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Integrability of a Generalized Ito System: the Painleve Test
It is shown that a generalized Ito system of four coupled nonlinear evolution
equations passes the Painleve test for integrability in five distinct cases, of
which two were introduced recently by Tam, Hu and Wang. A conjecture is
formulated on integrability of a vector generalization of the Ito system.Comment: LaTeX, 5 page
Towards the production of radiotherapy treatment shells on 3D printers using data derived from DICOM CT and MRI: preclinical feasibility studies
Background: Immobilisation for patients undergoing brain or head and neck radiotherapy is achieved using perspex or thermoplastic devices that require direct moulding to patient anatomy. The mould room visit can be distressing for patients and the shells do not always fit perfectly. In addition the mould room process can be time consuming. With recent developments in three-dimensional (3D) printing technologies comes the potential to generate a treatment shell directly from a computer model of a patient. Typically, a patient requiring radiotherapy treatment will have had a computed tomography (CT) scan and if a computer model of a shell could be obtained directly from the CT data it would reduce patient distress, reduce visits, obtain a close fitting shell and possibly enable the patient to start their radiotherapy treatment more quickly. Purpose: This paper focuses on the first stage of generating the front part of the shell and investigates the dosimetric properties of the materials to show the feasibility of 3D printer materials for the production of a radiotherapy treatment shell. Materials and methods: Computer algorithms are used to segment the surface of the patient’s head from CT and MRI datasets. After segmentation approaches are used to construct a 3D model suitable for printing on a 3D printer. To ensure that 3D printing is feasible the properties of a set of 3D printing materials are tested. Conclusions: The majority of the possible candidate 3D printing materials tested result in very similar attenuation of a therapeutic radiotherapy beam as the Orfit soft-drape masks currently in use in many UK radiotherapy centres. The costs involved in 3D printing are reducing and the applications to medicine are becoming more widely adopted. In this paper we show that 3D printing of bespoke radiotherapy masks is feasible and warrants further investigation
Metal-Insulator-Transition in a Weakly interacting Disordered Electron System
The interplay of interactions and disorder is studied using the
Anderson-Hubbard model within the typical medium dynamical cluster
approximation. Treating the interacting, non-local cluster self-energy
() up to second order in the
perturbation expansion of interactions, , with a systematic incorporation
of non-local spatial correlations and diagonal disorder, we explore the initial
effects of electron interactions () in three dimensions. We find that the
critical disorder strength (), required to localize all states,
increases with increasing ; implying that the metallic phase is stabilized
by interactions. Using our results, we predict a soft pseudogap at the
intermediate close to and demonstrate that the mobility edge
() is preserved as long as the chemical potential, , is
at or beyond the mobility edge energy.Comment: 10 Pages, 8 Figures with Supplementary materials include
On the Validity of the Tomonaga Luttinger Liquid Relations for the One-dimensional Holstein Model
For the one-dimensional Holstein model, we show that the relations among the
scaling exponents of various correlation functions of the Tomonaga Luttinger
liquid (LL), while valid in the thermodynamic limit, are significantly modified
by finite size corrections. We obtain analytical expressions for these
corrections and find that they decrease very slowly with increasing system
size. The interpretation of numerical data on finite size lattices in terms of
LL theory must therefore take these corrections into account. As an important
example, we re-examine the proposed metallic phase of the zero-temperature,
half-filled one-dimensional Holstein model without employing the LL relations.
In particular, using quantum Monte Carlo calculations, we study the competition
between the singlet pairing and charge ordering. Our results do not support the
existence of a dominant singlet pairing state.Comment: 7 page
Unusual Dynamical Scaling in the Spatial Distribution of Persistent Sites in 1D Potts Models
The distribution, n(k,t), of the interval sizes, k, between clusters of
persistent sites in the dynamical evolution of the one-dimensional q-state
Potts model is studied using a combination of numerical simulations, scaling
arguments, and exact analysis. It is shown to have the scaling form n(k,t) =
t^{-2z} f(k/t^z), with z= max(1/2,theta), where theta(q) is the persistence
exponent which characterizes the fraction of sites which have not changed their
state up to time t. When theta > 1/2, the scaling length, t^theta, for the
interval-size distribution is larger than the coarsening length scale, t^{1/2},
that characterizes spatial correlations of the Potts variables.Comment: RevTex, 11 page
Finite Cluster Typical Medium Theory for Disordered Electronic Systems
We use the recently developed typical medium dynamical cluster (TMDCA)
approach~[Ekuma \etal,~\textit{Phys. Rev. B \textbf{89}, 081107 (2014)}] to
perform a detailed study of the Anderson localization transition in three
dimensions for the Box, Gaussian, Lorentzian, and Binary disorder
distributions, and benchmark them with exact numerical results. Utilizing the
nonlocal hybridization function and the momentum resolved typical spectra to
characterize the localization transition in three dimensions, we demonstrate
the importance of both spatial correlations and a typical environment for the
proper characterization of the localization transition in all the disorder
distributions studied. As a function of increasing cluster size, the TMDCA
systematically recovers the re-entrance behavior of the mobility edge for
disorder distributions with finite variance, obtaining the correct critical
disorder strengths, and shows that the order parameter critical exponent for
the Anderson localization transition is universal. The TMDCA is computationally
efficient, requiring only a small cluster to obtain qualitative and
quantitative data in good agreement with numerical exact results at a fraction
of the computational cost. Our results demonstrate that the TMDCA provides a
consistent and systematic description of the Anderson localization transition.Comment: 20 Pages, 19 Figures, 3 Table
A Survey of 56 Mid-latitude EGRET Error Boxes for Radio Pulsars
We have conducted a radio pulsar survey of 56 unidentified gamma-ray sources
from the 3rd EGRET catalog which are at intermediate Galactic latitudes (5 deg.
< |b| < 73 deg.). For each source, four interleaved 35-minute pointings were
made with the 13-beam, 1400-MHz multibeam receiver on the Parkes 64-m radio
telescope. This covered the 95% error box of each source at a limiting
sensitivity of about 0.2 mJy to pulsed radio emission for periods P > 10 ms and
dispersion measures < 50 pc cm-3. Roughly half of the unidentified gamma-ray
sources at |b| > 5 deg. with no proposed active galactic nucleus counterpart
were covered in this survey. We detected nine isolated pulsars and four
recycled binary pulsars, with three from each class being new. Timing
observations suggest that only one of the pulsars has a spin-down luminosity
which is even marginally consistent with the inferred luminosity of its
coincident EGRET source. Our results suggest that population models, which
include the Gould belt as a component, overestimate the number of isolated
pulsars among the mid-latitude Galactic gamma-ray sources and that it is
unlikely that Gould belt pulsars make up the majority of these sources.
However, the possibility of steep pulsar radio spectra and the confusion of
terrestrial radio interference with long-period pulsars (P > 200 ms) having
very low dispersion measures (< 10 pc cm-3, expected for sources at a distance
of less than about 1 kpc) prevent us from strongly ruling out this hypothesis.
Our results also do not support the hypothesis that millisecond pulsars make up
the majority of these sources. Non-pulsar source classes should therefore be
further investigated as possible counterparts to the unidentified EGRET sources
at intermediate Galactic latitudes.Comment: 24 pages, including 4 figures and 3 tables. Accepted for publication
in Ap
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