The magnetic behavior of CeB6: Comparison between elastic and inelastic neutron scattering,initial susceptibility and high-field magnetization

We report measurements of the elastic and inelastic neutron scattering, initial susceptibility and high-field magnetization on thoroughly prepared poly- and single crystalline samples of CeB₆. Part of these experiments have been performed at temperatures down to 60 mK and magnetic fields up to 70 kØe. Our neutron-diffraction data provide the first proof that CeB₆ is an antiferromagnet belowT _N2K as has been suggested by previous bulk experiments. The reduced value of the low-temperature magnetic moment both below and aboveT _N points to the existence of a Kondo effect of the ₇ crystal-field (CF) ground state of Ce³⁺. From the low-temperature width of the quasielastic neutron line, the Kondo temperature is inferred to beT _K3 K. The thermal variation of the initial susceptibility (forT>20K) is semiquantitatively explained invoking, besides the Kondo effect, a ₇- ₈ CF splitting of 70 K and magnetic interactions, which are about 10 times stronger between ₈ states than those between ₇ states. This large ₈- ₈ exchange interaction is also assumed to account for the most striking result of this work, i.e. the lack of any CF-transition peak up to 44 meV in our inelastic neutron-scattering spectra.     

From monotonic to oscillatory decay of correlations: Analytical approximation for the two-dimensional,one-component plasma

An approximate evaluation of the pair distribution and the structure factor is performed analytically for the two-dimensional, one-component plasma at any value of the coupling constant. The approximate distribution remains positive and satisfies three sum rules, including the compressibility one. When 0 or 2, exact results are found. At=2 the transition from monotonie (<2) to oscillatory (>2) decay of correlations takes place. Comparison with the Monte Carlo simulations shows good agreement for 0<<4.     

Monte Carlo study of the generalized reaction-diffusion lattice-gas model system

The reaction-diffusion lattice-gas model is an interacting particle system out of equilibrium whose microscopic dynamics is a combination of Glauber (reaction) and Kawasaki (diffusion) processes; the Glauber ratec(s; x) at sitex when the configuration iss satisfies detailed balance at temperatureT, while the Kawasaki ratec(s; x, y) between nearest-neighbor sitesx andy satisfies detailed balance at a different temperatureT. We report on the phase diagram of that system as obtained from a series of Monte Carlo simulations of steady states in two-dimensional lattices with arbitrary values forT,T, and; this generalizes previous analytical and numerical studies for and/orT. When the rates are implemented by the Metropolis algorithm, the system is observed to undergo various types of first- and second-order (nonequilibrium) phase transitions, e.g., one may identify Onsager (equilibrium) as well as Landau (mean-field) types of continuous phase transitions.Dedicated to Joel L. Lebowitz on the occasion of his 60th birthday.     

Yang-Lee theory and the conductor-insulator transition in asymmetric log-potential lattice gases

A feature of a conducting phase at low density is that there is a singularity in the fugacity expansion of the pressure, whereas the same expansion in the insulating phase gives an analytic series. The Yang-Lee characterization of a phase transition thus implies that in the conducting phase the zeros of the grand partition function must pinch the real axis in the complex scaled fugacity () plane at =0, whereas in the insulating phase a neighborhood of =0 must be zero free. Exact and numerical calculations are presented which suggest that for two-component log-potential lattice gases in one dimension with dimensionless coupling, the zeros pinch the point =0 for<2, while for2 a neighborhood of =0 is zero free. The conductor-insulator transition therefore takes place at=2 independent of the density and other parameters in the model.     

Two-Frequency Mutual Coherence Function of Millimeter Wave in Rain

In this paper, the general formulations of two-frequency mutual coherence function, , for a pulse wave propagating in random discrete media are summarized. The relations of the amplitudes and phases of the to _d are given by Ishimaru et al, based on average particle in cloud and rain. In practice, since the particles sizes in random discrete media are in a size distribution spectrum, the ought to be derived from a particles size distribution. Based on an approximately solution, we describe these examples of millimeter waves (94, 220GHz) pulse propagating in rain and show that the 's amplitudes and phases obvious varies as rainfall and frequency. For a kind of rain, considering raindrops size distribution and average raindrop size, respectively, the 's amplitudes and phases are calculated. The numerical results show that the differences between the results calculated by raindrops size spectrum and by average size are remarkable, especially for heavy rainfall. Therefore, It is shown that the calculated by a particles size distribution is more reasonable than by average size. For the numerical analyses, particles size distribution ought to be adopted. This study is important for us to provide adequate bandwidths to achieve high-rate pulse communications and improve MMW radar system performances and atmospheric remote-sensing techniques.     

Elastic constants and quadrupolar interactions in the (LaCe)B6 series

Elastic constants of (La_1–xCe_x)B₆(x=0.01, 0.03, 0.1) dilute alloys have been determined by ultrasonic measurements at temperatures between 0.5 K and 4.2 K. The temperature dependence ofc ₄₄ and (c ₁₁–c ₁₂)/2 is in excellent agreement with calculations including magnetoelastic and interionic quadrupolar interactions. The single ion coupling constantsg (=₃, ₃) are independent of concentration. The systematic concentration dependence of quadrupolar coupling constants g'g(x) from the dilute (x=0.01) alloy to the compound CeB₆ (x=1) has been studied. Evidence of Grüneisenparameter coupling in the bulk modulus but no indication for a ₈ ground state splitting or a quadrupolar Kondo effect has been found. In addition the magnetic field dependence of elastic constants up to 6.5 Tesla was investigated.     

Radiation effects in the production and decay of ψ mesons by leptons

A new expression _e is obtained for resonance in the reaction e⁺e^– ar ^+– with allowance for the radiative corrections, which also contain the emission of hard photons by the final leptons and the final value of the energy resolution E. An expression is obtained for the total probability of radiative lepton decay. A numerical analysis of the experimental data is made for the reaction ^+–, and the parameters e⁺e^– (3, 1) e⁺e^–, and _e ² /, _e, and are determined for (3, 1) resonance-with allowance for the radiative corrections.This paper was read (November 17–21, 1975) at a session on high-energy physics of the Department of Nuclear Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 3, pp. 29–34, March, 1977.     

The Sixth-Moment Sum Rule for the Pair Correlations of the Two-Dimensional One-Component Plasma: Exact Result

The system under consideration is a two-dimensional one-component plasma in the fluid regime, at density n and arbitrary coupling =e ² (e=unit charge, =inverse temperature). The Helmholtz free energy of the model, as the generating functional for the direct pair correlation c, is treated in terms of a convergent renormalized Mayer diagrammatic expansion in density. Using specific topological transformations within the bond-renormalized Mayer expansion, we prove that the nonzero contributions to the regular part of the Fourier component of c up to the k ²-term originate exclusively from the ring diagrams (unable to undertake the bond-renormalization procedure) of the Helmholtz free energy. In particular, (k)=–/k ²+/(8n)–k ²/[96(n)²]+O(k ⁴). This result fixes via the Ornstein–Zernike relation, besides the well-known zeroth-, second-, and fourth-moment sum rules, the new sixth-moment condition for the truncated pair correlation h, n(n/2)³ r ⁶ h(r) d r=3(–6)(8–3)/4.     

On interesting walks in a graph

Notions of interesting walks and of their equivalence are introduced. A general formula for the number _l, of equivalence classes of interesting walks of lengthl in a given graphG is derived and applied forl 5 so as to express _l in terms of the adjacency matrix ofG.     

Transient soliton dynamics in perturbation fields

Transient soliton dynamics for perturbatively driven and damped sG and ⁴ solitons was found fort ^–1. The perturbed solitons remain stable with relativistic reduced time-dependent width. Internal oscillation modes of the solitons are asymptotically damped fort ^–1. There appears a relaxation regime with the field dependent superexponential relaxation of the soliton width which becomes exponential in the asymptotic regime.     

Pseudo-Jahn-Teller effect in tetragonal local centers

The shape of the light absorption band by a local tetragonal center at the transition _{1 5}(x, y) is investigated in a semiclassical approximation. In addition to interaction with fully-symmetric (₁), Jahn-Teller (₃, ₄) vibrations, inter-action is also taken into account with vibrations ₅, which admix an electron level ₄(z) to the electronic state ₅, which is separated from ₅ by the energetic gap . An analytic computation of the band shape is performed in the first order of the expansion of the form function in ^–1. An asymmetric two-hump band is obtained, where the long-wave maximum always has higher intensity than the shortwave maximum.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 12, pp. 62–67, December, 1987.     

Quantum supports and modal logic

LetA be a quasi-manual with finite operations. Associate to each E = {e ₁ ,..., e_n} A the set _E of modal formulas: (e ₁ ··· e_n), e_i (e ₁ ··· e_i–1 e_i+1 ··· e_n), i=1,..., n. Set _A = {_E|E A}. We show that supports ofA are in one-to-one correspondence with certain Kripke models of _A where the supports are given by {x |A x is true}.On leave from the Department of Mathematics, Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.     

Charge Fluctuations in the Two-Dimensional One-Component Plasma

We study, via computer simulations, the fluctuations in the net electric charge in a two-dimensional, one component plasma (OCP) with uniform background charge density –e in a region inside a much larger overall neutral system. Setting e=1, this is the same as the fluctuations in N , the number of mobile particles of charge e. As expected, the distribution of N has, for large , a Gaussian form with a variance which grows only as ^||, where || is the length of the perimeter of . The properties of this system depend only on the coupling parameter =kT, which is the same as the reciprocal temperature in our units. Our simulations show that when the coupling parameter increases, ^() decreases to an asymptotic value ^()^(2)/2 which is equal (or very close) to that obtained for the corresponding variance of particles on a rigid triangular lattice. Thus, for large , the characteristic length _L=2^/ associated with charge fluctuations behaves very differently from that of the Debye length, _D1/ , which it approaches as 0. The pair correlation function of the OCP is also studied.     

The electronic structure of Rhodium: Angle-resolved studies of photoelectron and secondary electron emission

We report electron spectroscopic studies of the Rh(111) surface, with the aim to obtain bulk band-structure information. We have measured normal photoemision using tunable synchrotron radiation in the range of photon energies between 11 eV and 55 eV, and angle-dependent photoemission along the LUX and LKL azimuths using the He resonance lines (=21.2 eV, 40.8 eV). To complement these data, we studied angleresolved secondary electron emission after excitation with electrons and photons. We derive parts of the one-electron energy dispersionE(k) along L, and determine the energies of several bulk critical points (in eV):E(> ₇₊/₈₊)=–2.75±0.10,E(> ₈₊=–0.85±0.10,E(> _7–=16.1±0.5,E(> _6–/> _8–)=20.5±0.5,E(X ₇₊)=–5.0±0.1,E(L ₆₊)=–5.6±0.5,E(L ₆₊/L ₄₊₊₅₊)=–2.65±0.10,E(L ₆₊)=9.0±0.5 eV. Our results are compared to several available band structure calculations.     

Thickness dependence of the spin- and angle-resolved photoemission of ultrathin,epitaxial Ni(111)/W(110) layers

The thickness dependence of the magnetic band structure of ultrathin, epitaxial Ni(111)/W(110) layers has been studied by spin and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. The changes of the spin-resolved photoemission intensities upon reducing the layer thickness depend strongly on the wavevector along the -L line of the Brillouin zone. The measured exchange splitting atk 1/3(-L) andk 1/2(-L) is found to be independent of the layer thickness for layers consisting of 3 or more atomic layers, while decreases rapidly with the layer thickness atk2/3(-L). This behavior is very similar to the temperature dependence of the spin-resolved photoemission spectra of bulk Ni(111) at the samek-points.     

Dynamics of the magnetization in the heavy fermion system CeCu6

We have studied CeCu₆ by inelastic neutron scattering. We found both quasielastic and also inelastic transitions, which we interpret as residual crystal field transitions. The quasielastic linewidth is a strongly nonlinear function of temperature, with approximately _QE=5.0 meV at 300 K, with a crossover _QE=kT at about 13 K and with a residual value of _QE=(0)=0.50 meV forT=0 K. Below 5 K the quasielastic intensityI _QE decreases linearly with temperature. _stI _QE/T is in good agreement with direct measurements of the static susceptibility. The data are fully consistent with a nonordering groundstate of CeCu₆.     

Observables in a noncommutative approach to the unification of quanta and gravity: a finite model

We further develop a noncommutative model unifying quantum mechanics and general relativity proposed in Gen. Rel. Grav. (36, 111–126 (2004)). Generalized symmetries of the model are defined by a groupoid given by the action of a finite group on a space E. The geometry of the model is constructed in terms of suitable (noncommutative) algebras on . We investigate observables of the model, especially its position and momentum observables. This is not a trivial thing since the model is based on a noncommutative geometry and has strong nonlocal properties. We show that, in the position representation of the model, the position observable is a coderivation of a corresponding coalgebra, coparallelly to the well-known fact that the momentum observable is a derivation of the algebra. We also study the momentum representation of the model. It turns out that, in the case of the algebra of smooth, quickly decreasing functions on , the model in its quantum sector is nonlocal, i.e., there are no nontrivial coderivations of the corresponding coalgebra, whereas in its gravity sector such coderivations do exist. They are investigated.This revised version was published online in April 2005. The publishing date was inserted.     

Differential algebras for quantum groups of type B, C, and D

We study higher order bicovariant differential calculi on the quantum groups O_q(N) and Sp _q (N). We show that the second antisymmetrizer exterior algebra _u is the quotient of the universal exterior algebra _u by the principal ideal generated by . Here denotes the unique up to scalars biinvariant 1-form. Moreover is central in _u and _u is an inner differential calculus. We show that the quadratic dual to the left-invariant algebra _{s L} is isomorphic to the reflection equation algebra. Let be an arbitrary left-covariant first order differential calculus. We show that the dimension of the space of left-invariant 2-forms in the universal exterior algebra equals the number of linearly independent quadratic-linear relations in the quantum tangent space.     

A solution of the multiple-binding mean spherical approximation for ionic mixtures

The mean spherical approximation (MSA) for an arbitrary mixture of charged hard spheres with saturating bonds is solved in the Wertheim formalism. Any number of bonds is allowed. It is shown that the general solution is given in terms of a screening MSA-like parameter ^T , a cross-interaction parameter that will depend on the binding association equations, the set of binding association fractions, and an additional algebraic equation. The equation for ^T is given for the general case. The equation for , however, depends strongly on the particular closure that is used to compute the contact pair correlation function. The full solution requires, as in the dimer case recently solved by Blum and Bernard, solvingm+2 equations and additionally the inversion of a matrix of size [(–1)m] for a system withm components and bonds. We recall that when =1, only dimers are allowed; for =2, only linear chains are formed: and when 3, branching of the polymers occurs. It can be shown that the excess entropy for the polymer case is as before,S ^MSA=( ^T )³/3 + sticky terms, where the sticky terms depend on the model and will be given in future work.     

Higher order differential calculus on SL q(N)

Let be a bicovariant first order differential calculus on a Hopf algebra . There are three possibilities to construct a differential N ₀-graded Hopf algebra which contains as its first order part. In all cases is a quotient = /J of the tensor algebra by some suitable ideal. We distinguish three possible choices _u J, _s J, and _W J, where the first one generates the universal differential calculus (over ) and the last one is Woronowicz' external algebra. Let q be a transcendental complex number and let be one of the N ²-dimensional bicovariant first order differential calculi on the quantum group SL _q(N). Then for N 3 the three ideals coincide. For Woronowicz' external algebra we calculate the dimensions of the spaces of left-invariant and bi-invariant k-forms. In this case each bi-invariant form is closed. In case of 4D _± calculi on SL _q(2) the universal calculus is strictly larger than the other two calculi. In particular, the bi-invariant 1-form is not closed.