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Spin-1/2 Triangular Lattice with Orbital Degeneracy in a Metallic Oxide Ag2NiO2
A novel metallic and magnetic transition metal oxide Ag2NiO2 is studied by
means of resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, specific heat and X-ray
diffraction. The crystal structure is characterized by alternating stacking of
a Ni3+O2 layer and a (Ag2)+ layer, the former realizing a spin-1/2 triangular
lattice with eg orbital degeneracy and the latter providing itinerant
electrons. It is found that the NiO2 layer exhibits orbital ordering at Ts =
260 K and antiferromagnetic spin ordering at TN = 56 K. Moreover, a moderately
large mass enhancement is found for the itinerant electrons, suggesting a
significant contribution from the nearly localized Ni 3d state to the Ag 5s
state that forms a broad band.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, to be published in Rapid Communications, Phys.
Rev.
Interpolation between the epsilon and p regimes
We reconsider chiral perturbation theory in a finite volume and develop a new
computational scheme which smoothly interpolates the conventional epsilon and p
regimes. The counting rule is kept essentially the same as in the p expansion.
The zero-momentum modes of Nambu-Goldstone bosons are, however, treated
separately and partly integrated out to all orders as in the epsilon expansion.
In this new scheme, the theory remains infra-red finite even in the chiral
limit, while the chiral-logarithmic effects are kept present. We calculate the
two-point function in the pseudoscalar channel and show that the correlator has
a constant contribution in addition to the conventional hyperbolic cosine
function of time t. This constant term rapidly disappears in the p regime but
it is indispensable for a smooth convergence of the formula to the epsilon
regime result. Our calculation is useful to precisely estimate the finite
volume effects in lattice QCD simulations on the pion mass Mpi and kaon mass
MK, as well as their decay constants Fpi and FK.Comment: 49 pages, 6 figures, minor corrections, references added, version to
appear in PR
Multi-silicon ridge nanofabrication by repeated edge lithography
We present a multi-Si nanoridge fabrication scheme and its application in nanoimprint\ud
lithography (NIL). Triple Si nanoridges approximately 120 nm high and 40 nm wide separated\ud
by 40 nm spacing are fabricated and successfully applied as a stamp in nanoimprint lithography.\ud
The fabrication scheme, using a full-wet etching procedure in combination with repeated edge\ud
lithography, consists of hot H3PO4 acid SiNx retraction etching, 20% KOH Si etching, 50% HF\ud
SiNx retraction etching and LOCal Oxidation of Silicon (LOCOS). Si nanoridges with smooth\ud
vertical sidewalls are fabricated by using Si 110 substrates and KOH etching. The presented\ud
technology utilizes a conventional photolithography technique, and the fabrication of multi-Si\ud
nanoridges on a full wafer scale has been demonstrated
Higgs-Yukawa model on the lattice
We present results from two projects on lattice calculations for the
Higgs-Yukawa model. First we report progress on the search of first-order
thermal phase transitions in the presence of a dimension-six operator, with the
choices of bare couplings that lead to viable phenomenological predictions. In
this project the simulations are performed using overlap fermions to implement
the required chiral symmetry. Secondly, our study for applying finite-size
scaling techniques near the Gaussian fixed point of the Higgs-Yukawa model is
presented. We discuss the analytical formulae for the Higgs Yukawa model and
show results for a first numerical study in the pure scalar sector of
the theory.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures; Contribution to the proceedings of the 35th
International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, 18 - 24 June 2017, Granada,
Spai
Graph-Based Shape Analysis Beyond Context-Freeness
We develop a shape analysis for reasoning about relational properties of data
structures. Both the concrete and the abstract domain are represented by
hypergraphs. The analysis is parameterized by user-supplied indexed graph
grammars to guide concretization and abstraction. This novel extension of
context-free graph grammars is powerful enough to model complex data structures
such as balanced binary trees with parent pointers, while preserving most
desirable properties of context-free graph grammars. One strength of our
analysis is that no artifacts apart from grammars are required from the user;
it thus offers a high degree of automation. We implemented our analysis and
successfully applied it to various programs manipulating AVL trees,
(doubly-linked) lists, and combinations of both
A lattice study of a chirally invariant Higgs-Yukawa model including a higher dimensional -term
We discuss the non-thermal phase structure of a chirally invariant
Higgs-Yukawa model on the lattice in the presence of a higher dimensional
-term. For the exploration of the phase diagram we use analytical,
lattice perturbative calculations of the constraint effectice potential as well
as numerical simulations. We also present first results of the effects of the
-term on the lower Higgs boson mass bounds
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