Partition coefficients of Hf, Zr, and REE between olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, plagioclase, garnet, amphibole, ilmenite, phlogopite, and liquid are presented. Samples consist of megacrysts in kimberlite, phenocrysts in alkaline basalts, tholeiitic basalts and andesitic to dacitic rocks, and synthetic garnet and clinopyroxene in Hawaiian tholeiites. The Hf‐Lu and Zr‐Lu elemental fractionations are as large as the Lu‐Sm or Lu‐Nd fractionation. The Hf and Zr partition coefficients between mafic phenocrysts and liquids are smaller than the Lu partition coefficients, but are similar to the Nd or Sm partition coefficients. The Hf and Zr partition coefficients between ilmenite, phlogopite, and liquid are larger than the Lu partition coefficients for these minerals and their corresponding liquids. The Hf‐Zr elemental fractionation does not occur except for extreme fractionation involving Zr‐minerals and extremely low fo2. These data have an important bearing on chronological and petrogenetic tracer studies involving the Lu‐Hf isotopic system.

We examine the interplay of surface and volume effects in systems undergoing heat flow. In particular, we compute the thermal conductivity in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam beta model as a function of temperature and lattice size, and scaling arguments are used to provide analytic guidance. From this we show that boundary temperature jumps can be quantitatively understood, and that they play an important role in determining the dynamics of the system, relating soliton dynamics, kinetic theory, and Fourier transport.

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Abstract.We investigate the energy transport in a one-dimensional lattice of oscillators with a harmonic nearest neighbor coupling and a harmonic plus quartic on-site potential. As numerically observed for particular coupling parameters before, and confirmed by our study, such chains satisfy Fourier's law: a chain of length N coupled to thermal reservoirs at both ends has an average steady state energy current proportional to 1/N. On the theoretical level we employ the Peierls transport equation for phonons and note that beyond a mere exchange of labels it admits nondegenerate phonon collisions. These collisions are responsible for a finite heat conductivity. The predictions of kinetic theory are compared with molecular dynamics simulations. In the range of weak anharmonicity, respectively low temperatures, reasonable agreement is observed.

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Various asymmetric orbifold models based on chiral shifts and chiral reflections are investigated. Special attention is devoted to 1the consistency of the models with two fundamental principles for asymmetric orbifolds : modular invariance and the existence of a proper Hilbert space formulation for states and operators. The interplay between these two principles is non-trivial. It is shown, for example, that their simultaneous requirement forces the order of a chiral reflection to be 4, instead of the naive 2. A careful explicit construction is given of the associated one-loop partition functions. At higher loops, the partition functions of asymmetric orbifolds are built from the chiral blocks of associated symmetric orbifolds, whose pairings are determined by degenerations to one-loop.

We study the nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of classical lattice φ 4 theory in thermal gradients of arbitrary strength. The steady-state physics of the theory in (1 + 1) dimensions is investigated from first principles and classified into dynamical regimes. The bulk properties associated with thermal transport are derived. Starting with thermal equilibrium, we examine the relation to the kinetic theory description of the behavior of the system. Green-Kubo transport coefficients are computed and compared to measured transport near and far from equilibrium, defining the scope of linear response and including an analysis of long-time tails. Local equilibrium is investigated and seen to explicitly break down under sufficiently strong gradients. Additional measures of the nonequilibrium steady state are also discussed as well as the connections to irreversible thermodynamics. C 2002 Elsevier Science (USA)