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Orbital and spin chains in ZnV2O4
Our powder inelastic neutron scattering data indicate that \zvo is a system
of spin chains that are three dimensionally tangled in the cubic phase above 50
K due to randomly occupied orbitals of V () ions. Below
50 K in the tetragonal phase, the chains become straight due to
antiferro-orbital ordering. This is evidenced by the characteristic wave vector
dependence of the magnetic structure factor that changes from symmetric to
asymmetric at the cubic-to-tetragonal transition
Weakly coupled quantum spin singlets in BaCrO
Using single crystal inelastic neutron scattering with and without
application of an external magnetic field and powder neutron diffraction, we
have characterized magnetic interactions in BaCrO. Even without
field, we found that there exist three singlet-to-triplet excitation modes in
scattering plane. Our complete analysis shows that the three modes
are due to spatially anisotropic interdimer interactions that are induced by
local distortions of the tetrahedron of oxygens surrounding the Jahn-Teller
active Cr. The strong intradimer coupling of meV
and weak interdimer interactions ( meV) makes
BaCrO a good model system for weakly-coupled quantum spin
dimers
Hermitian conjugate measurement
We propose a new class of probabilistic reversing operations on the state of
a system that was disturbed by a weak measurement. It can approximately recover
the original state from the disturbed state especially with an additional
information gain using the Hermitian conjugate of the measurement operator. We
illustrate the general scheme by considering a quantum measurement consisting
of spin systems with an experimentally feasible interaction and show that the
reversing operation simultaneously increases both the fidelity to the original
state and the information gain with such a high probability of success that
their average values increase simultaneously.Comment: 26 pages, 4 figures; a paragraph is added in the introductio
Topological Winding and Unwinding in Metastable Bose-Einstein Condensates
Topological winding and unwinding in a quasi-one-dimensional metastable
Bose-Einstein condensate are shown to be manipulated by changing the strength
of interaction or the frequency of rotation. Exact diagonalization analysis
reveals that quasidegenerate states emerge spontaneously near the transition
point, allowing a smooth crossover between topologically distinct states. On a
mean-field level, the transition is accompanied by formation of grey solitons,
or density notches, which serve as an experimental signature of this
phenomenon.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Magnetic field-induced phase transitions in a weakly coupled s = 1/2 quantum spin dimer system BaCrO
By using bulk magnetization, electron spin resonance (ESR), heat capacity,
and neutron scattering techniques, we characterize the thermodynamic and
quantum phase diagrams of BaCrO. Our ESR measurements indicate that
the low field paramagnetic ground state is a mixed state of the singlet and the
S = 0 triplet for . This suggests the presence of an intra-dimer
Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya (DM) interaction with a DM vector perpendicular to the
c-axis
Growth of ZnO nanostructures on Si by means of plasma immersion ion implantation and deposition
Crystalline zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructures have been grown on Si substrates by means of Plasma Based Ion Implantation and Deposition (PIII&D) at temperature of about 300 0C and in the presence of an argon glow discharge. In the process a crucible filled with small pieces of metallic zinc plays the role of the anode of the discharge itself, being polarized by positive DC voltage of about 400V. Electrons produced by thermionic emission by an oxide cathode (Ba, Sr, Ca)O impact this crucible, causing its heating and vaporization of Zn. Partial ionization of Zn atoms takes place due to collisions with plasma particles. High negative voltage pulses (7 kv/40μs/250Hz) applied to the sample holder cause the implantation of metallic zinc into Si surface, while Zn deposition happens between pulses. After annealing at 700 0C, strong UV and various visible photoluminescence bands are observed at room temperature, as well as the presence of ZnO nanoparticles. The coated surface was characterized in detail using X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. XRD indicated the presence of only ZnO peaks after annealing. The composition analysis by EDS revealed distinct Zn/O stoichiometry relation depending on the conditions of the process. AFM images showed the formation of columns in the nanoscale range. Topography viewed by SEM showed the formation of structures similar to cactus with nanothorns. Depth analysis performed by XPS indicated an increase of concentration of metallic Zn with increasing depth and the exclusive presence of ZnO for outer regions. PIII&D allowed to growing nanostructures of ZnO on Si without the need of a buffer layer
A class of Heisenberg models with the orthogonal dimer ground states
Extensions of the Shastry-Sutherland model are possible in various ways. In
particular, it is possible to construct a natural model in three dimensions
which has the exact dimer ground state. Recently found spin gap system
SrCu_2(BO_3)_2 has this structure. The exchange constants between the layers is
expected to be smaller than the intra-layer couplings. However, the exactness
of the dimer state for the three dimensional structure is important to
understand why magnetic properties of SrCu_2(BO_3)_2 are described well by the
two dimensional model.Comment: 3 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matte
Hyperbolic Deformation Applied to S = 1 Spin Chains - Scaling Relation in Excitation Energy -
We investigate excitation energies of hyperbolically deformed S = 1 spin
chains, which are specified by the local energy scale f_j^{~} = \cosh j
\lambda, where j is the lattice index and \lambda is the deformation parameter.
The elementary excitation is well described by a quasiparticle hopping model,
which is also expressed in the form of hyperbolic deformation. It is possible
to estimate the excitation gap \Delta in the uniform limit \lambda \rightarrow
0, by means of a finite size scaling with respect to the system size N and the
deformation parameter \lambda.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
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