151 research outputs found
Quantum, Multi-Body Effects and Nuclear Reaction Rates in Plasmas
Detailed calculations of the contribution from off-shell effects to the
quasiclassical tunneling of fusing particles are provided. It is shown that
these effects change the Gamow rates of certain nuclear reactions in dense
plasma by several orders of magnitude.Comment: 11 pages; change of content: added clarification of one of the
important steps in the derivatio
Tunable spin transport in CrAs: role of correlation effects
Correlation effects on the electronic structure of half-metallic CrAs in
zinc-blende structure are studied for different substrate lattice constants.
Depending on the substrate the spectral weight of the non-quasiparticle states
might be tuned from a well developed value in the case of InAs substrate to an
almost negligible contribution for the GaAs one. A piezoelectric material that
would allow the change in the substrate lattice parameters opens the
possibility for practical investigations of the switchable (tunable)
non-quasiparticle states. Since the latter are important for the tunneling
magnetoresistance and related phenomena it creates new opportunities in
spintronics.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. accepted PRB 71, 1 (2005
Temperature dependent spin susceptibility in a two-dimensional metal
We consider a two-dimensional electron system with Coulomb interaction
between particles at a finite temperature T. We show that the dynamic Kohn
anomaly in the response function at 2K_F leads to a linear-in-T correction to
the spin susceptibility, same as in systems with short-range interaction.
We show that the singularity of the Coulomb interaction at q=0 does not
invalidate the expansion in powers of r_s, but makes the expansion
non-analytic. We argue that the linear temperature dependence is consistent
with the general structure of Landau theory and can be viewed as originating
from the non-analytic component of the Landau function near the Fermi surface.Comment: 4 pages, no figure
Griffiths phase in diluted magnetic semiconductors
We study the effects of disorder in the vicinity of the ferromagnetic
transition in a diluted magnetic semiconductor in the strongly localized
regime. We derive an effective polaron Hamiltonian, which leads to the
Griffiths phase above the ferromagnetic transition point. The Griffiths-McCoy
effects yield non-perturbative contributions to the dynamic susceptibility. We
explicitly derive the long-time susceptibility, which has a pseudo-scaling
form, with the dynamic critical exponent being expressed through the
percolation indices.Comment: 4 pages, final version as publishe
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