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The Puzzling Collapse of Electronic Sliding Friction on a Superconductor Surface
In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 (1998) 1690], Krim and coworkers have
observed that the friction force, acting on a thin physisorbed layer of N_2
sliding on a lead film, abruptly decreases by a factor of ~2 when the lead film
is cooled below its superconductivity transition temperature. We discuss the
possible mechanisms for the abruptness of the sliding friction drop, and also
discuss the relevance of these results to the problem of electronic friction.Comment: 5 pages, no figure
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Debt, Cash Flow and Inflation Incentives: A Swedish Example
The fiscal gains from, and hence the political incentives to, an increase in inflation rate of ten percentage points may be substantial: with Swedish data from 1994, these gains would have been an annual real flow of 3-4 percent of GDP, or a capitalized value of nearly 100 percent of GDP. They would mainly have arisen from the nominalistic features of the tax and transfer systems rather than from the traditional sources: seignorage and real depreciation of the public debt. The welfare costs of such an inflation increase would have been even larger, however, and would thus have reduced net welfare. Possible institutional reforms, aimed at making the political costs of inflation more equal to the social costs, are presented and discussed
Transient localization in the kicked Rydberg atom
We investigate the long-time limit of quantum localization of the kicked
Rydberg atom. The kicked Rydberg atom is shown to possess in addition to the
quantum localization time a second cross-over time where quantum
dynamics diverges from classical dynamics towards increased instability. The
quantum localization is shown to vanish as either the strength of the kicks at
fixed principal quantum number or the quantum number at fixed kick strength
increases. The survival probability as a function of frequency in the transient
localization regime is characterized by highly irregular,
fractal-like fluctuations
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