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Neural bases of social feedback processing and self–other distinction in late childhood: The role of attachment and age
Attachment plays a key role in how children process information about the self and others. Here, we examined the neural bases of interindividual differences in attachment in late childhood and tested whether social cognition-related neural activity varies as function of age. In a small sample of 8-year-old to 12-year-old children (n = 21/19), we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure neural responses during social feedback processing and self–other distinction. Attachment was assessed using child self-report. The social feedback processing task presented smiling and angry faces either confirming or disconfirming written information about participant performance on a perceptual game. In addition to observing main effects of facial emotion and performance, an increase in age was related to a shift from negative (i.e., angry faces/bad performance) to positive (i.e., smiling faces/good performance) information processing in the left amygdala/hippocampus, bilateral fusiform face area, bilateral anterior temporal pole (ATP), and left anterior insula. There were no effects of attachment on social feedback processing. The self–other distinction task presented digital morphs between children’s own faces and faces of their mother or stranger females. We observed differential activation in face processing and mentalizing regions in response to self and mother faces versus morphed faces. Furthermore, left ATP activity was associated with attachment anxiety such that greater attachment anxiety was related to a shift from heightened processing of self and mother faces to morphed faces. There were no effects of age on self–other distinction. We discuss our preliminary findings in the context of attachment theory and previous work on social evaluation and self–other processing
Electronic Structure of LuRh2Si2: "Small" Fermi Surface Reference to YbRh2Si2
We present band structure calculations and quantum oscillation measurements
on LuRh2Si2, which is an ideal reference to the intensively studied quantum
critical heavy-fermion system YbRh2Si2. Our band structure calculations show a
strong sensitivity of the Fermi surface on the position of the silicon atoms
zSi within the unit cell. Single crystal structure refinement and comparison of
predicted and observed quantum oscillation frequencies and masses yield zSi =
0.379c in good agreement with numerical lattice relaxation. This value of zSi
is suggested for future band structure calculations on LuRh2Si2 and YbRh2Si2.
LuRh2Si2 with a full f electron shell represents the "small" Fermi surface
configuration of YbRh2Si2. Our experimentally and ab initio derived quantum
oscillation frequencies of LuRh2Si2 show strong differences with earlier
measurements on YbRh2Si2. Consequently, our results confirm the contribution of
the f electrons to the Fermi surface of YbRh2Si2 at high magnetic fields. Yet
the limited agreement with refined fully itinerant local density approximation
calculations highlights the need for more elaborated models to describe the
Fermi surface of YbRh2Si2.Comment: 12 pages 10 figure
Competing pairing interactions responsible for the large upper critical field in a stoichiometric iron-based superconductor CaKFe4As4
The upper critical field of multiband superconductors is an important quantity that can reveal details about the nature of the superconducting pairing. Here we experimentally map out the complete upper-critical-field phase diagram of a stoichiometric superconductor, CaKFe4As4, up to 90T for different orientations of the magnetic field and at temperatures down to 4.2K. The upper critical fields are extremely large, reaching values close to ∼3Tc at the lowest temperature, and the anisotropy decreases dramatically with temperature, leading to essentially isotropic superconductivity at 4.2K. We find that the temperature dependence of the upper critical field can be well described by a two-band model in the clean limit with band-coupling parameters favoring intraband over interband interactions. The large Pauli paramagnetic effects together with the presence of the shallow bands is consistent with the stabilization of an FFLO state at low temperatures in this clean superconductor
Quantum critical Bose gas in the two-dimensional limit in the honeycomb antiferromagnet YbCl under magnetic fields
BEC is a quantum phenomenon, where a macroscopic number of bosons occupy the
lowest energy state and acquire coherence at low temperatures. It is realized
not only in He and dilute atomic gases, but also in quantum magnets, where
hardcore bosons, introduced by the Matsubara-Matsuda transformation of spins,
condense. In 3D antiferromagnets, an XY-type long-range ordering (LRO) occurs
near a magnetic-field-induced transition to a fully polarized state (FP) and
has been successfully described as a BEC in the last few decades. An attractive
extension of the BEC in 3D magnets is to make their 2D analogue. For a strictly
2D system, BEC cannot take place due to the presence of a finite density of
states at zero energy, and a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition
may instead emerge. In a realistic quasi-2D magnet consisting of stacked 2D
magnets, a small but finite interlayer coupling stabilizes marginal LRO and
BEC, but such that 2D physics, including BKT fluctuations, is still expected to
dominate. A few systems were reported to show such 2D-limit BEC, but at very
high magnetic fields that are difficult to access. The honeycomb = 1/2
Heisenberg antiferromagnet YbCl with an intra-layer coupling 5 K
exhibits a transition to a FP state at a low in-plane magnetic field of = 5.93 T. Here, we demonstrate that the LRO right below is a
BEC in the 2D-limit stabilized by an extremely small interlayer coupling
of 10. At the quantum critical point Hs, we capture
2D-limit quantum fluctuations as the formation of a highly mobile, interacting
2D Bose gas in the dilute limit. A much-reduced effective boson-boson repulsion
Ueff as compared with that of a prototypical 3D system indicates the presence
of a logarithmic renormalization of interaction unique to 2D.Comment: 24 pages, 12 figure
Strong in-plane anisotropy in the electronic structure of fixed-valence -LuAlB
The origin of intrinsic quantum criticality in the heavy-fermion
superconductor -YbAlB has been attributed to strong Yb valence
fluctuations and its peculiar crystal structure. Here, we assess these
contributions individually by studying the isostructural but fixed-valence
compound -LuAlB. Quantum oscillation measurements and DFT
calculations reveal a Fermi surface markedly different from that of
-YbAlB, consistent with a `large' Fermi surface there. We also find
an unexpected in-plane anisotropy of the electronic structure, in contrast to
the isotropic Kondo hybridization in -YbAlB.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
Competing pairing interactions responsible for the large upper critical field in a stoichiometric iron-based superconductor, CaKFeAs
The upper critical field of multiband superconductors is an important
quantity that can reveal the details about the nature of the superconducting
pairing. Here we experimentally map out the complete upper critical field phase
diagram of a stoichiometric superconductor, CaKFeAs, up to 90T for
different orientations of the magnetic field and at temperatures down to 4.2K.
The upper critical fields are extremely large, reaching values close to ~3
at the lowest temperature, and the anisotropy decreases dramatically with
temperature leading to essentially isotropic superconductivity at 4.2K. We find
that the temperature dependence of the upper critical field can be well
described by a two-band model in the clean limit with band coupling parameters
favouring intraband over interband interactions. The large Pauli paramagnetic
effects together with the presence of the shallow bands is consistent with the
stabilization of an FFLO state at low temperatures in this clean
superconductor.Comment: to appear in Physical Review B (2020); 13 pages, 9 figure
Quenched nematic criticality and two superconducting domes in an iron-based superconductor
The nematic electronic state and its associated critical fluctuations have emerged as a potential candidate for the superconducting pairing in various unconventional superconductors. However, in most materials their coexistence with magnetically ordered phases poses a significant challenge in determining their importance. Here, by combining chemical and hydrostatic physical pressure in FeSe0.89S0.11, we access a nematic quantum phase transition isolated from any other competing magnetic phases. From quantum oscillations in high magnetic fields, we trace the evolution of the Fermi surface and electronic correlations as a function of applied pressure and detect a Lifshitz transition that separates two distinct superconducting regions. One emerges from the nematic phase with a small Fermi surface and strong electronic correlations, while the other one has a large Fermi surface and weak correlations that promotes nesting and stabilization of a magnetically ordered phase at high pressures. The absence of mass divergence at the nematic quantum phase transition suggests that the nematic fluctuations could be quenched by the strong coupling to the lattice or local strain effects. A direct consequence is the weakening of superconductivity at the nematic quantum phase transition in the absence of magnetically driven fluctuations
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Unconventional Superconductivity in the Layered Iron Germanide YFe(2)Ge(2).
The iron-based intermetallic YFe_{2}Ge_{2} stands out among transition metal compounds for its high Sommerfeld coefficient of the order of 100  mJ/(mol K^{2}), which signals strong electronic correlations. A new generation of high quality samples of YFe_{2}Ge_{2} show superconducting transition anomalies below 1.8 K in thermodynamic, magnetic, and transport measurements, establishing that superconductivity is intrinsic in this layered iron compound outside the known superconducting iron pnictide or chalcogenide families. The Fermi surface geometry of YFe_{2}Ge_{2} resembles that of KFe_{2}As_{2} in the high pressure collapsed tetragonal phase, in which superconductivity at temperatures as high as 10 K has recently been reported, suggesting an underlying connection between the two systems.The work was supported by the EPSRC of the UK and by Trinity College. Supporting data can be found at https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/253875.This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the American Physical Society via http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.12700
Truncated mass divergence in a Mott metal
The Mott metal–insulator transition represents one of the most fundamental phenomena in condensed matter physics. Yet, basic tenets of the canonical Brinkman-Rice picture of Mott localization remain to be tested experimentally by quantum oscillation measurements that directly probe the quasiparticle Fermi surface and effective mass. By extending this technique to high pressure, we have examined the metallic state on the threshold of Mott localization in clean, undoped crystals of NiS2. We find that i) on approaching Mott localization, the quasiparticle mass is strongly enhanced, whereas the Fermi surface remains essentially unchanged; ii) the quasiparticle mass closely follows the divergent form predicted theoretically, establishing charge carrier slowdown as the driver for the metal–insulator transition; iii) this mass divergence is truncated by the metal–insulator transition, placing the Mott critical point inside the insulating section of the phase diagram. The inaccessibility of the Mott critical point in NiS2 parallels findings at the threshold of ferromagnetism in clean metallic systems, in which criticality at low temperature is almost universally interrupted by first-order transitions or novel emergent phases such as incommensurate magnetic order or unconventional superconductivity
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