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    Soil insect control in reduced tillage cropping systems

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    "Missouri row crop producers have rapidly accepted and adopted reduced, conservation, or no-tillage practices. They planted about 55 percent or 6,000,000 acres of the 1981 crop of soybeans, corn, small grains, and grain sorghum in soils receiving some degree of reduced tillage. Although reduced tillage practices offer several advantages, one disadvantage is difficult insect control. Major insect problems occur more frequently and are often more damaging with reduced than with conventionally tilled crops."--First page.George W. Thomas, Armon J. Keaster and Judy A. Grundler (Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture)New 5/83/12

    Control of wireworms and other corn soil insects

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    "This guide recommends management practices and insecticides for reduction of the following corn soil insect pest problems: wireworrns, white grubs and annual grubs, billbugs, sod webworrns, seed damaging insects, bird and rodent damage to seed and seedlings and insect pest control in no-tillage sod plantings."--First page.George W Thomas, Armon J. Keaster, and Judy A Grundler (Department of Entomology College of Agriculture)Revised 1/83/7.5

    Spin-polarized electron transport in ferromagnet/semiconductor heterostructures: Unification of ballistic and diffusive transport

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    A theory of spin-polarized electron transport in ferromagnet/semiconductor heterostructures, based on a unified semiclassical description of ballistic and diffusive transport in semiconductor structures, is developed. The aim is to provide a framework for studying the interplay of spin relaxation and transport mechanism in spintronic devices. A key element of the unified description of transport inside a (nondegenerate) semiconductor is the thermoballistic current consisting of electrons which move ballistically in the electric field arising from internal and external electrostatic potentials, and which are thermalized at randomly distributed equilibration points. The ballistic component in the unified description gives rise to discontinuities in the chemical potential at the boundaries of the semiconductor, which are related to the Sharvin interface conductance. By allowing spin relaxation to occur during the ballistic motion between the equilibration points, a thermoballistic spin-polarized current and density are constructed in terms of a spin transport function. An integral equation for this function is derived for arbitrary values of the momentum and spin relaxation lengths. For field-driven transport in a homogeneous semiconductor, the integral equation can be converted into a second-order differential equation that generalizes the standard spin drift-diffusion equation. The spin polarization in ferromagnet/semiconductor heterostructures is obtained by invoking continuity of the current spin polarization and matching the spin-resolved chemical potentials on the ferromagnet sides of the interfaces. Allowance is made for spin-selective interface resistances. Examples are considered which illustrate the effects of transport mechanism and electric field.Comment: 23 pages, 8 figures, REVTEX 4; minor corrections introduced; to appear in Phys. Rev.

    The Rashba Hamiltonian and electron transport

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    The Rashba Hamiltonian describes the splitting of the conduction band as a result of spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an external field and is commonly used to model the electronic structure of confined narrow-gap semiconductors. Due to the mixing of spin states some care has to be exercised in the calculation of transport properties. We derive the velocity operator for the Rashba-split conduction band and demonstrate that the transmission of an interface between a ferromagnet and a Rashba-split semiconductor does not depend on the magnetization direction, in contrast with previous assertions in the literature.Comment: one tex file, two figures; paper to appear in this form in PRB (RC

    Electron Correlations in a Quantum Dot with Bychkov-Rashba Coupling

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    We report on a theoretical approach developed to investigate the influence of Bychkov-Rashba interaction on a few interacting electrons confined in a quantum dot. We note that the spin-orbit coupling profoundly influences the energy spectrum of interacting electrons in a quantum dot. Inter-electron interaction causes level crossings in the ground state and a jump in magnetization. As the coupling strength is increased, that jump is shifted to lower magnetic fields. Low-field magnetization will therefore provide a direct probe of the spin-orbit coupling strength in a quantum dot

    Corn cutworm control for 1983

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    "This guide recommends management practices and insecticides for reduction of injury caused by the various cutworms attacking com in Missouri. It also discusses the life cycles of the more common species which feed at and below ground and those species which are primarily above ground foliage feeders."--First page.George W. Thomas, Armon J. Keasler, Richard N. Story and Judy A. Grundler (Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture)Revised 2/83/8

    Quantum gates with topological phases

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    We investigate two models for performing topological quantum gates with the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) and Aharonov-Casher (AC) effects. Topological one- and two-qubit Abelian phases can be enacted with the AB effect using charge qubits, whereas the AC effect can be used to perform all single-qubit gates (Abelian and non-Abelian) for spin qubits. Possible experimental setups suitable for a solid state implementation are briefly discussed.Comment: 2 figures, RevTex

    Spin splitting and precession in quantum dots with spin-orbit coupling: the role of spatial deformation

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    Extending a previous work on spin precession in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dots with spin-orbit coupling, we study the role of deformation in the external confinement. Small elliptical deformations are enough to alter the precessional characteristics at low magnetic fields. We obtain approximate expressions for the modified gg factor including weak Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit terms. For more intense couplings numerical calculations are performed. We also study the influence of the magnetic field orientation on the spin splitting and the related anisotropy of the gg factor. Using realistic spin-orbit strengths our model calculations can reproduce the experimental spin-splittings reported by Hanson et al. (cond-mat/0303139) for a one-electron dot. For dots containing more electrons, Coulomb interaction effects are estimated within the local-spin-density approximation, showing that many features of the non-iteracting system are qualitatively preserved.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figure

    Magnetization of noncircular quantum dots

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    We calculate the magnetization of quantum dots deviating from circular symmetry for noninteracting electrons or electrons interacting according to the Hartree approximation. For few electrons the magnetization is found to depend on their number, and the shape of the dot. The magnetization is an ideal probe into the many-electron state of a quantum dot.Comment: 11 RevTeX pages with 6 included Postscript figure
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