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Crystal field states of Kondo lattice heavy fermions CeRuSn3 and CeRhSn3
Inelastic neutron scattering experiments have been carried out to determine
the crystal field states of the Kondo lattice heavy fermions CeRuSn3 and
CeRhSn3. Both the compounds crystallize in LaRuSn3-type cubic structure (space
group Pm-3n) in which the Ce atoms occupy two distinct crystallographic sites
with cubic (m-3) and tetragonal (-4m.2) point symmetries. The INS data of
CeRuSn3 reveal the presence of a broad excitation centered around 6-8 meV which
is accounted by a model based on crystal electric field (CEF) excitations. On
the other hand, the INS data of isostructural CeRhSn3 reveal three CEF
excitations around 7.0, 12.2 and 37.2 meV. The neutron intensity sum rule
indicates that the Ce ions at both cubic and tetragonal Ce sites are in Ce3+
state in both CeRuSn3 and CeRhSn3. The CEF level schemes for both the compounds
are deduced. We estimate the Kondo temperature T_K = 3.1(2) K for CeRuSn3 from
neutron quasielastic linewidth in excellent agreement with that determined from
the scaling of magnetoresistance which gives T_K = 3.2(1) K. For CeRhSn3 the
neutron quasielastic linewidth gives T_K = 4.6 K. For both CeRuSn3 and CeRhSn3,
the ground state of Ce3+ turns out to be a quartet for the cubic site and a
doublet for the tetragonal site.Comment: 12 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables, to appear in Phys. Rev.
On Binary Matroid Minors and Applications to Data Storage over Small Fields
Locally repairable codes for distributed storage systems have gained a lot of
interest recently, and various constructions can be found in the literature.
However, most of the constructions result in either large field sizes and hence
too high computational complexity for practical implementation, or in low rates
translating into waste of the available storage space. In this paper we address
this issue by developing theory towards code existence and design over a given
field. This is done via exploiting recently established connections between
linear locally repairable codes and matroids, and using matroid-theoretic
characterisations of linearity over small fields. In particular, nonexistence
can be shown by finding certain forbidden uniform minors within the lattice of
cyclic flats. It is shown that the lattice of cyclic flats of binary matroids
have additional structure that significantly restricts the possible locality
properties of -linear storage codes. Moreover, a collection of
criteria for detecting uniform minors from the lattice of cyclic flats of a
given matroid is given, which is interesting in its own right.Comment: 14 pages, 2 figure
Physical properties of noncentrosymmetric superconductor LaIrSi3: A {\mu}SR study
The results of heat capacity C_p(T, H) and electrical resistivity \rho(T,H)
measurements down to 0.35 K as well as muon spin relaxation and rotation
(\muSR) measurements on a noncentrosymmetric superconductor LaIrSi3 are
presented. Powder neutron diffraction confirmed the reported noncentrosymmetric
body-centered tetragonal BaNiSn3-type structure (space group I4\,mm) of
LaIrSi3. The bulk superconductivity is observed below T_c = 0.72(1) K. The
intrinsic \Delta C_e/\gamma_n T_c = 1.09(3) is significantly smaller than the
BCS value of 1.43, and this reduction is accounted by the \alpha-model of BCS
superconductivity. The analysis of the superconducting state C_e(T) data by the
single-band \alpha-model indicates a moderately anisotropic order parameter
with the s-wave gap \Delta(0)/k_B T_c = 1.54(2) which is lower than the BCS
value of 1.764. Our estimates of various normal and superconducting state
parameters indicate a weakly coupled electron-phonon driven type-I s-wave
superconductivity in LaIrSi3. The \muSR results also confirm the conventional
type-I superconductivity in LaIrSi3 with a preserved time reversal symmetry and
hence a singlet pairing superconducting ground state.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figures, 2 table
Development of a standardized in vitro model to reproduce hydrophilic acrylic intraocular lens calcification
Phytoplankton communities and acclimation in a cyclonic eddy in the southwest Indian Ocean
A study of phytoplankton in a cyclonic eddy was undertaken in the Mozambique Basin between Madagascar and southern Africa during austral winter. CHEMTAX analysis of pigment data indicated that the community comprised mainly haptophytes and diatoms, with Prochlorococcus, prasinophytes and pelagophytes also being prominent to the east and west of the eddy. There was little difference in community structure, chlorophyll-specific absorption [a*ph(440)] and pigment:TChla ratios between the surface and the sub-surface chlorophyll maximum (SCM), reflecting acclimation to fluctuating light conditions in a well mixed upper layer. Values for a*ph(440) were low for diatom dominance, high where prokaryote proportion was high, and intermediate for flagellate dominated communities. Chlorophyll c and fucoxanthin:TChla ratios were elevated over most of the eddy, while 19â˛-hexanoyloxyfucoxanthin ratios increased in the eastern and western sectors. In a community comprising mainly flagellates and Prochlorococcus to the west of the eddy, there was high a*ph(440) at the surface and elevated ratios for divinyl chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b and 19â˛-hexanoyloxyfucoxanthin at the SCM. An increase in diadinoxanthin:TChla ratios and a decline in the quantum efficiency of photochemistry in PSII under high light conditions, indicated some photoprotection and photoinhibition at the surface even in a well mixed environment. Diadinoxanthin was the main photoprotective carotenoid within the eddy, while zeaxanthin was the dominant photoprotective pigment outside the eddy. The results of this study will be useful inputs into appropriate remote sensing models for estimating primary production and the size class distribution of phytoplankton in eddies in the southwest Indian Ocean
Hamming weights and Betti numbers of Stanley-Reisner rings associated to matroids
To each linear code over a finite field we associate the matroid of its
parity check matrix. We show to what extent one can determine the generalized
Hamming weights of the code (or defined for a matroid in general) from various
sets of Betti numbers of Stanley-Reisner rings of simplicial complexes
associated to the matroid
MacWilliams Identities for -tuple Weight Enumerators
Since MacWilliams proved the original identity relating the Hamming weight
enumerator of a linear code to the weight enumerator of its dual code there
have been many different generalizations, leading to the development of
-tuple support enumerators. We prove a generalization of theorems of Britz
and of Ray-Chaudhuri and Siap, which build on earlier work of Kl{\o}ve,
Shiromoto, Wan, and others. We then give illustrations of these -tuple
weight enumerators.Comment: 17 pages. Accepted to SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematic
Relative generalized hamming weights and extended weight polynomials of almost affine codes
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, International Castle Meeting on Coding Theory and Applications ICMCTA 2017: Coding Theory and Applications, 207-216. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66278-7_17 .This paper is devoted to giving a generalization from linear
codes to the larger class of almost affine codes of two different results.
One such result is how one can express the relative generalized Hamming
weights of a pair of codes in terms of intersection properties between the
smallest of these codes and subcodes of the largest code. The other result
tells how one can find the extended weight polynomials, expressing the
number of codewords of each possible weight, for each code in an infinite
hierarchy of extensions of a code over a given alphabet. Our tools will
be demi-matroids and matroids
Fluctuations of indicator and index microbes as indication of pollution over three years in the Plankenburg and Eerste Rivers, Western Cape, South Africa
The Plankenburg and Eerste Rivers (Western Cape) have been reported to be contaminated with faecal coliforms. Water is drawn from both rivers for irrigation of fresh produce. The potential risk in the use of these rivers as irrigation sources was assessed by determining the fluctuations of âindicatorâ and âindexâ microbes over 3 years. Selected physico-chemical (water temperature, pH, COD, conductivity and alkalinity) and microbiological parameters, including coliforms, faecal coliforms, Escherichia coli and enterococci, as âindicatorsâ of faecal pollution, and Salmonella, Listeria and Staphylococcus, as âindexâ of the presence of potential pathogens, were monitored.No correlation was found between water temperature and COD (r2 = 0.0003), whereas for temperature and pH a significant trend (p = 0.0004), but low correlation (r2 = 0.108), was observed. With the exception of the faecal coliforms (E. coli), no significant trends and no correlations between temperature and the dependent variables were found. For the faecal coliforms there was a significant trend (p = 0.0289) with temperature but not a good correlation (r2 = 0.0434), but the impact of temperature over time was significant (p = 0.0047). This is important, when the World Health Organisation (WHO) and South African Department of Water Affairs (DWA) guidelines for faecal coliforms are applied, as it indicates that temperaturedoes impact the faecal coliform numbers. The presence of indicator organisms did not only indicate unsanitary conditions, but also the presence of potential pathogens such as Staphylococcus, Klebsiella, Listeria and Salmonella. Based on these results the microbial quality of these rivers was found to be unacceptable and does not meet the WHO and DWA guidelines for safe irrigation. There was also a high risk of exposure to human pathogens when water from these rivers is used to irrigate produce that is consumed without further processing.Keywords: Irrigation water, faecal pollution, indicator and index organisms, Plankenburg and Eerste River
On character generators for simple Lie algebras
We study character generating functions (character generators) of simple Lie
algebras. The expression due to Patera and Sharp, derived from the Weyl
character formula, is first reviewed. A new general formula is then found. It
makes clear the distinct roles of ``outside'' and ``inside'' elements of the
integrity basis, and helps determine their quadratic incompatibilities. We
review, analyze and extend the results obtained by Gaskell using the Demazure
character formulas. We find that the fundamental generalized-poset graphs
underlying the character generators can be deduced from such calculations.
These graphs, introduced by Baclawski and Towber, can be simplified for the
purposes of constructing the character generator. The generating functions can
be written easily using the simplified versions, and associated Demazure
expressions. The rank-two algebras are treated in detail, but we believe our
results are indicative of those for general simple Lie algebras.Comment: 50 pages, 11 figure
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