253 research outputs found
Domain walls at the spin density wave endpoint of the organic superconductor (TMTSF)2PF6 under pressure
We report the first comprehensive investigation of the organic superconductor
(TMTSF)2PF6 in the vicinity of the endpoint of the spin density wave - metal
phase transition where phase coexistence occurs. At low temperature, the
transition of metallic domains towards superconductivity is used to reveal the
various textures. In particular, we demonstrate experimentally the existence of
1D and 2D metallic domains with a cross-over from a filamentary
superconductivity mostly along the c?-axis to a 2D superconductivity in the
b?c-plane perpendicular to the most conducting direction. The formation of
these domain walls may be related to the proposal of a soliton phase in the
vicinity of the critical pressure of the (TMTSF)2PF6 phase diagram.Comment: 5 page
Mountain reference technique: Use of mountain returns to calibrate weather radars operating at attenuating wavelengths
Spin-triplet superconductivity in quasi-one dimension
We consider a system with electron-phonon interaction, antiferromagnetic
fluctuations and disconnected open Fermi surfaces. The existence of odd-parity
superconductivity in this circumstance is shown for the first time. If it is
applied to the quasi-one-dimensional systems like the organic conductors
(TMTSF)_2X we obtain spin-triplet superconductivity with nodeless gap. Our
result is also valid in higher dimensions(2d and 3d).Comment: 2 page
Role of Phase Variables in Quarter-Filled Spin Density Wave States
Several kinds of spin density wave (SDW) states with both quarter-filled band
and dimerization are reexamined for a one-dimensional system with on-site,
nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor repulsive interactions, which has
been investigated by Kobayashi et al. (J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 67 (1998) 1098).
Within the mean-field theory, the ground state and the response to the density
variation are calculated in terms of phase variables, and ,
where expresses the charge fluctuation of SDW and describes the
relative motion between density wave with up spin and that with down spin
respectively. It is shown that the exotic state of coexistence of 2k_F-SDW and
2k_F-charge density wave (CDW) is followed by 4k_F-SDW but not by 4k_F-CDW
where k_F denotes a Fermi wave vector. The harmonic potential with respect to
the variation of and/or disappears for the interactions, which
lead to the boundary between the pure 2k_F-SDW state and the corresponding
coexistent state.Comment: 9 pages, 15 figures, to be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 69 No.3
(2000) 79
Spin-density wave versus superconducting fluctuations for quasi-one-dimensional electrons in two chains of Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids
We study possible states at low temperatures by applying the
renormalization-group method to two chains of Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids with
both repulsive intrachain interactions and interchain hopping. As the energy
decreases below the hopping energy, three distinct regions I, III, and II
appear successively depending on properties of fluctuations. The crossover from
the spin-density wave (SDW) state to superconducting (SC) state takes place in
region III where there are the excitation gaps of transverse charge and spin
fluctuations. The competition between SDW and SC states in region III is
crucial to understanding the phase diagram in the quasi-one-dimensional organic
conductors.Comment: 11 pages, Revtex format, 1 figure, to be published in Phys. Rev.
Multiregional Satellite Precipitation Products Evaluation over Complex Terrain
An extensive evaluation of nine global-scale high-resolution satellite-based rainfall (SBR) products is performed using a minimum of 6 years (within the period of 2000-13) of reference rainfall data derived from rain gauge networks in nine mountainous regions across the globe. The SBR products are compared to a recently released global reanalysis dataset from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). The study areas include the eastern Italian Alps, the Swiss Alps, the western Black Sea of Turkey, the French Cévennes, the Peruvian Andes, the Colombian Andes, the Himalayas over Nepal, the Blue Nile in East Africa, Taiwan, and the U.S. Rocky Mountains. Evaluation is performed at annual, monthly, and daily time scales and 0.25° spatial resolution. The SBR datasets are based on the following retrieval algorithms: Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA), the NOAA/Climate Prediction Center morphing technique (CMORPH), Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information Using Artificial Neural Networks (PERSIANN), and Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP). SBR products are categorized into those that include gauge adjustment versus unadjusted. Results show that performance of SBR is highly dependent on the rainfall variability. Many SBR products usually underestimate wet season and overestimate dry season precipitation. The performance of gauge adjustment to the SBR products varies by region and depends greatly on the representativeness of the rain gauge network
The High Magnetic Field Phase Diagram of a Quasi-One Dimensional Metal
We present a unique high magnetic field phase of the quasi-one dimensional
organic conductor (TMTSF)ClO. This phase, termed "Q-ClO", is
obtained by rapid thermal quenching to avoid ordering of the ClO anion. The
magnetic field dependent phase of Q-ClO is distinctly different from that
in the extensively studied annealed material. Q-ClO exhibits a spin density
wave (SDW) transition at 5 K which is strongly magnetic field
dependent. This dependence is well described by the theoretical treatment of
Bjelis and Maki. We show that Q-ClO provides a new B-T phase diagram in the
hierarchy of low-dimensional organic metals (one-dimensional towards
two-dimensional), and describe the temperature dependence of the of the quantum
oscillations observed in the SDW phase.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures, preprin
Possible Triplet Electron Pairing and an Anisotropic Spin Susceptibility in Organic Superconductors (TMTSF)_2 X
We argue that (TMTSF)_2 PF_6 compound under pressure is likely a triplet
superconductor with a vector order parameter d(k) \equiv (d_a(k) \neq 0, d_c(k)
= ?, d_{b'}(k) = 0); |d_a(k)| > |d_c(k)|. It corresponds to an anisotropic spin
susceptibility at T=0: \chi_{b'} = \chi_0, \chi_a \ll \chi_0, where \chi_0 is
its value in a metallic phase. [The spin quantization axis, z, is parallel to a
so-called b'-axis]. We show that the suggested order parameter explains why the
upper critical field along the b'-axis exceeds all paramagnetic limiting
fields, including that for a nonuniform superconducting state, whereas the
upper critical field along the a-axis (a \perp b') is limited by the Pauli
paramagnetic effects [I. J. Lee, M. J. Naughton, G. M. Danner and P. M.
Chaikin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 3555 (1997)]. The triplet order parameter is in
agreement with the recent Knight shift measurements by I. J. Lee et al. as well
as with the early results on a destruction of superconductivity by nonmagnetic
impurities and on the absence of the Hebel-Slichter peak in the NMR relaxation
rate.Comment: 4 pages, 1 eps figur
A Two-dimensional Superconductor in a Tilted Magnetic Field - new states with finite Cooper-pair momentum
Varying the angle Theta between applied field and the conducting planes of a
layered superconductor in a small interval close to the plane-parallel field
direction, a large number of superconducting states with unusual properties may
be produced. For these states, the pair breaking effect of the magnetic field
affects both the orbital and the spin degree of freedom. This leads to pair
wave functions with finite momentum, which are labeled by Landau quantum
numbers 0<n<\infty. The stable order parameter structure and magnetic field
distribution for these states is found by minimizing the quasiclassical free
energy near H_{c2} including nonlinear terms. One finds states with coexisting
line-like and point-like order parameter zeros and states with coexisting
vortices and antivortices. The magnetic response may be diamagnetic or
paramagnetic depending on the position within the unit cell. The structure of
the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) states at Theta=0 is reconsidered.
The transition n->\infty of the paramagnetic vortex states to the FFLO-limit is
analyzed and the physical reason for the occupation of higher Landau levels is
pointed out.Comment: 24 pages, 11 figure
Ring exchange, the Bose metal, and bosonization in two dimensions
Motivated by the high-T_c cuprates, we consider a model of bosonic Cooper
pairs moving on a square lattice via ring exchange. We show that this model
offers a natural middle ground between a conventional antiferromagnetic Mott
insulator and the fully deconfined fractionalized phase which underlies the
spin-charge separation scenario for high-T_c superconductivity. We show that
such ring models sustain a stable critical phase in two dimensions, the *Bose
metal*. The Bose metal is a compressible state, with gapless but uncondensed
boson and ``vortex'' excitations, power-law superconducting and charge-ordering
correlations, and broad spectral functions. We characterize the Bose metal with
the aid of an exact plaquette duality transformation, which motivates a
universal low energy description of the Bose metal. This description is in
terms of a pair of dual bosonic phase fields, and is a direct analog of the
well-known one-dimensional bosonization approach. We verify the validity of the
low energy description by numerical simulations of the ring model in its exact
dual form. The relevance to the high-T_c superconductors and a variety of
extensions to other systems are discussed, including the bosonization of a two
dimensional fermionic ring model
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