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A Local One-Zone Model of MHD Turbulence in Dwarf Nova Disks
The evolution of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) during the
transition from outburst to quiescence in a dwarf nova disk is investigated
using three-dimensional MHD simulations. The shearing box approximation is
adopted for the analysis, so that the efficiency of angular momentum transport
is studied in a small local patch of the disk: this is usually referred as to a
one-zone model. To take account of the low ionization fraction of the disk, the
induction equation includes both ohmic dissipation and the Hall effect. We
induce a transition from outburst to quiescence by an instantaneous decrease of
the temperature. The evolution of the MRI during the transition is found to be
very sensitive to the temperature of the quiescent disk. As long as the
temperature is higher than a critical value of about 2000 K, MHD turbulence and
angular momentum transport is sustained by the MRI. However, MHD turbulence
dies away within an orbital time if the temperature falls below this critical
value. In this case, the stress drops off by more than 2 orders of magnitude,
and is dominated by the Reynolds stress associated with the remnant motions
from the outburst. The critical temperature depends slightly on the distance
from the central star and the local density of the disk.Comment: 20 pages, 2 tables, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Ap
First-Principles Computation of YVO3; Combining Path-Integral Renormalization Group with Density-Functional Approach
We investigate the electronic structure of the transition-metal oxide YVO3 by
a hybrid first-principles scheme. The density-functional theory with the
local-density-approximation by using the local muffin-tin orbital basis is
applied to derive the whole band structure. The electron degrees of freedom far
from the Fermi level are eliminated by a downfolding procedure leaving only the
V 3d t2g Wannier band as the low-energy degrees of freedom, for which a
low-energy effective model is constructed. This low-energy effective
Hamiltonian is solved exactly by the path-integral renormalization group
method. It is shown that the ground state has the G-type spin and the C-type
orbital ordering in agreement with experimental indications. The indirect
charge gap is estimated to be around 0.7 eV, which prominently improves the
previous estimates by other conventional methods
Skyrmion pseudoSkyrmion Transition in Bilayer Quantum Hall States at
Bilayer quantum Hall states at have been demonstrated to possess a
distinguished state with interlayer phase coherence. The state has both
excitations of Skyrmion with spin and pseudoSkyrmion with pseudospin. We show
that Skyrmion pseudoSkyrmion transition arises in the state
by changing imbalance between electron densities in both layers; PseudoSkyrmion
is realized at balance point, while Skyrmion is realized at large imbalance.
The transition can be seen by observing the dependence of activation energies
on magnetic field parallel to the layers.Comment: 12 pages, no figure
PseudoSkyrmion Effects on Tunneling Conductivity in Coherent Bilayer Quantum Hall States at
We present a mechamism why interlayer tunneling conductivity in coherent
bilayer quantum Hall states at is anomalously large, but finite in the
recent experiment. According to the mechanism, pseudoSkyrmions causes the
finite conductivity, although there exists an expectation that dissipationless
tunneling current arises in the state. PseudoSkyrmions have an intrinsic
polarization field perpendicular to the layers, which causes the dissipation.
Using the mechanism we show that the large peak in the conductivity remains for
weak parallel magnetic field, but decay rapidly after its strength is beyond a
critical one, Tesla.Comment: 6 pages, no figure
Crystal-field splitting for low symmetry systems in ab initio calculations
In the framework of the LDA+U approximation we propose the direct way of
calculation of crystal-field excitation energy and apply it to La and Y
titanates. The method developed can be useful for comparison with the results
of spectroscopic measurements because it takes into account fast relaxations of
electronic system. For titanates these relaxation processes reduce the value of
crystal-field splitting by as compared with the difference of LDA one
electron energies. However, the crystal-field excitation energy in these
systems is still large enough to make an orbital liquid formation rather
unlikely and experimentally observed isotropic magnetism remains unexplained.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figures, 3 table
Strong Correlation to Weak Correlation Phase Transition in Bilayer Quantum Hall Systems
At small layer separations, the ground state of a nu=1 bilayer quantum Hall
system exhibits spontaneous interlayer phase coherence and has a
charged-excitation gap E_g. The evolution of this state with increasing layer
separation d has been a matter of controversy. In this letter we report on
small system exact diagonalization calculations which suggest that a single
phase transition, likely of first order, separates coherent incompressible (E_g
>0) states with strong interlayer correlations from incoherent compressible
states with weak interlayer correlations. We find a dependence of the phase
boundary on d and interlayer tunneling amplitude that is in very good agreement
with recent experiments.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures included, version to appear in Phys. Rev. Let
Pre-K-Edge Structure on Anomalous X-Ray Scattering in LaMnO3
We study the pre-K-edge structure of the resonant X-ray scattering for
forbidden reflections (anomalous scattering) in LaMnO3, using the band
calculation based on the local density approximation. We find a two-peak
structure with an intensity approximately 1/100 of that of the main peak. This
originates from a mixing of 4p states of Mn to 3d states of neighboring Mn
sites. The effect is enhanced by an interference with the tail of the main
peak. The effect of the quadrupole transition is found to be one order of
magnitude smaller than that of the dipole transition, modifying slightly the
azimuthal-angle dependence.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jp
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