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L’Exil intérieur dans Ulysse
Actes du colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle, 2006International audienc
Constraints from and the isotope effect for MgB
With the constraint that K, as observed for MgB, we use the
Eliashberg equations to compute possible allowed values of the isotope
coefficient, . We find that while the observed value can
be obtained in principle, it is difficult to reconcile a recently calculated
spectral function with such a low observed value
Structural and superconducting transition in selenium under high pressures
First-principles calculations are performed for electronic structures of two
high pressure phases of solid selenium, -Po and bcc.
Our calculation reproduces well the pressure-induced phase transition from
-Po to bcc observed in selenium.
The calculated transition pressure is 30 GPa lower than the observed one, but
the calculated pressure dependence of the lattice parameters agrees fairly well
with the observations in a wide range of pressure.
We estimate the superconducting transition temperature of both
the -Po and the bcc phases by calculating the phonon dispersion and the
electron-phonon interaction on the basis of density-functional perturbation
theory.
The calculated shows a characteristic pressure dependence, i.e.
it is rather pressure independent in the -Po phase, shows a
discontinuous jump at the transition from -Po to bcc, and then decreases
rapidly with increasing pressure in the bcc phase.Comment: 8 pages, 11 figure
Irreducible holonomy algebras of Riemannian supermanifolds
Possible irreducible holonomy algebras \g\subset\osp(p,q|2m) of Riemannian
supermanifolds under the assumption that \g is a direct sum of simple Lie
superalgebras of classical type and possibly of a one-dimensional center are
classified. This generalizes the classical result of Marcel Berger about the
classification of irreducible holonomy algebras of pseudo-Riemannian manifolds.Comment: 27 pages, the final versio
First-Principles Calculation of the Superconducting Transition in MgB2 within the Anisotropic Eliashberg Formalism
We present a study of the superconducting transition in MgB2 using the
ab-initio pseudopotential density functional method and the fully anisotropic
Eliashberg equation. Our study shows that the anisotropic Eliashberg equation,
constructed with ab-initio calculated momentum-dependent electron-phonon
interaction and anharmonic phonon frequencies, yields an average
electron-phonon coupling constant lambda = 0.61, a transition temperature Tc =
39 K, and a boron isotope-effect exponent alphaB = 0.31 with a reasonable
assumption of mu* = 0.12. The calculated values for Tc, lambda, and alphaB are
in excellent agreement with transport, specific heat, and isotope effect
measurements respectively. The individual values of the electron-phonon
coupling lambda(k,k') on the various pieces of the Fermi surface however vary
from 0.1 to 2.5. The observed Tc is a result of both the raising effect of
anisotropy in the electron-phonon couplings and the lowering effect of
anharmonicity in the relevant phonon modes.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, 1 tabl
Anomalous roughening of wood fractured surfaces
Scaling properties of wood fractured surfaces are obtained from samples of
three different sizes. Two different woods are studied: Norway spruce and
Maritime pine. Fracture surfaces are shown to display an anomalous dynamic
scaling of the crack roughness. This anomalous scaling behavior involves the
existence of two different and independent roughness exponents. We determine
the local roughness exponents to be 0.87 for spruce and 0.88
for pine. These results are consistent with the conjecture of a universal local
roughness exponent. The global roughness exponent is different for both woods,
= 1.60 for spruce and = 1.35 for pine. We argue that the global
roughness exponent is a good index for material characterization.Comment: 7 two columns pages plus 8 ps figures, uses psfig. To appear in
Physical Review
The Morphology of N=6 Chern-Simons Theory
We tabulate various properties of the language of N=6 Chern-Simons Theory, in
the sense of Polyakov. Specifically we enumerate and compute character formulas
for all syllables of up to four letters, i.e. all irreducible representations
of OSp(6|4) built from up to four fundamental fields of the ABJM theory. We
also present all tensor product decompositions for up to four singletons and
list the (cyclically invariant) four-letter words, which correspond to
single-trace operators of length four. As an application of these results we
use the two-loop dilatation operator to compute the leading correction to the
Hagedorn temperature of the weakly-coupled planar ABJM theory on R \times S^2.Comment: 41 pages, 1 figure; v2: minor correction
Isotope Effect in the Presence of Magnetic and Nonmagnetic Impurities
The effect of impurities on the isotope coefficient is studied theoretically
in the framework of Abrikosov-Gor'kov approach generalized to account for both
potential and spin-flip scattering in anisotropic superconductors. An
expression for the isotope coefficient as a function of the critical
temperature is obtained for a superconductor with an arbitrary contribution of
spin-flip processes to the total scattering rate and an arbitrary degree of
anisotropy of the superconducting order parameter, ranging from isotropic
s-wave to d-wave and including anisotropic s-wave and mixed (s+d)-wave as
particular cases. It is found that both magnetic and nonmagnetic impurities
enhance the isotope coefficient, the enhancement due to magnetic impurities
being generally greater than that due to nonmagnetic impurities. From the
analysis of the experimental results on La-Sr-Cu-M-O high temperature
superconductor, it is concluded that the symmetry of the pairing state in this
system differs from a pure d-wave.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
The polaron-like nature of an electron coupled to phonons
When an electron interacts with phonons, the electron can exhibit either free
electron-like or polaron-like properties. The latter tends to occur for very
strong coupling, and results in a phonon cloud accompanying the electron as it
moves, thus raising its mass considerably. We summarize this behaviour for the
Holstein model in one, two and three dimensions, and note that the crossover
occurs for fairly low coupling strengths compared to those attributed to real
materials exhibiting conventional superconductivity.Comment: 5 pages; contains a summary of single particle results for the
Holstein mode
The 3-Band Hubbard-Model versus the 1-Band Model for the high-Tc Cuprates: Pairing Dynamics, Superconductivity and the Ground-State Phase Diagram
One central challenge in high- superconductivity (SC) is to derive a
detailed understanding for the specific role of the - and
- orbital degrees of freedom. In most theoretical studies an
effective one-band Hubbard (1BH) or t-J model has been used. Here, the physics
is that of doping into a Mott-insulator, whereas the actual high- cuprates
are doped charge-transfer insulators. To shed light on the related question,
where the material-dependent physics enters, we compare the competing magnetic
and superconducting phases in the ground state, the single- and two-particle
excitations and, in particular, the pairing interaction and its dynamics in the
three-band Hubbard (3BH) and 1BH-models. Using a cluster embedding scheme, i.e.
the variational cluster approach (VCA), we find which frequencies are relevant
for pairing in the two models as a function of interaction strength and doping:
in the 3BH-models the interaction in the low- to optimal-doping regime is
dominated by retarded pairing due to low-energy spin fluctuations with
surprisingly little influence of inter-band (p-d charge) fluctuations. On the
other hand, in the 1BH-model, in addition a part comes from "high-energy"
excited states (Hubbard band), which may be identified with a non-retarded
contribution. We find these differences between a charge-transfer and a Mott
insulator to be renormalized away for the ground-state phase diagram of the
3BH- and 1BH-models, which are in close overall agreement, i.e. are
"universal". On the other hand, we expect the differences - and thus, the
material dependence to show up in the "non-universal" finite-T phase diagram
(-values).Comment: 17 pages, 9 figure
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