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Two phase transitions in the fully frustrated model
The fully frustrated model on a square lattice is studied by means of
Monte Carlo simulations. A Kosterlitz-Thouless transition is found at , followed by an ordinary Ising transition at a slightly
higher temperature, . The non-Ising exponents reported by
others, are explained as a failure of finite size scaling due to the screening
length associated with the nearby Kosterlitz-Thouless transition.Comment: REVTEX file, 8 pages, 5 figures in uuencoded postscrip
The Pion-Nucleon coupling constant from np charge exchange scattering
A novel extrapolation method has been used to deduce the charged Pion-Nucleon
coupling constant from backward differential scattering cross sections. We
applied it to new measurements performed at 162 MeV at the The Svedberg
Laboratory in Uppsala. In the angular range , the
carefully normalized data are steeper than those of most previous measurements.
The extracted value, , in good agreement with
the classical value, is higher than those determined in recent nucleon-nucleon
partial-wave analyses.Comment: 6 pages, 3 encapsulated figures, epsfig, menu97.cls (included
The Impact of NLO-Corrections on the Determination of the $\bar{u},\bar{d} Content of Nucleons from Drell-Yan Production
The interpretation of Drell-Yan production in terms of the antiquark
densities depends on NLO corrections. Besides the NLO corrections to the
familiar annihilation , there is a
substantial contribution from the QCD Compton subprocesses and . The beam and target
dependence of the two classes of corrections is different. We discuss the
impact of this difference on the determination of the
asymmetry in the proton from the comparison of the and Drell-Yan
production.Comment: 4 pages, 1 eps-figure. To be published in Proceedings of DIS'9
Identifying Agile Requirements Engineering Patterns in Industry
Agile Software Development (ASD) is gaining in popularity in todayÂŽs business world. Industry is adopting agile methodologies both to accelerate value delivery and to enhance the ability to deal with changing requirements. However, ASD has a great impact on how Requirements Engineering (RE) is carried out in agile environments. The integration of Human-Centered Design (HCD) plays an important role due to the focus on user and stakeholder involvement. To this end, we aim to introduce agile RE patterns as main objective of this paper. On the one hand, we will describe our pattern mining process based on empirical research in literature and industry. On the other hand, we will discuss our results and provide two examples of agile RE patterns. In sum, the pattern mining process identifies 41 agile RE patterns. The accumulated knowledge will be shared by means of a web application.Ministerio de EconomĂa y Competitividad TIN2013-46928-C3-3-RMinisterio de EconomĂa y Competitividad TIN2016-76956-C3-2-RMinisterio de EconomĂa y Competitividad TIN2015-71938-RED
New, efficient, and accurate high order derivative and dissipation operators satisfying summation by parts, and applications in three-dimensional multi-block evolutions
We construct new, efficient, and accurate high-order finite differencing
operators which satisfy summation by parts. Since these operators are not
uniquely defined, we consider several optimization criteria: minimizing the
bandwidth, the truncation error on the boundary points, the spectral radius, or
a combination of these. We examine in detail a set of operators that are up to
tenth order accurate in the interior, and we surprisingly find that a
combination of these optimizations can improve the operators' spectral radius
and accuracy by orders of magnitude in certain cases. We also construct
high-order dissipation operators that are compatible with these new finite
difference operators and which are semi-definite with respect to the
appropriate summation by parts scalar product. We test the stability and
accuracy of these new difference and dissipation operators by evolving a
three-dimensional scalar wave equation on a spherical domain consisting of
seven blocks, each discretized with a structured grid, and connected through
penalty boundary conditions.Comment: 16 pages, 9 figures. The files with the coefficients for the
derivative and dissipation operators can be accessed by downloading the
source code for the document. The files are located in the "coeffs"
subdirector
From Jekyll to Hyde and Beyond: Hydrogen's Multifaceted Role in Passivation, H-Induced Breakdown, and Charging of Amorphous Silicon Nitride
In semiconductor devices, hydrogen has traditionally been viewed as a panacea for defects, being adept at neutralizing dangling bonds and consequently purging the related states from the band gap. With amorphous silicon nitride (a-Si3N4)âa material critical for electronic, optical, and mechanical applicationsâthis belief holds true as hydrogen passivates both silicon and nitrogen dangling bonds. However, there is more to the story. Our density functional theory calculations unveil hydrogenâs multifaceted role upon incorporation in a-Si3N4. On the âJekyllâ side, hydrogen atoms are indeed restorative, healing coordination defects in a-Si3N4. However, âHydeâ emerges as hydrogen induces SiâN bond breaking, particularly in strained regions of the amorphous network. Beyond these dual roles, our study reveals an intricate balance between hydrogen defect centers and intrinsic charge traps that already exist in pristine a-Si3N4: the excess charges provided by the H atoms result in charging of the a-Si3N4 dielectric layer
Instantaneous Bethe-Salpeter equation: utmost analytic approach
The Bethe-Salpeter formalism in the instantaneous approximation for the
interaction kernel entering into the Bethe-Salpeter equation represents a
reasonable framework for the description of bound states within relativistic
quantum field theory. In contrast to its further simplifications (like, for
instance, the so-called reduced Salpeter equation), it allows also the
consideration of bound states composed of "light" constituents. Every
eigenvalue equation with solutions in some linear space may be (approximately)
solved by conversion into an equivalent matrix eigenvalue problem. We
demonstrate that the matrices arising in these representations of the
instantaneous Bethe-Salpeter equation may be found, at least for a wide class
of interactions, in an entirely algebraic manner. The advantages of having the
involved matrices explicitly, i.e., not "contaminated" by errors induced by
numerical computations, at one's disposal are obvious: problems like, for
instance, questions of the stability of eigenvalues may be analyzed more
rigorously; furthermore, for small matrix sizes the eigenvalues may even be
calculated analytically.Comment: LaTeX, 23 pages, 2 figures, version to appear in Phys. Rev.
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