Tunnelling research in Austria

Relationship Between Ground Settlement Due to Tunnelling and Ground Physico-mechanical Peroperties (RESEARCH NOTES)

Permafrost Research in Austria : History and recent advances

In the Austrian Alps the study of alpine permafrost started during the 1920ies and until about 1980 was mainly concentrated on rock glaciers. Since 1980 the number of publications related to permafrost increased and since the late 1990ies investigation of permafrost has been intensified. This introductory article provides an overview on the history of permafrost research in the Austrian Alps, o...

Austria Report Austria

Ever since individual locus standi before the Cartel Court was introduced in 1993, private enforcement of competition rules has played an important role in Austria. To a considerable extent, actions by private parties, or by public institutions such as the Chamber of Labour, have compensated for the lack of a public prosecutor in competition matters. However, in most cases these private enforce...

Tunnelling in carbonic acid.

The cis,trans-conformer of carbonic acid (H2CO3), generated by near-infrared radiation, undergoes an unreported quantum mechanical tunnelling rotamerization with half-lives in cryogenic matrices of 4-20 h, depending on temperature and host material. First-principles quantum chemistry at high levels of theory gives a tunnelling half-life of about 1 h, quite near those measured for the fastest ro...

Tunnelling in organic superconductors

We discuss the possibility of deciding on the symmetry of the superconducting phase in the organic superconductors (Bechgaard salts), using tunnelling experiments. We first briefly review the properties of organic superconductors, and the possibility to have unconventional (triplet) superconductivity in these systems. We then present a simple scheme for computing the full current-voltage charac...