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Exchange and correlation effects on drag in low density electron bilayers: Coulomb and virtual-optical-phonon-mediated electron-electron interaction
We investigate the effect of exchange and correlation (xc) in low-density
electron bilayers. Along with the direct Coulomb interaction, the effective
electron-electron interaction mediated by the exchange of virtual polar optical
(PO) phonons is considered. We find that the introduction of xc corrections
results in a significant enhancement of the transresistivity and qualitative
changes in its temperature dependence. The virtual PO-phonon contribution
behaves similarly to the Coulomb drag and reduces noticeably the total drag
thereby resulting in a better agreement with the recent experimental findings.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, Int. Conf. EP2DS-1
A Multi-scale Bilateral Structure Tensor Based Corner Detector
9th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2009, Xi'an, 23-27 September 2009In this paper, a novel multi-scale nonlinear structure tensor based corner detection algorithm is proposed to improve effectively the classical Harris corner detector. By considering both the spatial and gradient distances of neighboring pixels, a nonlinear bilateral structure tensor is constructed to examine the image local pattern. It can be seen that the linear structure tensor used in the original Harris corner detector is a special case of the proposed bilateral one by considering only the spatial distance. Moreover, a multi-scale filtering scheme is developed to tell the trivial structures from true corners based on their different characteristics in multiple scales. The comparison between the proposed approach and four representative and state-of-the-art corner detectors shows that our method has much better performance in terms of both detection rate and localization accuracy.Department of ComputingRefereed conference pape
Various series expansions for the bilayer S=1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet
Various series expansions have been developed for the two-layer, S=1/2,
square lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet. High temperature expansions are used
to calculate the temperature dependence of the susceptibility and specific
heat. At T=0, Ising expansions are used to study the properties of the
N\'{e}el-ordered phase, while dimer expansions are used to calculate the
ground-state properties and excitation spectra of the magnetically disordered
phase. The antiferromagnetic order-disorder transition point is determined to
be . Quantities computed include the staggered
magnetization, the susceptibility, the triplet spin-wave excitation spectra,
the spin-wave velocity, and the spin-wave stiffness. We also estimates that the
ratio of the intra- and inter-layer exchange constants to be for cuprate superconductor .Comment: RevTeX, 9 figure
Hamiltonian Theory of the Composite Fermion Wigner Crystal
Experimental results indicating the existence of the high magnetic field
Wigner Crystal have been available for a number of years. While variational
wavefunctions have demonstrated the instability of the Laughlin liquid to a
Wigner Crystal at sufficiently small filling, calculations of the excitation
gaps have been hampered by the strong correlations. Recently a new Hamiltonian
formulation of the fractional quantum Hall problem has been developed. In this
work we extend the Hamiltonian approach to include states of nonuniform
density, and use it to compute the excitation gaps of the Wigner Crystal
states. We find that the Wigner Crystal states near are
quantitatively well described as crystals of Composite Fermions with four
vortices attached. Predictions for gaps and the shear modulus of the crystal
are presented, and found to be in reasonable agreement with experiments.Comment: 41 page, 6 figures, 3 table
Critical enhancements of a dynamic traffic assignment model for highly congested, complex urban network
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2010.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-115).To accurately replicate the highly congested traffic situation of a complex urban network, significant challenges are posed to current simulation-based dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) models. This thesis discusses these challenges and corresponding solutions with consideration of model accuracy and computational efficiency. DynaMITP, an off-line mesoscopic DTA model is enhanced. Model success is achieved by several critical enhancements aimed to better capture the traffic characteristics in urban networks. A Path-Size Logit route choice model is implemented to address the overlapping routes problem. The explicit representation of lane-groups accounts for traffic delays and queues at intersections. A modified treatment of acceptance capacity is required to deal with the large number of short links in the urban network. The network coding is revised to maintain enough loader access capacity in order to avoid artificial bottlenecks. In addition, the impacts of bicycles and pedestrians on automobile traffic is modeled by calibrating dynamic road segment capacities. The enhanced model is calibrated and applied to a case study network extracted from the city of Beijing, China. Data used in the calibration include sensor counts and floating car travel time. The improvements of the model performance are indicated by promising results from validation tests.by Zheng Wei.S.M
Group-based trajectory analysis of physical activity change in a U.S. weight loss intervention
Background: The obesity epidemic is a global concern. Standard behavioral treatment including increased physical activity, reduced energy intake, and behavioral change counseling is an effective lifestyle intervention for weight loss. Purpose: To identify distinct step count patterns among weight loss intervention participants, examine weight loss differences by trajectory group, and examine baseline factors associated with trajectory group membership. Methods: Both groups received group-based standard behavioral treatment while the experimental group received up to 30 additional, one-on-one self-efficacy enhancement sessions. Data were analyzed using group-based trajectory modeling, analysis of variance, chi-square tests, and multinomial logistic regression. Results: Participants (N = 120) were mostly female (81.8%) and white (73.6%) with a mean (SD) body mass index of 33.2 (3.8) kg/m2. Four step count trajectory groups were identified: active (>10,000 steps/day; 11.7%), somewhat active (7500â10,000 steps/day; 28.3%), low active (5000â7500 steps/day; 27.5%), and sedentary (<5000 steps/day; 32.5%). Percent weight loss at 12 months increased incrementally by trajectory group (5.1% [5.7%], 7.8% [6.9%], 8.0% [7.4%], and 13.63% [7.0%], respectively; P = .001). At baseline, lower body mass index and higher perceived health predicted membership in the better performing trajectory groups. Conclusions: Within a larger group of adults in a weight loss intervention, 4 distinct trajectory groups were identified and group membership was associated with differential weight loss
Growth factor in f(T) gravity
We derive the evolution equation of growth factor for the matter over-dense
perturbation in gravity. For instance, we investigate its behavior in
power law model at small redshift and compare it to the prediction of
CDM and dark energy with the same equation of state in the framework
of Einstein general relativity. We find that the perturbation in gravity
grows slower than that in Einstein general relativity if \p f/\p T>0 due to
the effectively weakened gravity.Comment: 15 pages,1 figure; v2,typos corrected; v3, discussions added,
accepted by JCA
Morphologies of AGN host galaxies using HST/ACS in the CDFS-GOODS field
Using HST/ACS images in four bands F435W, F606W, F775W and F850LP, we
identify optical counterparts to the X-ray sources in the Chandra Deep Field
South in the GOODS South field. A detailed study has been made of these sources
to study their morphological types. We use methods like decomposition of galaxy
luminosity profiles, color maps and visual inspection of 192 galaxies which are
identified as possible optical counterparts of Chandra X-ray sources in the
CDFS-GOODS field. We find that most moderate luminosity AGN hosts are bulge
dominated in the redshift range (z \approx 0.4-1.3), but not
merging/interacting galaxies. This implies probable fueling of the moderate
luminosity AGN by mechanisms other than those merger driven.Comment: pdflatex, accepted in ApSS. revisions in tex
Measuring the elements of the optical density matrix
Most methods for experimentally reconstructing the quantum state of light
involve determining a quasiprobability distribution such as the Wigner
function. In this paper we present a scheme for measuring individual density
matrix elements in the photon number state representation. Remarkably, the
scheme is simple, involving two beam splitters and a reference field in a
coherent state.Comment: 6 pages and 1 figur
Interlayer Exchange Interactions, SU(4) Soft Waves and Skyrmions in Bilayer Quantum Hall Ferromagnets
The Coulomb exchange interaction is the driving force for quantum coherence
in quantum Hall systems. We construct a microscopic Landau-site Hamiltonian for
the exchange interaction in bilayer quantum Hall ferromagnets, which is
characterized by the SU(4) isospin structure. By taking a continuous limit, the
Hamiltonian gives rise to the SU(4) nonlinear sigma model in the
von-Neumann-lattice formulation. The ground-state energy is evaluated at
filling factors . It is shown at that there are 3
independent soft waves, where only one soft wave is responsible for the
coherent tunneling of electrons between the two layers. It is also shown at
that there are 3 independent skyrmion states apart from the
translational degree of freedom. They are CP skyrmions enjoying the
spin-charge entanglement confined within the \LLL.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figure
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