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Destruction of Neel order and appearance of superconductivity in electron-doped cuprates by oxygen annealing process
We use thermodynamic and neutron scattering measurements to study the effect
of oxygen annealing on the superconductivity and magnetism in
PrLaCeCuO. Although the transition temperature
measured by susceptibility and superconducting coherence length increase
smoothly with gradual oxygen removal from the annealing process, bulk
superconductivity, marked by a specific heat anomaly at and the presence
of a neutron magnetic resonance, only appears abruptly when is close to
the largest value. These results suggest that the effect of oxygen annealing
must be first determined in order to establish a Ce-doping dependence of
antiferromagnetism and superconductivity phase diagram for electron-doped
copper oxides.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted by Phys. Rev.
Direct and indirect lactate oxidation in trained and untrained men.
Lactate has been shown to be an important oxidative fuel. We aimed to quantify the total lactate oxidation rate (Rox) and its direct vs. indirect (glucose that is gluconeogenically derived from lactate and subsequently oxidized) components (mg·kg(-1)·min(-1)) during rest and exercise in humans. We also investigated the effects of endurance training, exercise intensity, and blood lactate concentration ([lactate]b) on direct and indirect lactate oxidation. Six untrained (UT) and six trained (T) men completed 60 min of constant load exercise at power outputs corresponding to their lactate threshold (LT). T subjects completed two additional 60-min sessions of constant load exercise at 10% below the LT workload (LT-10%), one of which included a lactate clamp (LC; LT-10%+LC). Rox was higher at LT in T [22.7 ± 2.9, 75% peak oxygen consumption (Vo2peak)] compared with UT (13.4 ± 2.5, 68% Vo2peak, P < 0.05). Increasing [lactate]b (LT-10%+LC, 67% Vo2peak) significantly increased lactate Rox (27.9 ± 3.0) compared with its corresponding LT-10% control (15.9 ± 2.2, P < 0.05). Direct and indirect Rox increased significantly from rest to exercise, and their relative partitioning remained constant in all trials but differed between T and UT: direct oxidation comprised 75% of total lactate oxidation in UT and 90% in T, suggesting the presence of training-induced adaptations. Partitioning of total carbohydrate (CHO) use showed that subjects derived one-third of CHO energy from blood lactate, and exogenous lactate infusion increased lactate oxidation significantly, causing a glycogen-sparing effect in exercising muscle
Pulsed THz radiation due to phonon-polariton effect in [110] ZnTe crystal
Pulsed terahertz (THz) radiation, generated through optical rectification
(OR) by exciting [110] ZnTe crystal with ultrafast optical pulses, typically
consists of only a few cycles of electromagnetic field oscillations with a
duration about a couple of picoseconds. However, it is possible, under
appropriate conditions, to generate a long damped oscillation tail (LDOT)
following the main cycles. The LDOT can last tens of picoseconds and its
Fourier transform shows a higher and narrower frequency peak than that of the
main pulse. We have demonstrated that the generation of the LDOT depends on
both the duration of the optical pulse and its central wavelength. Furthermore,
we have also performed theoretical calculations based upon the OR effect
coupled with the phonon-polariton mode of ZnTe and obtained theoretical THz
waveforms in good agreement with our experimental observation.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figure
Doping Dependence of Spin Dynamics in Electron-Doped Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2
The spin dynamics in single crystal, electron-doped Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 has been
investigated by inelastic neutron scattering over the full range from undoped
to the overdoped regime. We observe damped magnetic fluctuations in the normal
state of the optimally doped compound (x=0.06) that share a remarkable
similarity with those in the paramagnetic state of the parent compound (x=0).
In the overdoped superconducting compound (x=0.14), magnetic excitations show a
gap-like behavior, possibly related to a topological change in the hole Fermi
surface (Lifshitz transition), while the imaginary part of the spin
susceptibility prominently resembles that of the overdoped cuprates. For the
heavily overdoped, non-superconducting compound (x=0.24) the magnetic
scattering disappears, which could be attributed to the absence of a hole
Fermi-surface pocket observed by photoemission.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, published versio
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