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Comparative study of the effects of electron irradiation and natural disorder in single crystals of SrFe(AsP) (0.35) superconductor
London penetration depth, , was measured in single crystals of
SrFe(AsP) (0.35) iron - based superconductor. The
influence of disorder on the transition temperature, , and on
was investigated. The effects of scattering controlled by the annealing of
as-grown crystals was compared with the effects of artificial disorder
introduced by 2.5~MeV electron irradiation. The low temperature behavior of
can be described by a power-law function, , with the exponent close to one in pristine annealed samples, as
expected for superconducting gap with line nodes. Upon
\ecm irradiation, the exponent increases rapidly exceeding a dirty limit
value of 2 implying that the nodes in the superconducting gap are
accidental and can be lifted by the disorder. The variation of the exponent
with is much stronger in the irradiated crystals compared to the crystals
in which disorder was controlled by the annealing of the growth defects. We
discuss the results in terms of different influence of different types of
disorder on intra- and inter- band scattering
Electron and orbital correlations in Ca_{2-x}Sr_{x}RuO_{4} probed by optical spectroscopy
The doping and temperature dependent optical conductivity spectra of the
quasi-two-dimensional Ca_{2-x}Sr_xRuO_4 (0.0=<x=<2.0) system were investigated.
In the Mott insulating state, two electron correlation-induced peaks were
observed around 1.0 and 1.9 eV, which could be understood in terms of the
3-orbital Hubbard model. The low frequency peak showed a shift toward higher
frequency as temperature was lowered, which indicated that electron-phonon
interactions play an important role in the orbital arrangements. From the
systematic analysis, it was suggested that the antiferro-orbital and the
ferro-orbital ordering states could coexist.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure
Magnetic neutron scattering study of YVO3: Evidence for an orbital Peierls state
Neutron spectroscopy has revealed a highly unusual magnetic structure and
dynamics in YVO, an insulating pseudocubic perovskite that undergoes a
series of temperature induced phase transitions between states with different
spin and orbital ordering patterns. A good description of the neutron data is
obtained by a theoretical analysis of the spin and orbital correlations of a
realistic one-dimensional model. This leads to the tentative identification of
one of the phases of YVO with the ``orbital Peierls state'', a
theoretically proposed many-body state comprised of orbital singlet bonds.Comment: final version, to appear in PR
Early (0.3 day) R-band light curve of the optical afterglow of GRB030329
We observed the optical afterglow of the bright gamma-ray burst GRB030329 on
the nights of 2003 March 29, using the Kiso observatory (the University of
Tokyo) 1.05 m Schmidt telescope. Data were taken from March 29 13:21:26 UT to
17:43:16 (0.072 to 0.253 days after the burst), using an -band filter. The
obtained -band light curve has been fitted successfully by a single power
law function with decay index of . These results remain
unchanged when incorporating two early photometric data points at 0.065 and
0.073 days, reported by Price et al.(2003) using the SSO 40 inch telescope, and
further including RTT150 data (Burenin et al. 2003) covering at about 0.3 days.
Over the period of 0.065-0.285 days after the burst, any deviation from the
power-law decay is smaller than 0.007 mag. The temporal structure reported
by Uemura et al. (2003) does not show up in our -band light curve.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in ApJ
Orbital Wave and its Observation in Orbital Ordered Titanates and Vanadates
We present a theory of the collective orbital excitation termed orbital wave
in perovskite titanates and vanadates with the triply degenerate
orbitals. The dispersion relations of the orbital waves for the orbital ordered
LaVO, YVO and YTiO are examined in the effective spin-orbital
coupled Hamiltonians associated with the Jahn-Teller type couplings. We propose
possible scattering processes for the Raman and inelastic neutron scatterings
from the orbital wave and calculate the scattering spectra for titanates and
vanadates. It is found that both the excitation spectra and the observation
methods of the orbital wave are distinct qualitatively from those for the
orbital ordered systems.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figure
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