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Electron-boson spectral density of LiFeAs obtained from optical data
We analyze existing optical data in the superconducting state of LiFeAs at 4 K, to recover its electron-boson spectral density. A maximum entropy
technique is employed to extract the spectral density from
the optical scattering rate. Care is taken to properly account for elastic
impurity scattering which can importantly affect the optics in an -wave
superconductor, but does not eliminate the boson structure. We find a robust
peak in centered about 8.0 meV or 5.3 (with 17.6 K). Its position in energy agrees well with a similar
structure seen in scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS). There is also a peak
in the inelastic neutron scattering (INS) data at this same energy. This peak
is found to persist in the normal state at 23 K. There is evidence that
the superconducting gap is anisotropic as was also found in low temperature
angular resolved photoemission (ARPES) data.Comment: 17 pages, 6 figure
Superconductivity-induced Phonon Renormalization on NaFeCoAs
We report a study of the lattice dynamics in superconducting NaFeAs (Tc = 8
K) and doped NaFe0.97Co0.03As (Tc = 20 K) using Raman light scattering. Five of
the six phonon modes expected from group theory are observed. In contrast with
results obtained on iso-structural and iso-electronic LiFeAs, anomalous
broadening of Eg(As) and A1g(Na) modes upon cooling is observed in both
samples. In addition, in the Co-doped sample, a superconductivity-induced
renormalization of the frequency and linewidth of the B1g(Fe) vibration is
observed. This renormalization can not be understood within a single band and
simple multi-band approaches. A theoretical model that includes the effects of
SDW correlations along with sign-changing s-wave pairing state and interband
scattering has been developed to explain the observed behavior of the B1g(Fe)
mode.Comment: 10 pages; 6 figure
Raman Scattering Study of the Lattice Dynamics of Superconducting LiFeAs
We report an investigation of the lattice dynamical properties of LiFeAs
using inelastic light scattering. Five out of the six expected phonon modes are
observed. The temperature evolution of their frequencies and linewidths is in
good agreement with an anharmonic-decay model. We find no evidence for
substantial electron-phonon coupling, and no superconductivity-induced phonon
anomalies.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 tabl
The Gluon Spin in the Chiral Bag Model
We study the gluon polarization contribution at the quark model
renormalization scale to the proton spin, , in the chiral bag model. It
is evaluated by taking the expectation value of the forward matrix element of a
local gluon operator in the axial gauge . It is shown that the confining
boundary condition for the color electric field plays an important role. When a
solution satisfying the boundary condition for the color electric field, which
is not the conventionally used but which we favor, is used, the has a
positive value for {\it all} bag radii and its magnitude is comparable to the
quark spin polarization. This results in a significant reduction in the
relative fraction of the proton spin carried by the quark spin, which is
consistent with the small flavor singlet axial current measured in the EMC
experiments.Comment: Corrections to figure
Electronic structure of YbB: Is it a Topological Insulator or not?
To resolve the controversial issue of the topological nature of the
electronic structure of YbB, we have made a combined study using density
functional theory (DFT) and angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES).
Accurate determination of the low energy band topology in DFT requires the use
of modified Becke-Johnson exchange potential incorporating the spin-orbit
coupling and the on-site Coulomb interaction of Yb electrons as large
as 7 eV. We have double-checked the DFT result with the more precise GW band
calculation. ARPES is done with the non-polar (110) surface termination to
avoid band bending and quantum well confinement that have confused ARPES
spectra taken on the polar (001) surface termination. Thereby we show
definitively that YbB has a topologically trivial B 2-Yb 5
semiconductor band gap, and hence is a non-Kondo non-topological insulator
(TI). In agreement with theory, ARPES shows pure divalency for Yb and a -
band gap of 0.3 eV, which clearly rules out both of the previous scenarios of
- band inversion Kondo TI and - band inversion non-Kondo TI. We
have also examined the pressure-dependent electronic structure of YbB,
and found that the high pressure phase is not a Kondo TI but a
\emph{p}-\emph{d} overlap semimetal.Comment: The main text is 6 pages with 4 figures, and the supplementary
information contains 6 figures. 11 pages, 10 figures in total To be appeared
in Phys. Rev. Lett. (Online publication is around March 16 if no delays.
Partial spin freezing in the quasi-two-dimensional La2(Cu,Li)O4
In conventional spin glasses, the magnetic interaction is not strongly
anisotropic and the entire spin system freezes at low temperature. In
La2(Cu,Li)O4, for which the in-plane exchange interaction dominates the
interplane one, only a fraction of spins with antiferromagnetic correlations
extending to neighboring planes become spin-glass. The remaining spins with
only in-plane antiferromagnetic correlations remain spin-liquid at low
temperature. Such a novel partial spin freezing out of a spin-liquid observed
in this cold neutron scattering study is likely due to a delicate balance
between disorder and quantum fluctuations in the quasi-two dimensional S=1/2
Heisenberg system.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
An incrementally scalable and cost-efficient interconnection structure for datacenters
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this record.The explosive growth in the volume of data storing and complexity of data processing drive data center networks (DCNs) to
become incrementally scalable and cost-efficient while to maintain high network capacity and fault tolerance. To address these
challenges, this paper proposes a new structure, called Totoro, which is defined recursively and hierarchically: dual-port servers and
commodity switches are used to make Totoro affordable; a bunch of servers are connected to an intra-switch to form a basic partition;
to construct a high-level structure, a half of the backup ports of servers in the low-level structures are connected by inter-switches in
order to incrementally build a larger partition. Totoro is incrementally scalable since expanding the structure does not require any
rewiring or routing alteration. We further design a distributed and fault-tolerant routing protocol to handle multiple types of failures.
Experimental results demonstrate that Totoro is able to satisfy the demands of fault tolerance and high throughput. Furthermore,
architecture analysis indicates that Totoro balances between performance and costs in terms of robustness, structural properties,
bandwidth, economic costs and power consumption.This work is supported by the NSF of China
under grant (no. 61272073, and no. 61572232), the NSF of
Guangdong Province (no. S2013020012865)
Entangling two superconducting LC coherent modes via a superconducting flux qubit
Based on a pure solid-state device consisting of two superconducting LC
circuits coupled to a superconducting flux qubit, we propose in this paper that
the maximally entangled coherent states of the two LC modes can be generated
for arbitrary coherent states through flux qubit controls.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
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