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Transition from Mott insulator to superconductor in GaNbSe and GaTaSe under high pressure
Electronic conduction in GaMSe (M=Nb;Ta) compounds with the fcc
GaMoS-type structure originates from hopping of localized unpaired
electrons (S=1/2) among widely separated tetrahedral M metal clusters. We
show that under pressure these systems transform from Mott insulators to a
metallic and superconducting state with T=2.9 and 5.8K at 13 and 11.5GPa
for GaNbSe and GaTaSe, respectively. The occurrence of
superconductivity is shown to be connected with a pressure-induced decrease of
the MSe octahedral distortion and simultaneous softening of the phonon
associated with MSe-bonds.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
Short and canonical GRBs
Within the "fireshell" model for the Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) we define a
"canonical GRB" light curve with two sharply different components: the
Proper-GRB (P-GRB), emitted when the optically thick fireshell of
electron-positron plasma originating the phenomenon reaches transparency, and
the afterglow, emitted due to the collision between the remaining optically
thin fireshell and the CircumBurst Medium (CBM). We outline our "canonical GRB"
scenario, with a special emphasis on the discrimination between "genuine" and
"fake" short GRBs.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, in the Proceedings of the "Gamma Ray Bursts 2007"
meeting, November 5-9, 2007, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Pressure-induced quantum phase transition in Fe₁−ᵪCoᵪSi (x = 0.1,0.2)
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Pressure driven collapse of the magnetism in the Kondo insulator UNiSn
The effect of pressure on the electronic and magnetic properties of the antiferromagnetic (TN~43 K) narrow gap semiconductor UNiSn has been investigated by 119Sn Mössbauer spectroscopy and nuclear forward scattering of synchrotron radiation, electrical resistance, and x-ray diffraction. We show that the decrease of the semiconducting gap which leads to a metallic state at p~9 GPa is associated with an enhancement of TN. At higher pressures, both TN and the transferred magnetic hyperfine field decrease, with a collapse of magnetism at ~18.5 GPa. The results are explained by a volume-dependent competition between indirect Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida interaction and the 5f-ligand hybridization
Two-band second moment model and an interatomic potential for caesium
A semi-empirical formalism is presented for deriving interatomic potentials
for materials such as caesium or cerium which exhibit volume collapse phase
transitions. It is based on the Finnis-Sinclair second moment tight binding
approach, but incorporates two independent bands on each atom. The potential is
cast in a form suitable for large-scale molecular dynamics, the computational
cost being the evaluation of short ranged pair potentials. Parameters for a
model potential for caesium are derived and tested
HIGH-PRESSURE MÖSSBAUER STUDIES ON 151Eu IN SELECTED Eu INTERMETALLIC COMPOUNDS
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The Stability of the Ferromagnetic State in La(Fe0.86Al0.14)13 Under High Pressure
The ferromagnetic (FM) La(Fe0.86Al0.14)13 Invar alloy displays a pressure-induced FM to antiferromagnetic (AF) phase transition at a pressure as low as p ~< 0.1 GPa. A quantitative analysis of the results shows that the FM → AF magnetic phase transition recently observed in La(FexAl1-x)13 at ambient pressure is governed by the decrease of the unit cell volume rather than the increase of the number of Fe nearest neighbor atoms.
Pressure-induced quantum phase transition in Fe1−xCoxSi (x = 0.1, 0.2)
Please read abstract in the article.This work was financially supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through SFB 608 and a joint project of DFG and the South African National Research Foundation (NRF). M.K.F. and M.M.A. thank A. Rosch and E. Bauer for fruitful discussions