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Increasing d-wave superconductivity by on site repulsion
We study by Variational Monte Carlo an extended Hubbard model away from half
filled band density which contains two competing nearest-neighbor interactions:
a superexchange favoring d-wave superconductivity and a repulsion
opposing against it. We find that the on-site repulsion effectively
enhances the strength of meanwhile suppressing that of , thus favoring
superconductivity. This result shows that attractions which do not involve
charge fluctuations are very well equipped against strong electron-electron
repulsion so much to get advantage from it.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Controllable spin transport in ferromagnetic graphene junctions
We study spin transport in normal/ferromagnetic/normal graphene junctions
where a gate electrode is attached to the ferromagnetic graphene. We find that
due to the exchange field of the ferromagnetic graphene, spin current through
the junctions has an oscillatory behavior with respect to the chemical
potential in the ferromagnetic graphene, which can be tuned by the gate
voltage. Especially, we obtain a controllable spin current reversal by the gate
voltage. Our prediction of high controllability of spin transport in
ferromagnetic graphene junction may contribute to the development of the
spintronics.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
Spin-current absorption by inhomogeneous spin-orbit coupling
We investigate the spin-current absorption induced by an inhomogeneous
spin-orbit coupling due to impurities in metals. We consider the system with
spin currents driven by the electric field or the spin accumulation. The
resulting diffusive spin currents, including the gradient of the spin-orbit
coupling strength, indicate the spin-current absorption at the interface, which
is exemplified with experimentally relevant setups.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figure
Statistical Study of the Reconnection Rate in Solar Flares Observed with YOHKOH/SXT
We report a statistical study of flares observed with the Soft X-ray
Telescope (SXT) onboard Yohkoh in the year of 2000. We measure physical
parameters of 77 flares, such as the temporal scale, the size, and the magnetic
flux density and find that the sizes of flares tend to be distributed more
broadly as the GOES class becomes weaker and that there is a lower limit of
magnetic flux density that depends on the GOES class. We also examine the
relationship between these parameters and find weak correlation between
temporal and spatial scales of flares. We estimate reconnection inflow
velocity, coronal Alfven velocity, and reconnection rate using above observed
values. The inflow velocities are distributed from a few km/s to several tens
km/s and the Alfven velocities in the corona are in the range from 10^3 to 10^4
km/s. Hence the reconnection rate is 10^-3 - 10^-2. We find that the
reconnection rate in a flare tends to decrease as the GOES class of the flare
increases. This value is within one order of magnitude from the theoretical
maximum value predicted by the Petschek model, although the dependence of the
reconnection rate on the magnetic Reynolds number tends to be stronger than
that in the Petschek model.Comment: 21 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Ap
Role of strong correlation in the recent ARPES experiments for cuprate superconductors
Motivated by recent photoemission experiments on cuprates, the low-lying
excitations of a strongly correlated superconducting state are studied
numerically. It is observed that along the nodal direction these low-lying
one-particle excitations show a linear momentum dependence for a wide range of
excitation energies and, thus, they do not present a kink-like structure. The
nodal Fermi velocity , as well as other observables, are
systematically evaluated directly from the calculated dispersions, and they are
found to compare well with experiments. It is argued that the parameter
dependence of is quantitatively explained by a simple picture of a
renormalized Fermi velocity.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. Let
Charge transport in two dimensional electron gas/superconductor junctions with Rashba spin-orbit coupling
We have studied the tunneling conductance in two dimensional electron gas /
insulator / superconductor junctions in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit
coupling (RSOC). It is found that for low insulating barrier the tunneling
conductance is suppressed by the RSOC while for high insulating barrier it is
almost independent of the RSOC. We also find the reentrant behavior of the
conductance at zero voltage as a function of RSOC for intermediate insulating
barrier strength. The results are essentially different from those predicted in
ferromagnet / superconductor junctions. The present derivation of the
conductance is applicable to arbitrary velocity operator with off-diagonal
components.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figure
Enhanced triplet superconductivity in noncentrosymmetric systems
We study pairing symmetry of noncentrosymmetric superconductors based on the
extended Hubbard model on square lattice near half-filling, using the random
phase approximation. We show that d+f-wave pairing is favored and the triplet
f-wave state is enhanced by Rashba type spin-orbit coupling originating from
the broken inversion symmetry. The enhanced triplet superconductivity stems
from the increase of the effective interaction for the triplet pairing and the
reduction of the spin susceptibility caused by the Rashba type spin-orbit
coupling which lead to the increase of the triplet component and the
destruction of the singlet one, respectively.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Manipulation of Majorana fermion, Andreev reflection and Josephson current on topological insulators
We study theoretically charge transport properties of normal metal (N) /
ferromagnet insulator (FI) / superconductor (S) junction and S/FI/S junction
formed on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulator (TI), where
chiral Majorana mode (CMM) exists at FI/S interface. We find that CMM generated
in N/FI/S and S/FI/S junctions are very sensitively controlled by the direction
of the magnetization in FI region. Especially, the current-phase
relation of Josephson current in S/FI/S junctions has a phase shift neither 0
nor , which can be tuned continuously by the component of
perpendicular to the interface
Crossover of superconducting properties and kinetic-energy gain in two-dimensional Hubbard model
Superconductivity in the Hubbard model on a square lattice near half filling
is studied using an optimization (or correlated) variational Monte Carlo
method. Second-order processes of the strong-coupling expansion are considered
in the wave functions beyond the Gutzwiller factor. Superconductivity of
d_x^2-y^2-wave is widely stable, and exhibits a crossover around U=U_co\sim 12t
from a BCS type to a new type. For U\gsim U_co (U\lsim U_co), the energy gain
in the superconducting state is derived from the kinetic (potential) energy.
Condensation energy is large and \propto exp(-t/J) [tiny] on the strong [weak]
coupling side of U_co. Cuprates belong to the strong-coupling regime.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figure
Unconventional superconductivity on a topological insulator
We study proximity-induced superconductivity on the surface of a topological
insulator (TI), focusing on unconventional pairing. We find that the excitation
spectrum becomes gapless for any spin-triplet pairing, such that both subgap
bound states and Andreev reflection is strongly suppressed. For spin-singlet
pairing, the zero-energy surface state in the -wave case becomes a
Majorana fermion, in contrast to the situation realized in the topologically
trivial high- cuprates. We also study the influence of a Zeeman field on
the surface states. Both the magnitude and direction of this field is shown to
strongly influence the transport properties, in contrast to the case without
TI. We predict an experimental signature of the Majorana states via conductance
spectroscopy.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Let
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