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Evidence for the coexistence of Dirac and massive carriers in a-(BEDT-TTF)2I3 under hydrostatic pressure
Transport measurements were performed on the organic layered compound \aI3
under hydrostatic pressure. The carrier types, densities and mobilities are
determined from the magneto-conductance of \aI3 . While evidence of
high-mobility massless Dirac carriers has already been given, we report here,
their coexistence with low-mobility massive holes. This coexistence seems
robust as it has been found up to the highest studied pressure. Our results are
in agreement with recent DFT calculations of the band structure of this system
under hydrostatic pressure. A comparison with graphene Dirac carriers has also
been done.Comment: 5 pages 5 figure
Ashkin-Teller universality in a quantum double model of Ising anyons
We study a quantum double model whose degrees of freedom are Ising anyons.
The terms of the Hamiltonian of this system give rise to a competition between
single and double topologies. By studying the energy spectra of the Hamiltonian
at different values of the coupling constants, we find extended gapless regions
which include a large number of critical points described by conformal field
theories with central charge c=1. These theories are part of the Z_2 orbifold
of the bosonic theory compactified on a circle. We observe that the Hilbert
space of our anyonic model can be associated with extended Dynkin diagrams of
affine Lie algebras which yields exact solutions at some critical points. In
certain special regimes, our model corresponds to the Hamiltonian limit of the
Ashkin-Teller model, and hence integrability over a wide range of coupling
parameters is established.Comment: 11 pages, minor revision
Self-organization of charge under pressure in the organic conductor (TMTSF)2ReO4
(TMTSF)2ReO4 presents a phase coexistence between two anion orderings defined
by their wave vectors q_2=(1/2,1/2,1/2) and q_3=(0,1/2,1/2) in a wide range of
pressure (8-11kbar) and temperature. From the determination of the anisotropy
of the conductivity and the superconducting transitions in this regime we were
able to extract the texture which results from a self-organization of the
orientations of the ReO4 anions in the sample. At the lowest pressures, the
metallic parts, related to the q_3 order, form droplets elongated along the
a-axis embedded in the semiconducting matrix associated with the q_2 order.
Above 10kbar, filaments along the a-axis extend from one end of the sample to
the other nearly up to the end of the coexistence regime. A mapping of the
system into an anisotropic Ising lattice is satisfactory to analyze the data.
satisfactory to analyze the data.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, EPL forma
Two insulating phases in compressed Pr1-xCaxMnO3 thin films
The temperature dependent resistivity of two Pr1-xCaxMnO3 (x=0.5 and 0.4)
thin films grown on LaAlO3 has been studied as a function of hydrostatic
pressure (up to 2.5 GPa) and magnetic field (up to 9T). Both samples show a
monotonic decrease in the resistivity with an increase in pressure,
corresponding to a change of -35% at 2.5 GPa. No pressure induced
metal-to-insulator transition was observed in the temperature-dependent
resistivity. The non-trivial interaction between high pressure and magnetic
field reveals that the effect of pressure cannot be simply rescaled to that of
a specific field, as has been reported for the corresponding bulk material. We
propose an interpretation of the data based on phase separation, where two
different insulating phases coexist: the charge ordered phase, which is
sensitive to both magnetic field and pressure, and a second insulating phase
that can be tuned by magnetic field. Such a result demonstrates that phase
separation can be manipulated in thin films by independent application of
magnetic field and/or external pressure.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figuresn submitted to Applied Physics Letter
Quantum spin chains of Temperley-Lieb type: periodic boundary conditions, spectral multiplicities and finite temperature
We determine the spectra of a class of quantum spin chains of Temperley-Lieb
type by utilizing the concept of Temperley-Lieb equivalence with the S=1/2 XXZ
chain as a reference system. We consider open boundary conditions and in
particular periodic boundary conditions. For both types of boundaries the
identification with XXZ spectra is performed within isomorphic representations
of the underlying Temperley-Lieb algebra. For open boundaries the spectra of
these models differ from the spectrum of the associated XXZ chain only in the
multiplicities of the eigenvalues. The periodic case is rather different. Here
we show how the spectrum is obtained sector-wise from the spectra of globally
twisted XXZ chains. As a spin-off, we obtain a compact formula for the
degeneracy of the momentum operator eigenvalues. Our representation theoretical
results allow for the study of the thermodynamics by establishing a
TL-equivalence at finite temperature and finite field.Comment: 29 pages, LaTeX, two references added, redundant figures remove
Domain walls at the spin density wave endpoint of the organic superconductor (TMTSF)2PF6 under pressure
We report the first comprehensive investigation of the organic superconductor
(TMTSF)2PF6 in the vicinity of the endpoint of the spin density wave - metal
phase transition where phase coexistence occurs. At low temperature, the
transition of metallic domains towards superconductivity is used to reveal the
various textures. In particular, we demonstrate experimentally the existence of
1D and 2D metallic domains with a cross-over from a filamentary
superconductivity mostly along the c?-axis to a 2D superconductivity in the
b?c-plane perpendicular to the most conducting direction. The formation of
these domain walls may be related to the proposal of a soliton phase in the
vicinity of the critical pressure of the (TMTSF)2PF6 phase diagram.Comment: 5 page
Geometric frustration and magnetization plateaus in quantum spin and Bose-Hubbard models on tubes
We study XXZ Heisenberg models on frustrated triangular lattices wrapped
around a cylinder. In addition to having interesting magnetic phases, these
models are equivalent to Bose-Hubbard models that describe the physical problem
of adsorption of noble gases on the surface of carbon nanotubes. We find
analytical results for the possible magnetization plateau values as a function
of the wrapping vectors of the cylinder, which in general introduce extra
geometric frustration besides the one due to the underlying triangular lattice.
We show that for particular wrapping vectors , which correspond to the
zig-zag nanotubes, there is a macroscopically degenerate ground state in the
classical Ising limit. The Hilbert space for the degenerate states can be
enumerated by a mapping first into a path in a square lattice wrapped around a
cylinder (a Bratteli diagram), and then to free fermions interacting with a
single degree of freedom. From this model we obtain the spectrum in
the anisotropic Heisenberg limit, showing that it is gapless. The continuum
limit is a conformal field theory with compactification radius set
by the physical tube radius. We show that the compactification radius
quantization is exact in the projective limit, and that
higher order corrections reduce the value of . The particular case of a
tube, which corresponds to a 2-leg ladder with cross links, is
studied separately and shown to be gapped because the fermion mapped problem
contains superconducting pairing terms.Comment: 10 pages, 11 figure
The BCS theory of q-deformed nucleon pairs - qBCS
We construct a coherent state of q-deformed zero coupled nucleon pairs
distributed in several single-particle orbits. Using a variational approach,
the set of equations of qBCS theory, to be solved self consistently for
occupation probabilities, gap parameter Delta, and the chemical potential
lambda, is obtained. Results for valence nucleons in nuclear degenerate sdg
major shell show that the strongly coupled zero angular momentum nucleon pairs
can be substituted by weakly coupled q-deformed zero angular momentum nucleon
pairs. A study of Sn isotopes reveals a well defined universe of (G, q) values,
for which qBCS converges. While the qBCS and BCS show similar results for Gap
parameter Delta in Sn isotopes, the ground state energies are lower in qBCS.
The pairing correlations in N nucleon system, increase with increasing q (for q
real).Comment: 8 pages, REVTEX, 3 eps figure
On Integrable Quantum Group Invariant Antiferromagnets
A new open spin chain hamiltonian is introduced. It is both integrable
(Sklyanin`s type matrices are used to achieve this) and invariant under
transformations in nilpotent irreps for
. Some considerations on the centralizer of nilpotent
representations and its representation theory are also presented.Comment: IFF-5/92, 13 pages, LaTex file, 8 figures available from author
Upper critical field divergence induced by mesoscopic phase separation in the organic superconductor (TMTSF)2ReO4
Due to the competition of two anion orders, (TMTSF)2ReO4, presents a phase
coexistence between semiconducting and metallic (superconducting) regions
(filaments or droplets) in a wide range of pressure. In this regime, the
superconducting upper critical field for H parallel to both c* and b' axes
present a linear part at low fields followed by a divergence above a cross-over
field. This cross-over corresponds to the 3D-2D decoupling transition expected
in filamentary or granular superconductors. The sharpness of the transition
also demonstrates that all filaments are of similar sizes and self organize in
a very ordered way. The distance between the filaments and their cross-section
are estimated.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
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