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Glassy magnetic phase driven by short range charge and magnetic ordering in nanocrystalline LaSrFeO: Magnetization, Mossbauer, and polarised neutron studies
The charge ordered LaSrFeO (LSFO) in bulk and
nanocrystalline forms are investigated using ac and dc magnetization,
M\"{o}ssbauer, and polarised neutron studies. A complex scenario of short range
charge and magnetic ordering is realized from the polarised neutron studies in
nanocrystalline specimen. This short range ordering does not involve any change
in spin state and modification in the charge disproportion between Fe
and Fe compared to bulk counterpart as evident in the M\"{o}ssbauer
results. The refinement of magnetic diffraction peaks provides magnetic moments
of Fe and Fe are about 3.15 and 1.57 for bulk, and
2.7 and 0.53 for nanocrystalline specimen, respectively. The
destabilization of charge ordering leads to magnetic phase separation, giving
rise to the robust exchange bias (EB) effect. Strikingly, EB field at 5 K
attains a value as high as 4.4 kOe for average size 70 nm, which is zero
for the bulk counterpart. A strong frequency dependence of ac susceptibility
reveals cluster-glass like transition around 65 K, below which EB
appears. Overall results propose that finite size effect directs the complex
glassy magnetic behavior driven by unconventional short range charge and
magnetic ordering, and magnetic phase separation appears in nanocrystalline
LSFO.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures. Fig. 1 available upon request or in
http://www.ffn.ub.es/oscar/Articles.html. Accepted in Phys. Rev.
Experimental determination of the non-extensive entropic parameter
We show how to extract the parameter from experimental data, considering
an inhomogeneous magnetic system composed by many Maxwell-Boltzmann homogeneous
parts, which after integration over the whole system recover the Tsallis
non-extensivity. Analyzing the cluster distribution of
LaSrMnO manganite, obtained through scanning tunnelling
spectroscopy, we measure the parameter and predict the bulk magnetization
with good accuracy. The connection between the Griffiths phase and
non-extensivity is also considered. We conclude that the entropic parameter
embodies information about the dynamics, the key role to describe complex
systems.Comment: Submitted to Phys. Rev. Let
Directed Surfaces in Disordered Media
The critical exponents for a class of one-dimensional models of interface
depinning in disordered media can be calculated through a mapping onto directed
percolation (DP). In higher dimensions these models give rise to directed
surfaces, which do not belong to the directed percolation universality class.
We formulate a scaling theory of directed surfaces, and calculate critical
exponents numerically, using a cellular automaton that locates the directed
surfaces without making reference to the dynamics of the underlying interface
growth models.Comment: 4 pages, REVTEX, 2 Postscript figures avaliable from [email protected]
Comment on: Kinetic Roughening in Slow Combustion of Paper
We comment on a recent Letter by Maunuksela et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 1515
(1997)].Comment: 1 page, 1 figure, http://polymer.bu.edu/~hmakse/Home.htm
Canalizing Kauffman networks: non-ergodicity and its effect on their critical behavior
Boolean Networks have been used to study numerous phenomena, including gene
regulation, neural networks, social interactions, and biological evolution.
Here, we propose a general method for determining the critical behavior of
Boolean systems built from arbitrary ensembles of Boolean functions. In
particular, we solve the critical condition for systems of units operating
according to canalizing functions and present strong numerical evidence that
our approach correctly predicts the phase transition from order to chaos in
such systems.Comment: to be published in PR
Scaling behavior in economics: II. Modeling of company growth
In the preceding paper we presented empirical results describing the growth
of publicly-traded United States manufacturing firms within the years
1974--1993. Our results suggest that the data can be described by a scaling
approach. Here, we propose models that may lead to some insight into these
phenomena. First, we study a model in which the growth rate of a company is
affected by a tendency to retain an ``optimal'' size. That model leads to an
exponential distribution of the logarithm of the growth rate in agreement with
the empirical results. Then, we study a hierarchical tree-like model of a
company that enables us to relate the two parameters of the model to the
exponent , which describes the dependence of the standard deviation of
the distribution of growth rates on size. We find that , where defines the mean branching ratio of the hierarchical tree and
is the probability that the lower levels follow the policy of higher
levels in the hierarchy. We also study the distribution of growth rates of this
hierarchical model. We find that the distribution is consistent with the
exponential form found empirically.Comment: 19 pages LateX, RevTeX 3, 6 figures, to appear J. Phys. I France
(April 1997
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