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Shot noise in magnetic tunnel junctions from first principles
We compute the shot noise in ballistic and disordered Fe/MgO/Fe tunnel
junctions by a wave function-matching method. For tunnel barriers with no more
than 5 atomic layers we find a suppression of the Fano factor as a function of
the magnetic configuration. For thicker MgO barriers the shot noise is
suppressed up to a threshold bias indicating the onset of resonant tunneling.
We find excellent agreement with recent experiments when interface disorder is
taken into accountComment: 5 pages,5 figure
Decoherence of coupled electron spins via nuclear spin dynamics in quantum dots
In double quantum dots, the exchange interaction between two electron spins
renormalizes the excitation energy of pair-flips in the nuclear spin bath,
which in turn modifies the non-Markovian bath dynamics. As the energy
renormalization varies with the Overhauser field mismatch between the quantum
dots, the electron singlet-triplet decoherence resulting from the bath dynamics
depends on sampling of nuclear spin states from an ensemble, leading to the
transition from exponential decoherence in single-sample dynamics to power-law
decay under ensemble averaging. In contrast, the decoherence of a single
electron spin in one dot is essentially the same for different choices of the
nuclear spin configuration.Comment: 4 pages 3 figure
Spontaneous Crystallization of Skyrmions and Fractional Vortices in the Fast-rotating and Rapidly-quenched Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Condensates
We investigate the spontaneous generation of crystallized topological defects
via the combining effects of fast rotation and rapid thermal quench on the
spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates. By solving the stochastic projected
Gross-Pitaevskii equation, we show that, when the system reaches equilibrium, a
hexagonal lattice of skyrmions, and a square lattice of half-quantized vortices
can be formed in a ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic spinor BEC, respetively,
which can be imaged by using the polarization-dependent phase-contrast method
A New Treatment of 2N and 3N Bound States in Three Dimensions
The direct treatment of the Faddeev equation for the three-boson system in 3
dimensions is generalized to nucleons. The one Faddeev equation for identical
bosons is replaced by a strictly finite set of coupled equations for scalar
functions which depend only on 3 variables. The spin-momentum dependence
occurring as scalar products in 2N and 3N forces accompanied by scalar
functions is supplemented by a corresponding expansion of the Faddeev
amplitudes. After removing the spin degrees of freedom by suitable operations
only scalar expressions depending on momenta remain. The corresponding steps
are performed for the deuteron leading to two coupled equations.Comment: 19 page
Metamaterials: optical activity without chirality
We report that the classical phenomenon of optical activity, which is traditionally associated with chirality (helicity) of organic molecules, proteins, and inorganic structures, can be observed in artificial planar media which exhibit neither 3D nor 2D chirality. We observe the effect in the microwave and optical parts of the spectrum at oblique incidence to regular arrays of nonchiral subwavelength metamolecules in the form of strong circular dichroism and birefringence indistinguishable from those of chiral three-dimensional media
Half-metallic ferromagnetism and structural stability of zincblende phases of the transition-metal chalcogenides
An accurate density-functional method is used to study systematically
half-metallic ferromagnetism and stability of zincblende phases of
3d-transition-metal chalcogenides. The zincblende CrTe, CrSe, and VTe phases
are found to be excellent half-metallic ferromagnets with large half-metallic
gaps (up to 0.88 eV). They are mechanically stable and approximately 0.31-0.53
eV per formula unit higher in total energy than the corresponding
nickel-arsenide ground-state phases, and therefore would be grown epitaxially
in the form of films and layers thick enough for spintronic applications.Comment: 4 pages with 4 figures include
On the Causality and Stability of the Relativistic Diffusion Equation
This paper examines the mathematical properties of the relativistic diffusion
equation. The peculiar solution which Hiscock and Lindblom identified as an
instability is shown to emerge from an ill-posed initial value problem. These
do not meet the mathematical conditions required for realistic physical
problems and can not serve as an argument against the relativistic
hydrodynamics of Landau and Lifshitz.Comment: 6 page
Two-temperature coronal flow above a thin disk
We extended the disk corona model (Meyer & Meyer-Hofmeister 1994; Meyer, Liu,
& Meyer-Hofmeister 2000a) to the inner region of galactic nuclei by including
different temperatures in ions and electrons as well as Compton cooling. We
found that the mass evaporation rate and hence the fraction of accretion energy
released in the corona depend strongly on the rate of incoming mass flow from
outer edge of the disk, a larger rate leading to more Compton cooling, less
efficient evaporation and a weaker corona. We also found a strong dependence on
the viscosity, higher viscosity leading to an enhanced mass flow in the corona
and therefore more evaporation of gas from the disk below. If we take accretion
rates in units of the Eddington rate our results become independent on the mass
of the central black hole. The model predicts weaker contributions to the hard
X-rays for objects with higher accretion rate like narrow-line Seyfert 1
galaxies (NLS1s), in agreement with observations. For luminous active galactic
nuclei (AGN) strong Compton cooling in the innermost corona is so efficient
that a large amount of additional heating is required to maintain the corona
above the thin disk.Comment: 17 pages, 6 figures. ApJ accepte
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