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The long-lasting optical afterglow plateau of short burst GRB 130912A
The short burst GRB 130912A was detected by Swift, Fermi satellites and
several ground-based optical telescopes. Its X-ray light curve decayed with
time normally. The optical emission, however, displayed a long term plateau,
which is the longest one in current short GRB observations. In this work we
examine the physical origin of the X-ray and optical emission of this peculiar
event. We find that the canonical forward shock afterglow emission model can
account for the X-ray and optical data self-consistently and the energy
injection model that has been widely adopted to interpret the
shallowly-decaying afterglow emission is not needed. We also find that the
burst was born in a very-low density interstellar medium, consistent with the
compact object merger model. Significant fractions of the energy of the forward
shock have been given to accelerate the non-thermal electrons and amplify the
magnetic fields (i.e., and , respectively), which are much larger than those inferred in most short
burst afterglow modeling and can explain why the long-lasting optical afterglow
plateau is rare in short GRBs.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Giant mesoscopic spin Hall effect on surface of topological insulator
We study mesoscopic spin Hall effect on the surface of topological insulator
with a step-function potential. The giant spin polarization induced by a
transverse electric current is derived analytically by using McMillan method in
the ballistic transport limit, which oscillates across the potential boundary
with no confinement from the potential barrier due to the Klein paradox, and
should be observable in spin resolved scanning tunneling microscope.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Theory for charge and orbital density-wave states in manganite LaSrMnO
We investigate the high temperature phase of layered manganites, and
demonstrate that the charge-orbital phase transition without magnetic order in
LaSrMnO can be understood in terms of the density wave
instability. The orbital ordering is found to be induced by the nesting between
segments of Fermi surface with different orbital characters. The simultaneous
charge and orbital orderings are elaborated with a mean field theory. The
ordered orbitals are shown to be .Comment: published versio
Anderson Impurity in Helical Metal
We use a trial wave function to study the spin-1/2 Kondo effect of a helical
metal on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator. While the
impurity spin is quenched by conduction electrons, the spin-spin correlation of
the conduction electron and impurity is strongly anisotropic in both spin and
spatial spaces. As a result of strong spin-orbit coupling, the out-of-plane
component of the impurity spin is found to be fully screened by the orbital
angular momentum of the conduction electrons.Comment: The published versio
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