154 research outputs found
Precursor of Color Superconductivity
We investigate possible precursory phenomena of color superconductivity at
finite temperature with an effective theory of QCD. It is found that the
fluctuation of the diquark pair field exists with a prominent strength even
well above the critical temperature . We show that such a fluctuaiton
forms a collective mode, the corresponding pole of which approaches the origin
as is lowered to in the complex energy plane. We discuss the possible
relevance of the precursor to the observables to be detected in heavy-ion
collisions.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, Talk presented at the XVIth International
Conference on Particles and Nuclei (PANIC02), Osaka, Japan, Sep.30 - Oct.4,
2002, Uses espcrc1.st
Single-particle excitations in the BCS-BEC crossover region II: Broad Feshbach resonance
We apply the formulation developed in a recent paper [Y. Ohashi and A.
Griffin, Phys. Rev. A {\bf 72}, 013601, (2005)] for single-particle excitations
in the BCS-BEC crossover to the case of a broad Feshbach resonance. At T=0, we
solve the Bogoliubov-de Gennes coupled equations taking into account a Bose
condensate of bound states (molecules). In the case of a broad resonance, the
density profile , as well as the profile of the superfluid order
parameter , are spatially spread out to the Thomas-Fermi
radius, even in the crossover region. This order parameter
suppresses the effects of low-energy Andreev bound states on the rf-tunneling
current. As a result, the peak energy in the rf-spectrum is found to occur at
an energy equal to the superfluid order parameter at the
center of the trap, in contrast to the case of a narrow resonance, and in
agreement with recent measurements. The LDA is found to give a good
approximation for the rf-tunneling spectrum.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figure
Singlet Ground State and Magnetization Plateaus in BaMnO
Magnetic susceptibility and the magnetization process have been measured in
\green polycrystal. In this compound, the magnetic manganese ion exists as
Mn in a tetrahedral environment, and thus the magnetic interaction can
be described by an S=1 Heisenberg model. The ground state was found to be a
spin singlet with an excitation gap K. Magnetization
plateaus were observed at zero and at half of the saturation magnetization.
These results indicate that the present system can be represented by a coupled
antiferromagnetic dimer model.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, jpsj styl
Ballistic propagation of thermal excitations near a vortex in superfluid He3-B
Andreev scattering of thermal excitations is a powerful tool for studying
quantized vortices and turbulence in superfluid He3-B at very low temperatures.
We write Hamilton's equations for a quasiparticle in the presence of a vortex
line, determine its trajectory, and find under wich conditions it is Andreev
reflected. To make contact with experiments, we generalize our results to the
Onsager vortex gas, and find values of the intervortex spacing in agreement
with less rigorous estimates
Collective modes and sound propagation in a p-wave superconductor: SrRuO
There are five distinct collective modes in the recently discovered p-wave
superconductor SrRuO; phase and amplitude modes of the order parameter,
clapping mode (real and imaginary), and spin wave. The first two modes also
exist in the ordinary s-wave superconductors, while the clapping mode with the
energy is unique to SrRuO and couples to the sound
wave. Here we report a theoretical study of the sound propagation in a two
dimensional p-wave superconductor. We identified the clapping mode and study
its effects on the longitudinal and transverse sound velocities in the
superconducting state. In contrast to the case of He, there is no resonance
absorption associated with the collective mode, since in metals , where is the Fermi velocity, {\bf q} is the wave
vector, and is the frequency of the sound wave. However, the velocity
change in the collisionless limit gets modified by the contribution from the
coupling to the clapping mode. We compute this contribution and comment on the
visibility of the effect. In the diffusive limit, the contribution from the
collective mode turns out to be negligible. The behaviors of the sound velocity
change and the attenuation coefficient near in the diffusive limit are
calculated and compared with the existing experimental data wherever it is
possible. We also present the results for the attenuation coefficients in both
of the collisionless and diffusive limits at finite temperatures.Comment: RevTex, 12 pages, 2 figures, Replaced by the published versio
On the Lifshitz tail in the density of states of a superconductor with magnetic impurities
We argue that any superconductor with magnetic impurities is gapless due to a
Lifshitz tail in the density of states extending to zero energy. At low energy
the density of states remains finite. We show that fluctuations
in the impurity distribution produce regions of suppressed superconductivity,
which are responsible for the low energy density of states.Comment: 4 pages, uuencoded latex file + ps figure file
Interaction of ballistic quasiparticles and vortex configurations in superfluid He3-B
The vortex line density of turbulent superfluid He3-B at very low temperature
is deduced by detecting the shadow of ballistic quasiparticles which are
Andreev reflected by quantized vortices. Until now the measured total shadow
has been interpreted as the sum of shadows arising from interactions of a
single quasiparticle with a single vortex. By integrating numerically the
quasi-classical Hamiltonian equations of motion of ballistic quasiparticles in
the presence of nontrivial but relatively simple vortex systems (such as
vortex-vortex and vortex-antivortex pairs and small clusters of vortices) we
show that partial screening can take place, and the total shadow is not
necessarily the sum of the shadows. We have also found that it is possible
that, upon impinging on complex vortex configurations, quasiparticles
experience multiple reflections, which can be classical, Andreev, or both.Comment: To appear in Phys Rev
HLA-DR and HLA-DQ alleles in patients from the south of Brazil: markers for leprosy susceptibility and resistance
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Many epidemiological studies have shown that the genetic factors of the host play a role in the variability of clinical response to infection caused by <it>M. leprae</it>. With the purpose of identifying genes of susceptibility, the present study investigated the possible role of HLA-DRB1 and DQA1/DQB1 alleles in susceptibility to leprosy, and whether they account for the heterogeneity in immune responses observed following infection in a Southern Brazilian population.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>One hundred and sixty-nine leprosy patients and 217 healthy controls were analyzed by polymerase chain reaction amplification and reverse hybridization with sequence-specific oligonucleotide probes and sequence-specific primers(One Lambda<sup>®</sup>, CA, USA).</p> <p>Results</p> <p>There was a positive association of HLA-DRB1*16 (*1601 and *1602) with leprosy <it>per se </it>(7.3% <it>vs</it>. 3.2%, <it>P </it>= 0.01, OR = 2.52, CI = 1.26–5.01), in accord with previous serological studies, which showed DR2 as a marker of leprosy. Although, HLA-DQA1*05 frequency (29.8% <it>vs</it>. 20.9%, <it>P </it>= 0.0424, OR = 1.61, CI = 1.09–2.39) was higher in patients, and HLA-DQA1*02 (3.0% <it>vs</it>. 7.5%, <it>P </it>= 0.0392, OR = 0.39, CI = 0.16 – 0.95) and HLA-DQA1*04 (4.0% <it>vs</it>. 9.1%, <it>P </it>= 0.0314, OR = 0.42, CI = 0.19 – 0.93) frequencies lower, <it>P</it>-values were not significant after the Bonferroni's correction. Furthermore, HLA-DRB1*1601 (9.0% <it>vs</it>. 1.8%; <it>P </it>= 0.0016; OR = 5.81; CI = 2.05–16.46) was associated with susceptibility to borderline leprosy compared to control group, and while HLA-DRB1*08 (11.2% <it>vs</it>. 1.2%; <it>P </it>= 0.0037; OR = 12.00; CI = 1.51 – 95.12) was associated with susceptibility to lepromatous leprosy, when compared to tuberculoid leprosy, DRB1*04 was associated to protection.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>These data confirm the positive association of HLA-DR2 (DRB1*16) with leprosy <it>per se</it>, and the protector effect of DRB1*04 against lepromatous leprosy in Brazilian patients.</p
Impurity-Induced Virtual Bound States in d-Wave Superconductors
It is shown that a single, strongly scattering impurity produces a bound or a
virtual bound quasiparticle state inside the gap in a -wave superconductor.
The explicit form of the bound state wave function is found to decay
exponentially with angle-dependent range. These states provide a natural
explanation of the second Cu NMR rate arising from the sites close to Zn
impurities in the cuprates. Finally, for finite concentration of impurities in
a -wave superconductor, we reexamine the growth of these states into an
impurity band, and discuss the Mott criterion for this band.Comment: 12 pages and 2 figures, RevTex, LA-UR-94-194
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