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Saturated simplicial complexes
AbstractAmong shellable complexes a certain class has maximal modular homology, and these are the so-called saturated complexes. We extend the notion of saturation to arbitrary pure complexes and give a survey of their properties. It is shown that saturated complexes can be characterized via the p-rank of incidence matrices and via the structure of links. We show that rank-selected subcomplexes of saturated complexes are also saturated, and that order complexes of geometric lattices are saturated
Determination of the spin-flip time in ferromagnetic SrRuO3 from time-resolved Kerr measurements
We report time-resolved Kerr effect measurements of magnetization dynamics in
ferromagnetic SrRuO3. We observe that the demagnetization time slows
substantially at temperatures within 15K of the Curie temperature, which is ~
150K. We analyze the data with a phenomenological model that relates the
demagnetization time to the spin flip time. In agreement with our observations
the model yields a demagnetization time that is inversely proportional to T-Tc.
We also make a direct comparison of the spin flip rate and the Gilbert damping
coefficient showing that their ratio very close to kBTc, indicating a common
origin for these phenomena
Understanding the nature of electronic effective mass in double-doped SrTiO
We present an approach to tune the effective mass in an oxide semiconductor
by a double doping mechanism. We demonstrate this in a model oxide system
SrLaTiO, where we can tune the effective mass ranging
from 6--20 as a function of filling or carrier concentration and
the scattering mechanism, which are dependent on the chosen lanthanum and
oxygen vacancy concentrations. The effective mass values were calculated from
the Boltzmann transport equation using the measured transport properties of
thin films of SrLaTiO. Our method, which shows that
the effective mass decreases with carrier concentration, provides a means for
understanding the nature of transport processes in oxides, which typically have
large effective mass and low electron mobility, contrary to the tradional high
mobility semiconductors.Comment: 5 pages with 4 figure
Electronic properties of buried hetero-interfaces of LaAlO3 on SrTiO3
We have made very thin films of LaAlO3 on TiO2 terminated SrTiO3 and have
measured the properties of the resulting interface in various ways. Transport
measurements show a maximum sheet carrier density of 1016 cm-2 and a mobility
around 104 cm2 V-1 s-1. In situ ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS)
indicates that for these samples a finite density of states exists at the Fermi
level. From the oxygen pressure dependence measured in both transport as well
as the UPS, we detail, as reported previously by us, that oxygen vacancies play
an important role in the creation of the charge carriers and that these
vacancies are introduced by the pulsed laser deposition process used to make
the heterointerfaces. Under the conditions studied the effect of LaAlO3 on the
carrier density is found to be minimal.Comment: 19 pages, 6 figure
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