Large non-adiabatic hole polarons and matrix element effects in the angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of dielectric cuprates

It has been made an extention of the conventional theory based on the assumption of the well isolated Zhang-Rice singlet to be a first electron-removal state in dielectric copper oxide. One assumes the photohole has been localised on either small (pseudo)Jahn-Teller polaron or large non-adiabatic polaron enclosed one or four to five $CuO_4$ centers, respectively, with active one-center valent $(^{1}A_{1g}-{}^{1,3}E_{u})$ manifold. In the framework of the cluster model we have performed a model microscopic calculation of the ${\bf k}$-dependence of the matrix element effects and photon polarization effects for the angle-resolved photoemission in dielectric cuprate like $Sr_{2}CuO_{2}Cl_{2}$. We show that effects like the ''remnant Fermi surface'' detected in ARPES experiment for $Ca_{2}CuO_{2}Cl_{2}$ may be, in fact, a reflection of the matrix element effects, not a reflection of the original band-structure Fermi surface, or the strong antiferromagnetic correlations. The measured dispersion-like features in the low-energy part of the ARPES spectra may be a manifestation of the complex momentum-dependent spectral line-shape of the large PJT polaron response, not the dispersion of the well-isolated Zhang-Rice singlet in antiferromagnetic matrix.Comment: 16 pages, TeX, 9 eps figures adde

Suppression of antiferromagnetic correlations by quenched dipole--type impurities

The effect of quenched random ferromagnetic bonds on the antiferromagnetic correlation length of a two--dimensional Heisneberg model is studied, applying the renormalization group method to the classical non--linear sigma model with quenched random dipole moments. It is found that the antiferromagnetic long range order is destroyed for any non--zero concentration, of the dipolar defects, even at zero temperature. Below a line T ~ concentration, the correlation length is independent of T, and decreases exponentially with concentration. At higher temperatures, itdecays exponentially with an effective stiffness constant which decreases with concentration/T. The results are used to estimate the three--dimensional N\'{e}el temperature, which decays linearly with $x$ at small concentrations, and drops precipitously at a critical concentration. These predictions are compared with experiments on doped copper oxides, and are shown to reproduce successfully some of the prominent features of the data.Comment: 34 pages, LateX, 4 figures Rport-no: TAU

Parametric Generation of Second Sound by First Sound in Superfluid Helium

We report the first experimental observation of parametric generation of second sound (SS) by first sound (FS) in superfluid helium in a narrow temperature range in the vicinity of $T_\lambda$. The temperature dependence of the threshold FS amplitude is found to be in a good quantitative agreement with the theory suggested long time ago and corrected for a finite geometry. Strong amplitude fluctuations and two types of the SS spectra are observed above the bifurcation. The latter effect is quantitatively explained by the discreteness of the wave vector space and the strong temperature dependence of the SS dissipation length.Comment: 4 pages, 4 postscript figures, REVTE

Structural features of highly stable reproducible C₆₀ fullerene aqueous colloid solution probed by various techniques

The method of preparation of highly stable reproducible C₆₀ fullerene aqueous colloid solution is described. The structural organization of C₆₀ fullerenes in aqueous solution was studied and analyzed in detail using various techniques such as chemical analysis, UV/VIS spectroscopy, atomic force and scanning tunneling microscopy, dynamic light scattering, and zeta potential method