A matrix method for estimating the Liapunov exponent of one-dimensional systems

Let : [0, 1][0, 1] be a piecewise monotonie expanding map. Then admits an absolutely continuous invariant measure. A result of Kosyakin and Sandler shows that can be approximated by a sequence of absolutely continuous measures _n invariant under piecewise linear Markov maps _itn. Each _itn is constructed on the inverse images of the turning points of . The easily computable measures _n are used to estimate the Liapunov exponent of . The idea of using Markov maps for estimating the Liapunov exponent is applied to both expanding and nonexpanding maps.     

Positivity of entropy production in the presence of a random thermostat

We study nonequilibrium statistical mechanics in the presence of a thermostat acting by random forces, and propose a formula for the rate of entropy productione() in a state . When is a natural nonequilibrium steady state we show thate()0, and sometimes we can provee()>0.     

The strength of Einstein's equations

The strength of Einstein's empty-space field equations is computed anew and shown to be equal to the amount of initial data required for a local solution of the equations. This same amount of initial data is shown to be precisely that required for a set of 16 unknown first-order differential equations containing 10 field variables and having six identities of second order. The 10 field variables must be functions of second order in the metric coefficients. The 16 field equationsC , = 0 whereC is Weyl's conformal tensor, are shown to have the same properties as those of the unknown equations, suggesting thatC = 0 is a satisfactory local first-order formulation of Einstein's second-order empty-space field equations.     

Collisionless kinetic equations for massive particles with spins 1/2 and 0 in gravitational and electromagnetic fields

We define a covariant and gauge-invariant generalization of the Wigner functions of particles with spins 1/2 and 0. The collisionless kinetic equations are obtained for these particles in external gravitational and electromagnetic fields in the quasiclassical approximation; also obtained are the momentum representations of the energy-momentum tensor, current, and spin tensor, taking into account the effects of the spin's interaction with the gravitational field an electromagnetic field. The following notation is used: e and m are the charge and mass of the particles; is Planck's constant; (x) are the covariant-fixed Dirac matrices; ^,=(1/4)[, ]: a(^b)=(1/2) (a b +ab ); [A, B]=A·B – B·A; A,B=A·B+B·A; g(x)=det(g (x));R = –...; the speed of light c=1.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 9, pp. 47–53, September, 1990.The author wishes the thank Yu. G. Ignat'ev and members of the seminar in General Relativistic Statistics and Cosmology of the Kazan' Pedagogical Institute for useful discussions.     

Strong far-infrared laser action in carbonyl fluoride and vinyl fluoride

Intense far-infrared laser action is reported for carbonyl fluoride and vinyl fluoride. Eleven new lines with wavelengths between 339 m538 m were obtained by optically pumping carbonyl fluoride with numerous lines of the 10.4 m band of a cw CO₂ laser. Twenty-three lines with wavelengths in the range 172 m783 m were detected when pumping the recently discovered efficient FIR laser molecule vinyl fluoride. In addition, three very weak new lines were found using 1.1-difluoroethylen.     

New interpretation of experiments on the intermediate meson

A new theory of weak interactions is proposed in which the coupling between theV-A currents j(X) and j(X) is achieved not by vector mesons [by a propagator D ^c (X-X)], but by a scalar functionR(X – X), a fermion-antifermion loop which plays the role of a unique film joining two different pointsX andX of completely uncoupled space-times (as a result of which the space becomes a continuum). The existence of the actual currents j results from correlations between the two different spinor layers of Dirac layer formation.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 2, pp. 25–40, February, 1996.     

A complete proof of the Feigenbaum conjectures

The Feigenbaum phenomenon is studied by analyzing an extended renormalization group map . This map acts on functions that are jointly analytic in a position variable (t) and in the parameter () that controls the period doubling phenomenon. A fixed point ^* for this map is found. The usual renormalization group doubling operatorN acts on this function ^* simply by multiplication of with the universal Feigenbaum ratio ^*= 4.669201..., i.e., (N ^*(,t)= ^*( ^* ,t). Therefore, the one-parameter family of functions, ^* , ^* (t)=( ^*(,t), is invariant underN. In particular, the function ₀ ^* is the Feigenbaum fixed point ofN, while ^* represents the unstable manifold ofN. It is proven that this unstable manifold crosses the manifold of functions with superstable period two transversally.     

Ar ion laser assisted chemical etching of via holes in tungsten sheets in air

Ar ion laser assisted chemical etching of 150 m thick annealed tungsten sheets in air is reported. The material removal mechanism involves local heating by the laser to temperatures in the range of 1000–1500 °C that causes rapid oxidation of the W to WO₃ which volatilizes readily. Holes with straight walls and slightly enlarged entrances near the surface were drilled with etch rates as high as 11.5 m/s at 13.8 W, and a minimum hole diameter of 21 m at 8.1 W. The diameters of the holes and the etch rates were measured and found to increase as a function of the laser power. It was found that by increasing the laser power above 11–12 W, no change was observed in the hole diameters which remained constant at about 31 m, whereas the etch rates continued to increase even faster than at low powers. Distinct adjacent holes of 25 m diameter could be drilled with their centers separated by as little as 60 m. This is therefore also the etching resolution in the present study.     

The van der Waals limit for classical systems. I. A variational principle

We consider the thermodynamic pressurep(, ) of a classical system of particles with the two-body interaction potentialq(r)+ ^v K(r), where is the number of space dimensions, is a positive parameter, and is the chemical potential. The temperature is not shown in the notation. We prove rigorously, for hard-core potentialsq(r) and for a very general class of functionsK(s), that the limit 0 of the pressurep(, ) exists and is given by where the limit and the supremum can be interchanged. Here is a certain class of nonnegative, Riemann integrable functions,D is a cube of volume |D|, anda ⁰() is the free energy density of a system withK=0 and density . A similar result is proved for the free energy.     

Muon Knight shift in platinum and in β-PdHx (x=0.70, 0.75)

The ⁺ Knight shift in platinum has been measured between 20 K and 785 K. It shows a strong temperature dependence and scales with the magnetic bulk susceptibility. A temperature independent contribution of +40 to +60 ppm and a d-electron induced hyperfine field per unpaired d-electron per atom ofB _hf,d =–5.03 kG (±8.5%) are obtained. The ⁺ Knight shift in PdH_0.70 and PdH_0.75 shows no dependence on temperature between 20 K andRT and increases fromK ppm forx=0.70 toK ppm forx=0.75, in good agreement with proton Knight shift measurements.     

More inequalities for critical exponents

A variety of rigorous inequalities for critical exponents is proved. Most notable is the low-temperature Josephson inequalitydv +2 2–. Others are 1 1 +v, 1 1 , 1,d 1 + 1/ (for d),dv, ₃ + (for d), ₄ , and _{2m 2m+2} (form 2). The hypotheses vary; all inequalities are true for the spin-1/2 Ising model with nearest-neighbor ferromagnetic pair interactions.NSF Predoctoral Fellow (1976–1979). Research supported in part by NSF Grant PHY 78-23952.     

Phonon assisted quantum diffusion in a periodic potential

We study the diffusion of a quantum heavy particle moving in a one dimensional strongly corrugated periodic potential, and interacting with a phonon bath.By integrating out the phonons degrees of freedom we derive an effective action functional for the particle, which includes a non-local self-interacting term whose strength is proved to be the classical friction coefficient .Using an instanton approach we express the velocity-velocity correlation function, and thus the mobility, of the brownian particle in terms of the charge density-density correlation function of a classical Coulomb gas, which in the strong corrugation limit has a very low fugacity.By making a virial expansion in the gas fugacity we evaluate the static mobility of the brownian particle as a function of the temperature, and we find two different behaviours: a diffusive behaviour at low friction, where decreases withT, and a localised behaviour at high friction, where increases withT.The cross-over between the two régimes takes place at a critical friction ₀, corresponding to the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition for the Coulomb gas.     

On Poisson brackets and symplectic structures for the classical and quantum zitterbewegung

The symplectic structures (brackets, Hamilton's equations, and Lagrange's equations) for the Dirac electron and its classical model have exactly the same form. We give explicitly the Poisson brackets in the dynamical variables (x ,p ,v ,S ^v). The only difference is in the normalization of the Dirac velocities =4 which has significant consequences.Dedicated to David Hestenes, whose work profoundly connects geometry (spacetime), algebra (Clifford), and physics (electron).     

Measurement of the refractive index and optical absorption spectra of epitaxial bismuth substituted yttrium iron garnet films at uv to near-ir wavelengths

Refractive-index and optical-absorption spectra of Bi-substituted yttrium iron garnet films, epitaxially grown by liquid-phase epitaxy, have been measured in the spectral regime 0.26 m1.9 m by thin-film interference for 0.52 m and by ellipsometry for0.52 m. The Y_3–x–y Bi _x Pb _y Fe_5–z Pt _z O₁₂ films contain bismuth in the range Ox 1.42, lead in the range 0.01 y0.08 and platinum in the range 0.005<=z0.03. There is satisfactory coincidence between the results from ellipsometry and thin-film interference in the overlapping wavelength region. The materials investigated are the same as reported earlier from this laboratory in ter mof their magnetic and magnetooptic properties.     

Structure of σ model in [1, 1] representation of SU(2) ⊗ SU(2) group

The spontaneous breakdown of symmetry of the-model in the [1, 1] representation of SU(2) SU(2) group is investigated. It is shown that the spontaneous breakdown is realized in all cases of squared mass ² in mass term in the Lagrangian ( ²>0, ²=0, ²<0), unlike the-model in [1/2, 1/2] representation, in which the spontaneous breakdown only for the case ²<0 manifests itself. Further, different but equivalent methods of obtaining the nonlinear realization for pions in the frame of an extended in such a way-model are demonstrated. Finally, it is sketched, that the obtained results can be generalized to all [N/2,N/2] representations of SU(2) SU(2) chiral group.Presented at the Symposium on Hadron-Hadron Scattering at High Energies, Liblice, Czechoslovakia, June 16–21, 1975.On leave of absence from theDept. of Theoretical Physics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.     

Recent developments in photonic devices for telecommunication applications in Taiwan

We report recent activities and achievements on the development of photonic devices for telecommunication applications. Opto-electronic devices such as high performance 1.55 m complex-coupled InGaAsP-InP distributed feedback (DFB) and 1.3 m uncooled AllnGaAs-InP lasers, the InGaAs-InP p-i-n photodetector on semi-insulating substrate, the 0.98 m InGaAs-GaAs-InGaP pumping laser, and 12-channel laser and detector arrays, are presented. Work on the development of in-house vertical integration for the fabrication of a 1.55 m single frequency transmitter, a 1.3 m multimode transmitter and receiver, and an Er-doped fibre amplifier, and their applications in system trials in the Taiwan National Information Infrastructure network, is described.     

Surviving extrema for the action on the twisted SU(∞) one point lattice

We give a simplified construction of twist eating configurations, based on a theorem due to Frobenius. These configurations are defined through the equation:U U U ⁺ U ⁺ =exp(2in /N) withU SU(N), =1 tod andn an antisymmetric matrix with integer entries. In the (Twisted)-Eguchi-Kawai model they yield extrema some of which survive forN. Comparison is made with the Monte Carlo data of the internal energy in the small coupling region.     

On the equivalence of the relativistic theories of gravitation

Einstein's equations are rewritten in terms of a certain torsionless linear connection which differs, in general, from the Levi-Civita metric connection . The torsionless connection appears in a natural way as the canonical momentum of the gravitational field g . Einstein's equations have a simple interpretation in terms of the connection . The equivalence of the so-calledpurely metric, purely affine, andmetricaffine theories of gravitation is proved.This work has been written under the financial support of Gruppo Nazionale per la Fisica Matematica of the Italian National Research Council.     

Trilinear generally covariant equations

Field equations for n-frames h ^a that are possible in the theory of absolute parallelism are considered. It is shown that in three cases the equations can, after the substitution h ^a =H^pH ^a (H=det H ^a , p is an n-dependent constant), be written in a trilinear form that contains only the matrix H _a and its derivatives and not H ^a . It is shown that the equations are still regular for degenerate but finite matrices H _a if rank H _a 2.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 2, pp. 22–27, February, 1991.     

Algebraisch spezielle Einstein-Räume mit einer Bewegungsgruppe

In algebraically special Einstein spaces (R_v=0) with a hypersurfaceorthogonal spacelike Killing vector field _v, the trajectories of the multiple eigen null directions k lie — except one case — in the subspacesV ₃ orthogonal to _v (k=0) and are hypersurface-orthogonal. The solutions with vanishing expansion (k_,;=0, Kundt's class) can be determined explicitly.