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One-neutron knockout reaction of 17C on a hydrogen target at 70 MeV/nucleon
First experimental evidence of the population of the first 2- state in 16C
above the neutron threshold is obtained by neutron knockout from 17C on a
hydrogen target. The invariant mass method combined with in-beam gamma-ray
detection is used to locate the state at 5.45(1) MeV. Comparison of its
populating cross section and parallel momentum distribution with a Glauber
model calculation utilizing the shell-model spectroscopic factor confirms the
core-neutron removal nature of this state. Additionally, a previously known
unbound state at 6.11 MeV and a new state at 6.28(2) MeV are observed. The
position of the first 2- state, which belongs to a member of the lowest-lying
p-sd cross shell transition, is reasonably well described by the shell-model
calculation using the WBT interaction.Comment: 15 pages, 3 figure
Analysis on reflection spectra in strained ZnO thin films
Thin films of laser molecular-beam epitaxy grown ZnO films were studied with
respect to their optical properties. 4-K reflectivity was used to analyze
various samples grown at different biaxial in-plane strain. The spectra show
two structures at 3.37 eV corresponding to the A-free exciton transition and at
3.38 eV corresponding to the B-free exciton transition. Theoretical
reflectivity spectra were calculated using the spatial dispersion model. Thus,
the transverse energies, the longitudinal transversal splitting (ELT,), the
oscillator strengths, and the damping parameters were determined for both the
A- and B-free excitons of ZnO. As a rough trend, the strain dependence of the
energy E_LT for the A-excitons is characterized by a negatively-peaking
behavior with a minimum around the zero strain, while ELT for the B-excitons is
an increasing function of the strain field values.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, conference: ICMAT2005 (Singapore), to
appear in an issue of J. Cryst. Growt
NbSe3: Effect of Uniaxial Stress on the Threshold Field and Fermiology
We have measured the effect of uniaxial stress on the threshold field ET for
the motion of the upper CDW in NbSe3. ET exhibits a critical behavior, ET ~ (1
- e/ec)^g, wher e is the strain, and ec is about 2.6% and g ~ 1.2. This
ecpression remains valid over more than two decades of ET, up to the highest
fields of about 1.5keV/m. Neither g nor ec is very sensitive to the impurity
concentraction. The CDW transition temperature Tp decreases linearly with e at
a rate dTp/de = -10K/%, and it does not show any anomaly near ec. Shubnikov
de-Haas measurements show that the extremal area of the Fermi surface decreases
with increasing strain. The results suggest that there is an intimate
relationship between pinning of the upper CDW and the Fermiology of NbSe3.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Improvement of dielectric loss of doped Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3 thin films for tunable microwave devices
Al2O3-Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3 (Al2O3-BST) thin films, with different Al2O3 contents,
were deposited on (100) LaAlO3 substrate by pulsed laser deposition (PLD)
technique. The Al2O3-BST films was demosnstrated to be a suitable systems to
fabricate ferroelectric thin films with low dielectric loss and higher figure
of merit for tunable microwave devices. Pure BST thin films were also
fabricated for comparison purpose. The films' structure and morphology were
analyzed by X-ray diffractiopn and scanning electron microscopy, respectively;
nad showed that the surface roughness for the Al2O3-BST films increased with
the Al2O3 content. Apart from that, the broadening in the intensity peak in XRD
result indicating the grain size of the Al2O3-BST films reduced with the
increasing of Al2O3 dopant. We measured the dielctric properties of Al2O3-BST
films with a home-made non-destructive dual resonator method at frequency ~ 7.7
GHZ. The effect of doped Al2O3 into BST thin films significantly reduced the
dielectric constant, dielectric loss and tunability compare to pure BST thin
film. Our result shows the figure of merit (K), used to compare the films with
varied dielectric properties, increased with the Al2O3 content. Therefore
Al2O3-BST films show the potential to be exploited in tunable microwave
devices.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Accepted & tentatively for Feb 15 2004
issue, Journal of Applied Physic
The onset of the vortex-like Nernst signal above Tc in La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4 and Bi_2Sr_{2-y}La_yCuO_6
The diffusion of vortices down a thermal gradient produces a Josephson signal
which is detected as the vortex Nernst effect. In a recent report, Xu et al.,
Nature 406, 486 (2000), an enhanced Nernst signal identified with vortex-like
excitations was observed in a series of La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4 (LSCO) crystals at
temperatures 50-100 K above T_c. To pin down the onset temperature T_{\nu} of
the vortex-like signal in the lightly doped regime (0.03 < x < 0.07), we have
re-analyzed in detail the carrier contribution to the Nernst signal. By
supplementing new Nernst measurements with thermopower and Hall-angle data, we
isolate the off-diagonal Peltier conductivity \alpha_{xy} and show that its
profile provides an objective determination of T_{\nu}. With the new results,
we revise the phase diagram for the fluctuation regime in LSCO to accomodate
the lightly doped regime. In the cuprate Bi_2Sr_{2-y}La_yCuO_6, we find that
the carrier contribution is virtually negligible for y in the range 0.4-0.6.
The evidence for an extended temperature interval with vortex-like excitations
is even stronger in this system. Finally, we discuss how T_{\nu} relates to the
pseudogap temperature T* and the implications of strong fluctuations between
the pseudogap state and the d-wave superconducting state.Comment: 10 pages, 10 figure
Geometric Approach to Lyapunov Analysis in Hamiltonian Dynamics
As is widely recognized in Lyapunov analysis, linearized Hamilton's equations
of motion have two marginal directions for which the Lyapunov exponents vanish.
Those directions are the tangent one to a Hamiltonian flow and the gradient one
of the Hamiltonian function. To separate out these two directions and to apply
Lyapunov analysis effectively in directions for which Lyapunov exponents are
not trivial, a geometric method is proposed for natural Hamiltonian systems, in
particular. In this geometric method, Hamiltonian flows of a natural
Hamiltonian system are regarded as geodesic flows on the cotangent bundle of a
Riemannian manifold with a suitable metric. Stability/instability of the
geodesic flows is then analyzed by linearized equations of motion which are
related to the Jacobi equations on the Riemannian manifold. On some geometric
setting on the cotangent bundle, it is shown that along a geodesic flow in
question, there exist Lyapunov vectors such that two of them are in the two
marginal directions and the others orthogonal to the marginal directions. It is
also pointed out that Lyapunov vectors with such properties can not be obtained
in general by the usual method which uses linearized Hamilton's equations of
motion. Furthermore, it is observed from numerical calculation for a model
system that Lyapunov exponents calculated in both methods, geometric and usual,
coincide with each other, independently of the choice of the methods.Comment: 22 pages, 14 figures, REVTeX
Chemical Instability of the Cobalt Oxyhydrate Superconductor under Ambient Conditions
The layered sodium cobalt oxyhydrate superconductor Na0.3CoO2*1.4H2O is shown
through X-ray diffraction and thermogravimetric studies to be one of a series
of hydrated phases of Na0.3CoO2. Further, it is shown that the material is
exceptionally sensitive to both temperature and humidity near ambient
conditions, easily dehydrating to a non-superconducting lower hydrate. The
observation of this stable lower hydrate with c=13.8 angstroms implies that the
superconductivity turns on in this system between CoO2 layer spacings of 6.9
and 9.9 angstroms at nominally constant chemical doping.Comment: 10 pages and 4 figure
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