492 research outputs found
Possible superconductivity in brain
The unprecedented power of the brain suggests that it may process information
quantum-mechanically. Since quantum processing is already achieved in
superconducting quantum computers, it may imply that superconductivity is the
basis of quantum computation in brain too. Superconductivity could also be
responsible for long-term memory. Following these ideas, the paper reviews the
progress in the search for superconductors with high critical temperature and
tries to answer the question about the superconductivity in brain. It focuses
on recent electrical measurements of brain slices, in which graphene was used
as a room-temperature quantum mediator, and argues that these measurements
could be interpreted as providing evidence of superconductivity in the neural
network of mammalian brains. The estimated critical temperature of
superconducting network in brain is rather high: 2063 plus-minus 114 K. A
similar critical temperature was predicted in the Little's model for
one-dimensional organic chains linked to certain molecular complexes. A
reasonable suggestion is that superconductivity develops in microtubules inside
the neurons of brain.Comment: Preprint of a review paper, 10 pages, 13 figures, Journal of
Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, ISSN: 1557-1939, accepted, in
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Observation of the Curie Transition in Palladium Bionanomaterial Using Muon Spin Rotation Spectroscopy
Palladium bionanomaterial was manufactured using the sulfate-reducing bacterium, Desulfovibrio
desulfuricans, to reduce soluble Pd(II) ions to cell-bound Pd(0). The material was examined using a
Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) to observe bulk magnetisation over the
temperature range 10 – 300 K and by Muon Spin Rotation (μSR), which is a probe of the local magnetic
environment inside the sample, over the temperature range 200 – 700 K. Results from SQUID were used
to model the temperature dependence of ferromagnetic and paramagnetic components of the bulk
magnetisation and, by extrapolation, to predict the Curie transition temperature. Results from μSR
confirmed the accuracy of the prediction to within 20 K. The Curie transition, which started at 528 K, was
shown to be spread over a wide ( 100 K) range. This was attributed to dependence of the transition on
particle size and the range of particle sizes in the population. A competing contribution to the overall
magnetisation was observed due to partial thermal decomposition of the organic component of the
material.
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Visualization of Spin Polarized States in Biologically-Produced Ensembles of Ferromagnetic Palladium Nanoparticles
We report visualization of spin polarized states in macroscopic ensembles of biologically-produced
ferromagnetic palladium nanoparticles using the Faraday effect-based technique of magneto-optical
imaging. The ferromagnetic palladium only exists in the form of nanoparticles. Large quantities of
palladium nanoparticles may be synthesized via biomineralization from a Pd2+ solution. The ferromagnetic
Pd nanoparticles are formed in the periplasmic space of bacteria during the hydrogen-assisted reduction of
Pd2+ ions by hydrogenases. The ferromagnetism in Pd comes from itinerant electrons. A high Curie
temperature of ferromagnetic palladium, about 200 degrees centigrade above room temperature, would
allow for a range of room-temperature magnetic applications. The processes of the isolation of electron
spins in separate nanoparticles, spin hopping, spin transport and spin correlations may even form a basis
of quantum computing. So far, measurements of the magnetic properties of Pd nanoparticles (PdNP) have
been limited by integral techniques such as SQUID magnetometry, magnetic circular dihroism and muon
spin rotation spectroscopy ( SR). In the present study, ferromagnetic Pd nanoparticles are characterized
using the technique of magneto-optical imaging. This allows visualization of the spin polarization by the
variations in the intensity of polarized light. To perform measurements at relatively low magnetic fields, a
spin injection from a colossal magnetoresistive material has been used.
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Pulsed Laser Deposition of Rocksalt Magnetic Binary Oxides
Here we systematically explore the use of pulsed laser deposition technique
(PLD) to grow three basic oxides that have rocksalt structure but different
chemical stability in the ambient atmosphere: NiO (stable), MnO (metastable)
and EuO (unstable). By tuning laser fluence, an epitaxial single-phase nickel
oxide thin-film growth can be achieved in a wide range of temperatures from 10
to 750 {\deg}C. At the lowest growth temperature, the out-of-plane strain
raises to 1.5%, which is five times bigger than that in a NiO film grown at 750
{\deg}C. MnO thin films that had long-range ordered were successfully deposited
on the MgO substrates after appropriate tuning of deposition parameters. The
growth of MnO phase was strongly influenced by substrate temperature and laser
fluence. EuO films with satisfactory quality were deposited by PLD after oxygen
availability had been minimized. Synthesis of EuO thin films at rather low
growth temperature prevented thermally-driven lattice relaxation and allowed
growth of strained films. Overall, PLD was a quick and reliable method to grow
binary oxides with rocksalt structure in high quality that can satisfy
requirements for applications and for basic research
Ray optics in flux avalanche propagation in superconducting films
Experimental evidence of wave properties of dendritic flux avalanches in
superconducting films is reported. Using magneto-optical imaging the
propagation of dendrites across boundaries between a bare NbN film and areas
coated by a Cu-layer was visualized, and it was found that the propagation is
refracted in full quantitative agreement with Snell's law. For the studied film
of 170 nm thickness and a 0.9 mkm thick metal layer, the refractive index was
close to n=1.4. The origin of the refraction is believed to be caused by the
dendrites propagating as an electromagnetic shock wave, similar to damped modes
considered previously for normal metals. The analogy is justified by the large
dissipation during the avalanches raising the local temperature significantly.
Additional time-resolved measurements of voltage pulses generated by segments
of the dendrites traversing an electrode confirm the consistency of the adapted
physical picture.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Stray-fields-based magnetoresistance mechanism in Ni80Fe20-Nb-Ni80Fe20 trilayers
We report on the transport and magnetic properties of hybrid trilayers and
bilayers that consist of low spin-polarized Ni80Fe20 exhibiting in-plane but no
uniaxial anisotropy and low-Tc Nb. We reveal a magnetoresistance effect that is
pronounced. In our trilayers the magnetoresistance exhibits an increase of two
orders of magnitude when the superconducting state is reached: from the
conventional normal-state values 0.6 % it goes up to 1000 % for temperatures
below Tc. In contrast, in the bilayers the effect is only minor since from 3%
in the normal state increases only to 70 % for temperatures below Tc.
Magnetization data of both the longitudinal and transverse magnetic components
are presented. Most importantly, we present data not only for the normal state
of Nb but also in its superconducting state. Strikingly, these data show that
below its Tc SC the Nb interlayer under the influence of the outer Ni80Fe20
layers attains a magnetization component transverse to the external field. By
comparing the transport and magnetization data we propose a candidate mechanism
that could motivate the pronounced magnetoresistance effect observed in the
trilayers. Adequate magnetostatic coupling of the outer Ni80Fe20 layers is
motivated by stray fields that emerge naturally in their whole surface due to
the multidomain magnetic structure that they attain near coercivity. Atomic
force microscopy is employed in order to examine the possibility that such
magnetostatic coupling could be promoted by interface roughness. Referring to
the bilayers, although out-of-plane rotation of the magnetization of the single
Ni80Fe20 layer is still observed, in these structures magnetostatic coupling
does not occur due to the absence of a second Ni80Fe20 one so that the observed
magnetoresistance peaks are only modest.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figure
Yet another Freiheitssatz: Mating finite groups with locally indicable ones
The main result includes as special cases on the one hand, the
Gerstenhaber--Rothaus theorem (1962) and its generalisation due to Nitsche and
Thom (2022) and, on the other hand, the Brodskii--Howie--Short theorem
(1980--1984) generalising Magnus's Freiheitssatz (1930).Comment: 5 pages. A Russian version of this paper is at
http://halgebra.math.msu.su/staff/klyachko/papers.ht
Dendritic flux avalanches in a superconducting MgB2 tape
MgB2 tapes with high critical current have a significant technological
potential, but can experience operational breakdown due to thermomagnetic
instability. Using magneto-optical imaging the spatial structure of the
thermomagnetic avalanches has been resolved, and the reproducibility and
thresholds for their appearance have been determined. By combining
magneto-optical imaging with magnetic moment measurements, it is found that
avalanches appear in a range between 1.7 mT and 2.5 T. Avalanches appearing at
low fields are small intrusions at the tape's edge and non-detectable in
measurements of magnetic moment. Larger avalanches have dendritic structures
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