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Superconductivity in correlated disordered two-dimensional electron gas
We calculate the dynamic effective electron-electron interaction potential
for a low density disordered two-dimensional electron gas. The disordered
response function is used to calculate the effective potential where the
scattering rate is taken from typical mobilities from recent experiments. We
investigate the development of an effective attractive pair potential for both
disordered and disorder free systems with correlations determined from existing
numerical simulation data. The effect of disorder and correlations on the
superconducting critical temperature Tc is discussed.Comment: 4 pages, RevTeX + epsf, 4 figure
Ground Level Enhancement in the 2014 January 6 Solar Energetic Particle Event
We present a study of the 2014 January 6 solar energetic particle (SEP)
event, which produced a small ground level enhancement (GLE), making it the
second GLE of this unusual solar cycle 24. This event was primarily observed by
the South Pole neutron monitors (increase of ~2.5%) whereas a few other neutron
monitors recorded smaller increases. The associated coronal mass ejection (CME)
originated behind the western limb and had the speed of 1960 km/s. The height
of the CME at the start of the associated metric type II radio burst, which
indicates the formation of a strong shock, was measured to be 1.61 Rs using a
direct image from STEREO-A/EUVI. The CME height at the time of GLE particle
release (determined using the South Pole neutron monitor data) was directly
measured as 2.96 Rs, from the STEREO-A/COR1 white-light observations. These CME
heights are consistent with those obtained for the GLE71, the only other GLE of
the current cycle as well as cycle-23 GLEs derived using back-extrapolation.
GLE72 is of special interest because it is one of the only two GLEs of cycle
24, one of the two behind-the-limb GLEs and one of the two smallest GLEs of
cycles 23 and 24
Exchange bias effect in the phase separated Nd_{1-x}Sr_{x}CoO_3 at the spontaneous ferromagnetic/ferrimagnetic interface
We report the new results of exchange bias effect in Nd_{1-x}Sr_{x}CoO_3 for
x = 0.20 and 0.40, where the exchange bias phenomenon is involved with the
ferrimagnetic (FI) state in a spontaneously phase separated system. The
zero-field cooled magnetization exhibits the FI (T_{FI}) and ferromagnetic
(T_C) transitions at ~ 23 and \sim 70 K, respectively for x = 0.20. The
negative horizontal and positive vertical shifts of the magnetic hysteresis
loops are observed when the system is cooled through T_{FI} in presence of a
positive static magnetic field. Training effect is observed for x = 0.20, which
could be interpreted by a spin configurational relaxation model. The
unidirectional shifts of the hysteresis loops as a function of temperature
exhibit the absence of exchange bias above T_{FI} for x = 0.20. The analysis of
the cooling field dependence of exchange bias field and magnetization indicates
that the ferromagnetic (FM) clusters consist of single magnetic domain with
average size around \sim 20 and ~ 40 \AA ~ for x = 0.20 and 0.40, respectively.
The sizes of the FM clusters are close to the percolation threshold for x =
0.20, which grow and coalesce to form the bigger size for x = 0.40 resulting in
a weak exchange bias effect.Comment: 9 pages, 9 figure
Mesoscopic Transport: The Electron-Gas Sum Rules in a Driven Quantum Point Contact
The nature of the electron gas is characterized, above all, by its
multi-particle correlations. The conserving sum rules for the electron gas have
been thoroughly studied for many years, and their centrality to the physics of
metallic conduction is widely understood (at least in the many-body community).
We review the role of the conserving sum rules in mesoscopic transport, as
normative criteria for assessing the conserving status of mesoscopic models. In
themselves, the sum rules are specific enough to rule out any such theory if it
fails to respect the conservation laws. Of greater interest is the capacity of
the compressibility sum rule, in particular, to reveal unexpected fluctuation
effects in nonuniform mesoscopic structures.Comment: TeX, 11pp, no fi
Exchange bias effect and intragranular magnetoresistance in Nd$_{0.84}Sr_{0.16}CoO_3
Electrical transport properties as a function of magnetic field and time have
been investigated in polycrystalline, Nd_{0.84}Sr_{0.16}CoO_3. A strong
exchange bias (EB) effect is observed associated with the fairly large
intragranular magnetoresistance (MR). The EB effect observed in the MR curve is
compared with the EB effect manifested in magnetic hysteresis loop. Training
effect, described as the decrease of EB effect when the sample is successively
field-cycled at a particular temperature, has been observed in the shift of the
MR curve. Training effect could be analysed by the successful models. The EB
effect, MR and a considerable time dependence in MR are attributed to the
intrinsic nanostructure giving rise to the varieties of magnetic interfaces in
the grain interior
In-situ integrated processing and characterization of thin films of high temperature superconductors, dielectrics and semiconductors by MOCVD
In this strategy of depositing the basic building blocks of superconductors, semiconductors, and dielectric having common elements, researchers deposited superconducting films of Y-Ba-Cu-O, semiconductor films of Cu2O, and dielectric films of BaF2 and Y2O3 by metal oxide chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). By switching source materials entering the chamber, and by using direct writting capability, complex device structures like three-terminal hybrid semiconductors/superconductors transistors can be fabricated. The Y-Ba-Cu-O superconducting thin films on BaF2/YSZ substrates show a T(sub c) of 80 K and are textured with most of the grains having their c-axis or a-axis perpendicular to the substrate. Electrical characteristics as well as structural characteristics of superconductors and related materials obtained by x-ray defraction, electron microscopy, and energy dispersive x-ray analysis are discussed
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