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Effect of Plasma Irradiation on films
The effect of plasma irradiation is studied systematically on a 4H polytype
(002) oriented stoichiometric film having compressive residual
stress. Plasma irradiation was found to change the orientation to (110) of the
film at certain moderate irradiation distances. A linear decrease in grain size
and residual stress was observed with decreasing irradiation distance (or
increasing ion energy) consistent with both structural and morphological
observations. The direct optical energy gap was found to increase
linearly at the rate with the compressive stress. The
combined data of present compressive stress and from earlier reported tensile
stress show a consistent trend of change with stress. The
iodine-iodine distance in the unit cell could be responsible for the observed
change in with stress.Comment: 13 pages and 10 fi
Configuration interaction calculation of hyperfine and P,T-odd constants on ^{207}PbO excited states for the electron EDM experiments
We report first configuration interaction calculations of hyperfine constants
A_\parallel and the effective electric field W_d acting on the electric dipole
moment of the electron, in two excited electronic states of ^{207}PbO. The
obtained hyperfine constants, A_\parallel = -3826 MHz for the a(1) state and
A_\parallel = 4887 MHz for the B(1) state, are in very good agreement with the
experimental data, -4113 MHz and 5000 \pm 200 MHz, respectively. We find W_d =
-(6.1 ^{+1.8}_{-0.6}) 10^{24} Hz/(e cm) for a(1), and W_d = (8.0 \pm 1.6)
10^{24} Hz/(e cm) for B(1). The obtained values are analyzed and compared to
recent relativistic coupled cluster results and a semiempirical estimate of W_d
for the a(1) state.Comment: 6 pages, REVTeX4 style, submitted to Pthys.Rev.
High-precision calculations of In I and Sn II atomic properties
We use all-order relativistic many-body perturbation theory to study 5s^2 nl
configurations of In I and Sn II. Energies, E1-amplitudes, and hyperfine
constants are calculated using all-order method, which accounts for single and
double excitations of the Dirac-Fock wave functions.Comment: 10 pages, accepted to PRA; v2: Introduction changed, references adde
Energetics and stability of nanostructured amorphous carbon
Monte Carlo simulations, supplemented by ab initio calculations, shed light
into the energetics and thermodynamic stability of nanostructured amorphous
carbon. The interaction of the embedded nanocrystals with the host amorphous
matrix is shown to determine in a large degree the stability and the relative
energy differences among carbon phases. Diamonds are stable structures in
matrices with sp^3 fraction over 60%. Schwarzites are stable in low-coordinated
networks. Other sp^2-bonded structures are metastable.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figure
Calculation of T_ odd effects in $"" sup 205_TIF including electron correlation
A method and codes for two-step correlation calculation of heavy-atom
molecules have been developed, employing the generalized relativistic effective
core potential and relativistic coupled cluster (RCC) methods at the first
step, followed by nonvariational one-center restoration of proper
four-component spinors in the heavy cores. Electron correlation is included for
the first time in an ab initio calculation of the interaction of the permanent
P,T-odd proton electric dipole moment with the internal electromagnetic field
in a molecule. The calculation is performed for the ground state of TlF at the
experimental equilibrium, R_e=2.0844 A, and at R=2.1 A, with spin-orbit and
correlation effects included by RCC. Calculated results with single cluster
amplitudes only are in good agreement (3% and 1%) with recent
Dirac-Hartree-Fock (DHF) values of the magnetic parameter M; the larger
differences occurring between present and DHF volume parameter (X) values, as
well as between the two DHF calculations, are explained. Inclusion of electron
correlation by GRECP/RCC with single and double excitations has a major effect
on the P,T-odd parameters, decreasing M by 17% and X by 22%.Comment: 5 pages, REVTeX4 style Accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.Letter
Excitonic condensation in a symmetric electron-hole bilayer
Using Diffusion Monte Carlo simulations we have investigated the ground state
of a symmetric electron-hole bilayer and determined its phase diagram at T=0.
We find clear evidence of an excitonic condensate, whose stability however is
affected by in-layer electronic correlation. This stabilizes the electron-hole
plasma at large values of the density or inter-layer distance, and the Wigner
crystal at low density and large distance. We have also estimated pair
correlation functions and low order density matrices, to give a microscopic
characterization of correlations, as well as to try and estimate the condensate
fraction.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, 2 table
A QCD motivated model for soft interactions at high energies
In this paper we develop an approach to soft scattering processes at high
energies,which is based on two mechanisms: Good-Walker mechanism for low mass
diffractionand multi-Pomeron interactions for high mass diffraction. The
pricipal idea, that allows us to specify the theory for Pomeron interactions,
is that the so called soft processes occur at rather short distances
(r^2 \propto 1 /^2 \propto \alpha'_\pom \approx 0.01 GeV^{-2}), where
perturbative QCD is valid. The value of the Pomeron slope \alpha'_\pom was
obtained from the fit to experimental data. Using this theoretical approach we
suggest a model that fits all soft data in the ISR-Tevatron energy range, the
total, elastic, single and double diffractive cross sections, including
dependence of the differential elastic cross section, and the mass dependence
of single diffraction. In this model we calculate the survival probability of
diffractive Higgs production, and obtained a value for this observable, which
is smaller than 1% at the LHC energy range.Comment: 33pp,20 figures in eps file
Coherent \pi^0 threshold production from the deuteron at Q^2 = 0.1 GeV^2/c^2
First data on coherent threshold \pi^0 electroproduction from the deuteron
taken by the A1 Collaboration at the Mainz Microtron MAMI are presented. At a
four-momentum transfer of q^2=-0.1 GeV^2/c^2 the full solid angle was covered
up to a center-of-mass energy of 4 MeV above threshold. By means of a
Rosenbluth separation the longitudinal threshold s wave multipole and an upper
limit for the transverse threshold s wave multipole could be extracted and
compared to predictions of Heavy Baryon Chiral Perturbation Theory.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures, latex2
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