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Small weight bases for Hamming codes
AbstractWe present constructions of bases for a Hamming code having small width and height, i.e. number of 1s in each row and column in the corresponding matrix. Apart from being combinatorially interesting in their own right, these bases also lead to improved embeddings of a hypercube of cliques into a same-sized hypercube
Decoupling Graphene from SiC(0001) via Oxidation
When epitaxial graphene layers are formed on SiC(0001), the first carbon
layer (known as the "buffer layer"), while relatively easy to synthesize, does
not have the desirable electrical properties of graphene. The conductivity is
poor due to a disruption of the graphene pi-bands by covalent bonding to the
SiC substrate. Here we show that it is possible to restore the graphene
pi-bands by inserting a thin oxide layer between the buffer layer and SiC
substrate using a low temperature, CMOS-compatible process that does not damage
the graphene layer
Effects of Realistic Surface Topography on Seismic Ground Motion in the Yangminshan Region of Taiwan Based Upon the Spectral-Element Method and LiDAR DTM
A laser-ARPES study of LaNiO3 thin films grown by sputter deposition
Thin films of the correlated transition-metal oxide LaNiO undergo a
metal-insulator transition when their thickness is reduced to a few unit cells.
Here, we use angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to study the evolution
of the electronic structure across this transition in a series of epitaxial
LaNiO films of thicknesses ranging from 19 to 2 u.c. grown in situ by RF
magnetron sputtering. Our data show a strong reduction of the electronic mean
free path as the thickness is reduced below 5 u.c. This prevents the system
from becoming electronically two-dimensional, as confirmed by the largely
unchanged Fermi surface seen in our experiments. In the insulating state we
observe a strong suppression of the coherent quasiparticle peak but no clear
gap. These features resemble previous observations of the insulating state of
NdNiO.Comment: Submitted to APL Material
Key Role of Very Low Energy Electrons in Tin-Based Molecular Resists for Extreme Ultraviolet Nanolithography
Weak Ferromagnetism and Excitonic Condensates
We investigate a model of excitonic ordering (i.e electron-hole pair
condensation) appropriate for the divalent hexaborides. We show that the
inclusion of imperfectly nested electron hole Fermi surfaces can lead to the
formation of an undoped excitonic metal phase. In addition, we find that weak
ferromagnetism with compensated moments arises as a result of gapless
excitations. We study the effect of the low lying excitations on the density of
states, Fermi surface topology and optical conductivity and compare to
available experimental data.Comment: 10 Pages, 8 Figures, RevTe
Time and Space Bounds for Reversible Simulation
We prove a general upper bound on the tradeoff between time and space that
suffices for the reversible simulation of irreversible computation. Previously,
only simulations using exponential time or quadratic space were known.
The tradeoff shows for the first time that we can simultaneously achieve
subexponential time and subquadratic space.
The boundary values are the exponential time with hardly any extra space
required by the Lange-McKenzie-Tapp method and the ()th power time with
square space required by the Bennett method. We also give the first general
lower bound on the extra storage space required by general reversible
simulation. This lower bound is optimal in that it is achieved by some
reversible simulations.Comment: 11 pages LaTeX, Proc ICALP 2001, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
Vol xxx Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 200
Split-off dimer defects on the Si(001)2x1 surface
Dimer vacancy (DV) defect complexes in the Si(001)2x1 surface were
investigated using high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy and first
principles calculations. We find that under low bias filled-state tunneling
conditions, isolated 'split-off' dimers in these defect complexes are imaged as
pairs of protrusions while the surrounding Si surface dimers appear as the
usual 'bean-shaped' protrusions. We attribute this to the formation of pi-bonds
between the two atoms of the split-off dimer and second layer atoms, and
present charge density plots to support this assignment. We observe a local
brightness enhancement due to strain for different DV complexes and provide the
first experimental confirmation of an earlier prediction that the 1+2-DV
induces less surface strain than other DV complexes. Finally, we present a
previously unreported triangular shaped split-off dimer defect complex that
exists at SB-type step edges, and propose a structure for this defect involving
a bound Si monomer.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
CaB_6: a new semiconducting material for spin electronics
Ferromagnetism was recently observed at unexpectedly high temperatures in
La-doped CaB_6. The starting point of all theoretical proposals to explain this
observation is a semimetallic electronic structure calculated for CaB_6 within
the local density approximation. Here we report the results of parameter-free
quasiparticle calculations of the single-particle excitation spectrum which
show that CaB_6 is not a semimetal but a semiconductor with a band gap of 0.8
eV. Magnetism in La_xCa_{1-x}B_6 occurs just on the metallic side of a Mott
transition in the La-induced impurity band.Comment: 4 pages, 1 postscript figur
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