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The La-based 214 cuprates host several symmetry breaking phases including superconductivity, charge and spin order in the form of stripes, and a structural othorhombic-to-tetragonal phase transition. Therefore, these materials are an ideal system to study the effects of uniaxial stress onto the various correlations that pervade the cuprate phase diagram. We report resonant x-ray scattering experiments on $textrm{La}_{1.475}textrm{Nd}_{0.4}textrm{Sr}_{0.125}textrm{Cu}textrm{O}_{4}$ (LNSCO-125) that reveal a significant response of charge stripes to uniaxial tensile-stress of $sim$ 0.1 GPa. These effects include a reduction of the onset temperature of stripes by $sim$ 50 K, a 29 K reduction of the low-temperature orthorhombic-to-tetragonal transition, competition between charge order and superconductivity, and a preference for stripes to form along the direction of applied stress. Altogether, we observe a dramatic response of the electronic properties of LNSCO-125 to a modest amount of uniaxial stress.
Recent experimental observations of magnetization plateau in metallic tetraboride $textrm{TmB}_{4}$ have created a lot of interest in these class of materials. Hysteretic longitudinal resistance and anomalous Hall Effect are other remarkable features in the rare-earth tetraborides which represent experimental realizations of Archimedean Shastry-Sutherland (SSL) lattice. Electronic band structures, calculated under GGA and GGA+SO approximations, show that $textrm{TmB}_{4}$ is a narrow band system with considerable correlation in its f-level. Strong correlation effects in this system are studied under single-site dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) [LDA+DMFT scheme] using multi-orbital generalization of iterated perturbation theory (MO-IPT). Pseudo-gap behaviour in spectral function and non-Fermi liquid behaviour of self-energy shows non-trivial strong correlation effects present in this geometrically frustrated metallic magnets. We also consider the extant, heather-to-neglected, strong atomic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) effects. While there is a significant change in the topology of the Fermi surface in the presence of SOC, the non-Fermi liquid behavior survives. The system can be modelled by an effective two orbital spinless Falicov-Kimball model together with two free band like states.
The $^{14}textrm{N(p,}gammatextrm{)}^{15}textrm{O}$ reaction is the slowest reaction of the carbon-nitrogen cycle of hydrogen burning and thus determines its rate. The precise knowledge of its rate is required to correctly model hydrogen burning in asymptotic giant branch stars. In addition, it is a necessary ingredient for a possible solution of the solar abundance problem by using the solar $^{13}$N and $^{15}$O neutrino fluxes as probes of the carbon and nitrogen abundances in the solar core. After the downward revision of its cross section due to a much lower contribution by one particular transition, capture to the ground state in $^{15}$O, the evaluated total uncertainty is still 8%, in part due to an unsatisfactory knowledge of the excitation function over a wide energy range. The present work reports precise S-factor data at twelve energies between 0.357-1.292~MeV for the strongest transition, capture to the 6.79~MeV excited state in $^{15}$O, and at ten energies between 0.479-1.202~MeV for the second strongest transition, capture to the ground state in $^{15}$O. An R-matrix fit is performed to estimate the impact of the new data on astrophysical energies. The recently suggested slight enhancement of the 6.79~MeV transition at low energy could not be confirmed. The present extrapolated zero-energy S-factors are $S_{6.79}(0)$~=~1.24$pm$0.11~keV~barn and $S_{rm GS}(0)$~=~0.19$pm$0.05~keV~barn.
We study the electronic properties of the $textrm{Fe}textrm{Se}_{1-x}textrm{Te}_x$ system ($x=0$, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, and 1) from the perspective of X-ray spectroscopy and density functional theory (DFT). The analysis performed on the density of states reveals marked differences in the distribution of the $5p$ states of Te for $x>0$. We think that this finding can be associated with the fact that superconductivity is suppressed in FeTe. Moreover, using resonant inelastic X-ray scattering, we estimate the spin state of our system which can be correlated to the magnetic order. We find that the spin state of the $textrm{Fe}textrm{Se}_{1-x}textrm{Te}_x$ system fluctuates, as a function of $x$, between $S=0$ and $S=2$ with Fe in FeSe in the highest spin state. Finally, our DFT calculations nicely reproduce the X-ray emission spectra performed at the Fe $L$-edge (which probe the occupied states) and suggest that the $textrm{Fe}textrm{Se}_{1-x}textrm{Te}_x$ system can be considered at most as a moderately correlated system.
Starting from the recently-discovered $textrm{T}bar{textrm{T}}$-perturbed Lagrangians, we prove that the deformed solutions to the classical EoMs for bosonic field theories are equivalent to the unperturbed ones but for a specific field-dependent local change of coordinates. This surprising geometric outcome is fully consistent with the identification of $textrm{T}bar{textrm{T}}$-deformed 2D quantum field theories as topological JT gravity coupled to generic matter fields. Although our conclusion is valid for generic interacting potentials, it first emerged from a detailed study of the sine-Gordon model and in particular from the fact that solitonic pseudo-spherical surfaces embedded in $mathbb R^3$ are left invariant by the deformation. Analytic and numerical results concerning the perturbation of specific sine-Gordon soliton solutions are presented.
We report a detailed experimental study of the band structure of the recently discovered topological material $textrm{Hf}_{2}textrm{Te}_2textrm{P}$. Using the combination of scanning tunneling spectroscopy and angle-resolved photo-emission spectroscopy with surface K-doping, we probe the band structure of $textrm{Hf}_{2}textrm{Te}_2textrm{P}$ with energy and momentum resolution above the Fermi level. Our experiments show the presence of multiple surface states with a linear Dirac-like dispersion, consistent with the predictions from previously reported band structure calculations. In particular, scanning tunneling spectroscopy measurements provide the first experimental evidence for the strong topological surface state predicted at 460 meV, which stems from the band inversion between Hf-d and Te-p orbitals. This band inversion comprised of more localized d-states could result in a better surface-to-bulk conductance ratio relative to more traditional topological insulators.