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Bosonic Spectral Function and The Electron-Phonon Interaction in HTSC Cuprates
In Part I we discuss accumulating experimental evidence related to the
structure and origin of the bosonic spectral function in high-temperature
superconducting (HTSC) cuprates at and near optimal doping. Some global
properties of the spectral function, such as number and positions of peaks, are
extracted by combining optics, neutron scattering, ARPES and tunnelling
measurements. These methods give convincing evidence for strong electron-phonon
interaction (EPI) with the coupling constant between 1-3 in cuprates near
optimal doping. Here we clarify how these results are in favor of the
Eliashberg-like theory for HTSC cuprates near optimal doping. In Part II we
discuss some theoretical ingredients - such as strong EPI, strong correlations
- which are necessary to explain the experimental results related to the
mechanism of d-wave pairing in optimally doped cuprates. These comprise the
Migdal-Eliashberg theory for EPI in strongly correlated systems which give rise
to the forward scattering peak. The latter is further supported by the weakly
screened Madelung interaction in the ionic-metallic structure of layered
cuprates. In this approach EPI is responsible for the strength of pairing while
the residual Coulomb interaction (by including spin fluctuations) triggers the
d-wave pairing.Comment: 59 pages, 38 figures, review articl
Ab initio calculations of the physical properties of transition metal carbides and nitrides and possible routes to high-Tc
Ab initio linear-response calculations are reported of the phonon spectra and
the electron-phonon interaction for several transition metal carbides and
nitrides in a NaCl-type structure. For NbC, the kinetic, optical, and
superconducting properties are calculated in detail at various pressures and
the normal-pressure results are found to well agree with the experiment.
Factors accounting for the relatively low critical temperatures Tc in
transition metal compounds with light elements are considered and the possible
ways of increasing Tc are discussed.Comment: 19 pages, 7 figure
Critical temperature and giant isotope effect in presence of paramagnons
We reconsider the long-standing problem of the effect of spin fluctuations on
the critical temperature and isotope effect in a phonon-mediated
superconductor. Although the general physics of the interplay between phonons
and paramagnons had been rather well understood, the existing approximate
formulas fail to describe the correct behavior of for general phonon
and paramagnon spectra. Using a controllable approximation, we derive an
analytical formula for which agrees well with exact numerical solutions
of the Eliashberg equations for a broad range of parameters. Based on both
numerical and analytical results, we predict a strong enhancement of the
isotope effect when the frequencies of spin fluctuation and phonons are of the
same order. This effect may have important consequences for near-magnetic
superconductors such as MgCNiComment: 5 pages, 2 figure
ETEKOS experimental ecological system
The problem of changes in the ecology resulting, for example, in increases in water temperature because of discharges from large thermal power plants is considered. An experiment creating a model of such an ecological system is described
Interfacial dynamics in transport-limited dissolution
Various model problems of ``transport-limited dissolution'' in two dimensions
are analyzed using time-dependent conformal maps. For diffusion-limited
dissolution (reverse Laplacian growth), several exact solutions are discussed
for the smoothing of corrugated surfaces, including the continuous analogs of
``internal diffusion-limited aggregation'' and ``diffusion-limited erosion''. A
class of non-Laplacian, transport-limited dissolution processes are also
considered, which raise the general question of when and where a finite solid
will disappear. In a case of dissolution by advection-diffusion, a tilted
ellipse maintains its shape during collapse, as its center of mass drifts
obliquely away from the background fluid flow, but other initial shapes have
more complicated dynamics.Comment: 5 pages, 4 fig
Erythrocytes as regulators of blood vessel tone
A drop in oxygen partial pressure results in elevation of blood vessel diameter. It has been demonstrated that isolated vessels exhibit this unique feature only when they are perfused in the presence of erythrocytes. More recently, it was shown that haemoglobin plays a key role in oxygen sensing. Its deoxygenated form interacts with band 3 protein, triggering the cascade of non-identified intracellular signals involved in nitric oxide production and release of ATP interacting with P2Y purinergic receptors in endothelial cells. In this review, we summarize the data on mechanisms of ATP release from erythrocytes, as well as on its physiological and pathophysiological implications
Controlling circular polarization of light emitted by quantum dots using chiral photonic crystal slab
We study the polarization properties of light emitted by quantum dots that
are embedded in chiral photonic crystal structures made of achiral planar GaAs
waveguides. A modification of the electromagnetic mode structure due to the
chiral grating fabricated by partial etching of the wave\-guide layer has been
shown to result in a high circular polarization degree of the quantum
dot emission in the absence of external magnetic field. The physical nature of
the phenomenon can be understood in terms of the reciprocity principle taking
into account the structural symmetry. At the resonance wavelength, the
magnitude of is predicted to exceed 98%. The experimentally achieved
value of % is smaller, which is due to the contribution of
unpolarized light scattered by grating defects, thus breaking its periodicity.
The achieved polarization degree estimated removing the unpolarized nonresonant
background from the emission spectra can be estimated to be as high as 96%,
close to the theoretical prediction
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