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Selforganized 3-band structure of the doped fermionic Ising spin glass
The fermionic Ising spin glass is analyzed for arbitrary filling and for all
temperatures. A selforganized 3-band structure of the model is obtained in the
magnetically ordered phase. Deviation from half filling generates a central
nonmagnetic band, which becomes sharply separated at T=0 by (pseudo)gaps from
upper and lower magnetic bands. Replica symmetry breaking effects are derived
for several observables and correlations. They determine the shape of the
3-band DoS, and, for given chemical potential, influence the fermion filling
strongly in the low temperature regime.Comment: 13 page
Are nurses the key to the increased uptake of frequent nocturnal home haemodialysis in Australia?
Background: Although there are significant benefits to frequent nocturnal home haemodialysis (NHHD) there has been a low acceptance of this therapy in Australia. Aim: The aim of this paper is to explore and discuss the literature relating to the nursing barriers to frequent nocturnal home haemodialysis. Methods: A search of nursing, medical, social work and psychological literature was performed. Results: Nurses are key contributors to the increase of NHHD within the dialysis population. Knowledge, culture and nurse satisfaction are key areas to address to increase NHHD uptake. Conclusion: Nurses need to challenge the cultural and organisational barriers that are preventing further uptake of NHHD. If nurses do not we cannot claim to be helping patients attain their best possible outcome.<br /
Spin - glass transition in Kondo lattice with quenched disorder
We use the Popov-Fedotov representation of spin operators to construct an
effective action for a Kondo lattice model with quenched disorder at finite
temperatures. We study the competition between the Kondo effect and frozen spin
order in Ising-like spin glass. We present the derivation of new mean-field
equations for the spin-glass order parameter and analyze the effects of
screening of localized spins by conduction electrons on the spin-glass phase
transition.Comment: 6 pages, jetpl style included, to appear in JETP Letter
Tricritical behaviour of Ising spin glasses with charge fluctuations
We show that tricritical points displaying unusal behaviour exist in phase
diagrams of fermionic Ising spin glasses as the chemical potential or the
filling assumes characteristic values. Exact results for infinite range
interaction and a one loop renormalization group analysis of thermal
tricritical fluctuations for finite range models are presented. Surprising
similarities with zero temperature transitions and a new tricritical
point of metallic quantum spin glasses are derived.Comment: 4 pages, 1 Postscript figure, minor change
An SU(5) x A5 Golden Ratio Flavour Model
In this paper we study an SU(5) x A5 flavour model which exhibits a neutrino
mass sum rule and golden ratio mixing in the neutrino sector which is corrected
from the charged lepton Yukawa couplings. We give the full renormalizable
superpotential for the model which breaks SU(5) and A5 after integrating out
heavy messenger fields and minimising the scalar potential. The mass sum rule
allows for both mass orderings but we will show that inverted ordering is not
valid in this setup. For normal ordering we find the lightest neutrino to have
a mass of about 10-50 meV, and all leptonic mixing angles in agreement with
experiment.Comment: 34 pages, 5 figures; version published in Nucl. Phys.
Spectral and Transport Properties of d-Wave Superconductors With Strong Impurities
One of the remarkable features of disordered d-wave superconductors is strong
sensitivity of long range properties to the microscopic realization of the
disorder potential. Particularly rich phenomenology is observed for the --
experimentally relevant -- case of dilute distributions of isolated impurity
centers. Building on earlier diagrammatic analyses, the present paper derives
and analyses a low energy effective field theory of this system. Specifically,
the results of previous diagrammatic T-matrix approaches are extended into the
perturbatively inaccessible low energy regimes, and the long range (thermal)
transport behaviour of the system is discussed. It turns out that in the
extreme case of a half-filled tight binding band and infinitely strong
impurities (impurities at the unitary limit), the system is in a delocalized
phase.Comment: 14 pages, two figures include
Pseudoseptic Arthritis: A Case Series and Review of the Literature
Purpose. Pseudoseptic arthritis is an acute inflammatory monoarthritis with a sterile synovial gram stain and culture. Pseudoseptic arthritis has been previously described in the literature in a variety of settings including rheumatoid arthritis and microcrystalline disease. Despite pseudoseptic arthritis being a described entity, there is little published data on this topic with no published reports since 1992.
Methods. This paper was a retrospective chart review over a 20-year period that identified all rheumatology inpatient consultations at our tertiary rural hospital for pseudoseptic arthritis.
Results. We identified 10 patients with pseudoseptic arthritis and presented 5 of those cases in this paper. Majority of these patients had known autoimmune inflammatory arthritis or microcrystalline inflammatory arthritis.
Conclusion. Pseudoseptic arthritis is a syndrome that should be in the differential diagnosis with patients with long standing inflammatory condition who present with an acute monoarthritis with no known bacterial source for septic arthritis
Critical disorder effects in Josephson-coupled quasi-one-dimensional superconductors
Effects of non-magnetic randomness on the critical temperature T_c and
diamagnetism are studied in a class of quasi-one dimensional superconductors.
The energy of Josephson-coupling between wires is considered to be random,
which is typical for dirty organic superconductors. We show that this
randomness destroys phase coherence between the wires and T_c vanishes
discontinuously when the randomness reaches a critical value. The parallel and
transverse components of the penetration depth are found to diverge at
different critical temperatures T_c^{(1)} and T_c, which correspond to
pair-breaking and phase-coherence breaking. The interplay between disorder and
quantum phase fluctuations results in quantum critical behavior at T=0,
manifesting itself as a superconducting-normal metal phase transition of
first-order at a critical disorder strength.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Harmonic crossover exponents in O(n) models with the pseudo-epsilon expansion approach
We determine the crossover exponents associated with the traceless tensorial
quadratic field, the third- and fourth-harmonic operators for O(n) vector
models by re-analyzing the existing six-loop fixed dimension series with
pseudo-epsilon expansion. Within this approach we obtain the most accurate
theoretical estimates that are in optimum agreement with other theoretical and
experimental results.Comment: 12 pages, 1 figure. Final version accepted for publicatio
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