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Growth and characterization of A_{1-x}K_xFe_2As_2 (A = Ba, Sr) single crystals with x=0 - 0.4
Single crystals of AKFeAs (A=Ba, Sr) with high quality
have been grown successfully by FeAs self-flux method. The samples have sizes
up to 4 mm with flat and shiny surfaces. The X-ray diffraction patterns suggest
that they have high crystalline quality and c-axis orientation. The
non-superconducting crystals show a spin-density-wave (SDW) instability at
about 173 K and 135 K for Sr-based and Ba-based compound, respectively. After
doping K as the hole dopant into the BaFeAs system, the SDW transition
is smeared, and superconducting samples with the compound of
BaKFeAs (0 0.4) are obtained. The
superconductors characterized by AC susceptibility and resistivity measurements
exhibit very sharp superconducting transition at about 36 K, 32 K, 27 K and 23
K for x= 0.40,0.28,0.25 and 0.23, respectively.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures, 1 table. This paper together with new data are
modified into a new pape
AFe2As2 (A = Ca, Sr, Ba, Eu) and SrFe_(2-x)TM_(x)As2 (TM = Mn, Co, Ni): crystal structure, charge doping, magnetism and superconductivity
The electronic structure and physical properties of the pnictide compound
families OFeAs ( = La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm), FeAs ( = Ca,
Sr, Ba, Eu), LiFeAs and FeSe are quite similar. Here, we focus on the members
of the FeAs family whose sample composition, quality and single
crystal growth are better controllable compared to the other systems. Using
first principles band structure calculations we focus on understanding the
relationship between the crystal structure, charge doping and magnetism in
FeAs systems. We will elaborate on the tetragonal to
orthorhombic structural distortion along with the associated magnetic order and
anisotropy, influence of doping on the site as well as on the Fe site, and
the changes in the electronic structure as a function of pressure.
Experimentally, we investigate the substitution of Fe in
SrFeAs by other 3 transition metals, = Mn, Co, Ni.
In contrast to a partial substitution of Fe by Co or Ni (electron doping) a
corresponding Mn partial substitution does not lead to the supression of the
antiferromagnetic order or the appearance of superconductivity. Most calculated
properties agree well with the measured properties, but several of them are
sensitive to the As position. For a microscopic understanding of the
electronic structure of this new family of superconductors this structural
feature related to the Fe-As interplay is crucial, but its correct ab initio
treatment still remains an open question.Comment: 27 pages, single colum
QCD correction to gluino decay to in the MSSM
We calculate the complete next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the
three-body decay of gluino into top-pair associated with a lightest neutralino
in the minimal supersymmetric standard model. We obtain that the LO and NLO QCD
corrected decay widths of at the
benchmark point are and 0.1069 GeV respectively, and
the relative correction is -28.2%. We investigate the dependence of the QCD
correction to on and the
masses of gluino, scalar top quarks and the lightest neutralino around the
benchmark point, separately. We find that the NLO QCD corrections
suppress the LO decay width, and the absolute relative correction can exceed
30% in some parameter space. Therefore, the QCD corrections to the three-body
decay should be taken into account for
the precise experimental measurement at future colliders. Moreover, we study
the distributions of the top-pair invariant mass () and the
missing energy (), and find that the line shapes of the LO
distributions of and are not obviously distorted by
the NLO QCD corrections.Comment: 23 pages, 10 figure
Chargino Decays in the Complex MSSM: A Full One-Loop Analysis
We evaluate two-body decay modes of charginos in the Minimal Supersymmetric
Standard Model with complex parameters (cMSSM). Assuming heavy scalar quarks we
take into account all decay channels involving charginos, neutralinos, (scalar)
leptons, Higgs bosons and Standard Model gauge bosons. The evaluation of the
decay widths is based on a full one-loop calculation including hard and soft
QED radiation. Special attention is paid to decays involving the Lightest
Supersymmetric Particle (LSP), i.e. the lightest neutralino, or a neutral or
charged Higgs boson. The higher-order corrections of the chargino decay widths
involving the LSP can easily reach a level of about \pm 10%, while the
corrections to the decays to Higgs bosons are slightly smaller, translating
into corrections of similar size in the respective branching ratios. These
corrections are important for the correct interpretation of LSP and Higgs
production at the LHC and at a future linear e+e- collider. The results will be
implemented into the Fortran code FeynHiggs.Comment: 75 pages, 43 figures. Minor corrections; version to appear in EPJC.
arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1111.728
Feshbach resonances and mesoscopic phase separation near a quantum critical point in multiband FeAs-based superconductors
High Tc superconductivity in FeAs-based multilayers (pnictides), evading
temperature decoherence effects in a quantum condensate, is assigned to a
Feshbach resonance (called also shape resonance) in the exchange-like interband
pairing. The resonance is switched on by tuning the chemical potential at an
electronic topological transition (ETT) near a band edge, where the Fermi
surface topology of one of the subbands changes from 1D to 2D topology. We show
that the tuning is realized by changing i) the misfit strain between the
superconducting planes and the spacers ii) the charge density and iii) the
disorder. The system is at the verge of a catastrophe i.e. near a structural
and magnetic phase transition associated with the stripes (analogous to the 1/8
stripe phase in cuprates) order to disorder phase transition. Fine tuning of
both the chemical potential and the disorder pushes the critical temperature Ts
of this phase transition to zero giving a quantum critical point. Here the
quantum lattice and magnetic fluctuations promote the Feshbach resonance of the
exchange-like anisotropic pairing. This superconducting phase that resists to
the attacks of temperature is shown to be controlled by the interplay of the
hopping energy between stripes and the quantum fluctuations. The
superconducting gaps in the multiple Fermi surface spots reported by the recent
ARPES experiment of D. V. Evtushinsky et al. arXiv:0809.4455 are shown to
support the Feshbach scenario.Comment: 31 pages, 7 figure
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