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Vortex Viscosity in Magnetic Superconductors Due to Radiation of Spin Waves
In type-II superconductors that contain a lattice of magnetic moments,
vortices polarize the magnetic system inducing additional contributions to the
vortex mass, vortex viscosity, and vortex-vortex interaction. Extra magnetic
viscosity is caused by radiation of spin waves by a moving vortex. Like in the
case of Cherenkov radiation, this effect has a characteristic threshold
behavior and the resulting vortex viscosity may be comparable to the well-known
Bardeen-Stephen contribution. The threshold behavior leads to an anomaly in the
current-voltage characteristics, and a drop in dissipation for a current
interval that is determined by the magnetic excitation spectrum.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur
Quantum critical 5f-electrons avoid singularities in U(Ru,Rh)2Si2
We present specific heat measurements of 4% Rh-doped U(Ru,Rh)2Si2 at magnetic
fields above the proposed metamagnetic transition field Hm~34 T, revealing
striking similarities to the isotructural Ce analog CeRu2Si2, suggesting that
strongly renormalized hybridized band models apply equally well to both
systems. The vanishing bandwidths as H --> Hm are consistent with a putative
quantum critical point close to Hm. The existence of a phase transition into an
ordered phase in the vicinity of Hm for 4% Rh-doped U(Ru,Rh)2Si2, but not for
CeRu2Si2, is consistent with a stronger super-exchange in the case of the U 5-f
system, with irreversible processes at the transition revealing a strong
coupling of the 5f orbitals to the lattice, most suggestive of orbital or
electric quadrupolar order.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Electronic Orbital Currents and Polarization in Mott Insulators
The standard view is that at low energies Mott insulators exhibit only
magnetic properties while charge degrees of freedom are frozen out as the
electrons become localized by a strong Coulomb repulsion. We demonstrate that
this is in general not true: for certain spin textures {\it spontaneous
circular electric currents} or {\it nonuniform charge distribution} exist in
the ground state of Mott insulators. In addition, low-energy ``magnetic''
states contribute comparably to the dielectric and magnetic functions
and leading to interesting phenomena
such as rotation the electric field polarization and resonances which may be
common for both functions producing a negative refraction index in a window of
frequencies
Searching for solar siblings among the HARPS data
The search for the solar siblings has been particularly fruitful in the last
few years. Until now, there are four plausible candidates pointed out in the
literature: HIP21158, HIP87382, HIP47399, and HIP92831. In this study we
conduct a search for solar siblings among the HARPS high-resolution FGK dwarfs
sample, which includes precise chemical abundances and kinematics for 1111
stars. Using a new approach based on chemical abundance trends with the
condensation temperature, kinematics, and ages we found one (additional)
potential solar sibling candidate: HIP97507.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. Accepted in A&
Sampling system for wheat (Triticum aestivum L) area estimation using digital LANDSAT MSS data and aerial photographs
A procedure to estimate wheat (Triticum aestivum L) area using sampling technique based on aerial photographs and digital LANDSAT MSS data is developed. Aerial photographs covering 720 square km are visually analyzed. To estimate wheat area, a regression approach is applied using different sample sizes and various sampling units. As the size of sampling unit decreased, the percentage of sampled area required to obtain similar estimation performance also decreased. The lowest percentage of the area sampled for wheat estimation with relatively high precision and accuracy through regression estimation is 13.90% using 10 square km as the sampling unit. Wheat area estimation using only aerial photographs is less precise and accurate than those obtained by regression estimation
Exact Bond Ordered Ground State for the Transition Between the Band and the Mott Insulator
We derive an effective Hamiltonian for an ionic Hubbard chain,
valid for , where is the hopping, the Coulomb
repulsion, and the charge transfer energy. is the minimal
model for describing the transition from the band insulator (BI) () and the Mott insulator (MI) (). Using spin-particle
transformations (Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{86}, 1082 (2001)), we map
into an SU(3) antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model whose
exact ground state is known. In this way, we show rigorously that a
spontaneously dimerized insulating ferroelectric phase appears in the
transition region between the BI and MI
Magnetic Excitations in the Spin-1 Anisotropic Heisenberg Antiferromagnetic Chain System NiCl-4SC(NH)
NiCl-4SC(NH) (DTN) is a quantum S=1 chain system with strong
easy-pane anisotropy and a new candidate for the Bose-Einstein condensation of
the spin degrees of freedom. ESR studies of magnetic excitations in DTN in
fields up to 25 T are presented. Based on analysis of the single-magnon
excitation mode in the high-field spin-polarized phase and previous
experimental results [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 077204 (2006)], a revised set of
spin-Hamiltonian parameters is obtained. Our results yield K,
K, and K for the anisotropy, intrachain, and interchain exchange
interactions, respectively. These values are used to calculate the
antiferromagnetic phase boundary, magnetization and the frequency-field
dependence of two-magnon bound-state excitations predicted by theory and
observed in DTN for the first time. Excellent quantitative agreement with
experimental data is obtained
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