Search results for "Effective mass"
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Pressure dependence of the exciton absorption and the electronic subband structure of aGa0.47In0.53As/Al0.48In0.52As multiple-quantum-well system
1992
We have measured the optical absorption of a ${\mathrm{Ga}}_{0.47}$${\mathrm{In}}_{0.53}$As/${\mathrm{Al}}_{0.48}$${\mathrm{In}}_{0.52}$As multiple quantum well at 10 K for pressures up to 7 GPa. The energies of optical transitions between heavy- and light-hole subbands and electron levels of the wells show a blueshift with pressure similar to the bulk lowest direct band gap. We observe a decrease with pressure of the energy splitting between heavy- and light-hole subbands with the same quantum number n. From the analysis of the absorption line shape, we have obtained the pressure dependences of exciton binding energies, oscillator strengths, and linewidths. These results are interpreted in…
Dynamics of heavy fermions: Drude response in and
2006
While the effective mass of heavy fermions governs their thermodynamics, the optical properties are dominated by the characteristic relaxation rate which is expected to scale inversely with the effective mass. At the relaxation rate clear features, the so-called Drude response occur in the real and imaginary parts of the complex conductivity. Conventional optical spectroscopy can only indirectly probe the Drude response; thus we use novel broadband microwave spectroscopy to directly measure the frequency-dependent conductivity of UPd2Al3 and UNi2Al3 in the relevant frequency range and unambiguously observe the full low-energy electrodynamics of the heavy fermions including the Drude respons…
High Antiferromagnetic Domain Wall Velocity Induced by Néel Spin-Orbit Torques.
2016
We demonstrate the possibility to drive an antiferromagnetic domain wall at high velocities by fieldlike Neel spin-orbit torques. Such torques arise from current-induced local fields that alternate their orientation on each sublattice of the antiferromagnet and whose orientation depends primarily on the current direction, giving them their fieldlike character. The domain wall velocities that can be achieved by this mechanism are 2 orders of magnitude greater than the ones in ferromagnets. This arises from the efficiency of the staggered spin-orbit fields to couple to the order parameter and from the exchange-enhanced phenomena in antiferromagnetic texture dynamics, which leads to a low doma…
Universal behavior of two-dimensional 3He at low temperatures.
2008
On the example of two-dimensional (2D) 3He we demonstrate that the main universal features of its experimental temperature T - density x phase diagram [see M. Neumann, J. Ny\'{e}ki, J. Saunders, Science 317, 1356 (2007)] look like those in the heavy-fermion metals. Our comprehensive theoretical analysis of experimental situation in 2D 3He allows us to propose a simple expression for effective mass M^*(T,x), describing all diverse experimental facts in 2D 3He in unified manner and demonstrating that the universal behavior of M^*(T,x) coincides with that observed in HF metals.
Dipole surface plasmon in large K N + clusters
1993
The dipole surface plasmon forK N + clusters is analyzed using the RPA sum-rule technique within a semiclassical Density Functional Theory and the spherical jellium model. The theoretical frequencies are blue shifted as compared to the experimental ones. The discrepancies between theory and experiment are reduced when considering non-local energy contributions in the density functional and phenomenologically including atomic lattice effects by means of an electron effective mass and a static dielectric constant.
The influence of the solvent's mass on the location of the dividing surface for a model Hamiltonian
2019
The Transition State dividing surface is a key concept, not only for the precise calculation of the rate constant of a reaction, but also for the proper prediction of product ratios. The correct location of this surface is defined by the requirement that reactive trajectories do not recross it. In the case of reactions in solution the solvent plays an important role in the location of the dividing surface. In this paper we show with the aid of a model Hamiltonian that the effective mass of the solvent can dramatically change the location of the dividing surface. Keywords: Dynamical systems, Dividing surface, Reactions in solution, 2019 MSC: 00-01, 99-00
Landau Fermi Liquid Theory and Beyond
2014
In this chapter we consider the Landau theory of the Fermi liquid that has a long history and remarkable results in describing a numerous properties of the electron liquid in ordinary metals and Fermi liquids of the \(^3\)He type. The theory is based on the assumption that elementary excitations determine the physics at low temperatures, resembling that of weakly interacting Fermi gas. These excitations behave as quasiparticles with a certain effective mass. The effective mass \(M^*\) exhibits a simple universal behavior, for it is independent of the temperature, pressure, and magnetic field strength and is a parameter of the theory. Microscopically deriving the equation determining the eff…
Energy spectrum and transport properties of the two-dimensional t-J model
1992
Abstract The formation of a ferromagnetically ordered region around a hole in the two-dimensional t-J model is investigated. The energy bands characterized by different values of the z-component of the total spin are analysed. A strong anisotropy of the lower-energy bands is found. For intermediate coupling of additionally included optical phonons, this anisotropy leads to a large polaronic state with an anisotropic envelope oriented along the plane diagonals. In the strong-coupling case the competition between the hole-magnon and the hole-phonon interactions prevents the formation of ferrons. Owing to the large effective mass in both cases, the hole transport takes place via hopping, with …
Highly Correlated Fermi Liquid in Heavy-Fermion Metals: Magnetic Properties
2014
In this chapter we show how the FCQPT theory works, when describing the behavior of HF metals under the application of magnetic field. We show that a large body of experimental data regarding the thermodynamic, transport and relaxation properties collected in measurements on HF metals can be well explained. It is demonstrated that the experimental data exhibit the scaling behavior.
Highly Correlated Fermi Liquid in Heavy-Fermion Metals: The Scaling Behavior
2014
In this chapter we show how the FCQPT theory works. We do that on the base of experimentally relevant examples. Namely, as noted in the Introduction (Chap. 1), the challenge for the theories is to explain the scaling behavior of the normalized effective mass \(M^*_N(y)\) displayed in Fig. 1.3. The theories analyzing only the critical exponents characterizing \(M^*_N(y)\) at \(y\gg 1\) consider only a part of the problem. In this section we analyze and derive the scaling behavior of the normalized effective mass near QCP as reported in Fig. 1.3. We start with describing magnetic field dependence of the quasiparticle effective mass in Sect. 6.1. Quasiparticle damping and the temperature depen…