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Kinetic stabilization of Fe film on (4 by 2)-GaAs(100)
We grow Fe film on (4 by 2)-GaAs(100) at low temperature, (~ 130 K) and study
their chemical structure by photoelectron spectroscopy using synchrotron
radiation. We observe the effective suppression of As segregation and
remarkable reduction of alloy formation near the interface between Fe and
substrate. Hence, this should be a way to grow virtually pristine Fe film on
GaAs(100). Further, the Fe film is found stable against As segregation even
after warmed up to room temperature. There only forms very thin, ~ 8 angstrom
thick interface alloy. It is speculated that the interface alloy forms via
surface diffusion mediated by interface defects formed during the low
temperature growth of the Fe film. Further out-diffusion of both Ga and As are
suppressed because it should then proceed via inefficient bulk diffusion.Comment: 4 figure
A prohibition of equilibrium spin currents in multi-terminal ballistic devices
We show that in the multi-terminal ballistic devices with intrinsic
spin-orbit interaction connected to normal metal contacts there are no
equilibrium spin currents present at any given electron energy. Obviously, this
statement holds also after the integration over all occupied states. Based on
the proof of this fact, a number of scenarios involving nonequilibrium spin
currents is identified and further analyzed. In particular, it is shown that an
arbitrary two-terminal device cannot polarize transient current. The same is
true for the output terminal of an N-terminal device when all N-1 inputs are
connected in parallel.Comment: 3 pages, 1 figure; presented at the DARPA SPinS review (#Th-19), San
Francisco, CA, October 25-28, 200
Electron Removal Self Energy and its application to Ca2CuO2Cl2
We propose using the self energy defined for the electron removal Green's
function. Starting from the electron removal Green's function, we obtained
expressions for the removal self energy Sigma^ER (k,omega) that are applicable
for non-quasiparticle photoemission spectral functions from a single band
system. Our method does not assume momentum independence and produces the self
energy in the full k-omega space. The method is applied to the angle resolved
photoemission from Ca_2CuO_2Cl_2 and the result is found to be compatible with
the self energy value from the peak width of sharp features. The self energy is
found to be only weakly k-dependent. In addition, the Im Sigma shows a maximum
at around 1 eV where the high energy kink is located.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Spin polarization of light atoms in jellium: Detailed electronic structures
We revisit the problem of the spontaneous magnetization of an {\em sp}
impurity atom in a simple metal host. The main features of interest are: (i)
Formation of the spherical spin density/charge density wave around the
impurity; (ii) Considerable decrease in the size of the pseudoatom in the
spin-polarized state as compared with the paramagnetic one, and (iii) Relevance
of the electron affinity of the isolated atom to this spin polarization, which
is clarified by tracing the transformation of the pseudoatom into an isolated
negative ion in the low-density limit of the enveloping electron gas.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, accepted to Phys. Rev.
Inflation with blowing-up solution of cosmological constant problem
The cosmological constant problem is how one chooses, without fine-tuning,
one singular point for the 4D cosmological constant. We argue
that some recently discovered {\it weak self-tuning} solutions can be viewed as
blowing-up this one point into a band of some parameter. These weak self-tuning
solutions may have a virtue that only de Sitter space solutions are allowed
outside this band, allowing an inflationary period. We adopt the hybrid
inflation at the brane to exit from this inflationary phase and to enter into
the standard Big Bang cosmology.Comment: LaTeX file of 20 pages including 2 eps figure
Local Hall effect in hybrid ferromagnetic/semiconductor devices
We have investigated the magnetoresistance of ferromagnet-semiconductor
devices in an InAs two-dimensional electron gas system in which the magnetic
field has a sinusoidal profile. The magnetoresistance of our device is large.
The longitudinal resistance has an additional contribution which is odd in
applied magnetic field. It becomes even negative at low temperature where the
transport is ballistic. Based on the numerical analysis, we confirmed that our
data can be explained in terms of the local Hall effect due to the profile of
negative and positive field regions. This device may be useful for future
spintronic applications.Comment: 4 pages with 4 fugures. Accepted for publication in Applied Physics
Letter
Vacuum as a less hostile environment to entanglement
We derive sufficient conditions for infinite-dimensional systems whose
entanglement is not completely lost in a finite time during its decoherence by
a passive interaction with local vacuum environments. The sufficient conditions
allow us to clarify a class of bipartite entangled states which preserve their
entanglement or, in other words, are tolerant against decoherence in a vacuum.
We also discuss such a class for entangled qubits.Comment: Replaced by the published versio
Brane gravity, massless bulk scalar and self-tuning of the cosmological constant
We show that a self-tuning mechanism of the cosmological constant could work
in 5D non-compact space-time with a symmetry in the presence of a
massless scalar field. The standard model matter fields live only on the 4D
brane. The change of vacuum energy on the brane (brane cosmological constant)
by, for instance, electroweak and QCD phase transitions, just gives rise to
dynamical shifts of the profiles of the background metric and the scalar field
in the extra dimension, keeping 4D space-time flat without any fine-tuning. To
avoid naked singularities in the bulk, the brane cosmological constant should
be negative. We introduce an additional brane-localized 4D Einstein-Hilbert
term so as to provide the observed 4D gravity with the non-compact extra
dimension. With a general form of brane-localized gravity term allowed by the
symmetries, the low energy Einstein gravity is successfully reproduced on the
brane at long distances. We show this phenomenon explicitly for the case of
vanishing bulk cosmological constant.Comment: 1+15 pages, no figure, Version to appear in PR
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