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Superconductivity from repulsion in LiFeAs: novel s-wave symmetry and potential time-reversal symmetry breaking
We analyze the structure of the pairing interaction and superconducting gap
in LiFeAs by decomposing the pairing interaction for various kz cuts into s-
and d-wave components and by studying the leading superconducting
instabilities. We use the ten orbital tight-binding model, derived from
ab-initio LDA calculations with hopping parameters extracted from the fit to
ARPES experiments. We find that the pairing interaction almost decouples
between two subsets, one consists of the outer hole pocket and two electron
pockets, which are quasi-2D and are made largely out of dxy orbital, and the
other consists of the two inner hole pockets, which are quasi-3D and are made
mostly out of dxz and dyz orbitals. Furthermore, the bare inter-pocket and
intra-pocket interactions within each subset are nearly equal. In this
situation, small changes in the intra-pocket and inter-pocket interactions due
to renormalizations by high-energy fermions give rise to a variety of different
gap structures. We find four different configurations of the s-wave gap
immediately below Tc: the one in which superconducting gap changes sign between
two inner hole pockets and between the outer hole pocket and two electron
pockets, the one in which the gap changes sign between two electron pockets and
three hole pockets, the one in which the gap on the outer hole pocket differs
in sign from the gaps on the other four pockets, and the one in which the gaps
on two inner hole pockets have one sign, and the gaps on the outer hole pockets
and on electron pockets have different sign. Different s-wave gap
configurations emerge depending on whether the renormalized interactions
increase attraction within each subset or increase the coupling between
particular components of the two subsets. We argue that the state with opposite
sign of the gaps on the two inner hole pockets has the best overlap with ARPES
data.Comment: 23 pages, 15 figure
Boundary Flows in general Coset Theories
In this paper we study the boundary effects for off-critical integrable field
theories which have close analogs with integrable lattice models. Our models
are the coset conformal field theories
perturbed by integrable boundary and bulk operators. The boundary interactions
are encoded into the boundary reflection matrix. Using the TBA method, we
verify the flows of the conformal BCs by computing the boundary entropies.
These flows of the BCs have direct interpretations for the fusion RSOS lattice
models. For super CFTs () we show that these flows are possible only for
the Neveu-Schwarz sector and are consistent with the lattice results. The
models we considered cover a wide class of integrable models. In particular, we
show how the the impurity spin is screened by electrons for the -channel
Kondo model by taking limit. We also study the problem using an
independent method based on the boundary roaming TBA. Our numerical results are
consistent with the boundary CFTs and RSOS TBA analysis.Comment: 22 pages, 3 postscript figure file
Yang-Baxter equation for the asymmetric eight-vertex model
In this note we study `a la Baxter [1] the possible integrable manifolds of
the asymmetric eight-vertex model. As expected they occur when the Boltzmann
weights are either symmetric or satisfy the free-fermion condition but our
analysis clarify the reason both manifolds need to share a universal invariant.
We also show that the free-fermion condition implies three distinct classes of
integrable models.Comment: Latex, 12 pages, 1 figur
Hydrogen desorption and adsorption measurements on graphite nanofibers
Graphite nanofibers were synthesized and their hydrogen desorption and adsorption properties are reported for 77 and 300 K. Catalysts were made by several different methods including chemical routes, mechanical alloying, and gas condensation. The nanofibers were grown by passing ethylene and H2 gases over the catalysts at 600 °C. Hydrogen desorption and adsorption were measured using a volumetric analysis Sieverts' apparatus, and the graphite nanofibers were characterized by transmission electron microscopy and Brunauer–Emmett–Teller surface area analysis. The absolute level of hydrogen desorption measured from these materials was typically less than the 0.01 H/C atom, comparable to other forms of carbon
Perturbation theory in radial quantization approach and the expectation values of exponential fields in sine-Gordon model
A perturbation theory for Massive Thirring Model (MTM) in radial quantization
approach is developed. Investigation of the twisted sector in this theory
allows us to calculate the vacuum expectation values of exponential fields of the sine-Gordon theory in first order over Massive Thirring
Models coupling constant. It appears that the apparent difficulty in radial
quantization of massive theories, namely the explicite ''time'' dependence of
the Hamiltonian, may be successfully overcome. The result we have obtained
agrees with the exact formula conjectured by Lukyanov and Zamolodchikov and
coincides with the analogous calculations recently carried out in dual angular
quantization approach by one of the authors.Comment: 16 pages, no figures, LaTe
Polarization immunity of magnetoresistivity response under Microwave excitation
We analyze theoretically the dependence of the microwave polarization sate
and sense on the magnetoresistivity response of two-dimensional electron
systems. Linear and circular polarization have been considered with different
senses and directions. We discuss the polarization dependence of the
longitudinal magnetoresistivity and propose an explanation for the
experimentally observed polarization immunity, i.e., resistivity oscillations
and zero resistance state regions are unaffected by the sense of circular
polarization or by the direction of microwave electric field.Comment: 4 pages and 1 figur
Screened hybrid functional applied to 3d^0-->3d^8 transition-metal perovskites LaMO3 (M=Sc-Cu): influence of the exchange mixing parameter on the structural, electronic and magnetic properties
We assess the performance of the Heyd-Scuseria-Ernzerhof (HSE) screened
hybrid density functional scheme applied to the perovskite family LaMO3
(M=Sc-Cu) and discuss the role of the mixing parameter alpha (which determines
the fraction of exact Hartree-Fock exchange included in the density functional
theory (DFT) exchange-correlation functional) on the structural, electronic,
and magnetic properties. The physical complexity of this class of compounds,
manifested by the largely varying electronic characters
(band/Mott-Hubbard/charge-transfer insulators and metals), magnetic orderings,
structural distortions (cooperative Jahn-Teller like instabilities), as well as
by the strong competition between localization/delocalization effects
associated with the gradual filling of the t_2g and e_g orbitals, symbolize a
critical and challenging case for theory. Our results indicates that HSE is
able to provide a consistent picture of the complex physical scenario
encountered across the LaMO3 series and significantly improve the standard DFT
description. The only exceptions are the correlated paramagnetic metals LaNiO3
and LaCuO3, which are found to be treated better within DFT. By fitting the
ground state properties with respect to alpha we have constructed a set of
'optimum' values of alpha from LaScO3 to LaCuO3: it is found that the 'optimum'
mixing parameter decreases with increasing filling of the d manifold (LaScO3:
0.25; LaTiO3 & LaVO3: 0.10-0.15; LaCrO3, LaMnO3, and LaFeO3: 0.15; LaCoO3:
0.05; LaNiO3 & LaCuO3: 0). This trend can be nicely correlated with the
modulation of the screening and dielectric properties across the LaMO3 series,
thus providing a physical justification to the empirical fitting procedure.Comment: 32 pages, 29 figure
Densest Subgraph in Dynamic Graph Streams
In this paper, we consider the problem of approximating the densest subgraph
in the dynamic graph stream model. In this model of computation, the input
graph is defined by an arbitrary sequence of edge insertions and deletions and
the goal is to analyze properties of the resulting graph given memory that is
sub-linear in the size of the stream. We present a single-pass algorithm that
returns a approximation of the maximum density with high
probability; the algorithm uses O(\epsilon^{-2} n \polylog n) space,
processes each stream update in \polylog (n) time, and uses \poly(n)
post-processing time where is the number of nodes. The space used by our
algorithm matches the lower bound of Bahmani et al.~(PVLDB 2012) up to a
poly-logarithmic factor for constant . The best existing results for
this problem were established recently by Bhattacharya et al.~(STOC 2015). They
presented a approximation algorithm using similar space and
another algorithm that both processed each update and maintained a
approximation of the current maximum density in \polylog (n)
time per-update.Comment: To appear in MFCS 201
The Primary Spin-4 Casimir Operators in the Holographic SO(N) Coset Minimal Models
Starting from SO(N) current algebra, we construct two lowest primary higher
spin-4 Casimir operators which are quartic in spin-1 fields. For N is odd, one
of them corresponds to the current in the WB_{\frac{N-1}{2}} minimal model. For
N is even, the other corresponds to the current in the WD_{\frac{N}{2}} minimal
model. These primary higher spin currents, the generators of wedge subalgebra,
are obtained from the operator product expansion of fermionic (or bosonic)
primary spin-N/2 field with itself in each minimal model respectively. We
obtain, indirectly, the three-point functions with two real scalars, in the
large N 't Hooft limit, for all values of the 't Hooft coupling which should be
dual to the three-point functions in the higher spin AdS_3 gravity with matter.Comment: 65 pages; present the main results only and to appear in JHEP where
one can see the Appendi
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