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Conversion of glassy antiferromagnetic-insulating phase to equilibrium ferromagnetic-metallic phase by devitrification and recrystallization in Al substituted PrCaMnO
We show that PrCaMnO with 2.5% Al substitution and
LaCaMnO (LCMO) exhibit qualitatively similar and
visibly anomalous M-H curves at low temperature. Magnetic field causes a broad
first-order but irreversible antiferromagnetic (AF)-insulating (I) to
ferromagnetic (FM)-metallic (M) transition in both and gives rise to soft FM
state. However, the low temperature equilibrium state of
PrCaMnAlO (PCMAO) is FM-M whereas that
of LCMO is AF-I. In both the systems the respective equilibrium phase coexists
with the other phase with contrasting order, which is not in equilibrium, and
the cooling field can tune the fractions of the coexisting phases. It is shown
earlier that the coexisting FM-M phase behaves like `magnetic glass' in LCMO.
Here we show from specially designed measurement protocols that the AF-I phase
of PCMAO has all the characteristics of magnetic glassy states. It devitrifies
on heating and also recrystallizes to equilibrium FM-M phase after annealing.
This glass-like AF-I phase also shows similar intriguing feature observed in
FM-M magnetic glassy state of LCMO that when the starting coexisting fraction
of glass is larger, successive annealing results in larger fraction of
equilibrium phase. This similarity between two manganite systems with
contrasting magnetic orders of respective glassy and equilibrium phases points
toward a possible universality.Comment: Highlights potential of CHUF (Cooling and Heating in Unequal Fields),
a new measurement protoco
Dynamics of Inflation and Dark Energy from Gravity
In this work we study certain classes of gravity which have
appealing phenomenological features, with respect to the successful realization
of the dark energy and of the inflationary era. Particularly, we discuss the
general formalism and we demonstrate how several inflationary and dark energy
evolutions can be described in the context of gravity. Also we
propose a unified model, in the context of which the early and late-time
dynamics are controlled by the gravity, thus producing
inflation and the dark energy era, while the intermediate era is approximately
identical with standard Einstein-Hilbert gravity. Also we calculate the power
spectrum of the primordial curvature perturbations corresponding to the unified
gravity model we propose, which as we demonstrate is nearly
scale invariant and compatible with the latest observational data constraints
Study of Dissipative Collisions of Ne (7-11 MeV/nucleon) + Al
The inclusive energy distributions of complex fragments (3 Z 9)
emitted in the reactions Ne (145, 158, 200, 218 MeV) + Al have
been measured in the angular range 10 - 50. The fusion-fission and
the deep-inelastic components of the fragment yield have been extracted using
multiple Gaussian functions from the experimental fragment energy spectra. The
elemental yields of the fusion-fission component have been found to be fairly
well exlained in the framework of standard statistical model. It is found that
there is strong competition between the fusion-fission and the deep-inelastic
processes at these energies. The time scale of the deep-inelastic process was
estimated to be typically in the range of 10 - 10 sec.,
and it was found to decrease with increasing fragment mass. The angular
momentum dissipations in fully energy damped deep-inelastic process have been
estimated from the average energies of the deep-inelastic components of the
fragment energy spectra. It has been found that, the estimated angular momentum
dissipations, for lighter fragments in particular, are more than those
predicted by the empirical sticking limit.Comment: 16 pages, 9 figure
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