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Yu Song

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arXiv2013

Condensation and jumping relay of droplets on lotus leaf

Dynamic behavior of micro water droplet condensed on a lotus leaf with two-tier roughness is studied. Under laboratory environment, the contact angle of the micro droplet on single micro papilla increases smoothly from 80 deg to 160 deg during the growth of condensed water. The best-known "self-clean" phenomenon, will be lost. A striking observation is the out-of-plane jumping relay of condensed droplets triggered by falling droplets, as well as its sustained speed obtained in continuous jumping relays, enhance the automatic removal of dropwise condensation without the help from any external force. The surface tension energy dissipation is the main reason controlling the critical size of jumping droplet and its onset velocity of rebounding.

physics.flu-dyn↗

arXiv2013

Uniaxial pressure effect on structural and magnetic phase transitions in NaFeAs and its comparison with as-grown and annealed BaFe$_2$As$_2$

We use neutron scattering to study the effect of uniaxial pressure on the tetragonal-to-orthorhombic structural ($T_s$) and paramagnetic-to-antiferromagnetic ($T_N$) phase transitions in NaFeAs and compare the outcome with similar measurements on as-grown and annealed BaFe$_2$As$_2$. In previous work on as-grown BaFe$_2$As$_2$, uniaxial pressure necessary to detwin the sample was found to induce a significant increase in zero pressure $T_N$ and $T_s$. However, we find that similar uniaxial pressure used to detwin NaFeAs and annealed BaFe$_2$As$_2$ has a very small effect on their $T_N$ and $T_s$.Since transport measurements on these samples still reveal resistivity anisotropy above $T_N$ and $T_s$, we conclude that such anisotropy cannot be due to uniaxial strain induced $T_N$ and $T_s$ shifts, but must arise from intrinsic electronic anisotropy in these materials.

cond-mat.supr-con↗

arXiv2013

Ballistic collective group delay and its Goos-Hänchen component in graphene

We theoretically investigate the experimental observable of the ballistic collective group delay (CGD) of all the particles on the Fermi surface in graphene. First, we reveal that, lateral Goos-Hänchen (GH) shifts along barrier interfaces contribute an inherent component in the individual group delay (IGD). Then, by linking the complete IGD to spin precession through a dwell time, we suggest that, the CGD and its GH component can be electrostatically measured by a conductance difference in a spin-precession experiment under weak magnetic fields. Such an approach is feasible for almost arbitrary Fermi energy. We also indicate that, it is a generally nonzero self-interference delay that relates the IGD and dwell time in graphene.

cond-mat.mes-hall↗

arXiv2013

A magnetic origin for high temperature superconductivity in iron pnictides

In conventional Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superconductors, superconductivity occurs when electrons form coherent Cooper pairs below the superconducting transition temperature Tc. Although the kinetic energy of paired electrons increases in the superconducting state relative to the normal state, the reduction in the ion lattice energy is sufficient to give the superconducting condensation energy. For iron pnictide superconductors derived from electron or hole doping of their antiferromagnetic (AF) parent compounds, the microscopic origin for supercnductivity is unclear. Here we use neutron scattering to show that high-Tc superconductivity only occurs for iron pnictides with low-energy itinerant electron-spin excitation coupling and high energy spin excitations. Since our absolute spin susceptibility measurements for optimally hole-doped iron pnictide reveal that the change in magnetic exchange energy below and above Tc can account for the superconducting condensation energy, we conclude that the presence of both high-energy spin excitations giving rise to a large magnetic exchange coupling J and low-energy spin excitations coupled to the itinerant electrons is essential for high-Tc superconductivity in iron pnictides.

cond-mat.supr-con↗

arXiv2013

Negative differential resistances with back gate-controlled lowest operation windows in graphene double barrier resonant tunneling diodes

We theoretically investigate negative differential resistance (NDR) of massless and massive Dirac Fermions in double barrier resonant tunneling diodes based on sufficiently short and wide graphene strips. The current-voltage characteristics calculated in a rotated pseudospin space show that, the NDR feature only presents with appropriate structural parameters for the massless case and the peak-to-valley current ratio can be enhanced exponentially by a tunable band gap. Remarkably, the lowest NDR operation window is nearly structure-free and can be almost solely controlled by a back gate, which may have potential applications in NDR devices with the operation window as a crucial parameter.

cond-mat.mes-hall↗

arXiv2012

Paramagnetic spin excitations in insulating Rb$_{0.8}$Fe$_{1.6}$Se$_2$

We use neutron scattering to study temperature dependent spin excitations in insulating antiferromagnetic (AF) Rb$_{0.8}$Fe$_{1.6}$Se$_2$. In the low-temperature AF state, spin waves can be accurately described by a local moment Heisenberg Hamiltonian. On warming to around the Neel temperature of T_N=500$ K, low-energy (E<30meV) paramagnetic spin excitations form Lorentzian-like quasielastic peaks centered at the AF wave vectors associated with spin waves, while high-energy (E>50meV) spin excitations become heavily damped. Upon further warming to above the structural distortion temperature of T_s=524K, the entire paramagnetic excitations become overdamped. These results suggest that AF Rb$_{0.8}$Fe$_{1.6}$Se$_2$ is not a copper-oxide-like Mott insulator, and has less electron correlations compared with metallic iron pnictides and iron chalcogenides.

cond-mat.supr-con↗

arXiv2012

Strong-Coupling Superconductivity in NaFe$_{1-x}$Co$_x$As: the Eliashberg Theory and Beyond

We study the normal-state and superconducting properties of NaFe$_{1-x}$Co$_x$As system by specific heat measurements. Both the normal-state Sommerfeld coefficient and superconducting condensation energy are strongly suppressed in the underdoped and heavily overdoped samples. The low-temperature electronic specific heat can be well fitted by either an one-gap or a two-gap BCS-type function for all the superconducting samples. The ratio $γ_NT_c^2/H_c^2(0)$ can nicely associate the neutron spin resonance as the bosons in the standard Eliashberg model. However, the value of $ΔC/T_cγ_N$ near optimal doping is larger than the maximum value the model can obtain. Our results suggest that the high-$T_c$ superconductivity in the Fe-based superconductors may be understood within the framework of boson-exchange mechanism but significant modification may be needed to account for the finite-temperature properties.

cond-mat.supr-con↗

arXiv2012

Giant Goos-Hänchen Shift in Graphene Double-barrier Structures

We report giant Goos-Hänchen shifts [Goos and Hänchen, Ann. Phys. 436, 333 (1947)] for electron beams tunneling through graphene double barrier structures. We find that inside the transmission gap for the single barrier, the shift displays sharp peaks with magnitudes up to the order of electron beam width and rather small full-widths-at-half-maximum, which may be utilized to design valley and spin beam splitters with wide tunability and high energy resolution. We attribute the giant shifts to quasibound states in the structures. Moreover, an induced energy gap in the dispersion can increase the tunability and resolution of the splitters.

cond-mat.mes-hall↗

arXiv2012

Two-dimensional group delay in graphene probed by spin precession measurements

We take graphene as an example to demonstrate that the present widely adopted expression is only the scattering component of a true 2D group delay in the condensed matter context, in which the spatial Goos-Hänchen (GH) shift along an interface contributes an intrinsic component. We relate the dwell time to spin precession and derive a relation between the 2D group delay and dwell time, whereby we for the first time reveal that, the group delay for 2D ballistic electronic systems can be directly observed by measuring a conductance difference in a weak-field spin precession experiment. This physical observable not only implies the group delay being a relevant quantity even in the condensed matter context, but also provides an experimental evidence for the intrinsic effect of the GH shift. Finally, we revisit the 2D Hartman effect, a central issue of the group delay, by analytically solving it via the vested relation and calculating the proposed observable at the Dirac point.

cond-mat.mes-hall↗

arXiv2012

Another Two Dark Energy Models Motivated from Karolyhazy Uncertainty Relation

The K$\acute{\text{a}}$rolyh$\acute{\text{a}}$zy uncertainty relation indicates that there exists the minimal detectable cell $δt^{3}$ over the region $t^3$ in Minkowski spacetime. Due to the energy-time uncertainty relation, the energy of the cell $δt^3$ can not be less $δt^{-1}$. Then we get a new energy density of metric fluctuations of Minkowski spacetime as $δt^{-4}$. Motivated by the energy density, we propose two new dark energy models. One model is characterized by the age of the universe and the other is characterized by the conformal age of the universe. We find that in the two models, the dark energy mimics a cosmological constant in the late time.

hep-th↗

arXiv2012

(PI,0) antiferromagnetic spin excitations in superconducting Rb0.82Fe1.68Se2

We use inelastic neutron scattering to show that superconducting (SC) rubidium iron selenide Rb0.82Fe1.68Se2 exhibits antiferromagnetic (AF) spin excitations near the in-plane wave vector Q = (PI, 0) identical to that for iron arsenide superconductors. Moreover, we find that these excitations change from incommensurate to commensurate with increasing energy, and occur at the expense of spin waves associated with the coexisting sqrt(5)\timessqrt(5) block AF phase. Since angle resolved photoemission experiments reveal no evidence for hole-like Fermi surface at Gamma(0, 0), our results suggest that the Q = (PI, 0) excitations in SC Rb0.82Fe1.68Se2 come from localized moments and may have a similar origin as the hourglass-like spin excitations in copper oxide superconductors.

cond-mat.supr-con↗

arXiv2011

Stability of curvature perturbation with new covariant form for energy-momentum transfer in dark sector

It was found that the model with interaction between cold dark matter (CDM) and dark energy (DE) proportional to the energy density of CDM $ρ_m$ and constant equation of state of DE $w_d$ suffered from instabilities of the density perturbations on the supper-Hubble scales. Here we suggest a new covariant model for the energy-momentum transfer between CDM and DE. Then using the covariant model, we analyze the evolution of density perturbations on the supper-Hubble scale. We find that the instabilities can be avoided in the model with constant $w_d$ and interaction proportional to $ρ_m$. Furthermore, we analyze the dominant non-adiabatic mode in the radiation era and find that the mode grows regularly.

gr-qc↗

arXiv2011

Inconsistences in Interacting Agegraphic Dark Energy Models

It is found that the origin agegraphic dark energy tracks the matter in the matter-dominated epoch and then the subsequent dark-energy-dominated epoch becomes impossible. It is argued that the difficulty can be removed when the interaction between the agegraphic dark energy and dark matter is considered. In the note, by discussing three different interacting models, we find that the difficulty still stands even in the interacting models. Furthermore, we find that in the interacting models, there exists the other serious inconsistence that the existence of the radiation/matter-dominated epoch contradicts the ability of agegraphic dark energy in driving the accelerated expansion. The contradiction can be avoided in one of the three models if some constraints on the parameters hold.

hep-th↗

arXiv2011

Spin Waves and magnetic exchange interactions in insulating Rb$_{0.89}$Fe$_{1.58}$Se$_2$

The discovery of alkaline iron selenide $A$Fe$_{1.6+x}$Se$_2$ ($A=$ K, Rb, Cs) superconductors has generated considerable excitement in the condensed matter physics community because superconductivity in these materials may have a different origin from the sign reversed s-wave electron pairing mechanism, a leading candidate proposed for all other Fe-based superconductors. Although $A$Fe$_{1.6+x}$Se$_2$ are isostructural with the metallic antiferromagnetic (AF) iron pnictides such as (Ba,Ca,Sr)Fe$_2$As$_2$, they are insulators near $x=0$ and form a $\sqrt{5}\times\sqrt{5}$ blocked AF structure (Fig. 1a) completely different from the iron pnictides. If magnetism is responsible for superconductivity of all iron-based materials, it is important to determine their common magnetic features. Here we use neutron scattering to map out spin waves in the AF insulating Rb$_{0.89}$Fe$_{1.58}$Se$_2$. We find that although Rb$_{0.89}$Fe$_{1.58}$Se$_2$ has a N$\rm \acute{e}$el temperature ($T_N=475$ K) much higher than that of the iron pnictides ($T_N\leq 220$ K), spin waves for both classes of materials have similar zone boundary energies. A comparison of the fitted effective exchange couplings using a local moment Heisenberg Hamiltonian in Rb$_{0.89}$Fe$_{1.58}$Se$_2$, (Ba,Ca,Sr)Fe$_2$As$_2$, and iron chalcogenide Fe$_{1.05}$Te reveals that their next nearest neighbor (NNN) exchange couplings are similar. Therefore, superconductivity in all Fe-based materials may have a common magnetic origin that is intimately associated with the NNN magnetic exchange interactions, even though they have metallic or insulating ground states, different AF orders and electronic band structures.

cond-mat.supr-con↗