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1997-01-15
A mechanism for the non-Fermi-liquid behavior in CeCu_{6-x}Au_x
We propose an explanation for the recently observed non-Fermi-liquid behavior of metallic alloys CeCu_{6-x}Au_x: near x=0.1, the specific heat c is proportional to T \ln (T_0/T) and the resistivity increases linearly with temperature T over a wide range of T. These features follow from a model in which three-dimensiona...
9701109v1
1997-01-31
Investigation of the annealed disordered Ising systems within two-tail approximation
In the present paper an approach for investigation of the disordered two-component Ising systems with long range interaction has been suggested. Possible applications to metalic and magnetic alloys and lattice gas are considered. We have also obtained numerical results for thermodynamical properties of these models. Th...
9702006v1
1997-03-03
Evidence for Kondo Effect in Au80Co20 Ribbons
A minimum in resistivity as a function of temperature for an as-quenched Au80Co20 ribbon prepared by melt-spinning using a wheel surface speed of 20 m s^{-1} is found at 25 K. No resistivity minimum is found for an as-quenched ribbon using a wheel surface speed of 60 m s^{-1}, however, upon heat treatment of this ribbo...
9703030v1
1997-03-07
Multiple small angle neutron scattering in ferromagnets
The conclusions arising from the multiple small angle neutron scattering theory, developed recently by S.V. Maleyev, R.V. Pomortsev and Y.N. Skryabin [Phys. Rev. B 50 7133 (1994)] for the value of Born parameter more than 1, are experimentally confirmed by magnetic scattering from domain structure of pure Fe and Ni, as...
9703064v1
1997-04-24
Local Pairing at U-impurities in BCS Superconductors
We analyse here the role electrons on Anderson-U impurities play in superconductivity in a metal alloy. We find that phonon coupling at impurities counteracts the traditional effects which dominate T_c suppression in the non-magnetic limit. In some cases, we findt hat non-magnetic impurities can enhance T_c. In the Kon...
9704207v2
1997-05-25
Close Packing of Atoms, Geometric Frustration and the Formation of Heterogeneous States in Crystals
To describe structural peculiarities in inhomogeneous media caused by the tendency to the close packing of atoms a formalism based on the using of the Riemann geometry methods (which were successfully applied lately to the description of structures of quasicrystals and glasses) is developed. Basing on this formalism we...
9705251v1
1997-06-07
Tight-Binding study of the electronic and magnetic properties of an L1_0 ordered FeCu alloy
We have calculated the electronic structure of the tetragonal L1$_0$ ordered FeCu by solving self-consistently a tight-binding Hamiltonian for s, p and d electrons. We have found by total energy calculation that this structure is ferromagnetic. In addition, we have determined that the equilibrium ratio between the inte...
9706071v1
1997-06-23
Confined gap excitation and multielectron localization in magnetic alloys
The degenerate Anderson model with a nonlinear electron dispersion and an energy dependent hybridization is proven to exhibit hidden integrability and is diagonalized by the Bethe ansatz. If the impurity $f$-level energy lies below the conduction band edge, the spectrum of the system is shown to contain pairs of confin...
9706230v1
1997-06-24
Lattice Dynamics of Martensitic Transformations Examined by Atomistic Simulations
We have performaed molecular dynamics simulations of Fe(80)Ni(20) alloys using an inter-atomic potential of the EAM-type which allows the simulation of the martensite-austenite transition. We present results, showing the development of an inhomogeneous shear system on a nanoscale during the thermally induced austenitic...
9706248v1
1997-07-02
Bethe ansatz approach to thermodynamics of superconducting magnetic alloys
We derive thermodynamic Bethe ansatz equations for a model describing an $U\to\infty$ Anderson impurity embedded in a BCS superconductor. The equations are solved analytically in the zero-temperature limit, T=0. It is shown that the impurities depress superconductivity in the Kondo limit, however at T=0 the system rema...
9707026v2
1997-09-26
Dynamics of a ferromagnetic domain wall and the Barkhausen effect
We derive an equation of motion for the the dynamics of a ferromagnetic domain wall driven by an external magnetic field through a disordered medium and we study the associated depinning transition. The long-range dipolar interactions set the upper critical dimension to be $d_c=3$, so we suggest that mean-field exponen...
9709300v1
1998-01-06
Van Hove Singularity and D-Wave Pairing in Disordered Superconductors
We apply the coherent potential approximation (CPA) to a simple model for disordered superconductors with d-wave pairing. We demonstrate that whilst the effectiveness of an electronic Van Hove singularity to enhance the transition temperature T$_c$ is reduced by disorder it is not eliminated. In fact we give a qualitat...
9801035v1
1998-02-06
Magnetic Properties of Dilute Alloys: Equations for Magnetization and its Structural Fluctuations
The dilute Heisenberg ferromagnet is studied taking into account fluctuations of magnetization caused by disorder. A self-consistent system of equations for magnetization and its mean quadratic fluctuations is derived within the configurationally averaged two-time temperature Green's function method. This system of equ...
9802073v1
1998-03-01
Scaling of magnetic fluctuations near a quantum phase transition
We use inelastic neutron scattering to measure the magnetic fluctuations in a single crystal of the heavy fermion alloy CeCu_5.9Au_0.1 close to the antiferromagnetic quantum critical point. The energy and temperature-dependent spectra obey (E/T) scaling at Q near (1,0,0). The neutron data and earlier bulk susceptibilit...
9803004v1
1998-03-06
Coalescence of the Fermi-surface-related diffuse intensity peaks in disordered alloys
The possibility of disappearance of the diffuse-intensity peak splitting induced by the Fermi surface (i.e., of coalescence of the intensity maxima) with decreasing temperature is predicted. The underlying mechanism is the compensation of the reciprocal-space curvatures of the self-energy and the interaction. The theor...
9803077v1
1998-05-07
The first principles calculation of transport coefficients
We demonstrate the practical feasibility of calculating transport coefficients such as the viscosity of liquids completely from first principles using the Green-Kubo relations. Results presented for liquid aluminum are shown to have a statistical error of only ca. 5%. The importance of such calculations is illustrated ...
9805082v1
1998-07-13
Theoretical evidence for the semi-insulating character of AlN
We present ab initio density-functional calculations for acceptors, donors, and native defects in aluminum nitride, showing that acceptors are deeper (Be ~ 0.25 eV, Mg_ 0.45 eV) and less soluble than in GaN; at further variance with GaN, both the extrinsic donors Si_Al and C_Al, and the native donor V_N (the anion vaca...
9807190v1
1998-08-20
Barkhausen noise in soft amorphous magnetic materials under applied stress
We report experimental measurements of Barkhausen noise on Fe_{64}Co_{21}B_{15} amorphous alloy under tensile stress. We interpret the scaling behavior of the noise distributions in terms of the depinning transition of the domain walls. We show that stress induced anisotropy enhance the effect of short-range elastic in...
9808224v1
1998-10-03
Van der Waerden's Colouring Theorem and Weak-Strong Duality on the Lattice
Van der Waerden's (VDW) colouring theorem in combinatoric number theory [1] has scope for physical applications.The solution of the two colour case has enabled the construction of an explicit mapping of an infinite, one dimensional antiferromagnetic Ising system to an effective pseudo- ferromagnetic one with the coupli...
9810030v1
1998-11-09
Exact Thermodynamics of Disordered Impurities in Quantum Spin Chains
Exact results for the thermodynamic properties of ensembles of magnetic impurities with randomly distributed host-impurity couplings in the quantum antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model are presented. Exact calculations are done for arbitrary values of temperature and external magnetic field. We have shown that for strong...
9811115v1
1998-11-29
Stripe phase ordering as quantum interference phenomenon
A quantum interference mechanism of the stripe phase instability in quasi one-dimensional (1D) repulsive electron system is proposed. The leading spin-charge coupling term in Landau functional is derived microscopically. It is shown that away from half filling, periodic lattice potential causes cooperative condensation...
9811409v1
1998-12-09
Phonon-phason coupling in icosahedral quasicrystals
From relaxation simulations of decoration-based quasicrystal structure models using microscopically based interatomic pair potentials, we have calculated the (usually neglected) phonon-phason coupling constant. Its sign is opposite for the two alloys studied, i-AlMn and i-(Al,Cu)Li; a dimensionless measure of its magni...
9812139v1
1998-12-11
Band-Structure Effects in the Spin Relaxation of Conduction Electrons
Spin relaxation of conduction electrons in metals is significantly influenced by the Fermi surface topology. Electrons near Brillouin zone boundaries, special symmetry points, or accidental degeneracy lines have spin flip rates much higher than an average electron. A realistic calculation and analytical estimates show ...
9812206v1
1999-01-26
Phase separation and the segregation principle in the infinite-U spinless Falicov-Kimball model
The simplest statistical-mechanical model of crystalline formation (or alloy formation) that includes electronic degrees of freedom is solved exactly in the limit of large spatial dimensions and infinite interaction strength. The solutions contain both second-order phase transitions and first-order phase transitions (t...
9901289v1
1999-03-20
Crystal Field Triplets: A New Route to Non-Fermi Liquid Physics
A model for crystal field triplet ground states on rare earth or actinide ions with dipolar and quadrupolar couplings to conduction electrons is studied for the first time with renormalization group methods. The quadrupolar coupling leads to a new nontrivial, non-Fermi liquid fixed point, which survives in an intermedi...
9903311v1
1999-09-23
Level spacing statistics of disordered finite superlattices spectra and motional narrowing as a random matrix theory effect
In the present work the problem of coupled disordered quantum wells is addressed in a random matrix theory framework. The quantum wells are short repulsive binary alloys embeded by ordered barriers and show well defined quantized levels as a consequence of spatial confinement. Finite disordered superlattices may show b...
9909341v1
1999-10-04
Numerical studies of the vibrational isocoordinate rule in chalcogenide glasses
Many properties of alloyed chalcogenide glasses can be closely correlated with the average coordination of these compounds. This is the case, for example, of the ultrasonic constants, dilatometric softening temperature and the vibrational densities of states. What is striking, however, is that these properties are neve...
9910032v1
1999-10-18
Universal aspects of vacancy-mediated disordering dynamics: the effect of external fields
We investigate the disordering of an initially phase-segregated binary alloy, due to a highly mobile defect which couples to an electric or gravitational field. Using both mean-field and Monte Carlo methods, we show that the late stages of this process exhibit dynamic scaling, characterized by a set of exponents and sc...
9910275v1
1999-12-08
Dynamic scaling in vacancy-mediated disordering
We consider the disordering dynamics of an interacting binary alloy with a small admixture of vacancies which mediate atom-atom exchanges. Starting from a perfectly phase-segregated state, the system is rapidly heated to a temperature in the disordered phase. A suitable disorder parameter, namely, the number of broken ...
9912135v1
1999-12-09
Binding Energy of Impurity in a Size Quantized Coated Semiconductor Wire: Role of the Dielectric-Constant Mismatch
Within the framework of staircase infinitely deep (SIW) potential well model the effect of dielectric constant mismatch between the size-quantized semiconducting wire, coating and surrounding environment on impurity binding energy is considered. Calculations are done in both the absence and presence of magnetic field a...
9912147v1
1999-12-10
Excited States Calculated by Means of the Linear Muffin-Tin Orbital Method
The most popular electronic structure method, the linear muffin-tin orbital method (LMTO), in its full-potential (FP) and relativistic forms has been extended to calculate the spectroscopic properties of materials form first principles, i.e, optical spectra, x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) and magneto-optical ...
9912174v1
2000-01-13
Scaling exponents for Barkhausen avalanches in polycrystals and amorphous ferromagnets
We investigate the scaling properties of the Barkhausen effect, recording the noise in several soft ferromagnetic materials: polycrystals with different grain sizes and amorphous alloys. We measure the Barkhausen avalanche distributions and determine the scaling exponents. In the limit of vanishing external field rate,...
0001191v1
2000-02-07
Interplay of Disorder and Correlations
I address here the question of the mutual interplay of strong correlations and disorder in the system. I consider random version of the Hubbard model. Diagonal randomness is introduced {\it via} random on-site energies and treated by the coherent potential approximation. Strong, short ranged, electron - electron intera...
0002091v1
2000-02-14
Spin-flux phase in the Kondo lattice model with classical localized spins
We provide numerical evidence that a spin-flux phase exists as a ground state of the Kondo lattice model with classical local spins on a square lattice. This state manifests itself as a double-Q magnetic order in the classical spins with spin density at both $(0,\pi)$ and $(\pi,0)$ and further exhibits fermionic spin c...
0002211v1
2000-04-12
Dipole scattering in polarization induced two-dimensional electron gases
Unusually large spontaneous and piezoelectric fields in the III-V nitrides have led to the making of an entirely new class of two-dimensional electron gas. Fluctuation from a perfectly periodic binary structure in highly polar semiconductor alloys present the same physical situation as a random distribution of microsco...
0004204v1
2000-05-26
Spin and charge excitations in incommensurate spin density waves
Collective excitations both for spin- and charge-channels are investigated in incommensurate spin density wave (or stripe) states on two-dimensional Hubbard model. By random phase approximation, the dynamical susceptibility \chi(q,\omega) is calculated for full range of (q,\omega) with including all higher harmonics co...
0005466v1
2000-06-29
Fermi-Edge Singularities in AlxGa1-xAs Quantum Wells : Extrinsic Versus Many-Body Scattering Processes
A Fano resonance mechanism is evidenced to control the formation of optical Fermi-edge singularities in multi-subband systems such as remotely doped AlxGa1-xAs heterostructures. Using Fano parameters, we probe the physical nature of the interaction between Fermi-sea electrons and empty conduction subbands. We show that...
0006471v1
2000-07-17
High-resolution Compton Scattering as a Probe of Fermiology and Electron Correlation Effects
Compton scattering is one of the few spectroscopies which directly probes the ground state momentum density in materials. Recent progress in synchrotron light sources has brought a renewed interest in the technique as a tool for investigating fermiology related issues on the one hand, and as a unique window on hitherto...
0007277v1
2000-07-25
Electronic structure and magnetism in disordered bcc Fe alloys
We here study electronic structure and magnetic properties of bcc Co$_{x}$Fe$_{1-x}$, Cr$_{x}$Fe$_{1-x}$ and Mn$_{x}$Fe$_{1-x}$ in their ferromagnetic phases using Augmented Space Recursion technique coupled with tight-binding linearized muffin tin orbital (TB-LMTO) method. We make a systematic study of magnetic proper...
0007384v1
2000-11-13
Theory of Adsorption on Metal Substrates
Contents: 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Concepts and definitions 5.3 The tight-binding picture of bonding 5.4 Adsorption of isolated adatoms 5.5 Alkali-metal adsorption: the traditional picture of on-surface adsorption 5.6 Substitutional adsorption and formation of surface alloys 5.7 Adsorption of CO on transition...
0011217v1
2000-11-20
Effects of Disorder on Ferromagnetism in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors
We present results of a numerical mean field treatment of interacting spins and carriers in doped diluted magnetic semiconductors, which takes into account the positional disorder present in these alloy systems. Disorder is found to enhance the ferromagnetic transition temperature significantly for metallic densities n...
0011319v2
2000-12-04
Exchange Mediated Interaction of Dislocations and Deformation Hardening of Invar Alloys
We propose an explanation of anomalies observed in the behavior of deformation hardening of Invars. An extremely strong volume magnetostriction, typical of Invars, results in an enhancement of the exchange contribution to the energy of the dislocation system by about three orders of magnitude with respect to its value ...
0012036v1
2000-12-07
Possible Coexistence of Rotational and Ferroelectric Lattice Distortions in Rhombohedral PZT
The competitions between ferroelectric and rotational instabilities in rhombohedral PZT near x = 0.5 are investigated using first principles density functional supercell calculations. As expected, we find a strong ferroelectric instability. However, we also find a substantial R-point rotational instability, close to bu...
0012126v1
2001-01-03
The Physics of Electric Field Effect Thermoelectric Devices
We describe here a novel approach to the subject of thermoelectric devices. The current best thermoelectrics are based on heavily doped semiconductors or semimetal alloys. We show that utilization of electric field effect or ferroelectric field effect, not only provides a new route to this problem, bypassing the drawba...
0101023v1
2001-02-06
Observation of superconductivity in Y$_2$PdGe$_3$, structurally same as MgB$_2$
The results of electrical resistance (1.4 - 300 K), magnetization (2-300 K) and heat-capacity (2 - 50 K) measurements in Y$_2$PdGe$_3$, found to crystallize in a AlB$_2$-derived hexagonalstructure, are reported. The results establish that this compound is superconducting below 3 K. This obervation is interesting consid...
0102110v1
2001-04-24
Spectral fluctuations of the atomic vibrations in glasses: random matrix theory and beyond
It is demonstrated on a realistic model of amorphous alloy Si$_{0.9}$Ge$_{0.1}$ with 1000 atoms, that short-range spectral fluctuations of propagons and diffusons are universal and in agreement with random matrix theory. The universality ceases at distances greater than Thouless number $N_T$, where propagons obey the A...
0104464v1
2001-04-26
On metallic ferromagnetism of a generalized Hubbard model with correlated hopping
In the paper a possibility of metallic ferromagnetic state realization in a generalized Hubbard model with more complete accounting of electron-electron interactions, in particular, the correlated hopping and exchange interaction integrals is investigated. Recently obtained by means of mean-field approximation single e...
0104515v1
2001-05-17
Anisotropy of p states and 11B nuclear spin-lattice relaxation in (Mg,Al)B2
We calculated the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate in the (Mg,Al)B2 system and found that the orbital relaxation mechanism dominates over the dipolar and Fermi-contact mechanisms in MgB2, whereas in AlB2 due to a smaller density of states and strong anisotropy of boron p orbitals the relaxation is completely determ...
0105356v1
2001-06-04
An analytical strong coupling approach in dynamical mean-field theory
In the limit of infinite spatial dimensions a thermodynamically consistent theory of the strongly correlated electron systems, which is valid for arbitrary value of the Coulombic interaction ($U<\infty$), is built. For the Hubbard model the total auxiliary single-site problem exactly splits into four subspaces, which d...
0106044v2
2001-10-25
Multiscale nature of hysteretic phenomena: Application to CoPt-type magnets
We suggest a workable approach for the description of multiscale magnetization reversal phenomena in nanoscale magnets and apply it to CoPt-type alloys. We show that their hysteretic properties are governed by two effects originating at different length scales: a peculiar splitting of domain walls and their strong pinn...
0110526v2
2001-12-01
Critical Dynamics of Burst Instabilities in the Portevin-Le Chatelier Effect
We investigate the Portevin-Le Chatelier effect (PLC), by compressing Al-Mg alloys in a very large deformation range, and interpret the results from the viewpoint of phase transitions and critical phenomena. The system undergoes two dynamical phase transitions between intermittent (or "jerky") and "laminar" plastic dyn...
0112010v1
2002-01-09
Hole-doped, High-Temperature Superconductors Li_{x}BC, Na_{x}BC and C_{x} : A Coherent-Potential-Based Prediction
Using density-functional-based methods, we show that the hole-doped Li_{x}BC and Na_{x}BC in P6_{3}/mmc crystal structure and C_{x} in graphite structure are capable of showing superconductivity, possibly with a T_{c} much higher than that of MgB_{2}. We use full-potential methods to obtain the optimized lattice co...
0201126v1
2002-02-11
Reconstructed Momentum Density and Fermi Surface in Cu0.9Al0.1
A reconstruction technique based on Radon transforms is used to obtain 3D electron momentum density rho(p) using nine recently measured high-resolution Compton profiles (CPs) from a Cu_{0.9}Al_{0.1} disordered alloy single crystal. The method was also applied to nine corresponding theoretical CPs computed within the KK...
0202185v2
2002-04-05
Nucleation and Bulk Crystallization in Binary Phase Field Theory
We present a phase field theory for binary crystal nucleation. In the one-component limit, quantitative agreement is achieved with computer simulations (Lennard-Jones system) and experiments (ice-water system) using model parameters evaluated from the free energy and thickness of the interface. The critical undercoolin...
0204143v1
2002-07-18
Ac susceptibility behaviour of Ce_2Pd_{1-x}Co_{x}Si_3
We report the results of ac susceptibility chi measurements for various compositions of the series, Ce_2Pd_{1-x}Co_xSi_3, in the polycrystalline form, which has been previously reported to undergo a transformation from magnetic ordering to non-magnetic Kondo lattice behavior as x is varied from 0 to 1. A finding of emp...
0207447v1
2002-08-15
Superconductivity in Ba_2Sn_3Sb_6 and SrSn_3Sb_4
Resistivity and ac magnetic susceptibility measurements on Ba2Sn3Sb6 and SrSn3Sb4 indicate that these Zintl compounds display a transition to a superconducting phase at Tc = 3.9 K. The Meissner effect was observed for Ba2Sn3Sb6 under an applied field of 25 Oe. The signatures for superconductivity, such as high and low ...
0208313v1
2002-09-24
Dilatometric study of Ni2+xMn1-xGa under magnetic field
A study of polycrystalline and single crystalline Ni$_{2+x}$Mn$_{1-x}$Ga alloys by means of dilatometric and strain gage techniques shows that large strain can be induced in the temperature range of the martensitic transformation by application of an external magnetic field. The biggest strain induced by magnetic field...
0209545v1
2002-09-26
Ordering intermetallic alloys by ion irradiation: a way to tailor magnetic media
Combining He ion irradiation and thermal mobility below 600K, we both trigger and control the transformation from chemical disorder to order in thin films of an intermetallic ferromagnet (FePd). Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations show how the initial directional short range order determines order propagation. Magnetic ord...
0209612v1
2003-03-27
The Frequency Dependent Conductivity of Electron Glasses
Results of DC and frequency dependent conductivity in the quantum limit, i.e. hw > kT, for a broad range of dopant concentrations in nominally uncompensated, crystalline phosphorous doped silicon and amorphous niobium-silicon alloys are reported. These materials fall under the general category of disordered insulating ...
0303589v1
2003-05-07
Two-way shape memory effect and mechanical properties of Pulse Discharge Sintered Ni2.18Mn0.82Ga
Mechanical and shape memory properties of a polycrystalline Ni2.18Mn0.82Ga alloy prepared by a PDS (Pulse Discharge Sintering) method were investigated. It was found that the material demonstrates the two-way shape memory effect after a loading - unloading cycle performed in the martensitic state, i. e. essentially wit...
0305123v1
2003-06-19
Prepyramid-to-pyramid transition of SiGe islands on Si(001)
The morphology of the first three-dimensional islands appearing during strained growth of SiGe alloys on Si(001) was investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy. High resolution images of individual islands and a statistical analysis of island shapes were used to reconstruct the evolution of the island shape as a fun...
0306491v2
2003-07-19
Disordered Kondo Nanoclusters: Effect of Energy Spacing
Exact diagonalization results for Kondo nanoclusters alloyed with mixed valence impurities show that tuning the {\it energy spacing}, $\Delta$, drives the system from the Kondo to the RKKY regime. The interplay of $\Delta$ and disorder gives rise to a $\Delta$ versus concentration T=0 phase diagram very rich in structu...
0307486v1
2003-08-01
Aging, Fragility and Reversibility Window in Bulk Alloy Glasses
Non-reversing relaxation enthalpies (DHnr) at glass transitions Tg(x) in the PxGexSe1-2x ternary display a wide, sharp and deep global minimum (~0) in the 0.09 < x < 0.145 range, within which Tg becomes thermally reversing. In the reversibility window these glasses are found not to age, in contrast to aging observed fo...
0308016v1
2003-08-08
Nuclear Spin Relaxation Rate of Disordered $p_x+ip_y$-wave Superconductors
Based on an effective Hamiltonian with the binary alloy disorder model defined in the triangular lattice, the impurity scattering effects on the density of states and especially on the spin-lattice relaxation rate $1/T_1$ of $p_x+ip_y$-wave superconductors are studied by solving numerically the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equ...
0308160v1
2003-09-08
Landau Theory For Shape Memory Polycrystals
We propose a Ginzburg-Landau theory for the elastic properties of shape memory polycrystals. A single crystal elastic free energy for a system that undergoes a square-to-rectangle transformation is generalized to a polycrystal by introducing a crystal orientational field that is determined from a continuum phase field ...
0309206v1
2003-09-30
High pressure phases in highly piezoelectric Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3
Two novel room-temperature phase transitions are observed, via synchrotron x-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy, in the Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3 alloy under hydrostatic pressures up to 16 GPa. A monoclinic (M)-to-rhombohedral (R1) phase transition takes place around 2-3 GPa, while this R1 phase transforms into another rh...
0309705v1
2003-10-06
Ferromagnetism in (In,Mn)As alloy thin films grown by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy
Ferromagnetic properties of In1-xMnxAs thin films were investigated. Room temperature ferromagnetic order was observed in nominally single-phase films with x = 0.01-0.10. Magnetization measurements indicated that these In1-xMnxAs samples had a Curie temperature of 333 K. The Curie temperature was independent of Mn conc...
0310104v1
2003-11-03
Inverted current-driven switching in Fe(Cr)/Cr/Fe(Cr) nanopillars
From both theory and experiment, scattering of minority electrons is expected to be weaker than scattering of majority electrons in both dilute Fe(Cr) alloys and at Fe(Cr)/Cr interfaces. We show that Fe(Cr)/Cr/Fe(Cr) trilayer nanopillars display a normal magnetoresistance--i.e., largest resistance at low magnetic field...
0311047v1
2003-11-25
Remarks about the Zeeman splitting in quantum dots and single atom transistors
An empirical formula is proposed to calculate the Kondo temperature in quantum point contacts from the Zeeman splitting. A similar formula was used in the point-contact spectroscopy (PCS) method to obtain from the Zeeman splitting of the Kondo peak in the characteristics of the classical Kondo alloys AuFe and CuMn [1]....
0311578v1
2003-12-31
Symmetry reduction in the augmented space recursion formalism for random binary alloys
We present here an efficient method which systematically reduces the rank of the augmented space and thereby helps to implement augmented space recursion for any real calculation. Our method is based on the symmetry of the Hamiltonian in the augmented space and keeping recursion basis vectors in the irreducible subspac...
0312714v1
2004-02-03
The Fermi Surface Effect on Magnetic Interlayer Coupling
The oscillating magnetic interlayer coupling of Fe over spacer layers consisting of Cu$_{x}$Pd$_{1-x}$ alloys is investigated by first principles density functional theory. The amplitude, period and phase of the coupling, as well as the disorder-induced decay, are analyzed in detail and the consistency to the Ruderman-...
0402093v1
2004-02-13
Intersite elastic coupling and invar effect
The invar phenomenon (very small thermal expansion in some iron alloys or compounds) is usually explained by the thermally-induced transitions between different spin states of Fe, having different atomic volumes. We consider these processes taking into account elastic interaction between Fe atoms in different spin stat...
0402374v1
2004-03-09
Pomeranchuk effect in unstable Ytterbium systems
$YbInCu_{4}$ and its alloys present discontinuous, first order iso-structural transitions at pressure dependent temperatures $T_V(P)$, where a local moment phase coexist with a renormalized Fermi liquid phase. We show that along the coexistence line $T_V(P)$ the entropy of the large volume renormalized Fermi liquid pha...
0403251v1
2004-04-16
Changes in magnetic scattering anisotropy at a ferromagnetic/superconducting interface
We show that some metals and alloys (X = Cu, Ag, FeMn, or Cu and Ag combined with each other), sputtered between ferromagnetic Co and superconducting Nb, produce no change in current-perpendicular-to-plane magnetoresistance (CPP-MR) in a carefully designed CPP-spin-valve. In contrast, other metals (Ru or Au) or combina...
0404396v1
2004-07-28
Planar Solidification from Undercooled Melt: An Approximation of a Dilute Binary Alloy for a Phase-field Model
Planar solidification from an undercooled melt has been considered using the phase-field model. The solute and the phase fields have been found in the limit of small impurity concentration. These solutions in the limit of vanishing velocity of the interface motion give the equilibrium partition coefficient and the liqu...
0407721v1
2004-08-06
Electronic and magnetic properties of the (111) surfaces of NiMnSb
Using an ab-initio electronic structure method, I study the (111) surfaces of the half-metallic NiMnSb alloy. In all cases there is a very pronounced surface state within the minority gap which destroys the half-metallicity This state survives for several atomic layers below the surface contrary to the (001) surfaces w...
0408131v1
2004-08-12
Spin Screening and Antiscreening in a Ferromagnet/Superconductor Heterojunction
We present a theoretical study of spin screening effects in a ferromagnet/superconductor (F/S) heterojunction. It is shown that the magnetic moment of the ferromagnet is screened or antiscreened, depending on the polarization of the electrons at the Fermi level. If the polarization is determined by the electrons of the...
0408273v1
2004-09-28
Stochastic phase-field simulations of symmetric alloy solidification
We study initial transient stages in directional solidification by means of a non-variational phase field model with fluctuations. This model applies for the symmetric solidification of dilute binary solutions and does not invoke fluctuation-dissipation theorem to account for the fluctuation statistics. We devote our a...
0409713v1
2004-10-01
Magnetic properties and thermal expansion of YbGa$_x$Ge$_{2-x}$ (0.9 <= x <= 1.5)
The composition dependence of the Yb valence and of the thermal expansion have been studied in the YbGa$_x$Ge$_{2-x}$ system. X-ray diffraction reveals that single-phased samples isostructural to YbGaGe are obtained in the range of 0.9 <= x <= 1.5. The magnetic susceptibility shows that the systems are almost nonmagnet...
0410007v1
2004-10-12
Investigation of Dilute Magnetic Systems with Spin-1 Ising Model in the Frame of Generalized Statistical Mechanics
In this study the magnetization phenomenon has been investigated as a behavior of interacting elementary moments ensemble, with the help of Ising model [1] in the frame of non-extensive statistical mechanics. To investigate the physical systems with three states and two order parameters, the spin-1 single lattice Ising...
0410275v1
2004-11-18
Coarse-grained Description of Polymer Blends as Interacting Soft-Colloidal Particles
We present a theoretical approach which maps polymer blends onto mixtures of soft-colloidal particles. The analytical mesoscale pair distribution functions reproduce well data from united atom molecular dynamics simulations of polyolefin mixtures without fitting parameters. The theory exactly recovers the analytical ex...
0411497v1
2004-11-19
Ab initio theory of Cr$_2$O$_3$ surface chemistry in solution
Using a new form of density functional theory for the {\em ab initio} description of electronic systems in contact with a dielectric environment, we present the first detailed study of the impact of a solvent on the surface chemistry of Cr$_2$O$_3$, the passivating layer of stainless steel alloys. Compared to vacuum, w...
0411523v1
2005-01-06
Catastrophic Fermi surface reconstruction in the shape-memory alloy AuZn
AuZn undergoes a shape-memory transition at 67 K. The de Haas van Alphen effect persists to 100 K enabling the observation of a change in the quantum oscillation spectrum indicative of a catastrophic Fermi surface reconstruction at the transition. Coexistence of both Fermi surfaces at low temperatures is suggestive of ...
0501108v1
2005-01-20
The Anomalous Hall effect in re-entrant AuFe alloys and the real space Berry phase
The Hall effect has been studied in a series of AuFe samples in the re-entrant concentration range, as well as in the spin glass range. The data demonstrate that the degree of canting of the local spins strongly modifies the anomalous Hall effect, in agreement with theoretical predictions associating canting, chirality...
0501482v1
2005-02-23
Ivantsov parabolic solution for two combined moving interfaces
We demonstrate that for a migration of a liquid layer between the melting and the solidification front an exact steady-state solution with two parabolic fronts can be found. A necessary condition hereby is that the temperature of the solidification front exceeds the temperature of the melting front (both temperatures a...
0502551v1
2005-02-23
Is the Mott transition relevant to f-electron metals ?
We study how a finite hybridization between a narrow correlated band and a wide conduction band affects the Mott transition. At zero temperature, the hybridization is found to be a relevant perturbation, so that the Mott transition is suppressed by Kondo screening. In contrast, a first-order transition remains at finit...
0502563v1
2005-03-07
Local density of states of a strongly type-II d-wave superconductor: The binary alloy model in a magnetic field
We calculate self-consistently the local density of states (LDOS) of a d-wave superconductor considering the scattering of the quasiparticles off randomly distributed impurities and off externally induced vortices. The impurities and the vortices are randomly distributed but the vortices are preferably located near the...
0503164v1
2005-05-24
The unusual temperature dependence of the Eu$^{2+}$ fluorescence lifetime in CaF$_2$ crystals
Fluorescence lifetimes of Eu$^{2+}$ doped in CaF$_2$ are measured at various temperatures between 4K and 450K. The lifetime increases with between 100K and 300K, in contrast to the usual lifetime-temperature dependence. At higher or lower temperatures the lifetime decreases with increasing temperature. The phenomenon i...
0505592v1
2005-07-11
Electron-induced stabilization of ferromagnetism in GaGdN
Using {\it ab initio} band structure calculations and symmetry arguments, we show that the magnetic property of Ga$_{1-x}$Gd$_x$N is drastically different from TM-doped GaN. The coupling between Gd atoms in the alloy is antiferromagnetic, but the ferromagnetic phase can be stabilized by introducing electrons. Furthermo...
0507257v1
2005-08-25
EMR Measurements of Field-Induced Superconductor lamda-(BETS)2FexGa1-xCl4
We have performed high-field Electron Magnetic Resonance (EMR) measurements of lamda-(BETS)2FexGa1-xCl4 to clarify the role of Pi- and d-electrons in the paramagnetic (PM) and field-induced superconducting (FISC) phases. We found that this system has a non-negligible Pi-d interaction that is very sensitive to the sampl...
0508593v1
2005-10-07
Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in nanoclusters caused by surface segregation and shape
The growth of binary alloy clusters on a weakly interacting substrate through codeposition of two atomic species is studied by kinetic Monte Carlo simulation. Our model describes salient features of CoPt$_3$-nanoclusters, as obtained recently by the molecular-beam epitaxy technique. The clusters display perpendicular m...
0510196v1
2005-12-07
Effect of spin-orbit interaction on a magnetic impurity in the vicinity of a surface
We propose a new mechanism for surface-induced magnetic anisotropy to explain the thickness-dependence of the Kondo resistivity of thin films of dilute magnetic alloys. The surface anisotropy energy, generated by spin-orbit coupling on the magnetic impurity itself, is an oscillating function of the distance d from the ...
0512154v1
2005-12-18
Spin Glasses: a Perspective
A brief personal perspective is given of issues, questions, formulations, methods, some answers and selected extensions posed by the spin glass problem, showing how considerations of an apparently insignificant and practically unimportant group of metallic alloys stimulated an explosion of new insights and opportunitie...
0512425v2
2005-12-29
Insulator-metal-insulator transition and selective spectral weight transfer in a disordered strongly correlated system
We investigate the metal insulator transitions at finite temperature for the Hubbard model with diagonal alloy disorder. We solve the dynamical mean field theory equations with the non crossing approximation and we use the coherent potential approximation to handle disorder. The excitation spectrum is given for various...
0512702v1
2005-12-31
Physical nature of fcc-bcc martensitic transformation in iron based alloys
The summary of the models offered by the author revealing features of the physical mechanisms controlling processes of martensite crystal formation is resulted. The rapid growth of a cooling martensite crystal is considered as a self-organized process controlled by the quasi-longitudinal lattice displacement waves (DW)...
0601002v1
2006-01-13
Influence of Roughness and Disorder on Tunneling Magnetoresistance
A systematic, quantitative study of the effect of interface roughness and disorder on the magnetoresistance of FeCo$|$vacuum$|$FeCo magnetic tunnel junctions is presented based upon parameter-free electronic structure calculations. Surface roughness is found to have a very strong effect on the spin-polarized transport ...
0601291v2
2006-01-19
Electron-phonon coupling in the two phonon mode ternary alloy $Al_{0.25}In_{0.75}As/Ga_{0.25}In_{0.75}As$ quantum well
We have investigated the infrared transmission of a two-dimensional (2DEG) electron gas confined in a $Al_{0.25}In_{0.75}As/Ga_{0.25}In_{0.75}As$ single quantum well in order to study the electron optical phonon interaction in a two phonon mode system. Infrared transmission experiments have been performed in both the p...
0601441v1
2006-02-15
Physical meaning and measurement of the entropic parameter $q$ in an inhomogeneous magnetic systems
In this paper we present a thorough analysis of two systems magnetically inhomogeneous: the manganite La$_{0.7}$Sr$_{0.3}$MnO$_3$/MgO and the amorphous alloy Cu$_{90}$Co$_{10}$. In both cases, the non-extensive statistics yield a faithful description of the magnetic behavior of the systems. In the model proposed here, ...
0602354v1
2006-03-07
Phase-field modelling of solute trapping during rapid solidification of a Si-As alloy
The effect of nonequilibrium solute trapping by a growing solid under rapid solidification conditions is studied using a phase-field model. Considering a continuous steady-state concentration profile across the diffuse solid-liquid interface, a new definition of the nonequilibrium partition coefficient in the phase-fie...
0603170v2
2006-03-09
High Frequency dynamics in metallic glasses
Using Inelastic X-ray Scattering we studied the collective dynamics of the glassy alloy Ni$_{33}$Zr$_{67}$ in the first pseudo Brillouin zone, an energy-momentum region still unexplored in metallic glasses. We determine key properties such as the momentum transfer dependence of the sound velocity and of the acoustic da...
0603251v1