Monday, January 28, 2008

Recommending a book

It is not “thoughtful” and it is no fiction. I go practical here. It is for anybody currently in school but in desperate need of financial awareness. Take my word: I only regret that I did not read it earlier.

It is All You Need To Know About The City by Christopher Stoakes (City means London).

It is completely readable and friendly to neophytes of all levels (if the ground state is degenerate at all...). Most importantly it is loaded with information essential to a coherent understanding of the industry.

Monday, January 21, 2008

Questions to be answered

1, On tunneling vs. randomness, how is our argument compared to Thouless’ in his famous scaling law paper (relating g to sensitivity of levels to boundary conditions)?

2, Does a study on just the ground state suffice a claim of localization, which in general deals with transport theories (more on band structure)?

3, Is our system essentially an analogue of the 2d crystalline (equivalent of Bloch wave in translational symmetry in rotational symmetry such as Ylm?)? What to make out of the established conductivity results?

4, Possible to map the randomness to the breathing modes (an analogue of electro-phonon interaction)?

5, Check if wave packets actually follow the localized-delocalized scheme (fourth moment, exponential decay etc)? Above all, how to define it? We have limited number of “sites”. How to differentiate between the “extended” and the “localized”?

6, Explore the relationship with Hall effect and magnetoresistance?

“Crap,” says M, “I hate the most exciting part of writing the conclusion.”
“Because it is going to take forever to close it.”