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Focusing RKKY interaction by graphene P-N junction
The carrier-mediated RKKY interaction between local spins plays an important
role for the application of magnetically doped graphene in spintronics and
quantum computation. Previous studies largely concentrate on the influence of
electronic states of uniform systems on the RKKY interaction. Here we reveal a
very different way to manipulate the RKKY interaction by showing that the
anomalous focusing - a well-known electron optics phenomenon in graphene P-N
junctions - can be utilized to refocus the massless Dirac electrons emanating
from one local spin to the other local spin. This gives rise to rich spatial
interference patterns and symmetry-protected non-oscillatory RKKY interaction
with a strongly enhanced magnitude. It may provide a new way to engineer the
long-range spin-spin interaction in graphene.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figure
Superfluid and magnetic states of an ultracold Bose gas with synthetic three-dimensional spin-orbit coupling in an optical lattice
We study ultracold bosonic atoms with the synthetic three-dimensional
spin-orbit (SO) coupling in a cubic optical lattice. In the superfluidity
phase, the lowest energy band exhibits one, two or four pairs of degenerate
single-particle ground states depending on the SO-coupling strengths, which can
give rise to the condensate states with spin-stripes for the weak atomic
interactions. In the deep Mott-insulator regime, the effective spin Hamiltonian
of the system combines three-dimensional Heisenberg exchange interactions,
anisotropy interactions and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions. Based on Monte
Carlo simulations, we numerically demonstrate that the resulting Hamiltonian
with an additional Zeeman field has a rich phase diagram with spiral, stripe,
vortex crystal, and especially Skyrmion crystal spin-textures in each xy-plane
layer. The obtained Skyrmion crystals can be tunable with square and hexagonal
symmetries in a columnar manner along the z axis, and moreover are stable
against the inter-layer spin-spin interactions in a large parameter region.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures; title modified, references and discussions added;
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The electronic structure of intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 quantum wires
The ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic nanostructure are crucial for
fundamental spintronics devices, motivated by its potential application in
spintronics, we theoretically investigate the electronic structure of the
ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic phases of the cylindrical intrinsically
magnetic topological insulator quantum wires for both
cases. We demonstrate that a few surface states exist between the bulk band gap
in the ferromagnetic phase, with only one spin branch. In the antiferromagnetic
phase, we show that three coexistent states exist between the energy gaps of
the quantum wires
Cynodon dactylon (L) Pers (Poaceae) root extract induces apoptotic cell death via the cyclin D1 pathway in human nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells in vitro and in vivo
Purpose: To investigate the activity of Cynodon dactylon root extract as a potential anticancer agent.Methods: Human nasopharyngeal carcinoma HNK-1 cells were treated with ethanol extract of C. dactylon roots. After treatment with C. dactylon root extract, cells were assessed for their cytotoxicity, metabolic status, apoptosis and cell cycle progression. The anticancer activity of the extract was also determined in vivo using a mouse model.Results: C. dactylon extract exhibited significant cytotoxicity and arrested cell cycle in HNK-1 cells in a dose-dependent manner. Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) data revealed that it also induced apoptotic cell death. Rb phosphorylation and mRNA levels of cyclin E were significantly reduced. Moreover, C. dactylon extract caused a significant reduction in tumor size and volume in vivo.Conclusion: C. dactylon root extract induces apoptosis in nasopharyngeal cancer cells via cyclin D1 pathway and inhibits tumor growth in vivo.Keywords: Cynodon dactylon, Anticancer, Cyclin D1 pathway, Apoptosis, Nasopharyngeal carcinom
Three-dimensional Gabor feature extraction for hyperspectral imagery classification using a memetic framework
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