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Theory of isotope effect in photoemission spectra of high-T_c superconducting cuprates
We investigate the effect of isotope substitution on the electronic spectral
functions within a model where the charge carriers are coupled to bosonic
charge-order (CO) fluctuations centered around some mean frequency \omega_0 and
with enhanced scattering at wave-vector q_c. It is shown that a mass dependence
of \omega_0 is not sufficient in order to account, especially at high energies,
for the dispersion shifts experimentally observed in an optimally doped
superconducting cuprate. We argue that isotope substitution induces a change of
the spatial CO correlations which gives good account of the experimental data.Comment: 5 pages and 2 figure
Electrical transport in the ferromagnetic state of manganites: Small-polaron metallic conduction at low temperatures
We report measurements of the resistivity in the ferromagnetic state of
epitaxial thin films of La_{1-x}Ca_{x}MnO_{3} and the low temperature specific
heat of a polycrystalline La_{0.8}Ca_{0.2}MnO_{3}. The resistivity below 100 K
can be well fitted by \rho - \rho_{o} = E \omega_{s}/sinh^{2}(\hbar
\omega_{s}/2k_{B}T) with \hbar \omega_{s}/k_{B} \simeq 100 K and E being a
constant. Such behavior is consistent with small-polaron coherent motion which
involves a relaxation due to a soft optical phonon mode. The specific heat data
also suggest the existence of such a phonon mode. The present results thus
provide evidence for small-polaron metallic conduction in the ferromagnetic
state of manganites.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PR
The Flow of a Viscous Compressible Fluid Through a Very Narrow Gap
The effect of compressibility on the pressure distribution
in the narrow gap between a rotating cylinder and a plane in a viscous fluid was studied by Taylor and Saffman [1] during an investigation of the centripetal pump effect discovered by Reiner [2]
The fate of the Wilson-Fisher fixed point in non-commutative \phi^4
In this article we study non-commutative vector sigma model with the most
general \phi^4 interaction on Moyal-Weyl spaces. We compute the 2- and 4-point
functions to all orders in the large N limit and then apply the approximate
Wilson renormalization group recursion formula to study the renormalized
coupling constants of the theory. The non-commutative Wilson-Fisher fixed point
interpolates between the commutative Wilson-Fisher fixed point of the Ising
universality class which is found to lie at zero value of the critical coupling
constant a_* of the zero dimensional reduction of the theory, and a novel
strongly interacting fixed point which lies at infinite value of a_*
corresponding to maximal non-commutativity beyond which the two-sheeted
structure of a_* as a function of the dilation parameter disappears.Comment: 19 pages, 7 figures, v2:one reference adde
Muon-Spin-Rotation Measurements of the Penetration Depth in the Infinite-Layer Electron-Doped Cuprate Superconductor Sr0.9La0.1CuO2
Muon spin rotation (mSR) measurements of the in-plane penetration depth
lambda_ab have been performed in the electron-doped infinite layer high-Tc
superconductor (HTS) Sr0.9La0.1CuO2. Absence of the magnetic rare-earth ions in
this compound allowed to measure for the first time the absolute value of
lambda_ab(0) in electron-doped HTS using mSR. We found lambda_ab(0)=116(2) nm.
The zero-temperature depolarization rate sigma(0)?1/lambda_ab(0)^2=4.6(1) MHz
is more than four times higher than expected from the Uemura line. Therefore
this electron-doped HTS does not follow the Uemura relation found for
hole-doped HTS.Comment: to be published in Physical Review Letter
Continuity of the four-point function of massive -theory above threshold
In this paper we prove that the four-point function of massive
\vp_4^4-theory is continuous as a function of its independent external
momenta when posing the renormalization condition for the (physical) mass
on-shell. The proof is based on integral representations derived inductively
from the perturbative flow equations of the renormalization group. It closes a
longstanding loophole in rigorous renormalization theory in so far as it shows
the feasibility of a physical definition of the renormalized coupling.Comment: 23 pages; to appear in Rev. Math. Physics few corrections, two
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Correlation between oxygen isotope effects on the transition temperature and the magnetic penetration depth in high-temperature superconductors close to optimal doping
The oxygen-isotope (^{16}O/^{18}O) effect (OIE) on the in-plane magnetic
penetration depth \lambda_{ab}(0) in optimally-doped YBa_2Cu_3O_{7-\delta} and
La_{1.85}Sr_{0.15}CuO_4, and in slightly underdoped YBa_2Cu_4O_8 and
Y_{0.8}Pr_{0.2}Ba_2Cu_3O_{7-\delta} was studied by means of muon-spin rotation.
A substantial OIE on \lambda_{ab}(0) with an OIE exponent
\beta_O=-d\ln\lambda_{ab}(0)/d\ln M_O\approx - 0.2 (M_O is the mass of the
oxygen isotope), and a small OIE on the transition temperature T_c with an OIE
exponent \alpha_O=-d\ln T_{c}/d \ln M_O\simeq0.02 to 0.1 were observed. The
observation of a substantial isotope effect on \lambda_{ab}(0), even in
cuprates where the OIE on T_c is small, indicates that lattice effects play an
important role in cuprate HTS.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
Robust single-parameter quantized charge pumping
This paper investigates a scheme for quantized charge pumping based on
single-parameter modulation. The device was realized in an AlGaAs-GaAs gated
nanowire. We find a remarkable robustness of the quantized regime against
variations in the driving signal, which increases with applied rf power. This
feature together with its simple configuration makes this device a potential
module for a scalable source of quantized current.Comment: Submitted to Appl. Phys. Let
Compact Source of EPR Entanglement and Squeezing at Very Low Noise Frequencies
We report on the experimental demonstration of strong quadrature EPR
entanglement and squeezing at very low noise sideband frequencies produced by a
single type-II, self-phase-locked, frequency degenerate optical parametric
oscillator below threshold. The generated two-mode squeezed vacuum state is
preserved for noise frequencies as low as 50 kHz. Designing simple setups able
to generate non-classical states of light in the kHz regime is a key challenge
for high sensitivity detection of ultra-weak physical effects such as
gravitational wave or small beam displacement
Phase transition and correlation decay in Coupled Map Lattices
For a Coupled Map Lattice with a specific strong coupling emulating
Stavskaya's probabilistic cellular automata, we prove the existence of a phase
transition using a Peierls argument, and exponential convergence to the
invariant measures for a wide class of initial states using a technique of
decoupling originally developed for weak coupling. This implies the exponential
decay, in space and in time, of the correlation functions of the invariant
measures
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