Evolution of Callosal and Cortical Lesions on MRI in Marchiafava-Bignami Disease

We report on serial MRI findings of cerebral lesions in a 55-year-old man with severe Marchiafava-Bignami disease (MBD). The first MRI change on fluid-attenuated inversion recovery images was hyperintensity in the genu of the corpus callosum and in the frontoparietal cortex. Following this change, a splenial lesion appeared. The first MRI change in the genu of the corpus callosum was not associated with a change in diffusion on diffusion-weighted MRI imaging, suggesting a pathological change involving vasogenic edema. Development of cortical lesions in the initial stage confirms that cortical lesions result from the primary pathogenetic process induced by alcoholic intoxication and malnutrition in MBD

Microscopic Evidence for Evolution of Superconductivity by Effective Carrier Doping in Boron-doped Diamond:11B-NMR study

We have investigated the superconductivity discovered in boron (B)-doped diamonds by means of 11B-NMR on heteroepitaxially grown (111) and (100) films. 11B-NMR spectra for all of the films are identified to arise from the substitutional B(1) site as single occupation and lower symmetric B(2) site substituted as boron+hydrogen(B+H) complex, respectively. A clear evidence is presented that the effective carriers introduced by B(1) substitution are responsible for the superconductivity, whereas the charge neutral B(2) sites does not offer the carriers effectively. The result is also corroborated by the density of states deduced by 1/T1T measurement, indicating that the evolution of superconductivity is driven by the effective carrier introduced by substitution at B(1) site.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. B (Brief report

Theoretical Analysis of the Reduction of Neel Temperature in La2_{2}(Cu1−x_{1-x}Zn(or Mg)x)_x)O4_{4}

Using Tyablikov's decoupling approximation, we calculate the initial suppression rate of the Neel temperature, $R_{IS}=-lim_{x-> 0} T^{-1}_{N} dT_{N}/dx$, in a quasi two-dimensional diluted Heisenberg antiferromagnet with nonmagnetic impurities of concentration $x$. In order to explain an experimental fact that $R^{(Zn)}_{IS}=3.4$ of the Zn-substitution is different from $R^{(Mg)}_{IS}=3.0$ of the Mg-substitution, we propose a model in which impurity substitution reduces the intra-plane exchange couplings surrounding impurities, as well as dilution of spin systems. The decrease of 12% in exchange coupling constants by Zn substitution and decrease of 6% by Mg substitution explain those two experimental results, when an appropriate value of the interplane coupling is used.Comment: 2 pages, 3 figure

Surface spin dynamics of antiferromagnetically coupled frustrated triangular films

Results are presented for spin-wave dispersions in geometrically frustrated stacked triangular antiferromagnets with a thin film or semi-infinite geometry having either zero, easy-plane, or easy-axis anisotropy. Surface effects on the equilibrium spin configurations and excitation spectrum are investigated for the case of antiferromagnetically coupled films, serving to extend previous results on ferromagnetically coupled layers [E. Meloche et al., Phys. Rev. B 74, 094424 (2006)]. An operator equation of motion formalism is applied to systems which are quasi-one and quasi-two dimensional in character. In contrast to the case of ferromagnetically coupled films the new results show surface modes that are well separated in frequency from bulk excitations. Magnetic excitations in thin films with an even or an odd number of layers show qualitatively different behavior. These results are relevant for a wide variety of stacked triangular antiferromagnetics materials.Comment: 24 pages, 9 figure

A Recursive Method of the Stochastic State Selection for Quantum Spin Systems

In this paper we propose the recursive stochastic state selection method, an extension of the recently developed stochastic state selection method in Monte Carlo calculations for quantum spin systems. In this recursive method we use intermediate states to define probability functions for stochastic state selections. Then we can diminish variances of samplings when we calculate expectation values of the powers of the Hamiltonian. In order to show the improvement we perform numerical calculations of the spin-1/2 anti-ferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice. Examining results on the ground state of the 21-site system we confide this method in its effectiveness. We also calculate the lowest and the excited energy eigenvalues as well as the static structure factor for the 36-site system. The maximum number of basis states kept in a computer memory for this system is about 3.6 x 10**7. Employing a translationally invariant initial trial state, we evaluate the lowest energy eigenvalue within 0.5 % of the statistical errors.Comment: 14 pages, 1 figur