Grazing Incidence X-Ray Fluorescence (GI-XRF) technique is a powerful tool for the characterization of depth profile concentrations in multilayered samples. A modeling program called ANDEN has been developed for simulating GI-XRF data for layered thin films [1]. ANDEN was used as one of the tools to study the dependence of dopants distribution with magnetic behavior in Diluted Magnetic Semicond...

[1] We develop a theory that relates gas hydrate saturation in marine sediments to the depth of the sulfate‐ methane transition (SMT) zone below the seafloor using steady state, analytical expressions. These expressions are valid for systems in which all methane transported into the gas hydrate stability zone (GHSZ) comes from deeper external sources (i.e., advective systems). This advective co...

Scientific knowledge of the wet zone - the lagg - that tends to form at the edge of ombrotrophic peatlands is surprisingly limited. In this study, we aim to improve the understanding of the ecohydrological functions of this transition by describing the form and abiotic controls of the laggs and margins of bog peatlands. Data collected in wells and piezometers along 10 transects (within 6 bogs),...

The interaction of solid-solid phase transitions with convection in the Earth’s mantle involves, for univariant systems: (1) effects of latent heat and advection of ambient temperature on the position of the phase boundary and on its associated body force, and (2) the coupling of latent heat with the ordinary thermal expansivity of the material. For divariant systems, an effective thermal expan...

abstract the spontaneous emission spectrum from a driven three-level atom placed inside a double-band photonic crystal has been investigated. we use the model which assumes the upper levels of the atomic transition are coupled via a classical driving field. the transition from one of the upper levels to lower level couples to the modes of the modified reservoir, and the transition from the othe...

The relationship between color and perceived depth for realistic, colored objects with varying shading was explored. Background: Studies have shown that warm-colored stimuli tend to appear nearer in depth than cool-colored stimuli. The majority of these studies asked human observers to view physically equidistant, colored stimuli and compare them for relative depth. However, in most cases, the ...

Recently, there has been growing attention to the space requirements of tableau methods (see for example [7], [1], [12]). We have proposed in [10] a method of reducing modal consequence relations to the global and local consequence relation of (polymodal) K. The reductions used there did however not establish good time complexity bounds. In this note we shall use reduction functions to obtain r...

In spacetimes with compact dimensions there exist several black object solutions including the black-hole and the black-string. These solutions may become unstable depending on their relative size and the relevant length scale set by the compact dimensions. The transition between these solutions raises puzzles and addresses fundamental questions such as topology change, uniquenesses and cosmic ...

The superconducting transition is studied within the one-loop RG in fixed dimension D = 3 and at the critical point. A tricritical behavior is found and, for κ > κc, an attractive charged fixed point, distinct from that of a neutral superfluid. The critical exponents of the continuous transition are evaluated and it is shown that the anomalous dimension of the gauge-field equals unity. This imp...