The antiferromagnetic transition of UPd2Al3 break-junctions: A new realization of N-shaped current-voltage characteristics

We have investigated metallic break junctions of the heavy-fermion compound UPd2Al3 at low temperatures between 0.1K and 9K and in magnetic fields up to 8T. Both the current-voltage I(V) characteristics and the dV/dI (V) spectra clearly showed the superconducting ($T_{\rm c}\simeq$ 1.8K) as well as the antiferromagnetic ($T_{\rm N}\simeq$14K) transition at low temperatures when the bias voltage is raised. The junctions with lateral size of order 200nm had huge critical current densities around $5\times 10^{10} A/m^2 at the antiferromagnetic transition and hysteretic I(V) characteristics. Degrading the quality of the contacts by in situ increasing the local residual resistivity reduced the hysteresis. We show that those hysteretic I(V) curves can be reproduced theoretically by assuming the constriction to be in the thermal regime. It turns out that these point contacts represent non-linear devices with N-shaped I(V) characteristics that have a negative differential resistance like an Esaki tunnel diode.Comment: 12 pages, 7 fig

Game Theoretical Power Control for Open-Loop Overlaid Network MIMO Systems with Partial Cooperation

Network MIMO is considered to be a key solution for the next generation wireless systems in breaking the interference bottleneck in cellular systems. In the MIMO systems, open-loop transmission scheme is used to support mobile stations (MSs) with high mobilities because the base stations (BSs) do not need to track the fast varying channel fading. In this paper, we consider an open-loop network MIMO system with $K$ BSs serving K private MSs and $M^c$ common MS based on a novel partial cooperation overlaying scheme. Exploiting the heterogeneous path gains between the private MSs and the common MSs, each of the $K$ BSs serves a private MS non-cooperatively and the $K$ BSs also serve the $M^c$ common MSs cooperatively. The proposed scheme does not require closed loop instantaneous channel state information feedback, which is highly desirable for high mobility users. Furthermore, we formulate the long-term distributive power allocation problem between the private MSs and the common MSs at each of the $K$ BSs using a partial cooperative game. We show that the long-term power allocation game has a unique Nash Equilibrium (NE) but standard best response update may not always converge to the NE. As a result, we propose a low-complexity distributive long-term power allocation algorithm which only relies on the local long-term channel statistics and has provable convergence property. Through numerical simulations, we show that the proposed open-loop SDMA scheme with long-term distributive power allocation can achieve significant performance advantages over the other reference baseline schemes.Comment: 18pages, 7 figures, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication, accepte

Stability of an active longitude of the giant PZ Mon

Analysis of photometric data of the active giant PZ Mon is presented. Using ASAS-3 project data and new more accurate photometry we establish that during 15 years of PZ Mon CCD observations the light curve remains stable, and consequently a longitude of the active spotted area is stable. The small deviations may be explained by differential rotation or inhomogeneous distribution of spots on the active hemisphere of PZ Mon. The stability of the active longitude and it's location on the PZ Mon surface indicates on the secondary component as reason of stellar activity.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, International Astronomy Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse

Haag's Theorem in the Theories with Non-physical Particles

Haag's theorem is extended to the case of regular representations of the canonical commutation relations in a non-degenerate indefinite inner product space

N Soliton Solutions to The Bogoyavlenskii-Schiff Equation and A Quest for The Soliton Solution in (3 + 1) Dimensions

We study the integrable systems in higher dimensions which can be written not by the Hirota's bilinear form but by the trilinear form. We explicitly discuss about the Bogoyavlenskii-Schiff(BS) equation in (2 + 1) dimensions. Its analytical proof of multi soliton solution and a new feature are given. Being guided by the strong symmetry, we also propose a new equation in (3 + 1) dimensions.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures([email protected]), uses ioplppt.st

Cosmological models with the spinor and non-minimally interacting scalar field

The solution to the current extending Universe problem, and the description of all stages of evolution compels scientists to consider various cosmological models. Scalar - tensor models are rather simple and also allow us to clearly define the separate stages of evolution. Furthermore, other cosmological models are reduced. Our work takes into consideration the non-minimally interacted scalar field and the spinor field. The spinor field has been considered to establish a better understanding of the stages of evolution in our Universe.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures, to appear Modern Physics Letters

Haag's theorem in S O (1, k) invariant quantum field theory

Generalized Haag's theorem has been proved in S O (1, k) invariant quantum field theory. Apart from the above mentioned k+1 variables there can be arbitrary number of additional coordinates including noncommutative ones in the theory. New consequences of generalized Haag's theorem are obtained. It has been proved that the equality of four-point Wightman functions in two theories leads to the equality of elastic scattering amplitudes and thus the total cross-sections in these theories. In space-space noncommutative quantum field theory in four-dimensional case it has been proved that if in one of the theories under consideration S-matrix is equal to unity, then in another theory S-matrix is unity as well.Comment: 5 pages, based on the talk given at the XVIth International Seminar on High Energy Physics QUARKS'2010, Kolomna, Russia, 6-12 June, 2010 and the XIXth International Workshop on High Energy Physics and Quantum Field Theory, Golitsyno, Moscow, Russia, 8-15 September 201

Accelerating and decelerating cosmology from spinor and scalar fields non-minimally coupled with f(R) gravity

In this paper we investigate the accelerating and decelerating cosmological models with non-linear spinor fields and non-minimal interaction of $f(R)$ gravity with a scalar field. We combine two different approaches to the description of dark energy: modified gravity theory and introduction of the additional fields. Solutions for the FRW universe with power-law scale factor are reconstructed for the model under consideration with specific choice for scalar and spinor potentials. It is explained the role of scalar and spinor potentials as well as f(R) function for emergence of accelerating or decelerating cosmology.Comment: 5 pages, to appear in Astro. Space Sc

Superconducting single-photon detector made of MoSi film

We fabricated and characterised nanowire superconducting single-photon detectors (SSPDs) made of 4 nm thick amorphous Mo$_x$Si$_{1-x}$ films. At 1.7 K the best devices exhibit a detection efficiency up to 18% at 1.2 um wavelength of unpolarised light, a characteristic response time of about 6 ns and timing jitter of 120 ps. The detection efficiency was studied in wavelength range from 650 nm to 2500 nm. At wavelengths below 1200 nm these detectors reach their maximum detection efficiency limited by photon absorption in the thin MoSi film

Electron loss from hydrogen-like highly charged ions in collisions with electrons, protons and light atoms

We study electron loss from a hydrogen-like highly charged ion by the impact of equivelocity electrons and protons and also in collisions with hydrogen and helium. The collision velocity $v$ varies between $v_{min}$ and $v_{max}$, where $v_{min}$ and $v_{max}$ correspond to the energy threshold $\varepsilon_{th}$ for electron loss in collisions with a free electron and to $\approx 5 \, \varepsilon_{th}$, respectively. Our results show that in this range of $v$: i) compared to equivelocity electrons protons are more effective in inducing electron loss (due to a substantially larger volume of the effectively available final-state electron momentum space), ii) the relative (compared to protons) effectiveness of electron projectiles grows with increase in the atomic number of a highly charged ion, iii) a substantial part of the volume of the final-state-electron momentum space, kinematically available in collisions with electrons, is weaker populated in collisions with protons than with electrons, iv) even when the total loss cross sections in collisions with electrons and protons become already equal the spectra of the outgoing electrons still remain quite different in almost the entire volume of the final-state-electron momentum space. The points i) and iii), in particular, mean that in collisions with hydrogen target the contributions to the loss process from the interactions with the nucleus and the electron(s) of the atom would be to a large extent separated in the final-state-electron momentum space.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figure