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The Greater Planetary Good: From A Precept to a Program
The author unequivocally sets forth the shortcomings of neoliberalism and what it has wrought worldwide. For without understanding the deficiencies ― and with hope, the remedies ― of conducting “business as usual,” global challenges such as climate change will remain unabated. For the greater planetary good, Manolopoulos puts forth certain tasks which must be undertaken to fully comprehend the necessity of conceiving the greater planetary good. He offers, in lieu of a negative critique, a blueprint of sorts … detailing how to fundamentally inform, and reform, global social organization
Charged R\'enyi Entropies in CFTs with Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Holographic Duals
We calculate the R\'enyi entropy , for a spherical
entangling surface in CFT's with Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-Maxwell holographic
duals. R\'enyi entropies must obey some interesting inequalities by definition.
However, for Gauss-Bonnet couplings , larger than a specific value,
but still allowed by causality, we observe a violation of the inequality
, which is related to the existence of negative entropy black holes,
providing interesting restrictions in the bulk theory. Moreover, we find an
interesting distinction of the behaviour of the analytic continuation of
for imaginary chemical potential, between negative and
non-negative .Comment: 50 pages, 16 figures. v3: Version to appear in JHE
Efficient first-principles calculation of the quantum kinetic energy and momentum distribution of nuclei
Light nuclei at room temperature and below exhibit a kinetic energy which
significantly deviates from the predictions of classical statistical mechanics.
This quantum kinetic energy is responsible for a wide variety of isotope
effects of interest in fields ranging from chemistry to climatology. It also
furnishes the second moment of the nuclear momentum distribution, which
contains subtle information about the chemical environment and has recently
become accessible to deep inelastic neutron scattering experiments. Here we
show how, by combining imaginary time path integral dynamics with a carefully
designed generalized Langevin equation, it is possible to dramatically reduce
the expense of computing the quantum kinetic energy. We also introduce a
transient anisotropic Gaussian approximation to the nuclear momentum
distribution which can be calculated with negligible additional effort. As an
example, we evaluate the structural properties, the quantum kinetic energy, and
the nuclear momentum distribution for a first-principles simulation of liquid
water
Analytic continuation of Wolynes theory into the Marcus inverted regime
The Wolynes theory of electronically nonadiabatic reaction rates [P. G.
Wolynes, J. Chem. Phys. 87, 6559 (1987)] is based on a saddle point
approximation to the time integral of a reactive flux autocorrelation function
in the nonadiabatic (golden rule) limit. The dominant saddle point is on the
imaginary time axis at , and provided
lies in the range ,
it is straightforward to evaluate the rate constant using information obtained
from an imaginary time path integral calculation. However, if lies outside this range, as it does in the Marcus inverted regime, the
path integral diverges. This has led to claims in the literature that Wolynes
theory cannot describe the correct behaviour in the inverted regime. Here we
show how the imaginary time correlation function obtained from a path integral
calculation can be analytically continued to , and
the continuation used to evaluate the rate in the inverted regime. Comparisons
with exact golden rule results for a spin-boson model and a more demanding
(asymmetric and anharmonic) model of electronic predissociation show that the
theory it is just as accurate in the inverted regime as it is in the normal
regime.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figure
Knowledge transfer of microstrip detectors from particle to medical physics
This project is a demonstration of Knowledge Transfer. Knowledge in the fabrication, operation and application of radiation detectors originally developed for particle physics experiments has been exploited in diverse areas of research like medical applications. Microstrip detectors, commonplace in particle physics "trackers", have been evaluated as dosimeters for radiotherapy modalities. Hospital trails conducted under the supervision of clinical scientists demonstrated the viability of these detectors as dosimeters both in the quality assurance of linear accelerators and potentially in treatment planning verification. Important quantities of interest to the clinical scientist, like depth-dose distributions, output factors, off axis ratios etc. were measured with MV X-Rays from a clinical Linac and compared with the present day standard dosimeters. All results showed the performance of our novel dosimeter to be as good as or even better than that of the hospital dosimeters. Moreover the ability of our system for dose distribution measurements in real time was proven
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