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Oscillating magnetoresistance due to fragile spin structure in metallic GdPd
Studies on the phenomenon of magnetoresistance (MR) have produced intriguing
and application-oriented outcomes for decades--colossal MR, giant MR and
recently discovered extremely large MR of millions of percents in semimetals
can be taken as examples. We report here the investigation of oscillating MR in
a cubic intermetallic compound GdPd, which is the only compound that
exhibits MR oscillations between positive and negative values. Our study shows
that a very strong correlation between magnetic, electrical and
magnetotransport properties is present in this compound. The magnetic structure
in GdPd is highly fragile since applied magnetic fields of moderate
strength significantly alter the spin arrangement within the system--a behavior
that manifests itself in the oscillating MR. Intriguing magnetotransport
characteristics of GdPd are appealing for field-sensitive device
applications, especially if the MR oscillation could materialize at higher
temperature by manipulating the magnetic interaction through perturbations
caused by chemical substitutions.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures. A slightly modified version is published in
Scientific Report
Ferromagnetically correlated clusters in semi-metallic Ru2NbAl Heusler alloy
In this work, we report the structural, magnetic and electrical and thermal
transport properties of the Heusler-type alloy Ru2NbAl. From the detailed
analysis of magnetization data, we infer the presence of superparamagnetically
interacting clusters with a Pauli paramagnetic background, while short-range
ferromagnetic interaction is developed among the clusters below 5 K. The
presence of this ferromagnetic interaction is confirmed through heat capacity
measurements. The relatively small value of electronic contribution to specific
heat, gamma (~2.7 mJ/mol-K2), as well as the linear nature of temperature
dependence of Seebeck coefficient indicate a semi-metallic ground state with a
pseudo-gap that is also supported by our electronic structure calculations. The
activated nature of resistivity is reflected in the observed negative
temperature coefficient and has its origin in the charge carrier localization
due to antisite defects, inferred from magnetic measurements as well as
structural analysis. Although the absolute value of thermoelectric figure of
merit is rather low (ZT = 5.2*10-3) in Ru2NbAl, it is the largest among all the
reported non-doped full Heusler alloys.Comment: 25 pages, 14 figure
Coupled Inflation and Brane Gases
We study an effective four-dimensional theory with an action with two scalar
fields minimally coupled to gravity, and with a matter action which couples to
the two scalar fields via an overall field-dependent coefficient in the action.
Such a theory could arise from a dimensional reduction of supergravity coupled
to a gas of branes winding the compactified dimensions. We show the existence
of solutions corresponding to power-law inflation. The graceful exit from
inflation can be obtained by postulating the decay of the branes, as would
occur if the branes are unstable in the vacuum and stabilized at high densities
by plasma effects. This construction provides an avenue for connecting string
gas cosmology and the late-time universe.Comment: 11 page
A-term inflation and the smallness of the neutrino masses
The smallness of the neutrino masses may be related to inflation. The minimal
supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) with small Dirac neutrino masses already
has all the necessary ingredients for a successful inflation. In this model the
inflaton is a gauge-invariant combination of the right-handed sneutrino, the
slepton, and the Higgs field, which generate a flat direction suitable for
inflation if the Yukawa coupling is small enough. In a class of models, the
observed microwave background anisotropy and the tilted power spectrum are
related to the neutrino masses.Comment: 13 pages, 1 figure, uses JHEP3.cls, minor modifications, final
version accepted for publication in JCA
Stringy Effects During Inflation and Reheating
We consider inflationary cosmology in the context of string compactifications
with multiple throats. In scenarios where the warping differs significantly
between throats, string and Kaluza-Klein physics can generate potentially
observable corrections to the cosmology of inflation and reheating. First we
demonstrate that a very low string scale in the ground state compactification
is incompatible with a high Hubble scale during inflation, and we propose that
the compactification geometry is altered during inflation. In this
configuration, the lowest scale is just above the Hubble scale, which is
compatible with effective field theory but still leads to potentially
observable CMB corrections. Also in the appropriate region of parameter space,
we find that reheating leads to a phase of long open strings in the Standard
Model sector (before the usual radiation-dominated phase). We sketch the
cosmology of the long string phase and we discuss possible observational
consequences.Comment: 33pp, RevTeX4, v2. minor changes, added ref
Kahler potentials for the MSSM inflation and the spectral index
Recently it has been argued that some of the fine-tuning problems of the MSSM
inflation associated with the existence of a saddle point along a flat
direction may be solved naturally in a class of supergravity models. Here we
extend the analysis and show that the constraints on the Kahler potentials in
these models are considerably relaxed when the location of the saddle point is
treated as a free variable. We also examine the effect of supergravity
corrections on inflationary predictions and find that they can slightly alter
the value of the spectral index. As an example, for flat direction field values
we find while the
prediction of the MSSM inflation without any corrections is .Comment: 13 pages, one figure. Typos corrected and a reference adde
Seed perturbations for primordial magnetic fields from MSSM flat directions
We demonstrate that the MSSM flat directions can naturally account for the
seed magnetic fields in the early Universe. The non-zero vacuum expectation
value of an MSSM flat direction condensate provides masses to the gauge fields
and thereby breaks conformal invariance. During inflation the condensate
receives spatial perturbations and gauge currents are
generated together with (hyper)magnetic fields. When these long wavelength
vector perturbations reenter our horizon they give rise to magnetic
fields with an amplitude of Gauss, as required by the dynamo
mechanism.Comment: 4 pages, RevTeX
Efimov states and their Fano resonances in a neutron-rich nucleus
Asymmetric resonances in elastic n+C scattering are attributed to
Efimov states of such neutron-rich nuclei, that is, three-body bound states of
the n+n+C system when none of the pairs is bound or some of them only
weakly bound. By fitting to the general resonance shape described by Fano, we
extract resonance position, width, and the "Fano profile index". While Efimov
states have been discussed extensively in many areas of physics, there is only
one very recent experimental observation in trimers of cesium atoms. The
conjunction that we present of the Efimov and Fano phenomena may lead to
experimental realization in nuclei.Comment: 4 double-column pages, 3 figure
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