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Paroxysmal fascicular tachycardia and ventricular tachycardia due to mechanical stimulation by a mitral valve prosthesis
Electrophysiologic studies were performed in a woman who had two varieties of paroxysmal wide QRS tachycardia after mitral valve replacement with a Starr-Edwards prosthesis. One tachycardia originated in the left anterior fascicle; QRS complexes were 100 ms wide and resembled right bundle branch block with left posterior fascicular block, and a His bundle potential preceded each QRS by an interval of 20 ms (compared with 50 ms during sinus rhythm). The other tachycardia originated in the left ventricle. Clinical and echocardiographic observations suggested that the tachycardias were caused by mechanical stimulation of the interventricular septum by the mitral prosthesis
A Transport and Microwave Study of Superconducting and Magnetic RuSr2EuCu2O8
We have performed susceptibility, thermopower, dc resistance and microwave
measurements on RuSr2EuCu2O8. This compound has recently been shown to display
the coexistence of both superconducting and magnetic order. We find clear
evidence of changes in the dc and microwave resistance near the magnetic
ordering temperature (132 K). The intergranular effects were separated from the
intragranular effects by performing microwave measurements on a sintered
ceramic sample as well as on a powder sample dispersed in an epoxy resin. We
show that the data can be interpreted in terms of the normal-state resistivity
being dominated by the CuO2 layers with exchange coupling to the Ru moments in
the RuO2 layers. Furthermore, most of the normal-state semiconductor-like
upturn in the microwave resistance is found to arise from intergranular
transport. The data in the superconducting state can be consistently
interpreted in terms of intergranular weak-links and an intragranular
spontaneous vortex phase due to the ferromagnetic component of the
magnetization arising from the RuO2 planes.Comment: 20 pages including 6 figures in pdf format. To be published in Phys.
Rev.
Synthesis effects on the magnetic and superconducting properties of RuSr2GdCu2O8
A systematic study on the synthesis of the Ru-1212 compound by preparing a
series of samples that were annealed at increasing temperatures and then
quenched has been performed. It results that the optimal temperature for the
annealing lies around 1060-1065 C; a further temperature increase worsens the
phase formation. Structural order is very important and the subsequent grinding
and annealing improves it. Even if from the structural point of view the
samples appear substantially similar, the physical characterization highlight
great differences both in the electrical and magnetic properties related to
intrinsic properties of the phase as well as to the connection between the
grains as inferred from the resistive and the Curie Weiss behaviour at high
temperature as well as in the visibility of ZFC anf FC magnetic signals.Comment: 17 pages, 12 figures. Proc. Int. Workshop " Ruthenate and
rutheno-cuprate materials: theory and experiments", Vietri, October 2001. To
be published on LNP Series, Springer Verlag, Berlin, C. Noce, A. Vecchione,
M. Cuoco, A. Romano Eds, 200
Metal-to-insulator transition and magnetic ordering in CaRu_{1-x}Cu_xO_3
CaRuO_3 is perovskite with an orthorhombic distortion and is believed to be
close to magnetic ordering. Magnetic studies of single crystal and
polycrystalline CaRu_{1-x}Cu_xO_3 (0\le x \le 15 at.%Cu) reveal that
spin-glass-like transition develops for x\le 7 at.%Cu and obtained value for
effective magnetic moment p_{eff}=3.55 mu_B for x=5 at.% Cu, single crystal,
indicates presence of Ru^{5+}. At higher Cu concentrations more complex
magnetic behaviors are observed. Electrical resistivity measured on
polycrystalline samples shows metal-to-insulator transition (MIT) at 51 K for
only 2 at.% Cu. Charge compensation, which is assumed to be present upon
Cu^{2+/3+} substitution, induces appearance of Ru^{5+} and/or creation of
oxygen vacancies in crystal structure. Since the observed changes in physical
properties are completely attributable to the charge compensation, they cannot
be related to behaviors of pure compound where no such mechanism is present.
This study provides the criterion for "good" chemical probes for studying
Ru-based perovskites.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figure
Decoupling of superconducting layers in magnetic superconductor RuSr_{2}GdCu_{2}O_{8}
We propose the model for magnetic properties of the magnetic superconductor
RuSrGdCuO, which incorporates the theory of the
superconducting/ferromagnetic multilayers. The transition line , on
which the Josephson coupled superconducting planes are decoupled, i.e. , is calculated as a function of the exchange energy . As the
result of this decoupling a nonmonotonic behavior of magnetic properties, like
the lower critical field , Josephson plasma frequency, etc. is realized
near (or by crossing) the line. The obtained results are used in
analyzing the newly discovered antiferromagnetic ruthenocuprate
RuSrGdCuO with possible weak ferromagnetic order in the RuO
planes.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figs embede
On the effect of heterovalent substitutions in ruthenocuprates
We discuss the properties of superconducting derivatives of the RuSr2GdCu2O8
(1212-type) ruthenocuprate, for which heterovalent doping has been achieved
through partial substitution of Cu ions into the RuO2 planes
(Ru1-xSr2GdCu2+xO8-d, 0<x<0.75, Tcmax=72 K for x=0.3-0.4) and Ce ions into the
Gd sites (RuSr2Gd1-yCeyCu2O8, 0<y<0.1). The measurements of XANES, thermopower,
and magnetization under external pressure reveal an underdoped character of all
compounds. Muon spin rotation experiments indicate the presence of magnetic
order at low temperatures (Tm=14-2 K for x=0.1-0.4). Properties of these two
series lead us to the qualitative phase diagram for differently doped 1212-type
ruthenocuprates. The difference in temperature of magnetic ordering found for
superconducting and non-superconducting RuSr2GdCu2O8 is discussed in the
context of the properties of substituted compounds. The high pressure oxygen
conditions required for synthesis of Ru1-xSr2RECu2+xO8-d, have been extended to
synthesis of a Ru1-xSr2Eu2-yCeyCu2+xO10-d series. The Cu->Ru doping achieved in
these phases is found to decrease the temperature for magnetic ordering as well
the volume fraction of the magnetic phase.Comment: Proceedings of the 3rd Polish-US Workshop on Magnetism and
Superconductivity of Advanced Materials, July 14-19, 2002, Ladek Zdroj
(Poland) to appear in Physica
Evidence for Possible Phase-Separations in RuSr2(Gd,Ce)2Cu2O10-delta
An unusual thermal-magnetic hysteresis was observed between a minor magnetic
transition around 120 K and the main one at 80 K in superconducting
RuSr2(R,Ce)2Cu2O10-delta (Ru1222R) samples, where R = Gd or Eu, down to a
submicron length-scale. The observation suggests a possible phase-separation
and is consistent with the very small but universal demagnetizing factor
observed, which is difficult to reconcile with the canted spin-structure
previously proposed. In such a scenario, the unusual superconducting properties
of the Ru-based cuprates can also be understood naturally.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B, "Rapid Communications"
(September 26, 2001
Direct determination of spin orbit interaction coefficients and realization of the persistent spin helix symmetry
The spin orbit interaction plays a crucial role in diverse fields of
condensed matter, including the investigation of Majorana fermions, topological
insulators, quantum information and spintronics. In III V zinc blende
semiconductor heterostructures, two types of spin orbit interaction, Rashba and
Dresselhaus act on the electron spin as effective magnetic fields with
different directions. They are characterized by coefficients alpha and beta,
respectively. When alpha is equal to beta, the so called persistent spin helix
symmetry is realized. In this condition, invariance with respect to spin
rotations is achieved even in the presence of the spin orbit interaction,
implying strongly enhanced spin lifetimes for spatially periodic spin modes.
Existing methods to evaluate alpha/beta require fitting analyses that often
include ambiguity in the parameters used. Here, we experimentally demonstrate a
simple and fitting parameter free technique to determine alpha/beta and to
deduce the absolute values of alpha and beta. The method is based on the
detection of the effective magnetic field direction and the strength induced by
the two spin orbit interactions. Moreover, we observe the persistent spin helix
symmetry by gate tuning.Comment: 34 pages with 7 figures including supplementary information. appears
in Nature Nanotechnology (2014) Published online 13 July 201
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