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Electron and Phonon Thermal Waves in Semiconductors: an Application to Photothermal Effects
The electron and phonon temperature distribution function are calculated in
semiconductors. We solved the coupled one-dimensional heat-diffussion equations
in the linear approximation in which the physical parameters on the sample are
independent of the temperature. We also consider the heat flux at the surface
of the semiconductor as a boundary condition for each electron and phonon
systems instead of using a fixed temperature. From this, we obtain an
expression for electron and phonon temperature respectively. The
characterization of the thermal waves properties is duscussed and some
practical procedures for this purpose provide us information about the electron
and phonon thermal parameters.Comment: 12 pages, amstex and amssymb macro package (LaTeX2e edition
Towards an understanding of nucleon spin structure: from hard to soft scales
The workshop "The Helicity Structure of the Nucleon" (BNL June 5, 2006) was
organized as part of the 2006 RHIC & AGS Users' Meeting to review the status of
the spin problem and future directions. The presentations can be found at
http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/WWW/publish/caidala/UsersHelicityWorkshop2006/ .
Recent data suggests small polarized glue and strangeness in the proton. Here
we present a personal summary of the main results and presentations. What is
new and exciting in the data, and what might this tell us about the structure
of the proton ?Comment: 20 pages, to appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys.
Slow imbalance relaxation and thermoelectric transport in graphene
We compute the electronic component of the thermal conductivity (TC) and the
thermoelectric power (TEP) of monolayer graphene, within the hydrodynamic
regime, taking into account the slow rate of carrier population imbalance
relaxation. Interband electron-hole generation and recombination processes are
inefficient due to the non-decaying nature of the relativistic energy spectrum.
As a result, a population imbalance of the conduction and valence bands is
generically induced upon the application of a thermal gradient. We show that
the thermoelectric response of a graphene monolayer depends upon the ratio of
the sample length to an intrinsic length scale l_Q, set by the imbalance
relaxation rate. At the same time, we incorporate the crucial influence of the
metallic contacts required for the thermopower measurement (under open circuit
boundary conditions), since carrier exchange with the contacts also relaxes the
imbalance. These effects are especially pronounced for clean graphene, where
the thermoelectric transport is limited exclusively by intercarrier collisions.
For specimens shorter than l_Q, the population imbalance extends throughout the
sample; the TC and TEP asymptote toward their zero imbalance relaxation limits.
In the opposite limit of a graphene slab longer than l_Q, at non-zero doping
the TC and TEP approach intrinsic values characteristic of the infinite
imbalance relaxation limit. Samples of intermediate (long) length in the doped
(undoped) case are predicted to exhibit an inhomogeneous temperature profile,
whilst the TC and TEP grow linearly with the system size. In all cases except
for the shortest devices, we develop a picture of bulk electron and hole number
currents that flow between thermally conductive leads, where steady-state
recombination and generation processes relax the accumulating imbalance.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figure
Splittings of generalized Baumslag-Solitar groups
We study the structure of generalized Baumslag-Solitar groups from the point
of view of their (usually non-unique) splittings as fundamental groups of
graphs of infinite cyclic groups. We find and characterize certain
decompositions of smallest complexity (`fully reduced' decompositions) and give
a simplified proof of the existence of deformations. We also prove a finiteness
theorem and solve the isomorphism problem for generalized Baumslag-Solitar
groups with no non-trivial integral moduli.Comment: 20 pages; hyperlinked latex. Version 2: minor change
Beat-wave generation of plasmons in semiconductor plasmas
It is shown that in semiconductor plasmas, it is possible to generate large
amplitude plasma waves by the beating of two laser beams with frequency
difference close to the plasma frequency. For narrow gap semiconductors (for
example n-type InSb), the system can simulate the physics underlying beat wave
generation in relativistic gaseous plasmas.Comment: 11 pages, LaTex, no figures, no macro
Charge structure in volcanic plumes: a comparison of plume properties predicted by an integral plume model to observations of volcanic lightning during the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland
Cancer is a heterogeneous disease with different combinations of genetic alterations driving its development in different individuals. We introduce CoMEt, an algorithm to identify combinations of alterations that exhibit a pattern of mutual exclusivity across individuals, often observed for alterations in the same pathway. CoMEt includes an exact statistical test for mutual exclusivity and techniques to perform simultaneous analysis of multiple sets of mutually exclusive and subtype-specific alterations. We demonstrate that CoMEt outperforms existing approaches on simulated and real data. We apply CoMEt to five different cancer types, identifying both known cancer genes and pathways, and novel putative cancer genes. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13059-015-0700-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users
Discrimination between two mechanisms of surface-scattering in a single-mode waveguide
Transport properties of a single-mode waveguide with rough boundary are
studied by discrimination between two mechanisms of surface scattering, the
amplitude and square-gradient ones. Although these mechanisms are generically
mixed, we show that for some profiles they can separately operate within
non-overlapping intervals of wave numbers of scattering waves. This effect may
be important in realistic situations due to inevitable long-range correlations
in scattering profiles.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Quantum and Boltzmann transport in the quasi-one-dimensional wire with rough edges
We study quantum transport in Q1D wires made of a 2D conductor of width W and
length L>>W. Our aim is to compare an impurity-free wire with rough edges with
a smooth wire with impurity disorder. We calculate the electron transmission
through the wires by the scattering-matrix method, and we find the Landauer
conductance for a large ensemble of disordered wires. We study the
impurity-free wire whose edges have a roughness correlation length comparable
with the Fermi wave length. The mean resistance and inverse mean
conductance 1/ are evaluated in dependence on L. For L -> 0 we observe the
quasi-ballistic dependence 1/ = = 1/N_c + \rho_{qb} L/W, where 1/N_c
is the fundamental contact resistance and \rho_{qb} is the quasi-ballistic
resistivity. As L increases, we observe crossover to the diffusive dependence
1/ = = 1/N^{eff}_c + \rho_{dif} L/W, where \rho_{dif} is the
resistivity and 1/N^{eff}_c is the effective contact resistance corresponding
to the N^{eff}_c open channels. We find the universal results
\rho_{qb}/\rho_{dif} = 0.6N_c and N^{eff}_c = 6 for N_c >> 1. As L exceeds the
localization length \xi, the resistance shows onset of localization while the
conductance shows the diffusive dependence 1/ = 1/N^{eff}_c + \rho_{dif} L/W
up to L = 2\xi and the localization for L > 2\xi only. On the contrary, for the
impurity disorder we find a standard diffusive behavior, namely 1/ =
= 1/N_c + \rho_{dif} L/W for L < \xi. We also derive the wire conductivity from
the semiclassical Boltzmann equation, and we compare the semiclassical electron
mean-free path with the mean free path obtained from the quantum resistivity
\rho_{dif}. They coincide for the impurity disorder, however, for the edge
roughness they strongly differ, i.e., the diffusive transport is not
semiclassical. It becomes semiclassical for the edge roughness with large
correlation length
Metal-insulator transition in a two-dimensional electron system: the orbital effect of in-plane magnetic field
The conductance of an open quench-disordered two-dimensional (2D) electron
system subject to an in-plane magnetic field is calculated within the framework
of conventional Fermi liquid theory applied to actually a three-dimensional
system of spinless electrons confined to a highly anisotropic (planar)
near-surface potential well. Using the calculation method suggested in this
paper, the magnetic field piercing a finite range of infinitely long system of
carriers is treated as introducing the additional highly non-local scatterer
which separates the circuit thus modelled into three parts -- the system as
such and two perfect leads. The transverse quantization spectrum of the inner
part of the electron waveguide thus constructed can be effectively tuned by
means of the magnetic field, even though the least transverse dimension of the
waveguide is small compared to the magnetic length. The initially finite
(metallic) value of the conductance, which is attributed to the existence of
extended modes of the transverse quantization, decreases rapidly as the
magnetic field grows. This decrease is due to the mode number reduction effect
produced by the magnetic field. The closing of the last current-carrying mode,
which is slightly sensitive to the disorder level, is suggested as the origin
of the magnetic-field-driven metal-to-insulator transition widely observed in
2D systems.Comment: 19 pages, 7 eps figures, the extension of cond-mat/040613
Manifestation of the Roughness-Square-Gradient Scattering in Surface-Corrugated Waveguides
We study a new mechanism of wave/electron scattering in multi-mode
surface-corrugated waveguides/wires. This mechanism is due to specific
square-gradient terms in an effective Hamiltonian describing the surface
scattering, that were neglected in all previous studies. With a careful
analysis of the role of roughness slopes in a surface profile, we show that
these terms strongly contribute to the expression for the inverse attenuation
length (mean free path), provided the correlation length of corrugations is
relatively small. The analytical results are illustrated by numerical data.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figure
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