535 research outputs found
Modeling of the electronic state of the High-Temperature Superconductor LaCuO: Phonon dynamics and charge response
A modeling of the normal state of the p-doped high-temperature
superconductors (HTSC's) is presented. This is achieved starting from a more
conventional metallic phase for optimal- and overdoping and passing via the
underdoped to the insulating state by consecutive orbital selective
compressibility-incompressibility transitions in terms of sum rules for the
charge response. The modeling is substantiated by corresponding phonon
calculations. Extending investigations of the full dispersion and in particular
of the strongly doping dependent anomalous phonon modes in LaCuO, which so far
underpin our treatment of the density response of the electrons in the p-doped
HTSC's, gives additional support for the modeling of the electronic state,
compares well with recent experimental data and predicts the dispersion for the
overdoped regime. Moreover, phonon densities of states have been calculated and
compared for the insulating, underdoped, optimally doped and overdoped state of
LaCuO. From our modeling of the normal state a consistent picture of the
superconducting phase also can be extracted qualitatively pointing in the
underdoped regime to a phase ordering transition. On the other hand, the
modeling of the optimal and overdoped state is consistent with a quasi-particle
picture with a well defined Fermi surface. Thus, in the latter case a Fermi
surface instability with an evolution of pairs of well defined quasiparticles
is possible and can lead to a BCS-type ordering. So, it is tempting to
speculate that optimal in the HTSC's marks a crossover region between
these two forms of ordering.Comment: 18 RevTex pages, 10 figures, revised version, references updated,
accepted for publication in Physical Review
Microscopic calculation of the phonon dynamics of SrRuO compared with LaCuO
The phonon dynamics of the low-temperature superconductor SrRuO
is calculated quantitatively in linear response theory and compared with the
structurally isomorphic high-temperature superconductor LaCuO. Our
calculation corrects for a typical deficit of LDA-based calculations which
always predict a too large electronic -dispersion insufficient to
describe the c-axis response in the real materials. With a more realistic
computation of the electronic band structure the frequency and wavevector
dependent irreducible polarization part of the density response function is
determined and used for adiabatic and nonadiabatic phonon calculations. Our
analysis for SrRuO reveals important differences from the lattice
dynamics of - and -doped cuprates. Consistent with experimental evidence
from inelastic neutron scattering the anomalous doping related softening of the
strongly coupling high-frequency oxygen bond-stretching modes (OBSM) which is
generic for the cuprate superconductors is largely suppressed or completely
absent, respectively, depending on the actual value of the on-site Coulomb
repulsion of the Ru4d orbitals. Also the presence of a characteristic
-mode with a very steep dispersion coupling strongly with the
electrons is missing in SrRuO. Moreover, we evaluate the
possibility of a phonon-plasmon scenario for SrRuO which has been
shown recently to be realistic for LaCuO. In contrast to
LaCuO in SrRuO the very low lying plasmons are
overdamped along the c-axis.Comment: 30 pages, 16 figures, 4 tables, 33 reference
Seagrass metabolism across a productivity gradient using the eddy covariance, Eulerian control volume, and biomass addition techniques
Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2015. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 120 (2015): 3624–3639, doi:10.1002/2014JC010352.The net ecosystem metabolism of the seagrass Thalassia testudinum was studied across a nutrient and productivity gradient in Florida Bay, Florida, using the Eulerian control volume, eddy covariance, and biomass addition techniques. In situ oxygen fluxes were determined by a triangular Eulerian control volume with sides 250 m long and by eddy covariance instrumentation at its center. The biomass addition technique evaluated the aboveground seagrass productivity through the net biomass added. The spatial and temporal resolutions, accuracies, and applicability of each method were compared. The eddy covariance technique better resolved the short-term flux rates and the productivity gradient across the bay, which was consistent with the long-term measurements from the biomass addition technique. The net primary production rates from the biomass addition technique, which were expected to show greater autotrophy due to the exclusion of sediment metabolism and belowground production, were 71, 53, and 30 mmol carbon m−2 d−1 at 3 sites across the bay. The net ecosystem metabolism was 35, 25, and 11 mmol oxygen m−2 d−1 from the eddy covariance technique and 10, −103, and 14 mmol oxygen m−2 d−1 from the Eulerian control volume across the same sites, respectively. The low-flow conditions in the shallow bays allowed for periodic stratification and long residence times within the Eulerian control volume that likely reduced its precision. Overall, the eddy covariance technique had the highest temporal resolution while producing accurate long-term flux rates that surpassed the capabilities of the biomass addition and Eulerian control volume techniques in these shallow coastal bays.This research was conducted under Everglades National Park permit # EVER-2011-SCI-0057. This study received financial support from the Jones Environmental and Barley Scholars Program at the University of Virginia and the National Science Foundation (Chemical Oceanography grant OCE-0536431).2015-11-2
Distant galaxy clusters in the COSMOS field found by HIROCS
We present the first high-redshift galaxy cluster candidate sample from the
HIROCS survey found in the COSMOS field. It results from a combination of
public COSMOS with proprietary H-band data on a 0.66 square degree part of the
COSMOS field and comprises 12 candidates in the redshift range 1.23 < z < 1.55.
We find an increasing fraction of blue cluster members with increasing
redshift. Many of the blue and even some of the reddest member galaxies exhibit
disturbed morphologies as well as signs of interaction.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, in print format, accepted for publication by A&A
Letter
Nuclear shadowing at low photon energies
We calculate the shadowing effect in nuclear photoabsorption at low photon
energies (1-3 GeV) within a multiple scattering approach. We avoid some of the
high energy approximations that are usually made in simple Glauber theory like
the narrow width and the eikonal approximation. We find that the main
contribution to nuclear shadowing at low energies stems from mesons
with masses well below their pole mass. We also show that the possibility of
scattering in non forward directions allows for a new contribution to shadowing
at low energies: the production of neutral pions as intermediate hadronic
states enhances the shadowing effect in the onset region. For light nuclei and
small photon energies they give rise to about 30% of the total shadowing
effect.Comment: RevTeX, 16 pages including 6 eps figures; new calculation of
effective pion propagator, negligible effect on results; version to be
published in Phys. Rev.
The MultiSite Spectroscopic Telescope campaign: 2m spectroscopy of the V361 Hya variable PG1605+072
We present results and analysis for the 2m spectroscopic part of the
MultiSite Spectroscopic Telescope (MSST) campaign undertaken in May/June 2002.
The goal of the project was to observe the pulsating subdwarf B star PG1605+072
simultaneously in velocity and photometry and to resolve as many of the >50
known modes as possible, which will allow a detailed asteroseismological
analysis. We have obtained over 150 hours of spectroscopy, leading to an
unprecedented noise level of only 207m/s. We report here the detection of 20
frequencies in velocity, with two more likely just below our detection
threshold. In particular, we detect 6 linear combinations, making PG1605+072
only the second star known to show such frequencies in velocity. We investigate
the phases of these combinations and their parent modes and find relationships
between them that cannot be easily understood based on current theory. These
observations, when combined with our simultaneous photometry, should allow
asteroseismology of this most complicated of sdB pulsators.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in A&A; Figure 1 at
lower resolution than accepted versio
Experimental Studies of Hadronization and Parton Propagation in the Space-Time Domain
Over the past decade, new data have become available from DESY, Jefferson
Lab, Fermilab, and RHIC that connect to parton propagation and hadron
formation. Semi-inclusive DIS on nuclei, the Drell-Yan reaction, and heavy-ion
collisions all bring different kinds of information on parton propagation
within a medium, while the most direct information on hadron formation comes
from the DIS data. Over the next decade one can hope to begin to understand
these data within a unified picture. We briefly survey the most relevant data
and the common elements of the physics picture, then highlight the new
Jefferson Lab data from CLAS, and close with prospects for the future.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures - To appear in the conference proceedings for
Quark Matter 2009, March 30 - April 4, Knoxville, Tennesse
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