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Anomalous physical properties of underdoped weak-ferromagnetic superconductor RuSrEuCuO
Similar to the optimal-doped, weak-ferromagnetic (WFM induced by canted
antiferromagnetism, T = 131 K) and superconducting (T = 56 K)
RuSrGdCuO, the underdoped RuSrEuCuO
(T = 133 K, T = 36 K) also exhibited a spontaneous vortex state
(SVS) between 16 K and 36 K. The low field (20 G) superconducting
hysteresis loop indicates a weak and narrow Meissner state region of average
lower critical field B(T) = B(0)[1 -
(T/T)], with B(0) = 7 G and T = 16 K. The
vortex melting transition (T = 21 K) below T obtained from
the broad resistivity drop and the onset of diamagnetic signal indicates a
vortex liquid region due to the coexistence and interplay between
superconductivity and WFM order. No visible jump in specific heat was observed
near T for Eu- and Gd-compound. This is not surprising, since the
electronic specific heat is easily overshadowed by the large phonon and
weak-ferromagnetic contributions. Furthermore, a broad resistivity transition
due to low vortex melting temperature would also lead to a correspondingly
reduced height of any specific heat jump. Finally, with the baseline from the
nonmagnetic Eu-compound, specific heat data analysis confirms the magnetic
entropy associated with antiferromagnetic ordering of Gd (J = S = 7/2)
at 2.5 K to be close to ln8 as expected.Comment: 7 figure
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A micro-electro-mechanical-system-based thermal shear-stress sensor with self-frequency compensation
By applying the micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) fabrication technology, we developed a micro-thermal sensor to measure surface shear stress. The heat transfer from a polysilicon heater depends on the normal velocity gradient and thus provides the surface shear stress. However, the sensitivity of the shear-stress measurements in air is less than desirable due to the low heat capacity of air. A unique feature of this micro-sensor is that the heating element, a film 1 µm thick, is separated from the substrate by a vacuum cavity 2 µm thick. The vacuum cavity prevents the conduction of heat to the substrate and therefore improves the sensitivity by an order of magnitude. Owing to the low thermal inertia of the miniature sensing element, this shear-stress micro-sensor can provide instantaneous measurements of small-scale turbulence. Furthermore, MEMS technology allows us make multiple sensors on a single chip so that we can perform distributed measurements. In this study, we use multiple polysilicon sensor elements to improve the dynamic performance of the sensor itself. It is demonstrated that the frequency-response range of a constant-current sensor can be extended from the order of 100 Hz to 100 kHz
Micro Balloon Actuators for Aerodynamic Control
A robust, large-force, large-deflection micro balloon actuator for aerodynamic (manoeuvring) control of transonic aircraft has been developed. Using a novel process, high yield linear arrays of silicone balloons on a robust silicon substrate have been fabricated that can deflect vertically in excess of one mm. Balloon actuators have been tested under cyclic conditions to assess reliability. The actuators have been characterized in a wind tunnel to assess their suitability as aerodynamic control surfaces and flight-tested on a jet fighter to assess their resistance to varied temperatures and pressures at high velocity
Lowest Open Channels, Bound States, and Narrow Resonances of Dipositronium
The constraints imposed by symmetry on the open channels of dipositronium has
been studied, and the symmetry-adapted lowest open channel of each quantum
state has been identified. Based on this study, the existence of two more 0^+
bound states has been theoretically confirmed, and a 0^+ narrow resonance has
been predicted. A variational calculation has been performed to evaluate the
critical strength of the repulsive interaction . Two 0^- states are found to
have their critical strengths very close to 1, they are considered as
candidates of new narrow resonances or loosely bound states .Comment: 10 pages, 0 figure
Free expansion of lowest Landau level states of trapped atoms: a wavefunction microscope
We show that for any lowest-Landau-level state of a trapped, rotating,
interacting Bose gas, the particle distribution in coordinate space in a free
expansion (time of flight) experiment is related to that in the trap at the
time it is turned off by a simple rescaling and rotation. When the
lowest-Landau-level approximation is valid, interactions can be neglected
during the expansion, even when they play an essential role in the ground state
when the trap is present. The correlations in the density in a single snapshot
can be used to obtain information about the fluid, such as whether a transition
to a quantum Hall state has occurred.Comment: 5 pages, no figures. v2: discussion of neglect of interactions during
expansion improved, refs adde
Numerical simulation of steady and unsteady viscous flow in turbomachinery using pressure based algorithm
The objective of this research is to simulate steady and unsteady viscous flows, including rotor/stator interaction and tip clearance effects in turbomachinery. The numerical formulation for steady flow developed here includes an efficient grid generation scheme, particularly suited to computational grids for the analysis of turbulent turbomachinery flows and tip clearance flows, and a semi-implicit, pressure-based computational fluid dynamics scheme that directly includes artificial dissipation, and is applicable to both viscous and inviscid flows. The values of these artificial dissipation is optimized to achieve accuracy and convergency in the solution. The numerical model is used to investigate the structure of tip clearance flows in a turbine nozzle. The structure of leakage flow is captured accurately, including blade-to-blade variation of all three velocity components, pitch and yaw angles, losses and blade static pressures in the tip clearance region. The simulation also includes evaluation of such quantities of leakage mass flow, vortex strength, losses, dominant leakage flow regions and the spanwise extent affected by the leakage flow. It is demonstrated, through optimization of grid size and artificial dissipation, that the tip clearance flow field can be captured accurately. The above numerical formulation was modified to incorporate time accurate solutions. An inner loop iteration scheme is used at each time step to account for the non-linear effects. The computation of unsteady flow through a flat plate cascade subjected to a transverse gust reveals that the choice of grid spacing and the amount of artificial dissipation is critical for accurate prediction of unsteady phenomena. The rotor-stator interaction problem is simulated by starting the computation upstream of the stator, and the upstream rotor wake is specified from the experimental data. The results show that the stator potential effects have appreciable influence on the upstream rotor wake. The predicted unsteady wake profiles are compared with the available experimental data and the agreement is good. The numerical results are interpreted to draw conclusions on the unsteady wake transport mechanism in the blade passage
Quantum Hall Ferromagnets
It is pointed out recently that the quantum Hall states in bilayer
systems behave like easy plane quantum ferromagnets. We study the
magnetotransport of these systems using their ``ferromagnetic" properties and a
novel spin-charge relation of their excitations. The general transport is a
combination of the ususal Hall transport and a time dependent transport with
time average. The latter is due to a phase slippage process in
and is characterized by two topological constants. (Figures will be
provided upon requests).Comment: 4 pages, Revtex, Ohio State Universit
The decays "neutrino{heavy} -> neutrino{light} + photon" and "neutrino{heavy} -> neutrino{light} e+ e-" of massive neutrinos
If, as recently reported by the Super-Kamiokande collaboration, the neutrinos
are massive, the heaviest one would not be stable and, though chargeless, could
in particular decay into a lighter neutrino and a photon by quantum loop
effects. The corresponding rate is computed in the standard model with massive
Dirac neutrinos as a function of the neutrino masses and mixing angles. The
lifetime of the decaying neutrino is estimated to be approximately 10^44 years
for a mass 5 10^{-2} eV. If kinematically possible, the decay of a heavy
neutrino into a lighter one plus an e+ e- pair occurs at tree level and its
one-loop radiative corrections get enhanced by a large logarithm of the
electron mass acting as an infrared cutoff. It then largely dominates the
photonic mode by several orders of magnitude, corresponding to a lifetime
approximately equal to 10^{-2} year for a mass 1.1 MeV.Comment: 12 pages, LaTeX 2e (epsf) with 9 postscript figures and one logo.
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Effect of solid-to-solvent ratio on phenolic content and antioxidant capacities of “ Dukung Anak” (Phyllanthus niruri)
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of solid-to-solvent ratio (1:5. 1:10, 1:15
and 1:20) on the extraction of phenolic compounds (TPC and TFC) and antioxidant capacity
(ABTS and DPPH radical scavenging capacity) of
P. niruri
. Solid-to-solvent ratio showed
a significant effect for both phenolic compounds (TPC and TFC) and antioxidant capacity
(ABTS and DPPH radical scavenging capacity) with 1:20 was the condition for extracting the
highest of phenolic compounds (TPC and TFC) with a value of 5788.7 mg GAE/100 g DW and
1906.5 mg CE/100 g DW, respectively and exhibited high antioxidant capacities (ABTS and
DPPH radical scavenging capacities) with a value of 0.820 mM and 1.598 mM, respectively
among the four levels studied. TPC was positively and significantly correlated with ABTS and
DPPH (r=0.999 and r=0.999) under the effects of solid-to-solvent ratio as compared to TFC,
positively and strongly correlated (r=0.865 and r=0.868) with ABTS and DPPH
Numerical Replica Limit for the Density Correlation of the Random Dirac Fermion
The zero mode wave function of a massless Dirac fermion in the presence of a
random gauge field is studied. The density correlation function is calculated
numerically and found to exhibit power law in the weak randomness with the
disorder dependent exponent. It deviates from the power law and the disorder
dependence becomes frozen in the strong randomness. A classical statistical
system is employed through the replica trick to interpret the results and the
direct evaluation of the replica limit is demonstrated numerically. The
analytic expression of the correlation function and the free energy are also
discussed with the replica symmetry breaking and the Liouville field theory.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, REVTe
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