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Origins of ferromagnetism in transition-metal doped Si
We present results of the magnetic, structural and chemical characterizations of Mn<sup>+</sup>-implanted Si displaying <i>n</i>-type semiconducting behavior and ferromagnetic ordering with Curie temperature,T<sub>C</sub> well above room temperature. The temperature-dependent magnetization measured by superconducting quantum device interference (SQUID) from 5 K to 800 K was characterized by three different critical temperatures (T*<sub>C</sub>~45 K, T<sub>C1</sub>~630-650 K and T<sub>C2</sub>~805-825 K). Their origins were investigated using dynamic secondary mass ion spectroscopy (SIMS) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques, including electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), Z-contrast STEM (scanning TEM) imaging and electron diffraction. We provided direct evidences of the presence of a small amount of Fe and Cr impurities which were unintentionally doped into the samples together with the Mn<sup>+</sup> ions, as well as the formation of Mn-rich precipitates embedded in a Mn-poor matrix. The observed T*<sub>C</sub> is attributed to the Mn<sub>4</sub>Si<sub>7</sub> precipitates identified by electron diffraction. Possible origins of and are also discussed. Our findings raise questions regarding the origin of the high ferromagnetism reported in many material systems without a careful chemical analysis
Casimir effect of electromagnetic field in Randall-Sundrum spacetime
We study the finite temperature Casimir effect on a pair of parallel
perfectly conducting plates in Randall-Sundrum model without using scalar field
analogy. Two different ways of interpreting perfectly conducting conditions are
discussed. The conventional way that uses perfectly conducting condition
induced from 5D leads to three discrete mode corrections. This is very
different from the result obtained from imposing 4D perfectly conducting
conditions on the 4D massless and massive vector fields obtained by decomposing
the 5D electromagnetic field. The latter only contains two discrete mode
corrections, but it has a continuum mode correction that depends on the
thicknesses of the plates. It is shown that under both boundary conditions, the
corrections to the Casimir force make the Casimir force more attractive. The
correction under 4D perfectly conducting condition is always smaller than the
correction under the 5D induced perfectly conducting condition. These
statements are true at any temperature.Comment: 20 pages, 4 figure
Mode summation approach to Casimir effect between two objects
In this paper, we explore the TGTG formula from the perspective of mode
summation approach. Both scalar fields and electromagnetic fields are
considered. In this approach, one has to first solve the equation of motion to
find a wave basis for each object. The two T's in the TGTG formula are
T-matrices representing the Lippmann-Schwinger T-operators, one for each of the
objects. The two G's in the TGTG formula are the translation matrices, relating
the wave basis of an object to the wave basis of the other object. After
discussing the general theory, we apply the prescription to derive the explicit
formulas for the Casimir energies for the sphere-sphere, sphere-plane,
cylinder-cylinder and cylinder-plane interactions. First the T-matrices for a
plane, a sphere and a cylinder are derived for the following cases: the object
is imposed with general Robin boundary conditions; the object is
semitransparent; and the object is magnetodielectric. Then the operator
approach is used to derive the translation matrices. From these, the explicit
TGTG formula for each of the scenarios can be written down. Besides summarizing
all the TGTG formulas that have been derived so far, we also provide the TGTG
formulas for some scenarios that have not been considered before.Comment: 42 page
Pressure-Driven Filling of Closed-End Microchannel: Realization of Comb-Shaped Transducers for Acoustofluidics
We demonstrate the complete filling of both deionized water (DI water) and liquid metal (eutectic
gallium-indium, EGaIn) into closed-end microchannels driven by a constant pressure at the inlet. A mathematical
model based on gas diffusion through a porous polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) wall is developed
to unveil the physical mechanism in the filling process. The proposed theoretical analysis based on our
model agrees well with the experimental observations. We also successfully generate traveling surface
acoustic waves by actuating interdigitated microchannels filled with EGaIn. Our work provides significant
insights into the fabrication of liquid electrodes that can be used for various acustofluidics applicationsAustralian Research Council DE170100600National Natural Science Foundation of China Grants No. 11472094, No. 11772259, No. U1613227, No. B1703
The Casimir effect for parallel plates at finite temperature in the presence of one fractal extra compactified dimension
We discuss the Casimir effect for massless scalar fields subject to the
Dirichlet boundary conditions on the parallel plates at finite temperature in
the presence of one fractal extra compactified dimension. We obtain the Casimir
energy density with the help of the regularization of multiple zeta function
with one arbitrary exponent and further the renormalized Casimir energy density
involving the thermal corrections. It is found that when the temperature is
sufficiently high, the sign of the Casimir energy remains negative no matter
how great the scale dimension is within its allowed region. We derive
and calculate the Casimir force between the parallel plates affected by the
fractal additional compactified dimension and surrounding temperature. The
stronger thermal influence leads the force to be stronger. The nature of the
Casimir force keeps attractive.Comment: 14 pages, 2 figure
SIC~POVMs and Clifford groups in prime dimensions
We show that in prime dimensions not equal to three, each group covariant
symmetric informationally complete positive operator valued measure (SIC~POVM)
is covariant with respect to a unique Heisenberg--Weyl (HW) group. Moreover,
the symmetry group of the SIC~POVM is a subgroup of the Clifford group. Hence,
two SIC~POVMs covariant with respect to the HW group are unitarily or
antiunitarily equivalent if and only if they are on the same orbit of the
extended Clifford group. In dimension three, each group covariant SIC~POVM may
be covariant with respect to three or nine HW groups, and the symmetry group of
the SIC~POVM is a subgroup of at least one of the Clifford groups of these HW
groups respectively. There may exist two or three orbits of equivalent
SIC~POVMs for each group covariant SIC~POVM, depending on the order of its
symmetry group. We then establish a complete equivalence relation among group
covariant SIC~POVMs in dimension three, and classify inequivalent ones
according to the geometric phases associated with fiducial vectors. Finally, we
uncover additional SIC~POVMs by regrouping of the fiducial vectors from
different SIC~POVMs which may or may not be on the same orbit of the extended
Clifford group.Comment: 30 pages, 1 figure, section 4 revised and extended, published in J.
Phys. A: Math. Theor. 43, 305305 (2010
Novel Ferromagnetic Atom Waveguide with in situ loading
Magneto-optic and magnetostatic trapping is realized near a surface using
current carrying coils wrapped around magnetizable cores. A cloud of 10^7
Cesium atoms is created with currents less than 50 mA. Ramping up the current
while maintaining optical dissipation leads to tightly confined atom clouds
with an aspect ratio of 1:1000. We study the 3D character of the magnetic
potential and characterize atom number and density as a function of the applied
current. The field gradient in the transverse dimension has been varied from <
10 G/cm to > 1 kG/cm. By loading and cooling atoms in-situ, we have eliminated
the problem of coupling from a MOT into a smaller phase space.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Evidence for the Role of Instantons in Hadron Structure from Lattice QCD
Cooling is used as a filter on a set of gluon fields sampling the Wilson
action to selectively remove essentially all fluctuations of the gluon field
except for the instantons. The close agreement between quenched lattice QCD
results with cooled and uncooled configurations for vacuum correlation
functions of hadronic currents and for density-density correlation functions in
hadronic bound states provides strong evidence for the dominant role of
instantons in determining light hadron structure and quark propagation in the
QCD vacuum.Comment: 26 pages in REVTeX, plus 10 figures, uuencoded. Submitted to Physical
Review D. MIT-CTP-226
Axially symmetric rotating traversable wormholes
This paper generalizes the static and spherically symmetric traversable
wormhole geometry to a rotating axially symmetric one with a time-dependent
angular velocity by means of an exact solution. It was found that the violation
of the weak energy condition, although unavoidable, is considerably less severe
than in the static spherically symmetric case. The radial tidal constraint is
more easily met due to the rotation. Similar improvements are seen in one of
the lateral tidal constraints. The magnitude of the angular velocity may have
little effect on the weak energy condition violation for an axially symmetric
wormhole. For a spherically symmetric one, however, the violation becomes less
severe with increasing angular velocity. The time rate of change of the angular
velocity, on the other hand, was found to have no effect at all. Finally, the
angular velocity must depend only on the radial coordinate, confirming an
earlier result.Comment: 17 pages, AMSTe
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