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Shearing stability of lubricants
Shearing stabilities of lubricating oils containing a high mol. wt. polymer as a viscosity index improver were studied by use of ultrasound. The oils were degraded by cavitation and the degradation generally followed first order kinetics with the rate of degradation increasing with the intensity of the ultrasonic irradiation and the cumulative energy applied. The shear stability was mainly affected by the mol. wt. of the polymer additive and could be determined in a short time by mechanical shearing with ultrasound
Suppressed Coherence due to Orbital Correlations in the Ferromagnetically Ordered Metallic Phase of Mn Compounds
Small Drude weight together with small specific heat coefficient
observed in the ferromagnetic phase of RAMnO (R=La, Pr, Nd, Sm;
A=Ca, Sr, Ba) are analyzed in terms of a proximity effect of the Mott
insulator. The scaling theory for the metal-insulator transition with the
critical enhancement of orbital correlations toward the staggered ordering of
two orbitals such as and symmetries may lead to the
critical exponents of and with
and . The result agrees with the experimental indications.Comment: 4 pages LaTeX using jpsj.sty. To appear in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn.
67(1998)No.
Ultrafast Photoinduced Formation of Metallic State in a Perovskite-type Manganite with Short Range Charge and Orbital Order
Femtosecond reflection spectroscopy was performed on a perovskite-type
manganite, Gd0.55Sr0.45MnO3, with the short-range charge and orbital order
(CO/OO). Immediately after the photoirradiation, a large increase of the
reflectivity was detected in the mid-infrared region. The optical conductivity
spectrum under photoirradiation obtained from the Kramers-Kronig analyses of
the reflectivity changes demonstrates a formation of a metallic state. This
suggests that ferromagnetic spin arrangements occur within the time resolution
(ca. 200 fs) through the double exchange interaction, resulting in an ultrafast
CO/OO to FM switching.Comment: 4 figure
Half-magnetization plateaux in Cr spinels
Magnetization plateaux, visible as anomalies in magnetic susceptibility at
low temperatures, are one of the hallmarks of frustrated magnetism. An
extremely robust half-magnetization plateau is observed in the spinel oxides
CdCr2O4 and HgCr2O4, where it is accompanied by a substantial lattice
distortion. We give an overview of the present state experiment for CdCr2O4 and
HgCr2O4, and show how such a half-magnetization plateau arises quite naturally
in a simple model of these systems, once coupling to the lattice is taken into
account.Comment: 8 pages latex using IOP macros, from review talk given at RHMF 2006
(Sendai
Josephson current in unconventional superconductors through an Anderson impurity
Josephson current for a system consisting of an Anderson impurity weakly
coupled to two unconventional superconductors is studied and shown to be driven
by a surface zero energy (mid-gap) bound-state. The repulsive Coulomb
interaction in the dot can turn a junction into a 0-junction. This effect
is more pronounced in p-wave superconductors while in high-temperature
superconductors with symmetry it can exit for rather large
artificial centers at which tunneling occurs within a finite region.Comment: 4 pages 3.eps figure
The Development of Low Activation Ferritic Steels for Fusion Application
The development of low-activation ferritic/martensitic steels is a key to the achievement of nuclear fusion as a safe, environmentally attractive and economically competitive energy source. The Japanese and the European Fusion Materials programs have put low-activation ferritic and martensitic steels R & D at the highest priority for a demonstration reactor (DEMO) and the beyond. An international collaborative test program on low-activation ferritic/martensitic steels for fusion is in progress as an activity of the International Energy Agency (IEA) fusion materials working group to verify the feasibility of using ferritic/martensitic steels for fusion by an extensive test program covering the most relevant technical issues for the qualification of a material for a nuclear application. The development of a comprehensive data base on the representative industrially processed reduced-activation steels of type 8-9Cr-2WVTa is underway for providing designers a preliminary set of material data for the mechanical design of components, e.g. for DEMO relevant blanket modules. The current design status of FFHR and SSTR utilizing low-activation ferritic steels is reviewed and future prospects are defined
The calpastatin-derived calpain inhibitor CP1B reduces mRNA expression of matrix metalloproteinase-2 and-9 and invasion by leukemic THP-1 cells
The ubiquitous proteases μ- and m-calpain are Ca2+-dependent cysteine endopeptidases. Besides involvement in a variety of physio(patho)logical processes, recent studies suggest a pivotal role of calpains in differentiation of hematopoietic cells and tumor cell invasion. However, the precise actions of calpains and their endogenous inhibitor, calpastatin, in these processes are only partially understood. Here we have studied the role of the calpain/calpastatin system in the invasion of leukemic cells under basal and differentiationstimulating conditions. To further differentiate the human leukaemic cell line THP-1 (monocytic), the cells were treated for 24 hours with the differentiationstimulating reagents phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). Macrophage and granulocytelike differentiation was confirmed by induction of vimentin expression as well as by microscopic and fluorescence assisted cytometric analysis. Extracellular matrix (ECM) invasion of both the basal and differentiation stimulated cells in a Matrigel assay was inhibited by preincubation of the cells with the specific calpain inhibitor CP1B for 24 hours. Inhibition of invasiveness correlated with decreased mRNA expression and secretion of the matrix metalloproteinases MMP-2 and MMP-9. In contrast, addition of CP1B only during the invasion process did neither influence transmigration nor MMP release. This is the first report showing that the calpain/calpastatin system mediates MMPmRNA expression of the leukemic THP-1 cells and as a consequence their invasiveness
Variational Monte Carlo Study of the Kondo Necklace Model with Geometrical Frustration
We investigate the ground state of the Kondo necklace model on
geometrically-frustrated lattices by the variational Monte Carlo simulation. To
explore the possibility of a partially-ordered phase, we employ an extension of
the Yosida-type wave function as a variational state, which can describe a
coexistence of spin-singlet formation due to the Kondo coupling and magnetic
ordering by the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida interaction. We show the
benchmark of the numerical simulation to demonstrate the high precision brought
by the optimization of a large number of variational parameters. We discuss the
ground-state phase diagram for the model on the kagome lattice in comparison
with that for the triangular-lattice case.Comment: 3 pages, proceedings for ICHE201
Phase Diagram of Lattice-Spin System RbCoBr
We study the lattice-spin model of RbCoBr which is proposed by Shirahata
and Nakamura, by mean field approximation. This model is an Ising spin system
on a distorted triangular lattice. There are two kinds of frustrated variables,
that is, the lattice and spin. We obtain a phase diagram of which phase
boundary is drawn continuously in a whole region. Intermediate phases that
include a partial disordered state appear. The model has the first-order phase
transitions in addition to the second-order phase transitions. We find a
three-sublattice ferrimagnetic state in the phase diagram. The three-sublattice
ferrimagnetic state does not appear when the lattice is not distorted.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, jpsj2.cls, to be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn.
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