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Strong coupling theory of the spinless charges on the triangular lattices: possibility of a new quantum liquid
We propose a new type of charge liquid state in the spinless fermion system
on a triangular lattice under strong inter-site Coulomb interactions, . In
the strong coupling limit (), the ground state is classical and disordered
due to geometrical frustration. The introduction of small t will drive the
system to a partially ordered phase which we call a "pinball liquid". A
possibly long range ordered Wigner crystal solid coexist with a liquid
component which are moving around them like a pinball. This liquid is dominant
over wide range of filling, even away from the regular triangle, and is also
realized in the hard core boson systems. Relevance to the organic theta-ET_2X
is discsussed.Comment: 4pages, 7figure
Spin Dynamics of Double-Exchange Manganites with Magnetic Frustration
This work examines the effects of magnetic frustration due to competing
ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic Heisenberg interactions on the spin
dynamics of the double-exchange model. When the local moments are non-colinear,
a charge-density wave forms because the electrons prefer to sit on lines of
sites that are coupled ferromagnetically. With increasing hopping energy, the
local spins become aligned and the average spin-wave stiffness increases. Phase
separation is found only within a narrow range of hopping energies. Results of
this work are applied to the field-induced jump in the spin-wave stiffness
observed in the manganite PrCaMnO with .Comment: 10 pages, 3 figure
Ferroelectricity induced by spin-dependent metal-ligand hybridization in BaCoGeO
We have investigated the variation of induced ferroelectric polarization
under magnetic field with various directions and magnitudes in a staggered
antiferromagnet BaCoGeO. While the ferroelectric polarization
cannot be explained by the well-accepted spin current model nor exchange
striction mechanism, we have shown that it is induced by the spin-dependent
- hybridization between the transition-metal (Co) and ligand (O) via the
spin-orbit interaction. On the basis of the correspondence between the
direction of electric polarization and the magnetic state, we have also
demonstrated the electrical control of the magnetization direction.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Quantum Monte Carlo study of the transverse-field Ising model on a frustrated checkerboard lattice
We present the numerical results for low temperature behavior of the
transverse-field Ising model on a frustrated checkerboard lattice, with focus
on the effect of both quantum and thermal fluctuations. Applying the
recently-developed continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo algorithm, we compute
the magnetization and susceptibility down to extremely low temperatures while
changing the magnitude of both transverse and longitudinal magnetic fields.
Several characteristic behaviors are observed, which were not inferred from the
previously studied quantum order from disorder at zero temperature, such as a
horizontal-type stripe ordering at a substantial longitudinal field and a
persistent critical behavior down to low temperature in a weak longitudinal
field region.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in J. Phys.: Conf. Se
High-Tc Nodeless s_\pm-wave Superconductivity in (Y,La)FeAsO_{1-y} with Tc=50 K: 75As-NMR Study
We report 75As-NMR study on the Fe-pnictide high-Tc superconductor
Y0.95La0.05FeAsO_{1-y} (Y0.95La0.051111) with Tc=50 K that includes no magnetic
rare-earth elements. The measurement of the nuclear-spin lattice-relaxation
rate 75(1/T1) has revealed that the nodeless bulk superconductivity takes place
at Tc=50 K while antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations (AFSFs) develop moderately
in the normal state. These features are consistently described by the multiple
fully-gapped s_\pm-wave model based on the Fermi-surface (FS) nesting.
Incorporating the theory based on band calculations, we propose that the reason
that Tc=50 K in Y0.95La0.051111 is larger than Tc=28 K in La1111 is that the FS
multiplicity is maximized, and hence the FS nesting condition is better than
that in La1111.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Phys Rev. Let
Expression of functional M2 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor in Escherichia coli
The M2 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor mutant (M2 mutant), with a lack of glycosylation sites, a deletion in the central part of the third inner loop, and the addition of a six histidine tag at the C-terminus, was fused to maltose binding protein (MBP) at its N-terminus and expressed in Escherichia coli. The expression level was 0.2 nmol receptor per 100 ml culture, as assessed as [3H]L-quinuclidinyl benzilate ([3H]QNB) binding activity, when the BL 21 strain was cultured at 37 degrees C to a late growth phase and the expression was induced by isopropyl beta-thiogalactoside at 20 degrees C. No [3H]QNB binding activity was detected when it was not fused to MBP or when expression was induced at 37 degrees C instead of 20 degrees C. The MBP-M2 mutant expressed in E. coli showed the same ligand binding activity as the M2 mutant expressed in the Sporodoptera frugiperda (Sf9)/baculovirus system, as assessed as displacement of [(3)H]QNB with carbamylcholine and atropine. The MBP-M2 mutant was solubilized, purified with Co2+-immobilized Chelating Sepharose gel and SP-Sepharose, and then reconstituted into lipid vesicles with G protein Go or Gi1 in the presence or absence of cholesterol. The reconstituted vesicles showed GTP-sensitive high affinity binding for carbamylcholine and carbamylcholine-stimulated [35S]GTP gamma S binding activity in the presence of GDP. The proportion of high affinity sites for carbamylcholine and the extent of carbamylcholine-stimulated [(35)S]GTP gamma S binding were the same as those observed for the M2 mutant expressed in Sf9 cells and were not affected by the presence or absence of cholesterol. These results indicate that the MBP-M2 mutant expressed in E. coli has the same ability to interact with and activate G proteins as the M2 mutant expressed in Sf9, and that cholesterol is not essential for the function of the M2 muscarinic receptor
Competition between unconventional superconductivity and incommensurate antiferromagnetic order in CeRh1-xCoxIn5
Elastic neutron diffraction measurements were performed on the quasi-two
dimensional heavy fermion system CeRh1-xCoxIn5, ranging from an incommensurate
antiferromagnet for low x to an unconventional superconductor on the Co-rich
end of the phase diagram. We found that the superconductivity competes with the
incommensurate antiferromagnetic (AFM) order characterized by qI=(1/2, 1/2,
delta) with delta=0.298, while it coexists with the commensurate AFM order with
qc=(1/2, 1/2, 1/2). This is in sharp contrast to the CeRh1-xIrxIn5 system,
where both the commensurate and incommensurate magnetic orders coexist with the
superconductivity. These results reveal that particular areas on the Fermi
surface nested by qI play an active role in forming the superconducting state
in CeCoIn5.Comment: RevTeX4, 4 pages, 4 eps figures; corrected a typo and a referenc
Drude Weight of the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model -- Reexamination of Finite-Size Effect in Exact Diagonalization Study --
The Drude weight of the Hubbard model on the two-dimensional square lattice
is studied by the exact diagonalizations applied to clusters up to 20 sites. We
carefully examine finite-size effects by consideration of the appropriate
shapes of clusters and the appropriate boundary condition beyond the imitation
of employing only the simple periodic boundary condition. We successfully
capture the behavior of the Drude weight that is proportional to the squared
hole doping concentration. Our present result gives a consistent understanding
of the transition between the Mott insulator and doped metals. We also find, in
the frequency dependence of the optical conductivity, that the mid-gap
incoherent part emerges more quickly than the coherent part and rather
insensitive to the doping concentration in accordance with the scaling of the
Drude weight.Comment: 9 pages with 10 figures and 1 table. accepted in J. Phys. Soc. Jp
Magnon softening and damping in the ferromagnetic manganites due to orbital correlations
We present a theory for spin excitations in ferromagnetic metallic manganites
and demonstrate that orbital fluctuations have strong effects on the magnon
dynamics in the case these compounds are close to a transition to an orbital
ordered state. In particular we show that the scattering of the spin
excitations by low-lying orbital modes with cubic symmetry causes both the
magnon softening and damping observed experimentally.Comment: 2 pages, 2 figures, SCES2003 Roma, to appear in J. Mag. Magn. Ma
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