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The Realization and Dectection of Weyl Semimetals and Chiral Anomaly in Cold Atomic Systems
In this work, we describe a method to realize 3D Weyl semimetal by coupling
multilayers of honeycomb optical lattice in the presence of a pair of Raman
lasers. The Raman lasers render each isolated honeycomb layer a Chern
insulator. With finite interlayer coupling, the bulk gap of the system closes
at certain out-of-plane momenta due to Raman assisted tunnelling and result in
the Weyl semimetal phase. Using experimentally relevant parameters, we show
that both one and two pairs of Weyl points can be realized by tuning the
interlayer coupling strength. We suggest that Landau-Zener tunnelling can be
used to detect Weyl points and show that the transition probability increases
dramatically when Weyl point emerges. The realization of chiral anomaly by
using a magnetic field gradient is also discussed.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures. Comments are welcom
Structural and electronic properties of ScnOm (n=1~3, m=1~2n) clusters: Theoretical study using screened hybrid density functional theory
The structural and electronic properties of small scandium oxide clusters
ScnOm (n = 1 - 3, m = 1 - 2n) are systematically studied within the screened
hybrid density functional theory. It is found that the ground states of these
scandium oxide clusters can be obtained by the sequential oxidation of small
"core" scandium clusters. The fragmentation analysis demonstrates that the ScO,
Sc2O2, Sc2O3, Sc3O3, and Sc3O4 clusters are especially stable. Strong
hybridizations between O-2p and Sc-3d orbitals are found to be the most
significant character around the Fermi level. In comparison with standard
density functional theory calculations, we find that the screened hybrid
density functional theory can correct the wrong symmetries and yield more
precise description for the localized 3d electronic states of scandium.Comment: 8 figure
Kilohertz QPO Frequency and Flux Decrease in AQL X-1 and Effect of Soft X-ray Spectral Components
We report on an RXTE/PCA observation of Aql X-1 during its outburst in March
1997 in which, immediately following a Type-I burst, the broad-band 2-10 keV
flux decreased by about 10% and the kilohertz QPO frequency decreased from
813+-3 Hz to 776+-4 Hz. This change in kHz QPO frequency is much larger than
expected from a simple extrapolation of a frequency-flux correlation
established using data before the burst. Meanwhile a very low frequency noise
(VLFN) component in the broad-band FFT power spectra with a fractional
root-mean-square (rms) amplitude of 1.2% before the burst ceased to exist after
the burst. All these changes were accompanied by a change in the energy
spectral shape. If we characterize the energy spectra with a model composed of
two blackbody (BB) components and a power law component, almost all the
decrease in flux was in the two BB components. We attribute the two BB
components to the contributions from a region very near the neutron star or
even the neutron star itself and from the accretion disk, respectively.Comment: 12 pages with 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters,
typos corrected and references update
Fermions on Thick Branes in the Background of Sine-Gordon Kinks
A class of thick branes in the background of sine-Gordon kinks with a scalar
potential was constructed by R. Koley and S.
Kar [Classical Quantum Gravity \textbf{22}, 753 (2005)]. In this paper, in the
background of the warped geometry, we investigate the issue of localization of
spin half fermions on these branes in the presence of two types of
scalar-fermion couplings: and . By presenting the mass-independent potentials in the corresponding
Schr\"{o}dinger equations, we obtain the lowest Kaluza--Klein (KK) modes and a
continuous gapless spectrum of KK states with for both types of
couplings. For the Yukawa coupling , the effective
potential of the right chiral fermions for positive and is always
positive, hence only the effective potential of the left chiral fermions could
trap the corresponding zero mode. This is a well-known conclusion which had
been discussed extensively in the literature. However, for the coupling
, the effective potential of the right chiral
fermions for positive and is no longer always positive. Although the
value of the potential at the location of the brane is still positive, it has a
series of wells and barriers on each side, which ensures that the right chiral
fermion zero mode could be trapped. Thus we may draw the remarkable conclusion:
for positive and , the potentials of both the left and right chiral
fermions could trap the corresponding zero modes under certain restrictions.Comment: 22 pages, 21 figures, published version to appear in Phys. Rev.
Specific-heat study for ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic phases in SrRu_{1-x}Mn_xO3
Low-temperature electronic states in SrRu_{1-x}Mn_xO_3 for x <= 0.6 have been
investigated by means of specific-heat C_p measurements. We have found that a
jump anomaly observed in C_p at the ferromagnetic (FM) transition temperature
for SrRuO_3 changes into a broad peak by only 5% substitution of Mn for Ru.
With further doping Mn, the low-temperature electronic specific-heat
coefficient gamma is markedly reduced from the value at x=0 (33 mJ/K^2 mol), in
connection with the suppression of the FM phase as well as the enhancement of
the resistivity. For x >= 0.4, gamma approaches to ~ 5 mJ/K^2 mol or less,
where the antiferromagnetic order with an insulating feature in resistivity is
generated. We suggest from these results that both disorder and reconstruction
of the electronic states induced by doping Mn are coupled with the magnetic
ground states and transport properties.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to the proceedings of ICM2009
(Karlsruhe
Information filtering via Iterative Refinement
With the explosive growth of accessible information, expecially on the
Internet, evaluation-based filtering has become a crucial task. Various systems
have been devised aiming to sort through large volumes of information and
select what is likely to be more relevant. In this letter we analyse a new
ranking method, where the reputation of information providers is determined
self-consistently.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication on Europhysics Letter
Improved critical current densities in MgB2 tapes with ZrB2 doping
MgB2/Fe tapes with 2.5-15 at.% ZrB2 additions were prepared through the in
situ powder-in-tube method. Compared to the pure tape, a significant
improvement in the in-field critical current density Jc was observed, most
notably for 10 at.% doping, while the critical temperature decreased slightly.
At 4.2 K, the transport Jc for the 10 at.% doped sample increased by more than
an order of magnitude than the undoped one in magnetic fields above 9 T.
Nanoscale segregates or defects caused by the ZrB2 additions which act as
effective flux pinning centers are proposed to be the main reason for the
improved Jc field performance.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figure
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