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Distinct behaviors of suppression to superconductivity in induced by Fe and Co dopants
In the superconductor LaRuSi with the Kagome lattice of Ru, we have
successfully doped the Ru with Fe and Co atoms. Contrasting behaviors of
suppression to superconductivity is discovered between the Fe and the Co
dopants: Fe-impurities can suppress the superconductivity completely at a
doping level of only 3%, while the superconductivity is suppressed slowly with
the Co dopants. A systematic magnetization measurements indicate that the doped
Fe impurities lead to spin-polarized electrons yielding magnetic moments with
the magnitude of 1.6 \ per Fe, while the electrons given by the Co
dopants have the same density of states for spin-up and spin-down leading to
much weaker magnetic moments. It is the strong local magnetic moments given by
the Fe-dopants that suppress the superconductivity. The band structure
calculation further supports this conclusion.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figure
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Calcineurin B-Like Proteins CBL4 and CBL10 Mediate Two Independent Salt Tolerance Pathways in Arabidopsis.
In Arabidopsis, the salt overly sensitive (SOS) pathway, consisting of calcineurin B-like protein 4 (CBL4/SOS3), CBL-interacting protein kinase 24 (CIPK24/SOS2) and SOS1, has been well defined as a crucial mechanism to control cellular ion homoeostasis by extruding Na+ to the extracellular space, thus conferring salt tolerance in plants. CBL10 also plays a critical role in salt tolerance possibly by the activation of Na+ compartmentation into the vacuole. However, the functional relationship of the SOS and CBL10-regulated processes remains unclear. Here, we analyzed the genetic interaction between CBL4 and CBL10 and found that the cbl4 cbl10 double mutant was dramatically more sensitive to salt as compared to the cbl4 and cbl10 single mutants, suggesting that CBL4 and CBL10 each directs a different salt-tolerance pathway. Furthermore, the cbl4 cbl10 and cipk24 cbl10 double mutants were more sensitive than the cipk24 single mutant, suggesting that CBL10 directs a process involving CIPK24 and other partners different from the SOS pathway. Although the cbl4 cbl10, cipk24 cbl10, and sos1 cbl10 double mutants showed comparable salt-sensitive phenotype to sos1 at the whole plant level, they all accumulated much lower Na+ as compared to sos1 under high salt conditions, suggesting that CBL10 regulates additional unknown transport processes that play distinct roles from the SOS1 in Na+ homeostasis
Physical properties of noncentrosymmetric superconductor RuB
Transition metal boride RuB was found to be a noncentrosymmetric
superconductor with equal to 3.3 K. Superconducting and normal state
properties of RuB were determined by a self-consistent analysis through
resistivity( and ), specific heat, lower critical field
measurement and electronic band structure calculation. It is found that
RuB belongs to an s-wave dominated single band superconductor with
energy gap 0.5 meV and could be categorized into type II superconductor with
weak electron-phonon coupling. Unusual 'kink' feature is clearly observed in
field-broadening resistivity curves, suggesting the possible mixture of spin
triplet induced by the lattice without inversion symmetry.Comment: 11 pages, 16 figures. submitted to Phys. Rev.
Bis(μ-adamantane-1,3-dicarboxylato-κ4 O 1,O 1′:O 3,O 3′)bis[aqua(3-carboxyadamantane-1-carboxylato-κO 1)(1,10-phenanthroline-κ2 N,N′)erbium(III)] dihydrate
The asymmetric unit of the binuclear centrosymmetric title compound, [Er2(C12H14O4)2(C12H15O4)2(C12H8N2)2(H2O)2]·2H2O, contains one ErIII atom, one coordinated water molecule, one 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) ligand, two differently coordinated adamantane-1,3-dicarboxylate (H2L) ligands and one lattice water molecule. The ErIII ion is eight-coordinated by four O atoms from bridging L
2−, one O atom from HL
−, one O atom from the coordinated water and two N atoms from a phen ligand. Extensive O—H⋯O hydrogen-bonding interactions result in the formation of chains which are further linked into a layer-like network by π–π stacking interactions centroid–centroid distance = 3.611 (3) Å] between adjacent phen ligands belonging to neighbouring chains. The carboxy group of the HL
− ligand is equally disordered over two positions
Evidence for Two Gaps and Breakdown of the Uemura Plot in BaKFeAs Single Crystals
We report a detailed investigation on the lower critical field of
the superconducting BaKFeAs (FeAs-122) single crystals.
A pronounced kink is observed on the curve, which is attributed to
the existence of two superconducting gaps. By fitting the data to
the two-gap BCS model in full temperature region, a small gap of
meV and a large gap of meV
are obtained. The in-plane penetration depth is estimated to
be 105 nm corresponding to a rather large superfluid density, which points to
the breakdown of the Uemura plot in FeAs-122 superconductors.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
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