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On steady-state currents through nano-devices: a scattering-states numerical renormalization group approach to open quantum systems
We propose a numerical renormalization group (NRG) approach to steady-state
currents through nano-devices. A discretization of the scattering-states
continuum ensures the correct boundary condition for an open quantum system. We
introduce two degenerate Wilson chains for current carrying left and
right-moving electrons reflecting time-reversal symmetry in the absence of a
finite bias . We employ the time-dependent NRG to evolve the known
steady-state density operator for a non-interacting junction into the density
operator of the fully interacting nano-device at finite bias. We calculate the
temperature dependent current as function of and applied external magnetic
field using a recently developed algorithm for non-equilibrium spectral
functions.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figure
Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of bosonic and fermionic impurities in a two-dimensional hard-core boson system
A two-dimensional lattice hard-core boson system with a small fraction of
bosonic or fermionic impurity particles is studied. The impurities have the
same hopping and interactions as the dominant bosons and their effects are
solely due to quantum statistics. Quantum Monte Carlo simulations are carried
out in which paths of the dominant boson species are sampled and a summation is
performed over all second-species paths compatible with the permutation cycles.
Both kinds of impurities reduce modestly and equally the Kosterliz-Thouless
superfluid transition temperature. However, the effective impurity interactions
are found to be qualitatively different at lower temperatures; fermions are
repulsive and further suppress superfluidity at low temperatures.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Do People Make Strategic Moves? Experimental Evidence on Strategic Information Avoidance
The strategic commitment moves that game theory predicts players make may sometimes seem counter-intuitive. We therefore conducted an experiment to see if people make the predicted strategic move. The experiment uses a simple bargaining situation. A player can make a strategic move of committing to not seeing what another player will demand. Our data show that subjects do, but only after substantial time, learn to make the predicted strategic move. We find only weak evidence of physical timing effects.strategic moves; commitment; bargaining; strategic value of information; physical timing effects; endogenous timing; experiment
New Evolutionary Synthesis Tool for Modelling Young Star Clusters in Merging Galaxies
Globular cluster systems (GCSs) are vital tools for investigating the violent
star formation histories of their host galaxies. This violence could e.g. have
been triggered by galaxy interactions or mergers. The basic observational
properties of a GCS are its luminosity function and color distributions (number
of clusters per luminosity resp. color bin). A large number of observed GCSs
show bimodal color distributions, which, by comparison with evolutionary
synthesis (ES) models, can be translated into bimodality in metallicity and/or
age. An additional uncertainty comes into play when one considers extinction
within the host galaxy. These effects can be disentangled either by obtaining
spectroscopic data for the clusters or by imaging observations in at least four
passbands. This allows us then to discriminate between various formation
scenarios of GCSs, e.g. the merger scenario by Ashman & Zepf and the
multi-phase collapse model by Forbes et. al.. Young and metal-rich star cluster
populations are seen to form in interacting and merging galaxies. We analyse
multi-wavelength broad-band observations of these young cluster systems
provided by the ASTROVIRTEL project.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures, to appear in ESO Astrophysics Symposia
'Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems', ed. by M. Kissler-Pati
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