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Image charge dynamics in time-dependent quantum transport
In this work we investigate the effects of the electron-electron interaction
between a molecular junction and the metallic leads in time-dependent quantum
transport. We employ the recently developed embedded Kadanoff-Baym method
[Phys. Rev. B 80, 115107 (2009)] and show that the molecule-lead interaction
changes substantially the transient and steady-state transport properties. We
first show that the mean-field Hartree-Fock (HF) approximation does not capture
the polarization effects responsible for the renormalization of the molecular
levels neither in nor out of equilibrium. Furthermore, due to the time-local
nature of the HF self-energy there exists a region in parameter space for which
the system does not relax after the switch-on of a bias voltage. These and
other artifacts of the HF approximation disappear when including correlations
at the second-Born or GW levels. Both these approximations contain polarization
diagrams which correctly account for the screening of the charged molecule. We
find that by changing the molecule-lead interaction the ratio between the
screening and relaxation time changes, an effect which must be properly taken
into account in any realistic time-dependent simulation. Another important
finding is that while in equilibrium the molecule-lead interaction is
responsible for a reduction of the HOMO-LUMO gap and for a substantial
redistribution of the spectral weight between the main spectral peaks and the
induced satellite spectrum, in the biased system it can have the opposite
effect, i.e., it sharpens the spectral peaks and opens the HOMO-LUMO gap.Comment: 18 pages, 26 figure
Do skilled readers exploit inflectional spelling cues that do not mirror pronunciation? An eye movement study of morpho-syntactic parsing in Dutch
Potential impacts of a Turkish EU-membership on agri-food markets
This paper examines possible impacts of a Turkish accession to the EU on the agricultural markets in Turkey and the EU. AGMEMOD, an econometric, dynamic, multi-market, partial equilibrium economic model for EU agriculture at Member State level, has been extended with a model for the Turkish agricultural sector and afterwards applied to gain quantitative insights into Turkish accession effects. To establish a model for Turkey, the implementation of the model equations required parameter estimates, or the specification of synthetic model parameters. A database with time series on Turkish agricultural production, market balances and prices, macroeconomic variables and policy variables was developed in order to estimate such model parameters and to build an operational Turkish agriculture sector model. Most results show that the dominant impact of the Turkish accession on Turkish agriculture is a reduction of domestic producer prices, which induces further market effects. The - mostly decoupled - CAP support payments will induce smaller incentives to increase production than those which Turkish farmers receive prior to the EU accession. In Turkey effects of accession to the EU will be mostly negative for crop producers (except for tobacco), whereas the consumers are expected to gain from lower market prices. In contrast, producers of sheep meat, broiler and dairy milk could gain from an accession due to lower feed costs
Atom lithography without laser cooling
Using direct-write atom lithography, Fe nanolines are deposited with a pitch
of 186 nm, a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 50 nm, and a height of up to
6 nm. These values are achieved by relying on geometrical collimation of the
atomic beam, thus without using laser collimation techniques. This opens the
way for applying direct-write atom lithography to a wide variety of elements.Comment: 7 pages, 11 figure
Crossover behavior for long reptating polymers
We analyze the Rubinstein-Duke model for polymer reptation by means of
density matrix renormalization techniques. We find a crossover behavior for a
series of quantities as function of the polymer length. The crossover length
may become very large if the mobility of end groups is small compared to that
of the internal reptons. Our results offer an explanation to a controversy
between theory, experiments and simulations on the leading and subleading
scaling behavior of the polymer renewal time and diffusion constant.Comment: 4 Pages, RevTeX, and 4 PostScript figures include
|V|: New insight into the circular polarization of radio pulsars
We present a study of single pulses from nine bright northern pulsars to
investigate the behaviour of circular polarisation, V. The observations were
conducted with the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope at 1.41 GHz and 4.85 GHz
and the Westerbork radio telescope at 352 MHz. For the first time, we present
the average profile of the absolute circular polarisation |V| in the single
pulses. We demonstrate that the average profile of |V| is the distinguishing
feature between pulse components that exhibit low V in the single pulses and
components that exhibit high V of either handedness, despite both cases
resulting in a low mean. We also show that the |V| average profile remains
virtually constant with frequency, which is not generally the case for V,
leading us to the conclusion that |V| is a key quantity in the pulsar emission
problem.Comment: 5 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS letter
Особливості розв’язку задач параметричної ідентифікації динамічних систем в умовах інтервальної невизначеності
Розглянуто задачу параметричної ідентифікації лінійних динамічних систем методами аналізу інтервальних даних. Показано, що у випадку врахування початкових інтервальних наближень дискретних значень прогнозованої характеристики дана задача є задачею розв’язування інтервальної системи нелінійних алгебричних рівнянь. Досліджено особливості формування та властивості розв’язку таких систем.Рассмотрена задача параметрической идентификации линейных динамических систем методами анализа интервальных данных. Показано, что в случае учета начальных интервальных приближений дискретных значений прогнозированной характеристики, данная задача есть задачей решения интервальной системы нелинейных алгебраических уравнений; исследованы особенности формирования и свойства решения таких систем.The problem of parameter identification of linear dynamic systems by methods of analysis of interval data is considered. It is shown that in the case of taking into account the initial interval approximations of discrete values of the predicted characteristics, this problem is the problem of solving interval system of nonlinear algebraic equations
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