511 research outputs found
Phase diagram of the -spin-interacting spin glass with ferromagnetic bias and a transverse field in the infinite- limit
The phase diagram of the -spin-interacting spin glass model in a
transverse field is investigated in the limit under the presence
of ferromagnetic bias. Using the replica method and the static approximation,
we show that the phase diagram consists of four phases: Quantum paramagnetic,
classical paramagnetic, ferromagnetic, and spin-glass phases. We also show that
the static approximation is valid in the ferromagnetic phase in the limit by using the large- expansion. Since the same approximation is
already known to be valid in other phases, we conclude that the obtained phase
diagram is exact.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figures. another additional author, some amendment
History Dependent Phenomena in the Transverse Ising Ferroglass: the Free Energy Landscape
In this paper we investigate the relationship between glassy and
ferromagnetic phases in disordered Ising ferromagnets in the presence of
transverse magnetic fields, . Iterative mean field simulations probe
the free energy landscape and suggest the existence of a glass transition as a
function of which is distinct from the Curie temperature. New
experimental field-cooled and zero-field-cooled data on LiHoYF
provide support for our theoretical picture.Comment: 4 pages RevTex; 5 figure
Classical and Quantum Behavior in Mean-Field Glassy Systems
In this talk I review some recent developments which shed light on the main
connections between structural glasses and mean-field spin glass models with a
discontinuous transition. I also discuss the role of quantum fluctuations on
the dynamical instability found in mean-field spin glasses with a discontinuous
transition. In mean-field models with pairwise interactions in a transverse
field it is shown, in the framework of the static approximation, that such
instability is suppressed at zero temperature.Comment: 9 Pages (including 5 Figures), Revtex, Proceedings of the XIV Sitges
Conference, June 1996 (Barcelona) Spai
Single valley Dirac fermions in zero-gap HgTe quantum wells
Dirac fermions have been studied intensively in condensed matter physics in
recent years. Many theoretical predictions critically depend on the number of
valleys where the Dirac fermions are realized. In this work, we report the
discovery of a two dimensional system with a single valley Dirac cone. We study
the transport properties of HgTe quantum wells grown at the critical thickness
separating between the topologically trivial and the quantum spin Hall phases.
At high magnetic fields, the quantized Hall plateaus demonstrate the presence
of a single valley Dirac point in this system. In addition, we clearly observe
the linear dispersion of the zero mode spin levels. Also the conductivity at
the Dirac point and its temperature dependence can be understood from single
valley Dirac fermion physics.Comment: version 2: supplementary material adde
Entanglement and correlation in anisotropic quantum spin systems
Analytical expressions for the entanglement measures concurrence,
i-concurrence and 3-tangle in terms of spin correlation functions are derived
using general symmetries of the quantum spin system. These relations are
exploited for the one-dimensional XXZ-model, in particular the concurrence and
the critical temperature for disentanglement are calculated for finite systems
with up to six qubits. A recent NMR quantum error correction experiment is
analyzed within the framework of the proposed theoretical approach.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
Engineering the Controlled Assembly of Filamentous Injectisomes in E. coli K-12 for Protein Translocation into Mammalian Cells.
Bacterial pathogens containing type III protein secretion systems (T3SS) assemble large needle-like protein complexes in the bacterial envelope, called injectisomes, for translocation of protein effectors into host cells. The application of these molecular syringes for the injection of proteins into mammalian cells is hindered by their structural and genomic complexity, requiring multiple polypeptides encoded along with effectors in various transcriptional units (TUs) with intricate regulation. In this work, we have rationally designed the controlled expression of the filamentous injectisomes found in enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) in the nonpathogenic strain E. coli K-12. All structural components of EPEC injectisomes, encoded in a genomic island called the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE), were engineered in five TUs (eLEEs) excluding effectors, promoters and transcriptional regulators. These eLEEs were placed under the control of the IPTG-inducible promoter Ptac and integrated into specific chromosomal sites of E. coli K-12 using a marker-less strategy. The resulting strain, named synthetic injector E. coli (SIEC), assembles filamentous injectisomes similar to those in EPEC. SIEC injectisomes form pores in the host plasma membrane and are able to translocate T3-substrate proteins (e.g., translocated intimin receptor, Tir) into the cytoplasm of HeLa cells reproducing the phenotypes of intimate attachment and polymerization of actin-pedestals elicited by EPEC bacteria. Hence, SIEC strain allows the controlled expression of functional filamentous injectisomes for efficient translocation of proteins with T3S-signals into mammalian cells
The Aharonov-Bohm effect for massless Dirac fermions and the spectral flow of Dirac type operators with classical boundary conditions
We compute, in topological terms, the spectral flow of an arbitrary family of
self-adjoint Dirac type operators with classical (local) boundary conditions on
a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary under the assumption that the
initial and terminal operators of the family are conjugate by a bundle
automorphism. This result is used to study conditions for the existence of
nonzero spectral flow of a family of self-adjoint Dirac type operators with
local boundary conditions in a two-dimensional domain with nontrivial topology.
Possible physical realizations of nonzero spectral flow are discussed.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to Theoretical and Mathematical
Physics. v2: A change has been made to the paragraph describing the previous
work of M. Prokhorov
Scattering Theory of Photon-Assisted Electron Transport
The scattering matrix approach to phase-coherent transport is generalized to
nonlinear ac-transport. In photon-assisted electron transport it is often only
the dc-component of the current that is of experimental interest. But
ac-currents at all frequencies exist independently of whether they are measured
or not. We present a theory of photon-assisted electron transport which is
charge and current conserving for all Fourier components of the current. We
find that the photo-current can be considered as an up- and down-conversion of
the harmonic potentials associated with the displacement currents. As an
example explicit calculations are presented for a resonant double barrier
coupled to two reservoirs and capacitively coupled to a gate. Two experimental
situations are considered: in the first case the ac-field is applied via a
gate, and in the second case one of the contact potentials is modulated. For
the first case we show that the relative weight of the conduction sidebands
varies with the screening properties of the system. In contrast to the
non-interacting case the relative weights are not determined by Bessel
functions. Moreover, interactions can give rise to an asymmetry between
absorption and emission peaks. In the contact driven case, the theory predicts
a zero-bias current proportional to the asymmetry of the double barrier. This
is in contrast to the discussion of Tien and Gordon which, in violation of
basic symmetry principles, predicts a zero-bias current also for a symmetric
double barrier.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figures, REVTE
The polarizability model for ferroelectricity in perovskite oxides
This article reviews the polarizability model and its applications to
ferroelectric perovskite oxides. The motivation for the introduction of the
model is discussed and nonlinear oxygen ion polarizability effects and their
lattice dynamical implementation outlined. While a large part of this work is
dedicated to results obtained within the self-consistent-phonon approximation
(SPA), also nonlinear solutions of the model are handled which are of interest
to the physics of relaxor ferroelectrics, domain wall motions, incommensurate
phase transitions. The main emphasis is to compare the results of the model
with experimental data and to predict novel phenomena.Comment: 55 pages, 35 figure
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