548 research outputs found
Transport spectroscopy in a time-modulated open quantum dot
We have investigated the time-modulated coherent quantum transport phenomena
in a ballistic open quantum dot. The conductance and the electron dwell
time in the dots are calculated by a time-dependent mode-matching method. Under
high-frequency modulation, the traversing electrons are found to exhibit three
types of resonant scatterings. They are intersideband scatterings: into
quasibound states in the dots, into true bound states in the dots, and into
quasibound states just beneath the subband threshold in the leads. Dip
structures or fano structures in are their signatures. Our results show
structures due to 2 intersideband processes. At the above
scattering resonances, we have estimated, according to our dwell time
calculation, the number of round-trip scatterings that the traversing electrons
undertake between the two dot openings.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure
Onsager Relations and Hydrodynamic Balance Equations in 2D Quantum Wells
In this letter we clarify the role of heat flux in the hydrodynamic balance
equations in 2D quantum wells, facilitating the formulation of an Onsager
relation within the framework of this theory. We find that the Onsager relation
is satisfied within the framework of the 2D hydrodynamic balance equation
transport theory at sufficiently high density. The condition of high density is
consonant with the requirement of strong electron-electron interactions for the
validity of our balance equation formulation.Comment: 11 pages, RevTex, 4 postscript figures are avaliable upon reques
Effects of Partially Penetrating Prefabricated Vertical Drains and Loading Patterns on Vacuum Consolidation
Influence of confinement on the orientational phase transitions in the lamellar phase of a block copolymer melt under shear flow
In this work we incorporate some real-system effects into the theory of
orientational phase transitions under shear flow (M. E. Cates and S. T. Milner,
Phys. Rev. Lett. v.62, p.1856 (1989) and G. H. Fredrickson, J. Rheol. v.38,
p.1045 (1994)). In particular, we study the influence of the shear-cell
boundaries on the orientation of the lamellar phase. We predict that at low
shear rates the parallel orientation appears to be stable. We show that there
is a critical value of the shear rate at which the parallel orientation loses
its stability and the perpendicular one appears immediately below the spinodal.
We associate this transition with a crossover from the fluctuation to the
mean-field behaviour. At lower temperatures the stability of the parallel
orientation is restored. We find that the region of stability of the
perpendicular orientation rapidly decreases as shear rate increases. This
behaviour might be misinterpreted as an additional perpendicular to parallel
transition recently discussed in literature.Comment: 25 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Ab initio and finite-temperature molecular dynamics studies of lattice resistance in tantalum
This manuscript explores the apparent discrepancy between experimental data
and theoretical calculations of the lattice resistance of bcc tantalum. We
present the first results for the temperature dependence of the Peierls stress
in this system and the first ab initio calculation of the zero-temperature
Peierls stress to employ periodic boundary conditions, which are those best
suited to the study of metallic systems at the electron-structure level. Our ab
initio value for the Peierls stress is over five times larger than current
extrapolations of experimental lattice resistance to zero-temperature. Although
we do find that the common techniques for such extrapolation indeed tend to
underestimate the zero-temperature limit, the amount of the underestimation
which we observe is only 10-20%, leaving open the possibility that mechanisms
other than the simple Peierls stress are important in controlling the process
of low temperature slip.Comment: 12 pages and 9 figure
A preview of JWST metallicity studies at cosmic noon: the first detection of auroral [O II] emission at high redshift
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To wet or not to wet: that is the question
Wetting transitions have been predicted and observed to occur for various
combinations of fluids and surfaces. This paper describes the origin of such
transitions, for liquid films on solid surfaces, in terms of the gas-surface
interaction potentials V(r), which depend on the specific adsorption system.
The transitions of light inert gases and H2 molecules on alkali metal surfaces
have been explored extensively and are relatively well understood in terms of
the least attractive adsorption interactions in nature. Much less thoroughly
investigated are wetting transitions of Hg, water, heavy inert gases and other
molecular films. The basic idea is that nonwetting occurs, for energetic
reasons, if the adsorption potential's well-depth D is smaller than, or
comparable to, the well-depth of the adsorbate-adsorbate mutual interaction. At
the wetting temperature, Tw, the transition to wetting occurs, for entropic
reasons, when the liquid's surface tension is sufficiently small that the free
energy cost in forming a thick film is sufficiently compensated by the fluid-
surface interaction energy. Guidelines useful for exploring wetting transitions
of other systems are analyzed, in terms of generic criteria involving the
"simple model", which yields results in terms of gas-surface interaction
parameters and thermodynamic properties of the bulk adsorbate.Comment: Article accepted for publication in J. Low Temp. Phy
A Bayesian perspective on Biogen's aducanumab trial
This perspective is a companion to a recent editorial on the use of Bayesian analysis in clinical research. We aim to introduce and highlight the relevance and advantages that Bayesian inference offers to clinical trials using the data on the amyloid antibody aducanumab presented at a Food and Drug Administration hearing in November 2020 as an applied example. We apply Bayesian analysis of model plausibility and effect sizes based on simulated data of the two phase 3 trials of aducanumab in prodromal and mild dementia stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Bayesian analysis can quantify evidence in favor of, or against, the presence of an effect (i.e., provide evidence of absence), as well as assess the strength of the effect. This is in contrast to the binary conclusions provided by frequentist tests
Spin dynamics in semiconductors
This article reviews the current status of spin dynamics in semiconductors
which has achieved a lot of progress in the past years due to the fast growing
field of semiconductor spintronics. The primary focus is the theoretical and
experimental developments of spin relaxation and dephasing in both spin
precession in time domain and spin diffusion and transport in spacial domain. A
fully microscopic many-body investigation on spin dynamics based on the kinetic
spin Bloch equation approach is reviewed comprehensively.Comment: a review article with 193 pages and 1103 references. To be published
in Physics Reports
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