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The effective action and equations of motion of curved local and global vortices: Role of the field excitations
The effective actions for both local and global curved vortices are derived,
based on the derivative expansion of the corresponding field theoretic actions
of the nonrelativistic Abelian Higgs and Goldstone models. The role of
excitations of the modulus and the phase of the scalar field and of the gauge
field (the Bogolyubov-Anderson mode) emitted and reabsorbed by vortices is
elucidated. In case of the local (gauge) magnetic vortex, they are necessary
for cancellation of the long distance divergence when using the transverse form
of the electric gauge field strength of the background field. In case of global
vortex taking them into account results in the Greiter-Wilczek-Witten form of
the effective action for the Goldstone mode. The expressions for transverse
Magnus-like force and the vortex effective mass for both local and global
vortices are found. The equations of motion of both type of vortices including
the terms due to the field excitations are obtained and solved in cases of
large and small contour displacements.Comment: 16 pages, no figures; accepted for publication in Int. Journ. Mod.
Phys.
Spin state of negative charge-transfer material SrCoO3
We employ the combination of the density functional and the dynamical
mean-field theory (LDA+DMFT) to investigate the electronic structure and
magnetic properties of SrCoO3, monocrystal of which were prepared recently. Our
calculations lead to a ferromagnetic metal in agreement with experiment. We
find that, contrary to some suggestions, the local moment in SrCoO3 does not
arise from intermediate spin state, but is a result of coherent superposition
of many different atomic states. We discuss how attribution of magnetic
response to different atomic states in solids with local moments can be
quantified.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Equilibrium properties of the mixed state in superconducting niobium in a transverse magnetic field: Experiment and theoretical model
Equilibrium magnetic properties of the mixed state in type-II superconductors
were measured with high purity bulk and film niobium samples in parallel and
perpendicular magnetic fields using dc magnetometry and scanning Hall-probe
microscopy. Equilibrium magnetization data for the perpendicular geometry were
obtained for the first time. It was found that none of the existing theories is
consistent with these new data. To address this problem, a theoretical model is
developed and experimentally validated. The new model describes the mixed state
in an averaged limit, i.e. %without detailing the samples' magnetic structure
and therefore ignoring interactions between vortices. It is quantitatively
consistent with the data obtained in a perpendicular field and provides new
insights on properties of vortices. % and the entire mixed state. At low values
of the Ginzburg-Landau parameter, the model converts to that of Peierls and
London for the intermediate state in type-I superconductors. It is shown that
description of the vortex matter in superconductors in terms of a 2D gas is
more appropriate than the frequently used crystal- and glass-like scenarios.Comment: 8 pages, 9 figure
Gauge vortex dynamics at finite mass of bosonic fields
The simple derivation of the string equation of motion adopted in the
nonrelativistic case is presented, paying the special attention to the effects
of finite masses of bosonic fields of an Abelian Higgs model. The role of the
finite mass effects in the evaluation of various topological characteristics of
the closed strings is discussed. The rate of the dissipationless helicity
change is calculated. It is demonstrated how the conservation of the sum of the
twisting and writhing numbers of the string is recovered despite the changing
helicity.Comment: considerably revised to include errata to journal versio
Measurement of the energy resolution and calibration of hybrid pixel detectors with GaAs:Cr sensor and Timepix readout chip
This paper describes an iterative method of per-pixel energy calibration of
hybrid pixel detectors with GaAs:Cr sensor and Timepix readout chip. A
convolution of precisely measured spectra of characteristic X-rays of different
metals with the resolution and the efficiency of the pixel detector is used for
the calibration. The energy resolution of the detector is also measured during
the calibration. The use of per-pixel calibration allows to achieve a good
energy resolution of the Timepix detector with GaAs:Cr sensor: 8% and 13% at 60
keV and 20 keV, respectively
Branching ratios of the decays of psi(3770) and Upsilon(10580) into light hadrons
Taking into account the new data on the full width of D^{\ast\pm}(2010) and
the mass difference of the charged and neutral beauty mesons B^\pm, B^0,\bar
B^0, the branching ratios of the decays psi(3770), Upsilon(10580) to pi^+pi^-,
K bar K, rho(omega)pi, rho(omega)eta, rho(omega)eta^prime, K^ast bar K+ c.c,
rho^+ rho^-, and K^ast bar K^ast are re-evaluated in the model in which the
Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka rule is violated due to the real intermediate state D\bar D
in case of psi(3770) and B\bar B in case of Upsilon(10580). The inclusive
annihilation of psi(3770) and Upsilon(10580) into light hadrons is discussed.Comment: 10 page
Orbital densities functional
Local density approximation (LDA) to the density functional theory (DFT) has
continuous derivative of total energy as a number of electrons function and
continuous exchange-correlation potential, while in exact DFT both should be
discontinuous as number of electrons goes through an integer value. We propose
orbital densities functional (ODF) (with orbitals defined as Wannier functions)
that by construction obeys this discontinuity condition. By its variation
one-electron equations are obtained with potential in the form of projection
operator. The operator increases a separation between occupied and empty bands
thus curing LDA deficiency of energy gap value systematic underestimation.
Orbital densities functional minimization gives ground state orbital and total
electron densities. The ODF expression for the energy of orbital densities
fluctuations around the ground state values defines ODF fluctuation Hamiltonian
that allows to treat correlation effects. Dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT)
was used to solve this Hamiltonian with quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method for
effective impurity problem. We have applied ODF method to the problem of
metal-insulator transition in lanthanum trihydride LaH_{3-x}. In LDA
calculations ground state of this material is metallic for all values of
hydrogen nonstoichiometry x while experimentally the system is insulating for x
< 0.3. ODF method gave paramagnetic insulator solution for LaH_3 and LaH_{2.75}
but metallic state for LaH_{2.5}.Comment: 35 pages, 5 figure
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