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Klein tunneling through an oblique barrier in graphene ribbons
We study a transmission coefficient of graphene nanoribbons with a top gate
which acts as an oblique barrier. Using a Green function method based on the
Dirac-like equation, scattering among transverse modes due to the oblique
barrier is taken into account numerically. In contrast to the 2-dimensional
graphene sheet, we find that the pattern of transmission in graphene ribbons
depends strongly on the electronic structure in the region of the barrier.
Consequently, irregular structures in the transmission coefficient are
predicted while perfect transmission is still calculated in the case of
metallic graphene independently of angle and length of the oblique barrier
A Comparison of Different Machine Transliteration Models
Machine transliteration is a method for automatically converting words in one
language into phonetically equivalent ones in another language. Machine
transliteration plays an important role in natural language applications such
as information retrieval and machine translation, especially for handling
proper nouns and technical terms. Four machine transliteration models --
grapheme-based transliteration model, phoneme-based transliteration model,
hybrid transliteration model, and correspondence-based transliteration model --
have been proposed by several researchers. To date, however, there has been
little research on a framework in which multiple transliteration models can
operate simultaneously. Furthermore, there has been no comparison of the four
models within the same framework and using the same data. We addressed these
problems by 1) modeling the four models within the same framework, 2) comparing
them under the same conditions, and 3) developing a way to improve machine
transliteration through this comparison. Our comparison showed that the hybrid
and correspondence-based models were the most effective and that the four
models can be used in a complementary manner to improve machine transliteration
performance
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The role of structural embeddedness in an IT outsourcing network
The design of governance to safeguard against a vendor's opportunistic behaviour is one of the critical issues in information technology outsourcing (ITO) since this behaviour causes cost escalation and service debasement. The roles of structural embeddedness underlying network governance have been gaining its importance as complementary or substitutable governance in ITO. Our research attempts to reveal how structural embeddedness can affect the decision-makings of clients and vendors and their resulting outcomes in an ITO network and how these effects are moderated by various ITO network structures according to outsourced IT services. An agent-based simulation and game-theoretic approach are adopted to build a simulation model to describe ITO networks with various structures and ITO transactions between clients and vendors. Finally, the future research directions are discussed
Einstein Manifolds As Yang-Mills Instantons
It is well-known that Einstein gravity can be formulated as a gauge theory of
Lorentz group where spin connections play a role of gauge fields and Riemann
curvature tensors correspond to their field strengths. One can then pose an
interesting question: What is the Einstein equations from the gauge theory
point of view? Or equivalently, what is the gauge theory object corresponding
to Einstein manifolds? We show that the Einstein equations in four dimensions
are precisely self-duality equations in Yang-Mills gauge theory and so Einstein
manifolds correspond to Yang-Mills instantons in SO(4) = SU(2)_L x SU(2)_R
gauge theory. Specifically, we prove that any Einstein manifold with or without
a cosmological constant always arises as the sum of SU(2)_L instantons and
SU(2)_R anti-instantons. This result explains why an Einstein manifold must be
stable because two kinds of instantons belong to different gauge groups,
instantons in SU(2)_L and anti-instantons in SU(2)_R, and so they cannot decay
into a vacuum. We further illuminate the stability of Einstein manifolds by
showing that they carry nontrivial topological invariants.Comment: v4; 17 pages, published version in Mod. Phys. Lett.
On the sign of the pi-rho-omega coupling constant
It is shown that the relative sign between the and
coupling constants can be determined most sensitively from production
processes in collisions. Recent data on these reactions clearly favor the
sign of the coupling constant which is opposite to that
inferred from studies of the photoproduction reaction in combination with the
vector meson dominance assumption and used by many authors. Implication of this
finding in the description of other reactions is discussed.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, REVTeX, to be published in Phys. Lett.
Photoproduction of Xi off nucleons
The photoproduction reaction is investigated based on
a relativistic meson-exchange model of hadronic interactions. The production
amplitude is calculated in the tree-level approximation from relevant effective
Lagrangians, whose (coupling constant) parameters are mostly fixed from the
empirical data and/or quark models together with SU(3) symmetry considerations.
Gauge invariance of the resulting amplitude is maintained by introducing the
contact currents by extending the gauge-invariant approach of Haberzettl for
one-meson photoproduction to two-meson photoproduction. The role of the
intermediate low-lying hyperons and of the intermediate higher-mass hyperon
resonances are analyzed in detail. In particular, the basic features of the
production of in and their possible
manifestations in the forthcoming experimental data are discussed.Comment: 18 pages, 17 figures, REVTeX, 1 figure added, to appear in Phys. Rev.
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