Some critical exponent inequalities for percolation

For a large class of independent (site or bond, short- or long-range) percolation models, we show the following: (1) If the percolation densityP (p) is discontinuous atp _c , then the critical exponent (defined by the divergence of expected cluster size, nP _n (p) (P _c –P)^– asp p _c ) must satisfy 2. (2) or (defined analogously to, but asp p _c ) and [P _n (p _c ) (n ^–1–1/) asn ] must satisfy, 2(1 – 1/). These inequalities for improve the previously known bound 1(Aizenman and Newman), since 2 (Aizenman and Barsky). Additionally, result 1may be useful, in standardd-dimensional percolation, for proving rigorously (ind>2) that, as expected,P _x has no discontinuity atp _c .     

Change in primary extinction during decomposition of supersaturated solid solution II. Al-Cu 4% alloy-formation of G.P. zones

The change in integrated intensity of the (200) reflections of a solid solution during the formation of G.P. zones was measured and compared with the change in the character of the diffuse streaks corresponding to them. It was found that the. formation of G.P. zones does not lead to a decrease in primary extinction despite the great changes in the distribution of the copper atoms. It was shown that the formation of a precipitate accompanied by the formation of crystallographically incoherent boundaries greatly decreases the primary extinction.

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Current distributions in a two-dimensional random-resistor network

The current and logarithm-of-the-current distributionsn(i) andn(ln i) on bond diluted two-dimensional random-resistor networks at the percolation threshold are studied by a modified transfer matrix method. Thek th moment (–9k8) of n(ln i) i.e., ln i&^k, is found to scale with the linear sizeL as (InL)^(k). The exponents (k) are not inconsistent with the recent theoretical prediction (k)=k, with deviations which may be attributed to severe finitesize effects. For small currents, ln n(y)–, yielding information on the threshold below which the multifractality of (i) breaks down. Our numerical results for the moments of the currents are consistent with other available results.     

The influence of oscillations on ionization in a discharge path

The paper solves the problem of gas ionization in a discharge path in a very dilute gas, where the free path of the electrons is much larger than the dimensions of the path and the transit time of the electrons between the electrodes is of the order of the period of the applied h-f voltage. It was found that for a certain ratio of the transit time of the electrons between the electrodes in the discharge path to the period of the h-f oscillation, resonance occurs when the wattless current component is zero. The electron density rises in the path and thus also the gas ionization.

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In conclusion, the author would like to thank F. Benda for preparing the equipment, M. Kivánek for preparing the equipment and some of the measurements, and A. Hrdá for the measurements and for working out the case with equally large a-c and d-c voltages within the framework of her thesis.     

Strict inequalities for some critical exponents in two-dimensional percolation

For 2D percolation we slightly improve a result of Chayes and Chayes to the effect that the critical exponent for the percolation probability isstrictly less than 1. The same argument is applied to prove that ifL():={(x, y):x=r cos, y=r sin for some r0, or} and():=limpp _c [log(p–p _c )]^–1 log P_cr {itO is connected to by an occupied path inL()}, then() is strictly decreasing in on [0, 2]. Similarly, lim_n [–logn]^–1 logP _cr {itO is connected by an occupied path inL()() to the exterior of [–n, n]×[–n, n] is strictly decreasing in on [0, 2].     

Optical constants of thin germanium films

The paper gives the values of the optical constants of thin films of germanium obtained by evaporating germanium in a vacuum onto glass slides in the region of 0·35–0·78 for an index of absorptionk and 0·35–2·5 for refractive indexn. The results are compared with the values obtained by other authors and with the values ofn andk for single crystals. It is shown that these values for thin films and single crystals slightly differ quantitatively but agree fairly well qualitatively, which had not been sufficiently the case in previous papers.

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True self-avoiding walk on critical percolation clusters and lattice animal

The statistics of true-self-avoiding walk model on two dimensional critical percolation clusters and lattice animals are studied using real-space renormalization group method. The correlation length exponents 's are found to be _TSAW ^pc 0.576 and _TSAW ^LA 0.623 respectively for the critical percolation clusters and lattice animals.     

Tree graph inequalities and critical behavior in percolation models

Various inequalities are derived and used for the study of the critical behavior in independent percolation models. In particular, we consider the critical exponent associated with the expected cluster sizex and the structure of then-site connection probabilities =_n(x₁,..., x_n). It is shown that quite generally 1. The upper critical dimension, above which attains the Bethe lattice value 1, is characterized both in terms of the geometry of incipient clusters and a diagramatic convergence condition. For homogeneousd-dimensional lattices with (x, y)=O(¦x -y¦^–(d–2+), atp=p _c, our criterion shows that =1 if > (6-d)/3. The connectivity functions _n are generally bounded by tree diagrams which involve the two-point function. We conjecture that above the critical dimension the asymptotic behavior of _n, in the critical regime, is actually given by such tree diagrams modified by a nonsingular vertex factor. Other results deal with the exponential decay of the cluster-size distribution and the function ₂ (x, y). A. P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow. Research supported in part by the National Science Foundation Grant No. PHY-8301493.Research supported in part by the National Science Foundation Grant No. MCS80-19384.     

The modular group and super-KMS functionals

Every normal, faithful, self-adjoint functional on a von Neumann algebraA canonically determines a one-parameter-weakly continuous *-automorphism group (the analog of the modular group) and a canonical ₂ grading onA, commuting with . We show that the functional satisfies the weak super-KMS property with respect to and Furthermore, we prove that and are the unique pair of a-weakly continuous one-parameter *-automorphism group and a grading of the algebra, commuting with each other, with respect to which is weakly super-KMS. The above results thus provide a complete extension of the theory of Tomita and Takesaki to the nonpositive case.Supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant DMS-8922002.     

Cluster Structure of Collapsing Polymers

In order to better understand the geometry of the polymer collapse transition, we study the distribution of geometric clusters made up of the nearest neighbor interactions of an interacting self-avoiding walk. We argue for this new correlated percolation problem that in two dimensions, and possibly also in three dimensions, a percolation transition takes place at a temperature lower than the collapse transition. Hence this novel transition should be governed by exponents unrelated to the -point exponents. This also implies that there is a temperature range in which the polymer has collapsed, but has no long-range cluster structure. We use Monte Carlo to study the distribution of clusters on the simple cubic and Manhattan lattices. On the Manhattan lattice, where the data are most convincing, we find that the percolation transition occurs at _p =1.461(3), while the collapse transition is known to occur exactly at =1.414.... We propose a finite-size scaling form for the cluster distribution and estimate several of the critical exponents. Regardless of the value of _p , this percolation problem sheds new light on polymer collapse.     

Speculations on the cluster radius below the percolation threshold

We suggest the average radius of percolation clusters withs sites to vary belowp _c ass ⁰, where ₀ is the exponent for the mean radius of self-avoiding walks. This result gives the desired asymptotic behavior of the correlation function for percolation (connectivity) and is consistent with Leath's Monte Carlo data.     

Random walks on bond percolation clusters: ac hopping conductivity below the threshold

The frequency dependence of the ac hopping conductivity in two and three dimensional lattices with random interruptions is calculated by Monte Carlo simulation of random walks on bond percolation clusters. At low frequencies the real and imaginary parts of the ac conductivity vanish linearly and quadratically with the frequency, respectively. The critical behaviour of the imaginary part of the ac conductivity below the percolation threshold is shown to depend on the long time limit of the mean square displacement of random walksR ² , while the real part depends on the time constant of the system as well.R ² is found to diverge with an exponentu=2- according to the conjecture of Stauffer.     

Axiomatic foundations of quantum physics: Critiques and misunderstandings. Piron's question-proposition system

Some of the most frequent misconceptions about axiomatic quantum physics are discussed with the aim of clarifying their true significance, taking Piron's approach as conceptual framework. In particular, we deal with the following topics: the wrong identification of Piron's questions and Mackey's questions, and some curious alleged empirical consequences; the role of propositions as suitable equivalence classes of questions, their partial order structure, and the paradoxical consequences of the erroneous assignment to questions of some lattice properties involving propositions; the logical and the empirical purport of some negative theorems; the standard Hilbert space model of the theory and the consequent metaphysical disasters related to some identifications, which are peculiar of this model. A controversy between Foulis-Piron-Randall and Hadjisavvas-Thieffine-Mugur-Schächter is analyzed on the basis of the proposed Hilbert space model (in which Piron's questions are realized by Hilbertian effects, i.e., linear bounded operatorsF such that which clarify the different point of views. As an example, we treat the unsharp localization operators inL ₂().     

Corrections to cluster-radius scaling for branched polymers and percolation

We report analyses of series enumerations for the mean radius of gyration for isotropic and directed lattice animals and for percolation clusters, in two and three dimensions. We allow for the leading correction to the scaling behaviour and obtain estimates of the leading correction-to-scaling exponent . We find -0.640±0.004 and =0.87±0.07 for isotropic animals in 2d, and =0.64±0.06 in 3d. For directed lattice animals we argue that the leading correction has= or= ; we also estimate =0.82±0.01 and 0.69 ±0.01 ind=2, 3 respectively. For percolation clusters at and abovep _c, we find (p _c) =0.58±0.06 and (p>p _c)=0.84±0.09 in 2d, and (p _c)=0.42±0.11 and (p>p _c)=0.41 ±0.09 in 3d.     

Asymptotics of decay of correlations for lattice spin fields at high temperatures. I. The Ising model

We find the asymptotic decrease of correlations < _{A +y} , _B >,yZ ^v +1, |y|, in the Ising model at high temperatures. For the case when monomials _A and _B both are odd, using the saddle-point method, we find the asymptotics of the correlations for any dimension . For even monomials _A , _B we formulate a general hypothesis about the form of the asymptotics and confirm it in two cases: (1) =1 and the vectory has an arbitrary direction, (2)y is directed along a fixed axis and arbitrary . Here we use besides the saddle-point method, some arguments from scattering theory.     

Über den Einfluss von Stickstopf auf die Exoelektronenemission von Germanium

Zusammenfassung Es wurde der Einfluß eines Bombardements mit Stickstoffionen vor der Erregung untersucht und gezeigt, daß die Stiekstoffatome eine große Rolle bei der Entstehung des Emissionsmaximums bei 150° spielen.

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Absence of phase transition for antiferromagnetic Potts models via the Dobrushin uniqueness theorem

We prove that theq-state Potts antiferromagnet on a lattice of maximum coordination numberr exhibits exponential decay of correlations uniformly at all temperatures (including zero temperature) wheneverq>2r. We also prove slightly better bounds for several two-dimensional lattices: square lattice (exponential decay forq7), triangular lattice (q11), hexagonal lattice (q4), and Kagomé lattice (q6). The proofs are based on the Dobrushin uniqueness theorem.     

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Temperature dependence of the young's modulus of the Al-Zn alloys and its influence upon the metastable coherent phase diagram

The paper describes the measurements of the temperature dependence of Young's modulus for several Al-Zn alloys. The moduli were measured by the method of a composite oscillator at resonance frequencies of about 100 kHz. When decreasing the temperature from the state of homogeneous solid solution, the undercooling phenomena cause a hysteresis effect. Young's modulus decreases approximately linearly with increasing atomic fraction of zinc at 390C. The determined temperature and concentration dependence was used for thermodynamic calculation of the form of metastable coherent solubility gaps by which the separation of the solid solution into coherent zones can be described.

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B. K. Kardaev, S. P. Nikanorov,A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Acad. Sci. U.S.S.R., Politechnieskaja 26, Leningrad K- 21, U.S.S.R.

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J. Laek,Institute of Solid State Physics, Czechosl. Acad. Sci., Cukrovarnická 10, Praha 6, Czechoslovakia.     

Classical and quantum-mechanical systems of Toda lattice type. I

The structure of the commutant of Laplace operators in the enveloping and Poisson algebra of certain generalized ax +b groups leads (in this article) to a determination of classical and quantum mechanical first integrals to generalized periodic and non-periodic Toda lattices. Certain new Hamiltonian systems of Toda lattice type are also shown to fit in this framework. Finite dimensional Lax forms for the (periodic) Toda lattices are given generalizing results of Flaschke.Research partially supported by NSF grant MCS 79-03223Research partially supported by NSF grant MCS 79-03153     

Self-affine fractal clusters: Conceptual questions and numerical results for directed percolation

In this paper we address the question of the existence of a well defined, non-trivial fractal dimensionD of self-affine clusters. In spite of the obvious relevance of such clusters to a wide range of phenomena, this problem is still open since thedifferent published predictions forD have not been tested yet. An interesting aspect of the problem is that a nontrivial global dimension for clusters is in contrast with the trivial global dimension of self-affine functions. As a much studied example of self-affine structures, we investigate the infinite directed percolation cluster at the threshold. We measuredD ind=2 dimensions by the box counting method. Using a correction to scaling analysis, we obtainedD=1.765(10). This result does not agree with any of the proposed relations, but it favorsD=1+(1- )/ , where and are the correlation length exponents and is a Fisher exponent in the cluster scaling.