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The first measurements of the magnetic dipole hyperfine structure constants A in singly ionized thulium revealed substantial discrepancies with the corresponding calculations [Mansour et al., NIMB 40, 252 (1989)]. More recent measurements…

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The contribution to the eighth-order anomalous magnetic moment (g-2) of the electron from a set of diagrams without closed lepton loops is recalculated using a new FORTRAN code generated by an automatic code generator. Comparing the…

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We show that Quantum-Monte-Carlo calculations of the dynamic structure factor of the isotropic spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic chain at intermediate temperatures corroborate a picture of diffusive spin dynamics at finite frequencies in the…

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The spectrum of massless Dirac electrons on the side surface of a three-dimensional weak topological insulator is significantly affected by whether the number of unit atomic layers constituting the sample is even or odd; it has a…

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A construction of covariant quantum phase observables, for Hamiltonians with a finite number of energy eigenvalues, has been recently given by D. Arsenovic et al. [Phys. Rev. A 85, 044103 (2012)]. For Hamiltonians generating periodic…

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