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Residual interaction effects on deeply bound pionic states in Sn and Pb isotopes
We have studied the residual interaction effects theoretically on the deeply
bound pionic states in Pb and Sn isotopes. We need to evaluate the residual
interaction effects carefully in order to deduce the nuclear medium effects for
pion properties, which are believed to provide valuable information on nuclear
chiral dynamics. The s- and p-wave interactions are used for the
pion-nucleon residual interactions. We show that the complex energy shifts are
around [(10-20)+i(2-7)]keV for 1s states in Sn, which should be taken into
account in the analyses of the high precision data of deeply bound pionic
states in Sn isotopes.Comment: REVTEX4, 6 pages, 5 tables, Submitted to Phys. Rev. C, Some
explanations are added in Version
Incommensurate--commensurate transitions in the mono-axial chiral helimagnet driven by the magnetic field
The zero temperature phase diagram of the mono-axial chiral helimagnet in the
magnetic field plane formed by the components parallel and perpendicular to the
helical axis is thoroughly analyzed. The nature of the transition to the
commensurate state depends on the angle between the field and the helical axis.
For field directions close to the directions parallel or perpendicular to the
helical axis the transition is continuous, while for intermediate angles the
transition is discontinuous and the incommensurate and commensurate states
coexist on the transition line. The continuous and discontinuous transition
lines are separated by two tricritical points with specific singular behaviour.
The location of the continuous and discontinuous lines and of the tricritical
points depend strongly on the easy-plane anisotropy, the effect of which is
analyzed. For large anisotropy the conical approximation locates the transition
line very accurately, although it does not predict the continuous transitions
nor the tricitical behaviour. It is shown that for large anisotropy, as in
CrNb3S6, the form of the transition line is universal, that is, independent of
the sample, and obeys a simple equation. The position of the tricritical
points, which is not universal, is theoretically estimated for a sample of
CrNb3S6Comment: 10 pages, 9 figure
Theory of standing spin waves in finite-size chiral spin soliton lattice
We present a theory of standing spin wave (SSW) in a monoaxial chiral
helimagnet. Motivated by experimental findings on the magnetic field-dependence
of the resonance frequency in thin films of CrNbS[Goncalves
et al., Phys. Rev. B95, 104415 (2017)], we examine the SSW over a chiral
soliton lattice (CSL) excited by an ac magnetic field applied parallel and
perpendicular to the chiral axis. For this purpose, we generalize Kittel-Pincus
theories of the SSW in ferromagnetic thin films to the case of non-collinear
helimagnet with the surface end spins which are softly pinned by an anisotropy
field. Consequently, we found there appear two types of modes. One is a Pincus
mode which is composed of a long-period Bloch wave and a short-period ripple
originated from the periodic structure of the CSL. Another is a short-period
Kittel ripple excited by space-periodic perturbation which exists only in the
case where the ac field is applied perpendicular the chiral axis. We
demonstrate that the existence of the Pincus mode and the Kittel ripple is
consistent with experimentally found double resonance profile.Comment: 17 pages, 14 figure
Interlayer magnetoresistance due to chiral soliton lattice formation in hexagonal chiral magnet CrNb3S6
We investigate the interlayer magnetoresistance (MR) along the chiral crystallographic axis in the hexagonal chiral magnet CrNb3S 6. In a region below the incommensurate-commensurate phase transition between the chiral soliton lattice and the forced ferromagnetic state, a negative MR is obtained in a wide range of temperature, while a small positive MR is found very close to the Curie temperature. Normalized data of the negative MR almost falls into a single curve and is well fitted by a theoretical equation of the soliton density, meaning that the origin of the MR is ascribed to the magnetic scattering of conduction electrons by a nonlinear, periodic, and countable array of magnetic soliton kinks. © 2013 American Physical Society
Nuclear Quadrupole Effects in Deeply Bound Pionic Atoms
We have studied nuclear quadrupole deformation effects in deeply bound pionic
atoms theoretically. We have evaluated the level shifts and widths of the
hyperfine components using the first order perturbation theory and compared
them with the effects of neutron skin. We conclude that the nuclear quadrupole
deformation effects for deeply bound and states are very difficult to
observe and that the effects could be observed for states. We also
conclude that the deformation effects are sensitive to the parameters of the
pion-nucleus optical potential.Comment: Latex 11pages, Figures available on reques
Nano-Hall sensors with granular Co-C
We analyzed the performance of Hall sensors with different Co-C ratios,
deposited directly in nano-structured form, using gas molecules,
by focused electron or ion beam induced deposition. Due to the enhanced
inter-grain scattering in these granular wires, the Extraordinary Hall Effect
can be increased by two orders of magnitude with respect to pure Co, up to a
current sensitivity of . We show that the best magnetic field
resolution at room temperature is obtained for Co ratios between 60% and 70%
and is better than . For an active area of the sensor of , the room temperature magnetic flux resolution is , in the thermal noise frequency range, i.e. above 100
kHz.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Experimental Signature of Medium Modifications for rho and omega Mesons in the 12 GeV p + A Reactions
The invariant mass spectra of e+e- pairs produced in 12-GeV proton-induced
nuclear reactions are measured at the KEK Proton-Synchrotron. On the low-mass
side of the omega meson peak, a significant enhancement over the known hadronic
sources has been observed. The mass spectra, including the excess, are well
reproduced by a model that takes into account the density dependence of the
vector meson mass modification, as theoretically predicted.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, Version accepted for Physical Review Lette
Roles of superchirality and interference in chiral plasmonic biodetection
Chiral plasmonic nanostructures enable ≤pg detection and characterization of biomaterials. The sensing capabilities are associated with the chiral asymmetry of the near fields, which locally can be greater than equivalent circularly polarized light, a property referred to as superchirality. However, sensing abilities do not simply scale with the magnitude of superchirality. We show that chiral molecular sensing is correlated to the thickness of a nanostructure. This observation is reconciled with a previously unconsidered interference mechanism for the sensing phenomenon. It involves the “dissipation” of optical chirality into chiral material currents through the interference of fields generated by two spatially separated chiral modes. The presence of a chiral dielectric causes an asymmetric change in the phase difference, resulting in asymmetric changes to chiroptical properties. Thus, designing a chiral plasmonic sensor requires engineering a substrate that can sustain both superchiral fields and an interference effect
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