Anomalous dynamical light scattering in soft glassy gelsWe compute the dynamical structure factor S(q,tau) of an elastic medium where force dipoles appear at random in space and in time, due to `micro-collapses' of the structure. Various regimes are…J-P Bouchaud, E. Pitard·Jul 23, 2001SaveLearn
Finite size effects on the collective oscillations of a trapped Bose gasSum rules are used to calculate the corrections to the hydrodynamic collective frequencies of a harmonically trapped Bose gas at T=0, due to finite size effects. We show that, with logarithmic…Francesca Zambelli, Sandro Stringari·Jul 23, 2001SaveLearn
Heating of Two-Dimensional Holes in SiGe and the B = 0 Metal-Insulator TransitionWe study the resistivity vs. electric field dependence ρ(E) of a 2D hole system in SiGe close to the B=0 metal-insulator transition. Using ρ as a ``thermometer'' to obtain the effective…R. Leturcq, D. L'Hote, R. Tourbot et al.·Jul 23, 2001SaveLearn
The Band Gap in Silicon NanocrystallitesThe gap in semiconductor nanocrystallites has been extensively studied both theoretically and experimentally over the last two decades. We have compared a recent ``state-of-the-art''…V. Ranjan, Manish Kapoor, Vijay A. Singh·Jul 21, 2001SaveLearn
Magnetic Susceptibility of the Balian-Werthamer Phase of 3He in AerogelThe equilibrium superfluid phase of 3He impregnated into high-porosity silica aerogels appears to be a non-equal-spin-pairing state in zero field at all pressures, which is generally assumed to be…Priya Sharma, J. A. Sauls·Jul 21, 2001SaveLearn
More on A Statistical Analysis of Log-Periodic Precursors to Financial CrashesWe respond to Sornette and Johansen's criticisms of our findings regarding log-periodic precursors to financial crashes. Included in this paper are discussions of the Sornette-Johansen…James A. Feigenbaum·Jul 20, 2001SaveLearn
Effective Ginzburg-Landau model for superfluid 4 HeWe propose an effective Ginzburg-Landau energy functional for superfluid helium that is motivated by the ideal Bose gas model. The parameters of this phenomenological model are adjusted to known…T. Fliessbach·Jul 20, 2001SaveLearn
Field Induced Partial Order in the Spin-Ice Dysprosium TitanateNeutron scattering has been used to investigate the magnetic correlations in the the spin ice material dysprosium titanate, Dy2Ti2O7. An isotopically enriched sample was used to minimise neutron…T. Fennell, O. A. Petrenko, G. Balakrishnan et al.·Jul 19, 2001SaveLearn
Field-domain spintronics in magnetic semiconductor multiple quantum wellsWe develop a theory of non-linear growth direction transport in magnetically doped II-VI compound semiconductor multiple-quantum-well systems. We find that the formation of electric field domains can…David Sanchez, A. H. MacDonald, Gloria Platero·Jul 19, 2001SaveLearn
Origin of heavy quasiparticles in UPt3We propose a microscopic description of heavy fermions in UPt3. It is based on the assumption that two of the three 5f electrons of the U ions are localized. Band-structure calculations based on…G. Zwicknagl, A. N. Yaresko, P. Fulde·Jul 18, 2001SaveLearn
Spectral Properties of the k-Body Embedded Gaussian Ensembles of Random Matrices for BosonsWe consider m spinless Bosons distributed over l degenerate single-particle states and interacting through a k-body random interaction with Gaussian probability distribution (the Bosonic…T. Asaga, L. Benet, T. Rupp et al.·Jul 17, 2001SaveLearn
Friction force on a vortex due to the scattering of superfluid excitations in helium IIThe longitudinal friction acting on a vortex line in superfluid 4He is investigated within a simple model based on the analogy between such vortex dynamics and that of the quantal Brownian motion…H. M. Cataldo, D. M. Jezek·Jul 17, 2001SaveLearn
Non-Ergodic Behaviour of the k-Body Embedded Gaussian Random Ensembles for BosonsWe investigate the shape of the spectrum and the spectral fluctuations of the k-body Embedded Gaussian Ensemble for Bosons in the dense limit, where the number of Bosons m ∞ while both…T. Asaga, L. Benet, T. Rupp et al.·Jul 17, 2001SaveLearn
Does Berry phase exist for a system coupled to its environment?Berry phase was originally defined for systems whose states are separated by finite energy gaps. One might naively expect that a system without a gap cannot have a Berry phase. Despite this we ask…Robert S. Whitney, Yuval Gefen·Jul 17, 2001SaveLearn
Confined states in two-dimensional flat elliptic quantum dots and elliptic quantum wiresThe energy spectrum and corresponding wave functions of a flat quantum dot with elliptic symmetry are obtained exactly. A detailed study is made of the effect of ellipticity on the energy levels and…M. van den Broek, F. M. Peeters·Jul 16, 2001SaveLearn
Interaction induced localization in a gas of pyramidal moleculesWe propose a model to describe a gas of pyramidal molecules interacting via dipole-dipole interactions. The interaction modifies the tunneling properties between the classical equilibrium…Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, Carlo Presilla, Cristina Toninelli·Jul 16, 2001SaveLearn
Environment induced localization and superselection rules in a gas of pyramidal moleculesWe propose a model to describe a gas of pyramidal molecules interacting via dipole-dipole interactions. A cooperative effect induced by the interaction modifies the tunneling properties between the…Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, Carlo Presilla, Cristina Toninelli·Jul 16, 2001SaveLearn
Application a-Si:H and Its Alloys for Photoreceptor DevicesPhotoreceptor devices have been fabricated for positive corona with multi-layer structure of glass/ZnO /i-a-SiC:H /i-a-Si:H /p-a-SiC:H /Al type by using dual chamber plasma enhanced chemical vapor…Darsikin, D. M. Jasruddin, H. Saragih et al.·Jul 16, 2001SaveLearn
Skyrmion Physics in Bose-Einstein FerromagnetsWe show that a ferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensate has not only line-like vortex excitations, but in general also allows for point-like topological excitations, i.e., skyrmions. We discuss the…U. Al Khawaja, H. T. C. Stoof·Jul 13, 2001SaveLearn
Transport and dynamics on open quantum graphsWe study the classical limit of quantum mechanics on graphs by introducing a Wigner function for graphs. The classical dynamics is compared to the quantum dynamics obtained from the propagator. In…Felipe Barra, Pierre Gaspard·Jul 13, 2001SaveLearn
Mean-field analysis of collapsing and exploding Bose-Einstein condensatesThe dynamics of collapsing and exploding trapped Bose-Einstein condensat es caused by a sudden switch of interactions from repulsive to attractive a re studied by numerically integrating the…Hiroki Saito, Masahito Ueda·Jul 12, 2001SaveLearn
The Hydrodynamical Limit of Quantum Hall systemWe study the current algebra of FQHE systems in the hydrodynamical limit of small amplitude, long-wavelength fluctuations. We show that the algebra simplifies considerably in this limit. The…D. Sreedhar Babu, R. Shankar, M. Sivakumar·Jul 12, 2001SaveLearn
Short-range correlation in the uniform electron gas: Extended Overhauser modelWe use the two-electron wavefunctions (geminals) and the simple screened Coulomb potential proposed by Overhauser [Can. J. Phys. 73, 683 (1995)] to compute the pair-distribution function for a…Paola Gori-Giorgi, John P. Perdew·Jul 12, 2001SaveLearn
The Onset of Mackey-Glass Leukemia at the Edge of ChaosIn this paper we revisit the Mackey-Glass model for blood-forming process, which was proposed to describe the spontaneous fluctuations of the blood cell counts in normal individuals and the first…M. F. Menezes, R. M. Zorzenon dos Santos·Jul 12, 2001SaveLearn
Augmented space recursion for partially disordered systemsOff-stoichiometric alloys exhibit partial disorder, in the sense that only some of the sublattices of the stoichiometric ordered alloy become disordered. This paper puts forward a generalization of…Atisdipankar Chakrabarti, Abhijit Mookerjee·Jul 12, 2001SaveLearn