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Electron acceleration by cascading reconnection in the solar corona I Magnetic gradient and curvature effects
Aims: We investigate the electron acceleration in convective electric fields
of cascading magnetic reconnection in a flaring solar corona and show the
resulting hard X-ray (HXR) radiation spectra caused by Bremsstrahlung for the
coronal source. Methods: We perform test particle calculation of electron
motions in the framework of a guiding center approximation. The electromagnetic
fields and their derivatives along electron trajectories are obtained by
linearly interpolating the results of high-resolution adaptive mesh refinement
(AMR) MHD simulations of cascading magnetic reconnection. Hard X-ray (HXR)
spectra are calculated using an optically thin Bremsstrahlung model. Results:
Magnetic gradients and curvatures in cascading reconnection current sheet
accelerate electrons: trapped in magnetic islands, precipitating to the
chromosphere and ejected into the interplanetary space. The final location of
an electron is determined by its initial position, pitch angle and velocity.
These initial conditions also influence electron acceleration efficiency. Most
of electrons have enhanced perpendicular energy. Trapped electrons are
considered to cause the observed bright spots along coronal mass ejection
CME-trailing current sheets as well as the flare loop-top HXR emissions.Comment: submitted to A&
Quenched charge disorder in CuO2 spin chains: Experimental and numerical studies
We report on measurements of the magnetic response of the anisotropic CuO_2
spin chains in lightly hole-doped La_x (Ca,Sr)_14-x Cu_24 O_41, x>=5. The
experimental data suggest that in magnetic fields B >~ 4T (applied along the
easy axis) the system is characterized by short-range spin order and
quasi-static (quenched) charge disorder. The magnetic susceptibility chi(B)
shows a broad anomaly, which we interpret as the remnant of a spin-flop
transition. To corroborate this idea, we present Monte Carlo simulations of a
classical, anisotropic Heisenberg model with randomly distributed, static
holes. Our numerical results clearly show that the spin-flop transition of the
pure model (without holes) is destroyed and smeared out due to the disorder
introduced by the quasi-static holes. Both the numerically calculated
susceptibility curves chi(B) and the temperature dependence of the position of
the anomaly are in qualitative agreement with the experimental data.Comment: 10 pages, REVTeX4. 11 figures; v2: Fig.2 replaced, small changes in
Figs.1 and 11; minor revisons in Sec. III.C; accepted by Phys. Rev.
Local magnetic anisotropy in BaFeAs: a polarized inelastic neutron scattering study
The anisotropy of the magnetic excitations in BaFeAs was studied by
polarized inelastic neutron scattering which allows one to separate the
components of the magnetic response. Despite the in-plane orientation of the
static ordered moment we find the in-plane polarized magnons to exhibit a
larger gap than the out-of-plane polarized ones indicating very strong
single-ion anisotropy within the layers. It costs more energy to rotate a spin
within the orthorhombic {\it a-b} plane than rotating it perpendicular to the
FeAs layers.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Magnetic heat conductivity in : linear temperature dependence
We present experimental results for the thermal conductivity of the
pseudo 2-leg ladder material . The strong buckling of the ladder
rungs renders this material a good approximation to a Heisenberg-chain.
Despite a strong suppression of the thermal conductivity of this material in
all crystal directions due to inherent disorder, we find a dominant magnetic
contribution along the chain direction.
is \textit{linear} in temperature, resembling the
low-temperature limit of the thermal Drude weight of the
Heisenberg chain. The comparison of and
yields a magnetic mean free path of \AA, in good agreement with magnetic measurements.Comment: appears in PR
Spin dynamics and magnetic interactions of Mn dopants in the topological insulator BiTe
The magnetic and electronic properties of the magnetically doped topological
insulator BiMnTe were studied using electron spin
resonance (ESR) and measurements of static magnetization and electrical
transport. The investigated high quality single crystals of BiMnTe show a ferromagnetic phase transition for
at K. The Hall measurements reveal a p-type finite
charge-carrier density. Measurements of the temperature dependence of the ESR
signal of Mn dopants for different orientations of the external magnetic field
give evidence that the localized Mn moments interact with the mobile charge
carriers leading to a Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida-type ferromagnetic coupling
between the Mn spins of order 2-3 meV. Furthermore, ESR reveals a
low-dimensional character of magnetic correlations that persist far above the
ferromagnetic ordering temperature
Atom interferometry measurement of the electric polarizability of lithium
Using an atom interferometer, we have measured the static electric
polarizability of Li m atomic units with a 0.66% uncertainty. Our experiment, which
is similar to an experiment done on sodium in 1995 by D. Pritchard and
co-workers, consists in applying an electric field on one of the two
interfering beams and measuring the resulting phase-shift. With respect to D.
Pritchard's experiment, we have made several improvements which are described
in detail in this paper: the capacitor design is such that the electric field
can be calculated analytically; the phase sensitivity of our interferometer is
substantially better, near 16 mrad/; finally our interferometer is
species selective it so that impurities present in our atomic beam (other
alkali atoms or lithium dimers) do not perturb our measurement. The extreme
sensitivity of atom interferometry is well illustrated by our experiment: our
measurement amounts to measuring a slight increase of the atom
velocity when it enters the electric field region and our present
sensitivity is sufficient to detect a variation .Comment: 14 page
Magnon Heat Transport in doped
We present results of the thermal conductivity of and single-crystals which represent model systems for the
two-dimensional spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a square lattice. We
find large anisotropies of the thermal conductivity, which are explained in
terms of two-dimensional heat conduction by magnons within the CuO planes.
Non-magnetic Zn substituted for Cu gradually suppresses this magnon thermal
conductivity . A semiclassical analysis of
is shown to yield a magnon mean free path which scales
linearly with the reciprocal concentration of Zn-ions.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
The distance between Inherent Structures and the influence of saddles on approaching the mode coupling transition in a simple glass former
We analyze through molecular dynamics simulations of a Lennard-Jones binary
mixture the statistics of the distances between inherent structures (IS)
sampled at temperatures above the mode coupling transition temperature T_MCT.
We take equilibrated configurations and randomly perturb the coordinates of a
given number of particles. After that we take the nearest IS of both the
original configuration and the perturbed one and evaluate the distance between
them. This distance presents an inflection point near T~1 with a strong
decrease below this temperature and goes to a small but nonzero value on
approaching T_MCT. In the low temperature region we study the statistics of
events which give zero distance, i.e. dominated by minima, and find evidence
that the number of saddles decreases exponentially near T_MCT. This implies
that saddles continue to exist even for T<=T_MCT. As at T_MCT the extrapolated
diffusivity goes to zero our results imply that there are saddles associated
with nondiffusional events at T<T_MCT.Comment: 5 pages, 5 ps figure
Finite-Size Effects in a Supercooled Liquid
We study the influence of the system size on various static and dynamic
properties of a supercooled binary Lennard-Jones liquid via computer
simulations. In this way, we demonstrate that the treatment of systems as small
as N=65 particles yields relevant results for the understanding of bulk
properties. Especially, we find that a system of N=130 particles behaves
basically as two non-interacting systems of half the size.Comment: Proceedings of the III Workshop on Non Equilibrium Phenomena in
Supercooled Fluids, Glasses and Amorphous Materials, Sep 2002, Pis
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