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Ammonia formation caused by the presence of water in the wet grinding of silicon nitride powder
Si3 N4 powder (amorphous, alpha-, and beta-Si3 N4) was mixed with MeOH containing 8.87 mol. % H2O and ground. The NH3 generation rapidly increased after a grinding time of 100 hours. Silicon nitride sintered material was chosen as one of the high temperature, high strength structural materials and studies of the control of the raw material powder, preparation of the sintered body (finding the right assistant, hot press, high pressure sintering, fracture toughness and oxidation at high temperature were performed
Reduction of critical field for magnetic and orbital-ordering phase transition in impurity-substituted NdSrMnO crystal
We have investigated the Mn-site substitution effect in
NdSrMnO single crystal, which has an -type layered
antiferromagnetic (-AFM) phase with the 3-type orbital-order.
Substitution of Fe or Ga for Mn-site suppresses both the -AFM order and
competing ferromagnetic (FM) correlation whereas Cr substitution suppresses
only the -AFM order but reactivates the underlying FM correlation via
double-exchange mechanism along the AFM coupled -direction. In
NdSrMnCrO, the -AFM state with the
orbital-order is changed into the orbital-disordered three-dimensional FM
metallic state by applying magnetic field of T, which is much
smaller than that of the parent compound NdSrMnO.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, to appear in APL Material
Refinement Type Inference via Horn Constraint Optimization
We propose a novel method for inferring refinement types of higher-order
functional programs. The main advantage of the proposed method is that it can
infer maximally preferred (i.e., Pareto optimal) refinement types with respect
to a user-specified preference order. The flexible optimization of refinement
types enabled by the proposed method paves the way for interesting
applications, such as inferring most-general characterization of inputs for
which a given program satisfies (or violates) a given safety (or termination)
property. Our method reduces such a type optimization problem to a Horn
constraint optimization problem by using a new refinement type system that can
flexibly reason about non-determinism in programs. Our method then solves the
constraint optimization problem by repeatedly improving a current solution
until convergence via template-based invariant generation. We have implemented
a prototype inference system based on our method, and obtained promising
results in preliminary experiments.Comment: 19 page
Enhancement of the anomalous Hall effect and spin glass behavior in the bilayered manganite La(2-2x)Sr(1+2x)Mn2O7
The Hall resistivity and magnetization have been investigated in the
ferromagnetic state of the bilayered manganite La(2-2x)Sr(1+2x)Mn2O7 (x=0.36).
The Hall resistivity shows an increase in both the ordinary and anomalous Hall
coefficients at low temperatures below 50K, a region in which experimental
evidence for the spin glass state has been found in a low magnetic field of
1mT. The origin of the anomalous behavior of the Hall resistivity relevant to
magnetic states may lie in the intrinsic microscopic inhomogeneity in a
quasi-two-dimensional electron system.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, Solid State Communications (in press
Competition between ferromagnetic and charge-orbital ordered phases in PrCaMnO for =1/4, 3/8, and 1/2
Spin, charge, and orbital structures in models for doped manganites are
studied by a combination of analytic mean-field and numerical relaxation
techniques. At realistic values for the electron-phonon and antiferromagnetic
spin couplings, a competition between a ferromagnetic (FM) phase and a
charge-orbital ordered (COO) insulating state is found for =1/4, 3/8, and
1/2, as experimentally observed in PrCaMnO for
=0.30.5. The theoretical predictions for the spin-charge-orbital
ordering pattern are compared with experiments. The FM-COO energy difference is
surprisingly small for the densities studied, result compatible with the
presence of a robust colossal-magnetoresistive effect in
PrCaMnO in a large density interval.Comment: 4 pages, Revtex, with 2 figures embedded in the text. Submitted to
Phys. Rev.
Chemical potential shift induced by double-exchange and polaronic effects in Nd_{1-x}Sr_xMnO_3
We have studied the chemical potential shift as a function of temperature in
NdSrMnO (NSMO) by measurements of core-level photoemission
spectra. For ferromagnetic samples ( and 0.45), we observed an unusually
large upward chemical potential shift with decreasing temperature in the
low-temperature region of the ferromagnetic metallic (FM) phase. This can be
explained by the double-exchange (DE) mechanism if the band is split by
dynamical/local Jahn-Teller effect. The shift was suppressed near the Curie
temperature (), which we attribute to the crossover from the DE to
lattice-polaron regimes.Comment: 5 pages, 6 figure
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