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Critical surface band gap of repulsive Casimir interaction between three dimensional topological insulators at finite temperature
We generalize the calculation of Casimir interaction between topological
insulators with opposite topological magnetoelectric polarizabilities and
finite surface band gaps to finite Temperature cases. We find that finite
temperature quantitatively depress the repulsive peak and enlarge the critical
surface gap for repulsive Casimir force. However the universal property
is still valid for various oscillation strength, temperature
region and topological magnetoelectric polarizabilities.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
The electronic structures and magnetic properties of perovskite ruthenates from constrained orbital hybridization calculations
We introduce a method to analyze the effect of hybridization by shifting
corresponding atomic levels using external potentials. Based on this approach,
we study perovskite ruthenates,\ and unambiguously identify that the covalency
between the \textit{A}-site cation and O ion will modify the Ru-O hybridization
and change the density of state at Fermi level, consequently affect the
magnetic properties significantly. We also study the effect of pressure and
reveal that hydrostatic pressure has a small effect on the Ru-O-Ru bond angle
of SrRuO, while it will decrease the Ru-O length and increase the band
width significantly. Therefore, the magnetic ordering temperature will decrease
monotonically with pressure
Ground state and edge excitations of quantum Hall liquid at filling factor 2/3
We present a numerical study of fractional quantum Hall liquid at Landau
level filling factor in a microscopic model including long-range
Coulomb interaction and edge confining potential, based on the disc geometry.
We find the ground state is accurately described by the particle-hole conjugate
of a Laughlin state. We also find there are two counter-propagating
edge modes, and the velocity of the forward-propagating mode is larger than the
backward-propagating mode. The velocities have opposite responses to the change
of the background confinement potential. On the other hand changing the
two-body Coulomb potential has qualitatively the same effect on the velocities;
for example we find increasing layer thickness (which softens of the Coulomb
interaction) reduces both the forward mode and the backward mode velocities.Comment: 12 pages, 13 figure
Calculation of some properties of the vacuum
In this article, we calculate the dressed quark propagator with the flat
bottom potential in the framework of the rain-bow Schwinger-Dyson equation,
which is determined by mean field approximation of the global colour model
lagrangian. The dressed quark propagator exhibits a dynamical symmetry breaking
phenomenon and gives a constituent quark mass about 392 MeV, which is close to
the value of commonly used constituent quark mass in the chiral quark model.
Then based on the dressed quark propagator, we calculate some properties of the
vacuum, such as quark condensate, mixed quark condensate , four quark condensate , tensor, vacuum susceptibilities. The
numerical results are compatible with the values of other theoretical
approaches.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables, some writing errors are correcte
The Universal Edge Physics in Fractional Quantum Hall Liquids
The chiral Luttinger liquid theory for fractional quantum Hall edge transport
predicts universal power-law behavior in the current-voltage (-)
characteristics for electrons tunneling into the edge. However, it has not been
unambiguously observed in experiments in two-dimensional electron gases based
on GaAs/GaAlAs heterostructures or quantum wells. One plausible cause is the
fractional quantum Hall edge reconstruction, which introduces non-chiral edge
modes. The coupling between counterpropagating edge modes can modify the
exponent of the - characteristics. By comparing the fractional
quantum Hall states in modulation-doped semiconductor devices and in graphene
devices, we show that the graphene-based systems have an experimental
accessible parameter region to avoid the edge reconstruction, which is suitable
for the exploration of the universal edge tunneling exponent predicted by the
chiral Luttinger liquid theory.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure
Simulation of transition dynamics to high confinement in fusion plasmas
The transition dynamics from the low (L) to the high (H) confinement mode in
magnetically confined plasmas is investigated using a first-principles
four-field fluid model. Numerical results are in close agreement with
measurements from the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak - EAST.
Particularly, the slow transition with an intermediate dithering phase is well
reproduced by the numerical solutions. Additionally, the model reproduces the
experimentally determined L-H transition power threshold scaling that the ion
power threshold increases with increasing particle density. The results hold
promise for developing predictive models of the transition, essential for
understanding and optimizing future fusion power reactors
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