We construct a Hamiltonian which in a scaling limit becomes equivalent to one that can be diagonalized by a Bogoliubov transformation. There may appear simultaneously a mean-field and a superconducting phase. They influence each other in a complicated way. For instance, an attractive mean field may stimulate the superconducting phase and a repulsive one may destroy it.

In Pair Programming – a software development technique that is part of Extreme Programming (XP) – two developers work side by side, on a single computer, to jointly produce an artifact. It has been reported that Pair Programming can be accounted for the development of higher quality software in half the time it required a single programmer. Pair programmers are meant to be collocated since they...

We present a general technique for dynamizing certain problems posed on point sets in Euclidean space for any xed dimension d. This technique applies to a large class of structurally similar algorithms, presented previously by the authors , that make use of the well-separated pair decomposition. We prove eecient worst-case complexity for maintaining such computations under point insertions and ...

In recent computer simulations of a simple monatomic system interacting via the Dzugutov pair potential, freezing of the fluid into an equilibrium dodecagonal quasicrystal has been reported [M. Dzugutov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 2924 (1993)]. Here, using a combination of molecular dynamics simulation and thermodynamic perturbation theory, we conduct a detailed analysis of the relative stabilities o...

We derive the exact rate of pair production of oppositely charged scalar particles by a smooth potential step φ(x) ∝ tanh kz in three dimensions. As a check we recover from this the known results for an infinitely sharp step as well as for a uniform electric field.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has concluded that there is a relationship between roof intrusion and the risk of injury to belted occupants in rollovers events. Previous testing on many different production vehicle types indicates that damage consistent with field rollover accidents can be achieved through inverted drop testing from small drop heights. It has been shown in p...