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The local electronic structure of alpha-Li3N
New theoretical and experimental investigation of the occupied and unoccupied
local electronic density of states (DOS) are reported for alpha-Li3N. Band
structure and density functional theory calculations confirm the absence of
covalent bonding character. However, real-space full-multiple-scattering
(RSFMS) calculations of the occupied local DOS finds less extreme nominal
valences than have previously been proposed. Nonresonant inelastic x-ray
scattering (NRIXS), RSFMS calculations, and calculations based on the
Bethe-Salpeter equation are used to characterize the unoccupied electronic
final states local to both the Li and N sites. There is good agreement between
experiment and theory. Throughout the Li 1s near-edge region, both experiment
and theory find strong similarities in the s- and p-type components of the
unoccupied local final density of states projected onto an orbital angular
momentum basis (l-DOS). An unexpected, significant correspondence exists
between the near-edge spectra for the Li 1s and N 1s initial states. We argue
that both spectra are sampling essentially the same final density of states due
to the combination of long core-hole lifetimes, long photoelectron lifetimes,
and the fact that orbital angular momentum is the same for all relevant initial
states. Such considerations may be generically applicable for low atomic number
compounds.Comment: 34 pages, 7 figures, 1 tabl
Modulated Phases in Spin-Peierls Systems
Lattice modulations in the high magnetic field phase and close to impurities
in spin-Peierls systems are considered and compared to experiment. Necessary
extensions of existing theories are proposed. The influence of zero-point
fluctuations on magnetic amplitudes is shown.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures included, to appear in Advances in Solid State
Physics/Festkoerperprobleme Spring Conference 1999 of the DP
Influence of the Dufour effect on convection in binary gas mixtures
Linear and nonlinear properties of convection in binary fluid layers heated
from below are investigated, in particular for gas parameters. A Galerkin
approximation for realistic boundary conditions that describes stationary and
oscillatory convection in the form of straight parallel rolls is used to
determine the influence of the Dufour effect on the bifurcation behaviour of
convective flow intensity, vertical heat current, and concentration mixing. The
Dufour--induced changes in the bifurcation topology and the existence regimes
of stationary and traveling wave convection are elucidated. To check the
validity of the Galerkin results we compare with finite--difference numerical
simulations of the full hydrodynamical field equations. Furthermore, we report
on the scaling behaviour of linear properties of the stationary instability.Comment: 14 pages and 10 figures as uuencoded Postscript file (using uufiles
Vortices and the entrainment transition in the 2D Kuramoto model
We study synchronization in the two-dimensional lattice of coupled phase
oscillators with random intrinsic frequencies. When the coupling is larger
than a threshold , there is a macroscopic cluster of
frequency-synchronized oscillators. We explain why the macroscopic cluster
disappears at . We view the system in terms of vortices, since cluster
boundaries are delineated by the motion of these topological defects. In the
entrained phase (), vortices move in fixed paths around clusters, while
in the unentrained phase (), vortices sometimes wander off. These
deviant vortices are responsible for the disappearance of the macroscopic
cluster. The regularity of vortex motion is determined by whether clusters
behave as single effective oscillators. The unentrained phase is also
characterized by time-dependent cluster structure and the presence of chaos.
Thus, the entrainment transition is actually an order-chaos transition. We
present an analytical argument for the scaling for small
lattices, where is the threshold for phase-locking. By also deriving the
scaling , we thus show that for small , in
agreement with numerics. In addition, we show how to use the linearized model
to predict where vortices are generated.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figure
Dynamics of Multiferroic Domain Wall in Spin-Cycloidal Ferroelectric DyMnO
We report the dielectric dispersion of the giant magnetocapacitance (GMC) in
multiferroic DyMnO over a wide frequency range. The GMC is found to be
attributable not to the softened electromagnon but to the electric-field-driven
motion of multiferroic domain wall (DW). In contrast to conventional
ferroelectric DWs, the present multiferroic DW motion holds extremely high
relaxation rate of s even at low temperatures. This
mobile nature as well as the model simulation suggests that the multiferroic DW
is not atomically thin as in ferroelectrics but thick, reflecting its magnetic
origin.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Half-Quantum Vortices in Thin Film of Superfluid He
Stability of a half-quantum vortex (HQV) in superfluid He has been
discussed recently by Kawakami, Tsutsumi and Machida in Phys. Rev. B {\bf 79},
092506 (2009). We further extend this work here and consider the A phase of
superfluid He confined in thin slab geometry and analyze the HQV realized
in this setting. Solutions of HQV and singly quantized singular vortex are
evaluated numerically by solving the Ginzburg-Landau (GL) equation and
respective first critical angular velocities are obtained by employing these
solutions. We show that the HQV in the A phase is stable near the boundary
between the A and A phases. It is found that temperature and magnetic
field must be fixed first in the stable region and subsequently the angular
velocity of the system should be increased from zero to a sufficiently large
value to create a HQV with sufficiently large probability. A HQV does not form
if the system starts with a fixed angular velocity and subsequently the
temperature is lowered down to the A phase. It is estimated that the
external magnetic field with strength on the order of 1 T is required to have a
sufficiently large domain in the temperature-magnetic field phase diagram to
have a stable HQV.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Monoclinic phase in the relaxor-based piezo-/ ferroelectric Pb(MgNb-PbTiO system
A ferroelectric monoclinic phase of space group ( type) has been
discovered in 0.65Pb(MgNb-0.35PbTiO by means of high
resolution synchrotron X-ray diffraction. It appears at room temperature in a
single crystal previously poled under an electric field of 43 kV/cm applied
along the pseudocubic [001] direction, in the region of the phase diagram
around the morphotropic phase boundary between the rhombohedral (R3m) and the
tetragonal (P4mm) phases. The monoclinic phase has lattice parameters a = 5.692
A, b = 5.679 A, c = 4.050 A and = , with the b-axis
oriented along the pseudo-cubic [110] direction . It is similar to the
monoclinic phase observed in PbZrTiO, but different from that
recently found in Pb(ZnNb-PbTiO, which is of space
group ( type).Comment: Revised version after referees' comments. PDF file. 6 pages, 4
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The VISTA Science Archive
We describe the VISTA Science Archive (VSA) and its first public release of
data from five of the six VISTA Public Surveys. The VSA exists to support the
VISTA Surveys through their lifecycle: the VISTA Public Survey consortia can
use it during their quality control assessment of survey data products before
submission to the ESO Science Archive Facility (ESO SAF); it supports their
exploitation of survey data prior to its publication through the ESO SAF; and,
subsequently, it provides the wider community with survey science exploitation
tools that complement the data product repository functionality of the ESO SAF.
This paper has been written in conjunction with the first public release of
public survey data through the VSA and is designed to help its users understand
the data products available and how the functionality of the VSA supports their
varied science goals. We describe the design of the database and outline the
database-driven curation processes that take data from nightly
pipeline-processed and calibrated FITS files to create science-ready survey
datasets. Much of this design, and the codebase implementing it, derives from
our earlier WFCAM Science Archive (WSA), so this paper concentrates on the
VISTA-specific aspects and on improvements made to the system in the light of
experience gained in operating the WSA.Comment: 22 pages, 16 figures. Minor edits to fonts and typos after
sub-editting. Published in A&
Direct observation of the formation of polar nanoregions in Pb(MgNb)O using neutron pair distribution function analysis
Using neutron pair distribution function (PDF) analysis over the temperature
range from 1000 K to 15 K, we demonstrate the existence of local polarization
and the formation of medium-range, polar nanoregions (PNRs) with local
rhombohedral order in a prototypical relaxor ferroelectric
Pb(MgNb)O. We estimate the volume fraction of the PNRs as a
function of temperature and show that this fraction steadily increases from 0 %
to a maximum of 30% as the temperature decreases from 650 K to 15 K.
Below T200 K the PNRs start to overlap as their volume fraction reaches
the percolation threshold. We propose that percolating PNRs and their
concomitant overlap play a significant role in the relaxor behavior of
Pb(MgNb)O.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
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