303 research outputs found
Single domain stripe order in a high-temperature superconductor
The coupling of spin, charge and lattice degrees of freedom results in the
emergence of novel states of matter across many classes of strongly correlated
electron materials. A model example is unconventional superconductivity, which
is widely believed to arise from the coupling of electrons via spin
excitations. In cuprate high-temperature superconductors, the interplay of
charge and spin degrees of freedom is also reflected in a zoo of charge and
spin-density wave orders that are intertwined with superconductivity. A key
question is whether the different types of density waves merely coexist or are
indeed directly coupled. Here we use a novel neutron diffraction technique with
superior beam-focusing that allows us to probe the subtle spin-density wave
order in the prototypical high-temperature superconductor La1.88Sr0.12CuO4
under applied uniaxial pressure to demonstrate that it is immediately coupled
with charge-density wave order. Our result shows that suitable models for
high-temperature superconductivity must equally account for charge and spin
degrees of freedom via uniaxial charge-spin stripe fluctuations
Less than 50% sublattice polarization in an insulating S=3/2 kagome' antiferromagnet at low T
We have found weak long range antiferromagnetic order in the
quasi-two-dimensional insulating oxide which contains
Cr S=3/2 ions on a kagom\'{e} lattice. In a sample with 76%
occupancy of the chromium sites the ordered moment is 1.1(3) per
chromium ion which is only one third of the N\'{e}el value .
The magnetic unit cell equals the chemical unit cell, a situation which is
favored by inter-plane interactions. Gapless quantum spin-fluctuations
(T_NS(Q,\omega)$ in the ordered
phase.Comment: 18 pages, RevTex/Latex, with 6 figure
The effect of phase fluctuations on the single-particle properties of the underdoped cuprates
We study the effect of order parameter phase fluctuations on the
single-particle properties of fermions in the underdoped cuprate
superconductors using a phenomenological low-energy theory. We identify the
fermion-phase field coupling as the Doppler-shift of the quasiparticle spectrum
induced by the fluctuating superfluid velocity and we calculate the effect of
these fluctuations on the fermion self-energy. We show that the vortex pair
unbinding near the superconducting transition causes a significant broadening
in the fermion spectral function, producing a pseudogap-like feature. We also
discuss the specific heat and show that the phase fluctuation effect is visible
due to the short coherence length.Comment: RevTex 11 pages; 11 epsf figures included. Added and updated
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Microscopic theory of weak pseudogap behavior in the underdoped cuprate superconductors I: General theory and quasiparticle properties
We derive in detail a novel solution of the spin fermion model which is valid
in the quasi-static limit pi T<<omega_sf, found in the intermediate
(pseudoscaling) regime of the magnetic phase diagram of cuprate
superconductors, and use it to obtain results for the temperature and doping
dependence of the single particle spectral density, the electron-spin
fluctuation vertex function, and the low frequency dynamical spin
susceptibility. The resulting strong anisotropy of the spectral density and the
vertex function lead to the qualitatively different behavior of_hot_ (around
k=(pi,0)) and_cold_ (around k=(pi/2,pi/2)) quasiparticles seen in ARPES
experiments. We find that the broad high energy features found in ARPES
measurements of the spectral density of the underdoped cuprate superconductors
are determined by strong antiferromagnetic (AF) correlations and incoherent
precursor effects of an SDW state, with reduced renormalized effective coupling
constant. The electron spin-fluctuation vertex function, i.e. the effective
interaction of low energy quasiparticles and spin degrees of freedom, is found
to be strongly anisotropic and enhanced for hot quasiparticles; the
corresponding charge-fluctuation vertex is considerably diminished. We thus
demonstrate that, once established, strong AF correlations act to reduce
substantially the effective electron-phonon coupling constant in cuprate
superconductors.Comment: REVTEX with EPS figures, uses multicol.sty, epsfig,sty, psfig.st
Education can improve the negative perception of a threatened long-lived scavenging bird, the Andean condor
Human-wildlife conflicts currently represent one of the main conservation problems for wildlife species around the world. Vultures have serious conservation concerns, many of which are related to people's adverse perception about them due to the belief that they prey on livestock. Our aim was to assess local perception and the factors influencing people's perception of the largest scavenging bird in South America, the Andean condor. For this, we interviewed 112 people from Valle Fértil, San Juan province, a rural area of central west Argentina. Overall, people in the area mostly have an elementary education, and their most important activity is livestock rearing. The results showed that, in general, most people perceive the Andean condor as an injurious species and, in fact, some people recognize that they still kill condors. We identified two major factors that affect this perception, the education level of villagers and their relationship with livestock ranching. Our study suggests that conservation of condors and other similar scavengers depends on education programs designed to change the negative perception people have about them. Such programs should be particularly focused on ranchers since they are the ones who have the worst perception of these scavengers. We suggest that highlighting the central ecological role of scavengers and recovering their cultural value would be fundamental to reverse their persecution and their negative perception by people.Fil: Cailly Arnulphi, Verónica Beatríz. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - San Juan. Centro de Investigaciones de la Geosfera y Biosfera. Universidad Nacional de San Juan. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Centro de Investigaciones de la Geosfera y Biosfera; ArgentinaFil: Lambertucci, Sergio Agustin. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Centro Regional Universidad Bariloche. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente; ArgentinaFil: Borghi, Carlos Eduardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - San Juan. Centro de Investigaciones de la Geosfera y Biosfera. Universidad Nacional de San Juan. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Centro de Investigaciones de la Geosfera y Biosfera; Argentin
Visum repertum über den Leichnam des seligen Herrn Hofraths Senckenberg des Stifters des Bürgerhospitals
Handschriftlicher Leichenschaubericht über den verunglückten Johann Christian Senckenberg: 18.11.1772. Unterzeichnet von den Ärzten: Behrends, I. A. ; Krisner, I.C. ; Müller, F. S. ; Giese, J. G. ; Behrends, J. C. ; Jonas, A. I. G. ; Meyer, C. F. ; Bucher, J. L. ; Grasemann, Ch. F
The Cosmological Constant
This is a review of the physics and cosmology of the cosmological constant.
Focusing on recent developments, I present a pedagogical overview of cosmology
in the presence of a cosmological constant, observational constraints on its
magnitude, and the physics of a small (and potentially nonzero) vacuum energy.Comment: 50 pages. Submitted to Living Reviews in Relativity
(http://www.livingreviews.org/), December 199
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