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Dynamical decoherence of the light induced interlayer coupling in YBaCuO
Optical excitation of apical oxygen vibrations in
YBaCuO has been shown to enhance its c-axis
superconducting-phase rigidity, as evidenced by a transient blue shift of the
equilibrium inter-bilayer Josephson plasma resonance. Surprisingly, a transient
c-axis plasma mode could also be induced above T by the same apical
oxygen excitation, suggesting light activated superfluid tunneling throughout
the pseudogap phase of YBaCuO. However, despite the
similarities between the above T transient plasma mode and the
equilibrium Josephson plasmon, alternative explanations involving high mobility
quasiparticle transport should be considered. Here, we report an extensive
study of the relaxation of the light-induced plasmon into the equilibrium
incoherent phase. These new experiments allow for a critical assessment of the
nature of this mode. We determine that the transient plasma relaxes through a
collapse of its coherence length rather than its carrier (or superfluid)
density. These observations are not easily reconciled with quasiparticle
interlayer transport, and rather support transient superfluid tunneling as the
origin of the light-induced interlayer coupling in
YBaCuO.Comment: 27 pages (17 pages main text, 10 pages supplementary), 5 figures
(main text
Heat Kernel Bounds for the Laplacian on Metric Graphs of Polygonal Tilings
We obtain an upper heat kernel bound for the Laplacian on metric graphs
arising as one skeletons of certain polygonal tilings of the plane, which
reflects the one dimensional as well as the two dimensional nature of these
graphs.Comment: 8 page
Weak-coupling superconductivity in a strongly correlated iron pnictide
Iron-based superconductors have been found to exhibit an intimate interplay
of orbital, spin, and lattice degrees of freedom, dramatically affecting their
low-energy electronic properties, including superconductivity. Albeit the
precise pairing mechanism remains unidentified, several candidate interactions
have been suggested to mediate the superconducting pairing, both in the orbital
and in the spin channel. Here, we employ optical spectroscopy (OS),
angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), ab initio band-structure,
and Eliashberg calculations to show that nearly optimally doped
NaFeCoAs exhibits some of the strongest orbitally selective
electronic correlations in the family of iron pnictides. Unexpectedly, we find
that the mass enhancement of itinerant charge carriers in the strongly
correlated band is dramatically reduced near the point and attribute
this effect to orbital mixing induced by pronounced spin-orbit coupling.
Embracing the true band structure allows us to describe all low-energy
electronic properties obtained in our experiments with remarkable consistency
and demonstrate that superconductivity in this material is rather weak and
mediated by spin fluctuations.Comment: Open access article available online at
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep1862
Nanoscale layering of antiferromagnetic and superconducting phases in Rb2Fe4Se5
We studied phase separation in a single-crystalline antiferromagnetic
superconductor Rb2Fe4Se5 (RFS) using a combination of scattering-type scanning
near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) and low-energy muon spin rotation
(LE-\mu SR). We demonstrate that the antiferromagnetic and superconducting
phases segregate into nanometer-thick layers perpendicular to the iron-selenide
planes, while the characteristic in-plane size of the metallic domains reaches
10 \mu m. By means of LE-\mu SR we further show that in a 40-nm thick surface
layer the ordered antiferromagnetic moment is drastically reduced, while the
volume fraction of the paramagnetic phase is significantly enhanced over its
bulk value. Self-organization into a quasiregular heterostructure indicates an
intimate connection between the modulated superconducting and antiferromagnetic
phases.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures. Updated version published in Phys. Rev. Lett. on
5 July 201
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Weak-coupling superconductivity in a strongly correlated iron pnictide
Iron-based superconductors have been found to exhibit an intimate interplay of orbital, spin, and lattice degrees of freedom, dramatically affecting their low-energy electronic properties, including superconductivity. Albeit the precise pairing mechanism remains unidentified, several candidate interactions have been suggested to mediate the superconducting pairing, both in the orbital and in the spin channel. Here, we employ optical spectroscopy (OS), angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), ab initio band-structure, and Eliashberg calculations to show that nearly optimally doped NaFe0.978Co0.022As exhibits some of the strongest orbitally selective electronic correlations in the family of iron pnictides. Unexpectedly, we find that the mass enhancement of itinerant charge carriers in the strongly correlated band is dramatically reduced near the Γ point and attribute this effect to orbital mixing induced by pronounced spin-orbit coupling. Embracing the true band structure allows us to describe all low-energy electronic properties obtained in our experiments with remarkable consistency and demonstrate that superconductivity in this material is rather weak and mediated by spin fluctuations
Optical conductivity of superconducting Rb2Fe4Se5
We report the complex dielectric function of high-quality
nearly-stoichiometric Rb2Fe4Se5 (RFS) single crystals with Tc=32 K determined
by wide-band spectroscopic ellipsometry and time-domain transmission
spectroscopy in the spectral range 1 meV<=\omega<=6.5 eV at temperatures
4 K<=T<=300 K. This compound simultaneously displays a superconducting and a
semiconducting optical response. It reveals a direct band-gap of 0.45 eV
determined by a set of spin-controlled interband transitions. Below 100 K we
observe in the lowest THz spectral range a clear metallic response
characterized by the negative dielectric permittivity \epsilon 1 and bare
(unscreened) \omega pl=100 meV. At the superconducting transition this metallic
response exhibits a signature of a superconducting gap below 8 meV. Our
findings suggest a coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism in this
compound as two separate phases.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Complex financial networks and systemic risk: a review
In this paper we review recent advances in financial economics in relation to the measurement of systemic risk. We start by reviewing studies that apply traditional measures of risk to financial institutions. However, the main focus of the review is on studies that use network analysis paying special attention to those that apply complex analysis techniques. Applications of these techniques for the analysis and pricing of systemic risk has already provided significant benefits at least at the conceptual level but it also looks very promising from a practical point of view
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