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A large accretion disk of extreme eccentricity in the TDE ASASSN-14li
In the canonical model for tidal disruption events (TDEs), the stellar debris
circularizes quickly to form an accretion disk of size about twice the orbital
pericenter of the star. Most TDEs and candidates discovered in the optical/UV
have broad optical emission lines with complex and diverse profiles of puzzling
origin. Liu et al. recently developed a relativistic elliptical disk model of
constant eccentricity in radius for the broad optical emission lines of TDEs
and well reproduced the double-peaked line profiles of the TDE candidate
PTF09djl with a large and extremely eccentric accretion disk. In this paper, we
show that the optical emission lines of the TDE ASASSN-14li with radically
different profiles are well modelled with the relativistic elliptical disk
model, too. The accretion disk of ASASSN-14li has an eccentricity 0.97 and
semimajor axis of 847 times the Schwarzschild radius (r_S) of the black hole
(BH). It forms as the consequence of tidal disruption of a star passing by a
massive BH with orbital pericenter 25r_S. The optical emission lines of
ASASSN-14li are powered by an extended X-ray source of flat radial distribution
overlapping the bulk of the accretion disk and the single-peaked asymmetric
line profiles are mainly due to the orbital motion of the emitting matter
within the disk plane of inclination about 26\degr and of pericenter
orientation closely toward the observer. Our results suggest that modelling the
complex line profiles is powerful in probing the structures of accretion disks
and coronal X-ray sources in TDEs.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in the MNRA
Isotropic and Anisotropic Regimes of the Field-Dependent Spin Dynamics in Sr2IrO4: Raman Scattering Studies
A major focus of experimental interest in Sr2IrO4 has been to clarify how the
magnetic excitations of this strongly spin-orbit coupled system differ from the
predictions of anisotropic 2D spin-1/2 Heisenberg model and to explore the
extent to which strong spin-orbit coupling affects the magnetic properties of
iridates. Here, we present a high-resolution inelastic light (Raman) scattering
study of the low energy magnetic excitation spectrum of Sr2IrO4 and doped
Eu-doped Sr2IrO4 as functions of both temperature and applied magnetic field.
We show that the high-field (H>1.5 T) in-plane spin dynamics of Sr2IrO4 are
isotropic and governed by the interplay between the applied field and the small
in-plane ferromagnetic spin components induced by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya
interaction. However, the spin dynamics of Sr2IrO4 at lower fields (H<1.5 T)
exhibit important effects associated with interlayer coupling and in-plane
anisotropy, including a spin-flop transition at Hc in Sr2IrO4 that occurs
either discontinuously or via a continuous rotation of the spins, depending
upon the in-plane orientation of the applied field. These results show that
in-plane anisotropy and interlayer coupling effects play important roles in the
low-field magnetic and dynamical properties of Sr2IrO4.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, submitte
Possible Weyl fermions in the magnetic Kondo system CeSb
Materials where the electronic bands have unusual topologies allow for the
realization of novel physics and have a wide range of potential applications.
When two electronic bands with linear dispersions intersect at a point, the
excitations could be described as Weyl fermions which are massless particles
with a particular chirality. Here we report evidence for the presence of Weyl
fermions in the ferromagnetic state of the low-carrier density, strongly
correlated Kondo lattice system CeSb, from electronic structure calculations
and angle-dependent magnetoresistance measurements. When the applied magnetic
field is parallel to the electric current, a pronounced negative
magnetoresistance is observed within the ferromagnetic state, which is
destroyed upon slightly rotating the field away. These results give evidence
for CeSb belonging to a new class of Kondo lattice materials with Weyl fermions
in the ferromagnetic state.Comment: 18 pages, 4 figures, Supplementary Information available from journal
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Pion-photon and photon-pion transition form factors in light-cone formalism
We derive the minimal Fock-state expansions of the pion and the photon wave
functions in light-cone formalism, then we calculate the pion-photon and the
photon-pion transition form factors of and
processes by employing these
quark-antiquark wave functions of the pion and the photon. We find that our
calculation for the transition form factor
agrees with the experimental data at low and moderately high energy scale.
Moreover, the physical differences and inherent connections between the
transition form factors of and have been illustrated, which indicate that these
two physical processes are intrinsically related. In addition, we also discuss
the form factor and the decay width at .Comment: 20 pages, 2 figure
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