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Stress relaxation and mechanical properties of RL-1973 and PD-200-16 silicone resin sponge materials
Stress relaxation tests were conducted by loading specimens in double-lap shear to a preselected strain level and monitoring the decay of stress with time. The stress relaxation response characteristics were measured over a temperature range of 100 to 300 K and four strain levels. It is concluded that only a slight amount of stress relaxation was observed, and the stiffness increased approximately two orders of magnitude over the range of temperatures
Exact solution of a 2d random Ising model
The model considered is a d=2 layered random Ising system on a square lattice
with nearest neighbours interaction. It is assumed that all the vertical
couplings are equal and take the positive value J while the horizontal
couplings are quenched random variables which are equal in the same row but can
take the two possible values J and J-K in different rows. The exact solution is
obtained in the limit case of infinite K for any distribution of the horizontal
couplings. The model which corresponds to this limit can be seen as an ordinary
Ising system where the spins of some rows, chosen at random, are frozen in an
antiferromagnetic order. No phase transition is found if the horizontal
couplings are independent random variables while for correlated disorder one
finds a low temperature phase with some glassy properties.Comment: 10 pages, Plain TeX, 3 ps figures, submitted to Europhys. Let
An extreme ultraviolet spectrometer experiment for the Shuttle Get Away Special Program
An extreme ultraviolet (EUV) spectrometer experiment operated successfully during the STS-7 mission in an experiment to measure the global and diurnal variation of the EUV airglow. The spectrometer is an F 3.5 Wadsworth mount with mechanical collimator, a 75 x 75 mm grating, and a bare microchannel plate detector providing a spectral resolution of 7 X FWHM. Read-out of the signal is through discrete channels or resistive anode techniques. The experiment includes a microcomputer, 20 Mbit tape recorder, and a 28V, 40 Ahr silver-zinc battery. It is the first GAS payload to use an opening door. The spectrometer's 0.1 x 4.2 deg field of view is pointed vertically out of the shuttle bay. During the STS-7 flight data were acquired continuously for a period of 5 hours and 37 minutes, providing spectra of the 570 A to 850 A wavelength region of the airglow. Five diurnal cycles of the 584 A emission of neutral helium and the 834 A emission of ionized atomic oxygen were recorded. The experiment also recorded ion events and pressure pulses associated with thruster firings. The experiment is to fly again on Mission 41-F
Localization transitions in non-Hermitian quantum mechanics
We study the localization transitions which arise in both one and two
dimensions when quantum mechanical particles described by a random
Schr\"odinger equation are subjected to a constant imaginary vector potential.
A path-integral formulation relates the transition to flux lines depinned from
columnar defects by a transverse magnetic field in superconductors. The theory
predicts that the transverse Meissner effect is accompanied by stretched
exponential relaxation of the field into the bulk and a diverging penetration
depth at the transition.Comment: 4 pages (latex) with 3 figures (epsf) embedded in the text using the
style file epsf.st
Finite Temperature and Dynamical Properties of the Random Transverse-Field Ising Spin Chain
We study numerically the paramagnetic phase of the spin-1/2 random
transverse-field Ising chain, using a mapping to non-interacting fermions. We
extend our earlier work, Phys. Rev. 53, 8486 (1996), to finite temperatures and
to dynamical properties. Our results are consistent with the idea that there
are ``Griffiths-McCoy'' singularities in the paramagnetic phase described by a
continuously varying exponent , where measures the
deviation from criticality. There are some discrepancies between the values of
obtained from different quantities, but this may be due to
corrections to scaling. The average on-site time dependent correlation function
decays with a power law in the paramagnetic phase, namely
, where is imaginary time. However, the typical
value decays with a stretched exponential behavior, ,
where may be related to . We also obtain results for the full
probability distribution of time dependent correlation functions at different
points in the paramagnetic phase.Comment: 10 pages, 14 postscript files included. The discussion of the typical
time dependent correlation function has been greatly expanded. Other papers
of APY are available on-line at http://schubert.ucsc.edu/pete
Exact renormalization of the random transverse-field Ising spin chain in the strongly ordered and strongly disordered Griffiths phases
The real-space renormalization group (RG) treatment of random
transverse-field Ising spin chains by Fisher ({\it Phys. Rev. B{\bf 51}, 6411
(1995)}) has been extended into the strongly ordered and strongly disordered
Griffiths phases and asymptotically exact results are obtained. In the
non-critical region the asymmetry of the renormalization of the couplings and
the transverse fields is related to a non-linear quantum control parameter,
, which is a natural measure of the distance from the quantum critical
point. , which is found to stay invariant along the RG trajectories and
has been expressed by the initial disorder distributions, stands in the
singularity exponents of different physical quantities (magnetization,
susceptibility, specific heat, etc), which are exactly calculated. In this way
we have observed a weak-universality scenario: the Griffiths-McCoy
singularities does not depend on the form of the disorder, provided the
non-linear quantum control parameter has the same value. The exact scaling
function of the magnetization with a small applied magnetic field is calculated
and the critical point magnetization singularity is determined in a simple,
direct way.Comment: 11 page
Five-Year Growth of Rock Lichens in a Low-Arctic Mountain Environment, Northern Labrador
In 1978, three lichen growth stations were established for Rhizocarpon section Rhizocarpon species and one for Alectoria miniscula in the Cirque Mountain area of the Torngat mountains. Five years later, in 1983, the lichens were remeasured. The five-year growth represented by the change in the theoretical diameter is very variable, between 0.10 and 0.54 mm per year. These rates are larger than expected and exceed rates previously determined for an eastern Arctic area, the Northern Cumberland Peninsula of Baffin Island, by more than 3 to more than 20 times. Similar rates are known for 'great period' growth outside Arctic regions. If the growth rates represent long-term growth, the ages of recessional moraines in the Torngat Mountains should be recalculated. Moraines formerly described as Late Wisconsin to mid-Holocene may be of Neoglacial age. Variability of growth rates from one individual to another precludes using these data for constructing growth curves which may be used, even locally, in lichenometric dating.En 1978, on a établi quatre sites de croissance du lichen dans la région du mont du Cirque dans les monts Torngat: trois sites des espèces Rhizocarpon de la section Rhizocarpon et un site de Alectoria miniscula. Cinq ans plus tard, en 1983, on a mesuré de nouveau les lichens pour constater que le diamètre moyen, qui témoigne de la croissance, a crû de manière très variable, soit de 0,10 à 0,54 mm par année. Ces taux de croissance sont plus élevés que prévu puisqu'ils dépassent de 3 à 20 fois les taux déjà mesurés dans le nord de la péninsule de Cumberland, île de Baffin. De tels taux de croissance du lichen s'apparentent davantage à ceux que l'on a observé dans les régions non arctiques au cours de sa période dite de grande croissance. Si ces taux s'appliquent à de longues périodes, il faudrait réévaluer la date de dépôt des moraines de récession dans les monts Torngat. Les moraines, que l'on croit dater de la période s'étendant du Wisconsinien supérieur à l'Holocène moyen, pourraient en fait dater du néoglaciaire. Toutefois, les variations observées entre les taux de croissance ne permettent pas d'utiliser ces données, même à l'échelle locale, pour tracer des courbes de croissance qui serviraient à établir des datations lichénométriques.1978 wurden im Cirque-Mountain-Gebiet der Torngat mountains vier Stationen zur Beobachtung des Flechten-Wachstums eingerichtet : drei Stationen fur Rhizocarpon-Arten der Sektion Rhizocarpon und eine Station fur Alectoria miniscula. Fùnf Jahre spâter, 1983, wurden die Flechten wieder gemessen. Der Fùnfjahreswuchs, der sich im Wechsel des durchschnittlichen Durchmessers ablesen IaBt, ist sehr unterschiedlich, zwischen 0.10 und 0.54 mm pro Jahr. Dièse Wachstumsraten sind grôfîer als erwartet und gehen ùber die zuvor fur ein ôstliches arktisches Gebiet, die Nord-Cumberland HaIbinsel der lnsel Baffin, bestimmten Raten mehr als dreifach bis zu mehr als zwanzigfach hinaus. Àhnliche Wachstumsraten sind fur die "groBe Periode" des Flechten-Wachstums auBerhalb der arktischen Gebiete bekannt. Wenn die Wachstumsraten Langzeit-Wachstum reprâsentieren, mûfite das Alter der Rùckzugs-Morànen in den Torngat-Bergen neu berechnet werden. Morànen, die zuvor dem spàten Wisconsin bis mittleren Holozân zugeschrieben wurden, kônnten aus der Neoglazialzeit stammen. Die Variationen der Wachstumsraten von einer Person zur anderen schlieBen eine Nutzung dieser Daten zum Aufbau von Wachstumskurven aus, welche, selbst lokal, zur Datierung auf der Basis der Flechten benutzt werden kônnten
Griffiths-McCoy singularities in random quantum spin chains: Exact results through renormalization
The Ma-Dasgupta-Hu renormalization group (RG) scheme is used to study
singular quantities in the Griffiths phase of random quantum spin chains. For
the random transverse-field Ising spin chain we have extended Fisher's
analytical solution to the off-critical region and calculated the dynamical
exponent exactly. Concerning other random chains we argue by scaling
considerations that the RG method generally becomes asymptotically exact for
large times, both at the critical point and in the whole Griffiths phase. This
statement is checked via numerical calculations on the random Heisenberg and
quantum Potts models by the density matrix renormalization group method.Comment: 4 pages RevTeX, 2 figures include
Influence of rare regions on magnetic quantum phase transitions
The effects of quenched disorder on the critical properties of itinerant
quantum magnets are considered. Particular attention is paid to locally ordered
rare regions that are formed in the presence of quenched disorder even when the
bulk system is still in the nonmagnetic phase. It is shown that these local
moments or instantons destroy the previously found critical fixed point in the
case of antiferromagnets. In the case of itinerant ferromagnets, the critical
behavior is unaffected by the rare regions due to an effective long-range
interaction between the order parameter fluctuations.Comment: 4 pp., REVTe
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