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Time-dependent local Green's operator and its applications to manganites
An algorithm is presented to calculate the electronic local time-dependent
Green's operator for manganites-related hamiltonians. This algorithm is proved
to scale with the number of states in the Hilbert-space to the 1.55 power,
is able of parallel implementation, and outperforms computationally the Exact
Diagonalization (ED) method for clusters larger than 64 sites (using
parallelization). This method together with the Monte Carlo (MC) technique is
used to derive new results for the manganites phase diagram for the spatial
dimension D=3 and half-filling on a 12x12x12 cluster (3456 orbitals). We obtain
as a function of an insulating parameter, the sequence of ground states given
by: ferromagnetic (FM), antiferromagnetic AF-type A, AF-type CE, dimer and
AF-type G, which are in remarkable agreement with experimental results.Comment: 9 pages, 11 figure
High temperature susceptibility in electron doped Ca1-xYxMnO3: Double Exchange vs Superexchange
We present a study of the magnetic properties of the electron doped
manganites Ca1-xYxMnO3 (for 0<=x<=0.25) in the paramagnetic regime. For the
less doped samples (x<=0.1) the magnetic susceptibility, c(T), follows a
Curie-Weiss (CW) law only for T > 450 K and, below this temperature, c^-1(T)
shows a ferrimagnetic-like curvature. We approached the discussion of these
results in terms of a simple mean-field model where double exchange,
approximated by a ferromagnetic Heisenberg-like interaction between Mn3+ and
Mn4+ ions, competes with classical superexchange. For higher levels of doping
(x>=0.15), the CW behaviour is observed down to the magnetic ordering
temperature (Tmo) and a better description of c(T) was obtained by assuming
full delocalization of the eg electrons. In order to explore the degree of
delocalization as a function of T and x, we analyzed the problem through
Montecarlo simulations. Within this picture we found that at high T the
electrons doped are completely delocalized but, when Tmo is approached, they
form magnetic polarons of large spin that cause the observed curvature in
c^-1(T) for x<=0.1.Comment: 15 pages, 10 figures, Submitted to J. Physics: Condensed Matter
(06/28/02
The role of E1-E2 interplay in multiphonon Coulomb excitation
In this work we study the problem of a charged particle, bound in a
harmonic-oscillator potential, being excited by the Coulomb field from a fast
charged projectile. Based on a classical solution to the problem and using the
squeezed-state formalism we are able to treat exactly both dipole and
quadrupole Coulomb field components. Addressing various transition amplitudes
and processes of multiphonon excitation we study different aspects resulting
from the interplay between E1 and E2 fields, ranging from classical dynamic
polarization effects to questions of quantum interference. We compare exact
calculations with approximate methods. Results of this work and the formalism
we present can be useful in studies of nuclear reaction physics and in atomic
stopping theory.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figure
Sex differences in intestinal carbohydrate metabolism promote food intake and sperm maturation
Physiology and metabolism are often sexually dimorphic, but the underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood. Here, we use the intestine of Drosophila melanogaster to investigate how gut-derived signals contribute to sex differences in whole-body physiology. We find that carbohydrate handling is male-biased in a specific portion of the intestine. In contrast to known sexual dimorphisms in invertebrates, the sex differences in intestinal carbohydrate metabolism are extrinsically controlled by the adjacent male gonad, which activates JAK-STAT signalling in enterocytes within this intestinal portion. Sex reversal experiments establish roles for this malebiased intestinal metabolic state in controlling food intake and sperm production through gutderived citrate. Our work uncovers a male gonad-gut axis coupling diet and sperm production, and reveals that metabolic communication across organs is physiologically significant. The instructive role of citrate in inter-organ communication may be significant in more biological contexts than previously recognised
Squeezed States of the Generalized Minimum Uncertainty State for the Caldirola-Kanai Hamiltonian
We show that the ground state of the well-known pseudo-stationary states for
the Caldirola-Kanai Hamiltonian is a generalized minimum uncertainty state,
which has the minimum allowed uncertainty , where is a constant depending on the damping
factor and natural frequency. The most general symmetric Gaussian states are
obtained as the one-parameter squeezed states of the pseudo-stationary ground
state. It is further shown that the coherent states of the pseudo-stationary
ground state constitute another class of the generalized minimum uncertainty
states.Comment: RevTex4, 9 pages, no fingure; to be published in Journal of Physics
Spin Waves in Canted Phases: An Application to Doped Manganites
We present the effective lagrangian for low energy and momentum spin waves in
canted phases at next to leading order in the derivative expansion. The
symmetry breaking pattern SU(2) --> 1 of the internal spin group and that of
the crystallographic space group imply that there is one ferromagnetic and one
antiferromagnetic spin wave. The interaction of the spin waves with the charge
carriers is also discussed for canted, ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic
phases. All this together allows us to write the doping dependence of the
dispersion relation parameters for doped manganites. We point out that the spin
waves posses distinctive characteristics which may allow us to experimentally
differentiate canted phases from phase separation regions in doped manganites.Comment: 34 pages, latex file, 1 eps included figure. Minor changes, published
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An Origin of CMR: Competing Phases and Disorder-Induced Insulator-to-Metal Transition in Manganites
We theoretically explore the mechanism of the colossal magnetoresistance in
manganese oxides by explicitly taking into account the phase competition
between the double-exchange ferromagnetism and the charge-ordered insulator. We
find that quenched disorder causes a drastic change of the multicritical phase
diagram by destroying the charge-ordered state selectively. As a result, there
appears a nontrivial phenomenon of the disorder-induced insulator-to-metal
transition in the multicritical regime. On the contrary, the disorder induces a
highly-insulating state above the transition temperature where charge-ordering
fluctuations are much enhanced. The contrasting effects provide an
understanding of the mechanism of the colossal magnetoresistance. The obtained
scenario is discussed in comparison with other theoretical proposals such as
the polaron theory, the Anderson localization, the multicritical-fluctuation
scenario, and the percolation scenario.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Wandlitz Days on Magnetism:
Local-Moment Ferromagnets: Unique Properties for Modern Application
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