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Strong-Coupling Superconductivity of CeIrSi with the Non-centrosymmetric Crystal Structure
We studied the pressure-induced superconductor CeIrSi with the
non-centrosymmetric tetragonal structure under high pressure. The electrical
resistivity and ac heat capacity were measured in the same run for the same
sample. The critical pressure was determined to be = 2.25 GPa,
where the antiferromagnetic state disappears. The heat capacity
shows both antiferromagnetic and superconducting transitions at pressures close
to . On the other hand, the superconducting region is extended to
high pressures of up to about 3.5 GPa, with the maximum transition temperature
= 1.6 K around GPa. At 2.58 GPa, a large heat capacity
anomaly was observed at = 1.59 K. The jump of the heat capacity in
the form of is 5.7 0.1.
This is the largest observed value among previously reported superconductors,
indicating the strong-coupling superconductivity. The electronic specific heat
coefficient at is, however, approximately unchanged as a function
of pressure, even at .Comment: This paper will be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. on the August
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Microscopic Mechanism and Pairing Symmetry of Superconductivity in the Noncentrosymmetric Heavy Fermion Systems CeRhSI and CeIrSi
We study the pairing symmetry of the noncentrosymmetric heavy fermion
superconductors CeRhSi and CeIrSi under pressures, which are both
antiferromagnets at ambient pressure. We solve the Eliashberg equation by means
of the random phase approximation and find that the mixed state of extended
s-wave and p-wave rather than the wave state could be realized by
enhanced antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations. It is elucidated that the gap
function has line nodes on the Fermi surface and the resulting density of state
in the superconducting state shows a similar character to that of usual d-wave
superconductors, resulting in the NMR relaxation rate that exhibits
no coherence peak and behaves like at low temperatures
Breakdown of supersaturation barrier links protein folding to amyloid formation
The thermodynamic hypothesis of protein folding, known as the “Anfinsen’s dogma” states that the native structure of a protein represents a free energy minimum determined by the amino acid sequence. However, inconsistent with the Anfinsen’s dogma, globular proteins can misfold to form amyloid fibrils, which are ordered aggregates associated with diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. Here, we present a general concept for the link between folding and misfolding. We tested the accessibility of the amyloid state for various proteins upon heating and agitation. Many of them showed Anfinsen-like reversible unfolding upon heating, but formed amyloid fibrils upon agitation at high temperatures. We show that folding and amyloid formation are separated by the supersaturation barrier of a protein. Its breakdown is required to shift the protein to the amyloid pathway. Thus, the breakdown of supersaturation links the Anfinsen’s intramolecular folding universe and the intermolecular misfolding universe
Observation of Spin-Dependent Charge Symmetry Breaking in Interaction: Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy of He
The energy spacing between the ground-state spin doublet of He(1,0) was determined to be keV, by measuring
rays for the transition with a high efficiency germanium
detector array in coincidence with the He He
reaction at J-PARC. In comparison to the corresponding energy spacing in the
mirror hypernucleus H, the present result clearly indicates the
existence of charge symmetry breaking (CSB) in interaction. It is
also found that the CSB effect is large in the ground state but is by one
order of magnitude smaller in the excited state, demonstrating that the
CSB interaction has spin dependence
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