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2009-03-24
Timescale Resolved Spectroscopy of Cyg X-1
We propose the timescale-resolved spectroscopy (TRS) as a new method to combine the timing and spectral study. TRS is based on the time domain power spectrum and reflects the variable amplitudes of spectral components on different timescales. We produce the TRS with the RXTE PCA data for Cyg X-1 and studied the spectra...
0903.4118v1
2009-03-25
Three- to Two-Dimensional Transition of the Electronic Structure in CaFe2As2 - parent compound for an iron arsenic high temperature superconductor
We use angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) to study the electronic properties of CaFe2As2 - parent compound of a pnictide superconductor. We find that the structural and magnetic transition is accompanied by a three- to two-dimensional (3D-2D) crossover in the electronic structure. Above the transition te...
0903.4388v1
2009-03-26
Superconductivity induced by ruthenium substitution in an iron arsenide: investigation of SrFe2-xRuxAs2 (0 <= x <= 2)
The magnetism in SrFe2As2 can be suppressed by electron doping through a small substitution of Fe by Co or Ni, giving way to superconductivity. We demonstrate that a massive substitution of Fe by isovalent ruthenium similarly suppresses the magnetic ordering in SrFe2-xRuxAs2 and leads to bulk superconductivity for 0.6 ...
0903.4668v2
2009-03-27
The electronic structure of LiFeAs and NaFeAs probed by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering spectra
Results of resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) measurements at Fe L-edges and electronic structure calculations of LiFeAs and NaFeAs are presented. Both experiment and theory show that in the vicinity of the Fermi energy, the density of states is dominated by contributions from Fe 3d-states. The comparison of Fe...
0903.4901v2
2009-03-29
Anisotropic spin fluctuations and multiple superconducting gaps in hole-doped Ba_0.7K_0.3Fe_2As_2: NMR in a single crystal
We report the first ^{75}As-NMR study on a single crystal of the hole-doped iron-pnictide superconductor Ba_{0.7}K_{0.3}Fe_2As_{2} (T_c = 31.5 K). We find that the Fe antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations are anisotropic and are weaker compared to underdoped copper-oxides or cobalt-oxide superconductors. The spin lattice...
0903.5098v2
2009-04-06
Redshift Evolution in the Iron Abundance of the Intracluster Medium
Clusters of galaxies provide a closed box within which one can determine the chemical evolution of the gaseous baryons with cosmic time. We studied this metallicity evolution in the hot X-ray emitting baryons through an analysis of XMM-Newton observations of 29 galaxy clusters in the redshift range 0.3 < z < 1.3. Taken...
0904.1007v1
2009-04-06
Is There a Dark Matter Signal in the Galactic Positron Annihilation Radiation?
Assuming Galactic positrons do not go far before annhilating, a difference between the observed 511 keV annihilation flux distribution and that of positron production, expected from beta-plus decay in Galactic iron nucleosynthesis, was evoked as evidence of a new source and a signal of dark matter. We show, however, th...
0904.1025v3
2009-04-09
Evaluating the locality of intrinsic precession damping in transition metals
The Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert damping parameter is typically assumed to be a local quantity, independent of magnetic configuration. To test the validity of this assumption we calculate the precession damping rate of small amplitude non-uniform mode magnons in iron, cobalt, and nickel. At scattering rates expected near an...
0904.1455v1
2009-04-11
Three-band s+- Eliashberg theory and the superconducting gaps of iron pnictides
The experimental critical temperatures and gap values of the superconducting pnictides of both the 1111 and 122 families can be simultaneously reproduced within the Eliashberg theory by using a three-band model where the dominant role is played by interband interactions and the order parameter undergoes a sigh reversal...
0904.1808v2
2009-04-14
Optimizing the flux coupling between a nanoSQUID and a magnetic particle using atomic force microscope nanolithography
We present results of Niobium based SQUID magnetometers for which the weak-links are engineered by the local oxidation of thin films using an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM). Firstly, we show that this technique allows the creation of variable thickness bridges with 10 nm lateral resolution. Precise control of the weak-l...
0904.2100v1
2009-04-14
The Electronic Phase Diagram of the Iron-based High Tc Superconductor Ba(Fe(1-x)Co(x))2As2 Under Hydrostatic Pressure (0 < x <0.099)
We report comprehensive resistivity measurements of single crystalline samples of the Ba(Fe(1-x)Co(x))2As2 high Tc superconductor under hydrostatic pressure up to 2.75 GPa and over a broad concentration range, 0 < x < 0.099. We show that application of pressure progressively suppresses the SDW transition temperature, T...
0904.2215v1
2009-04-17
Relativistically broadened iron line in the SUZAKU observation of the neutron star X-ray binary 4U 1705-44
The X-ray spectra of accreting compact objects often exhibit discrete emission features associated with fluorescent emission in the accretion disk, the strongest of which is the Fe Kalpha fluorescence line at 6.4--6.97keV. These reflection features are amongst the best tools in the study of the inner region of accretio...
0904.2747v1
2009-04-19
First-principles study of the effect of Fe impurities in MgO at geophysically relevant pressures
The self-interaction corrected local spin density (SIC-LSD) formalism and the standard GGA treatment of the exchange-correlation energy have been applied to study the collapse of the magnetic moment of Fe impurities in MgO. The system Mg_{1-x}Fe_xO is believed to be the second most abundant mineral in the Earth's lower...
0904.2901v1
2009-04-24
Effect of electron-doping on spin excitations of underdoped BaFe$_{1.96}$Ni$_{0.04}$As$_{2}$
We use neutron scattering to study magnetic order and spin excitations in BaFe$_{1.96}$Ni$_{0.04}$As$_{2}$. On cooling, the system first changes the lattice symmetry from tetragonal to orthoromhbic near $\sim$97 K, and then orders antiferromagnetically at $T_N=91$ K before developing weak superconductivity below $\sim$...
0904.3775v1
2009-04-24
Microscopic origin of magnetism and magnetic interactions in ferropnictides
One year after their initial discovery, two schools of thought have crystallized regarding the electronic structure and magnetic properties of ferropnictide systems. One postulates that these are itinerant weakly correlated metallic systems that become magnetic by virtue of spin-Peierls type transition due to near-nest...
0904.3857v1
2009-04-24
Efficacy of surface error corrections to density functional theory calculations of vacancy formation energy in transition metals
We calculate properties like equilibrium lattice parameter, bulk modulus and monovacancy formation energy for nickel (Ni), iron (Fe) and chromium (Cr) using Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT). We compare relative performance of local density approximation (LDA) and generalized gradient approximation (GGA) for pr...
0904.3859v2
2009-04-27
The 13C Pocket in Low Mass AGB Stars
It is well known that thermally pulsing Asymptotic Giant Branch stars with low mass play a relevant role in the chemical evolution. They have synthesized about 30% of the galactic carbon and provide an important contribution to the nucleosynthesis of heavy elements (A>80). The relevant nucleosynthesis site is the He-ri...
0904.4163v1
2009-04-27
Fermi liquid state and enhanced electron correlations in the new iron pnictide CaFe$_4$As$_3$
The newly discovered CaFe$_4$As$_3$ system displays low-temperature Fermi liquid behavior, with enhanced electron-electron correlations. At high temperatures, the magnetic susceptibility shows Curie-Weiss behavior, with a large temperature-independent contribution. Antiferromagnetic ordering is observed below T$_N$ = (...
0904.4188v1
2009-04-29
Can mass loss and overshooting prevent the excitation of g-modes in blue supergiants?
Thanks to their past history on the main sequence phase, supergiant massive stars develop a convective shell around the helium core. This intermediate convective zone (ICZ) plays an essential role in governing which g-modes are excited. Indeed a strong radiative damping occurs in the high density radiative core but the...
0904.4641v1
2009-05-04
Low Temperature Crystal Structure and 57Fe Moessbauer Spectroscopy of Sr3Sc2O5Fe2As2
The crystal structure of the layered iron arsenide Sr3Sc2O5Fe2As2 was determined between 300 and 10 K. The lattice parameters of the tetragonal cell decrease anisotropically according to delta(c)/c : delta(a)/a = 4.2, which results in a slight flattening of the As-Fe-As bond angle within the FeAs layers. No indication ...
0905.0337v1
2009-05-05
Structural and magnetic phase transitions in Na$_{1-δ}$FeAs
We use neutron scattering to study the spin and lattice structures of single crystal and powder samples of Na$_{1-\delta}$FeAs ($T_c = 23$ K). On cooling from room temperature, the system goes through a series of phase transitions: first changing the crystal symmetry from tetragonal to orthorhombic at 49 K, then orderi...
0905.0525v1
2009-05-08
The Multiverse Hierarchy
I survey physics theories involving parallel universes, arguing that they form a natural four-level hierarchy of multiverses allowing progressively greater diversity. Level I: A generic prediction of inflation is an infinite ergodic universe, which contains Hubble volumes realizing all initial conditions -- including a...
0905.1283v1
2009-05-12
Capture and Indirect Detection of Inelastic Dark Matter
We compute the capture rate for Dark Matter in the Sun for models where the dominant interaction with nuclei is inelastic -- the Dark Matter up-scatters to a nearby dark "partner" state with a small splitting of order a 100 keV. Such models have previously been shown to be compatible with DAMA/LIBRA data, as well as da...
0905.1847v2
2009-05-12
Strong-coupling Spin-singlet Superconductivity with Multiple Full Gaps in Hole-doped Ba$_{0.6}$K$_{0.4}$Fe$_2$As$_2$ Probed by Fe-NMR
We present $^{57}$Fe-NMR measurements of the novel normal and superconducting-state characteristics of the iron-arsenide superconductor Ba$_{0.6}$K$_{0.4}$Fe$_2$As$_2$ ($T_c$ = 38 K). In the normal state, the measured Knight shift and nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate $(1/T_1)$ demonstrate the development of wave-nu...
0905.1896v1
2009-05-16
Strong electron-electron correlation and weak localization in CeO_{0.9}F_{0.1}Fe_{1-x}Co_xAs
Electron-doping of the semimetal (CeOFeAs) by either fluorine (max Tc ~ 43 K)or cobalt (max Tc ~ 11 K) leads to superconductivity. Here we show the effect of transition metal (Co) substitution at the iron site on the superconducting properties of CeO0.9F0.1FeAs (Tc ~38 K)to understand the interplay of charge carriers i...
0905.2679v1
2009-05-19
The fourth Dimension
In different passages of his dialogues, Plato showed deep mathematically-based physical insights. Regrettably most readers overlooked the respective statements, or they utterly did not understand those hints since they were full of philological fallacious terms. Respectable translators misinterpreted such statements an...
0905.3048v2
2009-05-19
Testing astrophysical models for the PAMELA positron excess with cosmic ray nuclei
The excess in the positron fraction reported by the PAMELA collaboration has been interpreted as due to annihilation or decay of dark matter in the Galaxy. More prosaically, it has been ascribed to direct production of positrons by nearby pulsars, or due to pion production during stochastic acceleration of hadronic cos...
0905.3152v3
2009-05-19
Surface Geometric and Electronic Structure of BaFe2As2(001)
BaFe2As2 exhibits properties characteristic of the parent compounds of the newly discovered iron (Fe)-based high-TC superconductors. By combining the real space imaging of scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/S) with momentum space quantitative Low Energy Electron Diffraction (LEED) we have identified the su...
0905.3194v1
2009-05-20
Accelerated search kinetics mediated by redox reactions of DNA repair enzymes
A Charge Transport (CT) mechanism has been proposed in several papers (e.g., Yavin, et al. PNAS, v102 3546 (2005)) to explain the localization of Base Excision Repair (BER) enzymes to lesions on DNA. The CT mechanism relies on redox reactions of iron-sulfur cofactors that modify the enzyme's binding affinity. These red...
0905.3211v1
2009-05-20
Topological change of the Fermi surface in ternary iron-pnictides with reduced c/a ratio: A dHvA study of CaFe2P2
We report a de Haas-van Alphen effect study of the Fermi surface of CaFe2P2 using low temperature torque magnetometry up to 45 T. This system is a close structural analogue of the collapsed tetragonal non-magnetic phase of CaFe2As2. We find the Fermi surface of CaFe2P2 to differ from other related ternary phosphides in...
0905.3305v1
2009-05-20
Looking for pulsations in HgMn stars through CoRoT lightcurves
HgMn Chemically Peculiar stars are among the quietest stars of the main-sequence. However, according to theoretical predictions, these stars could have pulsations related to the very strong overabundances of iron peak elements, which are produced by atomic diffusion in upper layers. Such pulsations have never been dete...
0905.3340v1
2009-05-29
Ferromagnetic resonance linewidth in ultrathin films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy
Transition metal ferromagnetic films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) have ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) linewidths that are one order of magnitude larger than soft magnetic materials, such as pure iron (Fe) and permalloy (NiFe) thin films. A broadband FMR setup has been used to investigate the origin of th...
0905.4779v2
2009-05-31
Nodeless superconducting gap in electron-doped BaFe$_{1.9}$Ni$_{0.1}$As$_2$ probed by quasiparticle heat transport
The in-plane thermal conductivity $\kappa$ of electron-doped iron-arsenide superconductor BaFe$_{1.9}$Ni$_{0.1}$As$_2$ ($T_c$ = 20.3 K) single crystal was measured down to 70 mK. In zero field, the absence of a residual linear term $\kappa_0/T$ at $ T \to 0$ is strong evidence for nodeless superconducting gap. In magne...
0906.0138v2
2009-06-01
$π$-junction to probe antiphase s-wave pairing in iron pnictide superconductors
Josephson junctions between a $FeAs$-based superconductor with antiphase s-wave pairing and a conventional s-wave superconductor are studied. The translational invariance in a planar junction between a single crystal pnictide and an aluminum metal greatly enhances the relative weight of electron pockets in the pnictide...
0906.0169v3
2009-06-04
Neutrino deuteron reaction in the heating mechanism of core-collapse supernovae
We examine a potential role of the neutrino deuteron reactions in the mechanism of supernova explosion by evaluating the energy transfer cross section for the neutrino heating. We calculate the energy loss rate due to the neutrino absorptions through the charged-current process as well as the neutrino scattering throug...
0906.0856v1
2009-06-09
Fabrication of the iron-based superconducting wire using Fe(Se, Te)
We have fabricated the Fe(Se, Te) superconducting wire by a special process based on a powder-in-tube method. The pure Fe tube plays the role of not only the sheath but also the raw material for synthesizing the superconducting phases. We succeeded in observing zero resistivity current on the current-voltage measuremen...
0906.1636v2
2009-06-09
Particle Propagation in the Galactic Center and Spatial Distribution of Non-Thermal X-rays
We showed that if the non-thermal emission from the Galactic center in the range 14-40 keV is due to inverse bremsstrahlung emission of subrelativistic protons, their interactions with hot and cold fractions of the interstellar medium are equally important. Our estimation show that about 30% of the total non-thermal fl...
0906.1712v1
2009-06-10
Superconductivity in SmFe1-xMxAsO (M = Co, Rh, Ir)
In this paper we report the comparative study of superconductivity by 3d (Co), 4d (Rh), 5d (Ir) element doping in SmFeAsO. X-ray diffraction patterns indicate that the material has formed the ZrCuSiAs-type structure with a space group P4/nmm. It is found that the antiferromagnetic spin-density-wave (SDW) order in the p...
0906.1898v1
2009-06-10
Spectroscopic Imaging Scanning Tunneling Microscopy as a Probe of Orbital Structures and Ordering
Unlike charge and spin, the orbital degree of freedom of electrons in transition metal oxides is difficult to detect. We present the theoretical study of a new detection method in metallic orbitally active systems by analyzing the quasiparticle scattering interference (QPI) pattern of the spectroscopic imaging scanning...
0906.1973v3
2009-06-10
Cosmic-ray origin in OB associations and preferential acceleration of refractory elements: Evidence from abundances of elements 26Fe through 34Se
We report abundances of elements from 26Fe to 34Se in the cosmic radiation measured during fifty days of exposure of the Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder (TIGER) balloon-borne instrument. These observations add support to the concept that the bulk of cosmic-ray acceleration takes place in OB associations, and they ...
0906.2021v1
2009-06-19
Homogeneous vs. inhomogeneous coexistence of magnetic order and superconductivity probed by NMR in Co and K doped iron pnictides
In Ba(Fe0.95Co0.05)2As2 all of the 75As NMR intensity at the paramagnetic resonance position vanishes abruptly below Tonset(SDW)=56 K, indicating that magnetic (spin density wave) order is present in all of the sample volume, despite bulk superconductivity below Tc=15 K. The two phases thus coexist homogeneously at the...
0906.3708v1
2009-06-26
Differential stellar population models: how to reliably measure [Fe/H] and [alpha/Fe] in galaxies
We present differential stellar population models, which allow improved determinations of the ages, iron and alpha-element abundances of old stellar populations from spectral fitting. These new models are calibrated at solar abundances using the predictions from classical, semi-empirical stellar population models. We t...
0906.5000v1
2009-06-29
Upper critical fields of the 11-system iron-chalcogenide superconductor FeSe$_{0.25}$Te$_{0.75}$
We have performed electrical resistivity measurements of a polycrystalline sample of FeSe$_{0.25}$Te$_{0.75}$, which exhibits superconductivity at $T_{\rm c} \sim 14$ K, in magnetic fields up to 55 T to determine the upper critical field $\mu_{0}H_{\rm c2}$. In this compound, very large slopes of $\mu_{0}H_{\rm c2}$ at...
0906.5248v1
2009-06-30
Fermi surface topology and low-lying quasiparticle dynamics of parent Fe$_{1+x}$Te/Se Superconductor by orbital-polarization resolved ARPES
We report the first photoemission study of Fe$_{1+x}$Te - the host compound of the newly discovered iron-chalcogenide superconductors (maximum T$_c$ $\sim$ 27K). Our results reveal a pair of nearly electron-hole compensated Fermi pockets, strong Fermi velocity renormalization and an absence of a spin-density-wave gap. ...
0906.5392v1
2009-06-30
Disorder-sensitive superconductivity in the iron silicide Lu$_2$Fe$_3$Si$_5$ studied by the Lu-site substitutions
We studied effect of non-magnetic and magnetic impurities on superconductivity in Lu$_2$Fe$_3$Si$_5$ by small amount substitution of the Lu site, which investigated structural, magnetic, and electrical properties of non-magnetic (Lu$_{1-x}$Sc$_x$)$_2$Fe$_3$Si$_5$, (Lu$_{1-x}$Y$_x$)$_2$Fe$_3$Si$_5$, and magnetic (Lu$_{1...
0906.5569v1
2009-07-01
Chemical Compositions of Kinematically Selected Outer Halo Stars
Chemical abundances of 26 metal-poor dwarfs and giants are determined from high-resolution and high signal-to-noise ratio spectra obtained with Subaru/HDS. The sample is selected so that most of the objects have outer-halo kinematics. Self-consistent atmospheric parameters were determined by an iterative procedure base...
0907.0076v2
2009-07-03
Atomically-flat, chemically-stable, superconducting epitaxial thin film of iron-based superconductor, cobalt-doped BaFe$_2$As$_2$
Epitaxial growth of Fe-based superconductors such as Co-doped SrFe$_2$As$_2$ (SrFe$_2$As$_2$:Co) was reported recently, but has still insufficient properties for device application because they have rough surfaces and are decomposed by reactions with water vapor in an ambient atmosphere. This letter reports that epitax...
0907.0666v1
2009-07-07
Phase diagram of the PrFeAsO$_{1-x}$F$_{x}$ superconductor
The electronic phase diagram of PrFeAsO$_{1-x}$F$_{x}$ (0$\leq$x$\leq$0.225) has been determined using synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction, magnetization and resistivity measurements. The structural transition temperature is suppressed from 154 K to $\approx$120 K and the magnetic phase transitions of both iron and pr...
0907.1308v1
2009-07-15
Quark matter under strong magnetic fields in the su(3) Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Model
In the present work we use the mean field approximation to investigate quark matter described by the su(3) Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model subject to a strong magnetic field. We consider two cases: pure quark matter and quark matter in beta-equilibrium possibly present in magnetars. The results are compared with the ones obta...
0907.2607v1
2009-07-15
Driving and damping mechanisms in hybrid pressure-gravity modes pulsators
We study the energetic aspects of hybrid pressure-gravity modes pulsations. The case of hybrid beta Cephei-SPB pulsators is considered with special attention. In addition to the already known sensitivity of the driving mechanism to the heavy elements mixture (mainly the iron abundance), we show that the characteristics...
0907.2636v1
2009-07-16
Lattice distortion and magnetic quantum phase transition in CeFeAs(1-x)P(x)O
We use neutron scattering to show that replacing the larger arsenic with smaller phosphorus in CeFeAs(1-x)P(x)O simultaneously suppresses the AF order and orthorhombic distortion near x = 0.4, providing evidence for a magnetic quantum critical point. Furthermore, we find that the pnictogen height in iron arsenide is an...
0907.2853v1
2009-07-17
Phase diagram of CeFeAs$_{1-x}$P$_{x}$O obtained from electric resistivity, magnetization, and specific heat measurements
We performed a systematic study on the properties of CeFeAs$_{1-x}$P$_{x}$O ($0\leq x\leq 1$) by electrical resistivity, magnetization and specific heat measurements. The c-axis lattice constant decreases significantly with increasing P content, suggesting a remarkable chemical pressure. The Fe-3d electrons show the en...
0907.2961v2
2009-07-21
Discrimination of mass hierarchy with atmospheric neutrinos at a magnetized muon detector
We have studied the mass hierarchy with atmospheric neutrinos considering the muon energy and zenith angle of the event at the magnetized iron calorimeter detector. For $\chi^2$ analysis we have migrated the number of events from neutrino energy and zenith angle bins to muon energy and zenith angle bins using the two-d...
0907.3540v3
2009-07-21
The Dependency of the Cepheid Period-Luminosity Relation on Chemical Composition
The dependency of the Cepheid Period-Luminosity Relation on chemical composition at different wavelengths is assessed via direct detailed abundance analysis of Galactic and Magellanic Cepheids, as derived from high resolution, high signal-to-noise spectra. Our measurements span one order of magnitude in iron content an...
0907.3655v2
2009-07-23
Prospects of measuring the leptonic CP phase with atmospheric neutrinos
We have studied the prospects of measuring the CP violating phase with atmospheric neutrinos at a large magnetized iron calorimeter detector considering the muons (directly measurable) of the neutrino events generated by a MonteCarlo event generator Nuance. The effect of $\theta_{13}$ and $\delta_{CP}$ appears dominant...
0907.3978v2
2009-07-24
In-situ fabrication of cobalt-doped SrFe2As2 thin films by using pulsed laser deposition with excimer laser
The remarkably high superconducting transition temperature and upper critical field of iron(Fe)-based layered superconductors, despite ferromagnetic material base, open the prospect for superconducting electronics. However, success in superconducting electronics has been limited because of difficulties in fabricating h...
0907.4227v1
2009-07-31
A new surface parameter for composition studies at high energies
A new family of parameters intended for composition studies is presented. They make exclusive use of surface data combining the information from the total signal at each triggered detector and the array geometry. We perform an analytical study of these composition estimators in order to assess their reliability, stabil...
0907.5480v1
2009-07-31
The cleavage surface of the BaFe_(2-x)Co_(x)As_(2) and Fe_(y)Se_(1-x)Te_(x) superconductors: from diversity to simplicity
We elucidate the termination surface of cleaved single crystals of the BaFe_(2-x)Co_(x)As_(2) and Fe_(y)Se_(1-x)Te_(x) families of the high temperature iron based superconductors. By combining scanning tunneling microscopic data with low energy electron diffraction we prove that the termination layer of the Ba122 syste...
0907.5544v1
2009-07-31
Magnetism and superconductivity in single crystals $Eu_{1-x}Sr_xFe_{2-y}Co_{y}As_2$
We systematically studied the transport properties of single crystals of $Eu_{1-x}Sr_xFe_{2-y}$Co$_{y}As_2$. Co doping can suppress the spin-density wave (SDW) ordering and induces a superconducting transition, but a resistivity reentrance due to the antiferromagnetic ordering of $Eu^{2+}$ spins is observed, indicating...
0907.5547v1
2009-08-05
^{31}P and ^{75}As NMR evidence for a residual density of states at zero energy in superconducting BaFe_2(As_{0.67}P_{0.33})_2
^{31}P and ^{75}As NMR measurements were performed in superconducting BaFe_2(As_{0.67}P_{0.33})_2 with T_c = 30 K. The nuclear-spin-lattice relaxation rate T_1^{-1} and the Knight shift in the normal state indicate the development of antiferromagnetic fluctuations, and T_1^{-1} in the superconducting (SC) state decreas...
0908.0625v2
2009-08-05
Krylov implementation of the hybridization expansion impurity solver and application to 5-orbital models
We present an implementation of the hybridization expansion impurity solver which employs sparse matrix exact-diagonalization techniques to compute the time evolution of the local Hamiltonian. This method avoids computationally expensive matrix-matrix multiplications and becomes advantageous over the conventional imple...
0908.0681v2
2009-08-12
The Inner Rim Structures of Protoplanetary Discs
The inner boundary of protoplanetary discs is structured by the dramatic opacity changes at the transition from the dust-containing to a dust-free zone. This paper explores the variety and limits of inner rim structures in passively heated dusty discs. For this study, we implemented detailed sublimation physics in a fa...
0908.1692v3
2009-08-20
Evidence for Nodal superconductivity in Sr$_{2}$ScFePO$_{3}$
Point contact Andreev reflection spectra have been taken as a function of temperature and magnetic field on the polycrystalline form of the newly discovered iron-based superconductor Sr2ScFePO3. A zero bias conductance peak which disappears at the superconducting transition temperature, dominates all of the spectra. Da...
0908.2902v2
2009-08-21
Magnetic structure of EuFe2As2 determined by single crystal neutron diffraction
Among various parent compounds of iron pnictide superconductors, EuFe2As2 stands out due to the presence of both spin density wave of Fe and antiferromagnetic ordering (AFM) of the localized Eu2+ moment. Single crystal neutron diffraction studies have been carried out to determine the magnetic structure of this compoun...
0908.3142v1
2009-08-24
The two-dimensional frustrated Heisenberg model on the orthorhombic lattice
We discuss new high-field magnetization data recently obtained by Tsirlin et al. for layered vanadium phosphates in the framework of the square-lattice model. Our predictions for the saturation fields compare exceptionally well to the experimental findings, and the strong bending of the curves below saturation agrees v...
0908.3442v1
2009-09-02
A study of nuclear effect in $F_3$ structure function in the deep inelastic $ν(\barν)$ reactions in nuclei
We study nuclear effect in the $F^A_3(x)$ structure function in the deep inelastic neutrino reactions on iron by taking into account Fermi motion, binding, target mass correction, shadowing and anti-shadowing corrections. Calculations have been done in a local density approximation using relativistic nuclear spectral f...
0909.0360v1
2009-09-02
Nuclear EMC Effect in a Statistical Model
A simple statistical model in terms of light-front kinematic variables is used to explain the nuclear EMC effect in the range $x \in [0.2,~0.7]$, which was constructed by us previously to calculate the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon. Here, we treat the temperature $T$ as a parameter of the atomic n...
0909.0454v1
2009-09-03
Observation of Dirac Cone Electronic Dispersion in BaFe2As2
We performed an angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy study of BaFe2As2, which is the parent compound of the so-called 122 phase of the iron-pnictide high-temperature superconductors. We reveal the existence of a Dirac cone in the electronic structure of this material below the spin-density-wave temperature, which ...
0909.0574v1
2009-09-04
Unconventional electronic reconstruction in undoped (Ba,Sr)Fe$_2$As$_2$ across the spin density wave transition
Through a systematic high resolution angle-resolved photoemission study of the iron pnictide compounds (Ba,Sr)Fe$_2$As$_2$, we show that the electronic structures of these compounds are significantly reconstructed across the spin density wave ordering, which cannot be described by a simple folding scenario of conventio...
0909.0831v1
2009-09-04
Inelastic X-ray Scattering Study of superconducting SmFeAs(O$_{1-x}$F$_{y}$) Single Crystals: Evidence for Strong Momentum-Dependent Doping-Induced Renormalizations of Optical Phonons
We report inelastic x-ray scattering experiments on the lattice dynamics in SmFeAsO and superconducting SmFeAsO$_{0.6}$F$_{0.35}$ single crystals. Particular attention was paid to the dispersions along the [100] direction of three optical modes close to 23 meV, polarized out of the FeAs planes. Remarkably, two of these...
0909.0913v2
2009-09-04
Intrinsic pinning on structural domains in underdoped single crystals of Ba(Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_x$)$_2$As$_2$
Critical current density was studied in single crystals of Ba(Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_x$)$_2$As$_2$ for the values of $x$ spanning the entire doping phase diagram. A noticeable enhancement was found for slightly underdoped crystals with the peak at $x = 0.058$. Using a combination of polarized-light imaging, x-ray diffraction an...
0909.0923v3
2009-09-04
X-raying the Winds of Luminous Active Galaxies
We briefly describe some recent observational results, mainly at X-ray wavelengths, on the winds of luminous active galactic nuclei (AGNs). These winds likely play a significant role in galaxy feedback. Topics covered include (1) Relations between X-ray and UV absorption in Broad Absorption Line (BAL) and mini-BAL quas...
0909.0958v1
2009-09-11
The double life of electrons in magnetic iron pnictides, as revealed by NMR
We present a phenomenological, two-fluid approach to understanding the magnetic excitations in Fe pnictides, in which a paramagnetic fluid with gapless, incoherent particle-hole excitations coexists with an antiferromagnetic fluid with gapped, coherent spin wave excitations. We show that this two-fluid phenomenology pr...
0909.2207v4
2009-09-12
Nuclear effects in neutrino-nucleus DIS
We explain the current status of nuclear parton distribution functions in connection with neutrino-nucleus interactions. Neutrino deep inelastic scattering (DIS) measurements have been done for heavy nuclear targets such as iron and lead. In order to extract structure functions of the nucleon, one needs to remove nucle...
0909.2329v1
2009-09-15
Theory of Andreev reflection in a two-orbital model of iron-pnictide superconductors
A recently developed theory for the problem of Andreev reflection between a normal metal (N) and a multiband superconductor (MBS) assumes that the incident wave from the normal metal is coherently transmitted through several bands inside the superconductor. Such splitting of the probability amplitude into several chann...
0909.2826v1
2009-09-16
Electronic band structure, phonon spectrum, and elastic properties of LaOFeAs
We present results of ab-initio calculations of the electronic band structure, lattice dynamical properties, and elastic constants of LaOFeAs, the parent compound of the recently discovered superconducting iron-oxypnictide (LaO1-xFxFeAs). The total and partial electronic density of states (EDOS) of the undoped LaOFeAs ...
0909.2914v2
2009-09-16
Calculation of stellar electron-capture cross sections on nuclei based on microscopic Skyrme functionals
A fully self-consistent microscopic framework for evaluation of nuclear weak-interaction rates at finite temperature is introduced, based on Skyrme functionals. The single-nucleon basis and the corresponding thermal occupation factors of the initial nuclear state are determined in the finite-temperature Skyrme Hartree-...
0909.3070v1
2009-09-17
Bulk electronic structure of optimally doped Ba(Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$)$_2$As$_2$
We report high-resolution, bulk Compton scattering measurements unveiling the Fermi surface of an optimally-doped iron-arsenide superconductor, Ba(Fe$_{0.93}$Co$_{0.07}$)$_2$As$_2$. Our measurements are in agreement with first-principles calculations of the electronic structure, revealing both the $X$-centered electron...
0909.3194v2
2009-09-25
Modelling hybrid Beta Cephei/SPB pulsations: Gamma Pegasi
Recent photometric and spectroscopic observations of the hybrid variable Gamma Pegasi (Handler et al. 2009, Handler 2009) revealed 6 frequencies of the SPB type and 8 of the Beta Cep type pulsations. Standard seismic models, which have been constructed with OPAL (Iglesias & Rogers 1996) and OP (Seaton 2005) opacities b...
0909.4643v1
2009-09-29
Weak anisotropy of the superconducting upper critical field in Fe1.11Te0.6Se0.4 single crystals
We have determined the resistive upper critical field Hc2 for single crystals of the superconductor Fe1.11Te0.6Se0.4 using pulsed magnetic fields of up to 60T. A rather high zero-temperature upper critical field of mu0Hc2(0) approx 47T is obtained, in spite of the relatively low superconducting transition temperature (...
0909.5328v1
2009-09-30
He and Ne ages of large presolar silicon carbide grains: Solving the recoil problem
Knowledge about the age of presolar grains provides important insights into Galactic chemical evolution and the dynamics of grain formation and destruction processes in the Galaxy. Determination from the abundance of cosmic ray interaction products is straightforward, but in the past has suffered from uncertainties in ...
0909.5532v1
2009-10-01
Pressure-driven phase transitions in correlated systems
Motivated by recent experimental measurements on pressure-driven phase transitions in Mott-insulators as well as the new iron pnictide superconductors, we show that first principles Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics calculations are a powerful method to describe the microscopic origin of such transitions. We present re...
0910.0158v1
2009-10-05
Isotope shifts and hyperfine structure of the Fe I 372 nm resonance line
We report measurements of the isotope shifts of the $3d^64s^2 a ^5D_4 - 3d^64s4p z ^5F_5^o$ Fe I resonance line at 372 nm between all four stable isotopes $^{54}$Fe, $^{56}$Fe, $^{57}$Fe, and $^{58}$Fe, as well as the complete hyperfine structure of that line for $^{57}$Fe, the only stable isotope having a non-zero nuc...
0910.0479v1
2009-10-05
First-principles thermal equation of state and thermoelasticity of hcp Fe at high pressures
We investigate the equation of state and elastic properties of hcp iron at high pressures and high temperatures using first principles linear response linear-muffin-tin-orbital method in the generalized-gradient approximation. We calculate the Helmholtz free energy as a function of volume, temperature, and volume-conse...
0910.0884v1
2009-10-06
Band and momentum dependent electron dynamics in superconducting ${\rm Ba(Fe_{1-x}Co_{x})_2As_2}$ as seen via electronic Raman scattering
We present details of carrier properties in high quality ${\rm Ba(Fe_{1-x}Co_{x})_2As_2}$ single crystals obtained from electronic Raman scattering. The experiments indicate a strong band and momentum anisotropy of the electron dynamics above and below the superconducting transition highlighting the importance of compl...
0910.0898v2
2009-10-09
On the influence of high energy electron populations on metal abundance estimates in galaxy groups and clusters
Spectral line emissivities have usually been calculated for a Maxwellian electron distribution. But many theoretical works on galaxy groups and clusters and on the solar corona suggest to consider modified Maxwellian electron distribution functions to fit observed X-ray spectra. Here we examine the influence of high en...
0910.1640v1
2009-10-14
Electron correlation and spin density wave order in iron pnictides
We study the correlation effects on the electronic structure and spin density wave order in Fe-pnictides. Using the multiorbital Hubbard model and Gutzwiller projection, we show that nonperturbative correlation effects are essential to stabilize the metallic spin density wave phase for the intermediate correlation stre...
0910.2707v2
2009-10-15
Single vortex structure in two models of iron pnictide $s^\pm$ superconductivity
The structure of a single vortex in a FeAs superconductor is studied in the framework of two formulations of superconductivity for the recently proposed sign-reversed $s$ wave ($s^\pm$) scenario: {\it (i)} a continuum model taking into account the existence of an electron and a hole band with a repulsive local interact...
0910.2879v1
2009-10-19
New approach to primary mass composition analysis with simultaneous use of ground and fluorescence detectors data
We study the possibility to reconstruct primary mass composition with the use of combinations of basic shower characteristics, measured in hybrid experiments, such as depth of shower maximum from fluorescence side and signal in water Cherenkov tanks or in plastic scintillators from the ground side. To optimize discrimi...
0910.3520v1
2009-10-22
About the strength of correlation effects in the electronic structure of iron
The strength of electronic correlation effects in the spin-dependent electronic structure of ferromagnetic bcc Fe(110) has been investigated by means of spin and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. The experimental results are compared to theoretical calculations within the three-body scattering approximation an...
0910.4360v1
2009-10-29
Surprising Metallicity of a Newly Discovered M79 Post-AGB Star
A detailed chemical composition analysis based on a high-resolution (R=35,000) CCD spectrum is presented for a newly discovered post-AGB star in the globular cluster M79 for the first time. The elemental abundance results of M79 Post-AGB star are found to be [C/Fe]=-0.7, [O/Fe]=+1.4, [alpha- process/Fe]=0.5, and [s-pro...
0910.5567v1
2009-10-29
Simulation of a flux emergence event and comparison with observations by Hinode
We study the observational signature of flux emergence in the photosphere using synthetic data from a 3D MHD simulation of the emergence of a twisted flux tube. Several stages in the emergence process are considered. At every stage we compute synthetic Stokes spectra of the two iron lines Fe I 6301.5 {\AA} and Fe I 630...
0910.5737v1
2009-11-04
Solar-like oscillations in massive main-sequence stars. I. Asteroseismic signatures of the driving and damping regions
Motivated by the recent detection of stochastically excited modes in the massive star V1449 Aql (Belkacem et al., 2009b), already known to be a $\beta$ Cephei, we theoretically investigate the driving by turbulent convection. By using a full non-adiabatic computation of the damping rates, together with a computation of...
0911.0908v1
2009-11-05
Ultra-High Energy Cosmic-Ray Acceleration in the Jet of Centaurus A
We evaluate the achievable maximum energy of nuclei diffusively accelerated by shock wave in the jet of Cen A, based on an updated model involving the stochastic magnetic fields that are responsible for recent synchrotron X-ray measurements. For the maximum energy analysis, conceivable energy constraints from spatiotem...
0911.0921v1
2009-11-09
Role of dipole-dipole interactions in multiple quantum transitions in magnetic nanoparticles
In order to better understand the origin of multiple quantum transitions observed in superparamagnetic nanoparticles, electron magnetic resonance (EMR) studies have been performed on iron oxide nanoparticles assembled inside the anodic alumina membrane. The positions of both the main resonance and "forbidden" (double-q...
0911.1752v1
2009-11-11
Gravitational Lensing by Black Holes
We review the theoretical aspects of gravitational lensing by black holes, and discuss the perspectives for realistic observations. We will first treat lensing by spherically symmetric black holes, in which the formation of infinite sequences of higher order images emerges in the clearest way. We will then consider the...
0911.2187v2
2009-11-13
An Unusually Fast-Evolving Supernova
Analyses of supernovae (SNe) have revealed two main types of progenitors: exploding white dwarfs and collapsing massive stars. We present SN2002bj, which stands out as different from any SN reported to date. Its light curve rises and declines very rapidly, yet reaches a peak intrinsic brightness greater than -18 mag. A...
0911.2699v1
2009-11-16
Effects of nematic fluctuations on the elastic properties of iron arsenide superconductors
We demonstrate that the changes in the elastic properties of the FeAs systems, as seen in our resonant ultrasound spectroscopy data, can be naturally understood in terms of fluctuations of emerging nematic degrees of freedom. Both the softening of the lattice in the normal, tetragonal phase as well as its hardening in ...
0911.3084v2
2009-11-18
Thermonuclear explosions of rapidly rotating white dwarfs - II. Detonations
Context: Superluminous type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) may be explained by super-Chandrasekhar-mass explosions of rapidly rotating white dwarfs (WDs). In a preceding paper, we showed that the deflagration scenario applied to rapidly rotating WDs generates explosions that cannot explain the majority of SNe Ia. Aims: Rotatio...
0911.3545v1
2009-11-18
Suzaku broadband spectroscopy of Swift J1753.5-0127 in the Low-Hard State
We present Suzaku observations of the Galactic black hole candidate Swift J1753.5-0127 in the low-hard state. The broadband coverage of Suzaku enables us to detect the source over the energy range 0.6 -- 250 keV. The broadband spectrum (2 -- 250 keV) is found to be consistent with a simple power-law (gamma \sim 1.63). ...
0911.3642v1