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Normal State Nernst Effect in Electron-doped Pr2-xCexCuO4: Superconducting Fluctuations and Two-band Transport
We report a systematic study of normal state Nernst effect in the
electron-doped cuprates PrCeCuO over a wide range of
doping (0.050.21) and temperature. At low temperatures, we
observed a notable vortex Nernst signal above T in the underdoped films,
but no such normal state vortex Nernst signal is found in the overdoped region.
The superconducting fluctuations in the underdoped region are most likely
incoherent phase fluctuations as found in hole-doped cuprates. At high
temperatures, a large normal state Nernst signal is found at dopings from
slightly underdoped to highly overdoped. Combined with normal state
thermoelectric power, Hall effect and magnetoresistance measurements, the large
Nernst effect is compatible with two-band model. For the highly overdoped
films, the large Nernst effect is anomalous and not explainable with a simple
hole-like Fermi surface seen in photoemission experiments.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures, accepted in PR
High-field Hall resistivity and magnetoresistance in electron-doped Pr_2-xCe_xCuO_{4-\delta}
We report resistivity and Hall effect measurements in electron-doped
PrCeCuO films in magnetic field up to 58 T. In
contrast to hole-doped cuprates, we find a surprising non-linear magnetic field
dependence of Hall resistivity at high field in the optimally doped and
overdoped films. We also observe a crossover from quadratic to linear field
dependence of the positive magnetoresistance in the overdoped films. A spin
density wave induced Fermi surface reconstruction model can be used to
qualitatively explain both the Hall effect and magnetoresistance.Comment: PRL in pres
University Seal and Logo History
Documents concerning the establishment of the Governors State University seal and logo, including correspondence between university President William E. Engbretson and designer Thomas W. Greene during 1969 and 1970, press releases, identity standards and story board
Feshbach Resonance Cooling of Trapped Atom Pairs
Spectroscopic studies of few-body systems at ultracold temperatures provide
valuable information that often cannot be extracted in a hot environment.
Considering a pair of atoms, we propose a cooling mechanism that makes use of a
scattering Feshbach resonance. Application of a series of time-dependent
magnetic field ramps results in the situation in which either zero, one, or two
atoms remain trapped. If two atoms remain in the trap after the field ramps are
completed, then they have been cooled. Application of the proposed cooling
mechanism to optical traps or lattices is considered.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures; v.2: major conceptual change
Radio Emission from the Intermediate-mass Black Hole in the Globular Cluster G1
We have used the Very Large Array (VLA) to search for radio emission from the
globular cluster G1 (Mayall-II) in M31. G1 has been reported by Gebhardt et al.
to contain an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) with a mass of ~2 x 10^4
solar masses. Radio emission was detected within an arcsecond of the cluster
center with an 8.4 GHz power of 2 x 10^{15} W/Hz. The radio/X-ray ratio of G1
is a few hundred times higher than that expected for a high-mass X-ray binary
in the cluster center, but is consistent with the expected value for accretion
onto an IMBH with the reported mass. A pulsar wind nebula is also a possible
candidate for the radio and X-ray emission from G1; future high-sensitivity
VLBI observations might distinguish between this possibility and an IMBH. If
the radio source is an IMBH, and similar accretion and outflow processes occur
for hypothesized ~ 1000-solar-mass black holes in Milky Way globular clusters,
they are within reach of the current VLA and should be detectable easily by the
Expanded VLA when it comes on line in 2010.Comment: ApJ Letters, accepted, 11 pages, 1 figur
Processing NOAA Spectroradiometric Data
This report outlines the NOAA spectroradiometer data processing system implemented by the MLML_DBASE programs. This is done by presenting the algorithms and graphs showing the effects of each step in the
algorithms. [PDF contains 32 pages
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