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Quantum criticality of Ce1−x_{1-x}Lax_{x}Ru2_{2}Si2_{2} : the magnetically ordered phase

We report specific heat and neutron scattering experiments performed on the system Ce$_{1-x}$La$_{x}$Ru$_{2}$Si$_{2}$ on the magnetic side of its quantum critical phase diagram. The Kondo temperature does not vanish at the quantum phase transition and elastic scattering indicates a gradual localisation of the magnetism when $x$ increases in the ordered phase.Comment: To be published in the proceedings of QCNP0

The Early Cartography of the Bering Strait Region

... In its later phase, from the mid-seventeenth century on, the locale of this mythical strait was shifted eastward to a position between a legendary land of Jeso and America north of California, and became involved in the controversy over a Northwest Passage from Hudson's Bay to the Pacific. It was at this time that another cartography began to develop, based at first on a slim and tenuous knowledge of the facts, but nevertheless carrying with it the promise of a realistic cartography of the Bering Strait region. This was the Russian cartography of northeastern Siberia. Less is generally known about this cartography than about that of the Strait of Anian; yet, since World War II, Soviet scholars have greatly advanced our knowledge of it. This paper will focus on a selected group of maps from the Russian cartography. ..

Resonance Cones in the Field Pattern of a Short Radio Frequency Probe in a Warm Anisotropic Plasma

An experimental investigation of the angular field pattern of a small radio frequency probe in a plasma in a magnetic field is described. The field is observed to become very large along a resonance cone whose axis is parallel to the static magnetic field and whose opening angle is observed to vary with incident probe frequency, electron cyclotron frequency, and electron plasma frequency in agreement with simple cold plasma dielectric theory. The use of the resonance cone angle as a diagnostic tool to measure the plasma density in a plasma in a magnetic field is discussed. It is noted that similar cones might be expected near the ion cyclotron frequency. The relationship of these cones to the limiting phase- and group-velocity cones which appear in the theory of plane wave propagation is discussed. The necessity for examining the allowed directions of the group velocity rather than the allowed directions of the phase velocity and customary phase velocity plots when determining whether propagation between two remote points in a plasma is possible, is emphasized. The addition of electron thermal velocities to the theory is examined in the limit of a large static magnetic field. The resonance cone angle is shifted to a slightly smaller angle than that predicted by cold plasma theory, and a fine structure appears inside the cones and is shown to result from an interference between a fast electromagnetic wave and a slow plasma wave. The interference structure is observed experimentally, and measurements of the angular interference spacing are shown to agree with the warm plasma theory.</p