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Frustration-induced valence bond crystal and its melting in Mo3Sb7
121/123Sb nuclear quadrupole resonance and muon spin relaxation experiments
of Mo3Sb7 revealed symmetry breakdown to a nonmagnetic state below the
transition recently found at TS=50 K. The transition is characterized by a
distinct lattice dynamics suggested from narrowing of nuclear fields. We point
out that the Mo sublatice is a unique three-dimensional frustrated lattice
where nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor antiferromagnetic interactions
compete, and propose that tetragonal distortion to release the frustration
stabilizes long-range order of spin-singlet dimers, i.e., valence bond crystal,
which is thermally excited to the dynamic state with cubic symmetry.Comment: 4 pages. submitte
Pressure Study of Superconducting Oxypnictide LaFePO
Electrical resistivity and magnetic susceptibility measurements under high
pressure were performed on an iron-based superconductor LaFePO. A steep
increase in superconducting transition temperature (Tc) of LaFePO with dTc/dP >
4 K/GPa to a maximum of 8.8 K for P = 0.8 GPa was observed. These results are
similar to isocrystalline LaFeAsO1-xFx system reported previously. X-ray
diffraction measurements were also performed under high pressure up to 10 GPa,
where linear compressibility ka and kc are presented.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figure
BCS-like Bogoliubov Quasiparticles in High-Tc Superconductors Observed by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy
We performed high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy on
triple-layered high-Tc cuprate Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3O10+delta. We have observed the full
energy dispersion (electron and hole branches) of Bogoliubov quasiparticles and
determined the coherence factors above and below EF as a function of momentum
from the spectral intensity as well as from the energy dispersion based on BCS
theory. The good quantitative agreement between the experiment and the
theoretical prediction suggests the basic validity of BCS formalism in
describing the superconducting state of cuprates.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
The BAT-Swift Science Software
The BAT instrument tells the Swift satellite where to point to make immediate
follow-up observations of GRBs. The science software on board must efficiently
process gamma-ray events coming in at up to 34 kHz, identify rate increases
that could be due to GRBs while disregarding those from known sources, and
produce images to accurately and rapidly locate new Gamma-ray sources.Comment: 4 pages, no figures, to appear in Santa Fe proceedings "Gamma-Ray
Bursts: 30 Years of Discovery", Fenimore and Galassi (eds), AIP, 200
First order transition from correlated electron semiconductor to ferromagnetic metal in single crystalline FeSi1-xGex
The phase diagram of FeSi1-xGex, obtained from magnetic, thermal and
transport measurements on single crystals, shows a first-order transition from
a correlated electron semiconductor to a ferromagnetic metal at a critical
concentration, x ~ 0.25. The gap of the insulating phase strongly decreases
with x. The specific heat coefficient appears to track the density of states of
a Kondo insulator. The phase diagram is consistent with a correlation induced
insulator-metal transition in conjunction with disorder on the Si/Ge ligand
site
Thermal and Dynamical Properties of the Two-band Hubbard Model Compared with FeSi
We study the two-band Hubbard model introduced by Fu and Doniach as a model
for FeSi which is suggested to be a Kondo insulator. Using the self-consistent
second-order perturbation theory combined with the local approximation which
becomes exact in the limit of infinite dimensions, we calculate the specific
heat, the spin susceptibility and the dynamical conductivity and point out that
the reduction of the energy gap due to correlation is not significant in
contrast to the previous calculation. It is also demonstrated that the gap at
low temperatures in the optical conductivity is filled up at a rather low
temperature than the gap size, which is consistent with the experiment.Comment: 6 pages, LaTeX, 7 PS figures included, uses RevTe
Existence of Saturated Ferromagnetic and Spiral States in 1D Lieb-Ferrimagnetic Models away from Half-Filling
In order to study conditions for the appearance of ferromagnetism in a wide
filling region, we investigate numerically three types of one-dimensional
Lieb-ferrimagnetic Hubbard models: a periodic diamond (PD) chain, a periodic
alternately-attached leg (PAAL) chain and an open diamond (OD) chain. All of
these models have a flat band (or equivalently, degenerate single-electron
eigenvalues). The PD and OD chains commonly have a local-loop structure.
Nagaoka's theorem holds only in the PD chain. At half-filling, it have been
rigorously proven that all of these models are ferrimagnet. Away from
half-filling, however, quite different magnetic properties are found. In the
fillings 1/3< rho_e <1/2, the ground state of the PD chain for a
infinitely-large U is the extended ferromagnetic state, that is, the saturated
ferromagnetic state or the spiral state for odd or even number of electrons,
respectively. In the PAAL chain, on the other hand, there is no magnetic order.
Thus, the flat band is found to be not a sufficient condition of the extended
ferromagnetic state. We find, moreover, that the saturated ferromagnetism
appears in the OD chain, although the Nagaoka theorem does not hold on this
chain. This indicates that the local-loop structure plays an important role on
the appearance of the extended ferromagnetic state.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables. to be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn.
Vol. 68 No.
Inclusive pion double charge exchange on O-16 above the delta resonance
The forward inclusive pion double charge exchange reaction,
^{16}O(pi^-,pi^+)X, at T_0 = 0.50 and 0.75 GeV has been studied in the
kinematical region where an additional pion production is forbidden by
energy-momentum conservation. The experiment was performed with the SKS
spectrometer at KEK PS. The measured ratio of double charge exchange
cross-section for these energies dsigma(0.50 GeV)/dOmega / dsigma(0.75
GeV)/dOmega = 1.7 +/- 0.2, disagrees with the value of 7.2 predicted within the
conventional sequential single charge exchange mechanism. Possible reasons for
the disagreement are discussed in connection with the Glauber inelastic
rescatterings.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Spectroscopic Study of As and La NMR on Layered Structure Ferromagnet LaCoAsO
As and La field-swept NMR spectra were obtained for the novel
weakly itinerant ferromagnet LaCoAsO with 2D layered structure above the Curie
temperature of 55 K. By analyzing NMR spectra, temperature dependences of
Knight shift and nuclear quadrupole resonance frequency were
obtained successfully for each nucleus. We confirmed from the so-called
- plots that the macroscopic magnetization of our {LaCoAsO} powder
sample is intrinsic and does not contain the contribution from impurity phases.
We estimated hyperfine coupling constants from the slope of - plots
and compared to that of iron-arsenide superconductor.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, published on J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. at Vol.79,
pp.054703 (2010)
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