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New results for the t-J model in ladders: Changes in the spin liquid state with applied magnetic field. Implications for the cuprates
Exact Diagonalization calculations are presented for the t-J model in the
presence of a uniform magnetic field. Results for 2xL ladders (L=8,10,12) and
4x4 square clusters with 1 and 2 holes indicate that the diamagnetic response
to a perpendicular magnetic field tends to induce a spin liquid state in the
spin background. The zero-field spin liquid state of a two-leg ladder is
reinforced by the magnetic field: a considerable increase of rung
antiferromagnetic correlations is observed for J/t up to 0.6, for 1 and 2
holes. Pair-breaking is also clearly observed in the ladders and seems to be
associated in part with changes promoted by the field in the spin correlations
around the zero-field pair. In the 4x4 cluster, the numerical results seem to
indicate that the field-induced spin liquid state competes with the zero-field
antiferromagnetic short-range-order, the spin liquid state being favored by
higher doping and smaller values of J/t. It is interesting to note that the
field-effect can also be observed in a 2x2 plaquette with 1 and 2 holes. This
opens up the possibility of gaining a qualitative understanding of the effect.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figures, latex New results adde
Determinação do ciclo estral em catetos Pecari tajacu: aspectos colpocitológicos e clínicos.
Este trabalho teve por objetivo estudar o ciclo estral do cateto, aplicando a colpocitologia como método diagnóstico. As amostras da citologia vaginal foram coletadas em dez fêmeas adultas, durante três vezes na semana, por seis meses. Verificou-se que a duração média do ciclo estral para esta espécie foi de 28,45 ± 5,45 dias. Observou-se diferença estatística (p<0,01) em relação à frequência dos diferentes tipos celulares na mesma fase do ciclo estral. No proestro foi verificado o aumento de células intermediárias e superficiais. A fase de estro caracterizou-se pela elevação significativa de células superficiais em relação aos demais tipos celulares e pela ausência de leucócitos. Durante este período, a genitália externa estava hiperêmica, edemaciada e com muco. No metaestro houve um decréscimo de células superficiais, quando comparado com o proestro e com o estro, e uma elevação significativa de células intermediárias, presença de leucócitos, de células de metaestro e de foam. Na fase de diestro, houve um aumento de células intermediárias, e um decréscimo no número de leucócitos. Conclui-se que, por meio da colpocitologia, é possível diferenciar as fases do ciclo estral em catetos
Deep shower interpretation of the cosmic ray events observed in excess of the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin energy
We consider the possibility that the ultra-high-energy cosmic ray flux has a
small component of exotic particles which create showers much deeper in the
atmosphere than ordinary hadronic primaries. It is shown that applying the
conventional AGASA/HiRes/Auger data analysis procedures to such exotic events
results in large systematic biases in the energy spectrum measurement. SubGZK
exotic showers may be mis-reconstructed with much higher energies and mimick
superGZK events. Alternatively, superGZK exotic showers may elude detection by
conventional fluorescence analysis techniques.Comment: 22 pages, 5 figure
Vacuum Energy and Renormalization on the Edge
The vacuum dependence on boundary conditions in quantum field theories is
analysed from a very general viewpoint. From this perspective the
renormalization prescriptions not only imply the renormalization of the
couplings of the theory in the bulk but also the appearance of a flow in the
space of boundary conditions. For regular boundaries this flow has a large
variety of fixed points and no cyclic orbit. The family of fixed points
includes Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions. In one-dimensional field
theories pseudoperiodic and quasiperiodic boundary conditions are also RG fixed
points. Under these conditions massless bosonic free field theories are
conformally invariant. Among all fixed points only Neumann boundary conditions
are infrared stable fixed points. All other conformal invariant boundary
conditions become unstable under some relevant perturbations. In finite volumes
we analyse the dependence of the vacuum energy along the trajectories of the
renormalization group flow providing an interesting framework for dark energy
evolution. On the contrary, the renormalization group flow on the boundary does
not affect the leading behaviour of the entanglement entropy of the vacuum in
one-dimensional conformally invariant bosonic theories.Comment: 10 pages, 1 eps figur
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