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Phase separation in the vicinity of the surface of -(BEDT-TTF)Cu[N(CN)]Br by fast cooling
Partial suppression of superconductivity by fast cooling has been observed in
the organic superconductor -(BEDT-TTF)Cu[N(CN)]Br by two means:
a marked sample size effect on the magnetic susceptibility and direct imaging
of insulating regions by scanning microregion infrared reflectance
spectroscopy. Macroscopic insulating regions are found in the vicinity of the
crystalline surface after fast cooling, with diameters of 50--100 m and
depths of a few m. The very large in-plane penetration depth reported to
date ( 24--100 m) can be explained by the existence of the
insulating regions.Comment: Several rhetoric alternations to avoid misleadings. 6 pages, 3
figures. to be publihsed in Phys. Rev.
Infrared spectroscopy under multi-extreme conditions: Direct observation of pseudo gap formation and collapse in CeSb
Infrared reflectivity measurements of CeSb under multi-extreme conditions
(low temperatures, high pressures and high magnetic fields) were performed. A
pseudo gap structure, which originates from the magnetic band folding effect,
responsible for the large enhancement in the electrical resistivity in the
single-layered antiferromagnetic structure (AF-1 phase) was found at a pressure
of 4 GPa and at temperatures of 35 - 50 K. The optical spectrum of the pseudo
gap changes to that of a metallic structure with increasing magnetic field
strength and increasing temperature. This change is the result of the magnetic
phase transition from the AF-1 phase to other phases as a function of the
magnetic field strength and temperature. This result is the first optical
observation of the formation and collapse of a pseudo gap under multi-extreme
conditions.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
Optical probe of carrier doping by X-ray irradiation in organic dimer Mott insulator -(BEDT-TTF)Cu[N(CN)Cl
We investigated the infrared optical spectra of an organic dimer Mott
insulator -(BEDT-TTF)Cu[N(CN)]Cl, which was irradiated with
X-rays. We observed that the irradiation caused a large spectral weight
transfer from the mid-infrared region, where interband transitions in the dimer
and Mott-Hubbard bands take place, to a Drude part in a low-energy region; this
caused the Mott gap to collapse. The increase of the Drude part indicates a
carrier doping into the Mott insulator due to irradiation defects. The strong
redistribution of the spectral weight demonstrates that the organic Mott
insulator is very close to the phase border of the bandwidth-controlled Mott
transition.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Superdeformation and clustering in Ca studied with Antisymmetrized Molecular Dynamics
Deformed states in Ca are investigated with a method of
antisymmetrized molecular dynamics. Above the spherical ground state,
rotational bands arise from a normal deformation and a superdeformation as well
as an oblate deformation. The calculated energy spectra and transition
strengths in the superdeformed band reasonably agree to the experimental data
of the superdeformed band starting from the state at 5.213 MeV. By the
analysis of single-particle orbits, it is found that the superdeformed state
has particle-hole nature of an - configuration. One of new findings is
parity asymmetric structure with C+Si-like clustering in the
superdeformed band. We predict that C+Si molecular bands may be
built above the superdeformed band due to the excitation of inter-cluster
motion. They are considered to be higher nodal states of the superdeformed
state. We also suggest negative-parity bands caused by the parity asymmetric
deformation.Comment: 13 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Spin-Wave Spectrum in `Single-Domain' Magnetic Ground State of Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnet CuFeO2
By means of neutron scattering measurements, we have investigated spin-wave
excitation in a collinear four-sublattice (4SL) magnetic ground state of a
triangular lattice antiferromagnet CuFeO2, which has been of recent interest as
a strongly frustrated magnet, a spin-lattice coupled system and a multiferroic.
To avoid mixing of spin-wave spectrum from magnetic domains having three
different orientations reflecting trigonal symmetry of the crystal structure,
we have applied uniaxial pressure on [1-10] direction of a single crystal
CuFeO2. By elastic neutron scattering measurements, we have found that only 10
MPa of the uniaxial pressure results in almost 'single domain' state in the 4SL
phase. We have thus performed inelastic neutron scattering measurements using
the single domain sample, and have identified two distinct spin- wave branches.
The dispersion relation of the upper spin-wave branch cannot be explained by
the previous theoretical model [R. S. Fishman: J. Appl. Phys. 103 (2008)
07B109]. This implies the importance of the lattice degree of freedom in the
spin-wave excitation in this system, because the previous calculation neglected
the effect of the spin-driven lattice distortion in the 4SL phase. We have also
discussed relationship between the present results and the recently discovered
"electromagnon" excitation.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in J. Phys. Soc. Jp
Universality and Critical Behavior at the Critical-End-Point on Itinerant-Metamagnet UCoAl
We performed nuclear-magnetic-resonance (NMR) measurements on
itinerant-electron metamagnet UCoAl in order to investigate the critical
behavior of the magnetism near a metamagnetic (MM) critical endpoint (CEP). We
derived c-axis magnetization and its fluctuation from the
measurements of Knight shift and nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate
as a function of the c-axis external field () and temperature (). We
developed contour plots of and on the - phase diagram,
and observed the strong divergence of at the CEP. The critical exponents
of and near the CEP are estimated, and found to be close to the
universal properties of a three-dimensional (3-D) Ising model. We indicate that
the critical phenomena at the itinerant-electron MM CEP in UCoAl have a common
feature as a gas-liquid transition.Comment: 8 Pages, 14 figure
Magnetic-field effects on the charge-spin stripe order in La-214 high-Tc cuprates
Magnetic-field effects on the charge-spin stripe order in La-214 high-Tc
cuprates have been investigated from measurements of the in-plane
electrical-resistivity, Rho_ab_. In La_2-x_Ba_x_CuO_4_ with x=0.10 and
La_2-x_Sr_x_CuO_4_ with x=0.115 where the incommensurate charge peaks are weak
and unobservable in zero field in elastic neutron-scattering measurements,
respectively, the normal-state value of Rho_ab_ at low temperatures markedly
increases with increasing field up to 27 T. For La_2-x_Ba_x_CuO_4_ with x=0.11
and Zn-substituted La_2-x_Sr_x_Cu_1-y_Zn_y_O_4_ with x=0.115 and y=0.02 where
the charge stripe order is fairly stabilized in zero field, on the other hand,
the increase in Rho_ab_ with increasing field is negligibly small. In
conclusion, when the charge-spin stripe order is not fully stable in zero
field, magnetic field operates to stabilize the charge-spin stripe order. The
value of Rho_ab_ increases with increasing field depending on the stability of
the charge stripe order.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of Yamada Conference LX on Research
in High Magnetic Fields (RHMF2006) (Satellite of ICM2006
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