Level broadening effects in quantum kinetic equations: Hot luminescence from a quantum wire near the optical phonon emission thresholdA recipe for the generalization of the Boltzmann equation to a quantum kinetic equation is given for cases in which only level shift and broadening are considered, while coherence phenomena can be…Michal Rokni, Y. Levinson·Feb 12, 1997SaveLearn
Singularites at a Dense Set of Temperature in Husimi TreeWe investigate complex temperature singularities of the three-site interacting Ising model on the Husimi tree in the presentce of magnetic field. We show that at certain magnetic field these…A. E. Alahverdian, N. S. Ananikian, S. K. Dallakian·Feb 12, 1997SaveLearn
Thermodynamic Properties of 1d Heisenberg Model. Magnetic Moment of SpinonThe one dimensional spin 1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet is considered using a simple quasiparticle picture - an interacting Fermi gas of kinks. Using this picture the low temperature heat capacity,…W. McRae, O. Sushkov·Feb 12, 1997SaveLearn
Contact Injection into Polymer Light-Emitting DiodesThe variation of current I with voltage V for poly(phenylene vinylene) and other polymer light-emitting diodes has been attributed to carriers tunneling into broad conduction and valence bands. In…E. M. Conwell, M. W. Wu·Feb 11, 1997SaveLearn
Density Functional Theory of Epitaxial Growth of MetalsThis chapter starts with a summary of the atomistic processes that occur during epitaxy. We then introduce density functional theory (DFT) and describe its implementation into state-of-the-art…P. Ruggerone, C. Ratsch, M. Scheffler·Feb 11, 1997SaveLearn
Self-Organized Criticality Driven by Deterministic RulesWe have investigated the essential ingredients allowing a system to show Self Organized Criticality (SOC) in its collective behavior. Using the Bak-Sneppen model of biological evolution as our…Paolo De Los Rios, Angelo Valleriani, José Luis Vega·Feb 7, 1997SaveLearn
Motion of Vacancies in a Pinned Vortex Lattice: Origin of the Hall AnomalyPhysical arguments are presented to show that the Hall anomaly is an effect of the vortex many-body correlation rather than that of an individual vortex. Quantitatively, the characteristic energy…P. Ao·Feb 6, 1997SaveLearn
C-axis Transport in Bilayer Cuprates and Relation to PseudogapWe consider the effect of interband transitions on the c-axis conductivity, DC resistivity, and thermal conductivity in a plane-chain bilayer model of a cuprate. The relation between the c-axis…W. C. Wu, W. A. Atkinson, J. P. Carbotte·Feb 6, 1997SaveLearn
Boltzmann Collision Kernels and Velocity Saturation in SemiconductorsFor different models of the electron-phonon interaction, the asymptotic behaviour of the moments of the stationary homogeneous solution of the linear Boltzmann equation is determined in the limit of…C. Dalitz·Feb 6, 1997SaveLearn
Aging in a Model of Self-Organized CriticalityTemporal autocorrelation functions for avalanches in the Bak-Sneppen model display aging behavior similar to glassy systems. Numerical simulations show that they decay as power laws with two distinct…Stefan Boettcher, Maya Paczuski·Feb 5, 1997SaveLearn
The 2-Channel Kondo Model II: CFT Calculation of Non-Equilibrium Conductance through a Nanoconstriction containing 2-Channel Kondo ImpuritiesRecent experiments by Ralph and Buhrman on zero-bias anomalies in quenched Cu nanoconstrictions (reviewed in the preceding paper, I), are in accord with the assumption that the interaction between…Jan von Delft, A. W. W. Ludwig, Vinay Ambegaokar·Feb 5, 1997SaveLearn
The 2-Channel Kondo Model I: Review of Experimental Evidence for its Realization in Metal NanoconstrictionsCertain zero-bias anomalies (ZBAs) in the voltage, temperature and magnetic field dependence of the conductance G(V,T,H) of quenched Cu point contacts have previously been interpreted to be due to…Jan von Delft, D. C. Ralph, R. A. Buhrman et al.·Feb 5, 1997SaveLearn
Effective one-band electron-phonon Hamiltonian for nickel perovskitesInspired by recent experiments on the Sr-doped nickelates, La2-xSrxNiO4, we propose a minimal microscopic model capable to describe the variety of the observed quasi-static charge/lattice…J. Loos, H. Fehske·Feb 5, 1997SaveLearn
Phase diagrams of the S=1/2 quantum antiferromagnetic XY model on the triangular lattice in magnetic fieldsWe study the S=1/2 quantum antiferromagnetic XY model on finite triangular lattices with N sites in both longitudinal and transverse magnetic fields. We calculate physical quantities in the ground…Nobuo Suzuki, Fumitaka Matsubara·Feb 5, 1997SaveLearn
Steering and ro-vibrational effects in the dissociative adsorption and associative desorption of H2/Pd(100)The interaction of hydrogen with many transition metal surfaces is characterized by a coexistence of activated with non-activated paths to adsorption with a broad distribution of barrier heights. By…Axel Gross, Matthias Scheffler·Feb 4, 1997SaveLearn
Dynamics of Selfavoiding Tethered Membranes I Model A Dynamics (Rouse Model)The dynamical scaling properties of selfavoiding polymerized membranes with internal dimension D are studied using model A dynamics. It is shown that the theory is renormalizable to all orders in…Kay Joerg Wiese·Feb 3, 1997SaveLearn
Critical properties of 1-D spin 1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg modelWe discuss numerical results for the 1-D spin 1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model with next-to-nearest neighbour coupling and in the presence of an uniform magnetic field. The model develops zero…J. F. Audet, A. Fledderjohann, C. Gerhardt et al.·Feb 3, 1997SaveLearn
Dynamics of Selfavoiding Tethered Membranes II, Inclusion of Hydrodynamic Interaction (Zimm Model)The dynamical scaling properties of selfavoiding polymerized membranes with internal dimension D embedded into d dimensions are studied including hydrodynamical interactions. It is shown that the…Kay Joerg Wiese·Feb 3, 1997SaveLearn
Spinodal decomposition to a lamellar phase: effects of hydrodynamic flowResults are presented for the kinetics of domain growth of a two-dimensional fluid quenched from a disordered to a lamellar phase. At early times when a Lifshitz-Slyozov mechanism is operative the…G. Gonnella, E. Orlandini, J. M. Yeomans·Feb 3, 1997SaveLearn
Long-Tailed Trapping Times and Levy Flights in a Self-Organized Critical Granular SystemWe present a continuous time random walk model for the scale-invariant transport found in a self-organized critical rice pile [Christensen et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 107 (1996)]. From our…Marian Boguna, Alvaro Corral·Feb 2, 1997SaveLearn
Hole Photoproduction in Insulating Copper OxideTo explain the experimental spectra for angle resolved photoemission we consider a modified t-J model. The modified model includes next nearest (t') and next next nearest (t'') hopping as…O. Sushkov, G. Sawatzky, R. Eder et al.·Jan 31, 1997SaveLearn
Anisotropic Transport of Quantum Hall Meron-Pair ExcitationsDouble-layer quantum Hall systems at total filling factor νT=1 can exhibit a commensurate-incommensurate phase transition driven by a magnetic field B oriented parallel to the…Kyungsun Moon, Kieran Mullen·Jan 30, 1997SaveLearn
On representation of the t-J model via spin-charge variablesWe show that the t-J Hamiltonian is not in general reduced to H(S,f), where S and f stand for independent ([S,f]=0) SU(2) (spin) generators and spinless fermionic (hole) field, respectively. The…Evgueni Kochetov, Vladimir Yarunin·Jan 30, 1997SaveLearn
Randomness and Apparent FractalityWe show that when the standard techniques for calculating fractal dimensions in empirical data (such as the box counting) are applied on uniformly random structures, apparent fractal behavior is…D. A. Lidar, O. Malcai, O. Biham et al.·Jan 28, 1997SaveLearn
Two-Body Correlations and the Underlying Phase Transitions in BilayersThe pair correlation functions for a bilayer system of classical electrons has been calculated through a two-component HNC formalism. The results show changes in the structure of the correlation…V. I. Valtchinov, G. Kalman, K. Blagoev·Jan 27, 1997SaveLearn