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Impaired desynchronization of beta activity underlies memory deficits in people with Parkinson's disease
Comparison of methods for estimating continuous distributions of relaxation times
The nonparametric estimation of the distribution of relaxation times approach
is not as frequently used in the analysis of dispersed response of dielectric
or conductive materials as are other immittance data analysis methods based on
parametric curve fitting techniques. Nevertheless, such distributions can yield
important information about the physical processes present in measured
material. In this letter, we apply two quite different numerical inversion
methods to estimate the distribution of relaxation times for glassy \lila\
dielectric frequency-response data at 225 \kelvin. Both methods yield unique
distributions that agree very closely with the actual exact one accurately
calculated from the corrected bulk-dispersion Kohlrausch model established
independently by means of parametric data fit using the corrected modulus
formalism method. The obtained distributions are also greatly superior to those
estimated using approximate functions equations given in the literature.Comment: 4 pages and 4 figure
Spin wave dispersion in La2CuO4
We calculate the antiferromagnetic spin wave dispersion in the half-filled
Hubbard model for a two-dimensional square lattice and find it to be in
excellent agreement with recent high-resolution inelastic neutron scattering
performed on La2CuO4 [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5377 (2001)].Comment: typos correcte
Schur Partial Derivative Operators
A lattice diagram is a finite list L=((p_1,q_1),...,(p_n,q_n) of lattice
cells. The corresponding lattice diagram determinant is \Delta_L(X;Y)=\det \|
x_i^{p_j}y_i^{q_j} \|. These lattice diagram determinants are crucial in the
study of the so-called ``n! conjecture'' of A. Garsia and M. Haiman. The space
M_L is the space spanned by all partial derivatives of \Delta_L(X;Y). The
``shift operators'', which are particular partial symmetric derivative
operators are very useful in the comprehension of the structure of the M_L
spaces. We describe here how a Schur function partial derivative operator acts
on lattice diagrams with distinct cells in the positive quadrant.Comment: 8 pages, LaTe
Langevin approach to synchronization of hyperchaotic time-delay dynamics
In this paper, we characterize the synchronization phenomenon of hyperchaotic
scalar non-linear delay dynamics in a fully-developed chaos regime. Our results
rely on the observation that, in that regime, the stationary statistical
properties of a class of hyperchaotic attractors can be reproduced with a
linear Langevin equation, defined by replacing the non-linear delay force by a
delta-correlated noise. Therefore, the synchronization phenomenon can be
analytically characterized by a set of coupled Langevin equations. We apply
this formalism to study anticipated synchronization dynamics subject to
external noise fluctuations as well as for characterizing the effects of
parameter mismatch in a hyperchaotic communication scheme. The same procedure
is applied to second order differential delay equations associated to
synchronization in electro-optical devices. In all cases, the departure with
respect to perfect synchronization is measured through a similarity function.
Numerical simulations in discrete maps associated to the hyperchaotic dynamics
support the formalism.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure
Charge and spin Hall conductivity in metallic graphene
Graphene has an unusual low-energy band structure with four chiral bands and
half-quantized and quantized Hall effects that have recently attracted
theoretical and experimental attention. We study the Fermi energy and disorder
dependence of its spin Hall conductivity. In the metallic regime we find that
vertex corrections enhance the intrinsic spin Hall conductivity and that skew
scattering can lead to its values that exceed the quantized ones expected when
the chemical potential is inside the spin-orbit induced energy gap. We predict
that large spin Hall conductivities will be observable in graphene even when
the spin-orbit gap does not survive disorder.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Can distributed delays perfectly stabilize dynamical networks?
Signal transmission delays tend to destabilize dynamical networks leading to
oscillation, but their dispersion contributes oppositely toward stabilization.
We analyze an integro-differential equation that describes the collective
dynamics of a neural network with distributed signal delays. With the gamma
distributed delays less dispersed than exponential distribution, the system
exhibits reentrant phenomena, in which the stability is once lost but then
recovered as the mean delay is increased. With delays dispersed more highly
than exponential, the system never destabilizes.Comment: 4pages 5figure
Observability of counterpropagating modes at fractional-quantum-Hall edges
When the bulk filling factor is equal to 1 - 1/m with m odd, at least one
counterpropagating chiral collective mode occurs simultaneously with
magnetoplasmons at the edge of fractional-quantum-Hall samples. Initial
experimental searches for an additional mode were unsuccessful. In this paper,
we address conditions under which its observation should be expected in
experiments where the electronic system is excited and probed by capacitive
coupling. We derive realistic expressions for the velocity of the slow
counterpropagating mode, starting from a microscopic calculation which is
simplified by a Landau-Silin-like separation between long-range Hartree and
residual interactions. The microscopic calculation determines the stiffness of
the edge to long-wavelength neutral excitations, which fixes the slow-mode
velocity, and the effective width of the edge region, which influences the
magnetoplasmon dispersion.Comment: 18 pages, RevTex, 6 figures, final version to be published in
Physical Review
Management of incidentally detected heart murmurs in dogs and cats
A dog or a cat has an incidentally detected heart murmur if the murmur is an unexpected discovery during a veterinary consultation that was not initially focused on the cardiovascular system. This document presents approaches for managing dogs and cats that have incidentally-detected heart murmurs, with an emphasis on murmur characteristics, signalment profiling, and multifactorial decision-making to choose an optimal course for a given patient
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