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The Effect of Disorder in an Orbitally Ordered Jahn-Teller Insulator
We study a two dimensional, two-band double-exchange model for
electrons coupled to Jahn-Teller distortions in the presence of quenched
disorder using a recently developed Monte-Carlo technique. In the absence of
disorder the half-filled system at low temperatures is an orbitally ordered
ferromagnetic insulator with a staggered pattern of Jahn-Teller distortions. We
examine the finite temperature transition to the orbitally disordered phase and
uncover a qualitative difference between the intermediate and strongly coupled
systems, including a thermally driven insulator to metal crossover in the
former case. Long range orbital order is suppressed in the presence of disorder
and the system displays a tendency towards metastable states consisting of
orbitally disordered stripe-like structures enclosing orbitally ordered
domains.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figure
Testing Relativity at High Energies Using Spaceborne Detectors
(ABRIDGED) The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) will measure the
spectra of distant extragalactic sources of high energy gamma-rays. GLAST can
look for energy dependent propagation effects from such sources as a signal of
Lorentz invariance violation (LIV). Such sources should also exhibit high
energy spectral cutoffs from pair production interactions with low energy
photons. The properties of such cutoffs can also be used to test LIV. Detectors
to measure gamma-ray polarization can look for the depolarizing effect of
space-time birefingence predicted by loop quantum gravity. A spaceborne
detector array looking down on Earth to study extensive air showers produced by
ultrahigh energy cosmic rays can study their spectral properties and look for a
possible deviation from the predicted GZK effect as another signal of LIV.Comment: 14 pages, Text of invitated talk presented at the "From Quantum to
Cosmos: Fundamental Physics Studies from Space" meeting. More references
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Stability mapping of bipartite tight-binding graphs with losses and gain: symmetry and beyond
We consider bipartite tight-binding graphs composed by nodes split into
two sets of equal size: one set containing nodes with on-site loss, the other
set having nodes with on-site gain. The nodes are connected randomly with
probability . We give a rationale for the relevance of such "throttle/brake"
coupled systems (physically open systems) to grasp the stability issues of
complex networks in areas such as biochemistry, neurons or economy, for which
their modelling in terms of non-hermitian Hamiltonians is still in infancy.
Specifically, we measure the connectivity between the two sets with the
parameter , which is the ratio of current adjacent pairs over the total
number of possible adjacent pairs between the sets. For general
undirected-graph setups, the non-hermitian Hamiltonian of
this model presents pseudo-Hermiticity, where is the loss/gain
strength. However, we show that for a given graph setup
becomes symmetric. In both scenarios (pseudo-Hermiticity and symmetric), depending on the parameter combination, the spectra of
can be real even when it is non-hermitian. Thus, we
numerically characterize the average fractions of real and imaginary
eigenvalues of as a function of the parameter set
. We demonstrate, for both setups, that there is a well
defined sector of the plane (which grows with ) where the
spectrum of is predominantly real.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figure
A wot-based method for creating digital sentinel twins of iot devices
The data produced by sensors of IoT devices are becoming keystones for organizations to conduct critical decision-making processes. However, delivering information to these processes in real-time represents two challenges for the organizations: the first one is achieving a constant dataflow from IoT to the cloud and the second one is enabling decision-making processes to retrieve data from dataflows in real-time. This paper presents a cloud-based Web of Things method for creating digital twins of IoT devices (named sentinels).The novelty of the proposed approach is that sentinels create an abstract window for decision-making processes to: (a) find data (e.g., properties, events, and data from sensors of IoT devices) or (b) invoke functions (e.g., actions and tasks) from physical devices (PD), as well as from virtual devices (VD). In this approach, the applications and services of decision-making processes deal with sentinels instead of managing complex details associated with the PDs, VDs, and cloud computing infrastructures. A prototype based on the proposed method was implemented to conduct a case study based on a blockchain system for verifying contract violation in sensors used in product transportation logistics. The evaluation showed the effectiveness of sentinels enabling organizations to attain data from IoT sensors and the dataflows used by decision-making processes to convert these data into useful information
Magnetic transitions in Pr2NiO4 single crystal
The magnetic properties of a stoichiometric Pr2NiO4 single crystal have been examined by means of the temperature dependence of the complex ac susceptibility and the isothermal magnetization in fields up to 200 kOe at T=4.2 K. Three separate phases have been identified and their anisotropic character has been analyzed. A collinear antiferromagnetic phase appears first between TN = 325 K and Tc1 = 115 K, where the Pr ions are polarized by an internal magnetic field. At Tc1 a first modification of the magnetic structure occurs in parallel with a structural phase transition (Bmab to P42/ncm). This magnetic transition has a firstâorder character and involves both the outâofâplane and the inâplane spin components (magnetic modes gx and gxcyfz, respectively). A second magnetic transition having also a firstâorder character is also clearly identified at Tc2 = 90 K which corresponds to a spin reorientation process (gxcyfz to cxgyaz magnetic modes). It should be noted as well that the outâofâphase component of Ïac shows a peak around 30 K which reflects the coexistence of both magnetic configurations in a wide temperature interval. Finally, two fieldâinduced transitions have been observed at 4.2 K when the field is directed along the c axis. We propose that the highâfield anomaly arises from a metamagnetic transition of the weak ferromagnetic component, similarly to La2CuO4
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