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Importance of asymbiotic nitrogen fixation to nitrogen immobilization in decomposing green needles of Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) (Biological Interactions in Arable Land-Grassland-Forest Continuums and their Impact on the Ecosystem Functions, 7th International Symposium on Integrated Field Science)
A self-consistent first-principles calculation scheme for correlated electron systems
A self-consistent calculation scheme for correlated electron systems is
created based on the density-functional theory (DFT). Our scheme is a
multi-reference DFT (MR-DFT) calculation in which the electron charge density
is reproduced by an auxiliary interacting Fermion system. A short-range
Hubbard-type interaction is introduced by a rigorous manner with a residual
term for the exchange-correlation energy. The Hubbard term is determined
uniquely by referencing the density fluctuation at a selected localized
orbital. This strategy to obtain an extension of the Kohn-Sham scheme provides
a self-consistent electronic structure calculation for the materials design.
Introducing an approximation for the residual exchange-correlation energy
functional, we have the LDA+U energy functional. Practical self-consistent
calculations are exemplified by simulations of Hydrogen systems, i.e. a
molecule and a periodic one-dimensional array, which is a proof of existence of
the interaction strength U as a continuous function of the local fluctuation
and structural parameters of the system.Comment: 23 pages, 8 figures, to appear in J. Phys. Condens. Matte
Entropy production by Q-ball decay for diluting long-lived charged particles
The cosmic abundance of a long-lived charged particle such as a stau is
tightly constrained by the catalyzed big bang nucleosynthesis. One of the ways
to evade the constraints is to dilute those particles by a huge entropy
production. We evaluate the dilution factor in a case that non-relativistic
matter dominates the energy density of the universe and decays with large
entropy production. We find that large Q balls can do the job, which is
naturally produced in the gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking scenario.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figur
Excitation Spectrum of the Spin-1/2 Ferromagnetic-Antiferromagnetic Alternating Heisenberg Chain:
The natural explanation of the excitation spectrum of the spin-1
antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain is given from the viewpoint of the spin-1/2
ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic alternating Heisenberg chain. The energy
spectrum of the latter is calculated with fixed momentum by numerical
diagonalization of finite size systems. It consists of a branch of propagating
triplet pair (triplet wave) and the continuum of multiple triplet waves for
weak ferromagnetic coupling. As the ferromagnetic coupling increases, the
triplet wave branch is absorbed in the continuum for small , reproducing the
characteristics of the spin-1 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain.Comment: 12 Pages REVTEX, Postscript file for the figures included.
SKPH-94-C00
Maturation, not initiation, is the major roadblock during reprogramming toward pluripotency from human fibroblasts
Cantor Spectra for Double Exchange Model
We numerically study energy spectra and localization properties of the double
exchange model at irrational filling factor. To obtain variational ground
state, we use a mumerical technique in momentum space by ``embedded'' boundary
condition which has no finite size effect a priori. Although the Hamiltonian
has translation invariance, the ground state spontaneously exhibits a
self-similarity. Scaling and multi-fractal analysis for the wave functions are
performed and the scaling indices 's are obtained. The energy spectrum
is found to be a singular continuous, so-called the Cantor set with zero
Lebesque measure.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, revtex, corrected some typos, accepted for
publication in PR
Thermodynamics of doped Kondo insulator in one dimension: Finite Temperature DMRG Study
The finite-temperature density-matrix renormalization-group method is applied
to the one-dimensional Kondo lattice model near half filling to study its
thermodynamics. The spin and charge susceptibilities and entropy are calculated
down to T=0.03t. We find two crossover temperatures near half filling. The
higher crossover temperature continuously connects to the spin gap at half
filling, and the susceptibilities are suppressed around this temperature. At
low temperatures, the susceptibilities increase again with decreasing
temperature when doping is finite. We confirm that they finally approach to the
values obtained in the Tomonaga-Luttinger (TL) liquid ground state for several
parameters. The crossover temperature to the TL liquid is a new energy scale
determined by gapless excitations of the TL liquid. The transition from the
metallic phase to the insulating phase is accompanied by the vanishing of the
lower crossover temperature.Comment: 4 pages, 7 Postscript figures, REVTe
Early phase observations of extremely luminous Type Ia Supernova 2009dc
We present early phase observations in optical and near-infrared wavelengths
for the extremely luminous Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) 2009dc. The decline rate
of the light curve is , which is one of the
slowest among SNe Ia. The peak -band absolute magnitude is mag even if the host extinction is mag. It reaches
mag for the host extinction of mag as
inferred from the observed Na {\sc i} D line absorption in the host. Our
-band photometry shows that the SN is one of the most luminous SNe Ia
also in near-infrared wavelengths. These results indicate that SN 2009dc
belongs to the most luminous class of SNe Ia, like SN 2003fg and SN 2006gz. We
estimate the ejected Ni mass of \Msun for no host
extinction case (or 1.6 0.4 M for the host extinction of
mag). The C {\sc ii} 6580 absorption line keeps visible
until a week after maximum, which diminished in SN 2006gz before its maximum
brightness. The line velocity of Si {\sc ii} 6355 is about 8000 km
s around the maximum, being considerably slower than that of SN 2006gz,
while comparable to that of SN 2003fg. The velocity of the C {\sc ii} line is
almost comparable to that of the Si {\sc ii}. The presence of the carbon line
suggests that thick unburned C+O layers remain after the explosion. SN 2009dc
is a plausible candidate of the super-Chandrasekhar mass SNe Ia
Alternating Heisenberg Spin-1/2 Chains in a Transverse Magnetic Field
The ground state phase diagram of the alternating spin-1/2 chains with
anisotropic ferromagnetic coupling under the influence of a symmetry breaking
transverse magnetic field is studied. We have used the exact diagonalization
technique. In the limit where the antiferromagnetic coupling is dominant, we
have identified two Ising-type quantum phase transitions. We have calculated
two critical fields and
, corresponding to the transition between different magnetic
phases of the system. It is found that the intermediate state
() is gapful, describing the stripe-antiferromagnetic
phase.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figure
High-efficiency generation of induced pluripotent mesenchymal stem cells from human dermal fibroblasts using recombinant proteins
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