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Devil's staircase of incompressible electron states in a nanotube
It is shown that a periodic potential applied to a nanotube can lock
electrons into incompressible states. Depending on whether electrons are weakly
or tightly bound to the potential, excitation gaps open up either due to the
Bragg diffraction enhanced by the Tomonaga - Luttinger correlations, or via
pinning of the Wigner crystal. Incompressible states can be detected in a
Thouless pump setup, in which a slowly moving periodic potential induces
quantized current, with a possibility to pump on average a fraction of an
electron per cycle as a result of interactions.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, published versio
Phase diagram of the antiferromagnetic XY model in two dimensions in a magnetic field
The phase diagram of the quasi-two-dimensional easy-plane antiferromagnetic
model, with a magnetic field applied in the easy plane, is studied using the
self-consistent harmonic approximation. We found a linear dependence of the
transition temperature as a function of the field for large values of the
field. Our results are in agreement with experimental data for the spin-1
honeycomb compound BaNi_2V_2O_3Comment: 3 page
Mixed Heisenberg Chains. I. The Ground State Problem
We consider a mechanism for competing interactions in alternating Heisenberg
spin chains due to the formation of local spin-singlet pairs. The competition
of spin-1 and spin-0 states reveals hidden Ising symmetry of such alternating
chains.Comment: 7 pages, RevTeX, 4 embedded eps figures, final versio
Modeling the damming effect of pile foundations (Tomsk city)
The authors have considered the impact of pile foundations on the structure of filtration flows in the conditions of urban development. Hydrodynamic simulation methods have shown that a groundwater level rise might occur due to the damming effect that can be created by pile fields in semipermeable rocks. This phenomenon can intensify anthropogenic waterlogging processes in urbanized territories
Plasma Resonance in Layered Normal Metals and Superconductors
A microscopic theory of the plasma resonance in layered metals is presented.
It is shown that electron-impurity scattering can suppress the plasma resonance
in the normal state and sharpen it in the superconducting state. Analytic
properties of the conductivity for the electronic transport perpendicular to
the layers are investigated. The dissipative part of the electromagnetic
response in c-direction has been found to depend on frequency in a highly
non-trivial manner. This sort of behavior cannot be incorporated in the widely
used phenomenological Gorter-Kazimir model.Comment: 34 pages including 12 figures in uuencoded.file. A revised version.
Several formulas and a number of misprints are corrected. A problem with
printing of figures is fixe
Field-induced superconductor to insulator transition in Josephson-junction ladders
The superconductor to insulator transition is studied in a self-charging
model for a ladder of Josephson-junctions in presence of an external magnetic
field. Path integral Monte Carlo simulations of the equivalent
(1+1)-dimensional classical model are used to study the phase diagram and
critical behavior. In addition to a superconducting (vortex-free) phase, a
vortex phase can also occur for increasing magnetic field and small charging
energy. It is found that an intervening insulating phase separates the
superconducting from the vortex phases. Surprisingly, a finite-size scaling
analysis shows that the field-induced superconducting to insulator transition
is in the KT universality class even tough the external field breaks
time-reversal symmetry.Comment: 5 pages, 7 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Fluvial carbon dioxide emission from the Lena River basin during the spring flood
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emission from inland waters of permafrost-affected regions is one of the key factors of circumpolar aquatic ecosystem response to climate warming and permafrost thaw. Riverine systems of central and eastern Siberia contribute a significant part of the water and carbon (C) export to the Arctic Ocean, yet their C exchange with the atmosphere remains poorly known due to lack of in situ GHG concentration and emission estimates. Here we present the results of continuous in situ pCO2 measurements over a 2600 km transect of the Lena River main stem and lower reaches of 20 major tributaries (together representing a watershed area of 1 661 000 km2, 66 % of the Lena's basin), conducted at the peak of the spring flood. The pCO2 in the Lena (range 400-1400 μatm) and tributaries (range 400-1600 μatm) remained generally stable (within ca. 20 %) over the night-day period and across the river channels. The pCO2 in tributaries increased northward with mean annual temperature decrease and permafrost increase; this change was positively correlated with C stock in soil, the proportion of deciduous needleleaf forest, and the riparian vegetation. Based on gas transfer coefficients obtained from rivers of the Siberian permafrost zone (kCombining double low line4.46 md-1), we calculated CO2 emission for the main stem and tributaries. Typical fluxes ranged from 1 to 2 gCm-2d-1 (>99 % CO2, <1 % CH4), which is comparable with CO2 emission measured in the Kolyma, Yukon, and Mackenzie rivers and permafrost-affected rivers in western Siberia. The areal C emissions from lotic waters of the Lena watershed were quantified by taking into account the total area of permanent and seasonal water of the Lena basin (28 000 km2 ). Assuming 6 months of the year to be an open water period with no emission under ice, the annual C emission from the whole Lena basin is estimated as 8.3±2.5 TgCyr-1, which is comparable to the DOC and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) lateral export to the Arctic Ocean
Hydrogeological Conditions Changes of Tomsk, Russia
The hydro-geological conditions of Tomsk are determined by both natural factors and the impact of the urban infrastructure. Important impact on subsurface water flows involves the complex hydraulic relationship of several geological layers and the ancient and modern relief. Increasing groundwater abstraction has generally led to lowered piezometric heads in the deeper aquifer horizons, while in the uppermost horizons, rises in the water table and formation of new perched water tables are experienced due to leaking pipes and impedance of groundwater flow by deep foundations. In this paper special attention is paid to the Quaternary aquifer complex. Barrage effects of pile foundations and the intensive development of perched water distributed on flat surfaces of the watersheds and high terraces, complicated conditions for the construction and operation of facilities, leading in some cases to emergency situations
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