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Si-induced superconductivity and structural transformations in DyRh4B4
DyRh4B4 has been known to crystallize in the primitive tetragonal
(pt)-structure and to exhibit a ferromagnetic transition at 12 K, the highest
magnetic transition temperature in the entire series of the RRh4B4 materials
[1]. We show here that our silicon-added samples of the nominal composition
DyRh4B4Si0.2 exhibit superconductivity below Tc ~ 4.5 K and an
antiferromagnetic transition below TN ~ 2.7 K. The 12 K transition observed in
the pt-DyRh4B4 is completely suppressed. Our annealed samples mainly consist of
domains of the chemical composition DyRh3.9B4.2Si0.08. These domains contain
two crystallographic phases belonging to the body-centred tetragonal
(bct)-structure and the orthorhombic (o)-structure. We have reasons to suggest
that superconductivity and antiferromagnetic ordering arise from bct- DyRh4B4
phase and, therefore, coexist below TN ~ 2.7 K.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication in Journal of Alloys
and Compound
Friedmann limits of rotating hypersurface-homogeneous dust models
The existence of Friedmann limits is systematically investigated for all the
hypersurface-homogeneous rotating dust models, presented in previous papers by
this author. Limiting transitions that involve a change of the Bianchi type are
included. Except for stationary models that obviously do not allow it, the
Friedmann limit expected for a given Bianchi type exists in all cases. Each of
the 3 Friedmann models has parents in the rotating class; the k = +1 model has
just one parent class, the other two each have several parent classes. The type
IX class is the one investigated in 1951 by Goedel. For each model, the
consecutive limits of zero rotation, zero tilt, zero shear and spatial isotropy
are explicitly calculated.Comment: 39 pages, LaTeX, 1 postscript figure. Subjects: General relativity,
exact solutions, cosmolog
On the domination of hypergraphs by their edges
AbstractGiven a hypergraph ℋ = (E1,...,Em) with vertex set V, let no be the number of different possibilities for covering V by an odd number of E's and ne the number of different possibilities for covering V when selecting an even number of E's. The quantity d(V,ℋ) = no − ne is known as the (reliability) domination of H and a combinatorial invariant of considerable practical relevance. The present paper addresses the problem to determine this domination. After reviewing the current theory in the area we present some new relationships for d(V,ℋ) with respect to dual and interval hypergraphs
Electron-Phonon Coupling Origin of the resistivity in YNi_{2}B_{2}C Single Crystals
Resistivity measurements from 4.2 K up to 300 K were made on YNi_{2}B_{2}C
single crystals with Tc=15.5 K. The resulting rho(T) curve shows a perfect
Bloch-Grueneisen (BG) behavior, with a very small residual resistivity which
indicates the low impurity content and the high cristallographic quality of the
samples. The value lambda_{tr}=0.53 for the transport electron-phonon coupling
constant was obtained by using the high-temperature constant value of d(rho)/dT
and the plasma frequency reported in literature. The BG expression for the
phononic part of the resistivity rho_{ph}(T) was then used to fit the data in
the whole temperature range, by approximating alpha^{2}_{tr}F(Omega) with the
experimental phonon spectral density G(Omega) multiplied by a two-step
weighting function to be determined by the fit. The resulting fitting curve
perfectly agrees with the experimental points. We also solved the real-axis
Eliashberg equations in both s- and d-wave symmetries under the approximation
alpha^{2}F(Omega)= alpha^{2}_{tr}F(Omega). We found that the value of
lambda_{tr} here determined in single-band approximation is quite compatible
with Tc and the gap Delta experimentally observed. Finally, we calculated the
normalized tunneling conductance, whose comparison with break-junction tunnel
data gives indication of the possible s-wave symmetry for the order parameter
in YNi_{2}B_{2}C.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures. Proceedings of SATT10 Conference, to be published
in Int. J. Mod. Phys.
Pr magnetism and its interplay with the Fe spin density wave in PrFeAsO
We have studied the magnetism of the Pr3+ ions in PrFeAsO_1-xF_x (x = 0;
0.15) and its interaction with the Fe magnetic order (for x = 0). Specific heat
data confirm the presence of a first excited crystal electric field (CEF) level
around 3.5 meV in the undoped compound PrFeAsO. This finding is in agreement
with recent neutron scattering experiments. The doped compound is found to have
a much lower first CEF splitting of about 2.0 meV. The Pr ordering in PrFeAsO
gives rise to large anomalies in the specific heat and the thermal expansion
coefficient. In addition, a field-induced transition is found at low
temperatures that is most pronounced for the magnetostriction coefficient. This
transition, which is absent in the doped compound, is attributed to a reversal
of the Fe spin canting as the antiferromagnetic Pr order is destroyed by the
external magnetic field.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figure
Chemical and kinematical properties of BSSs and HB stars in NGC 6397
We used three sets of high-resolution spectra acquired with the multifiber
facility FLAMES at the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern
Observatory to investigate the chemical and kinematical properties of a sample
of 42 horizontal branch (HB) stars, 18 Blue Straggler Stars (BSSs) and 86 main
sequence turn-off and sub-giant branch stars in the nearby globular cluster NGC
6397. We measured rotational velocities and Fe, O and Mg abundances. All the
unevolved stars in our sample turn out to have low rotational velocites (v sin
i< 10\kms), while HB stars and BSSs show a broad distribution, with values
ranging from 0 to 70 \kms. For HB stars with T<10500 K there is a clear
temperature-oxygen anti-correlation, that can be understood if the star
position along the HB is mainly determined by the He content. The hottest BSSs
and HB stars (with temperatures T>8200 K and T> 10500 K, respectively) also
show significant deviations in their iron abundance with respect to the cluster
metallicity (as traced by the unevolved stars, [Fe/H]=-2.12). While similar
chemical patterns have been already observed in other hot HB stars, this is the
first evidence ever collected for BSSs. We interprete these abundance anomalies
as due to the metal radiative levitation, occurring in stars with shallow or no
convective envelopes
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