483 research outputs found
Tailoring exchange interactions in engineered nanostructures: Ab initio study
We present a novel approach to spin manipulation in atomic-scale
nanostructures. Our ab initio calculations clearly demonstrate that it is
possible to tune magnetic properties of sub-nanometer structures by adjusting
the geometry of the system. By the example of two surface-based systems we
demonstrate that (i) the magnetic moment of a single adatom coupled to a buried
magnetic Co layer can be stabilized in either a ferromagnetic or an
antiferromagnetic configuration depending on the spacer thickness. It is found
that a buried Co layer has a profound effect on the exchange interaction
between two magnetic impurities on the surface. (ii) The exchange interaction
between magnetic adatoms can be manipulated by introducing artificial
nonmagnetic Cu chains to link them.Comment: 4 pages, submitted to PR
Size-dependent Surface States on Strained Cobalt Nanoislands on Cu(111)
Low-temperature scanning tunneling spectroscopy over Co nanoislands on
Cu(111) showed that the surface states of the islands vary with their size.
Occupied states exhibit a sizeable downward energy shift as the island size
decreases. The position of the occupied states also significantly changes
across the islands. Atomic-scale simulations and ab inito calculations
demonstrate that the driving force for the observed shift is related to
size-dependent mesoscopic relaxations in the nanoislands.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Oppositions and Antinomies of Modern Educational Reality
The article reveals some unresolved issues concerning the processes of planning, organizing, conducting and evaluating university education in modern conditions. The purpose of the study is to clarify what oppositions are currently being maintained, and what needs to be done to address problematic situations. Among the oppositions identified by the author, there are oppositions between the standardization and unification of education, which are opposed by the autonomy of universities and the individualization of the learning process; between thread-group organization of educational process, characteristic of the traditional system of higher education, and building of individual educational trajectory; between pedagogue-centered and student-centered paradigms of higher education; between the traditional system of education (teaching) and electronic learning (e-learning), between the old system of assessing students based on the exams in specific disciplines, and the need to determine the level of formation of competences; between academic and scientific models ofpostgraduate school.The following research methods were implemented: a theoretical method (analysis of scientific literature, legislative and normative documents, teaching materials, internal local acts relating to the organization of the educational activities of the University), interpretation (comprehensive and systematic study of the object of study, comparing different objects of study among themselves, summarizing their theoretical and practical experience, etc.). In the study, based on the identified oppositions in the organization of the educational process at the University - standardization and unification of education, the conclusions were made about the need for thorough and comprehensive analysis of the existing management system of higher education and suggestions for its improvement and bringing into line not only with the requirements of legislative and normative documents regulating activity of the Russian universities, but also taking into account the interests of all the stakeholders interested in the learning outcomes and the preparation of competitive specialists
Tailoring exchange interactions in engineered nanostructures: Ab initio study
We present a novel approach to spin manipulation in atomic-scale
nanostructures. Our ab initio calculations clearly demonstrate that it is
possible to tune magnetic properties of sub-nanometer structures by adjusting
the geometry of the system. By the example of two surface-based systems we
demonstrate that (i) the magnetic moment of a single adatom coupled to a buried
magnetic Co layer can be stabilized in either a ferromagnetic or an
antiferromagnetic configuration depending on the spacer thickness. It is found
that a buried Co layer has a profound effect on the exchange interaction
between two magnetic impurities on the surface. (ii) The exchange interaction
between magnetic adatoms can be manipulated by introducing artificial
nonmagnetic Cu chains to link them.Comment: 4 pages, submitted to PR
Electroweak symmetry breaking and cold dark matter from strongly interacting hidden sector
We consider a hidden sector with a vectorlike confining gauge theory like QCD
with colors and light quarks in the hidden
sector. Then a scale would be generated by dimensional
transmutation, and chiral symmetry breaking occurs in the hidden sector. This
scale can play a role of the SM Higgs mass parameter, triggering
electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB). Furthermore the lightest mesons in the
hidden sector is stable by flavor conservation of the hidden sector strong
interaction, and could be a good cold dark matter (CDM). We study collider
phenomenology, and relic density and direct detection rates of the CDM of this
model.Comment: The version which appeared in Phys. Lett.
Spectator Effects in the Decay B -> K \gamma \gamma
We report the results of the first computation related to the study of the
spectator effects in the rare decay mode within the
framework of Standard Model. It is found that the account of these effects
results in the enhancement factor for the short-distance reducible contribution
to the branching ratio.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, RevTeX
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