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astro-ph1997★ 8 cited

On the runaway instability of relativistic tori

M. A. Abramowicz, V. Karas, A. Lanza

We further investigate the runaway instability of relativistic tori around black holes assuming a power law distribution of the specific angular momentum. We neglect the self-gravi…

cond-mat1997

Quantum Decoherence and Weak Localization at Low Temperatures

Dmitrii S. Golubev, Andrei D. Zaikin

We develope a theory of a fundamental effect of the interaction-induced decoherence of the electron wave function in a disordered metal. With the aid of the Keldysh technique and t…

cond-mat.mes-hall1997

Ensemble Density Functional Approach to Charge-Spin Textures in Inhomogeneous Quantum Hall Systems

O. Heinonen, J. M. Kinaret, M. D. Johnson

We extend our ensemble density functional approach to quantum Hall systems to include non-collinear spins to study charge-spin textures in inhomogeneous quantum Hall systems. We ha…

hep-th1997★ 77 cited

An action for the super-5-brane in D=11 supergravity

Martin Cederwall, Bengt E. W. Nilsson, Per Sundell

An alternative path is taken for deriving an action for the supersymmetric 5-brane in 11 dimensions. Selfduality does not follow from the action, but is consistent with the equatio…

hep-th1997★ 19 cited

Superembeddings, Non-Linear Supersymmetry and 5-branes

Tom Adawi, Martin Cederwall, Ulf Gran +2

We examine general properties of superembeddings, i.e., embeddings of supermanifolds into supermanifolds. The connection between an embedding procedure and the method of non-linear…

cond-mat.mes-hall1997★ 36 cited

Free-electron Model for Mesoscopic Force Fluctuations in Nanowires

S. Blom, H. Olin, J. L. Costa-Kramer +4

When two metal electrodes are separated, a nanometer sized wire (nanowire) is formed just before the contact breaks. The electrical conduction measured during this retraction proce…

cond-mat.str-el1997★ 82 cited

Properties of a Luttinger Liquid with Boundaries at Finite Temperature and Size

Ann E. Mattsson, Sebastian Eggert, Henrik Johannesson

We use bosonization methods to calculate the exact finite-temperature single-electron Green's function of a spinful Luttinger liquid confined by open boundaries. The corresponding…

cond-mat1997★ 360 cited

Shuttle Mechanism for Charge Transfer in Coulomb Blockade Nanostructures

L. Y. Gorelik, A. Isacsson, M. V. Voinova +3

Room-temperature Coulomb blockade of charge transport through composite nanostructures containing organic inter-links has recently been observed. A pronounced charging effect in co…

cond-mat1997★ 5 cited

Nonlinear conductance of nanowires - A signature of Luttinger liquid effects?

M. Jonson, I. V. Krive, P. Sandström +1

We analyze recent measurements of the room temperature current-voltage characteristics of gold nanowires, whose zero current conductance is quantized in units of . A faster…

astro-ph1997

The Caltech-Jodrell Bank VLBI Surveys

T. J. Pearson, I. W. A. Browne, D. R. Henstock +7

The Caltech-Jodrell Bank VLBI surveys of bright extragalactic radio sources north of declination 35 deg were carried out between 1990 and 1995 using the Mark-II system, achieving i…

cond-mat.mes-hall1997★ 3 cited

Coulomb correlations and coherent charge tunneling in mesoscopic coupled rings

C. M. Canali, W. Stephan, L. Y. Gorelik +2

We study the effect of a strong electron-electron (e-e) interaction in a system of two concentric one-dimensional rings with incommensurate areas A_1 and A_2, coupled by a tunnel a…

cond-mat.str-el1997★ 13 cited

Multichannel Kondo Effect in an Interacting Electron System: Exact Results for the Low-Temperature Thermodynamics

M. Granath, H. Johannesson

We study the low-temperature thermodynamics of a spin-S magnetic impurity coupled to m degenerate bands of interacting electrons in one dimension. By exploiting boundary conformal…

cond-mat1997★ 154 cited

Quantum Decoherence in Disordered Mesoscopic Systems

Dmitrii S. Golubev, Andrei D. Zaikin

We point out that the low temperature saturation of the electron phase decoherence time in a disordered conductor can be explained within the existing theory of weak localization p…

hep-th1997★ 56 cited

World-volume fields, SL(2;Z) and duality: The type IIB 3-brane

Martin Cederwall, Anders Westerberg

We propose a method for constructing super-brane actions where every background tensor potential corresponds to a world-volume field strength. The procedure provides a natural coup…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci1997★ 14 cited

Comparison of Zn_{1-x}Mn_xTe/ZnTe multiple-quantum wells and quantum dots by below-bandgap photomodulated reflectivity

P. J. Klar, D. Wolverson, D. E. Ashenford +2

Large-area high density patterns of quantum dots with a diameter of 200 nm have been prepared from a series of four Zn_{0.93}Mn_{0.07}Te/ZnTe multiple quantum well structures of di…

cond-mat.supr-con1997★ 20 cited

Superconducting d-wave junctions: The disappearance of the odd ac components

Tomas Lofwander, Goran Johansson, Magnus Hurd +1

We study voltage-biased superconducting planar d-wave junctions for arbitrary transmission and arbitrary orientation of the order parameters of the superconductors. For a certain o…

cond-mat.soft1997★ 13 cited

Alignment of nematic liquid crystals on mixed Langmuir-Blodgett mono-layers

V. S. U. Fazio, L. Komitov, S. T. Lagerwall

Mono-layers of stearic and behenic acids and mixtures of them in different proportions, deposited with the Langmuir-Blodgett technique, were used to study the alignment and the ali…

astro-ph1997★ 17 cited

Slim accretion discs: a model for ADAF-SLE transitions

I. V. Igumenshchev, M. A. Abramowicz, I. D. Novikov

We numerically construct slim, global, vertically integrated models of optically thin, transonic accretion discs around black holes, assuming a regularity condition at the sonic ra…

astro-ph1997★ 2 cited

Statistical theory of thermal instability

A. F. Illarionov, I. V. Igumenshchev

A new statistical approach is presented to study the thermal instability process of optically thin unmagnetized plasma. In this approach the time evolution of mass distribution fun…

astro-ph1997★ 6 cited

Spectroscopy of PKS 0528-260: New Limits on CO Absorption and Emission

Jian Ge, Jill Bechtold, Constance Walker +2

We have obtained a moderate resolution spectrum of the quasar PKS 0528-250 with the Red Channel Spectrograph on the Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT) in order to study a damped Lyman…

astro-ph1997★ 9 cited

Molecular absorption lines at high redshift: PKS1413+135 (z=0.247)

Tommy Wiklind, Francoise Combes

A detailed study of the absorbing molecular clouds towards the radio source PKS1413+135, at a redshift z=0.247, is reported. Physical conditions are derived for the molecular gas i…

quant-ph1997

Exact two-loop vacuum polarization correctionto the Lamb shift in hydrogen-like ions

G. Plunien, T. Beier, G. Soff +1

We present a calculation scheme for the two-loop vacuum polarization correction of order to the Lamb shift of hydrogen-like high-Z atoms. The interaction with the external Co…

cond-mat.mes-hall1997★ 6 cited

Coulomb blockade effects in anodised niobium nanostructures

Torsten Henning, D. B. Haviland, P. Delsing

Niobium thin film wires were fabricated using electron beam lithography with a four layer liftoff mask system, and subsequently thinned by anodisation. The resistance along the wir…

cond-mat1997★ 28 cited

Dissipative Electron Transport through Andreev Interferometers

H. A. Blom, A. Kadigrobov, A. M. Zagoskin +2

We consider the conductance of an Andreev interferometer, i.e., a hybrid structure where a dissipative current flows through a mesoscopic normal (N) sample in contact with two supe…