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‘Genetic Coding’ Reconsidered : An Analysis of Actual Usage
I thank George Pandarakalam for research assistance; Hans-Jörg Rheinberger for hosting my stay at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin; and Sahotra Sarkar and referees of this journal for offering detailed comments. Funded by the Wellcome Trust (WT098764MA).Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Localization under the effect of randomly distributed decoherence
Electron transport through disordered quasi one-dimensional quantum systems
is studied. Decoherence is taken into account by a spatial distribution of
virtual reservoirs, which represent local interactions of the conduction
electrons with their environment. We show that the decoherence distribution has
observable effects on the transport. If the decoherence reservoirs are
distributed randomly without spatial correlations, a minimal degree of
decoherence is necessary to obtain Ohmic conduction. Below this threshold the
system is localized and thus, a decoherence driven metal-insulator transition
is found. In contrast, for homogenously distributed decoherence, any finite
degree of decoherence is sufficient to destroy localization. Thus, the presence
or absence of localization in a disordered one-dimensional system may give
important insight about how the electron phase is randomized.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure
Statistical model for the effects of phase and momentum randomization on electron transport
A simple statistical model for the effects of dephasing on electron transport
in one-dimensional quantum systems is introduced, which allows to adjust the
degree of phase and momentum randomization independently. Hence, the model is
able to describe the transport in an intermediate regime between classic and
quantum transport. The model is based on B\"uttiker's approach using fictitious
reservoirs for the dephasing effects. However, in contrast to other models, at
the fictitious reservoirs complete phase randomization is assumed, which
effectively divides the system into smaller coherent subsystems, and an
ensemble average over randomly distributed dephasing reservoirs is calculated.
This approach reduces not only the computation time but allows also to gain new
insight into system properties. In this way, after deriving an efficient
formula for the disorder-averaged resistance of a tight-binding chain, it is
shown that the dephasing-driven transition from localized-exponentially to
ohmic-linear behavior is not affected by the degree of momentum randomizing
dephasing.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figure
A willow drawing from 1786 : the earliest depiction of intraspecific trait variation in plants?
Acknowledgements I thank Kasey Barton and two anonymous reviewers for valuable suggestions and references.Peer reviewedPostprin
Scientific modelling with diagrams
An earlier version of this paper was presented at two workshops in 2016 (“Many Methods, One Biology?”, Munich, and “Representing Scientific Results”, Kassel). I thank participants for stimulating discussions. Special thanks to Christian Joas, Tilmann Massey, Robert Meunier, Kärin Nickelsen, and Raphael Scholl. I would also like to acknowledge the helpful comments by three anonymous reviewers. Springer/Nature and Elsevier granted permissions to reproduce copyrighted material.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
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