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Extremely slow Drude relaxation of correlated electrons
2005
The electrical conduction of metals is governed by how freely mobile electrons can move throughout the material. This movement is hampered by scattering with other electrons, as well as with impurities or thermal excitations (phonons). Experimentally, the scattering processes of single electrons are not observed, but rather the overall response of all mobile charge carriers within a sample. The ensemble dynamics can be described by the relaxation rates, which express how fast the system approaches equilibrium after an external perturbation1,2,3. Here we measure the frequency-dependent microwave conductivity of the heavy-fermion metal UPd2Al3 (ref. 4), finding that it is accurately described…
Triple magnetopolarons in quantum wells
1997
We derive the equations for eigenstates and eigenenergies of a triple magnetopolaron in quantum-well structures. An iteration procedure for obtaining the wave function and energy including the contributions of diagrams with crossing phonon lines is given. We show that under conditions of exact resonance the middle energy branch of the triply split magnetopolaron state consists of only two out of three bare states. We suggest the experimental verification of this prediction.
On the interdependence between ground and one-phonon RPA states
1998
Working within a schematic model and in a boson formalism, we provide a descrip tion of the ground and first-excited states of a nuclear system in terms of two independent phonon operators. The description reveals itself quite effective in reproducing the energies of the states. A comparison between these two phonon operators allows us to localize a region where a correct description of these states is compatible with the Random Phase Approximation (RPA) requirement of a single phonon. This region is found to coincide approximately with that spanned by the standard RPA. Outside this region, the two phonons start differing rapidly therefore making the application of the RPA scheme impossible…
Fractional-Order Thermal Energy Transport for Small-Scale Engineering Devices
2014
Fractional-order thermodynamics has proved to be an efficient tool to describe several small-scale and/or high-frequency thermodynamic processes, as shown in many engineering and physics applications. The main idea beyond fractional-order physics and engineering relies on replacing the integer-order operators of classical differential calculus with their real-order counterparts. In this study, the authors aim to extend a recently proposed physical picture of fractional-order thermodynamics to a generic 3D rigid heat conductor where the thermal energy transfer is due to two phenomena: a short-range heat flux ruled by stationary and nonstationary transport equations, and a long-range thermal …
Polarons in thet-J model
1991
A convenient form of the Peierls-Hubbard Hamiltonian is obtained for the case when the Hubbard repulsion is the largest energy parameter. It allows to consider in the spin-wave approximation the properties of the one-hole low-lying excitations of a 2d lattice. For the parameters approximately corresponding to La2CuO4 it is shown that the hole polarons in the CuO2 planes of lightly doped samples are of large size with a solitonlike-shaped highly asymmetric wave function oriented along the diagonals of the planes or of small size depending on the value of the electron-phonon coupling. In both cases the cooperative effect of the electron-phonon and electron-magnon interactions leads to a large…
The lowest β-vibrational phonon in the second minimum of 236,238U
1982
Vibrational exci tat ions of f i ss ion isomers have d i r ec t l y been observed for the f i r s t time using conversion electron spectroscopy. A new experimental setup has been developed whidh allows the measurement of prompt conversion electrons from electromagnetic t ransi t ions in delayed coincidence with the f i ss ion decay of the isomer. The large amount of low energy a-electrons was suppressed by special geometrical arrangement of the detectors in the magnetic f i e l d of the solenoid.
Observation of Low- and High-Energy Gamow-Teller Phonon Excitations in Nuclei
2014
Y. Fujita et al. ; 5 pags. ; 3 figs. PACS numbers: 24.30.Cz, 25.55.Kr, 27.40.+z
Simulating a quantum commensurate-incommensurate phase transition using two Raman-coupled one-dimensional condensates
2020
We study a transition between a homogeneous and an inhomogeneous phase in a system of one-dimensional, Raman tunnel-coupled Bose gases. The homogeneous phase shows a flat density and phase profile, whereas the inhomogeneous ground state is characterized by periodic density ripples, and a soliton staircase in the phase difference. We show that under experimentally viable conditions the transition can be tuned by the wavevector difference $Q$ of the Raman beams and can be described by the Pokrovsky-Talapov model for the relative phase between the two condensates. Local imaging available in atom chip experiments allows to observe the soliton lattice directly, while modulation spectroscopy can …
Multinucleon transfer reactions in closed-shell nuclei
2007
Multinucleon transfer reactions in 40Ca+96Zr and 90Zr+208Pb have been measured at energies close to the Coulomb barrier in a high resolution gamma-particle coincidence experiment. The large solid angle magnetic spectrometer PRISMA coupled to the CLARA gamma-array has been employed. Trajectory reconstruction has been applied for the complete identification of transfer products. Mass and charge yields, total kinetic energy losses, gamma transitions of the binary reaction partners, and comparison of data with semiclassical calculations are reported. Specific transitions in 95Zr populated in one particle transfer channels are discussed in terms of particle-phonon couplings. The gamma decays fro…
Microscopic description of low-lying two-phonon states: Electromagnetic transitions
2003
Microscopic description of low-lying two-phonon states in even-even nuclei is introduced. The main building blocks are the quasiparticle random-phase approximation (QRPA) phonons. A realistic microscopic nuclear Hamiltonian, based on the Bonn one-boson-exchange potential, is diagonalized in a basis containing one-phonon and two-phonon components, coupled to a given angular momentum and parity. The QRPA equations are directly used in deriving the equations of motion for the two-phonon states. The Pauli principle is taken into account by diagonalizing the metric matrix and discarding the zero-norm states. The electromagnetic transition matrix elements are derived in terms of the metric matrix…