192 research outputs found
The string model of the Cooper pair in the anisotropic superconductor
The analogy between the Cooper pair in high temperature superconductor and
the quark-antiquark pair in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is proposed. In QCD
the nonlinear chromodynamical field between a quark and an antiquark is
confined to a tube. So we assume that there is the strong interaction between
phonons which can confine them to some tube too. This tube is described using
the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. We show that it has an infinite spectrum
of axially symmetric (string) solutions with negative finite linear energy
density. The one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation has a finite
spectrum (hence, it has a steady-state) which describes the Cooper pair
squezeed between anisotropy planes in the superconductor. It is shown that in
this model the transition temperature is approximately 45 K.Comment: final version, Latex, 9p, to be published in Phys. Rev.
Inter-cluster reactivity of Metallo-aromatic and anti-aromatic Compounds and Their Applications in Molecular Electronics: A Theoretical Investigation
Local reactivity descriptors such as the condensed local softness and Fukui
function have been employed to investigate the inter-cluster reactivity of the
metallo-aromatic (Al4Li- and Al4Na-) and anti-aromatic (Al4Li4 and Al4Na4)
compounds. We use the concept of group softness and group Fukui function to
study the strength of the nucleophilicity of the Al4 unit in these compounds.
Our analysis shows that the trend of nucleophilicity of the Al4 unit in the
above clusters is as follows;
Al4Li- > Al4Na- > Al4Li4 > Al4Na 4
For the first time we have used the reactivity descriptors to show that these
clusters can act as electron donating systems and thus can be used as a
molecular cathode.Comment: 23 pages, 1 figure and 1 table of conten
Vertex-corrected perturbation theory for the electron-phonon problem with non-constant density of states
A series of weak-coupling perturbation theories which include the
lowest-order vertex corrections are applied to the attractive Holstein model in
infinite dimensions. The approximations are chosen to reproduce the iterated
perturbation theory in the limit of half-filling and large phonon frequency
(where the Holstein model maps onto the Hubbard model). Comparison is made with
quantum Monte Carlo solutions to test the accuracy of different approximation
schemes.Comment: 31 pages, 15 figures, typeset in ReVTe
Evolution in the split-peak structure across the Peak Effect region in single crystals of -NbSe
We have explored the presence of a two-peak feature spanning the peak effect
(PE) region in the ac susceptibility data and the magnetization hysteresis
measurements over a wide field-temperature regime in few weakly pinned single
crystals of -NbSe, which display reentrant characteristic in the PE
curve near (0). We believe that the two-peak feature evolves into distinct
second magnetization peak anomaly well separated from the PE with gradual
enhancement in the quenched random pinning.Comment: 9 figure
Exact solution of the Falicov-Kimball model with dynamical mean-field theory
The Falicov-Kimball model was introduced in 1969 as a statistical model for
metal-insulator transitions; it includes itinerant and localized electrons that
mutually interact with a local Coulomb interaction and is the simplest model of
electron correlations. It can be solved exactly with dynamical mean-field
theory in the limit of large spatial dimensions which provides an interesting
benchmark for the physics of locally correlated systems. In this review, we
develop the formalism for solving the Falicov-Kimball model from a
path-integral perspective, and provide a number of expressions for single and
two-particle properties. We examine many important theoretical results that
show the absence of fermi-liquid features and provide a detailed description of
the static and dynamic correlation functions and of transport properties. The
parameter space is rich and one finds a variety of many-body features like
metal-insulator transitions, classical valence fluctuating transitions,
metamagnetic transitions, charge density wave order-disorder transitions, and
phase separation. At the same time, a number of experimental systems have been
discovered that show anomalies related to Falicov-Kimball physics [including
YbInCu4, EuNi2(Si[1-x]Gex)2, NiI2 and TaxN].Comment: 51 pages, 40 figures, submitted to Reviews of Modern Physic
Inhibitory effect of hypertonic mannitol on vasoconstrictor and vasodilator responses of isolated coronary arteries
Drag of rectangular cavities in supersonic and transonic flow including the effects of cavity resonance
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