Fractional Quantum Hall Effect and (2 + 1)-Dimensional Quantum Electrodynamics

By investigating the gap equation defining thefull electron propagator in the framework of (2 +1)-dimensional quantum electrodynamics, we derive thefractional quantum Hall effect at the filling factors = 1/2, 1/3, 2/5, 1/9. In particular, thevalue = 1/2 emerges as the lowest order of thedevelopment of this gap equation.     

Charge-stripe order in the electronic ferroelectric LuFe2O4

The structural features of the charge ordering states in LuFe(2)O(4) are characterized by in situ cooling transmission electron microscopy observations from 300 K down to 20 K. Two distinctive structural modulations, a major q1=(1/3,1/3,2) and a weak q2 = q1/10+(0,0,3/2), have been well determined at the temperature of approximately 20 K. Systematic analysis demonstrates that the charges at low temperatures are well crystallized in a charge-stripe phase, in which the charge-density wave behavior in a nonsinusoidal fashion results in elemental electric dipoles for ferroelectricity. It is also noted that the charge ordering and ferroelectric domains often change markedly with lowering temperatures and yield a rich variety of structural phenomena.     

Neutron backscattering on vibrating silicon crystals-experimental results on the neutron backscattering spectrometer IN10

Neutron backscattering on vibrating silicon crystals has been measured in transmission geometry on the backscattering spectrometer IN10 at the Institute Laue-Langevin (ILL). The crystals were excited into longitudinal mechanical resonance vibrations by LiNbO₃ transducers glued to the crystal surface. The transmitted intensity of the 111 Bragg reflection was measured as a function of the deformation amplitude at vibration frequencies from 2.5 MHz to 30 MHz. By vibrating the initially perfect silicon crystal, an increase in E/E of the diffracted profile was achieved, accompanied by an increase of the backreflected intensity. The width of the reflection and the resolution is a linear function of the ultrasonic strain over a wide range of excitation strengths. E/E can be easily tuned in a reproducible way by varying the voltage on the piezoelectric transducer. For the highest excited ultrasonic strain an increase of the backscattered intensity of about a factor of 50 is observed. Sound wave amplitudes can be determined from the measured width in E/E of the transmission curves. The obtained results are relevant for the design and operation of intensity-to-resolution tunable monochromators for high resolution instruments.     

Multiple scattering of fractionally charged quasiparticles

We employ shot noise measurements to characterize the effective charge of quasiparticles, at filling factor nu=1/3 of the fractional quantum Hall regime, as they scatter from an array of identical weak backscatterers. Upon scattering, quasiparticles are known to bunch, e.g., only three e/3 charges, or "electrons" are found to traverse a rather opaque potential barrier. We find here that the effective charge scattered by an array of scatterers is determined by the scattering strength of an individual scatterer and not by the combined scattering strength of the array, which can be very small. Moreover, we also rule out intraedge equilibration of e/3 quasiparticles over a length scale of hundreds of microns.     

Light-induced charge transport in BaTiO3 via three charge states of rhodium

By combined studies of electron spin resonance and optical absorption at low temperatures, the charge-transfer bands of Rh⁵⁺ and Rh⁴⁺ are identified to be peaked near 1.6 and 1.9 eV, respectively. On this basis, the light-induced charge-transfer processes in BaTiO₃:Rh are unraveled at room temperature. It is shown that three charge states of Rh are involved, leading to two levels: the shallow Rh^4+/5+ and the deeper Rh^3+/4+ level. The optical behaviour of these two levels corresponds to those expected from a two-center model. The present paper represents the first atomic-scale identification of three charge states of one element leading to optical two-level response.     

Ultrahigh charging of dust particles in a nonequilibrium plasma

Charging of dust particles in a plasma with the two-temperature energy distribution of electrons has been studied. It has been shown that the dust-particle potential divided by the electron temperature decreases with increasing electron temperature in the plasma with cold ions. Owing to this behavior, the potential of the dustparticle surface increases with the electron temperature more slowly than the linear function and is lower than the electron temperature (divided by the elementary charge) for T _e > 5.5 eV in hydrogen and for T _e > 240 eV in argon. The fraction of fast electrons at which these electrons begin to contribute to the charge of dust particles has been determined. It has been shown that the charge of micron particles can reach 10⁶ elementary charges. The effect of the cold and thermal field emission on the charge of dust particles has been analyzed. The possibility of obtaining ultrahigh charges (to 10⁷ elementary charges on dust particles with a radius of 50–100 μm irradiated by a 25-keV 1-mA electron beam has been demonstrated.     

Feature of the magnetotransport of a quasi-one-dimensional electrons on the superfluid helium

The magnetotransport in a nondegenerate quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) electron system over superfluid helium has been investigated experimentally. The measurements are performed in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field B up to 2.6 T in the temperature range T=0.48–2.05 K in the system of conducting channels of 100–400 nm width. It is shown that the value of longitudinal magnetoresistance ρ_xx increases with B. In the electron-gas scattering region (T>0.9 ), the behaviour of ρ_xx agrees with classical Drude law. In the quantum transport regime, the self-consistent Born approximation (SCBA) theory for a 2D electron system over liquid helium describes the experimental data qualitatively. The deviation due to the difference of the experimentally studied Q1D system of the electrons in a parabolic potential well differs from theoretically analysed one. The experimental data agree with the theoretical calculation for the Q1D electron system at the weak magnetic field and the low temperature.

The negative magnetoresistance of the conducting channels has been observed in both the gas- and the ripplon-scattering region. These effects have been explained by weak carrier localization on the gas atoms at high temperature and by display of the quantum magnetotransport features in a mesoscopic system at low temperature.     

Jahn–Teller coupled charge density wave in a double exchange system

In a two orbital model, we formulate Jahn–Teller coupled charge density wave in one electron per lattice site limit. Softening of Jahn–Teller phonons corresponding to distortion modes Q₂ or Q₃ associated with perfect nesting of Fermi surface leads to this instability at low temperature. The gap equation for charge density wave state and its dependences on electron–lattice coupling are calculated explicitly when any one of the Jahn–Teller modes is excited cooperatively. We find that the Q₂ distortion mode yields lowest free energy. Effect of electron–lattice interaction on collective mode, such as amplitude mode, is more pronounced when the excited mode is Q₂.     

Experimental observation of coherent backscattering in open ballistic microstructures

We report on observations of coherent backscattering in open devices consisting of a quantum point contact and two reflector gates. The devices are fabricated in a high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas system, and magnetotransport data are taken at a temperature of 385 mK. Unlike ballistic microstructures in which this effect has previously been measured, our devices are designed to yield many backscattered trajectories enclosing very similar areas. An array of these devices has been measured in order to average away magnetoconductance fluctuations.     

Charge separation in liquids

The common theory of reversible charge transfer (RCT) at low donor system excitation power in liquids is examined. The space averaging procedures describing the kinetics of RCT in the liquid space are discussed. The reaction space is presented as a totality of independent subgroups with one excited donor and some group of acceptors effectively interacting only with the donor in the given subgroup. We have shown that the theory [3-5] gives questionable results for cation state probability for the usual parameters of this problem. If the acceptor concentration or the charge transfer rate constants are low, then the cation state probability behaves the same in the two theories [3-5] and [7, 8]. The correct account of the donors ground state change and charge back transfer in the RCT theory gives the new, not contradictory results, different from the behavior of the results in references [3-5], but near to results of [7, 8]. The molecules motion accelerates the ionization of donors and neutralization of ions. The influence of the motion of neutral and ionized molecules on charge transfer kinetics is different. The Coulomb interaction of ions is taken into account; the effect depends on the space averaging method used. The new approximation in this article in comparison with references [3-6,9] consists in the space averaging procedure of the donor cation state probability, which takes into account the donors ground state.Received: 1 June 2004, Published online: 5 November 2004PACS: 78.20.Bh Theory, models, and numerical simulation - 71.90. + q Other topics in electronic structure     

Transition from an electron solid to the sequence of fractional quantum Hall states at very low Landau level filling factor

At low Landau level filling of a two-dimensional electron system, typically associated with the formation of an electron crystal, we observe local minima in Rxx at filling factors nu = 2/11, 3/17, 3/19, 2/13, 1/7, 2/15, 2/17, and 1/9. Each of these developing fractional quantum Hall (FQHE) states appears only above a filling-factor-specific temperature. This can be interpreted as the melting of an electron crystal and subsequent FQHE liquid formation. The observed sequence of FQHE states follows the series of composite fermion states emanating from nu = 1/6 and nu = 1/8.     

Phononless hopping conduction in two-dimensional layers of quantum dots

Regularities are studied in charge transport due to the hopping conduction of holes along two-dimensional layers of Ge quantum dots in Si. It is shown that the temperature dependence of the conductivity obeys the Efros-Shklovskii law. It is found that the effective localization radius of charge carriers in quantum dots varies nonmonotonically upon filling quantum dots with holes, which is explained by the successive filling of electron shells. The preexponential factor of the hopping conductivity ceases to depend on temperature at low temperatures (T<10 K) and oscillates as the degree of filling quantum dots with holes varies, assuming values divisible by the conductance quantum e²/h. The results obtained indicate that a transition from phonon-assisted hopping conduction to phononless charge transfer occurs as the temperature decreases. The Coulomb interaction of localized charge carriers has a dominant role in these phononless processes.     

Contribution of backscattered electrons to the total electron yield produced in collisions of 8–28 keV electrons with tungsten

It is shown experimentally that under energetic electron bombardment the backscattered electrons from solid targets contribute significantly (∼80%) to the observed total electron yield, even for targets of high backscattering coefficients. It is further found that for tungsten (Z = 74) with a backscattering coefficient of about 0.50, about 20% of the total electron yield is contributed by the total secondary electrons for impact energies in the range of 8–28 keV. The yield of true backscattered electrons at normal incidence (η ₀), total secondary electrons (δ) and the total electron yield (δ _tot) produced in collisions of 8–28 keV electrons with W have been measured and compared with predictions of available theories. The present results indicate that the constant-loss of primary electrons in the target plays a significant role in producing the secondary electrons and that it yields a better fit to the experiment compared to the power-law.      

二级轻气炮超高速弹丸发射技术的研究

 本文研究了提高二级轻气炮弹丸速度的发射技术途径。通过数值计算对各种装填参量的影响进行了详细讨论。认为减小弹丸质量、活塞质量以及注气压力，可使二级轻气炮在较少的装药量条件下提供较高的弹丸速度。目前已经做到在5 kg装药时，使30 g的弹丸达到7.2 km/s速度；60 g弹丸达到5.7 km/s速度；26 g弹丸达到7.4 km/s速度。装填3.5 kg药量时，使10.3 g弹丸达到了8.1 km/s速度。     

电极处势垒对新结构器件电子输运的影响

在新结构薄膜电致发光器件中,电极处的势垒的高度决定电子的注入数量.在电极界面处插入不同的薄膜材料,可以改变势垒的高度,并对电子注入数量和器件的发光亮度产生影响.通过拟合计算得到ZnO/SiO,ITO/SiO的界面势垒高度分别为0.51和1.87eV. 关键词：     

Structure and physical properties of ceramics in a section of the system Mg-Cu-Fe-O

The concentration dependences of the crystal lattice parameter and the Curie temperature of the magnetic ceramic, obtained in air at a calcination temperature of 1100°C from charges with the composition (1–x)MgFe₂O₄+x(0.5 CuO × 1.25 Fe₂O₃), where 0x1, were studied. The dependences of the magnetic parameters of the hysteresis loop as well as the resistivity on the composition of the charge were investigated. The single-phase ceramic, having the structure of spinel, is formed for x < 0.5, and in samples with x > 0.5 a tetragonal phase and -Fe₂O₃ are present. The maximum squareness ratio of the hysteresis loop (SHL) is observed in the region x=0.1–0.4. The region of high values of the squareness ratio is also the region of solid solutions containing defects, when -Fe₂O₃ quasiparticles, having the structure of imperfect spinel, are present in the solution.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 12, pp. 84–86, December, 1990.     

Twin refinement below room temperature in the 1-2-3 highT c superconductors

Thea–b microtwinning in the 90 K superconductors of the Y(1)Ba(2)Cu(3)O(7–) family of perovscites is studied by transmission electron microscopy betwen 300 and 85 K. Thermally stable twin spacings of order 300 Å are observed in dense polycrystalline material. In grains with free surfaces of sufficiently regular shape, the twin pattern is observed to refine at low temperature, either spontaneously or by low temperature thermal cycling, from a spacing of about 1000 Å to about 300 Å. In grains with free surfaces of less regular shape, the twins can be brought to disappear at low temperature after a sufficient electron dosis, and to reappear reversibly. A correlation between transition temperature and twin spacing is discussed.     

Spin relaxation in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells in the vicinity of odd filling factors

Electron spin resonance in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells in the vicinity of odd filling factors ν = 3, 5, and 7 is investigated. The spin relaxation time of two-dimensional electrons is determined from the width of the microwave resonance absorption line. Dependences of the spin relaxation time on the filling factor, temperature, and orientation of the magnetic field are investigated. The spin relaxation time decreases noticeably upon deviation from odd filling factors, and its maximum value depends on the angle between the magnetic field and the plane of the two-dimensional electron gas.     

Impact of spin-orbit coupling on quantum Hall nematic phases

Anisotropic charge transport is observed in a two-dimensional (2D) hole system in a perpendicular magnetic field at filling factors nu=7/2, nu=11/2, and nu=13/2 at low temperature. In stark contrast, the transport at nu=9/2 is isotropic for all temperatures. Isotropic hole transport at nu=7/2 is restored for sufficiently low 2D densities or an asymmetric confining potential. The density and symmetry dependences of the observed anisotropies suggest that strong spin-orbit coupling in the hole system contributes to the unusual transport behavior.     

Experimental discrimination between charge 2e/3 top quark and charge 4e/3 exotic quark production scenarios

We present the first experimental discrimination between the 2e/3 and 4e/3 top quark electric charge scenarios, using top quark pairs (tt) produced in pp collisions at (square root) s = 1.96 TeV by the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We use 370 pb;{-1} of data collected by the D0 experiment and select events with at least one high transverse momentum electron or muon, high transverse energy imbalance, and four or more jets. We discriminate between b- and b-quark jets by using the charge and momenta of tracks within the jet cones. The data are consistent with the expected electric charge, |q|=2e/3. We exclude, at the 92% C.L., that the sample is solely due to the production of exotic quark pairs QQ with |q|=4e/3. We place an upper limit on the fraction of QQ pairs rho<0.80 at the 90% C.L.