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Fourier analyses of commensurability oscillations in Fibonacci lateral superlattices
Magnetotransport measurements have been performed on Fibonacci lateral
superlattices (FLSLs) -- two-dimensional electron gases subjected to a weak
potential modulation arranged in the Fibonacci sequence, LSLLSLS..., with
L/S=tau (the golden ratio). Complicated commensurability oscillation (CO) is
observed, which can be accounted for as a superposition of a series of COs each
arising from a sinusoidal modulation representing the characteristic length
scale of one of the self-similar generations in the Fibonacci sequence.
Individual CO components can be separated out from the magnetoresistance trace
by performing a numerical Fourier band-pass filter. From the analysis of the
amplitude of a single-component CO thus extracted, the magnitude of the
corresponding Fourier component in the potential modulation can be evaluated.
By examining all the Fourier contents observed in the magnetoresistance trace,
the profile of the modulated potential seen by the electrons can be
reconstructed with some remaining ambiguity about the interrelation of the
phase between different components.Comment: 11 pages, 10 figures, added references in Introduction, minor
revision
Entropic repulsion and lack of the -measure property for Dyson models
We consider Dyson models, Ising models with slow polynomial decay, at low
temperature and show that its Gibbs measures deep in the phase transition
region are not -measures. The main ingredient in the proof is the occurrence
of an entropic repulsion effect, which follows from the mesoscopic stability of
a (single-point) interface for these long-range models in the phase transition
region.Comment: 22 pages, 4 figure
Effect of Oscillating Landau Bandwidth on the Integer Quantum Hall Effect in a Unidirectional Lateral Superlattice
We have measured activation gaps for odd-integer quantum Hall states in a
unidirectional lateral superlattice (ULSL) -- a two-dimensional electron gas
(2DEG) subjected to a unidirectional periodic modulation of the electrostatic
potential. By comparing the activation gaps with those simultaneously measured
in the adjacent section of the same 2DEG sample without modulation, we find
that the gaps are reduced in the ULSL by an amount corresponding to the width
acquired by the Landau levels through the introduction of the modulation. The
decrement of the activation gap varies with the magnetic field following the
variation of the Landau bandwidth due to the commensurability effect. Notably,
the decrement vanishes at the flat band conditions.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, minor revisio
Semimetalic antiferromagnetism in the half-Heusler compound CuMnSb
The half-Heusler compound CuMnSb, the first antiferromagnet (AFM) in the
Mn-based class of Heuslers and half-Heuslers that contains several conventional
and half metallic ferromagnets, shows a peculiar stability of its magnetic
order in high magnetic fields. Density functional based studies reveal an
unusual nature of its unstable (and therefore unseen) paramagnetic state, which
for one electron less (CuMnSn, for example) would be a zero gap semiconductor
(accidentally so) between two sets of very narrow, topologically separate bands
of Mn 3d character. The extremely flat Mn 3d bands result from the environment:
Mn has four tetrahedrally coordinated Cu atoms whose 3d states lie well below
the Fermi level, and the other four tetrahedrally coordinated sites are empty,
leaving chemically isolated Mn 3d states. The AFM phase can be pictured
heuristically as a self-doped CuMnSb compensated semimetal
with heavy mass electrons and light mass holes, with magnetic coupling
proceeding through Kondo and/or antiKondo coupling separately through the two
carrier types. The ratio of the linear specific heat coefficient and the
calculated Fermi level density of states indicates a large mass enhancement
, or larger if a correlated band structure is taken as the
reference
Phase Variation in the Pulse Profile of SMC X-1
We present the results of timing and spectral analysis of X-ray high state
observations of the high-mass X-ray pulsar SMC X-1 with Chandra, XMM-Newton,
and ROSAT, taken between 1991 and 2001. The source has L_X ~ 3-5 x 10^38
ergs/s, and the spectra can be modeled as a power law plus blackbody with kT_BB
\~ 0.18 keV and reprocessed emission radius R_BB ~ 2 x 10^8 cm, assuming a
distance of 60 kpc to the source. Energy-resolved pulse profiles show several
distinct forms, more than half of which include a second pulse in the soft
profile, previously documented only in hard energies. We also detect
significant variation in the phase shift between hard and soft pulses, as has
recently been reported in Her X-1. We suggest an explanation for the observed
characteristics of the soft pulses in terms of precession of the accretion
disk.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL; v2 minor
corrections, as will appear in ApJ
Contour methods for long-range Ising models: weakening nearest-neighbor interactions and adding decaying fields
We consider ferromagnetic long-range Ising models which display phase
transitions. They are long-range one-dimensional Ising ferromagnets, in which
the interaction is given by with , in particular, .
For this class of models one way in which one can prove the phase transition is
via a kind of Peierls contour argument, using the adaptation of the
Fr\"ohlich-Spencer contours for , proposed by Cassandro,
Ferrari, Merola and Presutti. As proved by Fr\"ohlich and Spencer for
and conjectured by Cassandro et al for the region they could treat,
for , although in the
literature dealing with contour methods for these models it is generally
assumed that , we can show that this condition can be removed in the
contour analysis. In addition, combining our theorem with a recent result of
Littin and Picco we prove the persistence of the contour proof of the phase
transition for any . Moreover, we show that when we add a
magnetic field decaying to zero, given by and
where , the
transition still persists.Comment: 13 page
Origin of positive magnetoresistance in small-amplitude unidirectional lateral superlattices
We report quantitative analysis of positive magnetoresistance (PMR) for
unidirectional-lateral-superlattice samples with relatively small periods
(a=92-184 nm) and modulation amplitudes (V_0=0.015-0.25 meV). By comparing
observed PMR's with ones calculated using experimentally obtained mobilities,
quantum mobilities, and V_0's, it is shown that contribution from streaming
orbits (SO) accounts for only small fraction of the total PMR. For small V_0,
the limiting magnetic field B_e of SO can be identified as an inflection point
of the magnetoresistance trace. The major part of PMR is ascribed to drift
velocity arising from incompleted cyclotron orbits obstructed by scatterings.Comment: 12 pages, 9 figures, REVTe
Higgs mass and muon anomalous magnetic moment in the U(1) extended MSSM
We study phenomenological aspects of the MSSM with extra U(1) gauge symmetry.
We find that the lightest Higgs boson mass can be increased up to 125 GeV,
without introducing a large SUSY scale or large A-terms, in the frameworks of
the CMSSM and gauge mediated SUSY breaking (GMSB) models. This scenario can
simultaneously explain the discrepancy of the muon anomalous magnetic moment
(muon g-2) at the 1 sigma level, in both of the frameworks, U(1)-extended
CMSSM/GMSB models. In the CMSSM case, the dark matter abundance can also be
explained.Comment: 19 pages, 3 figures; submitted versio
Modulation Induced Phase Transition from Fractional Quantum Hall to Stripe State at nu=5/3
We have investigated the effect of unidirectional periodic potential
modulation on the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state at filling factors nu=5/3
and 4/3. For large enough modulation amplitude, we find that the resistivity
minimum at nu=5/3 gives way to a peak that grows with decreasing temperature.
Density matrix renormalization group calculation reveals that phase transition
from FQH state to unidirectional striped state having a period sim 4 l (with l
the magnetic length) takes place at nu=1/3 (equivalent to nu=5/3 by the
particle-hole symmetry) with the increase of the modulation amplitude,
suggesting that the observed peak is the manifestation of the stripe phase.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures; minor revisio
3D Dune Skeleton Model as a Coupled Dynamical System of 2D Cross-Sections
To analyze theoretically the stability of the shape and the migration process
of transverse dunes and barchans, we propose a {\it skeleton model} of 3D dunes
described with coupled dynamics of 2D cross-sections. First, 2D cross-sections
of a 3D dune parallel to the wind direction are extracted as elements of a
skeleton of the 3D dune, hence, the dynamics of each and interaction between
them is considered. This model simply describes the essential dynamics of 3D
dunes as a system of coupled ordinary differential equations. Using the model
we study the stability of the shape of 3D transversal dunes and their
deformation to barchans depending on the amount of available sand in the dune
field, sand flow in parallel and perpendicular to wind direction.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures, lette
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