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Strong evidence for the three-dimensional Fermi liquid behaviour of quasiparticles in high- cupurates
It is generally believed that behaviours of quasiparticles (holes) in
high- cupurates should be attributed to the two-dimensional (2D)
electronic states in the CuO planes. The various anomalies of the
transport coefficients for temperatures above are long-standing
insoluble puzzles and cause serious controversy. Here we reanalyse the
published experimental date of LSCO cupurates. We find that the normal-state
susceptibility, resistivity, Hall coefficient etc vary precisely as as a function of temperature in agreement with the prediction of the
Fermi liquid model. The quasiparticles are shown to definitely behave as a 3D
Fermi liquid. Various attempts to describe the system in terms of non-Fermi
liquids,e.g. the RVB state, seem to be erroneous.Comment: 2 pages, 3 Postscript figures, To appear in Physica
Ab initio Evidence for Strong Correlation Associated with Mott Proximity in Iron-based Superconductors
We predict that iron-based superconductors discovered near d6 configuration
(5 Fe 3d orbitals filled by 6 electrons) is located on the foot of an
unexpectedly large dome of correlated electron matter centered at the Mott
insulator at d5 (namely, half filling). This is based on the many-variable
variational Monte-Carlo results for ab initio low-energy models derived by the
downfolding. The d5 Mott proximity extends to subsequent emergence of
incoherent metals, orbital differentiations due to the Mott physics and
Hund's-rule coupling, followed by antiferromagnetic quantum criticality, in
quantitative accordance with available experiments.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figure
A Spectropolarimetric Test of the Structure of the Intrinsic Absorbers in the Quasar HS1603+3820
We report the results of a spectropolarimetric observation of the C IV
mini-BAL in the quasar HS1603+3820. The observations were carried out with the
FOCAS instrument on the Subaru telescope and yielded an extremely high
polarization sensitivity of 0.1%, at a resolving power of 1500. HS1603+3820 has
been the target of a high-resolution spectroscopic monitoring campaign for more
than four years, aimed at studying its highly variable C IV mini-BAL profile.
Using the monitoring observations, in an earlier paper we were able to narrow
down the causes of the variability to the following two scenarios: (1)
scattering material of variable optical depth redirecting photons around the
absorber, and (2) a variable, highly-ionized screen between the continuum
source and the absorber which modulates the UV continuum incident on the
absorber. The observations presented here provide a crucial test of the
scattering scenario and lead us to disfavor it because (a) the polarization
level is very small (p~0.6%) throughout the spectrum, and (b) the polarization
level does not increase across the mini-BAL trough. Thus, the variable screen
scenario emerges as our favored explanation of the C IV mini-BAL variability.
Our conclusion is bolstered by recent X-ray observations of nearby mini-BAL
quasars, which show a rapidly variable soft X-ray continuum that appears to be
the result of transmission through an ionized absorber of variable ionization
parameter and optical depth.Comment: To appear in the Astrophysical Journal, vol. 719, August 201
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