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Earth's gravity field mapping requirements and concept
A future sensor is considered for mapping the Earth's gravity field to meet future scientific and practical requirements for earth and oceanic dynamics. These are approximately + or - 0.1 to 10 mgal over a block size of about 50 km and over land and an ocean geoid to 1 to 2 cm over a distance of about 50 km. To achieve these values requires a gravity gradiometer with a sensitivity of approximately 10 to the -4 power EU in a circular polar orbiting spacecraft with an orbital altitude ranging 160 km to 180 km
Proof of a conjecture of N. Konno for the 1D contact process
Consider the one-dimensional contact process. About ten years ago, N. Konno
stated the conjecture that, for all positive integers , the upper
invariant measure has the following property: Conditioned on the event that
is infected, the events All sites are healthy and All
sites are healthy are negatively correlated. We prove (a stronger
version of) this conjecture, and explain that in some sense it is a dual
version of the planar case of one of our results in \citeBHK.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/074921706000000031 in the IMS
Lecture Notes--Monograph Series
(http://www.imstat.org/publications/lecnotes.htm) by the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
On effects of regular S=1 dilution of S=1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chains by a quantum Monte Carlo simulation
The effects of regular S=1 dilution of S=1/2 isotropic antiferromagnetic
chain are investigated by the quantum Monte Carlo loop/cluster algorithm. Our
numerical results show that there are two kinds of ground-state phases which
alternate with the variation of concentration. When the effective spin
of a unit cell is half-integer, the ground state is ferrimagnetic with gapless
energy spectrum and the magnetism becomes weaker with decreasing of the
concentration . While it is integer, a non-magnetic ground state
with gaped spectrum emerges and the gap gradually becomes narrowed as fitted by
a relation of .Comment: 6 pages, 9 figure
A DMRG Study of Low-Energy Excitations and Low-Temperature Properties of Alternating Spin Systems
We use the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method to study the
ground and low-lying excited states of three kinds of uniform and dimerized
alternating spin chains. The DMRG procedure is also employed to obtain
low-temperature thermodynamic properties of these systems. We consider a 2N
site system with spins and alternating from site to site and
interacting via a Heisenberg antiferromagnetic exchange. The three systems
studied correspond to being equal to and
; all of them have very similar properties. The ground state is found
to be ferrimagnetic with total spin . We find that there is
a gapless excitation to a state with spin , and a gapped excitation to
a state with spin . Surprisingly, the correlation length in the ground
state is found to be very small for this gapless system. The DMRG analysis
shows that the chain is susceptible to a conditional spin-Peierls instability.
Furthermore, our studies of the magnetization, magnetic susceptibility
and specific heat show strong magnetic-field dependences. The product
shows a minimum as a function of temperature T at low magnetic fields; the
minimum vanishes at high magnetic fields. This low-field behavior is in
agreement with earlier experimental observations. The specific heat shows a
maximum as a function of temperature, and the height of the maximum increases
sharply at high magnetic fields. Although all the three systems show
qualitatively similar behavior, there are some notable quantitative differences
between the systems in which the site spin difference, , is large
and small respectively.Comment: 16 LaTeX pages, 13 postscript figure
Anisotropy effects in a mixed quantum-classical Heisenberg model in two dimensions
We analyse a specific two dimensional mixed spin Heisenberg model with
exchange anisotropy, by means of high temperature expansions and Monte Carlo
simulations. The goal is to describe the magnetic properties of the compound
(NBu_{4})_{2}Mn_{2}[Cu(opba)]_{3}\cdot 6DMSO\cdot H_{2}O which exhibits a
ferromagnetic transition at . Extrapolating our analysis on the
basis of renormalisation group arguments, we find that this transition may
result from a very weak anisotropy effect.Comment: 8 pages, 10 Postscript figure
Matrix product states approach to the Heisenberg ferrimagnetic spin chains
We propose a new version of the matrix product (MP) states approach to the
description of quantum spin chains, which allows one to construct MP states
with certain total spin and its z-projection. We show that previously known MP
wavefunctions for integer-spin antiferromagnetic chains and ladders correspond
to some particular cases of our general ansatz. Our method allows to describe
systems with spontaneously broken rotational symmetry, like quantum
ferrimagnetic chains whose ground state has nonzero total spin. We apply this
approach to describe the ground state properties of the isotropic ferrimagnetic
Heisenberg chain with alternating spins 1 and 1/2 and compare our variational
results with the high-precision numerical data obtained by means of the quantum
Monte Carlo (QMC) method. For both the ground state energy and the correlation
functions we obtain very good agreement between the variational results and the
QMC data.Comment: 4 pages, RevTeX, uses psfig.sty, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Magnetic Properties of J-J-J' Quantum Heisenberg Chains with Spin S=1/2, 1, 3/2 and 2 in a Magnetic Field
By means of the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method, the
magnetic properties of the J-J-J quantum Heisenberg chains with spin
, 1, 3/2 and 2 in the ground states are investigated in the presence of
a magnetic field. Two different cases are considered: (a) when is
antiferromagnetic and is ferromagnetic (i.e. the AF-AF-F chain),
the system is a ferrimagnet. The plateaus of the magnetization are observed. It
is found that the width of the plateaus decreases with increasing the
ferromagnetic coupling, and disappears when passes over a
critical value. The saturated field is observed to be independent of the
ferromagnetic coupling; (b) when is ferromagnetic and is
antiferromagnetic (i.e. the F-F-AF chain), the system becomes an
antiferromagnet. The plateaus of the magnetization are also seen. The width of
the plateaus decreases with decreasing the antiferromagnetic coupling, and
disappears when passes over a critical value. Though the ground
state properties are quite different, the magnetization plateaus in both cases
tend to disappear when the ferromagnetic coupling becomes more dominant.
Besides, no fundamental difference between the systems with spin half-integer
and integer has been found.Comment: 8 pages, 9 figures, to be published in J. Phys.: Condens. Matte
Spin and exchange coupling for Ti embedded in a surface dipolar network
We have studied the spin and exchange coupling of Ti atoms on a
CuN/Cu(100) surface using density functional theory. We find that
individual Ti have a spin of 1.0 (i.e., 2 Bohr Magneton) on the CuN/Cu(100)
surface instead of spin-1/2 as found by Scanning Tunneling Microscope. We
suggest an explanation for this difference, a two-stage Kondo effect, which can
be verified by experiments. By calculating the exchange coupling for Ti dimers
on the CuN/Cu(100) surface, we find that the exchange coupling across a
`void' of 3.6\AA\ is antiferromagnetic, whereas indirect (superexchange)
coupling through a N atom is ferromagnetic. We confirm the existence of
superexchange interactions by varying the Ti-N angle in a model trimer
calculation. For a square lattice of Ti on CuN/Cu(100), we find a novel
spin striped phase
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