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Flux Jumping and a Bulk-to-Granular Transition in the Magnetization of a Compacted and Sintered MgB2 Superconductor
The recent discovery of intermediate-temperature superconductivity (ITC) in
MgB2 by Akimitsu et al. and its almost simultaneous explanation in terms of a
hole-carrier-based pairing mechanism by Hirsch, has triggered an avalanche of
studies of its structural, magnetic and transport properties. As a further
contribution to the field we report the results of field (H) and temperature
(T) dependent magnetization (M) measurements of a pellet of uniform,
large-grain sintered MgB2. We show that at low temperatures the size of the
pellet and its critical current density, Jc(H) - i.e. its M(H) - ensure low
field flux jumping, which of course ceases when M(H) drops below a critical
value. With further increase of H and T the individual grains decouple and the
M(H) loops drop to lower lying branches, unresolved in the usual full M(H)
representation. After taking into account the sample size and grain size,
respectively, the bulk sample and the grains were deduced to exhibit the same
magnetically determined Jc s (e.g. 105 A/cm2, 20 K, 0T) and hence that for each
temperature of measurement Jc(H) decreased monotonically with H over the entire
field range, except for a gap within the grain-decoupling zone.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, Changes: Fig 6 Vertical scale an order of
magnitude out (changed figure and associated text). Also corrected typo in
last sectio
THE POWER OF STRUCTURED DESIGNS AND MIXED MODELS IN A REAL WORLD EXPERIMENT
Justifications usually given for adopting an automated system pertain to a reduction in labor and an improvement in quality control. A manufacturer of a prototype instrument that automated some of the steps for culturing bacteria wanted to compare the automated system to the manual system. The manufacturer wanted to compare the two systems in 1) Total time needed to isolate the target bacteria, 2) Ability to isolate the target bacteria, 3) Amount of interference from background (non-target) bacterial growth, and 1) Extent of cross (sample to sample) contamination.
This paper presents the experimental design used to make these comparisons and how the design helped discover some surprising results about laboratory quality control. The experiment presented illustrates the importance of a good experimental design, the power of current statistical tools, and that a thorough and appropriate analysis of a data set requires side-by-side good detective work by both statistician and client
Electron-phonon interactions on a single-branch quantum Hall edge
We consider the effect of electron-phonon interactions on edge states in
quantum Hall systems with a single edge branch. The presence of electron-phonon
interactions modifies the single-particle propagator for general quantum Hall
edges, and, in particular, destroys the Fermi liquid even at integer filling.
The effect of the electron-phonon interactions may be detected experimentally
in the AC conductance or in the tunneling conductance between integer quantum
Hall edges.Comment: 9 pages (revtex) + one postscript file with 2 figures. A complete
postscript file with all figures + text (5 pages) is available from
http://FY.CHALMERS.SE/~eggert/fqh.ps or by request from [email protected]
Bed thickness distributions on Mars: An orbital perspective
Studies on Earth show that sedimentary bed thickness and bed thickness distributions record information about the processes controlling sediment deposition. High-resolution digital terrain models (DTMs) such as those derived from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) now provide the opportunity to quantify bed thickness properties on Mars over several orders of magnitude, down to the submeter scale. This study uses HiRISE DTMs and visible images to measure bed thickness distributions at 10 deposits on Mars, with the aim of determining whether statistical techniques can provide useful criteria for distinguishing sedimentary depositional processes. Basic statistics, including mean thickness and range, are examined, as are histograms, cumulative frequency plots, and log-log plots. Statistical tests interrogate these deposits for thinning or thickening upward trends and the presence of normal, lognormal, and exponential distributions. Although there are challenges associated with these methods, the statistical analysis of bed thickness, coupled with morphological and mineralogical interpretations, has the potential to be a powerful tool for characterizing and classifying sedimentary rocks on Mars. In particular, bed thickness statistics are particularly well suited for examining changes in sediment supply and accommodation within Martian sedimentary sequences
Anomalous tunneling conductances of a spin singlet \nu=2/3 edge states: Interplay of Zeeman splitting and Long Range Coulomb Interaction
The point contact tunneling conductance between edges of the spin singlet
quantum Hall states is studied both in the
quasiparticle tunneling picture and in the electron tunneling picture. Due to
the interplay of Zeeman splitting and the long range Coulomb interaction
between edges of opposite chirality novel spin excitations emerge, and their
effect is characterized by anomalous exponents of the charge and spin tunneling
conductances in various temperature ranges. Depending on the kinds of
scatterings at the point contact and the tunneling mechanism the anomalous
interaction in spin sector may enhance or suppress the tunneling conductances.
The effects of novel spin excitation are also relevant to the recent NMR
experiments on quantum Hall edges.Comment: Revtex File, 7 pages: To be published in Physical Reviews
Anomalous Exponent of the Spin Correlation Function of a Quantum Hall Edge
The charge and spin correlation functions of partially spin-polarized edge
electrons of a quantum Hall bar are studied using effective Hamiltonian and
bosonization techniques. In the presence of the Coulomb interaction between the
edges with opposite chirality we find a different crossover behavior in spin
and charge correlation functions. The crossover of the spin correlation
function in the Coulomb dominated regime is characterized by an anomalous
exponent, which originates from the finite value of the effective interaction
for the spin degree of freedom in the long wavelength limit. The anomalous
exponent may be determined by measuring nuclear spin relaxation rates in a
narrow quantum Hall bar or in a quantum wire in strong magnetic fields.Comment: 4 pages, Revtex file, no figures. To appear in Physical Revews B,
Rapid communication
From Tomonaga-Luttinger to Fermi liquid in transport through a tunneling barrier
Finite length of a one channel wire results in crossover from a
Tomonaga-Luttinger to Fermi liquid behavior with lowering energy scale. In
condition that voltage drop mostly occurs across a tunnel barrier inside
the wire we found coefficients of temperature/voltage expansion of low energy
conductance as a function of constant of interaction, right and left traversal
times. At higher voltage the finite length contribution exhibits oscillations
related to both traversal times and becomes a slowly decaying correction to the
scale-invariant dependence of the conductance.Comment: 12 pages of RevTex file and 1 PS file figur
Strong quasi-particle tunneling study in the paired quantum Hall states
The quasi-particle tunneling phenomena in the paired fractional quantum Hall
states are studied. A single point-contact system is first considered. Because
of relevancy of the quasi-particle tunneling term, the strong tunneling regime
should be investigated.
Using the instanton method it is shown that the strong quasi-particle
tunneling regime is described as the weak electron tunneling regime
effectively.
Expanding to the network model the paired quantum Hall liquid to insulator
transition is discussed
Interaction Effects in a One-Dimensional Constriction
We have investigated the transport properties of one-dimensional (1D)
constrictions defined by split-gates in high quality GaAs/AlGaAs
heterostructures. In addition to the usual quantized conductance plateaus, the
equilibrium conductance shows a structure close to , and in
consolidating our previous work [K.~J. Thomas et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 135
(1996)] this 0.7 structure has been investigated in a wide range of samples as
a function of temperature, carrier density, in-plane magnetic field
and source-drain voltage . We show that the 0.7
structure is not due to transmission or resonance effects, nor does it arise
from the asymmetry of the heterojunction in the growth direction. All the 1D
subbands show Zeeman splitting at high , and in the wide channel
limit the -factor is , close to that of bulk GaAs.
As the channel is progressively narrowed we measure an exchange-enhanced
-factor. The measurements establish that the 0.7 structure is related to
spin, and that electron-electron interactions become important for the last few
conducting 1D subbands.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figures (accepted in Phys. Rev. B
Low-temperature behavior of a Magnetic Impurity in a Heisenberg Chain
Using the bosonization technique, we have studied a spin-1/2 magnetic
impurity in Heisenberg chain, and shown that the impurity specific heat and
spin susceptibility have an anomalous temperature dependence.Comment: 12 pages, Revtex, no figure, to be published in Phys. Rev. Let
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