106 research outputs found
Ferromagnetic Annulus And Superconducting Vortices
The screening currents induced in a superconducting film by a magnetic
annulus whose magnetization is perpendicular to the superconductor are
calculated. We show that close to the superconductor transition temperature
particular values of the magnetization and radii of the annulus make the
creation of superconducting vortices energy favorable. We also show that the
magnetic annulus offers an alternative tool for vortex pinning in the
superconductor. Statistical mechanical properties of this system are discussed.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to PR
Activated transport through a quantum dot with extended edge channels
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Reflectionless Tunneling Through a Double-Barrier NS Junction
The resistance is computed of an junction,
where N = normal metal, S = superconductor, and = insulator or
tunnel barrier (transmission probability per mode ). The ballistic
case is considered, as well as the case that the region between the two
barriers contains disorder (mean free path , barrier separation ). It is
found that the resistance at fixed shows a {\em minimum} as a
function of , when , provided
. The minimum is explained in terms of the appearance of
transmission eigenvalues close to one, analogous to the ``reflectionless
tunneling'' through a NIS junction with a disordered normal region. The theory
is supported by numerical simulations. ***Submitted to Physica B.***Comment: 10 pages, REVTeX-3.0, 6 postscript figures appended as
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Distributed Admission Control Algorithm for Random Access Wireless Networks in the Presence of Hidden Terminals
Symmetry Violation in a Superconducting Film with a Square Array of Ferromagnetic Dots
We study the equilibrium state of a superconducting film covered with a
regular square array of perpendicularly magnetized magnetic dots. The dots
induce vortices in the film directly under them and antivortices between the
dots. We show that the symmetry of the dot array is spontaneously violated by
the vortices. The positions of the vortices and the antivortices depend on the
magnetization and the size of the dots.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
Three signatures of phase-coherent Andreev reflection
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Excess Resistance Effect in a Normal Metal Contacting a Superconductor
In relatively pure normal samples contacting a superconductor we consider the
excess resistance effect (that is a decrease of the total electrical resistance
of the sample after transition of the superconducting part into the normal
state) and determine conditions under which the effect arises.Comment: 3 pages, 2 postscript figures all in uuencoded forma
Effective mass enhancement in two-dimensional electron systems: the role of interaction and disorder effects
Recent experiments on two-dimensional (2D) electron systems have found a
sharp increase in the effective mass of electrons with decreasing electron
density. In an effort to understand this behavior we employ the many-body
theory to calculate the quasiparticle effective mass in 2D electron systems.
Because the low density regime is explored in the experiments we use the
approximation where the vertex correction describes the
correlation effects to calculate the self-energy from which the effective mass
is obtained. We find that the quasiparticle effective mass shows a sharp
increase with decreasing electron density. Disorder effects due to charged
impurity scattering plays a crucial role in density dependence of effective
mass.Comment: To appear in Solid State Communication
Superconducting Vortices and Elliptical Ferromagnetic Textures
In this article an analytical and numerical study of superconducting thin
film with ferromagnetic textures of elliptical geometries in close proximity is
presented. The screening currents induced in the superconductor due to the
magnetic texture are calculated. Close to the superconducting transition
temperature the spontaneous creation of superconducting vortices becomes
energy favorable depending on the value of the magnetization and the
geometrical quantities of the magnetic texture. The creation of vortices by
elliptic dots is more energy favorable than those created by circular ones. The
superconductor covered by elliptic dots array exhibits anisotropic transport
properties.Comment: 4 pages, 5figure
Soft Magnetorotons and Broken-Symmetry States in Bilayer Quantum Hall Ferromagnets
The recent report on the observation of soft magnetorotons in the dispersion
of charge-density excitations across the tunneling gap in coupled bilayers at
total Landau level filling factor is reviewed. The inelastic light
scattering experiments take advantage of the breakdown of wave-vector
conservation that occurs under resonant excitation. The results offer evidence
that in the quantum Hall state there is a roton that softens and sharpens
markedly when the phase boundary for transitions to highly-correlated
compressible states is approached. These findings are interpreted with
Hartree-Fock evaluations of the dynamic structure factor. The model includes
the effect of disorder in the breakdown of wave-vector conservation and
resonance enhancement profiles within a phenomenological approach. These
results link the softening of magnetorotons to enhanced excitonic Coulomb
interactions in the ferromagnetic bilayers.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures; conference: EP2DS-1
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