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Soviet Inheritance Cases in American Courts and the Soviet Property Regime
Many American states have statutes limiting transmission of monies from estates in this country to citizens of countries behind the Iron Curtain. American courts have come under heavy criticism for construing these statutes unfavorably to foreign heirs, especially where transmission to heirs in the Soviet Union is withheld. This article analyzes the relevant American and Soviet law and concludes that American courts, while they have not always been completely objective, nevertheless may be justified in withholding distribution from Soviet citizens
Ideal strengths and bonding properties of PuO2 under tension
We perform a first-principles computational tensile test on PuO based
on density-functional theory within local density approximation (LDA)+\emph{U}
formalism to investigate its structural, mechanical, magnetic, and intrinsic
bonding properties in the four representative directions: [001], [100], [110],
and [111]. The stress-strain relations show that the ideal tensile strengths in
the four directions are 81.2, 80.5, 28.3, and 16.8 GPa at strains of 0.36,
0.36, 0.22, and 0.18, respectively. The [001] and [100] directions are
prominently stronger than other two directions since that more PuO bonds
participate in the pulling process. Through charge and density of states
analysis along the [001] direction, we find that the strong mixed
ionic/covalent character of PuO bond is weakened by tensile strain and
PuO will exhibit an insulator-to-metal transition after tensile stress
exceeds about 79 GPa.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figure
The role of different negatively charged layers in Ca10(Fe1-xPtxAs)10(Pt3+yAs8) and superconductivity at 30 K in electron-doped (Ca0.8La0.2)10(FeAs)10(Pt3As8)
The recently discovered compounds Ca10(Fe1-xPtxAs)10(Pt3+yAs8) exhibit
superconductivity up to 38 K, and contain iron arsenide (FeAs) and platinum
arsenide (Pt3+yAs8) layers separated by layers of Ca atoms. We show that high
Tc's above 15 K only emerge if the iron-arsenide layers are at most free of
platinum-substitution (x \rightarrow 0) in contrast to recent reports. In fact
Pt-substitution is detrimental to higher Tc, which increases up to 38 K only by
charge doping of pure FeAs layers. We point out, that two different negatively
charged layers [(FeAs)10]n- and (Pt3+yAs8)m- compete for the electrons provided
by the Ca2+ ions, which is unique in the field of iron-based superconductors.
In the parent compound Ca10(FeAs)10(Pt3As8), no excess charge dopes the
FeAs-layer, and superconductivity has to be induced by Pt-substitution, albeit
below 15 K. In contrast, the additional Pt-atom in the Pt4As8layer shifts the
charge balance between the layers equivalent to charge doping by 0.2 electrons
per FeAs. Only in this case Tc raises to 38 K, but decreases again if
additionally platinum is substituted for iron. This charge doping scenario is
supported by our discovery of superconductivity at 30 K in the electron-doped
La-1038 compound (Ca0.8La0.2)10(FeAs)10(Pt3As8) without significant
Pt-substitution.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Surface properties of the clean and Au/Pd covered FeO(111): a DFT and DFT+ study
The spin-density functional theory (DFT) and DFT+ with Hubbard term
accounting for on-site Coulomb interactions were applied to investigate
structure, stability, and electronic properties of different terminations of
the FeO(111) surface. All terminations of the ferrimagnetic
FeO(111) surface exhibit very large (up to 90%) relaxations of the
first four interlayer distances, decreasing with the oxide layer depth. Our
calculations predict the iron terminated surface to be most stable in a wide
range of the accessible values of the oxygen chemical potential. The adsorption
of Au and Pd on two stable Fe- and O-terminated surfaces is studied. Our
results show that Pd binds stronger than Au both to the Fe- and O-terminated
surface. DFT+ gives stronger bonding than DFT. The bonding of both
adsorbates to the O-terminated magnetite surface is by 1.5-2.5 eV stronger than
to the Fe-terminated surface
Measurements on a Low-wing Model in the Rotating Jet and Comparison with Flight Measurements
The present report deals with six-component measurements in the small tunnel of the DVL on a model of the BFW-M 27b(sub 1), which were made to determine the effect of rolling and yawing on the air forces and moments. The wind was given a spiral motion by means of a rotating screen, the model being suspended in the conventional manner
Kinetic Energy Density Study of Some Representative Semilocal Kinetic Energy Functionals
There is a number of explicit kinetic energy density functionals for
non-interacting electron systems that are obtained in terms of the electron
density and its derivatives. These semilocal functionals have been widely used
in the literature. In this work we present a comparative study of the kinetic
energy density of these semilocal functionals, stressing the importance of the
local behavior to assess the quality of the functionals. We propose a quality
factor that measures the local differences between the usual orbital-based
kinetic energy density distributions and the approximated ones, allowing to
ensure if the good results obtained for the total kinetic energies with these
semilocal functionals are due to their correct local performance or to error
cancellations. We have also included contributions coming from the laplacian of
the electron density to work with an infinite set of kinetic energy densities.
For all the functionals but one we have found that their success in the
evaluation of the total kinetic energy are due to global error cancellations,
whereas the local behavior of their kinetic energy density becomes worse than
that corresponding to the Thomas-Fermi functional.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figure
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