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    Pengaruh Pemberian Kompos Kulit Durian Dan Kompos Kulit Kakao Pada Ultisol Terhadap Beberapa Aspek Kimia Kesuburan Tanah

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    Ultisol is a quite large of soil and have many constraints to be used as agricultural soil. Some of theconstraints are: Low level of the organic content, soil acidity, high level of Al saturation and lowCEC so that this land productivity is quite low. To increase the productivity can be done by increasethe availability of nutrient by adding organic compost i.e. Durian Shell compost and Cacao Shellcompost. The experiment was conducted in Completely Randomized Design methode with 3replications consistedof nine treatment. I.e by adding Durian's Shell compost and Cacao's Shellcompost consisting of ;1,5 g (Z1), 3,0 g (Z2), 4,5 g (Z3), 6,0 g (Z4)Durian's Shell compost in every300 g Ultisol, and 1,5 g (C1), 3,0 g (C2), 4,5 g (C3), 6,0 (C4) Cacao's Shell in every 300 g Ultisol,and Blanko treatment (Z0). The result shows that the addition of Durian's Shell Compost andCacao's Shell Compost give very real effect on Al-dd, and generally tend to increase the pH, CEC,Organic C, Total N of the soil and decrease the level of exchangeable Al

    Nanosecond spin lifetimes in single- and few-layer graphene-hBN heterostructures at room temperature

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    We present a new fabrication method of graphene spin-valve devices which yields enhanced spin and charge transport properties by improving both the electrode-to-graphene and graphene-to-substrate interface. First, we prepare Co/MgO spin injection electrodes onto Si++^{++}/SiO2_2. Thereafter, we mechanically transfer a graphene-hBN heterostructure onto the prepatterned electrodes. We show that room temperature spin transport in single-, bi- and trilayer graphene devices exhibit nanosecond spin lifetimes with spin diffusion lengths reaching 10μ\mum combined with carrier mobilities exceeding 20,000 cm2^2/Vs.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figure

    Static Friction between Elastic Solids due to Random Asperities

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    Several workers have established that the Larkin domains for two three dimensional nonmetallic elastic solids in contact with each other at a disordered interface are enormously large. This implies that there should be negligible static friction per unit area in the macroscopic solid limit. The present work argues that the fluctuations in the heights of the random asperities at the interface that occur in the Greenwood-Williamson model can account for static friction.Comment: Contains some improvements in the treatment of the subjec

    Capillary pressure of van der Waals liquid nanodrops

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    The dependence of the surface tension on a nanodrop radius is important for the new-phase formation process. It is demonstrated that the famous Tolman formula is not unique and the size-dependence of the surface tension can distinct for different systems. The analysis is based on a relationship between the surface tension and disjoining pressure in nanodrops. It is shown that the van der Waals interactions do not affect the new-phase formation thermodynamics since the effect of the disjoining pressure and size-dependent component of the surface tension cancel each other.Comment: The paper is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of A.I. Rusano

    Modulation of the nucleation rate pre-exponential in a low-temperature Ising system

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    A metastable lattice gas with nearest-neighbor interactions and continuous-time dynamics is studied using a generalized Becker-Doring approach in the multidimensional space of cluster configurations. The pre-exponential of the metastable state lifetime (inverse of nucleation rate) is found to exhibit distinct peaks at integer values of the inverse supersaturation. Peaks are unobservable (infinitely narrow) in the strict limit T->0, but become detectable and eventually dominate at higher temperatures.Comment: 4 pages, 2 Postscript figures, LaTeX, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. Changes: updated references, re-written section around eqs.(5),(6), typos, minor wording changes in conclusion and other parts of text (mostly in response to referees' comments). Paper resubmitted to PR

    Casimir Force between Vortex Matter in Anisotropic and Layered Superconductors

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    We present a new approach to calculate the attractive long range vortex-vortex interaction of the van der Waals type present in anisotropic and layered superconductors. The mapping of the statistical mechanics of vortex lines onto the imaginary time quantum mechanics of two dimensional charged bosons allows us to define a 2D Casimir problem: Two half-spaces of (dilute) vortex matter separated by a gap of width R are mapped to two dielectric half-planes of charged bosons interacting via a massive gauge field. We determine the attractive Casimir force between the two half-planes and show, that it agrees with the pairwise summation of the van der Waals force between vortices previously found by Blatter and Geshkenbein [Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4958 (1996)]Comment: 11 pages, 3 figure

    Instanton Contribution to the Pion Electro-Magnetic Formfactor at Q^2 > 1 GeV^2

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    We study the effects of instantons on the charged pion electro-magnetic formfactor at intermediate momenta. In the Single Instanton Approximation (SIA), we predict the pion formfactor in the kinematic region Q^2=2-15 GeV^2. By developing the calculation in a mixed time-momentum representation, it is possible to maximally reduce the model dependence and to calculate the formfactor directly. We find the intriguing result that the SIA calculation coincides with the vector dominance monopole form, up to surprisingly high momentum transfer Q^2~10 GeV^2. This suggests that vector dominance for the pion holds beyond low energy nuclear physics.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, minor revision

    RQM description of the charge form factor of the pion and its asymptotic behavior

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    The pion charge and scalar form factors, F1(Q2)F_1(Q^2) and F0(Q2)F_0(Q^2), are first calculated in different forms of relativistic quantum mechanics. This is done using the solution of a mass operator that contains both confinement and one-gluon-exchange interactions. Results of calculations, based on a one-body current, are compared to experiment for the first one. As it could be expected, those point-form, and instant and front-form ones in a parallel momentum configuration fail to reproduce experiment. The other results corresponding to a perpendicular momentum configuration (instant form in the Breit frame and front form with q+=0q^+=0) do much better. The comparison of charge and scalar form factors shows that the spin-1/2 nature of the constituents plays an important role. Taking into account that only the last set of results represents a reasonable basis for improving the description of the charge form factor, this one is then discussed with regard to the asymptotic QCD-power-law behavior Q2Q^{-2}. The contribution of two-body currents in achieving the right power law is considered while the scalar form factor, F0(Q2)F_0(Q^2), is shown to have the right power-law behavior in any case. The low-Q2Q^2 behavior of the charge form factor and the pion-decay constant are also discussed.}Comment: 30 pages, 10 figure

    Separated Kaon Electroproduction Cross Section and the Kaon Form Factor from 6 GeV JLab Data

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    The 1H^{1}H(e,eK+e,e^\prime K^+)Λ\Lambda reaction was studied as a function of the Mandelstam variable t-t using data from the E01-004 (FPI-2) and E93-018 experiments that were carried out in Hall C at the 6 GeV Jefferson Lab. The cross section was fully separated into longitudinal and transverse components, and two interference terms at four-momentum transfers Q2Q^2 of 1.00, 1.36 and 2.07 GeV2^2. The kaon form factor was extracted from the longitudinal cross section using the Regge model by Vanderhaeghen, Guidal, and Laget. The results establish the method, previously used successfully for pion analyses, for extracting the kaon form factor. Data from 12 GeV Jefferson Lab experiments are expected to have sufficient precision to distinguish between theoretical predictions, for example recent perturbative QCD calculations with modern parton distribution amplitudes. The leading-twist behavior for light mesons is predicted to set in for values of Q2Q^2 between 5-10 GeV2^2, which makes data in the few GeV regime particularly interesting. The Q2Q^2 dependence at fixed xx and t-t of the longitudinal cross section we extracted seems consistent with the QCD factorization prediction within the experimental uncertainty
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