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Optical properties of Si/Si0.87Ge0.13 multiple quantum well wires
Nanometer-scale wires cut into a Si/Si0.87Ge0.13 multiple quantum well structure were fabricated and characterized by using photoluminescence and photoreflectance at temperatures between 4 and 20 K. It was found that, in addition to a low-energy broadband emission at around 0.8 eV and other features normally observable in photoluminescence measurements, fabrication process induced strain relaxation and enhanced electron-hole droplets emission together with a new feature at 1.131 eV at 4 K were observed. The latter was further identified as a transition related to impurities located at the Si/Si0.87Ge0.13 heterointerfaces
Peak Effect in Superconductors: Melting of Larkin Domains
Motivated by the recent observations of the peak effect in high- YBCO
superconductors, we reexamine the origin of this unusual phenomenon. We show
that the mechanism based on the -dependence (nonlocality) of the
vortex-lattice tilt modulus cannot account for the essential
feature of the peak effect. We propose a scenario in which the peak effect is
related to the melting of Larkin domains. In our model, the rise of critical
current with increasing temperature is a result of a crossover from the Larkin
pinning length to the length scale set by thermally excited free dislocations.Comment: 13 pages, 2 figures, REVTE
New Models of f(R) Theories of Gravity
We introduce new models of f(R) theories of gravity that are generalization
of Horava-Lifshitz gravity.Comment: 16 pages, typos corrected, v2:minor changes, references adde
Exchange bias with Fe substitution in LaMnO_3
The exchange bias (EB) in LaMn_{0.7}Fe_{0.3}O_3 is observed by the negative
shift and training effect of the hysteresis loops, while the sample was cooled
in external magnetic field. The analysis of cooling field dependence of EB
gives the size of the ferromagnetic (FM) cluster ~ 25 Angstrom, where the
magnetic anisotropy of FM cluster is found two order of magnitude higher than
the FM bulk manganites. We propose that the nanoscale FM clusters are embedded
in the glassy magnetic host with EB at the FM/glassy magnetic interface.Comment: 6 figure
Polarization as a Probe to the Production Mechanisms of Charmonium in Collisions
Measurements of the polarization of \jp produced in pion-nucleus collisions
are in disagreement with leading twist QCD prediction where \jp is observed
to have negligible polarization whereas theory predicts substantial
polarization. We argue that this discrepancy cannot be due to poorly known
structure functions nor the relative production rates of \jp and .
The disagreement between theory and experiment suggests important higher twist
corrections, as has earlier been surmised from the anomalous non-factorized
nuclear -dependence of the \jp cross section.Comment: 8 page
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