Critical theory of overscreened Kondo fixed points

The low-temperature fixed point of the Kondo model, for k bands and a spin-s impurity, is well understood by Nozières' Fermi liquid theory for k 2s. However when k > 2s, a new type of non-trivial fixed point is known to occur. We study this fixed point using higher-level Kac-Moody conformal field theory and Cardy's approach to boundary critical phenomena. The specific heat and magnetization are shown to be determined by the leading irrelevant operator and the corresponding critical exponents are obtained exactly. The Wilson ratio is argued to be universal and its exact value is also calculated. The asymptotic finite-size spectrum is determined. Thermodynamic exponents agree precisely with the Bethe ansatz; for k = 2, S = 1/2, the Wilson ratio also agrees well with the approximate value obtained from the Bethe ansatz; the slope of the β-function agrees with the perturbative result in the large-k limit and the finite-size spectrum agrees excellently with approximate results obtained previously by Wilson's numerical renormalization group method in the case k = 2, S = 1/2.     

Joule–Thomson expansion of higher dimensional nonlinearly AdS black hole with power Maxwell invariant source

In this paper, the Joule–Thomson expansion of the higher dimensional nonlinearly anti-de Sitter(Ad S) black hole with power Maxwell invariant source is investigated. The results show the Joule–Thomson coefficient has a zero point and a divergent point, which coincide with the inversion temperature Tiand the zero point of the Hawking temperature, respectively. The inversion temperature increases monotonously with inversion pressure. For the high-pressure region, the inversion temperature decreases with the dimensionality D and the nonlinearity parameter s, whereas it increases with the charge Q. However, Tifor the low-pressure region increase with D and s, while it decreases with Q. The ratio ηBHbetween the minimum inversion temperature and the critical temperature does not depend on Q, it recovers the higher dimensional Reissner–N?rdstrom Ad S black hole case when s = 1. However, for s 1, it becomes smaller and smaller as D increases and approaches a constant when D →∞. Finally, we found that an increase of mass M and s, or reducing the charge Q and D can enhance the isenthalpic curve, and the effect of s on the isenthalpic curve is much greater than other parameters.     

Diffusion of W on A W(211) plane

The diffusion of W on a (211) plane of a W field emitter has been re-examined by means of the fluctuation autocorrelation method. Diffusion along channels yielded E = 16.8 ± 0.5 kcal, D₀ = (3 ± 1) × 10⁻⁵ cm² s⁻¹. For diffusion across channels E =6.6 kcal, D₀ = 4 × 10⁻⁹cm² s⁻¹ at T < 752 K, and E = 24 kcal, D₀ = 5 × 10⁻⁴ cm² s⁻¹ at T > 752 K. The results for diffusion along channels yield E and D₀ values intermediate between recent results by Wang and Ehrlich [Surf. Sci. 206 (1988) 451] using field ion microscopy (E = 19 kcal, D₀ = 7.7 × 10⁻³ cm² s⁻¹) and Tringides and Gomer [J. Chem. Phys. 84 (1986) 4049], using the same method as the present work but a larger slit (E = 13.3 kcal, D₀ = 7 × 10⁻⁷ cm² s⁻¹). The results for cross channel diffus good agreement with those of Tringides and Gomer below 752 K, where these authors stopped. The new high temperature results suggest that the channel wall exchange mechanism postulated by Tringides and Gomer for cross channel diffusion at low T gives way to diffusion by climbing over the channel walls with higher E but also higher D₀ above 752 K. Possible reasons for the discrepancies between these three sets of results and the absence of cross channel diffusion in the work of Wang and Ehrlich are briefly discussed.     

Existence and stability of propagating fronts for an autocatalytic reaction-diffusion system

We study a one-dimensional reaction-diffusion system which describes an isothermal autocatalytic chemical reaction involving both a quadratic (A + B → 2B) and a cubic (A + 2B → 3B) autocatalysis. The parameters of this system are in the ratio D = D_B/D_A of the diffusion constants of the reactant A and the autocatalyst B, and the relative activity k of the cubic reaction. First, for all values of D > 0 and k ≥ 0, we prove the existence of a family of propagating fronts (or travelling waves) describing the advance of the reaction. In particular, in the quadratic case k = 0, we recover the results of Billingham and Needham [Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London A 334 (1991) 1–24]. Then, if D is close to 1 and k is sufficiently small, we prove using energy functionals that these propagating fronts are stable against small perturbations in exponentially weighted Sobolev spaces. This extends part of the results that are known for the scalar equation to which our system reduces when D = 1.     

Simulations of migration, fragmentation and coalescence of non-wetting fluids in porous media

A model based on invasion percolation was used to simulate the migration on a non-wetting fluid through a porous medium filled with an immiscible wetting fluid under the influence of a gradient such as that provided by gravity. The migrating fluid clusters undergo both fragmentation and coalescence. The fragment size distribution obtained from two-dimensional simulations in which the gradient g is slowly increased from 0 can be represented by the scaling form N_s(g)s^-2ƒ(s|g|^-z where z=1+(D−1)ν(ν+1). Here D is the fractal dimensionality of invasion percolation, with trapping, and ν is the ordinary percolation correlation length exponent.     

Preferential sputtering and radiation enhanced segregation in palladium-platinum alloys

Five palladium-platinum alloys of different compositions ranging from 10 to 90 at% Pd were sputtered with 1 keV Ar⁺ ions. The surface concentrations were then determined with Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) and low energy ion scattering spectroscopy (ISS). The observed concentrations differed largely from bulk values. This difference is explained in terms of the difference in sputtering yields for platinum and palladium and the radiation enhanced segregation of palladium. The surface was then mechanically cleaned in situ. The surface concentrations measured subsequently corresponded excellently with the bulk values confirming the calibration procedure for the calculation of the surface concentrations. A recently developed model for surface segregation was used to fit the experimental data. Values for the surface segregation energy ΔG and the radiation enhanced diffusion coefficient D were obtained in the range 2000–8000 J/mol and (1.2–8.0)×10⁻²⁰ m²/s, respectively.     

准周期层状铁磁超晶格的实空间重整化群方法

本文用实空间重整化群方法讨论了准周期层状铁磁超晶格的磁自旋波,用Reduce语言推导了decimation变换公式,从而求得了局域格林函数、局域态密度和约化磁矩。发现局域态密度的带宽和约化磁矩与最近邻相互作用J₁、J₂及格点自旋s_a、s_b密切相关。     

Hartree-Fock energies of D and D doubly excited states of the lithium isoelectronic sequence

Hartree-Fock energies of 1s2snd ⁴D, 1s2pnp ⁴D and 1s2pnd ⁴D⁰, n=3–5 of lithium isoelectronic sequence from Li to Ne⁺⁷ are reported. These results in conjunction with the energy of the lowest ⁴P and ⁴P⁰ states of the lithium isoelectronic sequence as calculated by Holoien and Geltman, are used to check some proposed assignments of lines obtained in beamfoil spectroscopy of Be(II), C(IV) and N(V).     

纳观接触角的确定方法

对纳观接触角的确定曾有过许多研究工作, 本文对各种理论进行分析评论, 指出其各自的优缺点甚至错误, 认为最为简单实用的理论是朱如曾于1995年在《大学物理》((Vol. 14(2))) 的文章中对前人的宏观接触角的错误理论采用澄清接触角概念的方法所得到的纳观接触角的近似理论及近似公式α = (1-2E_PS/E_PL)π (其中E_PL和E_PS分别表示液体内部一个液体分子的势能和固体表面一个液态分子与固体的相互作用势能, 并可用分子动力学(MD) 模拟得到), 此理论属于纳观接触角的分子动力学理论的近似简化形式, 值得进一步发展. 为此, 本文根据物理分析假设Gibbs张力表面上位于非三相接触区的一个液体分子的势能为E_PL/2x, 三相接触线上一个液体分子与其余液体的相互作用势能为(1+kE_PS/E_PL)α E_PL/2xπ, 其中x和k 为优化参数. 根据Gibbs分界面上处处势能相等条件, 得到改进的纳观接触角的近似公式α = π({1-2xE_PS/E_PL)/(1+kE_PS/E_PL)．对固体表面的氩纳米液柱, 在温度90K下对液体分子之间采用林纳德－琼斯(L-J) 势, 液体分子与固体原子间采用带有可变强度参数a的 L-J 势, 对0.650< a <0.825 范围内的8种a值进行了MD模拟．得到了相应的Gibbs 张力面．将其纳观底角视为近似纳观接触角, 结合物理条件(当E_PS/E_PL=0时, α = π)用最小二乘法得到优化参数值x=0.7141, k=1.6051和相关系数0.9997. 这一充分接近于1的相关系数表明, 对于不同相互作用强度的纳米液固接触系统, 优化参数x和k确实可近似视为常数, 由此确认我们提出的利用MD模拟来确定纳观接触角近似公式中优化参数的可行性和该近似公式的一般适用性.     

Binding energy of an exciton bound to ionized donors in quantum dots

Binding energies for an exciton (X) trapped in the two-dimensional quantum dot by a positive ion located on the z axis at a distance d from the dot plane are calculated by using the method of few-body physics. This configuration is called a barrier (D⁺,X) center. The dependence of the binding energy of the ground state of the barrier (D⁺,X) center on the dot radius for a few values of the distance d between the fixed positive ion on the z axis and the dot plane is obtained. We find that when d<0.2nm the barrier (D⁺,X) center does not form a bound state.     

An optimized fitting function with least square approximation in InAs/AlSb HFET small-signal model for characterizing the frequency dependency of impact ionization effect

An enhanced small-signal model is introduced to model the influence of the impact ionization effect on the performance of In As/Al Sb HFET, in which an optimized fitting function D(ωτ_i) in the form of least square approximation is proposed in order to further enhance the accuracy in modeling the frequency dependency of the impact ionization effect.The enhanced model with D(ωτ_i) can accurately characterize the key S parameters of In As/Al Sb HFET in a wide frequency range with a very low error function EF. It is demonstrated that the new fitting function D(ωτ_i) is helpful in further improving the modeling accuracy degree.     

Determination of the range of alpha particles in SSNTD by optical density method

A technique based on the optical density (D) measurement of the etched track is useful for charged particles spectroscopy using SSNTD. It was shown that the stopping power of alpha particles in CR-39 is proportional to D. We measured the optical density and derived an expression to estimate the range of alpha particles in CR-39 detector as a function of the bulk etching rate and etching time. The relation between the etching time, track parameters (depth, radius) and D for different alpha particles energy and etching conditions were studied. A relation describing D as a function of track size is proposed.     

倾斜粗糙壁面上含不溶性活性剂溶液的动力学特性

针对倾斜随机粗糙壁面上含不溶性活性剂溶液的流动过程, 采用润滑理论建立了液膜厚度和浓度的时空演化模型, 通过PDECOL程序数值求解得到了液膜流/液滴铺展的动力学特性及壁面结构参数的影响. 研究表明: 在重力分量和Marangoni效应共同作用下, 液膜流/液滴铺展速度加快, 液膜边缘和液滴中心出现毛细隆起, 液膜/液滴底部出现凹陷, 同时受粗糙壁面影响, 液膜表面变形更显著. 增加壁面倾角θ具有使重力分量和Marangoni效应增强, 导致隆起和凹陷程度均有所增加的作用. 增大壁面高度D可使液膜流/液滴铺展速度加快, 表面变形放大. 而壁面波数k₀则使液膜流/液滴铺展过程减缓, 抑制隆起和凹陷产生. 与液膜流相比, D和k₀对液滴铺展速度的影响相对较小. 关键词： 随机粗糙壁面 液膜 Marangoni效应 倾斜流动     

Oxygen diffusion and surface exchange in La1−xSrxFe0.8Cr0.2O3−δ (x=0.2, 0.4 and 0.6)

Oxygen tracer diffusion (D*) and surface exchange rate constant (k*) have been measured, using isotopic exchange and depth profiling by secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS), in La_1−xSr_xFe_0.8Cr_0.2O_3−δ (x=0.2, 0.4 and 0.6). Measurements were made as a function of temperature (700–1000 °C) and oxygen partial pressure (0.21–10⁻²¹ atm) in dry oxygen, water vapour and water vapour/hydrogen/nitrogen mixtures. At high oxygen activity, D* was found to increase with increasing temperature and Sr content. The activation energies for D* in air are 2.13 eV (x=0.2), 1.53 eV (x=0.4) and 1.21 eV (x=0.6). As the oxygen activity decreases, D* increases as expected qualitatively from the increase in oxygen vacancy concentration. Under strongly reducing conditions, the measured values of D* at 1000 °C range from 10⁻⁸ cm² s⁻¹ for x=0.2 to 10⁻⁷ cm² s⁻¹ for x=0.4 and 0.6. The activation energies determined at constant H₂O/H₂ ratio are 1.21 eV (x=0.2), 1.59 eV (x=0.4) and 0.82 eV (x=0.6).

The surface exchange rate constant of oxygen for the H₂O molecule is similar in magnitude to that for the O₂ molecule and both increase with increasing Sr concentration.     

Crumpling transition of self-avoiding tethered membranes caused by screening

A system of D-dimensional self-avoiding tethered membranes embedded in a d-dimensional space is considered for the seni-dilute case. The effect of the screening is taken into account, and the crumpled phase diagram in the (d, D) plane is obtained. For D = 2, membranes are in the swollen crumpled phase. The possobility of a crumpling transition caused by the screening is discussed. The density dependences for some quantities such as the screening length and radius of gyration are obtained from a scaling argument.     

1-forms over the moduli space of irreducible connections defined by the spectrum of Dirac operators

Let (P) be the moduli space of irreducible connections of a G-principal bundle P over a closed Riemannian spin manifold M. Let D_A be the Dirac operator of M coupled to a connection A of P and f a smooth function on M. We consider a smooth variation A(u) of A with tangent vector ω and denote T_ω:= (D_A(u)−f) (u=0. The coefficients of the asymptotic expansion of trace (T_ω · e^-t(D_A−f)2) near t=0 define 1-forms a^(k)_f, K=0, 1, 2, … on (P). In this paper we calculate aa⁽⁰⁾_f, a⁽¹⁾_f, a⁽²⁾_f and study some of their properties. For instance using the 1-form a⁽²⁾_f for suitable functions f we obtain a foliation of codimension 5 of the space of G-instantons of S⁴.     

Electron spectroscopy observation of the 1s2s2p(S) state in atomic fluorine by means of electron impact excitation of the hf molecule

The energy of the 1s2s²2p⁶²S) core excited state in atomic fluorine is determined by studying a satellite in the electron beam excited KVV Auger electron spectrum of HF. The satellite is assigned to an atomic autoionization transition 1s2(²2p⁶(²S) → 1ss²2p⁴ (¹D). The energy of the 1s2s²2P⁶(²s) initial state has been determined to be 676.5 eV. Transitions to the 1s²2s²2p⁴³p(³P)and 1s²2s²2P⁴(¹S) states are also observed. The intensity for these transitions is very low.     

X-ray and electron-energy-loss spectra of Bi, Sb, Te and Bi2Te3, Sb2Te3 chalcogenides

The valence region of Bi and Sb semimetals, of Te, and of their chalcogenides (Bi₂Te₃ and Sb₂Te₃) are explored by means of X-ray photoelectron Spectroscopy to find in their p, s and d-like orbital distributions a useful reference for interpreting the interband transitions present in the measured electron-energy-loss spectra. Their common reticular distortion (rhombohedral D₃) and their similar electronic structure justify a discussion of these compounds as a series. Our experimental data are discussed in terms of the calculated band structures.     

Resummations with renormalon effects for the hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the muon (g−2)

The hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the muon (g−2) value is calculated by considering a known dispersion integral which involves the R_e⁺e⁻(s) ratio. The theoretical part stemming from the region below 1.8 GeV is the largest contribution in our approach, and is calculated by using a contour integral involving the associated Adler function D(Q²). In the resummations, we explicitly take into account the exactly known renormalon singularity of the leading infrared renormalon in the usual and in the modified Borel transform of D(Q²), and map further away from the origin the other renormalon singularities by employing judiciously chosen conformal transformations. The renormalon effect increases the predicted value of the hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the muon (g−2), and therefore diminishes the difference between the recently measured and the SM/QCD-predicted value of (g−2). It is also shown that the total QED correction to the hadronic vacuum polarization is very small, about 0.06%.     

Some properties of the spectral flow in semiriemannian geometry

Let be the action integral on a semiriemannian manifold ( , g) defined on the space of the curves z : [0, 1] → joining two given points z₀ and z₁. The critical points of ƒ are the geodesics joining z₀ and z₁. Let s ε [0, 1]. We study the behavior, in dependence of s, of the eigenvalues of the Hessian form of ƒ evaluated at z, restricted to the interval [0, s]. A formula for the derivative of the eigenvalues is given and some applications are shown.