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Comment on ``Effective Mass and g-Factor of Four Flux Quanta Composite Fermions"
In a recent Letter, Yeh et al.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 592 (1999)] have shown
beautiful experimental results which indicate that the composite fermions with
four flux quanta (CF) behave as fermions with mass and spin just like those
with two flux quanta. They observed the collapse of the fractional quantum Hall
gaps when the following condition is satisfied with some integer ,
, where and
are the g-factor and the cyclotron frequency of the CF,
respectively. However, in their picture the gap at the Fermi energy remains
always finite even if the above condition is satisfied, thus the reason of the
collapse was left as a mystery. In this comment it is shown that part of the
mystery is resolved by considering the electron-hole symmetry properly.Comment: 2 pages, RevTeX. Minor chang
Matrix Orientifolding and Models with Four or Eight Supercharges
The conditions under which matrix orientifolding and supersymmetry
transformations commute are known to be stringent. Here we present the cases
possessing four or eight supercharges upon orbifolding followed by
matrix orientifolding. These cases descend from the matrix models with eight
plus eight supercharges. There are fifty in total, which we enumerate.Comment: 17pages; references adde
Broadening effects due to alloy scattering in Quantum Cascade Lasers
We report on calculations of broadening effects in QCL due to alloy
scattering. The output of numerical calculations of alloy broadened Landau
levels compare favorably with calculations performed at the self-consistent
Born approximation. Results for Landau level width and optical absorption are
presented. A disorder activated forbidden transition becomes significant in the
vicinity of crossings of Landau levels which belong to different subbands. A
study of the time dependent survival probability in the lowest Landau level of
the excited subband is performed. It is shown that at resonance the population
relaxation occurs in a subpicosecond scale.Comment: 7 pages, 8 figure
Measuring the Assertiveness of Low Income, Culturally Diverse Women: Implications for Culturally Competent Practice
The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.Yoshioka, Marianne R., Ph.D., Ph.D. Florida State University, 1995, Assistant Professor, Columbia University - "Measuring the Assertiveness of Low Income, Culturally Diverse Women: Implications for Culturally Competent PracticeThe Ohio State University College of Social Wor
Complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the parasitic honey bee mite Varroa destructor (Mesostigmata : Varroidae)
Varroa destructor is a parasite mite of the eastern honey bee Apis cerana, which is native to Asia. The European honey bee Apis mellifera was imported to Asia from Europe and the USA for apiculture in the 19th century. In a short period of time, V. destructor parasitized the artificially introduced honey bees. Varroa destructor was estimated to have spread around the world with A. mellifera when it was exported from Asia to locations worldwide about 50 years ago. The mitochondrial DNA of the parasitic honey bee mite V. destructor was analyzed using next-generation sequencing. The complete mitochondrial genome of V. destructor was identified as a 16,476-bp circular molecule containing 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 tRNA genes, two rRNA genes, and one AT-rich control region. The heavy strand was predicted to have nine PCGs and 13 tRNA genes, whereas the light strand was predicted to contain four PCGs, nine tRNA genes, and two rRNA genes. All PCGs began with ATA as the start codon, except COIII and CytB, which had ATG as the start codon. Stop codons were of two types: TAA for eight genes and TAG for five genes. Molecular phylogenetic analysis revealed that V. destructor from Japan was genetically distant from that of France. A high base substitution rate of 2.82% was also confirmed between the complete mitochondrial DNA sequences of V. destructor from Japan and the USA, suggesting that one Varroa mite strain found in the USA is not from Japan
Intermediate left-right gauge symmetry, unification of couplings and fermion masses in SUSY
If left-right gauge theory occurs as an intermediate symmetry in a GUT then,
apart from other advantages, it is possible to obtain the see-saw scale
necessary to understand small neutrino masses with Majorana coupling of order
unity. Barring threshold or non-renormalizable gravitational effects, or
assumed presence of additional light scalar particles of unprescribed origin,
all other attempts to achieve manifest one-loop gauge coupling unification in
SUSY SO(10) with left-right intermediate symmetry have not been successful so
far. Attributing this failure to lack of flavor symmetry in the GUT, we show
how the spontaneous symmetry breaking of leads to such
intermediate scale extending over a wide range, GeV
to GeV. All the charged fermion masses are fitted at the see-saw
scale, GeV which is obtained with
Majorana coupling . Using a constrained parametrization in which
CP-violation originates only from quark sector, besides other predictions made
in the neutrino sector, the reactor mixing angle is found to be which is in the range accessible to ongoing and
planned experiments. The leptonic Dirac phase turns out to be radians with Jarlskog invariant .Comment: Minor clarification and few references added to match the published
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Entropy and Exact Matrix Product Representation of the Laughlin Wave Function
An analytical expression for the von Neumann entropy of the Laughlin wave
function is obtained for any possible bipartition between the particles
described by this wave function, for filling fraction nu=1. Also, for filling
fraction nu=1/m, where m is an odd integer, an upper bound on this entropy is
exhibited. These results yield a bound on the smallest possible size of the
matrices for an exact representation of the Laughlin ansatz in terms of a
matrix product state. An analytical matrix product state representation of this
state is proposed in terms of representations of the Clifford algebra. For
nu=1, this representation is shown to be asymptotically optimal in the limit of
a large number of particles
Stability of the compressible quantum Hall state around the half-filled Landau level
We study the compressible states in the quantum Hall system using a mean
field theory on the von Neumann lattice. In the lowest Landau level, a kinetic
energy is generated dynamically from Coulomb interaction. The compressibility
of the state is calculated as a function of the filling factor and the
width of the spacer between the charge carrier layer and dopants. The
compressibility becomes negative below a critical value of and the state
becomes unstable at . Within a finite range around , the
stable compressible state exists above the critical value of .Comment: 4 pages, 4 Postscript figures, RevTe
Orbital magnetization in crystalline solids: Multi-band insulators, Chern insulators, and metals
We derive a multi-band formulation of the orbital magnetization in a normal
periodic insulator (i.e., one in which the Chern invariant, or in 2d the Chern
number, vanishes). Following the approach used recently to develop the
single-band formalism [T. Thonhauser, D. Ceresoli, D. Vanderbilt, and R. Resta,
Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 95}, 137205 (2005)], we work in the Wannier
representation and find that the magnetization is comprised of two
contributions, an obvious one associated with the internal circulation of
bulk-like Wannier functions in the interior and an unexpected one arising from
net currents carried by Wannier functions near the surface. Unlike the
single-band case, where each of these contributions is separately
gauge-invariant, in the multi-band formulation only the \emph{sum} of both
terms is gauge-invariant. Our final expression for the orbital magnetization
can be rewritten as a bulk property in terms of Bloch functions, making it
simple to implement in modern code packages. The reciprocal-space expression is
evaluated for 2d model systems and the results are verified by comparing to the
magnetization computed for finite samples cut from the bulk. Finally, while our
formal proof is limited to normal insulators, we also present a heuristic
extension to Chern insulators (having nonzero Chern invariant) and to metals.
The validity of this extension is again tested by comparing to the
magnetization of finite samples cut from the bulk for 2d model systems. We find
excellent agreement, thus providing strong empirical evidence in favor of the
validity of the heuristic formula.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures. Fixed a typo in appendix
Linear stability analysis of retrieval state in associative memory neural networks of spiking neurons
We study associative memory neural networks of the Hodgkin-Huxley type of
spiking neurons in which multiple periodic spatio-temporal patterns of spike
timing are memorized as limit-cycle-type attractors. In encoding the
spatio-temporal patterns, we assume the spike-timing-dependent synaptic
plasticity with the asymmetric time window. Analysis for periodic solution of
retrieval state reveals that if the area of the negative part of the time
window is equivalent to the positive part, then crosstalk among encoded
patterns vanishes. Phase transition due to the loss of the stability of
periodic solution is observed when we assume fast alpha-function for direct
interaction among neurons. In order to evaluate the critical point of this
phase transition, we employ Floquet theory in which the stability problem of
the infinite number of spiking neurons interacting with alpha-function is
reduced into the eigenvalue problem with the finite size of matrix. Numerical
integration of the single-body dynamics yields the explicit value of the
matrix, which enables us to determine the critical point of the phase
transition with a high degree of precision.Comment: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
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