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Electromagnetic surface modes in a magnetized quantum electron-hole plasma
The propagation of surface electromagnetic waves along a uniform magnetic
field is studied in a quantum electron-hole semiconductor plasma. A new forward
propagating mode, not reported before, is found by the effect of quantum
tunneling, which otherwise does not exist. In the classical limit
() one of the low-frequency modes is found similar to an
experimentally observed one in -type InSb at room temperature. The surface
modes are shown to be significantly modified in the case of high-conductivity
semiconductor plasmas where electrons and holes may be degenerate. The effects
of the external magnetic field and the quantum tunneling on the surface wave
modes are discussed.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures; to appear in Phys. Rev. E (2011
Domain State Model for Exchange Bias
Monte Carlo simulations of a system consisting of a ferromagnetic layer
exchange coupled to a diluted antiferromagnetic layer described by a classical
spin model show a strong dependence of the exchange bias on the degree of
dilution in agreement with recent experimental observations on Co/CoO bilayers.
These simulations reveal that diluting the antiferromagnet leads to the
formation of domains in the volume of the antiferromagnet carrying a remanent
surplus magnetization which causes and controls exchange bias. To further
support this domain state model for exchange bias we study in the present paper
the dependence of the bias field on the thickness of the antiferromagnetic
layer. It is shown that the bias field strongly increases with increasing film
thickness and eventually goes over a maximum before it levels out for large
thicknesses. These findings are in full agreement with experiments.Comment: 8 pages latex, 3 postscript figure
Gluon Condensates, Chiral Symmetry Breaking and Pion Wave Function
We consider here chiral symmetry breaking in quantum chromodynamics arising
from gluon condensates in vacuum. Through coherent states of gluons simulating
a mean field type of approximation, we show that the off-shell gluon
condensates of vacuum generate a mass-like contribution for the quarks, giving
rise to chiral symmetry breaking. We next note that spontaneous breaking of
global chiral symmetry links the four component quark field operator to the
pion wave function. This in turn yields many hadronic properties in the light
quark sector in agreement with experiments, leading to the conclusion that low
energy hadron properties are primarily driven by the vacuum structure of
quantum chromodynamics.Comment: 25 pages, IP/BBSR/92-76, revte
Length and time scale divergences at the magnetization-reversal transition in the Ising model
The divergences of both the length and time scales, at the magnetization-
reversal transition in Ising model under a pulsed field, have been studied in
the linearized limit of the mean field theory. Both length and time scales are
shown to diverge at the transition point and it has been checked that the
nature of the time scale divergence agrees well with the result obtained from
the numerical solution of the mean field equation of motion. Similar growths in
length and time scales are also observed, as one approaches the transition
point, using Monte Carlo simulations. However, these are not of the same nature
as the mean field case. Nucleation theory provides a qualitative argument which
explains the nature of the time scale growth. To study the nature of growth of
the characteristic length scale, we have looked at the cluster size
distribution of the reversed spin domains and defined a pseudo-correlation
length which has been observed to grow at the phase boundary of the transition.Comment: 9 pages Latex, 3 postscript figure
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