188 research outputs found
Strain-induced magnetic phase transition in SrCoO thin films
It has been well established that both in bulk at ambient pressure and for
films under modest strains, cubic SrCoO () is a
ferromagnetic metal. Recent theoretical work, however, indicates that a
magnetic phase transition to an antiferromagnetic structure could occur under
large strain accompanied by a metal-insulator transition. We have observed a
strain-induced ferromagnetic to antiferromagnetic phase transition in
SrCoO films grown on DyScO substrates, which provide a large
tensile epitaxial strain, as compared to ferromagnetic films under lower
tensile strain on SrTiO substrates. Magnetometry results demonstrate the
existence of antiferromagnetic spin correlations and neutron diffraction
experiments provide a direct evidence for a G-type antiferromagnetic structure
with Ne\'el temperatures between and depending on the oxygen content of the samples. Therefore, our
data experimentally confirm the predicted strain-induced magnetic phase
transition to an antiferromagnetic state for SrCoO thin films
under large epitaxial strain.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
Does the enhancement observed in contain two -wave higher charmonia?
Solved is a new puzzle raised by the observation of an enhancement structure
Z(3930) in . If categorizing Z(3930) as
suggested by Belle and BaBar, we must explain why
dominantly decaying into is missing in the
invariant mass spectrum. In this work, we propose that the Z(3930)
enhancement structure may contain two -wave higher charmonia
{} and . We show that this assumption is
supported by our analysis of the invariant mass spectrum and
distribution of . This observation
would not only provide valuable information of two P-wave higher charmonia
and , but also serve as the crucial test of our
novel proposal to the observed enhancement structure Z(3930), especially at the
forthcoming BelleII and the approved SuperB.Comment: 5 pages, 2 tables, 3 figures. More contents and discussions adde
Estimation of Phonon Dispersion Relations Using Correlation Effects Among Thermal Displacements of Atoms
Neutron diffraction measurement of powder α-Fe sample at 295 K was carried out at the high resolution powder diffractometer installed at Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). Crystal parameters were determined from Rietveld analysis. The correlation effects among thermal displacements of atoms were estimated from a generalized equation based on the results of fomer diffuse scattering analysis. The force constants among atoms were obtained using an equation for transforming of the correlation effects to force constants. The force constants and the crystal structure of α-Fe were used to estimate the phonon dispersion relations, phonon density of states, and specific heat by computer simulation. The obtained force constants among first-nearest-neighboring atoms is 2.3 eV/Å2 at 295 K and the specific heat is 185 meV/K at 150 K. The calculated phonon dispersion relations and specific heat of α-Fe are similar to those obtained from inelastic neutron scattering and specific heat measurements, respectively. Received: 04 October 2014; Revised: 22 January 2015; Accepted: 30 March 201
Thermal denaturation of A-DNA
The DNA molecule can take various conformational forms. Investigations
focus mainly on the so-called ‘B-form’, schematically drawn in the famous
paper by Watson and Crick [1]. This is the usual form of DNA in a biological
environment and is the only form that is stable in an aqueous environment.
Other forms, however, can teach us much about DNA. They have the same
nucleotide base pairs for ‘building blocks’ as B-DNA, but with different
relative positions, and studying these forms gives insight into the interactions
between elements under conditions far from equilibrium in the B-form.
Studying the thermal denaturation is particularly interesting because it provides
a direct probe of those interactions which control the growth of the
fluctuations when the ‘melting’ temperature is approached. Here we report
such a study on the ‘A-form’ using calorimetry and neutron scattering. We
show that it can be carried further than a similar study on B-DNA, requiring
the improvement of thermodynamic models for DNA
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