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Island formation without attractive interactions
We show that adsorbates on surfaces can form islands even if there are no
attractive interactions. Instead strong repulsion between adsorbates at short
distances can lead to islands, because such islands increase the entropy of the
adsorbates that are not part of the islands. We suggest that this mechanism
cause the observed island formation in O/Pt(111), but it may be important for
many other systems as well.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figure
Hopping conductivity in heavily doped n-type GaAs layers in the quantum Hall effect regime
We investigate the magnetoresistance of epitaxially grown, heavily doped
n-type GaAs layers with thickness (40-50 nm) larger than the electronic mean
free path (23 nm). The temperature dependence of the dissipative resistance
R_{xx} in the quantum Hall effect regime can be well described by a hopping law
(R_{xx} \propto exp{-(T_0/T)^p}) with p=0.6. We discuss this result in terms of
variable range hopping in a Coulomb gap together with a dependence of the
electron localization length on the energy in the gap. The value of the
exponent p>0.5 shows that electron-electron interactions have to be taken into
account in order to explain the occurrence of the quantum Hall effect in these
samples, which have a three-dimensional single electron density of states.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, 1 tabl
Phonon-assisted tunneling in the quantum regime of Mn12-ac
Longitudinal or transverse magnetic fields applied on a crystal of Mn12-ac
allows to observe independent tunnel transitions between m=-S+p and m=S-n-p
(n=6-10, p=0-2 in longitudinal field and n=p=0 in transverse field). We observe
a smooth transition (in longitudinal) from coherent ground-state to thermally
activated tunneling. Furthermore two ground-state relaxation regimes showing a
crossover between quantum spin relaxation far from equilibrium and near
equilibrium, when the environment destroys multimolecule correlations. Finally,
we stress that the complete Hamiltonian of Mn12 should contain odd spin
operators of low order
3D-melting features of the irreversibility line in overdoped BiSrCuO at ultra-low temperature and high magnetic field
We have measured the irreversible magnetization of an overdoped
BiSrCuO single crystal up to B=28 T and down to T=60 mK, and
extracted the irreversibility line : the data can be
interpreted in the whole temperature range as a 3D-anisotropic vortex lattice
melting line with Lindemann number . We also briefly discuss
the applicability of alternative models such as 2D- and quantum melting, and
the connection with magnetoresistance experiments.Comment: M2S-HTSC-VI Conference paper (2 pages, 1 figure), using Elsevier
style espcrc2.st
Hysteresis in the de Haas-van Alphen Effect
A hysteresis loop is observed for the first time in the de Haas-van Alphen
(dHvA) effect of beryllium at low temperatures and quantizing magnetic field
applied parallel to the hexagonal axis of the single crystal. The irreversible
behavior of the magnetization occurs at the paramagnetic part of the dHvA
period in conditions of Condon domain formation arising by strong enough dHvA
amplitude. The resulting extremely nonlinear response to a very small
modulation field offers the possibility to find in a simple way the Condon
domain phase diagram. From a harmonic analysis, the shape and size of the
hysteresis loop is constructed.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PR
Direct Observation of Condon Domains in Silver by Hall Probes
Using a set of micro Hall probes for the detection of the local induction,
the inhomogeneous Condon domain structure has been directly observed at the
surface of a pure silver single crystal under strong Landau quantization in
magnetic fields up to 10 T. The inhomogeneous induction occurs in the
theoretically predicted part of the H-T Condon domain phase diagram.
Information about size, shape and orientation of the domains is obtained by
analyzing Hall probes placed along and across the long sample axis and by
tilting the sample. On a beryllium surface the induction inhomogeneity is
almost absent although the expected induction splitting here is at least ten
times higher than in silver.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures, submitted to PR
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