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Elastic Tensor of SrRuO
The six independent elastic constants of SrRuO were determined using
resonant ultrasound spectroscopy on a high-quality single-crystal specimen. The
constants are in excellent agreement with those obtained from pulse-echo
experiments performed on a sample cut from the same ingot. A calculation of the
Debye temperature using the measured constants agrees well with values obtained
from both specific heat and M\"{o}ssbauer measurements.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, submitted to PR
Exploiting tumor epigenetics to improve oncolytic virotherapy
Oncolytic viruses (OVs) comprise a versatile and multi-mechanistic therapeutic platform in the growing arsenal of anticancer biologics. These replicating therapeutics find favorable conditions in the tumor niche, characterized among others by increased metabolism, reduced anti-tumor/antiviral immunity, and disorganized vasculature. Through a self-amplification that is dependent on multiple cancer-specific defects, these agents exhibit remarkable tumor selectivity. With several OVs completing or entering Phase III clinical evaluation, their therapeutic potential as well as the challenges ahead are increasingly clear. One key hurdle is tumor heterogeneity, which results in variations in the ability of tumors to support productive infection by OVs and to induce adaptive anti-tumor immunity. To this end, mounting evidence suggests tumor epigenetics may play a key role. This review will focus on the epigenetic landscape of tumors and how it relates to OV infection. Therapeutic strategies aiming to exploit the epigenetic identity of tumors in order to improve OV therapy are also discussed
Symmetry of the order parameter in superconducting ZrZn_2
We apply symmetry considerations to study the possible superconducting order
parameters in ferromagnetic ZrZn_2. We predict that the presence and the
location of the superconducting gap nodes depend on the direction of
magnetization M. In particular, if M is directed along the z axis, then the
order parameter should always have zeros. We also discuss how to determine the
gap symmetry in ZrZn_2 using ultrasound attenuation measurements.Comment: 6 pages, submitted to PRB; some corrections and discussion adde
Interlayer pair tunneling and gap anisotropy in YBaCuO
Recent ARPES measurement observed a large -axis gap anisotropy,
, in clean YBaCuO. This
indicates that some sub-dominant component may exist in the -wave
dominant gap. We propose that the interlayer pairing tunneling contribution can
be determined through the investigation of the order parameter anisotropy.
Their potentially observable features in transport and spin dynamics are also
studied.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
An Intrinsic Bond-Centered Electronic Glass with Unidirectional Domains in Underdoped Cuprates
Removing electrons from the CuO2 plane of cuprates alters the electronic
correlations sufficiently to produce high-temperature superconductivity.
Associated with these changes are spectral weight transfers from the high
energy states of the insulator to low energies. In theory, these should be
detectable as an imbalance between the tunneling rate for electron injection
and extraction - a tunneling asymmetry. We introduce atomic-resolution
tunneling-asymmetry imaging, finding virtually identical phenomena in two
lightly hole-doped cuprates: Ca1.88Na0.12CuO2Cl2 and Bi2Sr2Dy0.2Ca0.8Cu2O8+d.
Intense spatial variations in tunneling asymmetry occur primarily at the planar
oxygen sites; their spatial arrangement forms a Cu-O-Cu bond centered
electronic pattern without long range order but with 4a0-wide unidirectional
electronic domains dispersed throughout (a0: the Cu-O-Cu distance). The
emerging picture is then of a partial hole-localization within an intrinsic
electronic glass evolving, at higher hole-densities, into complete
delocalization and highest temperature superconductivity.Comment: 28 pages, 9 figures, published version is available at
http://people.ccmr.cornell.edu/~jcdavis/mK_stm/publications/domains/index.ht
Transport and the Order Parameter of Superconducting SrRuO
Recent experiments make it appear more likely that the order parameter of the
unconventional superconductor SrRuO has a spin-triplet -wave
symmetry. We study ultrasonic absorption and thermal conductivity of
superconducting SrRuO and fit to the recent data for various -wave
candidates. It is shown that only -wave symmetry can account
qualitatively for the transport data.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, references added and update
Ultrasonic attenuation in magnetic fields for superconducting states with line nodes in Sr2RuO4
We calculate the ultrasonic attenuation in magnetic fields for
superconducting states with line nodes vertical or horizontal relative to the
RuO_2 planes. This theory, which is valid for fields near Hc2 and not too low
temperatures, takes into account the effects of supercurrent flow and Andreev
scattering by the Abrikosov vortex lattice. For rotating in-plane field
H(theta) the attenuation alpha(theta)exhibits variations of fourfold symmetry
in the rotation angle theta. In the case of vertical nodes, the transverse T100
sound mode yields the weakest(linear)H and T dependence of alpha, while the
longitudinal L100 mode yields a stronger (quadratic) H and T dependence. This
is in strong contrast to the case of horizontal line nodes where alpha is the
same for the T100 and L100 modes (apart from a shift of pi/4 in field
direction) and is roughly a quadratic function of H and T. Thus we conclude
that measurements of alpha in in-plane magnetic fields for different in-plane
sound modes may be an important tool for probing the nodal structure of the gap
in Sr_2RuO_4.Comment: 5 pages, 6 figures, replaced in non-preprint form, to appear in Phys.
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