46 research outputs found
Dislocations and the enhancement of superconductivity in odd-parity superconductor SrRuO
We report observation of the enhancement of superconductivity near lattice
dislocations and the absence of the strengthening of vortex pinning in
odd-parity superconductor SrRuO, both surprising results in direct
contrast to the well known sensitivity of superconductivity in SrRuO to
disorder. The enhanced superconductivity appears to be related fundamentally to
the two-component nature of the superconducting order parameter, as revealed in
our phenomenological theory taking into account the effect of symmetry
reduction near a dislocation.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Physical Review Letter
Evaluating the use of the Child and Adolescent Intellectual Disability Screening Questionnaire (CAIDS-Q) to estimate IQ in children with low intellectual ability
In situations where completing a full intellectual assessment is not possible or desirable the clinician or researcher may require an alternative means of accurately estimating intellectual functioning. There has been limited research in the use of proxy IQ measures in children with an intellectual disability or low IQ. The present study aimed to provide a means of converting total scores from a screening tool (the Child and Adolescent Intellectual Disability Screening Questionnaire: CAIDS-Q) to an estimated IQ. A series of linear regression analyses were conducted on data from 428 children and young people referred to clinical services, where FSIQ was predicted from CAIDS-Q total scores. Analyses were conducted for three age groups between ages 6 and 18 years. The study presents a conversion table for converting CAIDS-Q total scores to estimates of FSIQ, with corresponding 95% prediction intervals to allow the clinician or researcher to estimate FSIQ scores from CAIDS-Q total scores. It is emphasised that, while this conversion may offer a quick means of estimating intellectual functioning in children with a below average IQ, it should be used with caution, especially in children aged between 6 and 8 years old
Calculating the energy spectra of magnetic molecules: application of real- and spin-space symmetries
The determination of the energy spectra of small spin systems as for instance
given by magnetic molecules is a demanding numerical problem. In this work we
review numerical approaches to diagonalize the Heisenberg Hamiltonian that
employ symmetries; in particular we focus on the spin-rotational symmetry SU(2)
in combination with point-group symmetries. With these methods one is able to
block-diagonalize the Hamiltonian and thus to treat spin systems of
unprecedented size. In addition it provides a spectroscopic labeling by
irreducible representations that is helpful when interpreting transitions
induced by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
(NMR) or Inelastic Neutron Scattering (INS). It is our aim to provide the
reader with detailed knowledge on how to set up such a diagonalization scheme.Comment: 29 pages, many figure
Dislocations and vortices in pair density wave superconductors
With the ground breaking work of the Fulde, Ferell, Larkin, and Ovchinnikov
(FFLO), it was realized that superconducting order can also break translational
invariance; leading to a phase in which the Cooper pairs develop a coherent
periodic spatially oscillating structure. Such pair density wave (PDW)
superconductivity has become relevant in a diverse range of systems, including
cuprates, organic superconductors, heavy fermion superconductors, cold atoms,
and high density quark matter. Here we show that, in addition to charge density
wave (CDW) order, there are PDW ground states that induce spin density wave
(SDW) order when there is no applied magnetic field. Furthermore, we show that
PDW phases support topological defects that combine dislocations in the induced
CDW/SDW order with a fractional vortex in the usual superconducting order.
These defects provide a mechanism for fluctuation driven non-superconducting
CDW/SDW phases and conventional vortices with CDW/SDW order in the core.Comment: 6 pages,1 figure, 1 tabl
Magnetic field-temperature phase diagram of multiferroic (NH4)2FeCl5??H2O
Owing to their overall low energy scales, flexible molecular architectures, and ease of chemical substitution, molecule-based multiferroics are extraordinarily responsive to external stimuli and exhibit remarkably rich phase diagrams. Even so, the stability and microscopic properties of various magnetic states in close proximity to quantum critical points are highly under-explored in these materials. Inspired by these opportunities, we combined pulsed-field magnetization, first-principles calculations, and numerical simulations to reveal the magnetic field???temperature (B???T) phase diagram of multiferroic (NH4)2FeCl5???H2O. In this system, a network of intermolecular hydrogen and halogen bonds creates a competing set of exchange interactions that generates additional structure in the phase diagram???both in the vicinity of the spin flop and near the 30 T transition to the fully saturated state. Consequently, the phase diagrams of (NH4)2FeCl5???H2O and its deuterated analog are much more complex than those of other molecule-based multiferroics. The entire series of coupled electric and magnetic transitions can be accessed with a powered magnet, opening the door to exploration and control of properties in this and related materials
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Erratum: Spin waves in a triangular lattice antiferromagnet: Decays, spectrum renormalization, and singularities (Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (2009) 79 (144416))
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Erratum: Spin waves in a triangular lattice antiferromagnet: Decays, spectrum renormalization, and singularities (Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (2009) 79 (144416))
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Order and excitations in large-S kagome-lattice antiferromagnets
We systematically investigate the ground-state and the spectral properties of antiferromagnets on a kagomé lattice with several common types of the planar anisotropy: XXZ, single-ion, and out-of-plane Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya. Our main focus is on the role of nonlinear, anharmonic terms, which are responsible for the quantum order-by-disorder effect and for the corresponding selection of the ground-state spin structure in many of these models. The XXZ and the single-ion anisotropy models exhibit a quantum phase transition between the q=0 and the 3×3 states as a function of the anisotropy parameter, offering a rare example of the quantum order-by-disorder fluctuations favoring a ground state which is different from the one selected by thermal fluctuations. The nonlinear terms are also shown to be crucial for a very strong near-resonant decay phenomenon leading to the quasiparticle breakdown in the kagomé-lattice antiferromagnets whose spectra are featuring flat or weakly dispersive modes. The effect is shown to persist even in the limit of large spin values and should be common to other frustrated magnets with flat branches of excitations. Model calculations of the spectrum of the S=5/2 Fe-jarosite with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya anisotropy provide a convincing and detailed characterization of the proposed scenario
Field-induced decays in XXZ triangular-lattice antiferromagnets
We investigate field-induced transformations in the dynamical response of the XXZ model on the triangular lattice that are associated with the anharmonic magnon coupling and decay phenomena. Detailed theoretical predictions are made for Ba3CoSb2O9, which provides a close realization of the spin-12 XXZ model. We demonstrate that dramatic modifications in the magnon spectrum must occur in low out-of-plane fields that are easily achievable for this material. The hallmark of the effect is a coexistence of the clearly distinct well-defined magnon excitations with significantly broadened ones in different regions of the k-ω space. The field-induced decays are generic for this class of models and become more prominent at larger anisotropies and in higher fields
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Field-induced decays in XXZ triangular-lattice antiferromagnets
We investigate field-induced transformations in the dynamical response of the XXZ model on the triangular lattice that are associated with the anharmonic magnon coupling and decay phenomena. Detailed theoretical predictions are made for Ba3CoSb2O9, which provides a close realization of the spin-12 XXZ model. We demonstrate that dramatic modifications in the magnon spectrum must occur in low out-of-plane fields that are easily achievable for this material. The hallmark of the effect is a coexistence of the clearly distinct well-defined magnon excitations with significantly broadened ones in different regions of the k-ω space. The field-induced decays are generic for this class of models and become more prominent at larger anisotropies and in higher fields