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Electronic Structure of the Chevrel-Phase Compounds SnMoSe: Photoemission Spectroscopy and Band-structure Calculations
We have studied the electronic structure of two Chevrel-phase compounds,
MoSe and SnMoSe, by combining photoemission
spectroscopy and band-structure calculations. Core-level spectra taken with
x-ray photoemission spectroscopy show systematic core-level shifts, which do
not obey a simple rigid-band model. The inverse photoemission spectra imply the
existence of an energy gap located eV above the Fermi level, which is
a characteristic feature of the electronic structure of the Chevrel compounds.
Quantitative comparison between the photoemission spectra and the
band-structure calculations have been made. While good agreement between theory
and experiment in the wide energy range was obtained as already reported in
previous studies, we found that the high density of states near the Fermi level
predicted theoretically due to the Van Hove singularity is considerably reduced
in the experimental spectra taken with higher energy resolution than in the
previous reports. Possible origins are proposed to explain this observation.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure
Robustness of baryon-strangeness correlation and related ratios of susceptibilities
Using quenched lattice QCD simulations we investigate the continuum limit of
baryon-strangeness correlation and other related conserved charge-flavour
correlations for temperatures T_c<T\le2T_c. By working with lattices having
large temporal extents (N_\tau=12, 10, 8, 4) we find that these quantities are
almost independent of the lattice spacing, i.e, robust. We also find that these
quantities have very mild dependence on the sea quark mass and acquire values
which are very close to their respective ideal gas limits. Our results also
confirm robustness of the Wroblewski parameter.Comment: Published versio
The effects of quantum instantons on the thermodynamics of the CP^(N-1) model
Using the 1/N expansion, we study the influence of quantum instantons on the
thermodynamics of the CP^(N-1) model in 1+1 dimensions. We do this by
calculating the pressure to next-to-leading order in 1/N, without quantum
instanton contributions. The fact that the CP^1 model is equivalent to the O(3)
nonlinear sigma model, allows for a comparison to the full pressure up to 1/N^2
corrections for N=3. Assuming validity of the 1/N expansion for the CP^1 model
makes it possible to argue that the pressure for intermediate temperatures is
dominated by the effects of quantum instantons. A similar conclusion can be
drawn for general N values by using the fact that the entropy should always be
positive.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, revtex. To appear in PRD. Some arguments and
conclusions reformulate
Investigating 16O with the 15N(p,{\alpha})12C reaction
The 16O nucleus was investigated through the 15N(p,{\alpha})12C reaction at
excitation energies from Ex = 12 231 to 15 700 keV using proton beams from a 5
MeV Van de Graaff accelerator at beam energies of Ep = 331 to 3800 keV. Alpha
decay from resonant states in 16O was strongly observed for ten known excited
states in this region. The candidate 4-alpha cluster state at Ex = 15.1 MeV was
investigated particularly intensely in order to understand its particle decay
channels.Comment: Submitted for Proceedings of Fourth International Workshop on State
of the Art in Nuclear Cluster Physics (SOTANCP4), held from May 13 - 18, 2018
in Galveston, TX, US
Effective potential for Polyakov loops from a center symmetric effective theory in three dimensions
We present lattice simulations of a center symmetric dimensionally reduced
effective field theory for SU(2) Yang Mills which employ thermal Wilson lines
and three-dimensional magnetic fields as fundamental degrees of freedom. The
action is composed of a gauge invariant kinetic term, spatial gauge fields and
a potential for the Wilson line which includes a "fuzzy" bag term to generate
non-perturbative fluctuations. The effective potential for the Polyakov loop is
extracted from the simulations including all modes of the loop as well as for
cooled configuration where the hard modes have been averaged out. The former is
found to exhibit a non-analytic contribution while the latter can be described
by a mean-field like ansatz with quadratic and quartic terms, plus a
Vandermonde potential which depends upon the location within the phase diagram.Comment: 10 pages, 22 figures, v2: published version (minor clarifications,
update of reference list
Mott transition and suppression of orbital fluctuations in orthorhombic 3 perovskites
Using Wannier-functions, a low-energy Hamiltonian is derived for
orthorhombic transition-metal oxides. Electronic correlations are
treated with a new implementation of dynamical mean-field theory for non-cubic
systems. Good agreement with photoemission data is obtained. The interplay of
correlation effects and cation covalency (GdFeO-type distortions) is
found to suppress orbital fluctuations in LaTiO and even more in
YTiO, and to favor the transition to the insulating state.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures; revised manuscrip
Anisotropies in insulating LaSrCuO: angular resolved photoemission and optical absorption
Due to the orthorhombic distortion of the lattice, the electronic hopping
integrals along the and diagonals, the orthorhombic directions, are
slightly different. We calculate their difference in the LDA and find
meV. We argue that electron
correlations in the insulating phase of LaSrCuO, i. e. at
doping dramatically enhance the -splitting between the - and -hole valleys. In particular, we predict
that the intensity of both angle-resolved photoemission and of optical
absorption is very different for the and nodal points
Augmented space recursion for partially disordered systems
Off-stoichiometric alloys exhibit partial disorder, in the sense that only
some of the sublattices of the stoichiometric ordered alloy become disordered.
This paper puts forward a generalization of the augmented space recursion (ASR)
(introduced earlier by one of us (Mookerjee et al 1997(*))) for systems with
many atoms per unit cell. In order to justify the convergence properties of ASR
we have studied the convergence of various moments of local density of states
and other physical quantities like Fermi energy and band energy. We have also
looked at the convergence of the magnetic moment of Ni, which is very sensitive
to numerical approximations towards the k-space value 0.6 with the
number of recursion steps prior to termination.Comment: Latex 2e, 21 Pages, 13 Figures, iopb style file attache
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