528 research outputs found
Quasiparticles as composite objects in the RVB superconductor
We study the nature of the superconducting state, the origin of d-wave
pairing, and elementary excitations of a resonating valence bond (RVB)
superconductor. We show that the phase string formulation of the t-J model
leads to confinement of bare spinon and holon excitations in the
superconducting state, though the vacuum is described by the RVB state. Nodal
quasiparticles are obtained as composite excitations of spinon and holon
excitations. The d-wave pairing symmetry is shown to arise from short range
antiferromagnetic correlations
Spectral function of the electron in a superconducting RVB state
We present a model calculation of the spectral function of an electron in a
superconducting resonating valence bond (RVB) state. The RVB state, described
by the phase-string mean field theory is characterized by three important
features: (i) spin-charge separation, (ii) short range antiferromagnetic
correlations, and (iii) holon condensation. The results of our calculation are
in good agreement with data obtained from Angle Resolved Photoemission
Spectroscopy (ARPES) in superconducting Bi 2212 at optimal doping
concentration.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Spin-charge separation in the single hole doped Mott antiferromagnet
The motion of a single hole in a Mott antiferromagnet is investigated based
on the t-J model. An exact expression of the energy spectrum is obtained, in
which the irreparable phase string effect [Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 5102 (1996)] is
explicitly present. By identifying the phase string effect with spin backflow,
we point out that spin-charge separation must exist in such a system: the doped
hole has to decay into a neutral spinon and a spinless holon, together with the
phase string. We show that while the spinon remains coherent, the holon motion
is deterred by the phase string, resulting in its localization in space. We
calculate the electron spectral function which explains the line shape of the
spectral function as well as the ``quasiparticle'' spectrum observed in
angle-resolved photoemission experiments. Other analytic and numerical
approaches are discussed based on the present framework.Comment: 16 pages, 9 figures; references updated; to appear in Phys. Rev.
Ginzburg-Landau Expansion in Non-Fermi Liquid Superconductors: Effect of the Mass Renormalization Factor
We reconsider the Ginzburg-Landau expansion for the case of a non-Fermi
liquid superconductor. We obtain analytical results for the Ginzburg-Landau
functional in the critical region around the superconducting phase transition,
T <= T_c, in two special limits of the model, i.e., the spin-charge separation
case and the anomalous Fermi liquid case. For both cases, in the presence of a
mass renormalization factor, we derived the form and the specific dependence of
the coherence length, penetration depth, specific heat jump at the critical
point, and the magnetic upper critical field. For both limits the obtained
results reduce to the usual BCS results for a two dimensional s-wave
superconductor. We compare our results with recent and relevant theoretical
work. The results for a d--wave symmetry order parameter do not change
qualitatively the results presented in this paper. Only numerical factors
appear additionally in our expressions.Comment: accepted for publication in Physical Review
Relativistic Random-Phase Approximation with density-dependent meson-nucleon couplings
The matrix equations of the relativistic random-phase approximation (RRPA)
are derived for an effective Lagrangian characterized by density-dependent
meson-nucleon vertex functions. The explicit density dependence of the
meson-nucleon couplings introduces rearrangement terms in the residual two-body
interaction, that are essential for a quantitative description of excited
states. Illustrative calculations of the isoscalar monopole, isovector dipole
and isoscalar quadrupole response of Pb, are performed in the fully
self-consistent RRPA framework, based on effective interactions with a
phenomenological density dependence adjusted to nuclear matter and ground-state
properties of spherical nuclei. The comparison of the RRPA results on multipole
giant resonances with experimental data constrains the parameters that
characterize the isoscalar and isovector channel of the density-dependent
effective interactions.Comment: RevTeX, 8 eps figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Spectral hardness evolution characteristics of tracking Gamma-ray Burst pulses
Employing a sample presented by Kaneko et al. (2006) and Kocevski et al.
(2003), we select 42 individual tracking pulses (here we defined tracking as
the cases in which the hardness follows the same pattern as the flux or count
rate time profile) within 36 Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) containing 527
time-resolved spectra and investigate the spectral hardness, (where
is the maximum of the spectrum), evolutionary
characteristics. The evolution of these pulses follow soft-to-hard-to-soft (the
phase of soft-to-hard and hard-to-soft are denoted by rise phase and decay
phase, respectively) with time. It is found that the overall characteristics of
of our selected sample are: 1) the evolution in the rise
phase always start on the high state (the values of are always
higher than 50 keV); 2) the spectra of rise phase clearly start at higher
energy (the median of are about 300 keV), whereas the spectra of
decay phase end at much lower energy (the median of are about 200
keV); 3) the spectra of rise phase are harder than that of the decay phase and
the duration of rise phase are much shorter than that of decay phase as well.
In other words, for a complete pulse the initial is higher than the
final and the duration of initial phase (rise phase) are much
shorter than the final phase (decay phase). This results are in good agreement
with the predictions of Lu et al. (2007) and current popular view on the
production of GRBs. We argue that the spectral evolution of tracking pulses may
be relate to both of kinematic and dynamic process even if we currently can not
provide further evidences to distinguish which one is dominant. Moreover, our
statistical results give some witnesses to constrain the current GRB model.Comment: 32 pages, 26 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in New
Astronom
Spin-Charge Separation in the Model: Magnetic and Transport Anomalies
A real spin-charge separation scheme is found based on a saddle-point state
of the model. In the one-dimensional (1D) case, such a saddle-point
reproduces the correct asymptotic correlations at the strong-coupling
fixed-point of the model. In the two-dimensional (2D) case, the transverse
gauge field confining spinon and holon is shown to be gapped at {\em finite
doping} so that a spin-charge deconfinement is obtained for its first time in
2D. The gap in the gauge fluctuation disappears at half-filling limit, where a
long-range antiferromagnetic order is recovered at zero temperature and spinons
become confined. The most interesting features of spin dynamics and transport
are exhibited at finite doping where exotic {\em residual} couplings between
spin and charge degrees of freedom lead to systematic anomalies with regard to
a Fermi-liquid system. In spin dynamics, a commensurate antiferromagnetic
fluctuation with a small, doping-dependent energy scale is found, which is
characterized in momentum space by a Gaussian peak at (, ) with
a doping-dependent width (, is the doping
concentration). This commensurate magnetic fluctuation contributes a
non-Korringa behavior for the NMR spin-lattice relaxation rate. There also
exits a characteristic temperature scale below which a pseudogap behavior
appears in the spin dynamics. Furthermore, an incommensurate magnetic
fluctuation is also obtained at a {\em finite} energy regime. In transport, a
strong short-range phase interference leads to an effective holon Lagrangian
which can give rise to a series of interesting phenomena including linear-
resistivity and Hall-angle. We discuss the striking similarities of these
theoretical features with those found in the high- cuprates and give aComment: 70 pages, RevTex, hard copies of 7 figures available upon request;
minor revisions in the text and references have been made; To be published in
July 1 issue of Phys. Rev. B52, (1995
Multipartite Entanglement and Quantum State Exchange
We investigate multipartite entanglement in relation to the theoretical
process of quantum state exchange. In particular, we consider such entanglement
for a certain pure state involving two groups of N trapped atoms. The state,
which can be produced via quantum state exchange, is analogous to the
steady-state intracavity state of the subthreshold optical nondegenerate
parametric amplifier. We show that, first, it possesses some 2N-way
entanglement. Second, we place a lower bound on the amount of such entanglement
in the state using a novel measure called the entanglement of minimum bipartite
entropy.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure
Spatial distribution of photoelectrons participating in formation of x-ray absorption spectra
Interpretation of x-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) experiments is
often done via analyzing the role of particular atoms in the formation of
specific peaks in the calculated spectrum. Typically, this is achieved by
calculating the spectrum for a series of trial structures where various atoms
are moved and/or removed. A more quantitative approach is presented here, based
on comparing the probabilities that a XANES photoelectron of a given energy can
be found near particular atoms. Such a photoelectron probability density can be
consistently defined as a sum over squares of wave functions which describe
participating photoelectron diffraction processes, weighted by their normalized
cross sections. A fine structure in the energy dependence of these
probabilities can be extracted and compared to XANES spectrum. As an
illustration of this novel technique, we analyze the photoelectron probability
density at the Ti K pre-edge of TiS2 and at the Ti K-edge of rutile TiO2.Comment: Journal abstract available on-line at
http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v65/e20511
Measurement of the Intrinsic Radiopurity of Cs-137/U-235/U-238/Th-232 in CsI(Tl) Crystal Scintillators
The inorganic crystal scintillator CsI(Tl) has been used for low energy
neutrino and Dark Matter experiments, where the intrinsic radiopurity is an
issue of major importance. Low-background data were taken with a CsI(Tl)
crystal array at the Kuo-Sheng Reactor Neutrino Laboratory. The pulse shape
discrimination capabilities of the crystal, as well as the temporal and spatial
correlations of the events, provide powerful means of measuring the intrinsic
radiopurity of Cs-137 as well as the U-235, U-238 and Th-232 series. The event
selection algorithms are described, with which the decay half-lives of Po-218,
Po-214, Rn-220, Po-216 and Po-212 were derived. The measurements of the
contamination levels, their concentration gradients with the crystal growth
axis, and the uniformity among different crystal samples, are reported. The
radiopurity in the U-238 and Th-232 series are comparable to those of the best
reported in other crystal scintillators. Significant improvements in
measurement sensitivities were achieved, similar to those from dedicated
massive liquid scintillator detector. This analysis also provides in situ
measurements of the detector performance parameters, such as spatial
resolution, quenching factors, and data acquisition dead time.Comment: 28 pages, 12 figure
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