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cond-mat/9505050
Semiclassical analysis of the quantum interference corrections to the conductance of mesoscopic systems
The Kubo formula for the conductance of a mesoscopic system is analyzed semiclassically, yielding simple expressions for both weak localization and universal conductance fluctuations. In contrast to earlier work which dealt with times shorter than $O(\log \hbar^{-1})$, here longer times are taken to give the dominant c...
1995-05-12
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
Nathan Argaman (ITP, UCSB)
cond-mat/9505057
Surface States, Surface Metal-Insulator, and Surface Insulator-Metal Transitions
I present an informal discussion of various cases where two-dimensional surface metal-insulator structural and charge-density-wave instabilities driven by partly filled surface states have been advocated. These include reconstructions of clean semiconductor surfaces and of W(100) and Mo(100), as well as anomalies on th...
1995-05-12
2007-05-23
[ "cond-mat", "mtrl-th" ]
E. TOSATTI (SISSA/ICTP, I-34014 Trieste)
cond-mat/9505058
Coherent Magnetotransport Through an Artificial Molecule
The conductance in an extended multiband Hubbard model describing linear arrays of up to ten quantum dots is calculated via a Lanczos technique. A pronounced suppression of certain resonant conductance peaks in an applied magnetic field due to a density-dependent spin-polarization transition is predicted to be a clear ...
1995-05-12
2008-02-03
[ "cond-mat" ]
C. A. Stafford and S. Das Sarma
cond-mat/9505043
ac-Field-Controlled Anderson Localization in Disordered Semiconductor Superlattices
An ac field, tuned exactly to resonance with the Stark ladder in an ideal tight binding lattice under strong dc bias, counteracts Wannier-Stark localization and leads to the emergence of extended Floquet states. If there is random disorder, these states localize. The localization lengths depend non-monotonically on the...
1995-05-11
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
Martin Holthaus, Gerald H. Ristow and Daniel W. Hone
cond-mat/9505048
Conformal Anomaly and Critical Exponents of the XY-Ising Model
We use extensive Monte Carlo transfer matrix calculations on infinite strips of widths $L$ up to 30 lattice spacing and a finite-size scaling analysis to obtain critical exponents and conformal anomaly number $c$ for the two-dimensional $XY$-Ising model. This model is expected to describe the critical behavior of a cla...
1995-05-11
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat", "hep-lat" ]
M.P. Nightingale, E. Granato and J.M. Kosterlitz
cond-mat/9505044
Anomalously slow relaxation in the diluted Ising model below the percolation threshold
The relaxational behaviour of the bond-diluted two-dimensional Ising model below the percolation threshold is studied using Monte Carlo techniques. The non-equilibrium decay of the magnetization,M(t), and the relaxation of the equilibrium spin-spin autocorrelation function, C(t), are monitored. The behaviour of both C(...
1995-05-11
2015-06-25
[ "cond-mat" ]
S. Jain
cond-mat/9505049
Exact solution of A-D Temperley-Lieb Models
We solve for the spectrum of quantum spin chains based on representations of the Temperley-Lieb algebra associated with the quantum groups ${\cal U}_q(X_n } for $X_n = A_1,B_n,C_n$ and $D_n$. We employ a generalization of the coordinate Bethe-Ansatz developed previously for the deformed biquadratic spin one chain. As e...
1995-05-11
2015-06-25
[ "cond-mat" ]
R. Koberle, A. Lima-Santos
cond-mat/9505046
Renormalization group analysis of the anisotropic Kardar-Parasi-Zhang equation with spatially correlated noise
We analyze the anisotropic Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation in general substrate dimensions $d'$ with spatially correlated noise, $\langle\tilde \eta({\bf{k}},\omega)\rangle=0$ and $\langle\tilde \eta({\bf{k}},\omega) \tilde \eta({\bf{k}}',\omega')\rangle$ $=2D(k)\delta^{d'}({\bf{k}}+{\bf{k}}')\delta(\omega+\omega')$ where...
1995-05-11
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
H. Jeong, B. Kahng, and D. Kim
cond-mat/9505045
ELECTRONIC STATES IN GRADED-GAP JUNCTIONS WITH BAND INVERSION
We theoretically study electronic states in graded-gap junctions of IV-VI compounds with band inversion. Using a two-band model within the ${\bf k}\cdot{\bf p}$ approximation and assuming that the gap and the gap centre present linear profiles, we demonstrate the existence of a set of localized states along the growth ...
1995-05-11
2016-08-31
[ "cond-mat" ]
Francisco Dominguez-Adame
cond-mat/9505047
THE ANOMALOUS DIFFUSION IN HIGH MAGNETIC FIELD AND THE QUASIPARTICLE DENSITY OF STATES
We consider a disordered two-dimensional electronic system in the limit of high magnetic field at the metal-insulator transition. Density of states close to the Fermi level acquires a divergent correction to the lowest order in electron-electron interaction and shows a new power-law dependence on the energy, with the p...
1995-05-11
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
Igor F. Herbut and Zlatko Tesanovic (Johns Hopkins University)
cond-mat/9505041
Time dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation for an N-component model of self-assembled fluids
We study the time evolution of an N-component model of bicontinuous microemulsions based on a time dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation quenched from an high temperature uncorrelated state to the low temperature phases. The behavior of the dynamical structure factor $\tilde C(k,t)$ is obtained, in each phase, in the fram...
1995-05-10
2007-05-23
[ "cond-mat" ]
Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi, Federico Corberi (Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Universit\`a di Camerino, Italy)
cond-mat/9505040
Superfluidity of Hydrogenlike Gas in a Strong Magnetic Field ?
The recent claim that in a strong magnetic field hydrogenlike gas (e.g., excitons in certain semiconductors, neutron star surface layers) becomes superfluid is refuted. Molecules form by strong covalent bond along the magnetic field axis, which prohibits Bose-Einstein condensation.
1995-05-10
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat", "astro-ph" ]
Dong Lai (Caltech)
cond-mat/9505042
Thermal Fluctuations in d-wave Layered Superconductors
We study the thermal fluctuations of anisotropic order parameters (OP) in layered superconductors. In particular, for copper oxides and a d-wave OP, we present some experimental consequences of fluctuations in the direction normal to the layers. It is shown that the c-axis penetration depth $\lambda_c$ can have a "diso...
1995-05-10
2015-06-25
[ "cond-mat" ]
Muriel Ney-Nifle and Marc Gabay
cond-mat/9505039
Influence of the electric field on edge dislocations in smectics
The electric field applied perpendicularly to smectic layers breaks the rotational symmetry of the system. Consequently, the elastic energy associated with distortions induced by an edge dislocation diverges logarithmically with the size of the system. In freely suspended smectic films the dislocations in the absence o...
1995-05-09
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
R.Holyst and P.Oswald
cond-mat/9505036
The Irreducible String and an Infinity of Additional Constants of Motion in a Deposition-Evaporation Model on a Line
We study a model of stochastic deposition-evaporation with recombination, of three species of dimers on a line. This model is a generalization of the model recently introduced by Barma {\it et. al.} (1993 {\it Phys. Rev. Lett.} {\bf 70} 1033) to $q\ge 3$ states per site. It has an infinite number of constants of motion...
1995-05-09
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
M. K. Hari Menon and Deepak Dhar
cond-mat/9505038
Improved Perturbation Theory for the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation
We apply a number of schemes which variationally improve perturbation theory for the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation in order to extract estimates for the dynamic exponent z. The results for the various schemes show the same broad features, giving closer agreement with numerical simulations in low dimensions than self-con...
1995-05-09
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
T. Blum and A. J. McKane (University of Manchester)
cond-mat/9505035
Coulomb blockade oscillations of conductance in the regime of strong tunneling
We study the transport through a quantum dot coupled to two leads by single-mode point contacts. The linear conductance is calculated analytically as a function of a gate voltage and temperature T in the case when transmission coefficients of the contacts are close to unity. As a function of the gate voltage, the condu...
1995-05-09
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
A. Furusaki and K. A. Matveev (MIT)
cond-mat/9505034
Magnetoresistance of the Double-Exchange Model in Infinite Dimension
Double-exchange model in infinite dimension is studied as the strong Hund's coupling limit $J\to\infty$ of the Kondo lattice model. Several quantities such as Green's function and the d.c.\ conductivity are calculated in analytical forms. Magnetoresistance in lightly doped (La,Sr)MnO$_3$ is reproduced very well.
1995-05-09
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
Nobuo Furukawa (ISSP, Univ. Tokyo)
cond-mat/9505037
Variational Schemes in the Fokker-Planck Equation
We investigate variational methods for finding approximate solutions to the Fokker-Planck equation, especially in cases lacking detailed balance. These schemes fall into two classes: those in which a Hermitian operator is constructed from the (non-Hermitian) Fokker-Planck operator, and those which are based on soluble ...
1995-05-09
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
T. Blum and A. J. McKane (University of Manchester)
cond-mat/9505026
Two - Dimensional Electron Liquid in a Weak Magnetic Field
We present an effective theory describing the low-energy properties of an interacting 2D electron gas at large non-integer filling factors $\nu\gg 1$. Assuming that the interaction is sufficiently weak, $r_s < 1$, we integrate out all the fast degrees of freedom, and derive the effective Hamiltonian acting in the Fock ...
1995-05-08
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
I. L. Aleiner and L. I. Glazman
cond-mat/9505032
Superconductivity Fluctuations in a One-dimensional Two Band Electron-Phonon Model with Strong Repulsive Interactions
We study a one-dimensional, two band model with short range electron-electron repulsions (onsite $U$ and nearest-neighbour $V$ terms) and electron-phonon coupling. We show that there is a region of $U$,$V$ and band filling in which singlet superconductivity fluctuations are dominant. This region is absent without elect...
1995-05-08
2008-02-03
[ "cond-mat" ]
S.I.Matveenko, A.R.Bishop and A.Balatsky
cond-mat/9505029
Electrons, pseudoparticles, and quasiparticles in one-dimensional interacting electronic systems
We find the singular transformation between the electron operator and the pseudoparticle operators for the Hubbard chain. We generalize the concept of quasiparticle to one-dimensional electronic systems which in 1D refers to many-pseudoparticle objects. We obtain explicit results for the electron renormalization factor...
1995-05-08
2007-05-23
[ "cond-mat" ]
J. M. P. Carmelo, A. H. Castro Neto and N. M. R. Peres
cond-mat/9505033
Bosonization of One-Dimensional Exclusons and Characterization of Luttinger Liquids
We achieve a bosonization of one-dimensional ideal gas of exclusion statistics $\lambda$ at low temperatures, resulting in a new variant of $c=1$ conformal field theory with compactified radius $R=\sqrt{1/\lambda}$. These ideal excluson gases exactly reproduce the low-$T$ critical properties of Luttinger liquids, so th...
1995-05-08
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat", "hep-th" ]
Yong-Shi Wu and Yue Yu
cond-mat/9505031
Exact non-equilibrium DC shot noise in Luttinger liquids and fractional quantum Hall devices
A point contact in a Luttinger liquid couples the left- and right-moving channels, producing shot noise. We calculate exactly the DC shot noise at zero temperature in the out-of-equilibrium steady state where current is flowing. Integrability of the interaction ensures the existence of a quasiparticle basis where quasi...
1995-05-08
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
P. Fendley, A.W.W. Ludwig and H. Saleur
cond-mat/9505027
Abelian Hall Fluids and Edge States: a Conformal Field Theory Approach
We show that a Coulomb gas Vertex Operator representation of 2D Conformal Field Theory gives a complete description of abelian Hall fluids: as an euclidean theory in two space dimensions leads to the construction of the ground state wave function for planar and toroidal geometry and characterizes the spectrum of low en...
1995-05-08
2012-09-27
[ "cond-mat" ]
A. De Martino and R. Musto
cond-mat/9505030
Parity Fluctuations Between Coulomb Blockaded Superconducting Islands
We find that if two superconducting islands of different number parity are linked by a tunnel junction the unpaired electron in the odd island has a tendency to tunnel into the even island. This process leads to fluctuations in time of the number parity of each island, giving rise to a random telegraph noise spectrum w...
1995-05-08
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat", "supr-con" ]
Boldizsar Janko and Vinay Ambegaokar
cond-mat/9505025
Stochastic Resonance in 3D Ising Ferromagnets
Finite 3D Ising ferromagnets are studied in periodic magnetic fields both by computer simulations and mean-field theoretical approaches. The phenomenon of stochastic resonance is revealed. The characteristic peak obtained for the correlation function between the external oscillating magnetic field and magnetization ver...
1995-05-06
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
Zoltan Neda (Univ. of Bergen, Norway)
cond-mat/9505023
Casimir effect around disclinations
This communication concerns the structure of the electromagnetic quantum vacuum in a disclinated insulator. It is shown that a nonzero vacuum energy density appears when the rotational symmetry of a continuous insulating elastic medium is broken by a disclination. An explicit expression is given for this Casimir energy...
1995-05-05
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
Fernando Moraes (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
cond-mat/9505024
Interactions, Distribution of Pinning Energies, and Transport in the Bose Glass Phase of Vortices in Superconductors
We study the ground state and low energy excitations of vortices pinned to columnar defects in superconductors, taking into account the long--range interaction between the fluxons. We consider the ``underfilled'' situation in the Bose glass phase, where each flux line is attached to one of the defects, while some pins ...
1995-05-05
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
Uwe C. T"auber and David R. Nelson (Harvard University)
cond-mat/9505022
Effective action approach to a bi-layer frustrated antiferromagnet
A bi-layer quantum frustrated antiferromagnet is studied using an effective action approach. The action derived from the microscopical Hamiltonian has the form of the O(3) non-linear sigma model. It is solved in the mean field approximation with the ultraviolet cut off chosen to fit numerical results. The obtained phas...
1995-05-05
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
A. Dotsenko (UNSW)
cond-mat/9505021
Berry phase, hyperorbits, and the Hofstadter spectrum
We develop a semiclassical theory for the dynamics of electrons in a magnetic Bloch band, where the Berry phase plays an important role. This theory, together with the Boltzmann equation, provides a framework for studying transport problems in high magnetic fields. We also derive an Onsager-like formula for the quantiz...
1995-05-04
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
M.C.Chang and Q.Niu
cond-mat/9505016
What happens to the quantum Hall effect when magnetic-field-induced spin-density wave moves
The influence of the motion of a magnetic-field-induced spin-density wave (FISDW) on the quantum Hall effect in a quasi-one-dimensional conductor is studied theoretically. In the ideal case of a free FISDW, it is found that the counterflow of the FISDW precisely cancels the quantum Hall current, so the resultant Hall c...
1995-05-04
2007-05-23
[ "cond-mat" ]
Victor M. Yakovenko and Hsi-Sheng Goan (University of Maryland)
cond-mat/9505019
Critical behavior for mixed site-bond directed percolation
We study mixed site-bond directed percolation on 2D and 3D lattices by using time-dependent simulations. Our results are compared with rigorous bounds recently obtained by Liggett and by Katori and Tsukahara. The critical fractions $p_{site}^c$ and $p_{bond}^c$ of sites and bonds are extremely well approximated by a re...
1995-05-04
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
A.Yu. Tretyakov and N. Inui
cond-mat/9505017
Negative hopping magnetoresistance of two-dimensional electron gas in a smooth random potential
We show that the tunnel coupling between semiclassical states localized in different minima of a smooth random potential increases when magnetic field is applied. This increase originates from the difference in gauge factors which electron wave functions belonging to different electron ``lakes'' acquire in the presence...
1995-05-04
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
M. E. Raikh, L. I. Glazman
cond-mat/9505020
Frustration - how it can be measured
A misfit parameter is used to characterize the degree of frustration of ordered and disordered systems. It measures the increase of the ground-state energy due to frustration in comparison with that of a relevant reference state. The misfit parameter is calculated for various spin-glass models. It allows one to compare...
1995-05-04
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
S. Kobe and T. Klotz
cond-mat/9505018
Lifting of Multiphase Degeneracy by Quantum Fluctuations
We study the effect of quantum fluctuations on the multiphase point of the Heisenberg model with first- and second-neighbor competing interactions and strong uniaxial spin anisotropy $D$. By studying the structure of perturbation theory we show that the multiphase degeneracy which exists for $S=\infty$ (i.e., for the A...
1995-05-04
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
A. B. Harris, C. Micheletti and J. M. Yeomans
cond-mat/9505007
Relation between Barrier Conductance and Coulomb Blockade Peak Splitting for Tunnel-Coupled Quantum Dots
We study the relation between the barrier conductance and the Coulomb blockade peak splitting for two electrostatically equivalent dots connected by tunneling channels with bandwidths much larger than the dot charging energies. We note that this problem is equivalent to a well-known single-dot problem and present solut...
1995-05-03
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
John M. Golden and Bertrand I. Halperin (Harvard)
cond-mat/9505011
Magnetic and Transport Properties of the Kondo Lattice Model with Ferromagnetic Exchange Coupling
The Kondo lattice model with Hund's ferromagnetic spin coupling is investigated as a microscopic model of the perovskite-type $3d$ manganese oxide (R,A)MnO$_3$ where $R$ and $A$ are rare earth element and alkaline earth element, respectively. We take the classical spin limit $S=\infty$ for the simplicity of the calcula...
1995-05-03
2008-02-03
[ "cond-mat" ]
Nobuo Furukawa (ISSP, Univ. Tokyo)
cond-mat/9505014
A Testbench for the Nested Dipole Hypothesis of Kosterlitz and Thouless
We consider the two-dimensional one-component plasma without a background and confined to a half plane near a metal wall. The particles are also subjected to an external potential acting perpendicular to the wall with an inverse power law Boltzmann factor. The model has a known solvable isotherm which exhibits a Koster...
1995-05-03
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
A. Alastuey and P.J. Forrester
cond-mat/9505015
Correlations in two-component log-gas systems
A systematic study of the properties of particle and charge correlation functions in the two-dimensional Coulomb gas confined to a one-dimensional domain is undertaken. Two versions of this system are considered: one in which the positive and negative charges are constrained to alternate in sign along the line, and the...
1995-05-03
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
A. Alastuey and P.J. Forrester
cond-mat/9505010
Semiclassical Description of Tunneling in Mixed Systems: The Case of the Annular Billiard
We study quantum-mechanical tunneling between symmetry-related pairs of regular phase space regions that are separated by a chaotic layer. We consider the annular billiard, and use scattering theory to relate the splitting of quasi-degenerate states quantized on the two regular regions to specific paths connecting them...
1995-05-03
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat", "chao-dyn", "nlin.CD" ]
Eyal Doron and Steffen D. Frischat
cond-mat/9505013
Viscosities of the Gay-Berne nematic liquid crystal
We present molecular dynamics simulation measurements of the viscosities of the Gay-Berne phenomenological model of liquid crystals in the nematic and isotropic phases. The temperature dependence of the rotational and shear viscosities, including the nonmonotonic behavior of one shear viscosity are in good agreement wi...
1995-05-03
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat", "chem-ph", "mtrl-th" ]
A. M. Smondyrev, G. B. Loriot and R. A. Pelcovits
cond-mat/9505009
Magnetic Transition Temperature of (La,Sr)MnO$_3$
Using the Kondo lattice model with classical spins in infinite dimension, magnetic phase transition in the perovskite-type $3d$ transition-metal oxide (La,Sr)MnO$_3$ is theoretically studied. On the Bethe lattice, the self-consistency equations are solved exactly. Curie temperatures at the region of double-exchange f...
1995-05-03
2016-08-31
[ "cond-mat" ]
Nobuo Furukawa (ISSP, Univ. Tokyo)
cond-mat/9505008
ON THERMODYNAMICS OF MULTISPECIES ANYONS
We address the problem of multispecies anyons, i.e. particles of different species whose wave function is subject to anyonlike conditions. The cluster and virial coefficients are considered. Special attention is paid to the case of anyons in the lowest Landau level of a strong magnetic field, when it is possible (i) to...
1995-05-03
2016-08-31
[ "cond-mat" ]
Serguei B. Isakov, Stefan Mashkevich, St\'ephane Ouvry (Medical Radiology Research Center, Obninsk, Russia, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine, Division de Physique Th\'eorique, IPN, Orsay)
cond-mat/9505006
Phase Transitions in the One-Dimensional Pair-Hopping Model: a Renormalization Group Study
The phase diagram of a one-dimensional tight-binding model with a pair-hopping term (amplitude V) has been the subject of some controvery. Using two-loop renormalization group equations and the density matrix renormalization group with lengths L<=60, we argue that no spin-gap transition occurs at half-filling for posit...
1995-05-02
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
Arnold Sikkema and Ian Affleck (UBC, CIAR)
cond-mat/9505003
Fitness landscapes and evolution
The concept of fitness is introduced, and a simple derivation of the Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection (which states that the average fitness of a population increases if its variance is nonzero) is given. After a short discussion of the adaptative walk model, a short review is given of the quasispecies approach...
1995-05-02
2008-02-03
[ "cond-mat", "q-bio.PE" ]
Luca Peliti
cond-mat/9505004
Phase diagram of the two-dimensional t--J model at low doping
The phase diagram of the planar t--J model at small hole doping is investigated by finite size scaling of exact diagonalisation data of NXN clusters (up to 26). Hole-droplet binding energies, compressibility and static spin and charge correlations are calculated. Short range antiferromagnetic correlations can produce a...
1995-05-02
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
D. Poilblanc (Lab. de Physique Quantique, Universit\'e Paul Sabatier)
cond-mat/9505005
The Anomalous Hall Effect in YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_7$
The temperature dependence of the normal state Hall effect and magnetoresistance in YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_7$ is investigated using the Nearly Antiferromagnetic Fermi Liquid description of planar quasiparticles. We find that highly anisotropic scattering at different regions of the Fermi surface gives rise to the measured ano...
1995-05-02
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
Branko P. Stojkovic and David Pines (University of Illinois)
cond-mat/9505001
Dynamic Susceptibility and Phonon Anomalies in the Bilayer $t$-$J$ Model
We consider a bilayer version of the extended $t$-$J$ model, with a view to computing the form of certain experimentally observable properties. Using the slave-boson decomposition, we show at the mean-field level that in the bilayer system the existence of in-plane $d$-wave singlet pairing excludes any interplane singl...
1995-05-01
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
B. Normand, H. Kohno and H. Fukuyama (Univ. of Tokyo)
cond-mat/9505002
Nernst Effect, Seebeck Effect, and Vortex Dynamics in the Mixed State of Superconductors
Based on the vortex dynamics with the Magnus force and a two-fluid model we have derived a set of explicit expressions between the Nernst and Seebeck coefficients, and the Hall and longitudinal resistivities in the linear response regime of the mixed state of superconductors. Effects of vortex pinning are included. The...
1995-05-01
2008-02-03
[ "cond-mat" ]
P. Ao
cond-mat/9504122
Spin-Charge Separation at Finite Temperature in the Supersymmetric t-J Model with Long-Range Interactions
Thermodynamics is derived rigorously for the 1D supersymmetric {\it t-J} model and its SU($K,1$) generalization with inverse-square exchange. The system at low temperature is described in terms of spinons, antispinons, holons and antiholons obeying fractional statistics. They are all free and make the spin susceptibili...
1995-04-30
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
Yoshio Kuramoto and Yusuke Kato
cond-mat/9504121
Brownian motion of Massive Particle in a Space with Curvature and Torsion and Crystals with Defects
We develop a theory of Brownian motion of a massive particle, including the effects of inertia (Kramers' problem), in spaces with curvature and torsion. This is done by invoking the recently discovered generalized equivalence principle, according to which the equations of motion of a point particle in such spaces can b...
1995-04-30
2015-06-25
[ "cond-mat" ]
H. Kleinert and S.V. Shabanov
cond-mat/9504117
Quasiparticle current in ballistic NcS'S junctions
Nonstationary properties of ballistic constrictions $NcS^{\prime}S$ with disordered $S^{\prime}S$ electrodes are analyzed theoretically. Amplitudes of Andreev and normal reflections at the constriction are related to the solutions of a stationary Green function problem in an inhomogeneous $% S^{\prime}S$ electrode in a...
1995-04-28
2007-05-23
[ "cond-mat" ]
A.A.Golubov (KFA-Juelich, Germany; and Institute of Solid State Physics, Chernogolovka, Russia) and M.Yu.Kupriyanov (KFA-Juelich, Germany; and Moscow State University, Russia)
cond-mat/9504119
Chiral and continuous symmetry of an XY spin glass on a tube lattice
We analyse the chiral symmetry in the random $\pm J$ $XY$ model on a $N\times 2$ square lattice with periodic boundary conditions in the transverse direction. This ``tube" lattice may be seen as a two-dimensional lattice of which one dimension has been compactified. In the Villain formulation the discrete-valued {\em c...
1995-04-28
2016-08-31
[ "cond-mat" ]
M.J. Thill, M. Ney-Nifle, and H.J. Hilhorst
cond-mat/9504118
Transport coefficients, effective charge and mass for multicomponent systems with fractional exclusion statistics
Transport properties of the multicomponent quantum many-body systems obeying Haldane's fractional exclusion statistics are studied in one dimension. By computing the finite-size spectrum under twisted boundary conditions, we explicitly express the conductivity and the conductance in terms of statistical interactions. T...
1995-04-28
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
T. Fukui and N. Kawakami
cond-mat/9504120
Non Fermi Liquid Behaviour near a $T=0$ spin-glass transition
In this paper we study the competition between the Kondo effect and RKKY interactions near the zero-temperature quantum critical point of an Ising-like metallic spin-glass. We consider the mean-field behaviour of various physical quantities. In the `quantum- critical regime' non-analytic corrections to the Fermi liquid...
1995-04-28
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
Anirvan M. Sengupta and Antoine Georges
cond-mat/9504115
SELFCONSISTENT CURRENT-VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS OF NORMAL-SUPERCONDUCTOR INTERFACES
We study the nonlinear transport properties of NS (normal-superconductor) and NSN structures by means of a self-consistent microscopic description. A nonzero superfluid velocity causes the various quasiparticle channels within S to open at different voltages. The gap reduction is very sensitive to the details of quasip...
1995-04-27
2016-08-15
[ "cond-mat" ]
J. S\'anchez Ca\~nizares and F. Sols (Departamento de F\'isica de la Materia Condensada, C-XII Universidad Aut\'onoma de Madrid)
cond-mat/9504111
Modeling Morphology of Cities and Towns
Predicting urban growth is important for practical reasons, and also for the challenge it presents to theoretical frameworks for cluster dynamics. Recently, the model of diffusion limited aggregation (DLA) has been applied to describe urban growth, and results in tree-like dendritic structures which have a core or ``ce...
1995-04-27
2007-05-23
[ "cond-mat" ]
Hernan A. Makse, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley
cond-mat/9504113
Giant Conductance Oscillations In Mesoscopic Andreev Interferometers
We analyze the electrical conductance $G(\phi)$ of a two-dimensional, phase coherent structure in contact with two superconductors, which is known to be an oscillatory function of the phase difference $\phi$ between the superconductors. It is predicted that for a metallic sample, the amplitude of oscillation is enhance...
1995-04-27
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
N.K. Allsopp, J. Sanchez Canizares, R. Raimondi and C.J. Lambert
cond-mat/9504114
A new integrable two parameter model of strongly correlated electrons in one dimension
A new one-dimensional fermion model depending on two independent interaction parameters is formulated and solved exactly by the Bethe ansatz method. The Hamiltonian of the model contains the Hubbard interaction and correlated hopping as well as pair hopping terms. The density-density and pair correlations are calculate...
1995-04-27
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
R. Z. Bariev, A. Kl\"umper, J. Zittartz
cond-mat/9504112
Mutual Exclusion Statistics in Exactly Solvable Models in One and Higher Dimensions at Low Temperatures
We study statistical characterization of the many-body states in exactly solvable models with internal degrees of freedom. The models under consideration include the isotropic and anisotropic Heisenberg spin chain, the Hubbard chain, and a model in higher dimensions which exhibits the Mott metal-insulator transition. I...
1995-04-27
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
Y. Hatsugai (Applied Physics, U-Tokyo), M. Kohmoto (ISSP,U-Tokyo), T.Koma (Physics Gakushuin-U), and Y.-S. Wu (Physics, U-Utah) Comments( 22 pages, 1 postscript figure, to appear in Physicsl Review B)
cond-mat/9504116
Impact Ionization in ZnS
The impact ionization rate and its orientation dependence in k space is calculated for ZnS. The numerical results indicate a strong correlation to the band structure. The use of a q-dependent screening function for the Coulomb interaction between conduction and valence electrons is found to be essential. A simple fit f...
1995-04-27
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
M.Reigrotzki, M.Stobbe, R.Redmer (Uni Rostock, Rostock, Germany), W.Schattke (Uni Kiel, Kiel, Germany)
cond-mat/9504108
Single-particle Green's functions of the Calogero-Sutherland model at couplings \lambda = 1/2, 1, and 2
At coupling strengths lambda = 1/2, 1, or 2, the Calogero-Sutherland model (CSM) is related to Brownian motion in a Wigner-Dyson random matrix ensemble with orthogonal, unitary, or symplectic symmetry. Using this relation in conjunction with superanalytic techniques developed in mesoscopic conductor physics, we derive ...
1995-04-26
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat", "hep-th" ]
M.R. Zirnbauer and F.D.M. Haldane
cond-mat/9504103
Thermodynamics of an integrable model for electrons with correlated hopping
A new supersymmetric model for electrons with generalized hopping terms and Hubbard interaction on a one-dimensional lattice is solved by means of the Bethe Ansatz. We investigate the phase diagram of this model by studying the ground state and excitations of the model as a function of the interaction parameter, electr...
1995-04-26
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
Gerald Bed\"urftig and Holger Frahm
cond-mat/9504107
The Single-Particle density of States, Bound States, Phase-Shift Flip, and a Resonance in the Presence of an Aharonov-Bohm Potential
Both the nonrelativistic scattering and the spectrum in the presence of the Aharonov-Bohm potential are analyzed. The single-particle density of states (DOS) for different self-adjoint extensions is calculated. The DOS provides a link between different physical quantities and is a natural starting point for their calcu...
1995-04-26
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat", "hep-th", "quant-ph" ]
Alexander Moroz
cond-mat/9504104
Crossover of magnetoconductance autocorrelation for a ballistic chaotic quantum dot
The autocorrelation function $C_{\varphi,\eps}(\Delta\varphi,\,\Delta \eps)=$ $\langle \delta g(\varphi,\,\eps)\, \delta g(\varphi+\Delta\varphi,\,\eps+\Delta \eps)\rangle$ ($\varphi$ and $\eps$ are rescaled magnetic flux and energy) for the magnetoconductance of a ballistic chaotic quantum dot is calculated in the fra...
1995-04-26
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
Klaus Frahm
cond-mat/9504109
Peak Effect in Superconductors: Melting of Larkin Domains
Motivated by the recent observations of the peak effect in high-$T_c$ YBCO superconductors, we reexamine the origin of this unusual phenomenon. We show that the mechanism based on the $k$-dependence (nonlocality) of the vortex-lattice tilt modulus $C_{44}({\bf k})$ cannot account for the essential feature of the peak e...
1995-04-26
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat", "supr-con" ]
Xinsheng Ling, Chao Tang, S. Bhattacharya, and Paul M. Chaikin
cond-mat/9504110
Chaos in Andreev Billiards
A new type of classical billiard - the Andreev billiard - is investigated using the tangent map technique. Andreev billiards consist of a normal region surrounded by a superconducting region. In contrast with previously studied billiards, Andreev billiards are integrable in zero magnetic field, {\it regardless of their...
1995-04-26
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat", "chao-dyn", "nlin.CD" ]
Ioan Kosztin, Dmitrii L. Maslov and Paul M. Goldbart
cond-mat/9504100
Eigenstates of the Vorticity Operator: The Creation and Annihilation of Vortex States in Two Dimensions
A quantum mechanical description of vortices in two dimensional superfluid $^4$He flims is presented. Single vortex creation and annihilation operators are defined and wavefunctions for these states are explicitly constructed. A hamitonian for these states is then proposed.
1995-04-26
2007-05-23
[ "cond-mat", "quant-ph" ]
A. D. Speliotopoulos
cond-mat/9504105
Self-consistent current-voltage characteristics of superconducting nano-structures
By solving the Bogoliubov - de Gennes equation self-consistently in the presence of a non-equilibrium quasi-particle distribution, we compute the current-voltage characteristic of a phase coherent superconducting island with a tunnel barrier at one end. The results show significant structure, arising from the competiti...
1995-04-26
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
A Martin and CJ Lambert
cond-mat/9504106
High Resolution 13C NMR study of oxygen intercalation in C60
Solid state high resolution $^{13}C$ NMR has been used to investigate the physical properties of pristine $C_{60}$ after intercalation with molecular oxygen. By studying the dipolar and hyperfine interactions between Curie type paramagnetic oxygen molecules and $^{13}C$ nuclei we have shown that neither chemical bondin...
1995-04-26
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
P. Bernier, I. Luk'yanchuk, Z. Belahmer, M. Ribet, L. Firlej
cond-mat/9504102
Conductivity of 2D lattice electrons in an incommensurate magnetic field
We consider conductivities of two-dimensional lattice electrons in a magnetic field. We focus on systems where the flux per plaquette $\phi$ is irrational (incommensurate flux). To realize the system with the incommensurate flux, we consider a series of systems with commensurate fluxes which converge to the irrational ...
1995-04-26
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
Masahito Takahashi(ISSP, U-Tokyo), Yasuhiro Hatsugai (Applied Physics, U-Tokyo), and Mahito Kohmoto(ISSP, U-Tokyo)
cond-mat/9504101
Mesoscopic phenomena in multiple light scattering
In my thesis I study mesoscopic corrections on diffuse transport. I first describe the diffuse transport of light, using the scalar approximation and the radiative transfer approach. Next, I focus on the correlations in transmission, I discuss the so called C_1, C_2, C_3 decomposition and calculate each term in detail....
1995-04-25
2007-05-23
[ "cond-mat" ]
M.C.W. van Rossum
cond-mat/9504098
Magnetoconductance of ballistic chaotic quantum dots: A Brownian motion approach for the $S$-matrix
Using the Fokker-Planck equation describing the evolution of the transmission eigenvalues for Dyson's Brownian motion ensemble, we calculate the magnetoconductance of a ballistic chaotic dot in in the crossover regime from the orthogonal to the unitary symmetry. The correlation functions of the transmission eigenvalues...
1995-04-25
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
Klaus Frahm and Jean-Louis Pichard
cond-mat/9504097
Brownian motion ensembles and parametric correlations of the transmission eigenvalues: Application to coupled quantum billiards and to disordered wires
The parametric correlations of the transmission eigenvalues $T_i$ of a $N$-channel quantum scatterer are calculated assuming two different Brownian motion ensembles. The first one is the original ensemble introduced by Dyson and assumes an isotropic diffusion for the $S$-matrix. The second Brownian motion ensemble assu...
1995-04-25
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
Klaus Frahm and Jean-Louis Pichard
cond-mat/9504096
On the spectrum of S=1/2 XXX Heisenberg chain with elliptic exchange
It is found that the Hamiltonian of S=1/2 isotropic Heisenberg chain with $N$ sites and elliptic non-nearest-neighbor exchange is diagonalized in each sector of the Hilbert space with magnetization $N/2-M$, $1<M\leq[N/2]$, by means of double quasiperiodic meromorphic solutions to the $M$-particle quantum Calogero-Moser...
1995-04-25
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
V.I. Inozemtsev
cond-mat/9504099
TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY OF QUANTUM CHARGE FLUCTUATIONS IN THE COULOMB BLOCKADE
We present a theory of Coulomb blockade oscillations in tunneling through a pair of quantum dots connected by a tunable tunneling junction. The positions and amplitudes of peaks in the linear conductance are directly related, respectively, to the ground state energy and to the dynamics of charge fluctuations. We study ...
1995-04-25
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
K.A. Matveev (MIT), L.I. Glazman (U. Minn.), and H. U. Baranger (AT&T)
cond-mat/9504090
Boundary conditions for quantum lattice systems
For classical lattice systems, the Dobrushin-Lanford-Ruelle theory of boundary conditions states that the restriction of a global equilibrium state to a subsystem can be obtained as an integral over equilibrium states of the subsystem alone. The Hamiltonians for the subsystem are obtained by fixing a configuration for ...
1995-04-24
2007-05-23
[ "cond-mat", "quant-ph" ]
M. Fannes and R.F. Werner
cond-mat/9504092
Linear response theory of Coulomb drag in coupled electron systems
We report a fully microscopic theory for transconductivity, or, equivalently, momentum transfer rate, of Coulomb coupled electron systems. We use the Kubo linear response formalism, and our main formal result expresses the transconductivity in terms of two fluctuation diagrams, which are topologically related, but not ...
1995-04-24
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
Karsten Flensberg (MIC, DTU), Ben Yu-Kuang Hu (MIC, DTU), Antti-Pekka Jauho (MIC, DTU), and Jari M. Kinaret (Nordita)
cond-mat/9504091
ON THE LOW-TEMPERATURE ORDERING OF THE 3D ATIFERROMAGNETIC THREE-STATE POTTS MODEL
The antiferromagnetic three-state Potts model on the simple-cubic lattice is studied using Monte Carlo simulations. The ordering in a medium temperature range below the critical point is investigated in detail. Two different regimes have been observed: The so-called broken sublattice-symmetry phase dominates at suffici...
1995-04-24
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
M. Kolesik and M. Suzuki
cond-mat/9504093
An Upsilon Point in a Spin Model
We present analytic evidence for the occurrence of an upsilon point, an infinite checkerboard structure of modulated phases, in the ground state of a spin model. The structure of the upsilon point is studied by calculating interface--interface interactions using an expansion in inverse spin anisotropy.
1995-04-24
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
C. Micheletti, F. Seno and J. M. Yeomans
cond-mat/9504094
Topological Mechanism of Superconductivity
We outline the basic ideas of the topological mechanisms of superconductivity. A gauged model of correlated electronic system where a topological fluid is formed as a result of a strong interaction is discussed.
1995-04-24
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
P. B. Wiegmann
cond-mat/9504095
Theory of Neutron Scattering in the Normal and Superconducting State of YBCO
We analyze neutron experiments on $\ybco$ at various stoichiometries in the superconducting state, within the context of a bi-layer theory which yields good agreement with the normal state Cu-NMR and neutron data as a function of \omega, q and T. A d-wave superconducting state exhibits peaks at q = ( \pi , \pi , \pi ) ...
1995-04-24
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
D.Z. Liu, K. Levin, and Y. Zha
cond-mat/9504084
Simple description of the anisotropic two-channel Kondo problem
We adapt strong-coupling methods first used in the one-channel Kondo model to develop a simple description of the spin-$1\over 2$ two-channel Kondo model with channel anisotropy. Our method exploits spin-charge decoupling to develop a compactified Hamiltonian that describes the spin excitations. The structure of the fi...
1995-04-21
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
P. Coleman and A. J. Schofield
cond-mat/9504089
Spatial Correlation in Quantum Chaotic Systems with Time-reversal Symmetry: Theory and Experiment
The correlation between the values of wavefunctions at two different spatial points is examined for chaotic systems with time-reversal symmetry. Employing a supermatrix method, we find that there exist long-range Friedel oscillations of the wave function density for a given eigenstate, although the background wavefunct...
1995-04-21
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
V. N. Prigodin, N. Taniguchi, A. Kudrolli, V. Kidambi, and S. Sridhar
cond-mat/9504085
EQUIVALENCES BETWEEN STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS
Time-dependent correlation functions of (unstable) particles undergoing biased or unbiased diffusion, coagulation and annihilation are calculated. This is achieved by similarity transformations between different stochastic models and between stochastic and soluble {\em non-stochastic} models. The results agree with exp...
1995-04-21
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat", "chem-ph", "hep-lat", "hep-th", "nlin.SI", "solv-int" ]
Malte Henkel, Enzo Orlandini and Gunter M. Sch\"utz
cond-mat/9504087
Dynamical correlations in a Hubbard chain with resonating-valence-bond ground state
Dynamical correlation functions for temperature T=0 are calculated for a Hubbard chain with infinite on-site repulsion. This chain contains three sites per unit cell and has a known resonating-valence-bond ground state for a filling of 2 particles per unit cell. A finite system of 24 sites is studied numerically. The r...
1995-04-21
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
Andreas Giesekus
cond-mat/9504086
Optimal self-avoiding paths in dilute random medium
By a new type of finite size scaling analysis on the square lattice, and by renormalization group calculations on hierarchical lattices we investigate the effects of dilution on optimal undirected self-avoiding paths in a random environment. The behaviour of the optimal paths remains the same as for directed paths in u...
1995-04-21
2016-08-31
[ "cond-mat" ]
F.Seno, A.L. Stella and C. Vanderzande
cond-mat/9504088
Phase space diffusion and low temperature aging
We study the dynamical evolution of a system with a phase space consisting of configurations with random energies. The dynamics we use is of Glauber type. It allows for some dynamical evolution ang aging even at very low temperatures, through the search of configurations with lower energies.
1995-04-21
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
A. Barrat and M. M\'ezard
cond-mat/9504077
$J_1-J_2$ quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the triangular lattice: a group symmetry analysis of order by disorder
On the triangular lattice, for $J_2/J_1$ between $1/8$ and $1$, the classical Heisenberg model with first and second neighbor interactions presents four-sublattice ordered ground-states. Spin-wave calculations of Chubukov and Jolicoeur\cite{cj92} and Korshunov\cite{k93} suggest that quantum fluctuations select amongst ...
1995-04-20
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
P. Lecheminant, B. Bernu, C. Lhuillier, and L. Pierre
cond-mat/9504079
Phase Ordering Kinetics with External Fields and Biased Initial Conditions
The late-time phase-ordering kinetics of the O(n) model for a non-conserved order parameter are considered for the case where the O(n) symmetry is broken by the initial conditions or by an external field. An approximate theoretical approach, based on a `gaussian closure' scheme, is developed, and results are obtained f...
1995-04-20
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
J. A. N. Filipe, A. J. Bray and S. Puri
cond-mat/9504080
Stability of insulating phase in the chiral Kondo lattice model
In this work, the stability of the insulating phase of the 1D chiral Kondo lattice model is studied at half-filling, within the framework of self-consistent variational theory. It is found that arbitrarily small interaction would drive the system from a conducting phase to an insulating phase, in spite of the chirality...
1995-04-20
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
D. F. Wang and C. Gruber
cond-mat/9504082
Temporal Order in Dirty Driven Periodic Media
We consider the non--equilibrium steady states of a driven charge density wave in the presence of impurities and noise. In three dimensions at strong drive, a true dynamical phase transition into a temporally periodic state with quasi--long--range translational order is predicted. In two dimensions, impurity induced ph...
1995-04-20
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
Leon Balents and Matthew P. A. Fisher (ITP, Santa Barbara)
cond-mat/9504078
Theoretical Model for the Semimetal Yb_4As_3
We present a model which can explain semiquantitatively a number of the unusual properties of \mbox{Yb$_4$As$_3$}. The structural phase transition at $T_{\text{c}}\simeq300\,\mbox{K}$ is described by a band Jahn-Teller effect of correlated electrons and is interpreted as a charge ordering of the Yb ions. The low carrie...
1995-04-20
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
Peter Fulde, Burkhard Schmidt, and Peter Thalmeier
cond-mat/9504081
Glassiness in a model without energy barriers
We propose a microscopic model without energy barriers in order to explain some generic features observed in structural glasses. The statics can be exactly solved while the dynamics has been clarified using Monte Carlo calculations. Although the model has no thermodynamic transition it captures some of the essential fe...
1995-04-20
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
Felix Ritort
cond-mat/9504083
Thermal Diffusion of a Two Layer System
In this paper thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity of a two layer system is examined from the theoretical point of view. We use the one dimensional heat diffusion equation with the appropriate solution in each layer and boundary conditions at the interfaces to calculate the heat transport in this bounded system...
1995-04-20
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
G. Gonzalez de la Cruz and Yu. G. Gurevich (Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politecnico Nacional)
cond-mat/9504073
Fluctuating Membranes with Tilt Order
Thermal fluctuations are important for amphiphilic bilayer membranes since typical bending stiffnesses can be a few $k_B T$. The rod-like constituent molecules are generically tilted with respect to the local normal for packing reasons. We study the effects of fluctuations on membranes with nematic order, a simplified ...
1995-04-19
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat", "hep-th" ]
Thomas Powers and Philip Nelson
cond-mat/9504072
Impurity Scattering and Gap Structure in the Anisotropic Superconductor UPt$_3$
The thermal conductivity, $\kappa$, of the heavy fermion superconductor UPt$_3$ was measured down to T$_c$/10. The absence of a linear term in the temperature dependence as T$\rightarrow$0 strongly suggests there are no zero energy quasiparticle excitations, in contradiction with the gapless behaviour often inferred fr...
1995-04-19
2008-02-03
[ "cond-mat" ]
Benoit Lussier, Brett Ellman, and Louis Taillefer
cond-mat/9504076
"Chain scenario" for Josephson tunneling with pi-shift in YBa2Cu3O7
We point out that all current Josephson-junction experiments probing directly the symmetry of the superconducting state in YBa2Cu3O7, can be interpreted in terms of the bilayer antiferromagnetic spin fluctuation model, which renders the superconducting state with the order parameters of extended $s$ symmetry, but with ...
1995-04-19
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat", "supr-con" ]
I.I.Mazin, A.A. Golubov, and A.D. Zaikin
cond-mat/9504075
Scattering of second sound waves by quantum vorticity
A new method of detection and measurement of quantum vorticity by scattering second sound off quantized vortices in superfluid Helium is suggested. Theoretical calculations of the relative amplitude of the scattered second sound waves from a single quantum vortex, a vortex ring, and bulk vorticity are presented. The re...
1995-04-19
2009-10-28
[ "cond-mat" ]
Fernando Lund (Universidad de Chile) and Victor Steinberg (Weizmann Institute)