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Carrier concentrations in Bi_{2}Sr_{2-z}La_{z}CuO_{6+\delta} single crystals and their relation to Hall coefficient and thermopower
We measured the thermopower S and the Hall coefficients R_H of
Bi_{2}Sr_{2-z}La_{z}CuO_{6+\delta} (BSLCO) single crystals in a wide doping
range, in an effort to identify the actual hole concentrations per Cu, p, in
this system. It is found that the "universal" relation between the
room-temperature thermopower and T_c does not hold in the BSLCO system.
Instead, comparison of the temperature-dependent R_H data with other cuprate
systems is used as a tool to identify the actual p value. To justify this
approach, we compare normalized R_H(T) data of BSLCO, La_{2-x}Sr_{x}CuO_{4}
(LSCO), YBa_{2}Cu_{3}O_{y}, and Tl_{2}Ba_{2}CuO_{6+\delta}, and demonstrate
that the R_H(T) data of the LSCO system can be used as a template for the
estimation of p. The resulting phase diagram of p vs T_c for BSLCO suggests
that T_c is anomalously suppressed in the underdoped samples, becoming zero at
around p ~ 0.10, while the optimum T_c is achieved at p ~ 0.16 as expected.Comment: 4 pages including 5 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
B, Rapid Communication
Zn-doping effect on the magnetotransport properties of Bi_{2}Sr_{2-x}La_{x}CuO_{6+\delta} single crystals
We report the magnetotransport properties of
Bi_{2}Sr_{2-x}La_{x}Cu_{1-z}Zn_{z}O_{6+\delta} (Zn-doped BSLCO) single crystals
with z of up to 2.2%. Besides the typical Zn-doping effects on the in-plane
resistivity and the Hall angle, we demonstrate that the nature of the
low-temperature normal state in the Zn-doped samples is significantly altered
from that in the pristine samples under high magnetic fields. In particular, we
observe nearly-isotropic negative magnetoresistance as well as an increase in
the Hall coefficient at very low temperatures in non-superconducting Zn-doped
samples, which we propose to be caused by the Kondo scattering from the local
moments induced by Zn impurities.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, final version (one reference added), published in
Phys. Rev.
A Monopole Instanton-Like Effect in the ABJM Model
Making use of ansatzs for the form fields in the 10d type IIA supergravity
version of the ABJM model, we come with a solution in the Euclidean signature
recognized as a monopole instanton-like object. Indeed we will see that we can
have a (anti) self-dual solution at a special limit. While as a topological
object, its back-reaction on the original background should be ignorable, we
show the energy-momentum tensors vanish exactly. On the field theory side, the
best counterpart is an U(1) gauge field of a gauge transformation. To adjust
with bulk, the gauge field must prompt to a dynamic one without adding any
kinetic term for this dual photon except a marginal, abelian AB-type
Chern-Simons term on the boundary. We will see how both side solutions match
next to another confirmation from some earlier works of this vortex-particle
duality.Comment: 15 pages, minor changes of some formulas, few typos fixed, and a
reference adde
correlations from the stopped reaction on He
We have investigated correlations of coincident pairs from the
stopped reaction on He, and clearly observed and
branches of the two-nucleon absorption process in the
invariant mass spectra. In addition, non-mesonic reaction channels, which
indicate possible exotic signals for the formation of strange multibaryon
states, have been identified.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Physical Review Letter
Central Charges in Extreme Black Hole/CFT Correspondence
The Kerr/CFT correspondence has been recently broadened to the general
extremal black holes under the assumption that the central charges from the
non-gravitational fields vanish. To confirm this proposal, we derive the
expression of the conserved charges in the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory with
topological terms in four and five dimensions and check that the above
assumption was correct. Combining the computed central charge with the expected
form of the temperature, the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of the general extremal
black holes in four and five dimensions can be reproduced by using the Cardy
formula.Comment: 20 pages, v2:references added, published in JHE
Higher Derivative Corrections to R-charged Black Holes: Boundary Counterterms and the Mass-Charge Relation
We carry out the holographic renormalization of Einstein-Maxwell theory with
curvature-squared corrections. In particular, we demonstrate how to construct
the generalized Gibbons-Hawking surface term needed to ensure a perturbatively
well-defined variational principle. This treatment ensures the absence of ghost
degrees of freedom at the linearized perturbative order in the
higher-derivative corrections. We use the holographically renormalized action
to study the thermodynamics of R-charged black holes with higher derivatives
and to investigate their mass to charge ratio in the extremal limit. In five
dimensions, there seems to be a connection between the sign of the higher
derivative couplings required to satisfy the weak gravity conjecture and that
violating the shear viscosity to entropy bound. This is in turn related to
possible constraints on the central charges of the dual CFT, in particular to
the sign of c-a.Comment: 30 pages. v2: references added, some equations simplifie
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