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Landscape features associated with the passive recovery of Mediterranean sclerophyllous woodlands of central Chile
Excitations in the quantum paramagnetic phase of the quasi-one-dimensional Ising magnet CoNbO in a transverse field: Geometric frustration and quantum renormalization effects
The quasi-one-dimensional (1D) Ising ferromagnet CoNbO has recently
been driven via applied transverse magnetic fields through a continuous quantum
phase transition from spontaneous magnetic order to a quantum paramagnet, and
dramatic changes were observed in the spin dynamics, characteristic of weakly
perturbed 1D Ising quantum criticality. We report here extensive single-crystal
inelastic neutron scattering measurements of the magnetic excitations
throughout the three-dimensional (3D) Brillouin zone in the quantum
paramagnetic phase just above the critical field to characterize the effects of
the finite interchain couplings. In this phase, we observe that excitations
have a sharp, resolution-limited line shape at low energies and over most of
the dispersion bandwidth, as expected for spin-flip quasiparticles. We map the
full bandwidth along the strongly dispersive chain direction and resolve clear
modulations of the dispersions in the plane normal to the chains,
characteristic of frustrated interchain couplings in an antiferromagnetic
isosceles triangular lattice. The dispersions can be well parametrized using a
linear spin-wave model that includes interchain couplings and further neighbor
exchanges. The observed dispersion bandwidth along the chain direction is
smaller than that predicted by a linear spin-wave model using exchange values
determined at zero field, and this effect is attributed to quantum
renormalization of the dispersion beyond the spin-wave approximation in fields
slightly above the critical field, where quantum fluctuations are still
significant.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures. Updated references. Minor changes to text and
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Manifestation of finite temperature size effects in nanogranular magnetic graphite
In addition to the double phase transition (with the Curie temperatures
T_C=300K and T_{Ct}=144K), a low-temperature anomaly in the dependence of the
magnetization is observed in the bulk magnetic graphite (with an average
granular size of L=10nm), which is attributed to manifestation of the size
effects below the quantum temperature. The best fits of the high-temperature
data (using the mean-field Curie-Weiss and Bloch expressions) produced
reasonable estimates for the model parameters, such as defects mediated
effective spin exchange energy J=12meV (which defines the intragranular Curie
temperature T_C) and proximity mediated interactions between neighboring grains
(through potential barriers created by thin layers of non-magnetic graphite)
with energy J_t=exp(-d/s)J=5.8meV (which defines the intergranular Curie
temperature T_{Ct}) with d=1.5nm and s=2nm being the intergranular distance and
characteristic length, respectively
Antiferromagnetic and Orbital Ordering on a Diamond Lattice Near Quantum Criticality
We present neutron scattering measurements on powder samples of the spinel
FeSc2S4 that reveal a previously unobserved magnetic ordering transition
occurring at 11.8(2)~K. Magnetic ordering occurs subsequent to a subtle
cubic-to-tetragonal structural transition which distorts Fe coordinating sulfur
tetrahedra lifting the orbital degeneracy. The application of 1~GPa hydrostatic
pressure appears to destabilize this N\'eel state, reducing the transition
temperature to 8.6(8)~K and redistributing magnetic spectral weight to higher
energies. The relative magnitudes of ordered
and fluctuating moments show that the
magnetically ordered ground state of FeSc2S4 is drastically renormalized and in
proximity to criticality.Comment: 16 pages, 12 figure
Evidence of secondary relaxations in the dielectric spectra of ionic liquids
We investigated the dynamics of a series of room temperature ionic liquids
based on the same 1-butyl-3-methyl imidazolium cation and different anions by
means of broadband dielectric spectroscopy covering 15 decades in frequency
(10^(-6)-10^9 Hz), and in the temperature range from 400 K down to 35 K. An
ionic conductivity is observed above the glass transition temperature T_{g}
with a relaxation in the electric modulus representation. Below T_{g}, two
relaxation processes appear, with the same features as the secondary
relaxations typically observed in molecular glasses. The activation energy of
the secondary processes and their dependence on the anion are different. The
slower process shows the characteristics of an intrinsic Johari-Goldstein
relaxation, in particular an activation energy E_{beta}=24k_{B}T_{g} is found,
as observed in molecular glasses.Comment: Major revision, submitted to Phys. Rev. Let
Analycity and smoothing effect for the coupled system of equations of Korteweg - de Vries type with a single point singularity
We study that a solution of the initial value problem associated for the
coupled system of equations of Korteweg - de Vries type which appears as a
model to describe the strong interaction of weakly nonlinear long waves, has
analyticity in time and smoothing effect up to real analyticity if the initial
data only has a single point singularity at $x=0.
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