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- Carbone, V, et al.
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To what extent can dynamical models describe statistical features of turbulent flows?
- 2002
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Ingår i: Europhysics letters. - : IOP Publishing. - 0295-5075 .- 1286-4854. ; 58:3, s. 349-355
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Statistical features of "bursty" behaviour in charged and neutral fluid turbulence are compared to statistics of intermittent events in a GOY shell model, and avalanches in different models of Self-Organized Criticality (SOC). It is found that inter-burst times show a power law distribution for turbulent samples and for the shell model, a property which is shared only in a particular case of the running sandpile model. The breakdown of self-similarity generated by isolated events observed in the turbulent samples is well reproduced by the shell model, while it is absent in all SOC models considered. On this base, we conclude that SOC models are not adequate to mimic fluid turbulence, while the GOY shell model constitutes a better candidate to describe the gross features of turbulence.
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- Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, et al.
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Intermittency in plasma turbulence
- 2001
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Ingår i: Planetary and Space Science. - 0032-0633 .- 1873-5088. ; 49:12, s. 1193-1200
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- Bouzerar, G., et al.
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Ferromagnetism in diluted magnetic semiconductors: A comparison between ab initio mean-field, RPA, and Monte Carlo treatments
- 2003
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Ingår i: Physical Review B Condensed Matter. - : Americal Physical Society (APS). - 0163-1829 .- 1095-3795. ; 68, s. 081203(R)-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We have determined from first principles the Curie temperature in the diluted magnetic semiconductor (Ga1-x-yMnxAsy) As alloys, where the compensation effect by As antisites is taken into account. The disorder due to random positions of Mn impurities and As antisites is taken into account in the framework of the coherent potential approximation. We demonstrate that a simple mean-field approximation (MFA) already gets Tc accurately. In particular, it is shown that the calculated Tc in the random-phase approximation and Monte Carlo simulations differ only weakly from the MFA values. The reason is that a proper treatment of the disorder beyond the virtual-crystal approximation leads, in this doped material, to a flat magnon dispersion in a large part of the Brillouin zone.
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- Hawarden, Timothy G., et al.
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Critical science with the largest telescopes: science drivers for a 100m ground-based optical-IR telescope
- 2003
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Ingår i: Future Giant Telescopes (Proceedings of the SPIE). - : SPIE. - 081944619X ; 4840, s. 299-308
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Extremely large filled-aperture ground-based optical-IR telescopes, or ELTs, ranging from 20 to 100m in diameter, are now being proposed. The all-important choice of the aperture must clearly be driven by the potential science offered. We here highlight science goals from the Leiden Workshop in May 2001 suggesting that for certain critical observations the largest possible aperture - assumed to be 100m (theproposed European OverWhelmingly Large telescope (OWL) - is strongly tobe desired. Examples from a long list include: COSMOLOGY: Identifying the first sources of ionisation in the universe, out to z >=14 Identifying and studying the first generation of dusty galaxies More speculatively, observing the formation of the laws of physics, via the evolution of the fundamental physical contants in the very early Universe, by high-resolution spectroscopy of very distant quasars. NEARER GALAXIES: Determining detailed star-formation histories of galaxies out to the Virtgo Cluster, and hence for all major galaxy types (not just those available close to the Local Group of galaxies). THE SOLAR SYSTEM: A 100-m telescope would do the work of a flotilla of fly-by space probes for investigations ranging from the evolution ofplanetary sutfaces and atmospheres to detailed surface spectroscopy of Kuiper Belt Objects. (Such studies could easily occupy it full-time.) EARTHLIKE PLANETS OF NEARBY STARS: A prospect so exciting as perhaps to justify the 100-m telescope on its own, is that of the direct detectionof earthlike planets of solar-type stars by imaging, out to at least 25 parsecs (80 light years) from the sun, followed by spectroscopic and photometric searches for the signature of life on the surfaces of nearer examples.
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