521 research outputs found
Dynamical charge susceptibility in layered cuprates: the influence of screened inter-site Coulomb repulsion
The analytical expression for dynamical charge susceptibility in layered
cuprates has been derived in the frame of singlet-correlated band model beyond
random-phase-approximation (RPA) scheme. Our calculations performed near
optimal doping regime show that there is a peak in real part of the charge
susceptibility at {\bf Q} = (, ) at strong
enough inter-site Coulomb repulsion. Together with the strong maximum in the Im
at 15 meV it confirms the formation of low-energetic
plasmons or charge fluctuations. This provides a jsutification that these
excitations are important and together with a spin flcutuations can contribute
to the Cooper pairing in layered cuprates. Analysing the charge susceptibilitiy
with respect to an instability we obtain a new plasmon branch, , along the Brillouin Zone. In particular, we have found that it goes to
zero near {\bf Q}
Gap Structure of the Spin-Triplet Superconductor Sr2RuO4 Determined from the Field-Orientation Dependence of Specific Heat
We report the field-orientation dependent specific heat of the spin-triplet
superconductor Sr2RuO4 under the magnetic field aligned parallel to the RuO2
planes with high accuracy. Below about 0.3 K, striking 4-fold oscillations of
the density of states reflecting the superconducting gap structure have been
resolved for the first time. We also obtained strong evidence of multi-band
superconductivity and concluded that the superconducting gap in the active
band, responsible for the superconducting instability, is modulated with a
minimum along the [100] direction.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Orbital ordering in charge transfer insulators
We discuss a new mechanism of orbital ordering, which in charge transfer
insulators is more important than the usual exchange interactions and which can
make the very type of the ground state of a charge transfer insulator, i.e. its
orbital and magnetic ordering, different from that of a Mott-Hubbard insulator.
This purely electronic mechanism allows us to explain why orbitals in
Jahn-Teller materials typically order at higher temperatures than spins, and to
understand the type of orbital ordering in a number of materials, e.g.
K_2CuF_4, without invoking the electron-lattice interaction.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Electronic theory for itinerant in-plane magnetic fluctuations in NaCoO
Starting from {\it ab-initio} band structure for NaCoO, we derive the
single-electron energies and the effective tight-binding description for the
bands using a projection procedure. We find that due to the presence
of the next-nearest-neighbor hoppings a local minimum in the electronic
dispersion close to the point of the first Brillouin zone forms.
Therefore, in addition to a large Fermi surface an electron pocket close to the
point emerges at high doping concentrations. The latter yields the new
scattering channel resulting in a peak structure of the itinerant magnetic
susceptibility at small momenta. This indicates itinerant in-plane
ferromagnetic state above certain critical concentration , in agreement
with neutron scattering data. Below the magnetic susceptibility shows a
tendency towards the antiferromagnetic fluctuations. We estimate the value of
within the rigid band model and within the Hubbard model
with infinite on-site Coulomb repulsion consistent with the experimental phase
diagram.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures; LDA calculations were done with Na in the
symmetric 2d position contrary to the 6h position in a previous version of
this pape
Simulations of electromagnetic effects in high frequency capacitively coupled discharges using the Darwin approximation
The Darwin approximation is investigated for its possible use in simulation
of electromagnetic effects in large size, high frequency capacitively coupled
discharges. The approximation is utilized within the framework of two different
fluid models which are applied to typical cases showing pronounced standing
wave and skin effects. With the first model it is demonstrated that Darwin
approximation is valid for treatment of such effects in the range of parameters
under consideration. The second approach, a reduced nonlinear Darwin
approximation-based model, shows that the electromagnetic phenomena persist in
a more realistic setting. The Darwin approximation offers a simple and
efficient way of carrying out electromagnetic simulations as it removes the
Courant condition plaguing explicit electromagnetic algorithms and can be
implemented as a straightforward modification of electrostatic algorithms. The
algorithm described here avoids iterative schemes needed for the divergence
cleaning and represents a fast and efficient solver, which can be used in fluid
and kinetic models for self-consistent description of technical plasmas
exhibiting certain electromagnetic activity
Single vortex structure in two models of iron pnictide superconductivity
The structure of a single vortex in a FeAs superconductor is studied in the
framework of two formulations of superconductivity for the recently proposed
sign-reversed wave () scenario: {\it (i)} a continuum model taking
into account the existence of an electron and a hole band with a repulsive
local interaction between the two; {\it (ii)} a lattice tight-binding model
with two orbitals per unit cell and a next-nearest-neighbour attractive
interaction. In the first model, the local density of states (LDOS) at the
vortex centre, as a function of energy, exhibits a peak at the Fermi level,
while in the second model such LDOS peak is deviated from the Fermi level and
its energy depends on band filling. An impurity located outside the vortex core
has little effect on the LDOS peak, but an impurity close to the vortex core
can almost suppress it and modify its position.Comment: 17 pages, 15 figures. Accepted for publication in New Journal of
Physic
Two-dimensional incommensurate magnetic fluctuations in Sr(RuTi)O
We investigate the imaginary part of the wave vector dependent dynamic spin
susceptibility in Sr(RuTi)O as a function of
temperature using neutron scattering. At T=5 K, two-dimensional incommensurate
(IC) magnetic fluctuations are clearly observed around
up to approximately 60 meV energy transfer.
We find that the IC excitations disperse to ridges around the
point. Below 50 K, the energy and temperature dependent excitations are well
described by the phenomenological response function for a Fermi liquid system
with a characteristic energy of 4.0(1) meV. Although the wave vector dependence
of the IC magnetic fluctuations in Sr(RuTi)O is
similar to that in the Fermi liquid state of the parent compound,
SrRuO, the magnetic fluctuations are clearly suppressed by the
Ti-doping.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Unrestricted Hartree-Fock Analysis of SrCaRuO
We investigated the electronic and magnetic structure of
SrCaRuO () on the basis of the
double-layered three-dimensional multiband Hubbard model with spin-orbit
interaction. In our model, lattice distortion is implemented as the modulation
of transfer integrals or a crystal field. The most stable states are estimated
within the unrestricted Hartree-Fock approximation, in which the colinear spin
configurations with five different spin-quantization axes are adopted as
candidates. The obtained spin structures for some particular lattice
distortions are consistent with the neutron diffraction results for
CaRuO. Also, some magnetic phase transitions can occur due to
changes in lattice distortion. These results facilitate the comprehensive
understanding of the phase diagram of SrCaRuO.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figure
Theory for phonon-induced superconductivity in MgB
We analyze superonductivity in MgB observed below K resulting
from electron-phonon coupling involving a mode at meV and
most importantly the in-plane B-B vibration at
meV. The quasiparticles originating from - and -states couple
strongly to the low-frequency mode and the -vibrations respectively.
Using two-band Eliashberg theory, and , we calculate the gap functions (,
).
Our results provide an explanation of recent tunneling experiments.
We get .Comment: revised version, accepted for publication in PR
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