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A-site Randomness Effect on Structural and Physical Properties of Ba-based Perovskite Manganites
The discovery of novel structural and physical properties in the -site
ordered manganite BaMnO ( = Y and rare earth elements) has
demanded new comprehension about perovskite manganese oxides. In the present
study, the -site disordered form, BaMnO, has been
investigated and compared with both BaMnO and
MnO (: Sr, Ca) in the structures and electromagnetic
properties. BaMnO has a primitive cubic perovskite cell
in the structure and magnetic glassy states are dominant as its ground state,
in contrast to the ordinary disordered MnO (: Sr, Ca).
In Pr-compounds with various degrees of Pr/Ba randomness at the -sites, the
-site disorder gradually suppresses both ferromagnetic and A-type
antiferromagnetic transitions and finally leads to a magnetic glassy state in
PrBaMnO. A peculiar behavior, multi-step magnetization
and resistivity change, has been observed in PrBaMnO.
These properties could be closely related to any spatial heterogeneity caused
by the random distribution of Ba and with much different
ionic radius.Comment: 9 pages, to be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 73 Aug. (2004
Sensitivity of a Ground-Based Infrared Interferometer for Aperture Synthesis Imaging
Sensitivity limits of ground-based infrared interferometers using aperture
synthesis are presented. The motivation of this analysis is to compare an
interferometer composed of multiple large telescopes and a single giant
telescope with adaptive optics. In deriving these limits, perfect wavefront
correction by adaptive optics and perfect cophasing by fringe tracking are
assumed. We consider the case in which n beams are pairwise combined at
n(n-1)/2 detectors and the case in which all the n beams are combined at a
single detector. As a case study, we compare the point-source sensitivities of
interferometers composed of nine 10-m diameter telescopes and a 30-m diameter
single telescope with adaptive optics between 1 and 10 microns.Comment: 21 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in PAS
Solitons in Chern-Simons theories of nonrelativistic CP^{N-1} models: Spin textures in the quantum Hall effect
Topological solitons in CP^{N-1} models coupled with Chern-Simons gauge
theory and a Hopf term are studied both analytically and numerically.These
models are low-energy effective theories for the quantum Hall effect with
internal degrees of freedom, like that in bilayer electron systems. We
explicitly show that the CP^{N-1} models describe quite well spin textures in
the original Chern-Simons theory of bosonized electrons.Comment: Latex, 19 pages, 6 figure
Infrared features of unquenched finite temperature lattice Landau gauge QCD
The color diagonal and color antisymmetric ghost propagators slightly above
of MILC lattices are measured and compared with
zero temperature unquenched MILC and MILC
lattices and zero temperature quenched and
6.45 lattices. The expectation value of the color antisymmetric ghost
propagator is zero but its Binder cumulant, which is consistent
with that of dimensional Gaussian distribution below , decreases
above . Although the color diagonal ghost propagator is temperature
independent, the norm of the color antisymmetric ghost propagator is
temperature dependent. The expectation value of the ghost condensate observed
at zero temperature unquenched configuration is consistent with 0 in .
We also measure transverse, magnetic and electric gluon propagator and
extract gluon screening masses. The running coupling measured from the product
of the gluon dressing function and the ghost dressing function are almost
temperature independent but the effect of condensate observed at zero
temperature is consistent with 0 in .
The transverse gluon dressing function at low temperature has a peak in the
infrared but it becomes flatter at high temperature. Its absolute value in the
high momentum is larger for high temperature and similar to the magnetic gluon
dressing function. The electric gluon propagator at high momentum is
temperature independent. These data imply that the magnetic gluon propagator
and the color antisymmetric ghost propagator are affected by the presence of
dynamical quarks and there are strong non-perturbative effects through the
temperature dependent color anti-symmetric ghost propagator.Comment: 11 pages 16 figures, version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
High-Symmetry Polarization Domains in Low-Symmetry Ferroelectrics
We present experimental evidence for hexagonal domain faceting in the
ferroelectric polymer PVDF-TrFE films having the lower orthorhombic
crystallographic symmetry. This effect can arise from purely electrostatic
depolarizing forces. We show that in contrast to magnetic bubble shape domains
where such type of deformation instability has a predominantly elliptical
character, the emergence of more symmetrical circular harmonics is favored in
ferroelectrics with high dielectric constant
Weight Vectors of the Basic A_1^(1)-Module and the Littlewood-Richardson Rule
The basic representation of \A is studied. The weight vectors are
represented in terms of Schur functions. A suitable base of any weight space is
given. Littlewood-Richardson rule appears in the linear relations among weight
vectors.Comment: February 1995, 7pages, Using AMS-Te
Cloud absorption properties as derived from airborne measurements of scattered radiation within clouds
Researchers briefly review the diffusion domain method for deriving the cloud similarity parameter and present preliminary analyses of the results thus far obtained. The presentation concentrates on the following points: (1) intercomparison of calibrated reflected intensities between the cloud absorption radiometer and the U.K. multispectral cloud radiometer; (2) quality control tests required to select those portions of an aircraft flight for which measurements are obtained within the diffusion domain; (3) case studies of the spectral similarity parameter of marine stratocumulus clouds; and comparisons of the experimentally-derived similarity parameter spectrum with that expected theoretically from the cloud droplet size distribution obtained from in situ observations
Matone's Relation in the Presence of Gravitational Couplings
The prepotential in N=2 SUSY Yang-Mills theories enjoys remarkable
properties. One of the most interesting is its relation to the coordinate on
the quantum moduli space that results into recursion
equations for the coefficients of the prepotential due to instantons. In this
work we show, with an explicit multi-instanton computation, that this relation
holds true at arbitrary winding numbers. Even more interestingly we show that
its validity extends to the case in which gravitational corrections are taken
into account if the correlators are suitably modified. These results apply also
to the cases in which matter in the fundamental and in the adjoint is included.
We also check that the expressions we find satisfy the chiral ring relations
for the gauge case and compute the first gravitational correction.Comment: 21 page
Signatures of current loop coalescence in solar flares
The nonlinear coalescence instability of current carrying solar loops can explain many of the characteristics of the solar flares such as their impulsive nature, heating and high energy particle acceleration, amplitude oscillations of electromagnetic emission as well as the characteristics of 2-D microwave images obtained during a solar flare. The physical characteristics of the explosive coalescence of currents are presented in detail through computer simulation and theory. Canonical characteristics of the explosive coalescence are: (1) a large amount of impulsive increase of kinetic energies of electrons and ions; (2) simultaneous heating and acceleration of electrons and ions in high and low energy spectra; (3) ensuing quasi-periodic amplitude oscillations in fields and particle quantities; and (4) the double peak (or triple peak) structure in these profiles, participate in the coalescence process, yielding varieties of phenomena
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