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Oscillatory instabilities in d.c. biased quantum dots
We consider a `quantum dot' in the Coulomb blockade regime, subject to an
arbitrarily large source-drain voltage V. When V is small, quantum dots with
odd electron occupation display the Kondo effect, giving rise to enhanced
conductance. Here we investigate the regime where V is increased beyond the
Kondo temperature and the Kondo resonance splits into two components. It is
shown that interference between them results in spontaneous oscillations of the
current through the dot. The theory predicts the appearance of ``Shapiro
steps'' in the current-voltage characteristics of an irradiated quantum dot;
these would constitute an experimental signature of the predicted effect.Comment: Four pages with embedded figure
Nonlinear Response of a Kondo system: Direct and Alternating Tunneling Currents
Non - equilibrium tunneling current of an Anderson impurity system subject to
both constant and alternating electric fields is studied. A time - dependent
Schrieffer - Wolff transformation maps the time - dependent Anderson
Hamiltonian onto a Kondo one. Perturbation expansion in powers of the Kondo
coupling strength is carried out up to third order, yielding a remarkably
simple analytical expression for the tunneling current. It is found that the
zero - bias anomaly is suppressed by an ac - field. Both dc and the first
harmonic are equally enhanced by the Kondo effect, while the higher harmonics
are relatively small. These results are shown to be valid also below the Kondo
temperature.Comment: 7 pages, RevTeX, 3 PS figures attached, the article has been
significantly developed: time - dependent Schrieffer - Wolff transformation
is presented in the full form, the results are applied to the change in the
direct current induced by an alternating field (2 figures are new
Equivariant cohomology and analytic descriptions of ring isomorphisms
In this paper we consider a class of connected closed -manifolds with a
non-empty finite fixed point set, each of which is totally non-homologous
to zero in (or -equivariantly formal), where . With the
help of the equivariant index, we give an explicit description of the
equivariant cohomology of such a -manifold in terms of algebra, so that we
can obtain analytic descriptions of ring isomorphisms among equivariant
cohomology rings of such -manifolds, and a necessary and sufficient
condition that the equivariant cohomology rings of such two -manifolds are
isomorphic. This also leads us to analyze how many there are equivariant
cohomology rings up to isomorphism for such -manifolds in 2- and
3-dimensional cases.Comment: 20 pages, updated version with two references adde
Anharmonicity of flux lattices and thermal fluctuations in layered superconductors
We study elasticity of a perpendicular flux lattice in a layered
superconductor with Josephson coupling between layers. We find that the energy
contains ln(flux displacement) terms, so that elastic constants cannot be
strictly defined. Instead we define effective elastic constants by a thermal
average. The tilt modulus has terms with ln(T) which for weak fields, i.e.
Josephson length smaller than the flux line spacing, lead to displacement
square average proportional to T/ln(T). The expansion parameter indicates that
the dominant low temperature phase transition is either layer decoupling at
high fields or melting at low fields.Comment: 15 pages, 2 eps figures, Revtex, submitted to Phys. Rev. B.
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Development of hepatic pathology in GBVâBâinfected redâbellied tamarins (Saguinus labiatus)
GB virus B (GBVâB) is a new world monkeyâassociated flavivirus used to model acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Critical for evaluation of antiviral or vaccine approaches is an understanding of the effect of HCV on the liver at different stages of infection. In the absence of longitudinal human tissue samples at defined time points, we have characterized changes in tamarins. As early as 2 weeks postâinfection histological changes were noticeable, and these were established in all animals by 6 weeks. Despite high levels of liverâassociated viral RNA, there was reversal of hepatic damage on clearance of peripheral virus though fibrosis was demonstrated in four tamarins. Notably, viral RNA burden in the liver dropped to near undetectable or background levels in all animals which underwent a second viral challenge, highlighting the efficacy of the immune response in removing foci of replication in the liver. These data add to the knowledge of GBVâB infection in New World primates which can offer attractive systems for the testing of prophylactic and therapeutic treatments and the evaluation of their utility in preventing or reversing liver pathology
Correlation induced switching of local spatial charge distribution in two-level system
We present theoretical investigation of spatial charge distribution in the
two-level system with strong Coulomb correlations by means of Heisenberg
equations analysis for localized states total electron filling numbers taking
into account pair correlations of local electron density. It was found that
tunneling current through nanometer scale structure with strongly coupled
localized states causes Coulomb correlations induced spatial redistribution of
localized charges. Conditions for inverse occupation of two-level system in
particular range of applied bias caused by Coulomb correlations have been
revealed. We also discuss possibility of charge manipulation in the proposed
system.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures Submitted to JETP Letter
Classical phase space and statistical mechanics of identical particles
Starting from the quantum theory of identical particles, we show how to
define a classical mechanics that retains information about the quantum
statistics. We consider two examples of relevance for the quantum Hall effect:
identical particles in the lowest Landau level, and vortices in the
Chern-Simons Ginzburg-Landau model. In both cases the resulting {\em classical}
statistical mechanics is shown to be a nontrivial classical limit of Haldane's
exclusion statistics.Comment: 40 pages, Late
Cognitive demands of face monitoring: Evidence for visuospatial overload
Young children perform difficult communication tasks better face to face than when they cannot see one another (e.g., Doherty-Sneddon & Kent, 1996). However, in recent studies, it was found that children aged 6 and 10 years, describing abstract shapes, showed evidence of face-to-face interference rather than facilitation. For some communication tasks, access to visual signals (such as facial expression and eye gaze) may hinder rather than help childrenâs communication. In new research we have pursued this interference effect. Five studies are described with adults and 10- and 6-year-old participants. It was found that looking at a face interfered with childrenâs abilities to listen to descriptions of abstract shapes. Children also performed visuospatial memory tasks worse when they looked at someoneâs face prior to responding than when they looked at a visuospatial pattern or at the floor. It was concluded that performance on certain tasks was hindered by monitoring another personâs face. It is suggested that processing of visual communication signals shares certain processing resources with the processing of other visuospatial information
Vortex fluctuations in underdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d crystals
Vortex thermal fluctuations in heavily underdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d (Tc=69.4 K)
are studied using Josephson plasma resonance (JPR). From the data in zero
magnetic field, we obtain the penetration depth along the c-axis,
lambda_{L,c}(0) = 229 micrometers and the anisotropy ratio gamma(0) = 600. The
low plasma frequency allows us to study phase correlations over the whole
vortex solid (Bragg-glass) state. The JPR results yield a wandering length
r_{w} of vortex pancakes. The temperature dependence of r_{w} as well as its
increase with applied dc magnetic field can only be explained by the
renormalization of the tilt modulus by thermal fluctuations, and suggest the
latter is responsible for the dissociation of the vortices at the first order
transition.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. Let
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