Comparative study of excitonic structures and luminescence properties of Bi4Ge3O12 and Bi12GeO20

Published in physica status solidi (b), Vol. 245, No. 12, pp2733-2736, 2008.Bi12GeO20 crystals have been performed, in addition to relativistic molecular orbital calculations. Both materials consist of the same elements but form different crystal structures. Based on the obtained results, the excitonic reflection structures and luminescence properties of Bi4Ge3O12 and Bi12GeO20 are discussed in comparison with each other.Bookphysica status solidi (b). 245(12):2733-2736 (2008)journal articl

Resonance Patterns of an Antidot Cluster: From Classical to Quantum Ballistics

We explain the experimentally observed Aharonov-Bohm (AB) resonance patterns of an antidot cluster by means of quantum and classical simulations and Feynman path integral theory. We demonstrate that the observed behavior of the AB period signals the crossover from a low B regime which can be understood in terms of electrons following classical orbits to an inherently quantum high B regime where this classical picture and semiclassical theories based on it do not apply.Comment: 5 pages revtex + 2 postscript figure

Counterintuitive transitions in the multistate Landau-Zener problem with linear level crossings

We generalize the Brundobler-Elser hypothesis in the multistate Landau-Zener problem to the case when instead of a state with the highest slope of the diabatic energy level there is a band of states with an arbitrary number of parallel levels having the same slope. We argue that the probabilities of counterintuitive transitions among such states are exactly zero.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figure

SYNTHESIS OF UK-3A ANALOGUE AND ASSAY ON P 388 MURINE LEUKEMIA CELLS

UK-3A is secondary metabolite of Streptomyces sp.517-02 which has IC50 38 µg/mL against P388 Murine Leukemia cells. An analogue of UK-3A was synthesized from L-methyl serine as the starting material by amidation and esterification. An analogue UK-3A was analyzed and identified by TLC, FT-IR, LC-MS and NMR spectrometer. It was found to have IC50 15.4µg/mL against the same Leukemia cells. The overall yield was 87.10%.   Keywords: UK-3A, Streptomyces sp. 517-02, Anticancer, P388 Murine Leukeumia cel

Specific Heat of the 2D Hubbard Model

Quantum Monte Carlo results for the specific heat c of the two dimensional Hubbard model are presented. At half-filling it was observed that $c \sim T^2$ at very low temperatures. Two distinct features were also identified: a low temperature peak related to the spin degrees of freedom and a higher temperature broad peak related to the charge degrees of freedom. Away from half-filling the spin induced feature slowly disappears as a function of hole doping while the charge feature moves to lower temperature. A comparison with experimental results for the high temperature cuprates is discussed.Comment: 6 pages, RevTex, 11 figures embedded in the text, Submitted to Phys. Rev.

Cyclization of a carbon-centered radical derived from oxaziridine cleavage

Treatment of an oxaziridine with low-valent iron or copper salts generates a carbon-centered radical able to cyclize onto an appended olefin

Few-electron molecular states and their transitions in a single InAs quantum dot molecule

We study electronic configurations in a single pair of vertically coupled self-assembled InAs quantum dots, holding just a few electrons. By comparing the experimental data of non-linear single-electron transport spectra in a magnetic field with many-body calculations, we identify the spin and orbital configurations to confirm the formation of molecular states by filling both the quantum mechanically coupled symmetric and anti-symmetric states. Filling of the anti-symmetric states is less favored with increasing magnetic field, and this leads to various magnetic field induced transitions in the molecular states.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Let

Synthesis of p- and n-type Gels Doped with Ionic Charge Carriers

In this study, we synthesized the new kinds of semiconducting polymeric gels having negative (n-type) and positive (p-type) counter ions as charge carriers. The polyacrylamide gel was doped with pyranine (8-hydroxypyrene-1,3,6-trisulfonic acid, trisodium salt), havingions as side groups and Na+ as counter ions, so-called p-type semiconducting gel. The doping process was performed during the polymerization where the pyranine binds to the polymer strands over OH group chemically via radical addition. In a similar way, N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPA) gel was doped with methacrylamidopropyltrimethyl ammonium chloride (MAPTAC), having Cl− as counter ions, so-called n-type semiconducting gel. Here MAPTAC was embedded by copolymerization within the polymer network (NIPA). These semiconducting gels can show different electrical properties by changing the concentration of the doping agents, swelling ratio etc. We have shown that the pn junction, formed by combining p-type and n-type gels together in close contact, rectifies the current similar to the conventional Si and Ge diodes

Charge Excitations in Doped Mott Insulator in One Dimension

The doped Mott insulator in one dimension has been studied based on the phase Hamiltonian with the Umklapp scattering process, in which the charge degree of freedom is described by the quantum sine-Gordon model. The well-known equivalence between the quantum sine-Gordon model and the massive Thirring model for the spinless fermion makes it clear that the Mott-Hubbard gap originates from the Umklapp scattering process as was indicated by Emery and Giamarchi. Compressibility, density-density correlation function, frequency dependence of optical conductivity and Drude weight have been calculated in the presence of the impurity scattering treated in the self-consistent Born approximation. It is seen that there exists a crossover behavior in the spectral weight of charge excitations: the acoustic mode is dominant in small wave number region while the optical excitations across the Mott-Hubbard gap lie in large wave number region and that this crossover wave number is reduced as the Mott transition is approached.Comment: We revised our previous manuscript. 17 pages and 11 figures, to be published in Journal of the Physical Society of Japan Vol.65 No.1

Perturbation study on the spin and charge susceptibilities of the two-dimensional Hubbard model

We investigate the spin and charge susceptibilities of the two-dimensional Hubbard model based upon the perturbative calculation in the strength of correlation $U$. For $U$ comparable to a bare bandwidth, the charge susceptibility decreases near the half-filling as hole-doping approaches zero. This behavior suggesting the precursor of the Mott-Hubbard gap formation cannot be obtained without the vertex corrections beyond the random phase approximation. In the low-temperature region, the spin susceptibility deviates from the Curie-Weiss-like law and finally turns to decrease with the decrease of temperature. This spin-gap-like behavior is originating from the van Hove singularity in the density of states.Comment: Revtex file + 11 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.