31,792 research outputs found
Non-equilibrium conductance of a three-terminal quantum dot in the Kondo regime: Perturbative Renormalization Group
Motivated by recent experiments, we consider a single-electron transistor in
the Kondo regime which is coupled to three leads in the presence of large bias
voltages. Such a steady-state non-equilibrium system is to a large extent
governed by a decoherence rate induced by the current through the dot. As the
two-terminal conductance turns out to be rather insensitive to the decoherence
rate, we study the conductance in a three-terminal device using perturbative
renormalization group and calculate the characteristic splitting of the Kondo
resonance. The interplay between potential biases and anisotropy in coupling to
the three leads determines the decoherence rate and the conditions for strong
coupling.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Thermodynamics of Vortices in the Plane
The thermodynamics of vortices in the critically coupled abelian Higgs model,
defined on the plane, are investigated by placing vortices in a region of
the plane with periodic boundary conditions: a torus. It is noted that the
moduli space for vortices, which is the same as that of
indistinguishable points on a torus, fibrates into a bundle over the
Jacobi manifold of the torus. The volume of the moduli space is a product of
the area of the base of this bundle and the volume of the fibre. These two
values are determined by considering two 2-surfaces in the bundle corresponding
to a rigid motion of a vortex configuration, and a motion around a fixed centre
of mass. The partition function for the vortices is proportional to the volume
of the moduli space, and the equation of state for the vortices is in the thermodynamic limit, where is the pressure, the area of
the region of the plane occupied by the vortices, and the temperature.
There is no phase transition.Comment: 17 pages, DAMTP 93-3
Some Properties of Distal Actions on Locally Compact Groups
We consider the actions of (semi)groups on a locally compact group by
automorphisms. We show the equivalence of distality and pointwise distality for
the actions of a certain class of groups. We also show that a compactly
generated locally compact group of polynomial growth has a compact normal
subgroup such that is distal and the conjugacy action of on
is ergodic; moreover, if itself is (pointwise) distal then is Lie
projective. We prove a decomposition theorem for contraction groups of an
automorphism under certain conditions. We give a necessary and sufficient
condition for distality of an automorphism in terms of its contraction group.
We compare classes of (pointwise) distal groups and groups whose closed
subgroups are unimodular. In particular, we study relations between distality,
unimodularity and contraction subgroups.Comment: 27 pages, main results are revised and improved, some preliminary
results are removed and some new results are added, some proofs are revised
and some are made shorte
Recommended from our members
Diagnosis of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma by insurance type before and after the Affordable Care Act: a national database study
The Affordable Care Act (ACT) was implemented to increase health care access and reduce the uninsured in the age group between pediatric and Medicare populations (18-64). The association of the ACA with insurance type upon diagnosis (uninsured, Medicaid, non-Medicaid) has been investigated for otolaryngologic, gynecologic, and the top five non-skin malignancies. Such studies for cutaneous malignancies are lacking. We conducted a retrospective analysis of the prospective National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) cancer database to assess the impact of the ACA on new diagnoses of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) by insurance type. Unlike prior studies of other malignancies, we did not observe significant differences between rate of diagnosis of CTCL by insurance type before and after full implementation of the ACA in all states, expansion states, and non-expansion states. Skin cancers do not have screening guidelines and CTCL is an uncommon malignancy, both of which may contribute to these findings. However, Medicaid-expansion states were much closer to reducing the percentage of newly diagnosed uninsured patients with CTCL than non-expansion states. As such, it may be prudent to investigate intrinsic socioeconomic barriers to care in Medicaid patients to improve their access to care to decrease the uninsured population and improve outcomes
- …