554 research outputs found
Electrical switching and interferometry of massive Dirac particles in topological insulators constrictions
We investigate the electrical switching of charge and spin transport in a
topological insulator nanoconstriction in a four terminal device. The switch of
the edge channels is caused by the coupling between edge states which overlap
in the constriction and by the tunneling effects at the contacts and therefore
can be manipulated by tuning the applied voltages on the split-gate or by
geometrical etching. The switching mechanism can be conveniently studied by
electron interferometry involving the measurements of the current in different
configurations of the side gates, while the applied bias from the external
leads can be tuned to obtain pure charge or pure spin currents (charge- and
spin- bias configurations). Relevant signatures of quantum confinement effects,
quantum size effects and energy gap are evident in the Fabry-Perot physics of
the device allowing for a full characterization of the charge and spin
currents. The proposed electrical switching behavior offers an efficient tool
to manipulate topological edge state transport in a controllable way.Comment: 10 pages; 14 figure
Breathers and Raman scattering in a two-leg ladder with staggered Dzialoshinskii-Moriya interaction
Recent experiments have revealed the role of staggered Dzialoshinskii-Moriya
interaction in the magnetized phase of an antiferromagnetic spin 1/2 two-leg
ladder compound under a uniform magnetic field. We derive a low energy
effective field theory describing a magnetized two-leg ladder with a weak
staggered Dzialoshinskii-Moriya interaction. This theory predicts the
persistence of the spin gap in the magnetized phase, in contrast to standard
two-leg ladders, and the presence of bound states in the excitation spectrum.
Such bound states are observable in Raman scattering measurements. These
results are then extended to intermediate Dzialoshinskii-Moriya interaction
using Exact Diagonalizations.Comment: RevTeX 4, 14 pages, 11 EPS figure
Parasitic pumping currents in an interacting quantum dot
We analyze the charge and spin pumping in an interacting dot within the
almost adiabatic limit. By using a non-equilibrium Green's function technique
within the time-dependent slave boson approximation, we analyze the pumped
current in terms of the dynamical constraints in the infinite-U regime. The
results show the presence of parasitic pumping currents due to the additional
phases of the constraints. The behavior of the pumped current through the
quantum dot is illustrated in the spin-insensitive and in the spin-sensitive
case relevant for spintronics applications
Temperature and doping dependence of normal state spectral properties in a two-orbital model for ferropnictides
Using a second-order perturbative Green's functions approach we determined
the normal state single-particle spectral function
employing a minimal effective model for iron-based superconductors. The
microscopic model, used before to study magnetic fluctuations and
superconducting properties, includes the two effective tight-binding bands
proposed by S.Raghu et al. [Phys. Rev. B 77, 220503 (R) (2008)], and intra- and
inter-orbital local electronic correlations, related to the Fe-3d orbitals.
Here, we focus on the study of normal state electronic properties, in
particular the temperature and doping dependence of the total density of
states, , and of in different Brillouin zone
regions, and compare them to the existing angle resolved photoemission
spectroscopy (ARPES) and previous theoretical results in ferropnictides. We
obtain an asymmetric effect of electron and hole doping, quantitative agreement
with the experimental chemical potential shifts as a function of doping, as
well as spectral weight redistributions near the Fermi level as a function of
temperature consistent with the available experimental data. In addition, we
predict a non-trivial dependence of the total density of states with the
temperature, exhibiting clear renormalization effects by correlations.
Interestingly, investigating the origin of this predicted behaviour by
analyzing the evolution with temperature of the k-dependent self-energy
obtained in our approach, we could identify a number of specific Brillouin zone
points, none of them probed by ARPES experiments yet, where the largest
non-trivial effects of temperature on the renormalization are present.Comment: Manuscript accepted in Physics Letters A on Feb. 25, 201
Normal state electronic properties of LaOFBiS superconductors
A good description of the electronic structure of BiS-based
superconductors is essential to understand their phase diagram, normal state
and superconducting properties. To describe the first reports of normal state
electronic structure features from angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy
(ARPES) in LaOFBiS, we used a minimal microscopic model to
study their low energy properties. It includes the two effective tight-binding
bands proposed by Usui et al [Phys.Rev.B 86, 220501(R)(2012)], and we added
moderate intra- and inter-orbital electron correlations related to Bi-(,
) and S-(, ) orbitals. We calculated the electron Green's
functions using their equations of motion, which we decoupled in second-order
of perturbations on the correlations. We determined the normal state spectral
density function and total density of states for LaOFBiS,
focusing on the description of the k-dependence, effect of doping, and the
prediction of the temperature dependence of spectral properties. Including
moderate electron correlations, improves the description of the few
experimental ARPES and soft X-ray photoemission data available for
LaOFBiS. Our analytical approximation enabled us to
calculate the spectral density around the conduction band minimum at
, and to predict the temperature dependence of
the spectral properties at different BZ points, which might be verified by
temperature dependent ARPES.Comment: 9 figures. Manuscript accepted in Physica B: Condensed Matter on Jan.
25, 201
Atom-molecule coherence in a one-dimensional system
We study a model of one-dimensional fermionic atoms that can bind in pairs to
form bosonic molecules. We show that at low energy, a coherence develops
between the molecule and fermion Luttinger liquids. At the same time, a gap
opens in the spin excitation spectrum. The coherence implies that the order
parameters for the molecular Bose-Einstein Condensation and the atomic BCS
pairing become identical. Moreover, both bosonic and fermionic charge density
wave correlations decay exponentially, in contrast with a usual Luttinger
liquid. We exhibit a Luther-Emery point where the systems can be described in
terms of noninteracting pseudofermions. At this point, we provide closed form
expressions for the density-density response functions.Comment: 5 pages, no figures, Revtex 4; (v2) added a reference to
cond-mat/0505681 where related results are reported; (v3) Expression of
correlation functions given in terms of generalized hypergeometric function
Reflections on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Monthly Labor Review
It is an honor to comment on directions for the Monthly Labor Review MLR over its next 25 years. The MLR is the federal government\u27s oldest continuous publication—first printed in 1915 and now published online by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), one of the nation\u27s oldest statistical agencies, established in 1884. BLS embodies the standards articulated by the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) in the fifth edition of its quadrennial volume Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency (National Research Council, 2013). P&P lays down four principles: that a statistical agency produce data relevant to policy issues, earn credibility with data users, earn the trust of data providers (e.g., households, businesses), and maintain independence from political and other undue external influence
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