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An improved method for obtaining a normalized junction temperature for semiconductors: A concept
Failure rate for given semiconductor device is simply determined by reading value of normalized junction temperature from printout for any given combination of ambient temperature, stress ratio, and maximum rated junction temperature, and obtaining corresponding failure rate from graph
Bosons in a double-well potential: Understanding the interplay between disorder and interaction in a simple model
We propose an exactly solvable model to reveal the physics of the interplay
between interaction and disorder in bosonic systems. Considering interacting
bosons in a double-well potential, in which disorder is mimicked by taking the
energy level mismatch between the two wells to be randomly distributed, we find
"two negatives make a positive" effect. While disorder or interaction by itself
suppresses the phase coherence between the two wells, both together enhance the
phase coherence. This model also captures several striking features of the
disordered Bose-Hubbard model found in recent numerical simulations. Results at
finite temperatures may help explain why a recent experiment did not find any
evidence for the enhancement of phase coherence in a disordered bosonic system.Comment: Published version, 4 pages, 4 figure
Radiative interactions in laminar duct flows
Analyses and numerical procedures are presented for infrared radiative energy transfer in gases when other modes of energy transfer occur simultaneously. Two types of geometries are considered, a parallel plate duct and a circular duct. Fully developed laminar incompressible flows of absorbing-emitting species in black surfaced ducts are considered under the conditions of uniform wall heat flux. The participating species considered are OH, CO, CO2, and H2O. Nongray as well as gray formulations are developed for both geometries. Appropriate limiting solutions of the governing equations are obtained and conduction-radiation interaction parameters are evaluated. Tien and Lowder's wide band model correlation was used in nongray formulation. Numerical procedures are presented to solve the integro-differential equations for both geometries. The range of physical variables considered are 300 to 2000 K for temperature, 0.1 to 100.0 atm for pressure, and 0.1 to 100 cm spacings between plates/radius of the tube. An extensive parametric study based on nongray formulation is presented. Results obtained for different flow conditions indicate that the radiative interactions can be quite significant in fully developed incompressible flows
Probing Phases and Quantum Criticality using Deviations from the Local Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem
Introduction Cold atomic gases in optical lattices are emerging as excellent
laboratories for testing models of strongly interacting particles in condensed
matter physics. Currently, one of the major open questions is how to obtain the
finite temperature phase diagram of a given quantum Hamiltonian directly from
experiments. Previous work in this direction required quantum Monte Carlo
simulations to directly model the experimental situation in order to extract
quantitative information, clearly defeating the purpose of an optical lattice
emulator. Here we propose a new method that utilizes deviations from a local
fluctuation dissipation theorem to construct a finite temperature phase
diagram, for the first time, from local observables accessible by in situ
experimental observations. Our approach extends the utility of the
fluctuation-dissipation theorem from thermometry to the identification of
quantum phases, associated energy scales and the quantum critical region. We
test our ideas using state-of-the-art large-scale quantum Monte Carlo
simulations of the two-dimensional Bose Hubbard model.Comment: 7 pages; 4 figures; also see supplementary material of 7 pages with 3
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Antiferromagnetism and phase separation in the t-J model at low doping: a variational study
Using Gutzwiller-projected wave functions, I estimate the ground-state energy
of the t-J model for several variational states relevant for high-temperature
cuprate superconductors. The results indicate antiferromagnetism and phase
separation at low doping both in the superconducting state and in the
staggered-flux normal state proposed for the vortex cores. While phase
separation in the underdoped superconducting state may be relevant for the
stripe formation mechanism, the results for the normal state suggest that
similar charge inhomogeneities may also appear in vortex cores up to relatively
high doping values.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, reference adde
High Tc Superconductors -- A Variational Theory of the Superconducting State
We use a variational approach to gain insight into the strongly correlated
d-wave superconducting state of the high Tc cuprates at T=0. We show that
strong correlations lead to qualitatively different trends in pairing and phase
coherence: the pairing scale decreases monotonically with hole doping while the
SC order parameter shows a non-monotonic dome. We obtain detailed results for
the doping-dependence of a large number of experimentally observable
quantities, including the chemical potential, coherence length, momentum
distribution, nodal quasiparticle weight and dispersion, incoherent features in
photoemission spectra, optical spectral weight and superfluid density. Most of
our results are in remarkable quantitative agreement with existing data and
some of our predictions, first reported in Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 87}, 217002
(2001), have been recently verified.Comment: (Minor revisions, 1 figure added, version to appear in PRB) 23 RevTeX
pages, 11 eps figs, long version of cond-mat/0101121, contains detailed
comparisons with experiments, analytical insights, technical aspects of the
calculation, and comparison with slave boson MF
Repulsive Fermions in Optical Lattices: Phase separation versus Coexistence of Antiferromagnetism and d-Superfluidity
We investigate a system of fermions on a two-dimensional optical square
lattice in the strongly repulsive coupling regime. In this case, the
interactions can be controlled by laser intensity as well as by Feshbach
resonance. We compare the energetics of states with resonating valence bond
d-wave superfluidity, antiferromagnetic long range order and a homogeneous
state with coexistence of superfluidity and antiferromagnetism. We show that
the energy density of a hole has a minimum at doping that
signals phase separation between the antiferromagnetic and d-wave paired
superfluid phases. The energy of the phase-separated ground state is however
found to be very close to that of a homogeneous state with coexisting
antiferromagnetic and superfluid orders. We explore the dependence of the
energy on the interaction strength and on the three-site hopping terms and
compare with the nearest neighbor hopping {\it t-J} model
Estimation of Parameters of Misclassified Size Biased Borel Distribution
A misclassified size-biased Borel Distribution (MSBBD), where some of the observations corresponding to x = c + 1 are wrongly reported as x = c with probability α, is defined. Various estimation methods like the method of maximum likelihood (ML), method of moments, and the Bayes estimation for the parameters of the MSBB distribution are used. The performance of the estimators are studied using simulated bias and simulated risk. Simulation studies are carried out for different values of the parameters and sample size
Classification of Lipschitz simple function germs
It was shown by Henry and Parusiński in 2003 that the bi-Lipschitz right equivalence of function germs admits moduli. In this article, we introduce the notion of Lipschitz simple function germ and present the complete classification in the complex case. For this, we present several bi-Lipschitz invariants associated to functions germs. In particular, we prove that the lowest degree homogeneous part of a function germ is a bi-Lipschitz invariant and use this to show a weak version of the splitting lemma for bi-Lipschitz equivalence. We improve upon earlier results on bi-Lipschitz triviality of families to show that several families of germs in Arnold's list of unimodal singularities are bi-Lipschitz trivial. A surprising consequence of our result is that a function germ is Lipschitz modal if and only if it deforms to the smooth unimodal family of singularities called (Formula presented.) in Arnold's list
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