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2017-07-20
Abundances in Galactic Bulge planetary nebulae from optical, ultraviolet and infrared observations
Iron suffers from high levels of depletion in the highly ionized environments of planetary nebulae, making the direct determination of undepleted elemental iron abundances difficult. Zinc, which does not suffer from the same depletion effects as iron, may be used as a surrogate element to measure iron abundances as the...
1707.06672v1
2018-05-09
Graphene-Supported Silver-Iron Carbon Nitride Derived from Thermal Decomposition of Silver Hexacyanoferrate as Effective Electrocatalyst for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Alkaline Media
Silver-iron carbon nitride has been obtained by pyrolysis (under inert atmosphere) of silver hexacyanoferrate(II), precipitated on graphene nanoplatelets, and examined as electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reaction in alkaline media in comparison to silver nanoparticles and iron carbon nitride (prepared separately in...
1805.03439v1
2018-12-13
Seeding the Formation of Mercurys: An Iron-sensitive Bouncing Barrier in Disk Magnetic Fields
The inner part of protoplanetary disks can be threaded by strong magnetic fields. In laboratory levitation experiments, we study how magnetic fields up to 7 mT influence the aggregation of dust by observing the self-consistent collisional evolution of particle ensembles. As dust samples we use mixtures of iron and quar...
1812.05338v1
2019-06-19
The Modulating Optical Depth of Photoelectric Absorption Edge with Pulse Phase in Accretion-Powered X-ray Pulsars
We report the first discovery of pulse phase modulating optical depths at the iron K-edge in accretion-powered X-ray pulsars, from Suzaku observations. A significant modulating optical depth of the iron K-edge is detected for Vela X-1 and GX 1+4. Similar trends are seen in GX 301-2 and OAO 1657-415, though with poor st...
1906.08037v2
2019-08-19
Reverse chemistry of iron in the deep Earth
In this work, we demonstrate a remarkable change of chemical trend of Iron under high pressure that is of great importance for understanding the distribution of elements in the Earth's mantle and core. Using first principles crystal structure search method, we conduct a systematic study of the propensity of p block ele...
1908.06569v1
2019-12-16
Iron telluride ladder compounds: Predicting the structural and magnetic properties of BaFe$_2$Te$_3$
Since the discovery of pressure-induced superconductivity in the two-leg ladder system BaFe$_2X_3$ ($X$=S, Se), with the 3$d$ iron electronic density $n = 6$, the quasi-one-dimensional iron-based ladders have attracted considerable attention. Here, we use Density Functional Theory (DFT) to predict that the novel $n = 6...
1912.07749v1
2020-02-25
Heavily Hydride-ion-doped 1111-type Iron-based Superconductors: Synthesis, Physical Properties and Electronic Structure
Iron-based superconductors have grown to be a new continent of high Tc superconductors comparable to cuprates. The optimal critical temperature (Tc) of 56 K in electron-doped 1111-type iron oxypnictides attracts considerable attention of physicists and chemists. Carrier doping is not only essential to induce supercondu...
2002.11218v1
2020-02-22
Hemolithin: a Meteoritic Protein containing Iron and Lithium
This paper characterizes the first protein to be discovered in a meteorite. Amino acid polymers previously observed in Acfer 086 and Allende meteorites [1,2] have been further characterized in Acfer 086 via high precision MALDI mass spectrometry to reveal a principal unified structure of molecular weight 2320 Daltons t...
2002.11688v1
2020-07-01
Orbital selectivity in electron correlations and superconducting pairing of iron-based superconductors
Electron correlations play a central role in iron-based superconductors. In these systems, multiple Fe $3d$-orbitals are active in the low-energy physics, and they are not all degenerate. For these reasons, the role of orbital-selective correlations has been an active topic in the study of the iron-based systems. In th...
2007.00181v1
2021-06-24
Polymers' surface interactions with molten iron: a theoretical study
Environmental concerns are the chief drive for more innovative recycling techniques for end-of-life polymeric products. One attractive option is taking advantage of C and H content of polymeric waste in steelmaking industry. In this work, we examined the interaction of two high production polymers, i.e., polyurethane a...
2106.12722v1
2021-10-28
Influence of spin fluctuations on structural phase transitions of iron
The effect of spin fluctuations on the $\alpha$ (bcc) - $\gamma$ (fcc) - $\delta$ (bcc) structural phase transitions in iron is investigated with a tight-binding (TB) model. The orthogonal $d$-valent TB model is combined with thermodynamic integration, spin-space averaging and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo to compute the tem...
2110.15003v2
2022-02-22
Many body study of iron(III) bound human serum transferrin
Transferrins are proteins responsible for transporting metal ions in all vertebrates. However, the iron binding properties of transferrins remain poorly understood. Iron, as a transition metal, forms ions with partially-occupied 3d subshells. The electrons within the 3d orbitals of iron-bound transferrin are therefore ...
2202.10818v1
2022-04-05
IRON: Inverse Rendering by Optimizing Neural SDFs and Materials from Photometric Images
We propose a neural inverse rendering pipeline called IRON that operates on photometric images and outputs high-quality 3D content in the format of triangle meshes and material textures readily deployable in existing graphics pipelines. Our method adopts neural representations for geometry as signed distance fields (SD...
2204.02232v1
2022-07-18
Study of Thin Iron Films for Polarization Analysis of Ultracold Neutrons
The TUCAN (TRIUMF Ultra-Cold Advanced Neutron) collaboration aims to search for the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) with unprecedented precision. One of the essential elements for the nEDM measurement is a polarization analyzer of ultracold neutrons (UCNs), whose main component is a magnetized thin iron film. Sev...
2207.08441v1
2022-09-17
Theoretical predictions of melting behaviors of hcp iron up to 4000 GPa
The high-pressure melting diagram of iron is a vital ingredient for the geodynamic modeling of planetary interiors. Nonetheless, available data for molten iron show an alarming discrepancy. Herein, we propose an efficient one-phase approach to capture the solid-liquid transition of iron under extreme conditions. Our ba...
2209.08220v1
2022-10-24
Electronic properties and surface states of RbNi$_2$Se$_2$
Iron-based superconductors, with the ThCr$_{2}$Si$_{2}$-type tetragonal structure (122 family), due to the iron arsenide/selenide layers exhibit several characteristic electronic properties. For example, multiband character mosty associated with the $d$-orbitals of iron and the quasi-two-dimensional (2D) cylindrical Fe...
2210.13280v2
2023-06-08
Iron Oxide Nanoparticles as a Contrast Agent for Synchrotron Imaging of Sperm
Fast phase-contrast imaging offered by modern synchrotron facilities opens the possibility of imaging dynamic processes of biological material such as cells. Cells are mainly composed of carbon and hydrogen, which have low X-ray attenuation, making cell studies with X-ray tomography challenging. At specific low energie...
2309.03908v1
2023-12-05
Iron and gold thin films: first-principles study
Using density functional theory, we carried out systematic calculations for a series of ultrathin iron layers with thicknesses ranging from one atomic monolayer to eleven monolayers (up to about 1.5 nm). We considered three cases: (1) iron layers both on a gold substrate and coated with gold, (2) iron layers on a gold ...
2312.02701v1
2024-01-11
Boundary-induced phase in epitaxial iron layers
We report the discovery of a boundary-induced body-centered tetragonal (bct) iron phase in thin films deposited on MgAl$_{2}$O$_{4}$ ($001$) substrates. We present evidence for this phase using detailed x-ray analysis and ab-initio density functional theory calculations. A lower magnetic moment and a rotation of the ea...
2401.05990v1
2024-02-05
Influence of graphene on the electronic and magnetic properties of an iron(III) porphyrin chloride complex
Although iron-based catalysts are regarded as a promising alternative to precious metal catalysts, their precise electronic structures during catalysis still pose challenges for computational descriptions. A particularly urgent question is the influence of the environment on the electronic structure, and how to describ...
2402.03544v1
1998-05-14
An RXTE Observation of the Seyfert 1 Galaxy MCG-6-30-15 : X-ray Reflection and the Iron Abundance
We report on a 50 ks observation of the bright Seyfert 1 galaxy MCG--6-30-15 with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. The data clearly show the broad fluorescent iron line (equivalent width ~ 250 eV), and the Compton reflection continuum at higher energies. A comparison of the iron line and the reflection continuum has en...
9805198v1
2002-03-12
Ionized iron Kαlines in AGN X-ray spectra
The Equivalent Widths (EW) of the He- and H-like iron lines produced in photoionized, circumnuclear matter of AGN are calculated with respect to both the reflected and the total continua. We found that the EWs with respect tothe total continuum may be as large as a few tens of eV, making them observable in bright Seyfe...
0203178v1
2004-09-14
Spectroscopic Equilibrium of Iron in Metal-Rich Dwarfs
We analyze twenty five nearby metal-rich G and late-F dwarfs in order to verify whether the spectroscopic equilibrium (LTE) of iron lines satisfy the observational constraints imposed by the Infrared Flux Method (angular diameters) and Hipparcos parallaxes. The atmospheric parameters derived from iron lines (assuming L...
0409347v1
2004-12-16
On the thermal behaviour of small iron grains
The optical properties of small spherical iron grains are derived using a Kramers-Kronig-consistent model of the dielectric function including its dependence on temperature and size. Especially discussed is the effect of the size dependence, which results from the limitation of the free path of the free electrons in th...
0412425v2
2006-11-30
Instability strips of main sequence B stars: a parametric study of iron enhancement
The discovery of beta Cephei stars in low metallicity environments, as well as the difficulty to theoretically explain the excitation of the pulsation modes observed in some beta Cephei and SPB stars, suggest that the iron opacity ``bump'' provided by standard models could be underestimated. We investigate, by means of...
0611944v1
1998-06-02
The stabilizing role of itinerant ferromagnetism in inter-granular cohesion in iron
We present a simple, general energy functional for ferromagnetic materials based upon a local spin density extension to the Stoner theory of itinerant ferromagnetism. The functional reproduces well available ab initio results and experimental interfacial energies for grain boundaries in iron. The model shows that inter...
9806034v1
2001-10-15
Superconductivity in compressed iron: Role of spin fluctuations
The recent discovery of superconductivity in hexagonal iron under pressure poses a question about whether it is of conventional (phonon) or unconventional (magnetic?) origin. We present first-principles calculations of the electron-phonon coupling in iron at $P\agt 15$ GPa, and argue that a conventional mechanism can e...
0110297v1
2004-04-15
High-field magnetoresistance of Fe/GaAs/Fe tunnel junctions
We investigate transport through 6 to 10 nm thin epitaxial GaAs(001) barriers sandwiched between polycrystalline iron films. Apart from a pronounced tunneling magnetoresistance effect (TMR) at low magnetic fields we observe a distinct negative magnetoresistance (MR) at low and a positive MR at higher temperatures. We s...
0404351v1
2004-06-16
Development of an interatomic potential for phosphorus impurities in iron
We present the derivation of an interatomic potential for the iron phosphorus system based primarily on {\it ab initio} data. Transferrability in this system is extremely problematic, and the potential is intended specifically to address the problem of radiation damage and point defects in iron containing low concentra...
0406356v1
2006-12-30
Low relaxation rate in a low-Z alloy of iron
The longest relaxation time and sharpest frequency content in ferromagnetic precession is determined by the intrinsic (Gilbert) relaxation rate \emph{$G$}. For many years, pure iron (Fe) has had the lowest known value of $G=\textrm{57 Mhz}$ for all pure ferromagnetic metals or binary alloys. We show that an epitaxial i...
0701004v1
1998-01-21
Total and Parity-Projected Level Densities of Iron-Region Nuclei by the Shell Model Monte Carlo Method
Total and parity-projected level densities of iron-region nuclei are calculated microscopically by using Monte Carlo methods for the nuclear shell model in the complete $(pf+0g_{9/2})$-shell. The calculated total level density is found to be in good agreement with the experimental level density. The Monte Carlo calcula...
9801042v1
2001-08-01
Hybrid Rings of Fixed 8T Superconducting Magnets and Iron Magnets Rapidly Cycling between -2T and +2T for a Muon Collider
Two 2200m radius hybrid rings of fixed superconducting magnets and iron magnets ramping at 200 Hz and 330 Hz are used to accelerate muons. Muons are given 25 GeV of RF energy per orbit. Acceleration is from 250 GeV/c to 2400 GeV/c and requires a total of 86 orbits in both rings; 82% of the muons survive. The total powe...
0108001v1
2008-01-06
A comparison of the magnetic properties of Proton- and Iron-implanted graphite
In this work we have investigated the changes of the magnetic properties of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite samples after irradiation either with $\sim 3 \times 10^{14}$ protons or $ 3.5 \times 10^{13} ... 3.5 \times 10^{14}$ iron ions with energies in the MeV range. Our results show that iron and proton irradiation...
0801.0850v1
2008-05-22
Iron nanoparticle formation in a metal-organic matrix: from ripening to gluttony
A simple method for the fabrication of metal nanoparticles is introduced. Heating metal-organic crystals in vacuum results in the formation of well defined metal particles embedded in a carbon matrix. The method is demonstrated for iron-phthalocyanine. At 500C homogeneously distributed iron nanoparticles with a reasona...
0805.3416v1
2008-08-14
Synthesis and superconducting properties of the iron oxyarsenide TbFeAsO0.85
The iron oxyarsenide TbFeAsO0.85 was synthesized by a high-pressure method. A high-quality polycrystalline sample was obtained and characterized by measurements of magnetic susceptibility and electrical resistivity. Bulk superconductivity with Tc of 42 K was clearly established without an F doping usually conducted to ...
0808.1948v1
2008-11-11
Theory of Andreev reflection in junctions with iron-based High-$T_c$ superconductors
We construct a theory for low-energy quantum transport in normal$\mid$superconductor junctions involving the recently discovered iron-based high-$T_c$ superconductors. We properly take into account both Andreev bound surface states and the complex Fermi surface topology in our approach, and investigate the signatures o...
0811.1775v1
2008-11-17
Effect of hybridization on structural and magnetic properties of iron-based superconductors
We show that the strong hybridization between the iron 3d and the arsenic 4p orbitals, in the newly discovered iron-based high-T$_{c}$ superconductors, leads to an explanation of certain experimental observations that are presently not well understood. The existence of a lattice distortion, the smallness of the Fe magn...
0811.2716v1
2008-12-17
Phase-Sensitive measurements on the corner junction of iron-based superconductor BaFe1.8Co0.2As2
We have made a phase-sensitive measurement on the corner junction of the iron-based superconductor BaFe1.8Co0.2As2, and observed the typical Fraunhofer-like diffraction pattern. The result suggests that there is no phase shift between the a-c face and b-c face of a crystal, which indicates that the superconducting wave...
0812.3295v1
2009-02-19
Is the nature of magnetic order in copper-oxides and in iron-pnictides different?
We use the results of first-principles electronic structure calculations and a strong coupling perturbation approach, together with general theoretical arguments, to illustrate the differences in super-exchange interactions between the copper-oxides and iron-pnictides. We show that the two magnetic ground states can be...
0902.3450v1
2009-03-06
On the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity in the iron based pnictides
The recent discovery of superconductivity at moderately high temperature (26 K to 55 K) in doped iron-based pnictides (LnO_{1-x}F_xFeAs, where Ln = La, Ce, Sm, Pr, Nd, etc.), having layered-structure-like cuprates, has triggered renewed challenge towards understanding the pairing mechanism. After reviewing the curren...
0903.1181v1
2009-03-25
Exchange Constants and Neutron Spectra of Iron Pnictide Materials
We show that the neutron scattering spectra observed in CaFe$_2$As$_2$ by Zhao et al (arXiv:0903.2686v1) and the highly unusual spatially anisotropic exchange constants in the iron pnictides derived by Han et al (Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 107003 (2009)), using electronic structure calculations, can be explained by assuming...
0903.4408v1
2009-06-11
To What Extent Iron-Pnictide New Superconductors Have Been Clarified: A Progress Report
In this review, the authors present a summary of experimental reports on newly discovered iron-based superconductors as they were known at the end of 2008. At the same time, this paper is intended to be useful for experimenters to know the current status of these superconductors. The authors introduce experimental resu...
0906.2045v1
2009-09-08
Is Fermi-surface nesting the origin of superconductivity in iron pnictides?: A fluctuation-exchange-approximation study
We study whether Fermi-surface (FS) nesting can give rise to high-temperature superconductivity in iron pnictides. Starting with ab initio construction of an effective four-orbital model, we employ the fluctuation-exchange approximation to show that FS does not necessarily favor the stripe antiferromagnetic order obser...
0909.1413v1
2009-10-14
Magnetic Excitations of Undoped Iron Oxypnictides
We study the magnetic excitations of undoped iron oxypnictides using a three-dimensional Heisenberg model with single-ion anisotropy. Analytic forms of the spin wave dispersion, velocities, and structure factor are given. Aside from quantitative comparisons which can be made to inelastic neutron scattering experiments,...
0910.2528v1
2010-04-17
Looking at the superconducting gap of iron pnictides
THz and infrared spectroscopy is widely utilized to investigate the electrodynamic properties of the novel iron-based superconductors in the normal and superconducting states. Besides electronic excitations and correlations, electron-phonon coupling and the influence of magnetism, the experiments yield important inform...
1004.2962v1
2010-04-27
Magnetic Ordering in Blocking Layer and Highly Anisotropic Electronic Structure of High-Tc Iron-based Superconductor Sr2VFeAsO3: LDA+U Studies
We calculate electronic structures of a high-Tc iron-based superconductor Sr2VFeAsO3 by LDA+U method. We assume a checker-board antiferromagnetic order on blocking layers including vanadium and strong correlation in d-orbits of vanadium through the Hubbard U. While the standard LDA brings about metallic blocking layers...
1004.4741v1
2010-06-11
First Homologous Series of Iron Pnictide Oxide Superconductors (Fe2As2)(Can+1(Sc,Ti)nOy) [n = 3,4,5] with Extremely Thick Blocking Layers
We have discovered first homologous series of iron pnictide oxide superconductors (Fe2As2)(Can+1(Sc,Ti)nOy) [n = 3,4,5]. These compounds have extremely thick blocking layers up to quintuple perovskite oxide layers sandwiched by the Fe2As2 layers. These samples exhibited bulk superconductivity with relatively high Tc up...
1006.2355v2
2010-08-09
Electronic structure and total energy of interstitial hydrogen in iron: Tight binding models
An application of the tight binding approximation is presented for the description of electronic structure and interatomic force in magnetic iron, both pure and containing hydrogen impurities. We assess the simple canonical d-band description in comparison to a non orthogonal model including s and d bands. The transfer...
1008.1499v4
2010-08-25
Electronic correlations at the alpha-gamma structural phase transition in paramagnetic iron
We compute the equilibrium crystal structure and phase stability of iron at the alpha(bcc)-gamma(fcc) phase transition as a function of temperature, by employing a combination of ab initio methods for calculating electronic band structures and dynamical mean-field theory. The magnetic correlation energy is found to be ...
1008.4342v2
2010-10-20
Templated self-assembly of iron oxide nanoparticles
We report on self-assembled iron oxide nanoparticle films on silicon substrates. In addition to homogeneously assembled layers, we fabricated patterned trenches of 40-1000 nm width using electron beam lithography for the investigation of assisted self-assembly. The nanoparticles with a diameter of 20 nm +/- 7% were syn...
1010.4166v1
2011-04-08
Spin fluctuations in LiFeAs observed by neutron scattering
We report neutron inelastic scattering measurements on the stoichiometric iron-based superconductor LiFeAs. We find evidence for (i) magnetic scattering consistent with strong antiferromagnetic fluctuations, and (ii) an increase in intensity in the superconducting state at low energies, similar to the resonant magnetic...
1104.1609v1
2011-06-02
Cubic to hexagonal iron phase transition promoted by interstitial hydrogen
Using ab-initio density functional theory we study the role of interstitial hydrogen on the energetics of the phase transformation of iron from bcc to hcp along Bain's pathway. The impurity creates an internal stress field that can be released through a tetragonal distortion of the lattice, promoting the bcc (ferromagn...
1106.0386v1
2011-09-19
Local Quantum Criticality of an Iron-Pnictide Tetrahedron
Motivated by the close correlation between transition temperature ($T_c$) and the tetrahedral bond angle of the As-Fe-As layer observed in the iron-based superconductors, we study the interplay between spin and orbital physics of an isolated iron-arsenide tetrahedron embedded in a metallic environment. Whereas the spin...
1109.4131v2
2011-11-02
Thin Film Growth and Device Fabrication of Iron-Based Superconductors
Iron-based superconductors have received much attention as a new family of high-temperature superconductors owing to their unique properties and distinct differences from cuprates and conventional superconductors. This paper reviews progress in thin film research on iron-based superconductors since their discovery for ...
1111.0358v1
2011-11-15
The Pressure Effects on Electronic Structure of Iron Chalcogenide Superconductors FeSe$_{1-x}$Te$_x$
We study the electronic structure of iron-based superconductors FeSe$_{1-x}$Te$_x$ within the density functional theory. We pay particular attention to the pressure effects on the Fermi surface (FS) topology, which seem to be correlated with a critical superconducting temperature TC of iron chalcogenides and pnictides....
1111.3523v2
2012-05-15
Magnetic softness in iron-based superconductors
We examine the relevance of several major material-dependent parameters to the magnetic softness in iron-base superconductors by first-principles electronic structure analysis of their parent compounds. The results are explained in the spin-fermion model where localized spins and orbitally degenerate itinerant electron...
1205.3509v1
2012-10-10
Raman scattering in iron-based superconductors
Iron-based superconducting layered compounds have the second highest transition temperature after cuprate superconductors. Their discovery is a milestone in the history of high-temperature superconductivity and will have profound implications for high-temperature superconducting mechanism as well as industrial applicat...
1210.2889v1
2013-03-25
TAO pairing: a fully gapped pairing scenario for the Iron-Based Superconductors
Motivated by the fully gapped superconductivity in iron-based superconductors with uncompensated electron pockets, we propose a spin singlet, but orbital triplet analogue of the superfluid phase of He-3B. We show that orbital triplets with a nominal d-wave symmetry at the iron sites can transform as s-wave pairs under ...
1303.6325v4
2013-11-16
Coexisting Itinerant and Localized Electrons in Iron-Based Superconductors
The surprising discovery of high-$T_c$ superconductivity in iron-based compounds has prompted an intensive investigation on the role of interaction and magnetism in the these materials. Based on the general features of multi-bands and intermediate coupling strengths, a phenomenological theory of coexisting itinerant an...
1311.4094v2
2014-01-14
Unconventional superconductivity in iron-base superconductors in a three-band model
Iron-base superconductors exhibits features of systems where the Fulde-Ferrel-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) phase, a superconducting state with non-zero total momentum of Cooper pairs, is actively sought. Experimental and theoretical evidence points strongly to the FFLO phase in these materials above the Pauli limit. In th...
1401.3066v1
2014-02-28
Antiferromagnetism in Iron-Based Superconductors: Selection of Magnetic Order and Quasiparticle Interference
The recent discovery of superconductivity in the iron-based layered pnictides with T_c ranging between 26 and 56K generated enormous interest in the physics of these materials. Here, we review some of the peculiarities of the antiferromagnetic order in the iron pnictides, including the selection of the stripe magnetic ...
1402.7206v1
2014-08-18
Relativistic configuration-interaction calculation of $Kα$ transition energies in beryllium-like iron
We perform relativistic configuration-interaction calculations of the energy levels of the low-lying and core-excited states of beryllium-like iron, Fe$^{22+}$. The results include the QED contributions calculated by two different methods, the model QED operator approach and the screening-potential approach. The uncert...
1408.3949v1
2015-05-19
Electromagnetic acceleration of permanent magnets
We consider the acceleration of the permanent magnets, consisting of neodymium iron boron by means of the running magnetic field gradient. It is shown that the specific magnetic moment per nucleon in neodymium iron boron is determined by the remained magnetization of the substance. The maximum accessable gradient of th...
1508.04078v1
2016-02-17
On the analysis of stage I in the resistivity recovery of electron irradiated iron
The experimental results of Takaki et al. [1] on the stage I resistivity recovery of electron irradiated iron are analyzed using the analytical theory of diffusion annealing formulated by Simpson & Sossin [2] and Schroeder [3] taking into account the recent first-principles calculations of Fu et al. [4] regarding the m...
1602.05449v2
2017-09-11
Magnetic order and phase transition in the iron oxysulfide La2O2Fe2OS2
The Mott-insulating iron oxychalcogenides exhibit complex magnetic behaviour and we report here a neutron diffraction investigation into the magnetic ordering in La2O2Fe2OS2. This quaternary oxysulfide adopts the anti-Sr2MnO2Sb2-type structure and orders antiferromagnetically below TN = 105 K. We consider both its long...
1709.03323v1
2018-03-05
Using electron irradiation to probe iron - based superconductors
High energy electron irradiation is an efficient way to create vacancy-interstitial Frenkel pairs in crystal lattice, thereby inducing controlled non-magnetic point - like scattering centers. In combination with London penetration depth and resistivity measurements, the irradiation was particularly useful as a phase - ...
1803.01956v1
2019-03-30
Shot Noise as a probe for the pairing symmetry of Iron pnictide superconductors
One of the outstanding problems in Iron pnictide research is the unambiguous detection of its pairing symmetry. The most probable candidates are the two-band s$++$ and sign reversed s$\pm$ wave pairing. In this work, the Andreev conductance and shot noise are used as a probe for the pairing symmetry of Iron pnictide su...
1904.00201v2
2022-04-07
Editorial on Research Topic: High-Tc Superconductivity in Electron-Doped Iron Selenide and Related Compounds
In this editorial, we first give a brief survey of the field of iron-selenide superconductivity, both in the case of bulk FeSe characterized by the co-existence of superconductivity and nematic order, and in the case of electron-doped FeSe characterized by high-temperature superconductivity. We next review the 8 contri...
2204.03735v2
2022-08-25
Persistent homology analysis with nonnegative matrix factorization for 3D voxel data of iron ore sinters
This paper proposes a data analysis method using persistent homology and nonnegative matrix factorization. A concatenated persistence image technique is used to extract coexisting structures from the persistence diagrams of different dimensions hidden behind the data. To demonstrate the potential of our method, we appl...
2208.11943v1
2023-02-20
Triplet pairing, orbital selectivity and correlations in Iron-based superconductors
We use a slave-boson approach to study the band renormalization and pair susceptibility in the normal state of Iron-based superconductors in presence of strong Coulomb repulsion and Hund's interaction. Our results show orbital selectivity toward localization of $xy$ orbitals and its interplay with superconductivity. We...
2302.09702v1
1996-07-03
ASCA observations of the iron K complex of Circinus X-1 near zero phase: spectral evidence for partial covering
We report on ASCA energy spectra of Cir X-1 taken near its zero phase on 1994 August 4-5. The ASCA SIS detectors allow a more detailed study of the iron K complex than has been possible before. We find that prior to a sudden upward flux transition the dominant iron K feature appears to consist of a large edge from neut...
9607018v1
1997-05-19
Iron fluorescence from within the innermost stable orbit of black hole accretion disks
The fluorescent iron Ka line is a powerful observational probe of the inner regions of black holes accretion disks. Previous studies have assumed that only material outside the radius of marginal stability can contribute to the observed line emission. Here, we show that fluorescence by material inside the radius of mar...
9705136v2
2002-02-22
The continuum variability of MCG--6-30-15: A detailed analysis of the long 1999 ASCA observation
We report on an analysis in the 3--10 keV X-ray band of the long 1999 ASCA observation of MCG--6-30-15. The time-averaged broad iron K line is well-described by disk emission near a Schwarzschild black hole, confirming the results of earlier analyses on the ASCA 1994 and 1997 data. The time-resolved iron-line profile i...
0202432v1
2002-09-09
The X-ray spectrum of the Seyfert I galaxy Mrk 766: Dusty Warm Absorber or Relativistic Emission Lines?
Competing models for broad spectral features in the soft X-ray spectrum of the Seyfert I galaxy Mrk766 are tested against data from a 130 ks XMM-Newton observation. A model including relativistically broadened Ly-alpha emission lines of OVIII, NVII and CVI is a better fit to 0.3-2 keV XMM RGS data than a dusty warm abs...
0209145v1
2005-11-19
Thermal X-Ray Iron Line Emission from the Galactic Center Black Hole Sagittarius A*
We model thermal X-ray emission from the accreting supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at the Galactic Center. For the region inside $1.^{\prime\prime}5$ of the center, we use a {generalized} radiatively inefficient accretion flow (RIAF) model, and for the region out to $10^{\prime\prime}$ we use published models of...
0511590v1
2006-06-23
Fe-bump instability: the excitation of pulsations in subdwarf B and other low-mass stars
We consider the excitation of radial and non-radial oscillations in low-mass B stars by the iron-bump opacity mechanism. The results are significant for the interpretation of pulsations in subdwarf B stars, helium-rich subdwarfs and extreme helium stars, including the EC14026 and PG1716 variables. We demonstrate that, ...
0606594v2
2008-03-03
Constraints on grain size and stable iron phases in the uppermost Inner Core from multiple scattering modeling of seismic velocity and attenuation
We propose to model the uppermost inner core as an aggregate of randomly oriented anisotropic ``patches''. A patch is defined as an assemblage of a possibly large number of crystals with identically oriented crystallographic axes. This simple model accounts for the observed velocity isotropy of short period body waves,...
0803.0264v1
2008-06-24
A BLR origin for the iron K$α$ line in NGC7213
The X-ray spectrum of NGC7213 is known to present no evidence for Compton reflection, a unique result among bright Seyfert 1s. The observed neutral iron K$\alpha$ line, therefore, cannot be associated with a Compton-thick material, like the disc or the torus, but is due to Compton-thin gas, with the Broad Line Region (...
0806.3876v1
2008-08-04
Iron pnictides as a new setting for quantum criticality
Two major themes in the physics of condensed matter are quantum critical phenomena and unconventional superconductivity. These usually occur in the context of competing interactions in systems of strongly-correlated electrons. All this interesting physics comes together in the behavior of the recently discovered iron p...
0808.0305v3
2008-09-18
A search for iron emission lines in the Chandra X-ray spectra of neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries
While iron emission lines are well studied in black hole systems, both in X-ray binaries and Active Galactic Nuclei, there has been less of a focus on these lines in neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). However, recent observations with Suzaku and XMM-Newton have revealed broad asymmetric iron line profiles in...
0809.3171v1
2009-04-01
The nature of the light variability of the silicon star HR 7224
Although photometric variations of chemically peculiar (CP) stars are frequently used to determine their rotational periods, the detailed mechanism of their light variability remains poorly understood. We simulate the light variability of the star HR 7224 using the observed surface distribution of silicon and iron. We ...
0904.0231v1
2011-01-03
Thermal X-ray iron line emission from the advection dominated accretion flow in the galactic binary GX 339-4
We explore thermal X-ray iron line emission from the galactic X-ray binary GX 339-4 in the off state, using the models of the advection dominated accretion flow (ADAF) without or with outflows. The equivalent widths of hydrogen-like and helium-like thermal iron lines are calculated with different model parameters inclu...
1101.0507v1
2011-08-24
The effects of aggregation and protein corona on the cellular internalization of iron oxide nanoparticles
Engineered inorganic nanoparticles are essential components in the development of nanotechnologies. For applications in nanomedicine, particles need to be functionalized to ensure a good dispersibility in biological fluids. In many cases however, functionalization is not sufficient : the particles become either coated ...
1108.4779v1
2011-09-02
A first-principles study of helium storage in oxides and at oxide--iron interfaces
Density-functional theory calculations based on conventional as well as hybrid exchange-correlation functionals have been carried out to study the properties of helium in various oxides (Al2O3, TiO2, Y2O3, YAP, YAG, YAM, MgO, CaO, BaO, SrO) as well as at oxide-iron interfaces. Helium interstitials in bulk oxides are sh...
1109.0433v2
2012-08-21
Evolution of precipitate morphology during heat treatment and its implications for the superconductivity in KxFe1.6+ySe2 single crystals
We study the relationship between precipitate morphology and superconductivity in KxFe1.6+ySe2 single crystals grown by self-flux method. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) measurements revealed that superconducting phase forms a network in the samples quenched above iron vacancy order-disorder transition temperature T...
1208.4159v2
2012-10-24
The Unexpected Properties of Alkali Metal Iron Selenide Superconductors
The iron-based superconductors that contain FeAs layers as the fundamental building block in the crystal structures have been rationalized in the past using ideas based on the Fermi Surface nesting of hole and electron pockets when in the presence of weak Hubbard $U$ interactions. This approach seemed appropriate consi...
1210.6501v1
2013-02-08
X-ray diagnostics of chemical composition of the accretion disk and donor star in ultra-compact X-ray binaries
Non-solar composition of the donor star in ultra-compact X-ray binaries may have a pronounced effect on the fluorescent lines appearing in their spectra due to reprocessing of primary radiation by the accretion disk and the white dwarf surface. We show that the most dramatic and easily observable consequence of the ano...
1302.2070v2
2013-03-26
Superconductivity and Crystal Structure of the Palladium-Iron-Arsenides Ca10(Fe1-xPdxAs)10Pd3As8
The palladium-iron-arsenides Ca10(Fe1-xPdxAs)10(Pd3As8) were synthesized by solid state methods and characterized by X-ray powder and single crystal diffraction. The triclinic crystal structure (space group P-1) is isotypic to the homologue platinum 1038 type superconductors with alternating FeAs4/4- and Pd3As8-layers,...
1303.6579v1
2013-05-22
Iron abundance correlations and an occurrence distribution discrepancy from ongoing planet migration
Whether the higher occurrence of giant planets being hosted by metal-rich versus metal-poor stars results from formation or from "pollution" has been a question of intense debate. We present new patterns that emerge when planet/star systems are separated by stellar [Fe/H], and when systems with stellar companions are s...
1305.5197v2
2013-11-05
Spin dynamics and an orbital-antiphase pairing symmetry in iron-based superconductors
The symmetry of the wave function describing the Cooper pairs is one of the most fundamental quantities in a superconductor but its measurement in the iron-based superconductors has proved to be very difficult. The complex multi-band nature of these materials makes the interplay of superconductivity with spin and orbit...
1311.1188v1
2013-12-04
Mössbauer studies of the peculiar magnetism in parent compounds of the iron-based superconductors
A review of the magnetism in the parent compounds of the iron-based superconductors is given based on the transmission Moessbauer spectroscopy of 57Fe and 151Eu. It was found that the 3d magnetism is of the itinerant character with varying admixture of the spin-polarized covalent bonds. For the 122 compounds a longitud...
1312.1152v1
2014-02-25
C/O abundance ratios, iron depletions, and infrared dust features in Galactic planetary nebulae
We study the dust present in 56 Galactic planetary nebulae (PNe) through their iron depletion factors, their C/O abundance ratios (in 51 objects), and the dust features that appear in their infrared spectra (for 33 objects). Our sample objects have deep optical spectra of good quality, and most of them also have ultrav...
1402.6376v1
2014-12-12
Electronic structure of ruthenium-doped iron chalcogenides
The structural and electronic properties of hypothetical Ru$_x$Fe$_{1-x}$Se and Ru$_x$Fe$_{1-x}$Te systems have been investigated from first principles within the density functional theory (DFT). Reasonable values of lattice parameters and chalcogen atomic positions in the tetragonal unit cell of iron chalcogenides hav...
1412.3961v1
2015-04-08
Testing the Kerr Nature of Black Hole Candidates using Iron Line Spectra in the CPR Framework
The iron K$\alpha$ line commonly observed in the X-ray spectrum of both stellar-mass and supermassive black hole candidates originates from X-ray fluorescence of the inner accretion disk. Accordingly, it can be used to map the spacetime geometry around these objects. In this paper, we extend previous work using the iro...
1504.01970v2
2015-06-10
Structural disorder in Li(x)[C5H5N](y)Fe(2-z)Se2 and Cs(x)Fe(2-z)Se2 superconductors studied by Mössbauer spectroscopy
Two iron-chalcogenide superconductors Li(x)[C5H5N](y)Fe(2-z)Se2 and Cs(x)Fe(2-z)Se2 in the as-prepared and annealed state have been investigated by means of the Moessbauer spectroscopy versus temperature. Multi-component spectra are obtained. One can see a non-magnetic component due to iron located in the unperturbed F...
1506.03390v2
2015-12-02
The iron dispersion of the globular cluster M 2, revised
M 2 has been claimed to posses three distinct stellar components that are enhanced in iron relative to each other. We use equivalent width measurements from 14 red giant branch stars from which Yong et al. detect a $\sim$0.8 dex wide, trimodal iron distribution to redetermine the metallicity of the cluster. In contrast...
1512.00691v1
2016-02-16
Role of Arsenic in Iron-based Superconductivity at Atomic Scale
In iron-based superconductors, a unique tri-layer Fe-As (Se, Te, P) plays an essential role in controlling the electronic properties, especially the Cooper pairing interaction. Here we use scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/S) to investigate the role of arsenic atom in superconducting Ba0.4K0.6Fe2As2 by di...
1602.04956v2
2016-08-03
High-temperature miscibility of iron and rock during terrestrial planet formation
The accretion of a terrestrial body and differentiation of its silicate/oxide mantle from iron core provide abundant energy for heating its interior to temperatures much higher than the present day Earth. The consequences of differentiation on the structure and composition of planets are typically addressed considering...
1608.01295v1
2017-11-27
Solar abundance ratios of the iron-peak elements in the Perseus Cluster
The metal abundance of the hot plasma that permeates galaxy clusters represents the accumulation of heavy elements produced by billions of supernovae. Therefore, X-ray spectroscopy of the intracluster medium provides an opportunity to investigate the nature of supernova explosions integrated over cosmic time. In partic...
1711.10035v1
2017-12-15
Tunable polymorphism of epitaxial iron oxides in the four-in-one ferroic-on-GaN system with magnetically ordered α-, γ-, ε-Fe2O3 and Fe3O4 layers
Hybridization of semiconducting and magnetic materials into a single heterostructure is believed to be potentially applicable to the design of novel functional spintronic devices. In the present work we report epitaxial stabilization of four magnetically ordered iron oxide phases (Fe3O4, {\gamma}-Fe2O3, {\alpha}-Fe2O3 ...
1712.05632v1