Mode locking features of driven vortex matter in an amorphous MoGe film detected by rf impedance technique

We have investigated mode locking resonance of a driven vortex lattice in an amorphous MoGe film by means of rf impedance measurements. This technique allows us to detect directly the lattice motion in response to a rf current superimposed on top of a dc current. At low rf currents the resonance appears as jumps (dips) in real (imaginary) part of rf impedance Z. On increasing rf current, the jump height in the real part of Z at a given resonant condition decreases monotonically, whereas the imaginary part of Z exhibits a transformation from the dip to peak behaviors. Namely, the resonant feature changes from capacitive to inductive responses, on increasing rf current. This behavior implies variations in the phase of rf current relative to that of the lattice velocity modulated by the pinning potential.     

Low-field vortex dynamics in various high-T c thin films

We present a novel ac susceptibility technique for the study of vortex creep in superconducting thin films. With this technique we study the dynamics of dilute vortices in c-axis oriented Y-123, Hg-1212, and Tl-1212 thin films, as well as a axis oriented Hg-1212 thin films. Results on the Hg-1212 and Tl-1212 thin films indicate that dislocation-mediated plastic flux creep of single vortices dominates at low temperatures and fields. As the temperature (or the field) is increased, the increasing vortex-vortex interactions promote a collective behavior, which can be characterized by elastic creep with a non-zero μ exponent. Also, in some of these samples effects of thermally assisted quantum creep are visible up to 45 K in some of these samples. In Y-123 thin films, creep is found to be collective down to the lowest temperatures and fields investigated, while the quantum creep persists only up to 10–11 K.     

Quantitative theory of thermal fluctuations and disorder in the vortex matter

A metastable supercooled homogeneous vortex liquid state exists down to zero fluctuation temperature in systems of mutually repelling objects. The zero temperature liquid state therefore serves as a (pseudo) ‘fixed point’ controlling the properties of vortex liquid below and even around the melting point. Based on this picture, a quantitative theory of vortex melting and glass transition in Type II superconductors in the framework of Ginzburg-Landau approach is presented. The melting line location is determined and magnetization and specific heat jumps are calculated. The point-like disorder shifts the line downwards and joins the order-disorder transition line. On the other hand, the disorder induces irreversible effects via replica symmetry breaking. The irreversibility line can be calculated within the Gaussian variational method. Therefore, the generic phase diagram contains four phases divided by the irreversibility line and melting line: liquid, solid, vortex glass and Bragg glass. We compare various experimental results with the theoretical formula.     

Critical behavior of the absorbing state transition in the contact process with relaxing immunization

We introduce a model for the Contact Process with relaxing immunization CPRI  . In this model, local memory is introduced by a time and space dependence of the contamination probability. The model has two parameters: a typical immunization time τ$\tau$ and a maximum contamination probability a$a$. The system presents an absorbing state phase transition whenever the contamination probability a$a$ is above a minimum threshold. For short immunization times, the system evolves to a statistically stationary active state. Above _τc(a)${\tau }_c\left(a\right)$, immunization predominates and the system evolves to the absorbing vacuum state. We employ a finite-size scaling analysis to show that the transition belongs to the standard directed percolation universality class. The critical immunization time diverges in the limit of a→1$a\to 1$. In this regime, the density of active sites decays exponentially as τ$\tau$ increases, but never reaches the vacuum state in the thermodynamic limit.     

Critical current densities and vortex dynamics in FeTexSe1−x single crystals

The critical current density and the normalized relaxation rate are reported in FeTe_0.59Se_0.41 single crystal. Critical current density is of order of 10⁵ A/cm², which is comparable to that in Co-doped BaFe₂As₂. In low temperature and low field region, the vortex dynamics of this system is well defined by the collective creep theory, which is quite similar to Co-doped BaFe₂As₂ reported before. We also discuss the origin of the anomaly in the field dependence of the relaxation rate.     

Phase transition in a two-dimensional Ising ferromagnet based on the generalized zero-temperature Glauber dynamics

At zero temperature, based on the Ising model, the phase transition in a two-dimensional square lattice is studied using the generalized zero-temperature Glauber dynamics. Using Monte Carlo （MC） renormalization group methods, the static critical exponents and the dynamic exponent are studied; the type of phase transition is found to be of the first order.     

高压作用下相分离液体玻璃转变的分子动力学研究

采用分子动力学模拟方法,研究了二元混合液体在不同外压作用下的相分离与玻璃转变过程,计算了相分离液体在玻璃转变过程中的结构和动力学特征.研究发现,外压会促进相分离的产生,并提高玻璃转变温度,会使β弛豫出现的温度更高、存在的时间更长,导致系统扩散性降低.同时还发现,相分离液体的玻璃转变过程存在微观不均匀现象. 关键词： 相分离 玻璃转变 分子动力学模拟 外压影响     

Electron transport near the Mott transition in n-GaAs and n-GaN

In this paper, we study the temperature dependence of the conductivity and the Hall coefficient near the metal–insulator phase transition. A theoretical investigation is performed within the effective mass approximation. The variational method is used to calculate the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the impurity states. Unlike previous studies, we have included nonlinear corrections to the screened impurity potential, because the Thomas–Fermi approximation is incorrect for the insulator phase. It is also shown that near the phase transition the exchange interaction is essential. The obtained temperature dependencies explain several experimental measurements in gallium arsenide (GaAs) and gallium nitride (GaN).     

Critical dynamics and multifractal exponents at the Anderson transition in 3d disordered systems

We investigate the dynamics of electrons in the vicinity of the Anderson transition in d = 3 dimensions. Using the exact eigenstates from a numerical diagonalization, a number of quantities related to the critical behavior of the diffusion function are obtained. The relation η = d ? D₂ between the correlation dimension D₂ of the multifractal eigenstates and the exponent η which enters into correlation functions is verified. Numerically, we have η ≈? 1.3. Implications of critical dynamics for experiments are predicted. We investigate the long-time behavior of the motion of a wave packet. Furthermore, electron-electron and electron-phonon scattering rates are calculated. For the latter, we predict a change of the temperature dependence for low T due to η. The electron-electron scattering rate is found to be linear in T and depends on the dimensionless conductance at the critical point.     

Dynamic magnetic hysteresis behavior and dynamic phase transition in the spin-1 Blume-Capel model

The nature (time variation) of response magnetization m(wt) of the spin-1 Blume-Capel model in the presence of a periodically varying external magnetic field h(wt) is studied by employing the effective-field theory (EFT) with correlations as well as the Glauber-type stochastic dynamics. We determine the time variations of m(wt) and h(wt) for various temperatures, and investigate the dynamic magnetic hysteresis behavior. We also investigate the temperature dependence of the dynamic magnetization, hysteresis loop area and correlation near the transition point in order to characterize the nature (first- or second-order) of the dynamic transitions as well as obtain the dynamic phase transition temperatures. The hysteresis loops are obtained for different reduced temperatures and we find that the areas of the loops are decreasing with the increasing of the reduced temperatures. We also present the dynamic phase diagrams and compare the results of the EFT with the results of the dynamic mean-field approximation. The phase diagrams exhibit many dynamic critical points, such as tricritical (•), zero-temperature critical (Z), triple (TP) and multicritical (A) points. According to values of Hamiltonian parameters, besides the paramagnetic (P), ferromagnetic (F) fundamental phases, one coexistence or mixed phase region, (F+P) and the reentrant behavior exist in the system. The results are in good agreement with some experimental and theoretical results.     

The scale equations in the critical dynamics of fluctuating systems

The scale equation method is applied to the investigation of the critical dynamics of systems described by Ginzburg-Landau functionals of the most general form. The method does not require renormalizability of the Ginzburg-Landau functional and does not make use of the scaling invariance hypothesis.     

Analytical investigation of the boundary-triggered phase transition dynamics in a cellular automata model with a slow-to-start rule

Previous studies suggest that there are three different jam phases in the cellular automata automaton model with a slow-to-start rule under open boundaries.In the present paper,the dynamics of each free-flow-jam phase transition is studied.By analysing the microscopic behaviour of the traffic flow,we obtain analytical results on the phase transition dynamics.Our results can describe the detailed time evolution of the system during phase transition,while they provide good approximation for the numerical simulation data.These findings can perfectly explain the microscopic mechanism and details of the boundary-triggered phase transition dynamics.     

Changes in adsorption and optical properties near the phase transition of super thin vanadyl phthalocyanine Langmuir films

Structural transition in thin vanadyl-phtalocyanine films deposited by Langmuir technology was studied in detail with the help of the vacuum adsorption and optical spectroscopy techniques. The reversible structural transition observed only in super-thin Langmuir films is accompanied by nonreversible changes during heating. This transformation of the film having defects and amorphous regions occurs during the film transition from a metastable state to a more stable one that is characterized by a lower free energy.     

Hysteretic response characteristics and dynamic phase transition via site dilution in the kinetic Ising model

The decay of the hysteresis loop area of the system, which is obeying a site diluted kinetic Ising model, is considered by the disorder parameter using the effective field theory analysis. The exhibition focuses on the understanding of external field frequency, amplitude and the site concentration dependency of the hysteresis loop area for several powerful treatments. Important characteristics of the hysteretic response, such as frequency dispersion, effect of domain nucleation phenomenon on the dynamic process, etc., has been introduced together with well known other characteristics. An attempt has been made to explain the relations between the competing time scales (intrinsic microscopic relaxation time of the system and the time period of the external oscillatory field) and the shape of the response. As a result of the detailed investigations, existence of essentially three, particularly four types of dispersion curves have been propounded.     

Dynamic phase transitions and the effects of frequency of oscillating magnetic field on the dynamic phase diagrams in the bilayer honeycomb lattice with AB stacking geometry

We study some dynamic properties of the bilayer honeycomb lattice with AB stacking geometry in the presence of a time-dependent oscillating external magnetic field. We employ the Glauber transition rates to construct the mean-field dynamical equations. First, we obtain dynamic phases in the system and observe the paramagnetic (p), ferromagnetic (f), compensated (c) antiferromagnetic (af), surface ferromagnetic (sf) and mixed (m) phases. Besides, coexistence phase regions also exist in the system. Second, we investigate the thermal behavior of the dynamic order parameters. From these study, the natures (first- or second-order) of the transitions are characterized and the dynamic phase transition (DPT) points are presented. The DPTs are obtained and the dynamic phase diagrams (DPD) are constructed plane of the temperature versus the amplitude of the magnetic field. We investigate the effect of the frequency of the oscillating external magnetic field on the DPD.     

Dynamical quantum phase transition in XY chains with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and XZY-YZX three-site interactions

We study the dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) in the $XY$ chains with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and the $XZY$-$YZX$ type of three-site interaction after a sudden quench. Both the models can be mapped to the spinless free fermion models by the Jordan-Wigner and Bogoliubov transformations with the form $H=\sum_{k}ǎrepsilon_{k}(\eta^{†}_{k}\eta_{k}-\frac{1}{2})$, where the quasiparticle excitation spectra $ǎrepsilon_{k}$ may be smaller than 0 for some $k$ and are asymmetrical ($ǎrepsilon_{k}\neqǎrepsilon_{-k}$). It is found that the factors of Loschmidt echo equal 1 for some $k$ corresponding to the quasiparticle excitation spectra of the pre-quench Hamiltonian satisfying $ǎrepsilon_{k}\cdotǎrepsilon_{-k}<0$, when the quench is from the gapless phase. By considering the quench from different ground states, we obtain the conditions for the occurrence of DQPTs for the general $XY$ chains with gapless phase, and find that the DQPTs may not occur in the quench across the quantum phase transitions regardless of whether the quench is from the gapless phase to gapped phase or from the gapped phase to gapless phase. This is different from the DQPTs in the case of quench from the gapped phase to gapped phase, in which the DQPTs will always appear. Moreover, we analyze the different reasons for the absence of DQPTs in the quench from the gapless phase and the gapped phase. The conclusion can also be extended to the general quantum spin chains.     

Bifurcation of a periodic instanton and quantum－classical transition in the biaxial nano－ferromagnet with a magnetic field along hard axis

Crossover from classical to quantum regimes of the barrier transition rate in a biaxial ferromagnetic magnet with a magnetic field applied along hard anisotropy axis is investigated. We show that the type of action-temperature diagrams can he determined by counting the number of bifurcation points. The model possesses not only the known type I and Ⅱ, hut also the interesting type Ⅲ and Ⅳ of transition which do not occur in general.     

Quantum phase transition in the anisotropic one-dimensional XY model with long-range interactions

In this paper we study the one-dimensional XY model with single ion anisotropy and long-range interaction that decay as a power law. The model has a quantum phase transition, at zero temperature, at a critical value D_c of the anisotropy parameter D. For values of D below D_c we use a self-consistent harmonic approximation. We have found that the critical temperature increases with D for small values of this parameter. For values of D above D_c we use the bond operator technique and calculate the gap as a function of D, at zero temperature.     

Critical behavior of the XY spin chain with three-site interaction studied in terms of the Loschmidt echo

The effect of the three-site interaction (α) on the critical behaviors of the XY spin chain is studied in terms of the Loschmidt echo (LE). The critical lines can be shifted by α, and the anisotropy parameter of the XY chain has no effect on the critical lines. The scaling behaviors of the LE reveal that the dynamical behaviors of the LE are reliable for characterizing quantum phase transition (QPT).