Quasiparticle picture of high temperature superconductors in the frame of Fermi liquid with the fermion condensate

A model of a Fermi liquid with the fermion condensate (FC) is applied to the consideration of quasiparticle excitations in high temperature superconductors, in their superconducting and normal states. Within our model the appearance of the fermion condensate presents a quantum phase transition, that separates the regions of normal and strongly correlated electron liquids. Beyond the phase transition point the quasiparticle system is divided into two subsystems, one containing normal quasiparticles and the other --- fermion condensate localized at the Fermi surface and characterized by almost dispersionless single-particle excitations. In the superconducting state the quasiparticle dispersion in systems with FC can be presented by two straight lines, characterized by effective masses $M^*_{FC}$ and $M^*_L$, respectively, and intersecting near the binding energy which is of the order of the superconducting gap. This same quasiparticle picture persists in the normal state, thus manifesting itself over a wide range of temperatures as new energy scales. Arguments are presented that fermion systems with FC have features of a quantum protectorate.Comment: 12 pages, Late

Nanocarbons And Quantum Dots Formation In New Hybrid Materials

We present technique of obtaining complex hybrid structures combining the multi-walled carbon nanotubes or multi-layer graphene and luminescent hydrophobic semiconductor core/shell quantum dots CdSe/ZnS. As a result, a formation of quantum dot decorated carbon nanotubes and graphene films is evidenced by 2D microluminescence and micro-Raman mapping of quantum dots and nanocarbons, respectively, where a spatial correlation between the luminescence and Raman signals is found. © 2014 SPIE.912612-02-00938; RFBR; Russian Foundation for Basic Research; 12-02-01263; RFBR; Russian Foundation for Basic ResearchKalantar-Zadeh, K., (2008) Nanotechnology-Enabled Sensors, p. 490. , K. Kalantar-zadeh, B. Fry. New York.: Springer Science & Business Media(1955) Springer Handbook of Nanotechnology, , Ed. B. Bhusha.-New York.: Springer Science & Business Media, 2010, ISBN: 978-3-642-02524-2Cattanach, K., Kulkarni, R.D., Kozlov, M., Manohar, S.K., Flexible carbon nanotube sensors for nerve agent simulants (2006) Nanotechnology, 17, pp. 4123-4128Peng, S., O'Keeffe, J., Wei, C., Cho, K., Kong, J., Chen, R., Franklin, N., Dai, H., Carbon nanotube chemical and mechanical sensors (2001) Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, pp. 1-8. , USA, September 17-19, 2001, Stanford University, StanfordSnow, E.S., Perkins, F.K., Houser, E.H., Badescu, S.C., Reinecke, T.L., (2005) Science, 307, pp. 1942-1945. , Chemical detection with a single-walled carbon nanotube capacitorStar, A., Joshi, V., Skarupo, S., Thomas, D., Gabriel, J.-C.P., Gas sensor array based on metal-decorated carbon nanotubes (2006) J. Phys. Chem. B, 110, pp. 21014-21020Xu, Z., Gao, H., Guoxin, H., Solution-based synthesis and characterization of a silver nanoparticle-graphene hybrid film Carbon, 49 (14), pp. 4731-4738Cao, A., Liu, Z., Chu, S., Wu, M., Ye, Z., Cai, Z., Chang, Y., Liu, Y., A facile one-step method to produce graphene-cds quantum dot nanocomposites as promising optoelectronic materials (2010) Adv. Mater, 22, pp. 103-106Yang, Y.-K., He, Ch.-E., He, W.-J., Yu, L.-J., Peng, R.-G., Xie, X.-L., Wang, X.-B., Mai, Y.-W., Reduction of silver nanoparticles onto graphene oxide nanosheets with N,Ndimethylformamide and SERS activities of GO/Ag composites (2011) J Nanopart. Res, 13, pp. 5571-5581Lightcap, V., Kamat, P.V., Fortification of cdse quantum dots with graphene oxide. Excited state interactions and light energy conversion (2012) J. Am. Chem. Soc, 134, pp. 7109-7116Ghosh, A., Rao, K.V., Voggu, R., George, S.J., Non-covalent functionalization, solubilization of graphene and single-walled carbon nanotubes with aromatic donor and acceptor molecules (2010) Chemical Physics Letters, 488, pp. 198-201Kim, Y.-T., Han, J.H., Hong, B.H., Kwon, Y.-U., Electrochemical synthesis of cdse quantum-dot arrays on a graphene basal plane using mesoporous silica thin-film templates (2010) Adv. Mater, 22, pp. 515-518Konstantatos, G., Badioli, M., Gaudreau, L., Osmond, J., Bernechea, M., Arquer De Garcia, F.P., Gatti, F., Koppens, L.F.H., Hybrid graphene-quantum dot phototransistors with ultrahigh gain (2012) Nature Nanotechnology, 7, pp. 363-368Wang, Y., Yao, H.-B., Wang, X.-H., Yu, Sh.-H., One-pot facile decoration of CdSe quantum dots on graphene nanosheets: Novel graphene-CdSe nanocomposites with tunable fluorescent properties (2011) J. Mater. Chem, 21, pp. 562-566Murray, C.B., Gaschler, W., Sun, S., Doyle, H., Betley, T.A., Kagan, C.R., Colloidal synthesis of nanocrystals and nanocrystal superlattices IBM J. Res. & Dev., 45 (1), pp. 47-56Ermakov, V.A., Alaferdov, A.V., Vaz, A.R., Baranov, A.V., Moshkalev, S.A., Nonlocal laser annealing to improve thermal contacts between multi-layer graphene and metals (2013) Nanotechnology, 24 (15), p. 15530110Bogdanov, K., Fedorov, A., Osipov, V., Enoki, T., Takai, K., Hayashi, T., Ermakov, V., Moshkalev A, S., Annealing-induced structural changes of carbon onions: High-resolution transmission electron microscopy and Raman studies Baranov Carbon, , 02/201

Magnetic phases and reorientation transitions in antiferromagnetically coupled multilayers

In antiferromagnetically coupled superlattices grown on (001) faces of cubic substrates, e.g. based on materials combinations as Co/Cu, Fe/Si, Co/Cr, or Fe/Cr, the magnetic states evolve under competing influence of bilinear and biquadratic exchange interactions, surface-enhanced four-fold in-plane anisotropy, and specific finite-size effects. Using phenomenological (micromagnetic) theory, a comprehensive survey of the magnetic states and reorientation transitions has been carried out for multilayer systems with even number of ferromagnetic sub-layers and magnetizations in the plane. In two-layer systems (N=2) the phase diagrams in dependence on components of the applied field in the plane include ``swallow-tail'' type regions of (metastable) multistate co-existence and a number of continuous and discontinuous reorientation transitions induced by radial and transversal components of the applied field. In multilayers (N \ge 4) noncollinear states are spatially inhomogeneous with magnetization varying across the multilayer stack. For weak four-fold anisotropy the magnetic states under influence of an applied field evolve by a complex continuous reorientation into the saturated state. At higher anisotropy they transform into various inhomogeneous and asymmetric structures. The discontinuous transitions between the magnetic states in these two-layers and multilayers are characterized by broad ranges of multi-phase coexistence of the (metastable) states and give rise to specific transitional domain structures.Comment: Manuscript 34 pages, 14 figures; submitted for publicatio

Effects of exposure of rat erythrocytes to a hypogeomagnetic field

The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.Background:Hypomagnetic fields can disrupts the normal functioning of living organisms by a mechanism thought to involve oxidative stress. In erythrocytes, oxidative stress can inter alia lead to changes to hemoglobin content and to hemolysis. Objective:To study the effects of hypomagnetism on the state of rat erythrocytes in vitro. Methods:Rat erythrocytes were exposed to an attenuated magnetic field (AMF) or Earth’s magnetic field (EMF), in the presence of tert-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP) as inducer of oxidative stress. Determinations: total hemoglobin (and its three forms – oxyhemoglobin, methemoglobin, and hemichrome) released from erythrocytes, spectral data (500–700 nm); oxygen radical concentrations, electron paramagnetic resonance. Results:AMF and EMF exposed erythrocytes were compared. After 4 h incubation at high TBHP concentrations (>700 μM), AMF exposed erythrocytes released significantly more (p<0.05) hemoglobin (Hb), mostly as methemoglobin (metHb). Conversely, after 24 h incubation at low TBHP concentrations (⩽350 μM), EMF exposed erythrocytes released significantly more (p<0.001) hemoglobin, with metHb as a significant proportion of the total Hb. Erythrocytes exposed to AMF generated more radicals than those exposed to the EMF. Conclusion:Under particular conditions of oxidative stress, hypomagnetic fields can disrupt the functional state of erythrocytes and promote cell death; an additive effect is implicated

The relative error of calculations at the Pöschl-Teller model potential for the planar channeled muon

In the framework of quantum mechanics, we investigate muon channeling in the Si (200) crystal. The transverse energy levels and wave functions are obtained for the Pöschl-Teller and the Doyle-Turner potentials. Comparative analysis demonstrates that analytical results of calculations obtained on the base of the Pöschl-Teller potential are in a good agreement with the numerical results of calculations in the Doyle-Turner model for the low energy levels. These results for the muon with rest mass m[mu] and relativistic factor [gamma] are valid for any particle with elementary charge and rest mass m and relativistic factor [gamma][m]=[gamma](m[mu]/m). Therefore, our results can be useful for the preparation and performing the experimental investigation of the various phenomena accompanying particle channeling

From nonassociativity to solutions of the KP hierarchy

A recently observed relation between 'weakly nonassociative' algebras A (for which the associator (A,A^2,A) vanishes) and the KP hierarchy (with dependent variable in the middle nucleus A' of A) is recalled. For any such algebra there is a nonassociative hierarchy of ODEs, the solutions of which determine solutions of the KP hierarchy. In a special case, and with A' a matrix algebra, this becomes a matrix Riccati hierarchy which is easily solved. The matrix solution then leads to solutions of the scalar KP hierarchy. We discuss some classes of solutions obtained in this way.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, International Colloquium 'Integrable Systems and Quantum Symmetries', Prague, 15-17 June 200

Progress in 433 MHz RFQ technology at NPK LUTS NIIEFA

The paper is a survey of progress in 433 MHz RFQ technology at Production Complex of Linacs and Cyclotrons of D.V. Efremov Institute Sci. over past three years. RFQs and APF-cavities are designed as bases for ion accelerators for different applications. The use of 433 MHz frequency determines high requirements for RFQ manufacture facilities, which are discussed herein. The test experimental results of RFQ full-scale stands and high power rf testing data under beam load of 1 MeV on a deuteron RFQ made of chromium copper are presented.Приведен обзор работ по созданию ПОКФ на 433 МГц в НПК ЛУЦ НИИЭФА им. Д.В. Ефремова за последние три года. ПОКФ и ПФФ-резонаторы планируется использовать в качестве основных резонаторов ускорителей ионов для различных применений. Использование частоты 433 МГц определяет высокие требования для изготовления ПОКФ, которые обсуждены в статье. Представлены экспериментальные результаты тестирования полномасштабных стендов ПОКФ и данные испытаний резонатора из хромистой меди для ускорения дейтронов до энергии 1 МэВ при высоком уровне ВЧ-мощности и нагрузке пучком.Наведено огляд робіт зі створення ПОКФ на 433 МГц у НПК ЛУЦ НІІЕФА ім. Д.В. Єфремова за останні три роки. ПОКФ і ЗФФ-резонатори планується використати як основні резонатори прискорювачів іонів для різних застосувань. Використання частоти 433 МГц визначає високі вимоги для виготовлення ПОКФ, які обговорені в статті. Представлено експериментальні результати тестування повномасштабних стендів ПОКФ і дані випробувань резонатора із хромистої міді для прискорення дейтронів до енергії 1 МеВ при високому рівні ВЧ-потужності і навантаженню пучком

Narrowband Searches for Continuous and Long-duration Transient Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars in the LIGO-Virgo Third Observing Run

Isolated neutron stars that are asymmetric with respect to their spin axis are possible sources of detectable continuous gravitational waves. This paper presents a fully coherent search for such signals from eighteen pulsars in data from LIGO and Virgo's third observing run (O3). For known pulsars, efficient and sensitive matched-filter searches can be carried out if one assumes the gravitational radiation is phase-locked to the electromagnetic emission. In the search presented here, we relax this assumption and allow both the frequency and the time derivative of the frequency of the gravitational waves to vary in a small range around those inferred from electromagnetic observations. We find no evidence for continuous gravitational waves, and set upper limits on the strain amplitude for each target. These limits are more constraining for seven of the targets than the spin-down limit defined by ascribing all rotational energy loss to gravitational radiation. In an additional search, we look in O3 data for long-duration (hours-months) transient gravitational waves in the aftermath of pulsar glitches for six targets with a total of nine glitches. We report two marginal outliers from this search, but find no clear evidence for such emission either. The resulting duration-dependent strain upper limits do not surpass indirect energy constraints for any of these targets. © 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society