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Bound-states and polarized charged zero modes in three-dimensional topological insulators induced by a magnetic vortex
By coating a three-dimensional topological insulator (TI) with a
ferromagnetic film supporting an in-plane magnetic vortex, one breaks the
time-reversal symmetry (TRS) without generating a mass gap. It rather yields
electronic states bound to the vortex center which have different probabilities
associated with each spin mode. In addition, its associate current (around the
vortex center) is partially polarized with an energy gap separating the most
excited bound state from the scattered ones. Charged zero-modes also appear as
fully polarized modes localized near the vortex center. From the magnetic point
of view, the observation of such a special current in a TI-magnet sandwich
comes about as an alternative technique for detecting magnetic vortices in
magnetic thin films.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, new version with more discussions and results
accepted for publication in The European Physical Journal
Imagining world citizenship in the networked newspaper: La Nación reports the assassination at Sarajevo, 1914
'This paper analyzes La Nación's reporting of the assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand in the week following the event. Analysis identifies the narrative components to these assassination stories, including geographical imaginaries and the places and networks of news production. Particular attention is paid to the mediatized ritual of mourning and succession that takes place in the capital cities with which La Nación's Buenos Aires readers are networked. Analysis is facilitated by some comparison with the coverage of the same event in The Los Angeles Times and The New Zealand Herald (Auckland). La Nación shared copy and sources with these and other newspapers, and printed similar stories about the assassination, but it cultivated its own local readership and its own ideas of citizenship in the wider world. Each editor imprinted his readers as moral citizens of the world, authorizing them to participate in the events as mourners, activists and compassionate observers, but also preconditioning the ways they can imagine assassination and the interactions of the diplomatic world. Analysis reveals expected roles in international affairs for citizens of world cities, which are conveyed as moral lessons and tales, wrapped in imagined communities stretching across the globe, but actualized locally.' (author's abstract
Remarks on Charged Vortices in the Maxwell-Chern-Simons Model
We study vortex-like configuration in Maxwell-Chern-Simons Electrodynamics.
Attention is paid to the similarity it shares with the Nielsen-Olesen solutions
at large distances. A magnetic symmetry between a point-like and an
azimuthal-like current in this framework is also pointed out. Furthermore, we
address the issue of a neutral and spinless particle interacting with a charged
vortex, and obtain that the Aharonov-Casher-type phase depends upon mass and
distance parameters.Comment: New refs. added. Version accepted for publication in Phys. Lett.
Further assembly work: A mountains to seas Blue Economy imaginary
In response to the suggestions of our commentators, we sketch in some new directions for geographic assembly work aimed at developing situated holistic Blue Economy imaginaries. We focus on several interlinked provocations: conceptualizing mountains to seas imaginaries, centring water, rethought relations of governmentality and governance derived from new ethically informed behaviours, strategies for transitioning conceptions into new policy models and attentiveness to global economic and environmental futures
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