885 research outputs found
Cocliques of maximal size in the prime graph of a finite simple group
In this paper we continue our investgation of the prime graph of a finite
simple group started in http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0506294 (the printed version
appeared in [1]). We describe all cocliques of maximal size for all finite
simple groups and also we correct mistakes and misprints from our previous
paper. The list of correction is given in Appendix of the present paper.Comment: published version with correction
Ground state order and spin-lattice coupling in tetrahedral spin systems Cu2Te2O5X2
High-resolution ac susceptibility and thermal conductivity measurement on
Cu2Te2O5X2(X=Br,Cl) single crystals are reported. For Br-sample, sample
dependence prevents to distinguish between possibilities of magnetically
ordered and spin-singlet ground states. In Cl-sample a three-dimensional
transition at 18.5 K is accompanied by almost isotropic behavior of
susceptibility and almost switching behavior of thermal conductivity. Thermal
conductivity studies suggest the presence of a tremendous spin-lattice coupling
characterizing Cl- but not Br-sample. Below the transition Cl-sample is in a
complex magnetic state involving AF order but also the elements consistent with
the presence of a gap in the excitation spectrum.Comment: version accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.B-Rapid Communicatio
Long-term variations in surface air pressure and surface air temperature in the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes
© 2017, Allerton Press, Inc. The spatiotemporal variability of surface air pressure and surface air temperature in the Northern Hemisphere troposphere in 1990-2014 is described. In 2005 the low-frequency component (LFC) of average air temperature in January averaged over the latitude zone of 32.5°-67.5° N has stopped its increase that lasted for 35 years (from 1970). The LFC of air temperature in July has continued growing since 1975 (for 39 years). The anomalies of air pressure and air temperature for thirty-year periods and the dynamics of LFC of air temperature and air pressure in the atmospheric centers of action are analyzed
Measurement of the electron electric dipole moment using GdIG
A new method for the detection of the electron edm using a solid is
described. The method involves the measurement of a voltage induced across the
solid by the alignment of the samples magnetic dipoles in an applied magnetic
field, H. A first application of the method to GdIG has resulted in a limit on
the electron edm of 5E-24 e-cm, which is a factor of 40 below the limit
obtained from the only previous solid-state edm experiment. The result is
limited by the imperfect discrimination of an unexpectedly large voltage that
is even upon the reversal of the sample magnetization.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, v2:references corrected, submitted to PRL,
v3:added labels to figure
Consistency of Wilsonian effective actions
Wilsonian effective actions are interpreted as free energies in ensembles
with prescribed field expectation values and prescribed connected two-point
functions. Since such free energies are directly obtained from
two-particle-irreducible functionals, it follows that Wilsonian effective
actions satisfy elementary perturbative consistency conditions, and
non-perturbative convexity conditions. In particular, the exact determination
of a Wilsonian action by other means (e.g. supersymmetry) allows one to extract
restrictions on the particular cutoff scheme and field reparametrization that
would lead to such a Wilsonian action from an underlying microscopic action.Comment: 3 pages, RevTe
Self-Organization in Multimode Microwave Phonon Laser (Phaser): Experimental Observation of Spin-Phonon Cooperative Motions
An unusual nonlinear resonance was experimentally observed in a ruby phonon
laser (phaser) operating at 9 GHz with an electromagnetic pumping at 23 GHz.
The resonance is manifested by very slow cooperative self-detunings in the
microwave spectra of stimulated phonon emission when pumping is modulated at a
superlow frequency (less than 10 Hz). During the self-detuning cycle new and
new narrow phonon modes are sequentially ``fired'' on one side of the spectrum
and approximately the same number of modes are ``extinguished'' on the other
side, up to a complete generation breakdown in a certain final portion of the
frequency axis. This is usually followed by a short-time refractority, after
which the generation is fired again in the opposite (starting) portion of the
frequency axis. The entire process of such cooperative spectral motions is
repeated with high degree of regularity. The self-detuning period strongly
depends on difference between the modulation frequency and the resonance
frequency. This period is incommensurable with period of modulation. It
increases to very large values (more than 100 s) when pointed difference is
less than 0.05 Hz. The revealed phenomenon is a kind of global spin-phonon
self- organization. All microwave modes of phonon laser oscillate with the same
period, but with different, strongly determined phase shifts - as in optical
lasers with antiphase motions.Comment: LaTeX2e file (REVTeX4), 5 pages, 5 Postscript figures. Extended and
revised version of journal publication. More convenient terminology is used.
Many new bibliographic references are added, including main early theoretical
and experimental papers on microwave phonon lasers (in English and in
Russian
Thermal conductivity via magnetic excitations in spin-chain materials
We discuss the recent progress and the current status of experimental
investigations of spin-mediated energy transport in spin-chain and spin-ladder
materials with antiferromagnetic coupling. We briefly outline the central
results of theoretical studies on the subject but focus mainly on recent
experimental results that were obtained on materials which may be regarded as
adequate physical realizations of the idealized theoretical model systems. Some
open questions and unsettled issues are also addressed.Comment: 17 pages, 4 figure
A multiloop improvement of non-singlet QCD evolution equations
An approach is elaborated for calculation of "all loop" contributions to the
non-singlet evolution kernels from the diagrams with renormalon chain
insertions. Closed expressions are obtained for sums of contributions to
kernels for the DGLAP equation and for the "nonforward" ER-BL
equation from these diagrams that dominate for a large value of , the
first -function coefficient. Calculations are performed in the covariant
-gauge in a MS-like scheme. It is established that a special choice of the
gauge parameter generalizes the standard "naive nonabelianization"
approximation. The solutions are obtained to the ER-BL evolution equation
(taken at the "all loop" improved kernel), which are in form similar to
one-loop solutions. A consequence for QCD descriptions of hard processes and
the benefits and incompleteness of the approach are briefly discussed.Comment: 13 pages, revtex, 2 figures are enclosed as eps-file, the text style
and figures are corrected following version, accepted for publication to
Phys. Rev.
Solid State Systems for Electron Electric Dipole Moment and other Fundamental Measurements
In 1968, F.L. Shapiro published the suggestion that one could search for an
electron EDM by applying a strong electric field to a substance that has an
unpaired electron spin; at low temperature, the EDM interaction would lead to a
net sample magnetization that can be detected with a SQUID magnetometer. One
experimental EDM search based on this technique was published, and for a number
of reasons including high sample conductivity, high operating temperature, and
limited SQUID technology, the result was not particularly sensitive compared to
other experiments in the late 1970's.
Advances in SQUID and conventional magnetometery had led us to reconsider
this type of experiment, which can be extended to searches and tests other than
EDMs (e.g., test of Lorentz invariance). In addition, the complementary
measurement of an EDM-induced sample electric polarization due to application
of a magnetic field to a paramagnetic sample might be effective using modern
ultrasensitive charge measurement techniques. A possible paramagnetic material
is Gd-substituted YIG which has very low conductivity and a net enhancement
(atomic enhancement times crystal screening) of order unity. Use of a
reasonable volume (100's of cc) sample of this material at 50 mK and 10 kV/cm
might yield an electron EDM sensitivity of e cm or better, a factor
of improvement over current experimental limits.Comment: 6 pages. Prepared for ITAMP workshop on fundamental physics that was
to be held Sept 20-22 2001 in Cambride, MA, but was canceled due to terrorist
attack on U.S New version incorporates a number of small changes, most
notably the scaling of the sensitivity of the Faraday magnetometer with
linewidth is now treated in a saner fashion. The possibility of operating at
an even lower temperarture, say 10 microkelvin, is also discusse
Magnetic properties and magnetostructural phase transitions in Ni2+xMn1-xGa shape memory alloys
A systematic study of magnetic properties of Ni2+xMn1-xGa (0 \le x \le 0.19)
Heusler alloys undergoing structural martensite-austenite transformations while
in ferromagnetic state has been performed. From measurements of spontaneous
magnetization, Ms(T), jumps \Delta M at structural phase transitions were
determined. Virtual Curie temperatures of the martensite were estimated from
the comparison of magnetization in martensitic and austenitic phases. Both
saturation magnetic moments in ferromagnetic state and effective magnetic
moments in paramagnetic state of Mn and Ni atoms were estimated and the
influence of delocalization effects on magnetism in these alloys was discussed.
The experimental results obtained show that the shift of martensitic transition
temperature depends weakly on composition. The values of this shift are in good
correspondence with Clapeyron-Clausius formalism taking into account the
experimental data on latent heat at martensite-austenite transformations.Comment: 7 pages, 8 figure
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