Kavli Affiliate: Edmund Bertschinger | Summary:Initiatives to increase the number, persistence, and success of women in physics in the US reach pre-teen girls through senior women. Programs exist at both the local and national levels. In addition, researchers have investigated issues related to gender equity in physics and physics education. Anecdotal evidence suggests increased media […]
Kavli Affiliate: Miriam Blaauboer | Summary:We theoretically investigate the effect of transverse magnetic anisotropy on spin-flip assisted tunneling through atomic spin chains. Using a phenomenological approach and first-order perturbation theory, we analytically calculate the inelastic tunneling current, differential conductance and atomic spin transition rates. We predict the appearance of additional steps in the differential conductance […]
Kavli Affiliate: Dustin M. Schroeder | Summary:We estimate the sensitivity of a lander-based instrument for the passive radio detection of a subsurface ocean beneath the ice shell of Europa, expected to be between 3~km – 30~km thick, using Jupiter’s decametric radiation. A passive technique was previously studied for an orbiter. Using passive detection in a […]