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The direct Cu NQR Study of the Stripe Phase in the Lanthanum Cuprates
Using Cu NQR in Eu-doped La_(2-x)Sr_xCuO_4 we find the evidence of the pinned
stripe phase at 1.3K for 0.08<x<0.18. The pinned fraction increases by one
order of magnitude near hole doping x=1/8. The NQR lineshape reveals three
inequivalent Cu positions. A dramatic change of the NQR signal for x > 0.18
correlating with the onset of bulk superconductivity corresponds to the
depinning of the stripe phase.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Physica C, Proceedings of the 6th
International Conference on Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity,
Houston, February 200
Thermal conductivity of doped as an example for heat transport by optical phonons in complex materials
We investigate the phonon thermal conductivity of
doped based on out-of-plane thermal conductivity measurements.
When room temperature is approached the temperature dependence of
strongly deviates from the -decrease which is
usually expected for heat transport by acoustic phonons. Instead,
decreases much weaker or even increases with rising
temperature. Simple arguments suggest that such unusual temperature
dependencies of are caused by heat transport via
dispersive optical phonons
Effect of guide field on three dimensional electron shear flow instabilities in collisionless magnetic reconnection
We examine the effect of an external guide field and current sheet thickness
on the growth rates and nature of three dimensional unstable modes of an
electron current sheet driven by electron shear flow. The growth rate of the
fastest growing mode drops rapidly with current sheet thickness but increases
slowly with the strength of the guide field. The fastest growing mode is
tearing type only for thin current sheets (half thickness , where
is electron inertial length) and zero guide field. For
finite guide field or thicker current sheets, fastest growing mode is
non-tearing type. However growth rates of the fastest 2-D tearing mode and 3-D
non-tearing mode are comparable for thin current sheets (half thickness
) and small guide field (of the order of the asymptotic value of the
component of magnetic field supporting electron current sheet). It is shown
that the general mode resonance conditions for electron-magnetohydrodynamic
(EMHD) and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) tearing modes depend on the effective
dissipation mechanism (electron inertia and resistivity in cases of EMHD and
MHD, respectively). The usual tearing mode resonance condition
(, is the wave vector and
is equilibrium magnetic field) can be recovered from the general
resonance conditions in the limit of weak dissipation. Necessary conditions
(relating current sheet thickness, strength of the guide field and wave
numbers) for the existence of tearing mode are obtained from the general mode
resonance conditions.Comment: The following article has been submitted to Physics of Plasmas. After
it is published, it will be found at
http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/pop. Authors gratefully
acknowledges the support of the German Science Foundation CRC 96
Non-Maxwellian electron distribution functions due to self-generated turbulence in collisionless guide-field reconnection
Non-Maxwellian electron velocity space distribution functions (EVDF) are
useful signatures of plasma conditions and non-local consequences of
collisionless magnetic reconnection. In the past, EVDFs were obtained mainly
for antiparallel reconnection and under the influence of weak guide-fields in
the direction perpendicular to the reconnection plane. EVDFs are, however, not
well known, yet, for oblique (or component-) reconnection in dependence on
stronger guide-magnetic fields and for the exhaust (outflow) region of
reconnection away from the diffusion region. In view of the multi-spacecraft
Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS), we derived the non-Maxwellian EVDFs of
collisionless magnetic reconnection in dependence on the guide-field strength
from small () to very strong () guide-fields, taking
into account the feedback of the self-generated turbulence. For this sake, we
carried out 2.5D fully-kinetic Particle-in-Cell simulations using the ACRONYM
code. We obtained anisotropic EVDFs and electron beams propagating along the
separatrices as well as in the exhaust region of reconnection. The beams are
anisotropic with a higher temperature in the direction perpendicular rather
than parallel to the local magnetic field. The beams propagate in the direction
opposite to the background electrons and cause instabilities. We also obtained
the guide-field dependence of the relative electron-beam drift speed, threshold
and properties of the resulting streaming instabilities including the strongly
non-linear saturation of the self-generated plasma turbulence. This turbulence
and its non-linear feedback cause non-adiabatic parallel electron acceleration
and EVDFs well beyond the limits of the quasi-linear approximation, producing
phase space holes and an isotropizing pitch-angle scattering.Comment: 21 pages, 8 figures. Revised to match with the version published in
Physics of Plasmas. An abridged version of the abstract is shown her
Analysis of fast turbulent reconnection with self-consistent determination of turbulence timescale
We present results of Reynolds-averaged turbulence model simulation on the
problem of magnetic reconnection. In the model, in addition to the mean
density, momentum, magnetic field, and energy equations, the evolution
equations of the turbulent cross-helicity , turbulent energy and its
dissipation rate are simultaneously solved to calculate the rate
of magnetic reconnection for a Harris-type current sheet. In contrast to
previous works based on algebraic modeling, the turbulence timescale is
self-determined by the nonlinear evolutions of and , their
ratio being a timescale. We compare the reconnection rate produced by our
mean-field model to the resistive non-turbulent MHD rate. To test whether
different regimes of reconnection are produced, we vary the initial strength of
turbulent energy and study the effect on the amount of magnetic flux
reconnected in time.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figure
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