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Photon and spin dependence of the resonance lines shape in the strong coupling regime
We study the quantum dynamics of a spin ensemble coupled to cavity photons.
Recently, related experimental results have been reported, showing the
existence of the strong coupling regime in such systems. We study the
eigenenergy distribution of the multi-spin system (following the Tavis-Cummings
model) which shows a peculiar structure as a function of the number of cavity
photons and of spins. We study how this structure causes changes in the
spectrum of the admittance in the linear response theory, and also the
frequency dependence of the excited quantities in the stationary state under a
probing field. In particular, we investigate how the structure of the higher
excited energy levels changes the spectrum from a double-peak structure (the
so-called vacuum field Rabi splitting) to a single peak structure. We also
point out that the spin dynamics in the region of the double-peak structure
corresponds to recent experiments using cavity ringing while in region of the
single peak structure, it corresponds to the coherent Rabi oscillation in a
driving electromagnetic filed. Using a standard Lindblad type mechanism, we
study the effect of dissipations on the line width and separation in the
computed spectra. In particular, we study the relaxation of the total spin in
the general case of a spin ensemble in which the total spin of the system is
not specified. The theoretical results are correlated with experimental
evidence of the strong coupling regime, achieved with a spin 1/2 ensemble
MnAs dots grown on GaN(0001)-(1x1) surface
MnAs has been grown by means of MBE on the GaN(0001)-(1x1) surface. Two
options of initiating the crystal growth were applied: (a) a regular MBE
procedure (manganese and arsenic were delivered simultaneously) and (b)
subsequent deposition of manganese and arsenic layers. It was shown that
spontaneous formation of MnAs dots with the surface density of 1
cm and cm, respectively (as observed by AFM),
occurred for the layer thickness higher than 5 ML. Electronic structure of the
MnAs/GaN systems was studied by resonant photoemission spectroscopy. That led
to determination of the Mn 3d - related contribution to the total density of
states (DOS) distribution of MnAs. It has been proven that the electronic
structures of the MnAs dots grown by the two procedures differ markedly. One
corresponds to metallic, ferromagnetic NiAs-type MnAs, the other is similar to
that reported for half-metallic zinc-blende MnAs. Both system behave
superparamagnetically (as revealed by magnetization measurements), but with
both the blocking temperatures and the intra-dot Curie temperatures
substantially different. The intra-dot Curie temperature is about 260 K for the
former system while markedly higher than room temperature for the latter one.
Relations between growth process, electronic structure and other properties of
the studied systems are discussed. Possible mechanisms of half-metallic MnAs
formation on GaN are considered.Comment: 20+ pages, 8 figure
Role of defects on the electronic and magnetic properties of CrAs/InAs and CrAs/CdSe half-metallic interfaces
We present an extended study of single impurity atoms at the interface
between the half-metallic ferromagnetic zinc-blende CrAs compound and the
zinc-blende binary InAs and CdSe semiconductors in the form of very thin
multilayers. Contrary to the case of impurities in the perfect bulk CrAs
studied in [I. Galanakis and S.G. Pouliasis, J. Magn. Magn. Mat. 321 (2009)
1084] defects at the interfaces do not alter in general the half-metallic
character of the perfect systems. The only exception are Void impurities at Cr
or In(Cd) sites which lead, due to the lower-dimensionality of the interfaces
with respect to the bulk CrAs, to a shift of the bands of the nearest
neighboring As(Se) atom to higher energies and thus to the loss of the
half-metallicity. But Void impurities are Schottky-type and should exhibit high
formation energies and thus we expect the interfaces in the case of thin
multilayers to exhibit a robust half-metallic character
Influence of defects on the electronic and magnetic properties of half-metallic CrAs, CrSe and CrSb zinc-blende compounds
We present an extended study of single impurity atoms and atomic swaps in
half-metallic CrAs, CrSb and CrSe zinc-blende compounds. Although the perfect
alloys present a rather large gap in the minority-spin band, all defects under
study, with the exception of void impurities at Cr and sp sites and Cr
impurities at sp sites (as long as no swap occurs), induce new states within
the gap. The Fermi level can be pinned within these new minority states
depending on the lattice constant used for the calculations and the
electronegativity of the sp atoms. Although these impurity states are localized
in space around the impurity atoms and very fast we regain the bulk behavior,
their interaction can lead to wide bands within the gap and thus loss of the
half-metallic character
Detection of Phase Jumps of Free Core Nutation of the Earth and their Concurrence with Geomagnetic Jerks
We detected phase jumps of the Free Core Nutation (FCN) of the Earth directly
from the analysis of the Very Long Baseline Interferometer (VLBI) observation
of the Earth rotation for the period 1984-2003 by applying the Weighted Wavelet
Z-Transform (WWZ) method and the Short-time Periodogram with the Gabor function
(SPG) method. During the period, the FCN had two significant phase jumps in
1992 and 1998. These epochs coincide with the reported occurrence of
geomagnetic jerks.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
Ab initio study on the magneto-structural properties of MnAs
The magnetic and structural properties of MnAs are studied with ab initio
methods, and by mapping total energies onto a Heisenberg model. The stability
of the different phases is found to depend mainly on the volume and on the
amount of magnetic order, confirming previous experimental findings and
phenomenological models. It is generally found that for large lattice constants
the ferromagnetic state is favored, whereas for small lattice constants
different antiferromagnetic states can be stabilized. In the ferromagnetic
state the structure with minimal energy is always hexagonal, whereas it becomes
orthorhombically distorted if there is an antiferromagnetic component in the
hexagonal plane. For the paramagnetic state the stable cell is found to be
orthorhombic up to a critical lattice constant of about 3.7 Angstrom, above
which it remains hexagonal. This leads to the second order structural phase
transition between paramagnetic states at about 400 K, where the lattice
parameter increases above this critical value with rising temperature due to
the thermal expansion. For the paramagnetic state an analytic approximation for
the magnitude of the orthorhombic distortion as a function of the lattice
constant is given. Within the mean field approximation the dependence of the
Curie temperature on the volume and on the orthorhombic distortion is
calculated. For orthorhombically distorted cells the Curie temperature is much
smaller than for hexagonal cells. This is mainly due to the fact that some of
the exchange coupling constants in the hexagonal plane become negative for
distorted cells. With these results a description of the susceptibility as
function of temperature is given
Fe XI emission lines in a high resolution extreme ultraviolet spectrum obtained by SERTS
New calculations of radiative rates and electron impact excitation cross
sections for Fe XI are used to derive emission line intensity ratios involving
3s^23p^4 - 3s^23p^33d transitions in the 180-223 A wavelength range. These
ratios are subsequently compared with observations of a solar active region,
obtained during the 1995 flight Solar EUV Research Telescope and Spectrograph
(SERTS). The version of SERTS flown in 1995 incorporated a multilayer grating
that enhanced the instrumental sensitivity for features in the 170 - 225 A
wavelength range, observed in second-order between 340 and 450 A. This
enhancement led to the detection of many emission lines not seen on previous
SERTS flights, which were measured with the highest spectral resolution (0.03
A) ever achieved for spatially resolved active region spectra in this
wavelength range. However, even at this high spectral resolution, several of
the Fe XI lines are found to be blended, although the sources of the blends are
identified in the majority of cases. The most useful Fe XI electron density
diagnostic line intensity ratio is I(184.80 A)/I(188.21 A). This ratio involves
lines close in wavelength and free from blends, and which varies by a factor of
11.7 between N_e = 10^9 and 10^11 cm^-3, yet shows little temperature
sensitivity. An unknown line in the SERTS spectrum at 189.00 A is found to be
due to Fe XI, the first time (to our knowledge) this feature has been
identified in the solar spectrum. Similarly, there are new identifications of
the Fe XI 192.88, 198.56 and 202.42 A features, although the latter two are
blended with S VIII/Fe XII and Fe XIII, respectively.Comment: 21 pages, 9 gigures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical
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Discovery Potential for Low-Scale Gauge Mediation at Early LHC
Low-scale gauge-mediated supersymmetry(SUSY)-breaking (GMSB) models with
gravitino mass m_{3/2}<16 eV are attractive, since there are no flavor and
cosmological problems. In this paper, we thoroughly study the collider signal
in the case that the next-to-lightest SUSY particle is the bino or slepton and
investigate the discovery potential of the LHC. Our result is applicable to a
wider class of GMSB models other than the minimal GMSB models and we pay
particular attention to realistic experimental setups. We also apply our
analysis to the minimal GMSB models with a metastable SUSY-breaking vacuum and
we show, by requiring sufficient stability of the SUSY-breaking vacuum, these
models can be tested at an early stage of the LHC.Comment: 21 pages, 7 figures.Texts in section 3.2.2 and 3.2.4 are revised.
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Surface Half-Metallicity of CrAs in the Zinc-Blende Structure
The development of new techniques such as the molecular beam epitaxy have
enabled the growth of thin films of materials presenting novel properties.
Recently it was made possible to grow a CrAs thin-film in the zinc-blende
structure. In this contribution, the full-potential screened KKR method is used
to study the electronic and magnetic properties of bulk CrAs in this novel
phase as well as the Cr and As terminated (001) surfaces. Bulk CrAs is found to
be half-ferromagnetic for all three GaAs, AlAs and InAs experimental lattice
constants with a total spin magnetic moment of 3 . The Cr-terminated
surface retains the half-ferromagnetic character of the bulk, while in the case
of the As-termination the surface states destroy the gap in the minority-spin
band.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, new text, new titl
General moments of the inverse real Wishart distribution and orthogonal Weingarten functions
Let be a random positive definite symmetric matrix distributed according
to a real Wishart distribution and let be its inverse
matrix. We compute general moments explicitly. To do so, we employ the orthogonal Weingarten
function, which was recently introduced in the study for Haar-distributed
orthogonal matrices. As applications, we give formulas for moments of traces of
a Wishart matrix and its inverse.Comment: 29 pages. The last version differs from the published version, but it
includes Appendi
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