74 research outputs found
Influence of magnetic impurities on the heat capacity of nuclear spins
It is found that in a wide range of temperatures and magnetic fields even a
small concentration of magnetic impurities in a sample leads to a
temperature dependence of the nuclear heat capacity. This effect is related to
a nuclear-spin polarization by the magnetic impurities. The parameter that
controls the theory turns out not to be the impurity concentration
but instead the quantity , where and are
the magnetic moments of an electron and a nucleus, respectively. The ratio of
and is of order of
Charged complexes at the surface of liquid helium
Charged clusters in liquid helium in an external electric field form a
two-dimensional system below the helium surface. This 2D system undergoes a
phase transition from a liquid to a Wigner crystal at rather high temperatures.
Contrary to the electron Wigner crystal, the Wigner lattice of charged clusters
can be detected directly.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figur
Electron mobility on a surface of dielectric media: influence of surface level atoms
We calculate the contribution to the electron scattering rate from the
surface level atoms (SLA), proposed in [A.M. Dyugaev, P.D. Grigoriev, JETP
Lett. 78, 466 (2003)]. The inclusion of these states into account was
sufficient to explain the long-standing puzzles in the temperature dependence
of the surface tension of both He isotopes and to reach a very good agreement
between theory and experiment. We calculate the contribution from these SLA to
the surface electron scattering rate and explain some features in the
temperature dependence of the surface electron mobility. This contribution is
essential at low temperature when the He vapor concentration is
exponentially small. For an accurate calculation of the electron mobility one
also needs to consider the influence of the clamping electric field on the
surface electron wave function and the temperature dependence of the He3
chemical potential.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figur
Nuclear magnetic susceptibility of metals with magnetic impurities
We consider the contribution of magnetic impurities to the nuclear magnetic
susceptibility and to the specific heat of a metal. The impurity
contribution to the magnetic susceptibility has a behaviour, and the
impurity contribution to the specific heat has a behaviour, both in an
extended region of temperatures . In the case of a dirty metal the RKKY
interaction of nuclear spins and impurity spins is suppressed for low
temperatures and the main contribution to and is given by their
dipole-dipole interaction.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures, REVTE
Rearrangement of the Fermi Surface of Dense Neutron Matter and Direct Urca Cooling of Neutron Stars
It is proposed that a rearrangement of single-particle degrees of freedom may
occur in a portion of the quantum fluid interior of a neutron star. Such a
rearrangement is associated with the pronounced softening of the spin-isospin
collective mode which, under increasing density, leads to pion condensation.
Arguments and estimates based on fundamental relations of many-body theory show
that one realization of this phenomenon could produce very rapid cooling of the
star via a direct nucelon Urca process displaying a dependence on
temperature.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figure
Strong coupling in the Kondo problem in the low-temperature region
The magnetic field dependence of the average spin of a localized electron
coupled to conduction electrons with an antiferromagnetic exchange interaction
is found for the ground state. In the magnetic field range
( is the Kondo temperature) there is an inflection point, and in the
strong magnetic field range , the correction to the average spin
is proportional to . In zero magnetic field, the interaction
with conduction electrons also leads to the splitting of doubly degenerate spin
impurity states
Universal behavior at discontinuous quantum phase transitions
Discontinuous quantum phase transitions besides their general interest are
clearly relevant to the study of heavy fermions and magnetic transition metal
compounds. Recent results show that in many systems belonging to these classes
of materials, the magnetic transition changes from second order to first order
as they approach the quantum critical point (QCP). We investigate here some
mechanisms that may be responsible for this change. Specifically the coupling
of the order parameter to soft modes and the competition between different
types of order near the QCP. For weak first order quantum phase transitions
general results are obtained. In particular we describe the thermodynamic
behavior at this transition when it is approached from finite temperatures.
This is the discontinuous equivalent of the non-Fermi liquid trajectory close
to a conventional QCP in a heavy fermion material.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure
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