Current-induced magnetization reversal in a (Ga,Mn)As-based magnetic tunnel junction

We report current-induced magnetization reversal in a ferromagnetic semiconductor-based magnetic tunnel junction (Ga,Mn)As/AlAs/(Ga,Mn)As prepared by molecular beam epitaxy on a p-GaAs(001) substrate. A change in magneto-resistance that is asymmetric with respect to the current direction is found with the excitation current of 10^6 A/cm^2. Contributions of both unpolarized and spin-polarized components are examined, and we conclude that the partial magnetization reversal occurs in the (Ga,Mn)As layer of smaller magnetization with the spin-polarized tunneling current of 10^5 A/cm^2.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figure

On kinetic energy stabilized superconductivity in cuprates

The possibility of kinetic energy driven superconductivity in cuprates as was recently found in the $tJ$ model is discussed. We argue that the violation of the virial theorem implied by this result is serious and means that the description of superconductivity within the $tJ$ model is pathological.Comment: 3 pages, v2 includes additional reference

A Potent CD1d-binding Glycolipid for iNKT-Cell-based Therapy Against Human Breast Cancer

Background/Aim: Invariant natural killer T-cells (iNKT) stimulated by CD1d-binding glycolipids have been shown to exert antitumor effects by a number of studies in a mouse model. Breast cancer is a devastating disease, with different types of breast cancer recurring locally or distant as metastatic/advanced disease following initial treatment. The aim of this study was to examine the tumoricidal effect of a CD1d-binding glycolipid, called 7DW8-5, against a highly invasive human breast cancer cell line both in vitro and in vivo. Materials and Methods: Parental MDA-MB-231 cells and MDA-MB-231 cells transduced with human CD1d were labeled with carboxyfluorescein diacetate succinimidyl ester (CFSE), followed by loading with glycolipids. After co-culturing with human iNKT cells, the cells were permeabilized and stained with Alexa Flour 647-conjugated antibody to active caspase-3, and analyzed using a BD LSR II. For the in vivo tumoricidal effect, MDA-MB-231 cells transduced with human CD1d and luciferase genes were injected into the mammary fat pad of female NOD/SCID/IL2rγnull (NSG) mice, followed by the injection of human iNKT cells with or without 7DW8-5, and the levels of luminescence were analyzed with whole-body imaging. Results: Human iNKT cells could kill CD1d-expressing human breast cancer cells in vitro in the presence of 7DW8-5, but not α-GalCer. As for in vivo, the adoptive transfer of human iNKT cells into tumor-challenged NSG mice significantly inhibited the growth of CD1d+ MDA-MB-231 human breast cancer cells in the presence of 7DW8-5. Conclusion: CD1d-binding, glycolipid-based iNKT-cell therapy is suggested as a potent and effective treatment against breast cancer in humans

Fermi surfaces in general co-dimension and a new controlled non-trivial fixed point

Traditionally Fermi surfaces for problems in $d$ spatial dimensions have dimensionality $d-1$, i.e., codimension $d_c=1$ along which energy varies. Situations with $d_c >1$ arise when the gapless fermionic excitations live at isolated nodal points or lines. For $d_c > 1$ weak short range interactions are irrelevant at the non-interacting fixed point. Increasing interaction strength can lead to phase transitions out of this Fermi liquid. We illustrate this by studying the transition to superconductivity in a controlled $\epsilon$ expansion near $d_c = 1$. The resulting non-trivial fixed point is shown to describe a scale invariant theory that lives in effective space-time dimension $D=d_c + 1$. Remarkably, the results can be reproduced by the more familiar Hertz-Millis action for the bosonic superconducting order parameter even though it lives in different space-time dimensions.Comment: 4 page

Diagrammatic perturbation theory and the pseudogap

We study a model of quasiparticles on a two-dimensional square lattice coupled to Gaussian distributed dynamical fields. The model describes quasiparticles coupled to spin or charge fluctuations and is solved by a Monte Carlo sampling of the molecular field distributions. The non-perturbative solution is compared to various approximations based on diagrammatic perturbation theory. When the molecular field correlations are sufficiently weak, the diagrammatic calculations capture the qualitative aspects of the quasiparticle spectrum. For a range of model parameters near the magnetic boundary, we find that the quasiparticle spectrum is qualitatively different from that of a Fermi liquid in that it shows a double peak structure, and that the diagrammatic approximations we consider fail to reproduce, even qualitatively, the results of the Monte Carlo calculations. This suggests that the pseudogap induced by a coupling to antiferromagnetic fluctuations and the spin-splitting of the quasiparticle peak induced by a coupling to ferromagnetic spin-fluctuations lie beyond diagrammatic perturbation theory

A factorization of a super-conformal map

A super-conformal map and a minimal surface are factored into a product of two maps by modeling the Euclidean four-space and the complex Euclidean plane on the set of all quaternions. One of these two maps is a holomorphic map or a meromorphic map. These conformal maps adopt properties of a holomorphic function or a meromorphic function. Analogs of the Liouville theorem, the Schwarz lemma, the Schwarz-Pick theorem, the Weierstrass factorization theorem, the Abel-Jacobi theorem, and a relation between zeros of a minimal surface and branch points of a super-conformal map are obtained.Comment: 21 page

Frequency-dependent spin susceptibility in the two-dimensional Hubbard model

A Quantum Monte Carlo calculation of dynamical spin susceptibility in the half-filled 2D Hubbard model is presented for temperature $T=0.2t$ and an intermediate on-site repulsion $U=4t$. Using the singular value decomposition technique we succeed in analytically continuing the Matsubara Green's function into the real frequency domain and in deriving the spectral representation for the longitudinal and transverse spin susceptibility. The simulation results, while contradicting the random-phase approximation prediction of antiferromagnetic long-range order at this temperature, are in agreement with an extension of a self-consistent renormalization approach of Moriya. The static susceptibility calculated using this technique is qualitatively consistent with the $\omega \rightarrow 0$ simulation results.Comment: 4 pages, Revtex, encoded figs.uu file with 3 figures enclose

Quantum critical dynamics of the two-dimensional Bose gas

The dilute, two-dimensional Bose gas exhibits a novel regime of relaxational dynamics in the regime k_B T > |\mu| where T is the absolute temperature and \mu is the chemical potential. This may also be interpreted as the quantum criticality of the zero density quantum critical point at \mu=0. We present a theory for this dynamics, to leading order in 1/\ln (\Lambda/ (k_B T)), where \Lambda is a high energy cutoff. Although pairwise interactions between the bosons are weak at low energy scales, the collective dynamics are strongly coupled even when \ln (\Lambda/T) is large. We argue that the strong-coupling effects can be isolated in an effective classical model, which is then solved numerically. Applications to experiments on the gap-closing transition of spin gap antiferromagnets in an applied field are presented.Comment: 9 pages, 10 figure

Mode-Coupling Model of Mott Gap Collapse in the Cuprates: Natural Phase Boundary for Quantum Critical Points

A simple antiferromagnetic approach to the Mott transition was recently shown to provide a satisfactory explanation for the Mott gap collapse with doping observed in photoemission experiments on electron-doped cuprates. Here this approach is extended in a number of ways. RPA, mode coupling (via self-consistent renormalization), and (to a limited extent) self-consistent Born approximation calculations are compared to assess the roles of hot-spot fluctuations and interaction with spin waves. When fluctuations are included, the calculation satisfies the Mermin-Wagner theorem, and the mean-field gap and transition temperature are replaced by pseudogap and onset temperature. The model is in excellent agreement with experiments on the doping dependence of both photoemission dispersion and magnetic properties. The magnetic phase terminates in a quantum critical point (QCP), with a natural phase boundary for this QCP arising from hot-spot physics. Since the resulting T=0 antiferromagnetic transition is controlled by a generalized Stoner factor, an ansatz is made of dividing the Stoner factor up into a material-dependent part, the bare susceptibility and a correlation-dependent part, the Hubbard U, which depends only weakly on doping. From the material dependent part of the interaction, it is possible to explain the striking differences between electron- and hole-doping, despite an approximate symmetry in the doping of the QCP. The slower divergence of the magnetic correlation length in hole doped cuprates may be an indication of more Mott-like physics.Comment: This replaces cond-mat/0308469. 50 eps figures, revtex [Version 1 had included old file

Au4V – Moment Stability and Spin Fluctuations in the Ordered Phase

Although neither gold nor vanadium generally possess a magnetic moment, the intermetallic compound Au4V is found to be ferromagnetic below 42K. In this paper we report the results of a muon spin relaxation study of the itinerant electron moment fluctuations in Au4V above the Curie temperature. The temperature dependence of the muon spin relaxation rate is found to be similar to that of the weak itinerant helimagnet, MnSi