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Manipulation of electronic and magnetic properties of MC (M=Hf, Nb, Sc, Ta, Ti, V, Zr) monolayer by applying mechanical strains
Tuning the electronic and magnetic properties of a material through strain
engineering is an effective strategy to enhance the performance of electronic
and spintronic devices. Recently synthesized two-dimensional transition metal
carbides MC (M=Hf, Nb, Sc, Ta, Ti, V, Zr), known as MXenes, has aroused
increasingly attentions in nanoelectronic technology due to their unusual
properties. In this paper, first-principles calculations based on density
functional theory are carried out to investigate the electronic and magnetic
properties of MC subjected to biaxial symmetric mechanical strains. At the
strain-free state, all these MXenes exhibit no spontaneous magnetism except for
TiC and ZrC which show a magnetic moment of 1.92 and 1.25 /unit,
respectively. As the tensile strain increases, the magnetic moments of MXenes
are greatly enhanced and a transition from nonmagnetism to ferromagnetism is
observed for those nonmagnetic MXenes at zero strains. The most distinct
transition is found in HfC, in which the magnetic moment is elevated to 1.5
/unit at a strain of 15%. We further show that the magnetic properties
of HfC are attributed to the band shift mainly composed of Hf(5) states.
This strain-tunable magnetism can be utilized to design future spintronics
based on MXenes
The Happer's puzzle degeneracies and Yangian
We find operators distinguishing the degenerate states for the Hamiltonian
at that was given by Happer
et al to interpret the curious degeneracies of the Zeeman effect for
condensed vapor of Rb. The operators obey Yangian commutation relations.
We show that the curious degeneracies seem to verify the Yangian algebraic
structure for quantum tensor space and are consistent with the representation
theory of .Comment: 8 pages, Latex fil
A study on the relations between the topological parameter and entanglement
In this paper, some relations between the topological parameter and
concurrences of the projective entangled states have been presented. It is
shown that for the case with , all the projective entangled states of two
-dimensional quantum systems are the maximally entangled states (i.e.
). And for another case with , both approach when
for and . Then we study the thermal
entanglement and the entanglement sudden death (ESD) for a kind of Yang-Baxter
Hamiltonian. It is found that the parameter not only influences the
critical temperature , but also can influence the maximum entanglement
value at which the system can arrive at. And we also find that the parameter
has a great influence on the ESD.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure
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