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Voltage control of magnetocrystalline anisotropy in ferromagnetic - semiconductor/piezoelectric hybrid structures
We demonstrate dynamic voltage control of the magnetic anisotropy of a
(Ga,Mn)As device bonded to a piezoelectric transducer. The application of a
uniaxial strain leads to a large reorientation of the magnetic easy axis which
is detected by measuring longitudinal and transverse anisotropic
magnetoresistance coefficients. Calculations based on the mean-field
kinetic-exchange model of (Ga,Mn)As provide microscopic understanding of the
measured effect. Electrically induced magnetization switching and detection of
unconventional crystalline components of the anisotropic magnetoresistance are
presented, illustrating the generic utility of the piezo voltage control to
provide new device functionalities and in the research of micromagnetic and
magnetotransport phenomena in diluted magnetic semiconductors.Comment: Submitted to Physical Review Letters. Updates version 1 to include a
more detailed discussion of the effect of strain on the anisotropic
magnetoresistanc
Statistical properties of the low-temperature conductance peak-heights for Corbino discs in the quantum Hall regime
A recent theory has provided a possible explanation for the ``non-universal
scaling'' of the low-temperature conductance (and conductivity) peak-heights of
two-dimensional electron systems in the integer and fractional quantum Hall
regimes. This explanation is based on the hypothesis that samples which show
this behavior contain density inhomogeneities. Theory then relates the
non-universal conductance peak-heights to the ``number of alternating
percolation clusters'' of a continuum percolation model defined on the
spatially-varying local carrier density. We discuss the statistical properties
of the number of alternating percolation clusters for Corbino disc samples
characterized by random density fluctuations which have a correlation length
small compared to the sample size. This allows a determination of the
statistical properties of the low-temperature conductance peak-heights of such
samples. We focus on a range of filling fraction at the center of the plateau
transition for which the percolation model may be considered to be critical. We
appeal to conformal invariance of critical percolation and argue that the
properties of interest are directly related to the corresponding quantities
calculated numerically for bond-percolation on a cylinder. Our results allow a
lower bound to be placed on the non-universal conductance peak-heights, and we
compare these results with recent experimental measurements.Comment: 7 pages, 4 postscript figures included. Revtex with epsf.tex and
multicol.sty. The revised version contains some additional discussion of the
theory and slightly improved numerical result
Charge Density Wave in Two-Dimensional Electron Liquid in Weak Magnetic Field
We study the ground state of a clean two-dimensional electron liquid in a
weak magnetic field where lower Landau levels are completely filled
and the upper level is partially filled. It is shown that the electrons at the
upper Landau level form domains with filling factor equal to one and zero. The
domains alternate with a spatial period of order of the cyclotron radius, which
is much larger than the interparticle distance at the upper Landau level. The
one-particle density of states, which can be probed by tunneling experiments,
is shown to have a pseudogap linearly dependent on the magnetic field in the
limit of large .Comment: Several errors correcte
Absence of Scaling in the Integer Quantum Hall Effect
We have studied the conductivity peak in the transition region between the
two lowest integer Quantum Hall states using transmission measurements of edge
magnetoplasmons. The width of the transition region is found to increase
linearly with frequency but remains finite when extrapolated to zero frequency
and temperature. Contrary to prevalent theoretical pictures, our data does not
show the scaling characteristics of critical phenomena.These results suggest
that a different mechanism governs the transition in our experiment.Comment: Minor changes and new references include
Evaluating Knowledge Anchors in Data Graphs against Basic Level Objects
The growing number of available data graphs in the form of RDF Linked Da-ta enables the development of semantic exploration applications in many domains. Often, the users are not domain experts and are therefore unaware of the complex knowledge structures represented in the data graphs they in-teract with. This hinders users’ experience and effectiveness. Our research concerns intelligent support to facilitate the exploration of data graphs by us-ers who are not domain experts. We propose a new navigation support ap-proach underpinned by the subsumption theory of meaningful learning, which postulates that new concepts are grasped by starting from familiar concepts which serve as knowledge anchors from where links to new knowledge are made. Our earlier work has developed several metrics and the corresponding algorithms for identifying knowledge anchors in data graphs. In this paper, we assess the performance of these algorithms by considering the user perspective and application context. The paper address the challenge of aligning basic level objects that represent familiar concepts in human cog-nitive structures with automatically derived knowledge anchors in data graphs. We present a systematic approach that adapts experimental methods from Cognitive Science to derive basic level objects underpinned by a data graph. This is used to evaluate knowledge anchors in data graphs in two ap-plication domains - semantic browsing (Music) and semantic search (Ca-reers). The evaluation validates the algorithms, which enables their adoption over different domains and application contexts
Collapse of Spin-Splitting in the Quantum Hall Effect
It is known experimentally that at not very large filling factors the
quantum Hall conductivity peaks corresponding to the same Landau level number
and two different spin orientations are well separated. These peaks occur
at half-integer filling factors and so that
the distance between them is unity. As increases
shrinks. Near certain two peaks abruptly merge into a single peak at
. We argue that this collapse of the spin-splitting at low
magnetic fields is attributed to the disorder-induced destruction of the
exchange enhancement of the electron -factor. We use the mean-field approach
to show that in the limit of zero Zeeman energy experiences a
second-order phase transition as a function of the magnetic field. We give
explicit expressions for in terms of a sample's parameters. For example,
we predict that for high-mobility heterostructures where is the spacer width, is the density of the
two-dimensional electron gas, and is the two-dimensional density of
randomly situated remote donors.Comment: 14 pages, compressed Postscript fil
Analysis and interpretation of a fast limb CME with eruptive prominence, C-flare and EUV dimming
Coronal Mass ejections or CMEs are large dynamical solar-corona events. The
mass balance and kinematics of a fast limb CME, including its prominence
progenitor and the associated flare, will be compared with computed magnetic
structures to look for their origin and effect.
Multi-wavelength ground-based and space-borne observations are used to study
a fast W-limb CME event of December 2, 2003, taking into account both on and
off disk observations. Its erupting prominence is measured at high cadence with
the Pic du Midi full H-alpha line-flux imaging coronagraph. EUV images from
space instruments are processed including difference imaging. SOHO/LASCO images
are used to study the mass excess and motions. A fast bright expanding coronal
loop is identified in the region recorded slightly later by GOES as a C7.2
flare, followed by a brightening and an acceleration phase of the erupting
material with both cool and hot components. The total coronal radiative flux
dropped by 5 percent in the EUV channels, revealing a large dimming effect at
and above the limb. The typical 3-part structure observed 1 hour later shows a
core shaped similarly to the eruptive filament/prominence. The total measured
mass of the escaping CME (1.5x10to16 g from C2 LASCO observations) definitely
exceeds the estimated mass of the escaping cool prominence material although
assumptions made to analyse the Ha erupting prominence, as well as the
corresponding EUV darkening of the filament observed several days before, made
this evaluation uncertain by a factor of 2. From the current free extrapolation
we discuss the shape of the magnetic neutral surface and a possible scenario
leading to an instability, including the small scale dynamics inside and around
the filament.Comment: 11 pages, 9 figure
Mesoscopic conductance and its fluctuations at non-zero Hall angle
We consider the bilocal conductivity tensor, the two-probe conductance and
its fluctuations for a disordered phase-coherent two-dimensional system of
non-interacting electrons in the presence of a magnetic field, including
correctly the edge effects. Analytical results are obtained by perturbation
theory in the limit . For mesoscopic systems the conduction
process is dominated by diffusion but we show that, due to the lack of
time-reversal symmetry, the boundary condition for diffusion is altered at the
reflecting edges. Instead of the usual condition, that the derivative along the
direction normal to the wall of the diffusing variable vanishes, the derivative
at the Hall angle to the normal vanishes. We demonstrate the origin of this
boundary condition from different starting points, using (i) a simplified
Chalker-Coddington network model, (ii) the standard diagrammatic perturbation
expansion, and (iii) the nonlinear sigma-model with the topological term, thus
establishing connections between the different approaches. Further boundary
effects are found in quantum interference phenomena. We evaluate the mean
bilocal conductivity tensor , and the mean and variance
of the conductance, to leading order in and to order
, and find that the variance of the conductance
increases with the Hall ratio. Thus the conductance fluctuations are no longer
simply described by the unitary universality class of the case,
but instead there is a one-parameter family of probability distributions. In
the quasi-one-dimensional limit, the usual universal result for the conductance
fluctuations of the unitary ensemble is recovered, in contrast to results of
previous authors. Also, a long discussion of current conservation.Comment: Latex, uses RevTex, 58 pages, 5 figures available on request at
[email protected]. Submitted to Phys. Rev.
Physics of Solar Prominences: I - Spectral Diagnostics and Non-LTE Modelling
This review paper outlines background information and covers recent advances
made via the analysis of spectra and images of prominence plasma and the
increased sophistication of non-LTE (ie when there is a departure from Local
Thermodynamic Equilibrium) radiative transfer models. We first describe the
spectral inversion techniques that have been used to infer the plasma
parameters important for the general properties of the prominence plasma in
both its cool core and the hotter prominence-corona transition region. We also
review studies devoted to the observation of bulk motions of the prominence
plasma and to the determination of prominence mass. However, a simple inversion
of spectroscopic data usually fails when the lines become optically thick at
certain wavelengths. Therefore, complex non-LTE models become necessary. We
thus present the basics of non-LTE radiative transfer theory and the associated
multi-level radiative transfer problems. The main results of one- and
two-dimensional models of the prominences and their fine-structures are
presented. We then discuss the energy balance in various prominence models.
Finally, we outline the outstanding observational and theoretical questions,
and the directions for future progress in our understanding of solar
prominences.Comment: 96 pages, 37 figures, Space Science Reviews. Some figures may have a
better resolution in the published version. New version reflects minor
changes brought after proof editin
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