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International Centre for the Study of Historical consciousness
My social studies education friend thought I had proposed a program of “history awareness.” My graduate student feared I was setting myself up in competition with Hayden White’s History of Consciousness program. My historiographically oriented colleague detected tones of 19th century German ideal- ism. Yikes! And I thought it was such an innocent title
Rotation-invariant relations in vector meson decays into fermion pairs
The rotational properties of angular momentum eigenstates imply the existence
of a frame-independent relation among the parameters of the decay distribution
of vector mesons into fermions. This relation is a generalization of the
Lam-Tung identity, a result specific to Drell-Yan production in perturbative
QCD, here shown to be equivalent to the dynamical condition that the dilepton
always originates from a transversely polarized photon
A new approach to quarkonium polarization studies
Significant progress in understanding quarkonium production requires improved
polarization measurements, fully considering the intrinsic multidimensionality
of the problem. We propose a frame-invariant formalism which minimizes the
dependence of the measured result on the experimental acceptance, facilitates
the comparison with theoretical calculations, and provides a much needed
control over systematic effects due to detector limitations and analysis
biases. This formalism is a direct and generic consequence of the rotational
invariance of the dilepton decay distribution and is independent of any
assumptions specific to particular models of quarkonium production
A dynamical characterization of the small world phase
Small-world (SW) networks have been identified in many different fields.
Topological coefficients like the clustering coefficient and the characteristic
path length have been used in the past for a qualitative characterization of
these networks. Here a dynamical approach is used to characterize the
small-world phenomenon. Using the model, a coupled map dynamical
system is defined on the network. Entrance to and exit from the SW phase are
related to the behavior of the ergodic invariants of the dynamics.Comment: 8 pages Latex, 3 figure
Atomically thin dilute magnetism in Co-doped phosphorene
Two-dimensional dilute magnetic semiconductors can provide fundamental
insights in the very nature of magnetic orders and their manipulation through
electron and hole doping. Despite the fundamental physics, due to the large
charge density control capability in these materials, they can be extremely
important in spintronics applications such as spin valve and spin-based
transistors. In this article, we studied a two-dimensional dilute magnetic
semiconductors consisting of phosphorene monolayer doped with cobalt atoms in
substitutional and interstitial defects. We show that these defects can be
stabilized and are electrically active. Furthermore, by including holes or
electrons by a potential gate, the exchange interaction and magnetic order can
be engineered, and may even induce a ferromagnetic-to-antiferromagnetic phase
transition in p-doped phosphorene.Comment: 7 pages, 4 colorful figure
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