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Is LaOFFeAs an electron-phonon superconductor ?
In this paper we calculate the electron-phonon coupling of the
newly-discovered superconductor LaOFFeAs from first-principles,
using Density Functional Perturbation Theory. For pure LaOFeAs, the calculated
electron-phonon coupling constant and logarithmic-averaged
frequency , give a maximum of 0.8 K, using the
standard Migdal-Eliashberg theory.
For the doped compounds, we predict even smaller coupling constants, due
to the strong suppression of the electronic Density of States at the Fermi
level. To reproduce the experimental , a 5-6 times larger coupling
constant would be needed.
Our results indicate that electron-phonon coupling is not sufficient to
explain superconductivity in the newly-discovered LaOFFeAs
superconductor, probably due to the importance of strong correlation effects
Disorder induced transition between s_+- and s_++ states in two-band superconductors
We have reexamined the problem of disorder in two-band superconductors, and
shown within the framework of the T-matrix approximation, that the suppression
of T_c can be described by a single parameter depending on the intraband and
interband impurity scattering rates. T_c is shown to be more robust against
nonmagnetic impurities than would be predicted in the trivial extension of
Abrikosov-Gor'kov theory. We find a disorder-induced transition from the
s_{\pm} state to a gapless and then to a fully gapped s_{++} state, controlled
by a single parameter -- the sign of the average coupling constant .
We argue that this transition has strong implications for experiments.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures; suppl. material: 3 pages, 2 figures; published
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Baryogenesis from Gravitational Decay of TeV-Particles in Theories with Low Scale Gravity
In models with the fundamental gravity scale in the TeV range, early
cosmology is quite different from the standard picture, because the universe
must have arisen at a much lower temperature and the electroweak symmetry was
probably never restored. In this context, baryogenesis appears to be
problematic: if the involved physics is essentially that of the Standard Model,
``conventional'' non-conserving baryon number processes are completely
negligible at such low temperatures. In this paper we show that the observed
matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe may be generated by gravitational
decay of TeV-mass particles: such objects can be out of equilibrium after
inflation and, if their mass is of the same order of magnitude as the true
quantum gravity scale, they can quickly decay through a black hole intermediate
state, violating global symmetries, in particular, baryon number. In this
context, we take advantage of the fact that the ``Sakharov conditions'' for
baryogenesis can be more easily satisfied with a low fundamental scale of
gravity.Comment: 18 pages, added reference
Maximum lepton asymmetry from active-sterile neutrino oscillations in the Early Universe
A large lepton asymmetry could be generated in the Early Universe by
oscillations of active to sterile neutrinos with a small mixing angle sin 2
\theta < 10^-2. The final order of magnitude of the lepton asymmetry \eta is
mainly determined by its growth in the last stage of evolution when the MSW
resonance dominates the kinetic equations. In this paper we present a simple
way of calculating the maximum possible lepton asymmetry which can be created.
Our results are in good agreement to previous calculations. Furthermore, we
find that the growth of asymmetry does not obey any particular power law. We
find that the maximum possible asymmetry at the freeze-out of the n/p ratio at
T \sim 1 MeV strongly depends on the mass-squared difference \delta m^2: the
asymmetry is negligible for \delta m^2 \ll 1 eV^2 and reaches asymptotically
large values for \delta m^2 \ge 50 eV^2.Comment: 14 pp, 4 figure
Reheating induced by competing decay modes
We address the problem of studying the decay of the inflaton field to
another scalar field through parametric resonance in the case of a
coupling that involves several decay modes. This amounts to the presence of
extra harmonic terms in the perturbation of the field dynamics. For the
case of two frequencies we compute the geometry of the resonance regions, which
is significantly altered due to the presence of non-cuspidal resonance regions
associated to higher harmonics and to the emergence of instability `pockets'.
We discuss the effect of this change in the efficiency of the energy transfer
process for the simplest case of a coupling given by a combination of the two
interaction terms of homogeneous degree usually considered in the literature.
We find that the presence of higher harmonics has limited cosmological
implications.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures Added references. Corrected typo
Band filling and interband scattering effects in MgB: C vs Al doping
We argue, based on band structure calculations and Eliashberg theory, that
the observed decrease of of Al and C doped MgB samples can be
understood mainly in terms of a band filling effect due to the electron doping
by Al and C. A simple scaling of the electron-phonon coupling constant
by the variation of the density of states as function of electron
doping is sufficient to capture the experimentally observed behavior. Further,
we also explain the long standing open question of the experimental observation
of a nearly constant gap as function of doping by a compensation of the
effect of band filling and interband scattering. Both effects together generate
a nearly constant gap and shift the merging point of both gaps to higher
doping concentrations, resolving the discrepancy between experiment and
theoretical predictions based on interband scattering only.Comment: accepted by PR
Plane-Symmetric Inhomogeneous Bulk Viscous Cosmological Models with Variable
A plane-symmetric non-static cosmological model representing a bulk viscous
fluid distribution has been obtained which is inhomogeneous and anisotropic and
a particular case of which is gravitationally radiative. Without assuming any
{\it adhoc} law, we obtain a cosmological constant as a decreasing function of
time. The physical and geometric features of the models are also discussed.Comment: 11 page
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