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Temperature-Dependent Pseudogaps in Colossal Magnetoresistive Oxides
Direct electronic structure measurements of a variety of the colossal
magnetoresistive oxides show the presence of a pseudogap at the Fermi energy
E_F which drastically suppresses the electron spectral function at E_F. The
pseudogap is a strong function of the layer number of the samples (sample
dimensionality) and is strongly temperature dependent, with the changes
beginning at the ferromagnetic transition temperature T_c. These trends are
consistent with the major transport trends of the CMR oxides, implying a direct
relationship between the pseudogap and transport, including the "colossal"
conductivity changes which occur across T_c. The k-dependence of the
temperature-dependent effects indicate that the pseudogap observed in these
compounds is not due to the extrinsic effects proposed by Joynt.Comment: 5 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
entropy of M5 branes from dielectric effect
We observe that the entropy behavior of near-extermal M5 branes can be
reproduced from SYM side with the role of Myers' terms. We start by
generalizing the Klebanov-Tseytlin (KT) supergravity solution that displays the
entropy behavior. The new feature of the general solution is visibility
of the "internal" degrees of the M5 branes, i.e., the M0 branes and the M2
branes. With the rationale provided by the supergravity analysis, we consider a
D0 brane quantum mechanical setup with Myers' terms. Using localization
technique, we show that the leading behavior of the free energy comes
from the "classical contribution" with the rest sub-leading.Comment: latex, 21 pages, missing figure adde
Study of the multi-species annihilating random walk transition at zero branching rate - cluster scaling behavior in a spin model
Numerical and theoretical studies of a one-dimensional spin model with
locally broken spin symmetry are presented. The multi-species annihilating
random walk transition found at zero branching rate previously is investigated
now concerning the cluster behaviour of the underlying spins. Generic power law
behaviors are found, besides the phase transition point, also in the active
phase with fulfillment of the hyperscaling law. On the other hand scaling laws
connecting bulk- and cluster exponents are broken - a possibility in no
contradiction with basic scaling assumptions because of the missing absorbing
phase.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, final form to appear in PRE Nov.200
Gravin orchestrates protein kinase A and 2-adrenergic receptor signaling critical for synaptic plasticity and memory
A kinase-anchoring proteins (AKAPs) organize compartmentalized pools of protein kinase A (PKA) to enable localized signaling events within neurons. However, it is unclear which of the many expressed AKAPs in neurons target PKA to signaling complexes important for long-lasting forms of synaptic plasticity and memory storage. In the forebrain, the anchoring protein gravin recruits a signaling complex containing PKA, PKC, calmodulin, and PDE4D (phosphodiesterase 4D) to the β2-adrenergic receptor. Here, we show that mice lacking the α-isoform of gravin have deficits in PKA-dependent long-lasting forms of hippocampal synaptic plasticity including β2-adrenergic receptor-mediated plasticity, and selective impairments of long-term memory storage. Furthermore, both hippocampal β2-adrenergic receptor phosphorylation by PKA, and learning-induced activation of ERK in the CA1 region of the hippocampus are attenuated in mice lacking gravin-α. We conclude that gravin compartmentalizes a significant pool of PKA that regulates learning-induced β2-adrenergic receptor signaling and ERK activation in the hippocampus in vivo, thereby organizing molecular interactions between glutamatergic and noradrenergic signaling pathways for long-lasting synaptic plasticity, and memory storage
Fluctuations in viscous fingering
Our experiments on viscous (Saffman-Taylor) fingering in Hele-Shaw channels
reveal finger width fluctuations that were not observed in previous
experiments, which had lower aspect ratios and higher capillary numbers Ca.
These fluctuations intermittently narrow the finger from its expected width.
The magnitude of these fluctuations is described by a power law, Ca^{-0.64},
which holds for all aspect ratios studied up to the onset of tip instabilities.
Further, for large aspect ratios, the mean finger width exhibits a maximum as
Ca is decreased instead of the predicted monotonic increase.Comment: Revised introduction, smoothed transitions in paper body, and added a
few additional minor results. (Figures unchanged.) 4 pages, 3 figures.
Submitted to PRE Rapi
Incoherent dynamics of vibrating single-molecule transistors
We study the tunneling conductance of nano-scale quantum ``shuttles'' in
connection with a recent experiment (H. Park et al., Nature, 407, 57 (2000)) in
which a vibrating C^60 molecule was apparently functioning as the island of a
single electron transistor (SET). While our calculation starts from the same
model of previous work (D. Boese and H. Schoeller, Europhys. Lett. 54,
66(2001)) we obtain quantitatively different dynamics. Calculated I-V curves
exhibit most features present in experimental data with a physically reasonable
parameter set, and point to a strong dependence of the oscillator's potential
on the electrostatics of the island region. We propose that in a regime where
the electric field due to the bias voltage itself affects island position, a
"catastrophic" negative differential conductance (NDC) may be realized. This
effect is directly attributable to the magnitude of overlap of final and
initial quantum oscillator states, and as such represents experimental control
over quantum transitions of the oscillator via the macroscopically controllable
bias voltage.Comment: 6 pages, LaTex, 6 figure
Scaling analysis of a divergent prefactor in the metastable lifetime of a square-lattice Ising ferromagnet at low temperatures
We examine a square-lattice nearest-neighbor Ising quantum ferromagnet
coupled to -dimensional phonon baths. Using the density-matrix equation, we
calculate the transition rates between configurations, which determines the
specific dynamic. Applying the calculated stochastic dynamic in Monte Carlo
simulations, we measure the lifetimes of the metastable state. As the magnetic
field approaches at low temperatures, the lifetime prefactor diverges
because the transition rates between certain configurations approaches zero
under these conditions. Near and zero temperature, the divergent
prefactor shows scaling behavior as a function of the field, temperature, and
the dimension of the phonon baths. With proper scaling, the simulation data at
different temperatures and for different dimensions of the baths collapse well
onto two master curves, one for and one for .Comment: published versio
On the M5 and the AdS7/CFT6 Correspondence
The chiral primary operators of the D=6 superconformal (2,0) theory
corresponding to 14 scalars of N=4 D=7 supergravity are obtained by expanding
the world volume action for the M5-brane around an AdS_7 x S^4 background. In
the leading order, the operators take their values in the symmetric traceless
representation of the SO(5) R-symmetry group in consistency with the early
conjecture on their structure based on the superconformal symmetry and
Matrix-like model arguments.Comment: 12 pages, Latex. One comment and references adde
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