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Violation of the London Law and Onsager-Feynman quantization in multicomponent superconductors
Non-classical response to rotation is a hallmark of quantum ordered states
such as superconductors and superfluids. The rotational responses of all
currently known single-component "super" states of matter (superconductors,
superfluids and supersolids) are largely described by two fundamental
principles and fall into two categories according to whether the systems are
composed of charged or neutral particles: the London law relating the angular
velocity to a subsequently established magnetic field and the Onsager-Feynman
quantization of superfluid velocity. These laws are theoretically shown to be
violated in a two-component superconductor such as the projected liquid
metallic states of hydrogen and deuterium at high pressures. The rotational
responses of liquid metallic hydrogen or deuterium identify them as a new class
of dissipationless states; they also directly point to a particular
experimental route for verification of their existence.Comment: Nature Physics in print. This is an early version of the paper. The
final version will be posted 6 months after its publication Nature Physics,
according to the journal polic
Semi-Meissner state and non-pairwise intervortex interactions in type-1.5 superconductors
We demonstrate existence of non-pairwise interaction forces between vortices
in multicomponent and layered superconducting systems. That is, in contrast to
most common models, the interactions in a group of such vortices is not a
universal superposition of Coulomb or Yukawa forces. Next we consider the
properties of vortex clusters in Semi-Meissner state of type-1.5 two-component
superconductors. We show that under certain condition non-pairwise forces can
contribute to formation of very complex vortex states in type-1.5 regimes.Comment: v2: replaced with version to appear in Phys.Rev. B. Substantially
exteded, title changed. Animation of the vortex clusters formation in
type-1.5 superconductors is available at
http://people.umass.edu/garaud/NonPairwise.htm
Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition and BCS-Bose crossover in the two-dimensional attractive Hubbard model
We study the two-dimensional attractive Hubbard model using the mapping onto
the half-filled repulsive Hubbard model in a uniform magnetic field coupled to
the fermion spins. The low-energy effective action for charge and pairing
fluctuations is obtained in the hydrodynamic regime. We recover the action of a
Bose superfluid where half the fermion density is identified as the conjugate
variable of the phase of the superconducting order parameter. By integrating
out charge fluctuations, we obtain a phase-only action. In the zero-temperature
superconducting state, this action describes a collective phase mode smoothly
evolving from the Anderson-Bogoliubov mode at weak coupling to the Bogoliubov
mode of a Bose superfluid at strong coupling. At finite temperature, the
phase-only action can be used to extract an effective XY model and thus obtain
the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase transition temperature. We also
identify a renormalized classical regime of superconducting fluctuations above
the BKT phase transition, and a regime of incoherent pairs at higher
temperature. Special care is devoted to the nearly half-filled case where the
symmetry of the order parameter is enlarged to SO(3) due to strong charge fluctuations. The low-energy effective action is then an
SO(3) non-linear sigma model with a (symmetry breaking) magnetic field
proportional to the doping. In the strong-coupling limit, the attractive
Hubbard model can be mapped onto the Heisenberg model, from which we recover
the Gross-Pitaevskii equation in the low-density limit.Comment: 31 pages, 12 figures, RevTex4; (v2) changes following referees'
comments, references adde
Frontiers, challenges, and solutions in modeling of swift heavy ion effects in materials
Since a few breakthroughs in the fundamental understanding of the effects of
swift heavy ions (SHI) decelerating in the electronic stopping regime in the
matter have been achieved in the last decade, it motivated us to review the
state-of-the-art approaches in the modeling of SHI effects. The SHI track
kinetics occurs via several well-separated stages: from attoseconds in
ion-impact ionization depositing energy in a target, to femtoseconds of
electron transport and hole cascades, to picoseconds of lattice excitation and
response, to nanoseconds of atomic relaxation, and even longer macroscopic
reaction. Each stage requires its own approaches for quantitative description.
We discuss that understanding the links between the stages makes it possible to
describe the entire track kinetics within a multiscale model without fitting
procedures. The review focuses on the underlying physical mechanisms of each
process, the dominant effects they produce, and the limitations of the existing
approaches as well as various numerical techniques implementing these models.
It provides an overview of ab-initio-based modeling of the evolution of the
electronic properties; Monte Carlo simulations of nonequilibrium electronic
transport; molecular dynamics modeling of atomic reaction on the surface and in
the bulk; kinetic Mote Carlo of atomic defect kinetics; finite-difference
methods of tracks interaction with chemical solvents describing etching
kinetics. We outline the modern methods that couple these approaches into
multiscale multidisciplinary models and point to their bottlenecks, strengths,
and weaknesses. The analysis is accompanied by examples of important results
improving the understanding of track formation in various materials.
Summarizing the most recent advances in the field of the track formation
process, the review delivers a comprehensive picture and detailed understanding
of the phenomena.Comment: to be submitte
Spin-Charge Separation and the Pauli Electron
The separation between the spin and the charge converts the quantum
mechanical Pauli Hamiltonian into the Hamiltonian of the non-Abelian
Georgi-Glashow model, notorious for its magnetic monopoles and confinement. The
independent spin and charge fluctuations both lead to the Faddeev model,
suggesting the existence of a deep duality structure and indicating that the
fundamental carriers of spin and charge are knotted solitons.Comment: 7 pages; v2: new results added, references update
Echocardiographic screening of children and teenagers during routine physical examination
Objective: to study the frequency of occurrence of diseases of the cardiovascular system in the course of routine physical examination of the child population, with the purpose of early recognition of various pathological conditions, including structural anomalies of the heart and large vessels.Material and methods: total examined 260 childrens aged 6 to 14 years, 118 girls (45.3 %) and 142 boys (54.6 %). Screening survey was performed in the parasternal, apical and subcostal positions. Time to research occupied from 7 to 20 minutes.Results: out of 260 children who passed clinical examination a structural anomalies of the heart was detected in 56 patients (21,5 % of all researches).Conclusions: the clinical examination of children population has a colossal medical and social important not only in Russia, but all over the world. Echocardiographic screening of children of preschool age is necessary for timely detection of cardiovascular pathology, especially occurring asymptomatically
Temperature-doping phase diagram of layered superconductors
The superconducting properties of a layered system are analyzed for the cases
of zero- and non-zero angular momentum of the pairs. The effective
thermodynamic potential for the quasi-2D XY-model for the gradients of the
phase of the order parameter is derived from the microscopic superconducting
Hamiltonian. The dependence of the superconducting critical temperature T_c on
doping, or carrier density, is studied at different values of coupling and
inter-layer hopping. It is shown that the critical temperature T_c of the
layered system can be lower than the critical temperature of the
two-dimensional Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition T_BKT at some values
of the model parameters, contrary to the case when the parameters of the
XY-model do not depend on the microscopic Hamiltonian parameters.Comment: To be published in Phys. Rev.
Single vortex structure in two models of iron pnictide superconductivity
The structure of a single vortex in a FeAs superconductor is studied in the
framework of two formulations of superconductivity for the recently proposed
sign-reversed wave () scenario: {\it (i)} a continuum model taking
into account the existence of an electron and a hole band with a repulsive
local interaction between the two; {\it (ii)} a lattice tight-binding model
with two orbitals per unit cell and a next-nearest-neighbour attractive
interaction. In the first model, the local density of states (LDOS) at the
vortex centre, as a function of energy, exhibits a peak at the Fermi level,
while in the second model such LDOS peak is deviated from the Fermi level and
its energy depends on band filling. An impurity located outside the vortex core
has little effect on the LDOS peak, but an impurity close to the vortex core
can almost suppress it and modify its position.Comment: 17 pages, 15 figures. Accepted for publication in New Journal of
Physic
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