practical
schemes of the proposed display with a special reference to M/CaF_2/Si
structure are considered.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figure
Decomposição de material agronômico em forno de microondas com cavidade empregando ácidos diluídos.
Para a determinação dos teores de elementos individuais em amostras agronômicas normalmente é necessária a transformação dos elementos de interesse da matriz orgânica carbonácea em uma forma inorgânica simples. A grande maioria das técnicas analíticas exige que o analito esteja dissolvido em meio líquido. Na escolha de um método ideal para a decomposição de uma amostra, deve-se sempre ter em mente quais os resultados esperados - como teores aproximados dos analitos e a sensibilidade da técnica que se deseja empregar. O método deve ser capaz de disponibilizar completamente o elemento de interesse; ser rápido; os reagentes não devem atacar o recipiente onde é feita a reação, evitando-se as perdas por adsorção e/ou absorção e não conter contaminantes que possam vir a interferir nos resultados. O procedimento adotado deve apresentar o mínimo de insalubridade e periculosidade
A pupil size response model to assess fear learning
During fear conditioning, pupil size responses dissociate between conditioned stimuli that are contingently paired (CS+) with an aversive unconditioned stimulus, and those that are unpaired (CS-). Current approaches to assess fear learning from pupil responses rely on ad hoc specifications. Here, we sought to develop a psychophysiological model (PsPM) in which pupil responses are characterized by response functions within the framework of a linear time-invariant system. This PsPM can be written as a general linear model, which is inverted to yield amplitude estimates of the eliciting process in the central nervous system. We first characterized fear-conditioned pupil size responses based on an experiment with auditory CS. PsPM-based parameter estimates distinguished CS+/CS- better than, or on par with, two commonly used methods (peak scoring, area under the curve). We validated this PsPM in four independent experiments with auditory, visual, and somatosensory CS, as well as short (3.5 s) and medium (6 s) CS/US intervals. Overall, the new PsPM provided equal or decisively better differentiation of CS+/CS- than the two alternative methods and was never decisively worse. We further compared pupil responses with concurrently measured skin conductance and heart period responses. Finally, we used our previously developed luminance-related pupil responses to infer the timing of the likely neural input into the pupillary system. Overall, we establish a new PsPM to assess fear conditioning based on pupil responses. The model has a potential to provide higher statistical sensitivity, can be applied to other conditioning paradigms in humans, and may be easily extended to nonhuman mammals
A Group Theoretical Identification of Integrable Equations in the Li\'enard Type Equation : Part II: Equations having Maximal Lie Point Symmetries
In this second of the set of two papers on Lie symmetry analysis of a class
of Li\'enard type equation of the form ,
where over dot denotes differentiation with respect to time and and
are smooth functions of their variables, we isolate the equations which
possess maximal Lie point symmetries. It is well known that any second order
nonlinear ordinary differential equation which admits eight parameter Lie point
symmetries is linearizable to free particle equation through point
transformation. As a consequence all the identified equations turn out to be
linearizable. We also show that one can get maximal Lie point symmetries for
the above Li\'enard equation only when (subscript denotes
differentiation). In addition, we discuss the linearising transformations and
solutions for all the nonlinear equations identified in this paper.Comment: Accepted for publication in Journal of Mathematical Physic
Conductance of a tunnel point-contact of noble metals in the presence of a single defect
In paper [1] (Avotina et al. Phys. Rev. B,74, 085411 (2006)) the effect of
Fermi surface anisotropy to the conductance of a tunnel point contact, in the
vicinity of which a single point-like defect is situated, has been investigated
theoretically. The oscillatory dependence of the conductance on the distance
between the contact and the defect has been found for a general Fermi surface
geometry. In this paper we apply the method developed in [1] to the calculation
of the conductance of noble metal contacts. An original algorithm, which
enables the computation of the conductance for any parametrically given Fermi
surface, is proposed. On this basis a pattern of the conductance oscillations,
which can be observed by the method of scanning tunneling microscopy, is
obtained for different orientations of the surface for the noble metals.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure
Casimir-Polder interaction between an atom and a conducting wall in cosmic string spacetime
The Casimir-Polder interaction potential is evaluated for a polarizable
microparticle and a conducting wall in the geometry of a cosmic string
perpendicular to the wall. The general case of the anisotropic polarizability
tensor for the microparticle is considered. The corresponding force is a
function of the wall-microparticle and cosmic string-microparticle distances.
Depending on the orientation of the polarizability tensor principal axes the
force can be either attractive or repulsive. The asymptotic behavior of the
Casimir-Polder potential is investigated at large and small separations
compared to the wavelength of the dominant atomic transitions. We show that the
conical defect may be used to control the strength and the sign of the
Casimir-Polder force.Comment: 17 pages, 3 figure
Spin dephasing and photoinduced spin diffusion in high-mobility 110-grown GaAs-AlGaAs two-dimensional electron systems
We have studied spin dephasing and spin diffusion in a high-mobility
two-dimensional electron system, embedded in a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well grown
in the [110] direction, by a two-beam Hanle experiment. For very low excitation
density, we observe spin lifetimes of more than 16 ns, which rapidly decrease
as the pump intensity is increased. Two mechanisms contribute to this decrease:
the optical excitation produces holes, which lead to a decay of electron spin
via the Bir-Aranov-Pikus mechanism and recombination with spin-polarized
electrons. By scanning the distance between the pump and probe beams, we
observe the diffusion of spin-polarized electrons over more than 20 microns.
For high pump intensity, the spin polarization in a distance of several microns
from the pump beam is larger than at the pump spot, due to the reduced
influence of photogenerated holes.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
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