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Casimir Energies For Some Single Cavities, Haci Ahmedov, İsmai̇l Hakki Duru Jan 2006

Casimir Energies For Some Single Cavities, Haci Ahmedov, İsmai̇l Hakki Duru

Turkish Journal of Physics

Casimir energies are discussed for some cavities.

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Hamilton-Jacobi Formulation Of Siegel Superparticle, N. I. Farahat, Hanaa A. Elegla Jan 2006

Hamilton-Jacobi Formulation Of Siegel Superparticle, N. I. Farahat, Hanaa A. Elegla

Turkish Journal of Physics

The Hamilton-Jacobi formalism of constrained systems is used to study Siegel superparticles moving in R^{4 mid 4} flat superspace. The equations of motion for a singular system are obtained as total differential equations in many variables. These equations of motion are in exact agreement with those obtained by Dirac's method.

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Helicity Dependence Of The \Vec\Gamma\Vec N \To \Pi N Reaction Channels In The \Delta-Resonance Region, Eed M. Darwish, Mohamed A. El-Zohry Jan 2006

Helicity Dependence Of The \Vec\Gamma\Vec N \To \Pi N Reaction Channels In The \Delta-Resonance Region, Eed M. Darwish, Mohamed A. El-Zohry

Turkish Journal of Physics

Based on a prior effective Lagrangian model on single pion photoproduction from the nucleon, successfully tested in total and differential cross sections, the helicity dependence from the interaction of circularly polarized photons and a longitudinally polarized nucleon target is studied in the energy range from \pi-threshold through the \Delta(1232)-resonance region. The doubly polarized total and differential cross section differences for parallel \sigma^{3/2} and antiparallel \sigma^{1/2} helicity states are predicted and compared with recent experimental data. We show that the results are sensitive to interferences among different contributions to the process and, thus, represent a complementary test of the theoretical model. …

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Ibm-2 Calculations Of Selected Even-Even Ruthenium Nuclei, İlyas İnci̇, Nuretti̇n Türkan Jan 2006

Ibm-2 Calculations Of Selected Even-Even Ruthenium Nuclei, İlyas İnci̇, Nuretti̇n Türkan

Turkish Journal of Physics

In this study, we have employed the Interacting Boson Model-2 (IBM-2) to determine the most appropriate Hamiltonian for the study of ruthenium nuclei in the region A \cong 100. Using the best fit values of parameters to construct the Hamiltonian, we have estimated energy levels and multipole mixing ratios (\delta (E2/M1)) for some doubly-even Ru nuclei. The results are compared with previous experimental and theoretical data and it is observed that they are in good agreement.

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Ibm-2 Calculations Of Selected Even-Even Palladium Nuclei, İlyas İnci̇, Nuretti̇n Türkan Jan 2006

Ibm-2 Calculations Of Selected Even-Even Palladium Nuclei, İlyas İnci̇, Nuretti̇n Türkan

Turkish Journal of Physics

In this study, we have employed the Interacting Boson Model-2 (IBM-2) to determine the most appropriate Hamiltonian for the study of palladium nuclei. Using the best fit values of parameters to construct the Hamiltonian, we have estimated energy levels and multipole mixing ratios (\delta (E2/M1)) for some doubly-even Pd nuclei. The results are compared with previous experimental and theoretical data and it is observed that they are in good agreement.

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Band Gap Of Cubic Aln, Gan And Inn Compounds Under Pressure, S. Berrah, Hamza Abid, A. Boukortt, Mohamed Sehil Jan 2006

Band Gap Of Cubic Aln, Gan And Inn Compounds Under Pressure, S. Berrah, Hamza Abid, A. Boukortt, Mohamed Sehil

Turkish Journal of Physics

Numerical simulation based on FP-LAPW calculations is applied to study the lattice parameters, bulk modulus and band gap energy of zinc blende binaries AlN, GaN and InN under hydrostatic pressure. The results obtained are in a good agreement with experimental and theoretical values.

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Comment On "Characterization Of In_4te_3 Single Crystals", M. Cankurtaran, H. Çeli̇k Jan 2006

Comment On "Characterization Of In_4te_3 Single Crystals", M. Cankurtaran, H. Çeli̇k

Turkish Journal of Physics

No abstract provided.

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Lattice Fringe Fingerprinting In Two Dimensions With Database Support, Peter Moeck, B. Seipel, R. Bjorge, P. Fraundorf Jan 2006

Lattice Fringe Fingerprinting In Two Dimensions With Database Support, Peter Moeck, B. Seipel, R. Bjorge, P. Fraundorf

Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations

A brief introduction to lattice fringe fingerprinting in two dimensions (2D) with database support is given. The method is employed for the identification of the crystal phase of a small ensemble of nanocrystals. The enhanced viability of this method in aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) and scanning TEMs (STEMs) is also illustrated.

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Image-Based Nanocrystallography With Online Database Support, Peter Moeck, Ján Zahornadsky, Boris Dusek Jan 2006

Image-Based Nanocrystallography With Online Database Support, Peter Moeck, Ján Zahornadsky, Boris Dusek

Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations

The crystallographic phase and morphology of many materials change with the crystal size so that new needs arise to determine the crystallography of nanocrystals. Direct space high-resolution phase-contrast transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and atomic resolution scanning TEM (STEM) when combined with tools for image-based nanocrystallography in two (2D) and three (3D) dimensions possess the capacity to meet these needs. After a concise discussion of lattice-fringe visibility spheres and maps, this paper discusses lattice-fringe fingerprinting in 2D and tilt protocol applications. On-line database developments at Portland State University (PSU) that support image-based nanocrystallography are also mentioned.

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Search For Gravitational Waves From Binary Black Hole Inspirals In Ligo Data, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, W. G. Anderson, Mario C. Diaz, Wm. R. Johnston, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Cristina V. Torres Jan 2006

Search For Gravitational Waves From Binary Black Hole Inspirals In Ligo Data, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, W. G. Anderson, Mario C. Diaz, Wm. R. Johnston, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Cristina V. Torres

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Publications

We report on a search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in the data from the second science run of the LIGO interferometers. The search focused on binary systems with component masses between 3 and 20M⊙. Optimally oriented binaries with distances up to 1 Mpc could be detected with efficiency of at least 90%. We found no events that could be identified as gravitational waves in the 385.6 hours of data that we searched.

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Relativistic Three-Body Effects In Black Hole Coalescence, Manuela Campanelli, Miranda Dettwyler, Mark Hannam, Carlos O. Lousto Jan 2006

Relativistic Three-Body Effects In Black Hole Coalescence, Manuela Campanelli, Miranda Dettwyler, Mark Hannam, Carlos O. Lousto

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Publications

Three-body interactions are expected to be common in globular clusters and in galactic cores hosting supermassive black holes. We consider an equal-mass binary black hole system in the presence of a third black hole. Using numerically generated binary black hole initial data sets, and first and second-order post-Newtonian (1PN and 2PN) techniques, we find that the presence of the third black hole has nonnegligible relativistic effects on the location of the binary’s innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO), and that these effects arise at 2PN order. For a stellar-mass black hole binary in orbit about a supermassive black hole, the massive …

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Low-Temperature Infrared Spectroscopy Of H2 In Solid C60, Hugh O.H. Churchill Jan 2006

Low-Temperature Infrared Spectroscopy Of H2 In Solid C60, Hugh O.H. Churchill

Honors Papers

Diffuse reflectance infrared spectroscopy is used to measure the quantum dynamics of molecular hydrogentrapped within a C60 lattice at temperatures as low as 10 K. Crystal field effects in conjunction with rotational translational coupling lead to a rich spectrum with multiply split peaks that are more than an order of magnitude sharper than at room temperature. The induced redshifts in the vibrational-rotational mode frequencies are explained using a simple model in which the state dependence of the H2 polarizability leads to changes in the C60-H2 interaction potential.

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Bound States In The Continuum In Quantum-Dot Pairs, Gonzalo Ordonez, Kyungsun Na, Sungyun Kim Jan 2006

Bound States In The Continuum In Quantum-Dot Pairs, Gonzalo Ordonez, Kyungsun Na, Sungyun Kim

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

It is shown that for two open quantum dots connected by a wire, “bound states in the continuum” of a single electron are formed at nearly periodic distances between the dots. This is due to Fabry-Pérot interference between quasibound states in each dot. The bound states are nonlocal, describing the electron trapped in both dots at the same time. Theoretical and numerical results show that trapped states exist even if the wire connecting the dots is relatively long.

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Growth Of Ge Quantum Dots On Si(100)-(2×1) By Pulsed Laser Deposition, M. S. Hegazy, H. E. Elsayed-Ali Jan 2006

Growth Of Ge Quantum Dots On Si(100)-(2×1) By Pulsed Laser Deposition, M. S. Hegazy, H. E. Elsayed-Ali

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Self-assembled germanium quantum dots (QDs) were grown on Si(100)-(2×1) by pulsed laser deposition. In situ reflection-high energy electron diffraction (RHEED) and postdeposition atomic force microscopy are used to study the growth of the QDs. Several films of different thicknesses were grown at a substrate temperature of 400 °C using a Q-switched Nd:yttrium aluminum garnet laser (λ= 1064 nm, 40 ns pulse width, 23 J/cm 2 fluence, and 10 Hz repetition rate). At low film thicknesses, hut clusters that are faceted by different planes, depending on their height, are observed after the completion of the wetting layer. With increasing film thickness, …

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New Einsteins Need Positive Environment, Independent Spirit, Amin Dharamsi Jan 2006

New Einsteins Need Positive Environment, Independent Spirit, Amin Dharamsi

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

After reading the letters about Lee Smolin’s “Why No ‘New Einstein’?” (PHYSICS TODAY, June 2005, page 56; January 2006, page 13), I could not help but relive my undergraduate and graduate experiences at Columbia University from 1968 to 1978. As one of the few black and Hispanic people with a PhD in theoretical physics from that institution, I hope my observations expand the argument about creativity and the perception of it, particularly regarding minorities and how they are perceived by others.

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Electron Bernstein Wave Simulations And Comparison To Preliminary Nstx Emission Data, Josef Preinhaelter, Jakub Urban, Pavol Pavlo, Gary Taylor, Steffi Diem, Linda L. Vahala, George Vahala Jan 2006

Electron Bernstein Wave Simulations And Comparison To Preliminary Nstx Emission Data, Josef Preinhaelter, Jakub Urban, Pavol Pavlo, Gary Taylor, Steffi Diem, Linda L. Vahala, George Vahala

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Simulations indicate that during flattop current discharges the optimal angles for the aiming of the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) antennae are quite rugged and basically independent of time. The time development of electron Bernstein wave emission (EBWE) at particular frequencies as well as the frequency spectrum of EBWE as would be seen by the recently installed NSTX antennae are computed. The simulation of EBWE at low frequencies (e.g., 16 GHz) agrees well with the recent preliminary EBWE measurements on NSTX. At high frequencies, the sensitivity of EBWE to magnetic field variations is understood by considering the Doppler broadened electron …

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Magnetic And Transport Properties Of Nimnal Thin Films, Andriy Vovk, Minghui Yu, Leszek Malkinski, Charles O'Connor, Zhenjun Wang, Eden Durant, Jinke Tang, Vladimir Golub Jan 2006

Magnetic And Transport Properties Of Nimnal Thin Films, Andriy Vovk, Minghui Yu, Leszek Malkinski, Charles O'Connor, Zhenjun Wang, Eden Durant, Jinke Tang, Vladimir Golub

Physics Faculty Publications

The magnetic and transport properties of Ni2MnAl thin films prepared using pulse laser deposition were investigated. It was shown that the films are granular and multiphase. Contrary to the data reported earlier we observe nonmonotonic temperature dependence of resistance with minimum in the vicinity of 100 K for the films deposited on substrates held at 773 K and negative magnetoresistance (MR) values of about 2.5% at 5 K and 1.6% at RT in magnetic field of 50 kOe. These values of MR are the highest reported up to date for Ni2MnAl films. Large negative MR in …

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Aberration-Free Negative-Refractive-Index Lens, Jiajun Chen, Cosmin Radu, Ashok Puri Jan 2006

Aberration-Free Negative-Refractive-Index Lens, Jiajun Chen, Cosmin Radu, Ashok Puri

Physics Faculty Publications

The aberrations of a spherical lens composed of left-handed materials are studied in this letter. Five Seidel aberrations (spherical, coma, astigmatism, field curvature, and distortion) as a function of the refractive index n and shape factor q of the lens are considered. Our numerical calculations show that the negative refractive index gives much larger windows of small values of aberrations than the positive index, which will significantly enhance the flexibility for the design of an optical lens. Two possible regions with optimized aberrations are proposed: n = −1, q = −2.2 and n = −0.81 and q = 0.83

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Sequential Binding Of Cobalt(Ii) To Metallo-Β-Lactamase Ccra, Gopal R. Periyannan, Alison L. Costello, David L. Tierney, Ke-Wu Yang, Brian Bennett, Michael W. Crowder Jan 2006

Sequential Binding Of Cobalt(Ii) To Metallo-Β-Lactamase Ccra, Gopal R. Periyannan, Alison L. Costello, David L. Tierney, Ke-Wu Yang, Brian Bennett, Michael W. Crowder

Physics Faculty Research and Publications

In an effort to probe Co(II) binding to metallo-β-lactamase CcrA, EPR, EXAFS, and 1H NMR studies were conducted on CcrA containing 1 equiv (1-Co(II)-CcrA) and 2 equiv (Co(II)Co(II)-CcrA) of Co(II). The EPR spectra of 1-Co(II)-CcrA and Co(II)Co(II)-CcrA are distinct and indicate 5/6-coordinate Co(II) ions. The EPR spectra also reveal the absence of significant spin-exchange coupling between the Co(II) ions in Co(II)Co(II)-CcrA. EXAFS spectra of 1-Co(II)-CcrA suggest 5/6-coordinate Co(II) with two or more histidine ligands. EXAFS spectra of Co(II)Co(II)-CcrA also indicate 5/6 ligands at a similar average distance to 1-Co(II)-CcrA, including an average of about two histidines per Co(II). 1 …

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Simulated Domain Wall Dynamics In Magnetic Nanowires, Andrew Kunz Jan 2006

Simulated Domain Wall Dynamics In Magnetic Nanowires, Andrew Kunz

Physics Faculty Research and Publications

The simulated domain wall dynamics in rectangular 10 nm thick, 2000 nm long Permalloy wires of varying width is presented. In the absence of an applied field the static domain wall length is found to be linearly dependent to the width of the nanowire. As magnetic fields of increasing strength are applied along the wire’s long axis, the domain wall motion changes from a uniform reversal to a steplike reversal. The onset of the stepping motion leads to a decrease in the domain wall speed. By continuing to increase the field it is possible to decrease the time between steps …

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