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Induced Growth of Asymmetric Nanocantilever Arrays on Polar Surfaces
©2003 The American Physical Society. The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.185502DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.185502We report that the Zn-terminated ZnO (0001) polar surface is chemically active and the oxygenterminated (0001) polar surface is inert in the growth of nanocantilever arrays. Longer and wider "comblike" nanocantilever arrays are grown from the (0001)-Zn surface, which is suggested to be a self-catalyzed process due to the enrichment of Zn at the growth front. The chemically inactive
(0001)-O surface typically does not initiate any growth, but controlling experimental conditions could lead to the growth of shorter and narrower nanocantilevers from the intersections between (0001)-O with (0110) surfaces
Chinese farmers’ willingness to accept compensation to practice safe disposal of HPAI infected chicken
Abstract not availableZeying Huang, Jimin Wang, Alec Zu
Elliptic flow of meson and strange quark collectivity at RHIC
Based on A Multi-Phase Transport (AMPT) model, we have studied the elliptic
flow of mesons from reconstructed decay channel at
the top Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider energy at Brookhaven National
Laboratory. The dependences of on transverse momentum and
collision centrality are presented and the rescattering effect of mesons
in the hadronic phase is also investigated. The results show that experimental
measurement of for mesons can retain the early collision
information before decays and that the value obeys the
constituent quark number scaling which has been observed for other mesons and
baryons. Our study indicates that the mostly reflects partonic
level collectivity developed during the early stage of the nucleus-nucleus
collision and the strange and light up/down quarks have developed similar
angular anistropy properties at the hadronization.Comment: 5 pages and 5 figures; accepted by Physical Review
Beyond Wigner's isobaric multiplet mass equation: Effect of charge-symmetry-breaking interaction and Coulomb polarization
The quadratic form of the isobaric multiplet mass equation (IMME), which was
originally suggested by Wigner and has been generally regarded as valid, is
seriously questioned by recent high-precision nuclear mass measurements. The
usual resolution to this problem is to add empirically the cubic and quartic
-terms to characterize the deviations from the IMME, but finding the
origin of these terms remains an unsolved difficulty. Based on a strategy
beyond the Wigner's first-order perturbation, we derive explicitly the cubic
and quartic -terms. These terms are shown to be generated by the effective
charge-symmetry breaking and charge-independent breaking interactions in
nuclear medium combined with the Coulomb polarization effect. Calculations for
the - and lower -shells explore a systematical emergence of the cubic
-term, suggesting a general deviation from the original IMME.
Intriguingly, the magnitude of the deviation exhibits an oscillation-like
behavior with mass number, modulated by the shell effect.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figure
Correlation effects in the ground state charge density of Mott-insulating NiO: a comparison of ab-initio calculations and high-energy electron diffraction measurements
Accurate high-energy electron diffraction measurements of structure factors
of NiO have been carried out to investigate how strong correlations in the Ni
3d shell affect electron charge density in the interior area of nickel ions and
whether the new ab-initio approaches to the electronic structure of strongly
correlated metal oxides are in accord with experimental observations. The
generalized gradient approximation (GGA) and the local spin density
approximation corrected by the Hubbard U term (LSDA+U) are found to provide the
closest match to experimental measurements. The comparison of calculated and
observed electron charge densities shows that correlations in the Ni 3d shell
suppress covalent bonding between the oxygen and nickel sublattices.Comment: 6 pages, LaTeX and 5 figures in the postscript forma
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