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The body in the library: adventures in realism
This essay looks at two aspects of the virtual âmaterial worldâ of realist fiction: objects encountered by the protagonist and the latterâs body. Taking from Sartre two angles on the realist pact by which readers agree to lend
their bodies, feelings, and experiences to the otherwise âlanguishing signsâ of the text, it goes on to examine two sets of first-person fictions published between 1902 and 1956 â first, four modernist texts in which banal objects defy and then gratify the protagonist, who ends up ready and almost able to write; and, second, three novels in which the body of the protagonist is indeterminate in its sex, gender, or sexuality. In each of these cases, how do we as readers make texts work for us as âan adventure of the bodyâ
Assignments in the electronic spectrum of water
To explain the inelastic feature at 4.5 eV in the spectrum of water and to study its spectrum in some detail, we have carried out several calculations on the excited states of water using the equationsâofâmotion method. We conclude that the calculated vertical excitation energy of 6.9 eV for the ^3B_1 state corresponds to the strong feature at 7.2 eV observed in lowâenergy electron scattering spectrum. The 4.5 eV inelastic process almost certainly does not correspond to a vertical excitation of water at the ground state geometry. The other excitation energies and oscillator strengths agree well with experiment
A spin-boson thermal rectifier
Rectification of heat transfer in nanodevices can be realized by combining
the system inherent anharmonicity with structural asymmetry. we analyze this
phenomenon within the simplest anharmonic system -a spin-boson nanojunction
model. We consider two variants of the model that yield, for the first time,
analytical solutions: a linear separable model in which the heat reservoirs
contribute additively, and a non-separable model suitable for a stronger
system-bath interaction. Both models show asymmetric (rectifying) heat
conduction when the couplings to the heat reservoirs are different.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, RevTeX
Noncommutative differential calculus for Moyal subalgebras
We build a differential calculus for subalgebras of the Moyal algebra on R^4
starting from a redundant differential calculus on the Moyal algebra, which is
suitable for reduction. In some cases we find a frame of 1-forms which allows
to realize the complex of forms as a tensor product of the noncommutative
subalgebras with the external algebra Lambda^*.Comment: 13 pages, no figures. One reference added, minor correction
Quantum heat transfer: A Born Oppenheimer method
We develop a Born-Oppenheimer type formalism for the description of quantum
thermal transport along hybrid nanoscale objects. Our formalism is suitable for
treating heat transfer in the off-resonant regime, where e.g., the relevant
vibrational modes of the interlocated molecule are high relative to typical
bath frequencies, and at low temperatures when tunneling effects dominate. A
general expression for the thermal energy current is accomplished, in the form
of a generalized Landauer formula. In the harmonic limit this expression
reduces to the standard Landauer result for heat transfer, while in the
presence of nonlinearities multiphonon tunneling effects are realized
On -dimensional supermanifolds
We define a -dimensional supermanifold as a manifold having q
odd coordinates and k + l even coordinates with l of them taking only nilpotent
values. We show that this notion can be used to formulate superconformal field
theories with different number of supersymmetries in holomorphic and
antiholomorphic sectors.Comment: 19 pages, Late
Geometric structures on loop and path spaces
Is is known that the loop space associated to a Riemannian manifold admits a
quasi-symplectic structure. This article shows that this structure is not
likely to recover the underlying Riemannian metric by proving a result that is
a strong indication of the "almost" independence of the quasi-symplectic
structure with respect to the metric. Finally conditions to have contact
structures on these spaces are studied.Comment: Final version. To appear in Proceedings of Math. Sci. Indian Academy
of Science
The Physics Inside Topological Quantum Field Theories
We show that the equations of motion defined over a specific field space are
realizable as operator conditions in the physical sector of a generalized Floer
theory defined over that field space. The ghosts associated with such a
construction are found not to be dynamical. This construction is applied to
gravity on a four dimensional manifold, ; whereupon, we obtain Einstein's
equations via surgery, along , in a five-dimensional topological quantum
field theory.Comment: LaTeX, 7 page
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