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On the Reconstructed Fermi Surface in the Underdoped Cuprates
The Fermi surface topologies of underdoped samples the high-Tc superconductor
Bi2212 have been measured with angle resolved photoemission. By examining
thermally excited states above the Fermi level, we show that the Fermi surfaces
in the pseudogap phase of underdoped samples are actually composed of fully
enclosed hole pockets. The spectral weight of these pockets is vanishingly
small at the anti-ferromagnetic zone boundary, which creates the illusion of
Fermi "arcs" in standard photoemission measurements. The area of the pockets as
measured in this study is consistent with the doping level, and hence carrier
density, of the samples measured. Furthermore, the shape and area of the
pockets is well reproduced by a phenomenological model of the pseudogap phase
as a spin liquid.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to Physics Review Letter
Fine Details of the Nodal Electronic Excitations in BiSrCaCuO
Very high energy resolution photoemission experiments on high quality samples
of optimally doped BiSrCaCuO show new features in the
low-energy electronic excitations. A marked change in the binding energy and
temperature dependence of the near-nodal scattering rates is observed near the
superconducting transition temperature, . The temperature slope of the
scattering rate measured at low energy shows a discontinuity at ~. In the
superconducting state, coherent excitations are found with the scattering rates
showing a cubic dependence on frequency and temperature. The superconducting
gap has a d-wave magnitude with negligible contribution from higher harmonics.
Further, the bi-layer splitting has been found to be finite at the nodal point.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Terahertz Hall Measurements On Optimally Doped Single Crystal Bi-2212
The infrared Hall angle in optimally doped single crystal was measured from 3.05 to 21.75 meV as a continuous function of
temperature from 25 to 300\,K. In the normal state, the temperature dependence
of the real part of the cotangent of the infrared Hall angle obeys the same
power law as dc measurements. The measured Hall frequency is
significantly larger than the expected value based upon ARPES data analyzed in
terms of the relaxation time approximation. This discrepancy as well as the
temperature dependence of and is well
described by a Fermi liquid theory in which current vertex corrections produced
by electron-magnon scattering are included.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figure
Extremely Correlated Fermi Liquid Description of Normal State ARPES in Cuprates
The normal state single particle spectral function of the high temperature
superconducting cuprates, measured by the angle resolved photoelectron
spectroscopy (ARPES), has been considered both anomalous and crucial to
understand. Here we show that an unprecedentedly detailed description of the
data is provided by a spectral function arising from the Extremely Correlated
Fermi Liquid state of the t-J model proposed recently by Shastry. The
description encompasses both laser and conventional synchrotron ARPES data on
optimally doped BiSrCaCuO, and also conventional
synchrotron ARPES data on the LaSrCuO materials. {\em It
fits all data sets with the same physical parameter values}, satisfies the
particle sum rule and successfully addresses two widely discussed "kink"
anomalies in the dispersion.Comment: Published version, 5 figs; published 29 July (2011
Eigenstructure Assignment Based Controllers Applied to Flexible Spacecraft
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the behaviour of a controller designed using a parametric Eigenstructure Assignment method and to evaluate its suitability for use in flexible spacecraft. The challenge of this objective lies in obtaining a suitable controller that is specifically designated to alleviate the deflections and vibrations suffered by external appendages in flexible spacecraft while performing attitude manoeuvres. One of the main problems in these vehicles is the mechanical cross-coupling that exists between the rigid and flexible parts of the spacecraft. Spacecraft with fine attitude pointing requirements need precise control of the mechanical coupling to avoid undesired attitude misalignment. In designing an attitude controller, it is necessary to consider the possible vibration of the solar panels and how it may influence the performance of the rest of the vehicle. The nonlinear mathematical model of a flexible spacecraft is considered a close approximation to the real system. During the process of controller evaluation, the design process has also been taken into account as a factor in assessing the robustness of the system
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