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High-Resolution Nanoscale Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
We present a new method for high-resolution nanoscale magnetic resonance
imaging (nano-MRI) that combines the high spin sensitivity of nanowire-based
magnetic resonance detection with high spectral resolution nuclear magnetic
resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. By applying NMR pulses designed using optimal
control theory, we demonstrate a factor of reduction of the proton spin
resonance linewidth in a volume of polystyrene and
image proton spins in one dimension with a spatial resolution below
.Comment: Main text: 8 pages, 6 figures; supplementary information: 10 pages,
10 figure
Crystal growth and magnetic structure of MnBi2Te4
Millimeter-sized MnBiTe single crystals are grown out of Bi-Te flux
and characterized by measuring magnetic and transport properties, scanning
tunneling microscope (STM) and spectroscopy (STS). The magnetic structure of
MnBiTe below T is determined by powder and single crystal neutron
diffraction measurements. Below T=24\,K, Mn moments order
ferromagnetically in the \textit{ab} plane but antiferromagnetically along the
crystallographic \textit{c} axis. The ordered moment is 4.04(13) /Mn
at 10\,K and aligned along the crystallographic \textit{c}-axis. The electrical
resistivity drops upon cooling across T or when going across the
metamagnetic transition in increasing fields below T. A critical scattering
effect was observed in the vicinity of T in the temperature dependence of
thermal conductivity. However, A linear temperature dependence was observed for
thermopower in the temperature range 2K-300K without any anomaly around T.
These indicate that the magnetic order in Mn-Te layer has negligible effect on
the electronic band structure, which makes possible the realization of proposed
topological properties in MnBiTe after fine tuning of the electronic
band structure
Event-driven simulations of a plastic, spiking neural network
We consider a fully-connected network of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons
with spike-timing-dependent plasticity. The plasticity is controlled by a
parameter representing the expected weight of a synapse between neurons that
are firing randomly with the same mean frequency. For low values of the
plasticity parameter, the activities of the system are dominated by noise,
while large values of the plasticity parameter lead to self-sustaining activity
in the network. We perform event-driven simulations on finite-size networks
with up to 128 neurons to find the stationary synaptic weight conformations for
different values of the plasticity parameter. In both the low and high activity
regimes, the synaptic weights are narrowly distributed around the plasticity
parameter value consistent with the predictions of mean-field theory. However,
the distribution broadens in the transition region between the two regimes,
representing emergent network structures. Using a pseudophysical approach for
visualization, we show that the emergent structures are of "path" or "hub"
type, observed at different values of the plasticity parameter in the
transition region.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figure
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