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Properties of the Nearly Free Electron Superconductor Ag5Pb2O6 Inferred from Fermi Surface Measurements
We measured the Fermi surface of the recently discovered superconductor
Ag5Pb2O6 via a de Haas-van Alphen rotation study. Two frequency branches were
observed and identified with the neck and belly orbits of a very simple, nearly
free electron Fermi surface. We use the observed Fermi surface geometry to
quantitatively deduce superconducting properties such as the in-plane and
out-of-plane penetration depths, the coherence length in the clean limit, and
the critical field; as well as normal state properties such as the specific
heat and the resistivity anisotropy.Comment: 2 pages, 1 figure, submitted to Physica C (M2S Proceedings
Unconventional Anomalous Hall Effect in the Metallic Triangular-Lattice Magnet PdCrO2
We experimentally reveal an unconventional anomalous Hall effect (UAHE) in a
quasi-two-dimensional triangular-lattice antiferromagnet PdCrO2. Using high
quality single crystals of PdCrO2, we found that the Hall resistivity deviates
from the conventional behavior below T* = 20 K, noticeably lower than TN = 37.5
K, at which Cr^{3+} (S=3/2) spins order in a 120 degree structure. In view of
the theoretical expectation that the spin chirality cancels out in the simplest
120 degree spin structure, we discuss required conditions for the emergence of
UAHE within Berry-phase mechanisms.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in PR
Influence of carrier lifetime on quantum criticality and superconducting Tc of (TMTSF)_2ClO_4
This work presents and analyzes electrical resistivity data on the organic
superconductor (TMTSF)ClO and their anion substituted alloys
(TMTSF)(ClO)(ReO) along the least conducting
axis. Nonmagnetic disorder introduced by finite size domains of anion ordering
on non Fermi liquid character of resistivity is investigated near the
conditions of quantum criticality. The evolution of the -linear resistivity
term with anion disorder shows a limited decrease in contrast with the complete
suppression of the critical temperature as expected for unconventional
superconductivity beyond a threshold value of . The resulting breakdown of
scaling between both quantities is compared to the theoretical predictions of a
linearized Boltzmann equation combined to the scaling theory of umklapp
scattering in the presence of disorder induced pair-breaking for the carriers.Comment: 13 pages, 8 figure
Mobility gap and anomalous dispersion
Journal ArticleIt is shown that anomalous dispersion of quasiparticles leads to nonpropagating states. Therefore regions of anomalous dispersion define a sort of "mobility gap." Using the coherent-potential approximation, we calculate the conditions for obtaining such a mobility gap in a disordered binary alloy. Just outside the mobility edges located at ωc the mobility vanishes as lω-ωcl
Schr\"odinger's cat in an optical sideband
We propose a method to subtract a photon from a double sideband mode of
continuous-wave light. The central idea is to use phase modulation as a
frequency sideband beamsplitter in the heralding photon subtraction scheme,
where a small portion of the sideband mode is downconverted to the carrier
frequency to provide a trigger photon. An optical Schr\"odinger's cat state is
created by applying the propesed method to a squeezed state at 500MHz sideband,
which is generated by an optical parametric oscillator. The Wigner function of
the cat state reconstructed from a direct homodyne measurement of the 500MHz
sideband modes shows the negativity of without any
loss corrections.Comment: 11 pages, 9 figure
Observation of triply coincident nonlinearities in periodically poled KTiOPO4
We report the simultaneous quasi-phase-matching of all three possible
nonlinearities for propagation along the X axis of periodocally poled (PP)
KTiOPO4 (KTP) for second-harmonic generation of 745 nm pulsed light from 1490nm
subpicosecond pulses in a PPKTP crystal with a 45.65 micrometer poling period.
This confirms the recent Sellmeier fits of KTP by K. Kato and E. Takaoka [Appl.
Opt. 41, 5040 (2002)]. Such coincident nonlinearities are of importance for
realizing compact sources of multipartite continuous-variable entanglement
[Pfister et al., Phys. Rev. A 70, 020302 (2004)] and we propose a new simpler
method for entangling four fields, based on this triple coincidence.Comment: 3 pages, 4 figures, submitted for publicatio
Anharmonicity in one-dimensional electron-phonon system
We investigate the effect of anharmonicity on the one-dimensional half-filled
Holstein model by using the determinant quantum Monte Carlo method. By
calculating the order parameters we find that with and without anharmonicity
there is always an transition from a disorder phase to a dimerized phase.
Moreover, in the dimerized phase a lattice dimerization and a charge density
wave coexist. The anharmonicity represented by the quartic term suppresses the
dimerization as well as the charge density wave, while a double-well potential
favors the dimerization. In addition, by calculating the correlation exponents
we show that the disorder phase is metallic with gapless charge excitations and
gapful spin excitations while in the dimerized phase both excitations are
gapful.Comment: 5 page
Upper critical field and de Haas-van Alphen oscillations in KOsO measured in a hybrid magnet
Magnetic torque measurements have been performed on a KOsO single
crystal in magnetic fields up to 35.3 T and at temperatures down to 0.6 K. The
upper critical field is determined to be 30 T. De Haas-van Alphen
oscillations are observed. A large mass enhancement of (1+) = = 7.6 is found. It is suggested that, for the large upper critical
field to be reconciled with Pauli paramagnetic limiting, the observed mass
enhancement must be of electron-phonon origin for the most part.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, published versio
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