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Macroscopic Anisotropy and Symmetry Breaking in the Pyrochlore Antiferromagnet GdTiO}
In the Heisenberg antiferromagnet , the exchange interactions
are geometrically frustrated by the pyrochlore lattice structure. This ESR
study reveals a strong temperature dependent anisotropy with respect to a [111]
body diagonal below a temperature K, despite the spin only nature of
the ion. Anisotropy and symmetry breaking can nevertheless appear
through the superexchange interaction. The presence of short range planar
correlation restricted to specific Kagom\'{e} planes is sufficient to explain
the two ESR modes studied in this work.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Decoherence processes in a current biased dc SQUID
A current bias dc SQUID behaves as an anharmonic quantum oscillator
controlled by a bias current and an applied magnetic flux. We consider here its
two level limit consisting of the two lower energy states | 0 \right> and |
1 \right>. We have measured energy relaxation times and microwave absorption
for different bias currents and fluxes in the low microwave power limit.
Decoherence times are extracted. The low frequency flux and current noise have
been measured independently by analyzing the probability of current switching
from the superconducting to the finite voltage state, as a function of applied
flux. The high frequency part of the current noise is derived from the
electromagnetic environment of the circuit. The decoherence of this quantum
circuit can be fully accounted by these current and flux noise sources.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
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Localization Properties of Quantized Magnetostatic Modes in Nanocubes
We investigate the dynamical properties of a system of interacting magnetic
dipoles disposed in sites of an sc lattice and forming a cubic-shaped sample of
size determined by the cube edge length (N-1)a (a being the lattice constant, N
representing the number of dipolar planes). The dipolar field resulting from
the dipole-dipole interactions is calculated numerically in points of the axis
connecting opposite cube face centers (central axis) by collecting individual
contributions to this field coming from each of the N atomic planes
perpendicular to the central axis. The applied magnetic field is assumed to be
oriented along the central axis, magnetizing uniformly the whole sample, all
the dipoles being aligned parallelly in the direction of the applied field. The
frequency spectrum of magnetostatic waves propagating in the direction of the
applied field is found numerically by solving the Landau-Lifshitz equation of
motion including the local (nonhomogeneous) dipolar field component; the mode
amplitude spatial distributions (mode profiles) are depicted as well. It is
found that only the two energetically highest modes have bulk-extended
character. All the remaining modes are of localized nature; more precisely, the
modes forming the lower part of the spectrum are localized in the subsurface
region, while the upper-spectrum modes are localized around the sample center.
We show that the mode localization regions narrow down as the cube size, N,
increases (we investigated the range of N=21 to N=101), and in sufficiently
large cubes one obtains practically only center-localized and surface-localized
magnetostatic modes.Comment: 20 pages, 9 figures in postscript, useing Revtex4.cl
Galilean Lee Model of the Delta Function Potential
The scattering cross section associated with a two dimensional delta function
has recently been the object of considerable study. It is shown here that this
problem can be put into a field theoretical framework by the construction of an
appropriate Galilean covariant theory. The Lee model with a standard Yukawa
interaction is shown to provide such a realization. The usual results for delta
function scattering are then obtained in the case that a stable particle exists
in the scattering channel provided that a certain limit is taken in the
relevant parameter space. In the more general case in which no such limit is
taken finite corrections to the cross section are obtained which (unlike the
pure delta function case) depend on the coupling constant of the model.Comment: 7 pages, latex, no figure
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