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Measuring the interaction force between a high temperature superconductor and a permanent magnet
Repulsive and attractive forces are both possible between a superconducting
sample and a permanent magnet, and they can give place to magnetic levitation
or free-suspension phenomena, respectively. We show experiments to quantify
this magnetic interaction which represents a promising field regarding to
short-term technological applications of high temperature superconductors. The
measuring technique employs an electronic balance and a rare-earth magnet that
induces a magnetic moment in a melt-textured YBa2Cu3O7 superconductor immersed
in liquid nitrogen. The simple design of the experiments allows a fast and easy
implementation in the advanced physics laboratory with a minimum cost. Actual
levitation and suspension demonstrations can be done simultaneously as a help
to interpret magnetic force measurements.Comment: 12 pages and 3 figures in postscrip
Oscillatory dynamics of a superconductor vortex lattice in high amplitude ac magnetic fields
In this work we study by ac susceptibility measurements the evolution of the
solid vortex lattice mobility under oscillating forces. Previous work had
already shown that in YBCO single crystals, below the melting transition, a
temporarily symmetric magnetic ac field (e.g. sinusoidal, square, triangular)
can heal the vortex lattice (VL) and increase its mobility, but a temporarily
asymmetric one (e.g. sawtooth) of the same amplitude can tear the lattice into
a more pinned disordered state. In this work we present evidence that the
mobility of the VL is reduced for large vortex displacements, in agreement with
predictions of recent simulations. We show that with large symmetric
oscillating fields both an initially ordered or an initially disordered VL
configuration evolve towards a less mobile lattice, supporting the scenario of
plastic flow.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev.
Effect of Coulomb interactions on the optical properties of doped graphene
Recent optical conductivity experiments of doped graphene in the infrared
regime reveal a strong background in the energy region between the intra and
interband transitions difficult to explain within conventional pictures. We
propose a phenomenological model taking into account the marginal Fermi liquid
nature of the quasiparticles in graphene near the neutrality point that can
explain qualitatively the observed features. We also study the electronic Raman
signal and suggest that it will also be anomalous.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Interaction driven phases in the honeycomb lattice from exact diagonalization
We investigate the fate of interaction driven phases in the half-filled
honeycomb lattice for finite systems via exact diagonalization with nearest and
next nearest neighbour interactions. We find evidence for a charge density wave
phase, a Kekul\'e bond order and a sublattice charge modulated phase in
agreement with previously reported mean-field phase diagrams. No clear sign of
an interaction driven Chern insulator phase (Haldane phase) is found despite
being predicted by the same mean-field analysis. We characterize these phases
by their ground state degeneracy and by calculating charge order and bond order
correlation functions.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, updated reference
Exponentially Modified QCD Coupling
We present a specific class of models for an infrared-finite analytic QCD
coupling, such that at large space-like energy scales the coupling differs from
the perturbative one by less than any inverse power of the energy scale. This
condition is motivated by the ITEP Operator Product Expansion philosophy.
Allowed by the ambiguity in the analytization of the perturbative coupling, the
proposed class of couplings has three parameters. In the intermediate energy
region, the proposed coupling has low loop-level and renormalization scheme
dependence. The present modification of perturbative QCD must be considered as
a phenomenological attempt, with the aim of enlarging the applicability range
of the theory of the strong interactions at low energies.Comment: two references adde
Forming Disk Galaxies in Lambda CDM Simulations
We used fully cosmological, high resolution N-body + SPH simulations to
follow the formation of disk galaxies with rotational velocities between 135
and 270 km/sec in a Lambda CDM universe. The simulations include gas cooling,
star formation, the effects of a uniform UV background and a physically
motivated description of feedback from supernovae. The host dark matter halos
have a spin and last major merger redshift typical of galaxy sized halos as
measured in recent large scale N--Body simulations. The simulated galaxies form
rotationally supported disks with realistic exponential scale lengths and fall
on both the I-band and baryonic Tully Fisher relations. An extended stellar
disk forms inside the Milky Way sized halo immediately after the last major
merger. The combination of UV background and SN feedback drastically reduces
the number of visible satellites orbiting inside a Milky Way sized halo,
bringing it in fair agreement with observations. Our simulations predict that
the average age of a primary galaxy's stellar population decreases with mass,
because feedback delays star formation in less massive galaxies. Galaxies have
stellar masses and current star formation rates as a function of total mass
that are in good agreement with observational data. We discuss how both high
mass and force resolution and a realistic description of star formation and
feedback are important ingredients to match the observed properties of
galaxies.Comment: Revised version after the referee's comments. Conclusions unchanged.
2 new plots. MNRAS in press. 20 plots. 21 page
Topological Fermi liquids from Coulomb interactions in the doped Honeycomb lattice
We get an anomalous Hall metallic state in the Honeycomb lattice with nearest
neighbors only arising as a spontaneously broken symmetry state from a local
nearest neighbor Coulomb interaction V . The key ingredient is to enlarge the
unit cell to host six atoms that permits Kekul\'e distortions and supports
self-consistent currents creating non trivial magnetic configurations with
total zero flux. We find within a variational mean field approach a metallic
phase with broken time reversal symmetry (T) very close in parameter space to a
Pomeranchuk instability. Within the T broken region the predominant
configuration is an anomalous Hall phase with non zero Hall conductivity, a
realization of a topological Fermi liquid. A T broken phase with zero Hall
conductivity is stable in a small region of the parameter space for lower
values of V
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