Anelasticity across seismic to tidal timescales: a self-consistent approach

Analogue earthquakes and seismic cycles: experimental modelling across timescales

Constraints on Mantle Anelasticity from SLR Tidal Estimates

Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) measurements of the Earth’s gravity field can be used to solve for solid Earth tides. We use those solutions to place constraints on anelasticity in the Earth’s mantle at periods of 12 hours and 18.6 years. The results imply that the anelastic parameter Q is smaller for those tides than for seismic waves. We interpret this as evidence that Q is frequency dependent....

A self-consistent approach to paternity and parental effort.

We review the relationship between optimal parental effort and paternity, and emphasize the need for a self-consistent approach. A fundamental consistency condition is what we refer to as the conservation of paternity. Every offspring has exactly one father. If a male has a paternity of less than unity, then another male or other males must have gained the lost paternity. Our approach also emph...

Geodynamically Consistent Seismic Velocity Predictions

A model of thermoelastic properties for a chemically homogeneous adiabatic lower mantle is calculated. Constraints provided by this model are used in convection models to study dynamics of a chemically distinct layer at the bottom of the mantle. We find that the layer must be at least 2% denser than the overlying mantle to survive for a geologically significant period of time. Realistic decreas...

Two-particle self-consistent approach to unconventional superconductivity

A nonperturbative approach to unconventional superconductivity is developed based on the idea of two-particle self-consistent (TPSC) theory by Vilk and Tremblay. A sum rule, which the momentum-dependent pairing susceptibility satisfies, is derived. An effective pairing interaction between quasiparticles is determined so that the susceptibility should fulfill this exact sum rule, in which fluctu...