著者
Hamamoto Yuji Aoki Hideo Hatsugai Yasuhiro
出版者
American Physical Society
雑誌
Physical review B (ISSN:10980121)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.86, no.20, pp.205424, 2012-11
被引用文献数
11

The role of chiral symmetry in many-body states of graphene in strong magnetic fields is theoretically studied with the honeycomb lattice model. For a spin-split Landau level where the leading electron-electron interaction is the nearest-neighbor repulsion, a chiral condensate is shown to be, within the subspace of the n=0 Landau level, an exact many-body ground state having a finite gap, for which a calculation of the Chern number reveals that the ground state is a Hall insulator with a topological degeneracy of two. The topological nature of the ground state is shown to manifest itself as a Kekuléan bond order along armchair edges, while the pattern melts in the bulk due to quantum fluctuations. These can be regarded as a realization of the bulk-edge correspondence that is peculiar to a chiral-symmetric system. We have also obtained the ground state when point defects are introduced in the honeycomb lattice to reveal how the presence or absence of the chiral symmetry affects the defect states.
著者
Kondo Takahiro Honma Yujiro Oh Junepyo Machida Takahiro Nakamura Junji
出版者
American Physical Society
雑誌
Physical review B (ISSN:10980121)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.82, no.15, pp.153414, 2010-10
被引用文献数
50

We report nonuniform and long-range electronic perturbation of graphite near the Fermi level by the point defect based on the measurements with scanning tunneling spectroscopy. The states propagate with threefold symmetry perpendicular to the zigzag edges at the point defect, indicating the formation of the nonbonding states. The propagation continues for 3–4 nm from the defect and is accompanied by oscillations in the state energy and state intensity with a periodicity of (√3×√3)R30°. The oscillation in the state intensity is ascribed to the disruption in the π-conjugated system in graphite around the defect, i.e., edge-states propagation from the defect while the oscillation in the state energy is ascribed to electron-electron interactions between the nonbonding π electronic states and the standing-wave caused by π bands of graphite.
著者
Maeshima N. Hino K. Yonemitsu K.
出版者
American Physical Society
雑誌
Physical review B (ISSN:10980121)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.82, no.16, pp.161105, 2010-10
被引用文献数
5 5

We study photoinduced ultrafast coherent oscillations originating from orbital degrees of freedom in the one-dimensional two-orbital Hubbard model. By solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for the numerically exact many-electron wave function, we obtain time-dependent optical response functions. The calculated spectra show characteristic coherent oscillations that vary with the frequency of probe light. A simple analysis for the dominant oscillating components clarifies that these photoinduced oscillations are caused by the quantum interference between photogenerated states. The oscillation attributed to the Raman-active orbital excitations (orbitons) clearly appears around the charge-transfer peak.
著者
Arikawa Mitsuhiro Maruyama Isao Hatsugai Yasuhiro
出版者
American Physical Society
雑誌
Physical review B (ISSN:10980121)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.82, no.7, pp.073105, 2010-10
被引用文献数
10

A crossover between the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) and BCS superconducting state is described topologically in the chiral symmetric fermion system with attractive interaction. Using a local Z2 Berry phase, we found a quantum phase transition between the BEC and BCS phases without accompanying the bulk gap closing.
著者
Kamiya Katsumasa Okada Susumu
出版者
American Physical Society
雑誌
Physical review B (ISSN:10980121)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.83, no.15, pp.155444, 2011-04
被引用文献数
17 11

We report total-energy electronic-structure calculations based on density functional theory performed on single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) encapsulated in single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). We find that the encapsulation reaction is exothermic for nanotubes with diameters greater than 1.33 nm. The energy gain is calculated to be in the range of 0.8–1.5 eV/nm, depending on tube diameter, base sequences, and ssDNA structure. In optimal ssDNA-SWCNT hybrid-system geometries, the polar groups of ssDNA, i.e. the POH moiety in its backbone, are located adjacent to the wall of the nanotube. The electronic structure of the hybrid system is qualitatively similar to a simple sum of those of an isolated ssDNA molecule and an empty SWCNT. However, detailed analysis of the electronic structure of the hybrid system reveals that the encapsulation of ssDNA into a SWCNT affects the electronic structures of both the ssDNA and the SWCNT.
著者
Koshelev A. E. Buzdin A. I. Kakeya I. Yamamoto T. Kadowaki K.
出版者
American Physical Society
雑誌
Physical review B (ISSN:10980121)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.83, no.22, pp.224515, 2011-06
被引用文献数
9

In strongly anisotropic layered superconductors in tilted magnetic fields, the Josephson vortex lattice coexists with the lattice of pancake vortices. Due to the interaction between them, the dissipation of the Josephson vortex lattice is very sensitive to the presence of the pancake vortices. If the c-axis magnetic field is smaller than the corresponding lower critical field, the pancake stacks are not formed but the individual pancakes may exist in the fluctuational regime either near the surface in large-size samples or in the central region for small-size mesas. We calculate the contribution of such fluctuating pancake vortices to the c-axis conductivity of the Josephson vortex lattice and compare the theoretical results with measurements on small mesas fabricated out of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ crystals. A fingerprint of fluctuating pancakes is a characteristic exponential dependence of the c-axis conductivity observed experimentally. Our results provide strong evidence of the existence of the fluctuating pancakes and their influence on the Josephson vortex lattice dissipation.
著者
Das Pradip Suzuki Yusuke Tachiki Masashi Kadowaki Kazuo
出版者
American Physical Society
雑誌
Physical review B (ISSN:10980121)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.83, no.22, pp.220513, 2011-06
被引用文献数
44

We report on the observation of bulk superconductivity from dc magnetization measurements in a cylindrical single crystal of CuxBi2Se3. The magnitude of the magnetization in the Meissner state is very small, and the magnetic-field dependence of the magnetization just above the lower critical field Hc1 is very different from those of usual type-II superconductors. We studied the character of the vortex state theoretically in a spin-triplet pairing superconductor and compared it with the experimental results. The results showed that the superconductivity observed in CuxBi2Se3 is consistent with the spin-triplet pairing superconductivity with odd parity. We also observed a rapid relaxation phenomenon of the superconducting diamagnetism.
著者
Takagi Yoshiteru Okada Susumu
出版者
American Physical Society
雑誌
Physical review B (ISSN:10980121)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.84, no.3, pp.035406, 2011-07
被引用文献数
9 7

We investigated the electronic structure of semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) adsorbed on the (111) surfaces of Au, Ag, Pt, and Pd and on the (0001) surfaces of Mg by first-principles calculations. Our calculations show that the electronic structure of the CNTs adsorbed on the metal surfaces strongly depends on the metal species. We found that on Pd surfaces, the characteristic one-dimensional electronic structure of the CNTs is totally disrupted by the strong hybridization between the π state of the CNTs and the d state of the Pd surfaces. In sharp contrast, on the Au surfaces, the CNTs retain the one-dimensional properties of their electronic structure. The distribution of the total valence charge of the CNTs on the Pd surfaces also shows a strong covalent nature between the CNTs and the surfaces. Our calculations show the importance of metal electrodes in designing CNT electronic devices.
著者
Sasaoka Kenji Yamamoto Takahiro Watanabe Satoshi Shiraishi Kenji
出版者
American Physical Society
雑誌
Physical review B (ISSN:10980121)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.84, no.12, pp.125403, 2011-09
被引用文献数
5

The alternating-current response of a quantum point contact (QPC) is numerically investigated using the nonequilibrium Green function method combined with an effective mass theory. We found that the susceptance of a QPC increases stepwise with increasing gate voltage, when the width of the quantization plateau in the gate voltage-conductance curve is narrower than the width of the region where the conductance changes gradually. We also show that the height of a susceptance step is proportional to the ac-bias frequency. These simulation results are in excellent qualitative agreement with recent experimental results. Moreover, we found that the transition from capacitive susceptance to inductive susceptance occurs with increasing gate voltage. The capacitive-inductive transition point is independent of the ac-bias frequency, but it does depend on the contact width.
著者
Asai Hidehiro Tachiki Masashi Kadowaki Kazuo
出版者
American Physical Society
雑誌
Physical review B (ISSN:10980121)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.85, no.6, pp.064521, 2012-02
被引用文献数
42 18

In this study, we numerically investigate the terahertz radiation from mesa-structured intrinsic Josephson junctions (IJJs) using a three-dimensional calculation model. We assume an in-phase mode of the phase differences and calculate electromagnetic fields inside and outside of the IJJs simultaneously. We consider the appearance of a hot spot in the mesa where jc locally decreases and investigate the change of the radiation power with varying hot-spot positions. The radiation powers for three different hot-spot positions are calculated as functions of voltage. We observe strong radiation when the ac Josephson frequency satisfies the cavity resonance condition. Transverse-magnetic modes TMm,n whose indices m and n are even appear regardless of the positions of hot spots. Meanwhile, the TMm,n cavity modes whose m or n are odd appear only when the hot spots break the reflectional symmetry of the mesa structure. Moreover, we calculate the radiation patterns emitted by the IJJs at these cavity resonance conditions. The radiation patterns reflect the existence of two types of internal modes, that is, a uniform background mode and a cavity resonance mode.
著者
Sivasubramanian V. Kojima S.
出版者
American Physical Society
雑誌
Physical review B (ISSN:10980121)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.85, no.5, pp.054104, 2012-02
被引用文献数
20 7

Brillouin spectra measurements have been carried out from 800 to 100 K for Pb(Sc1/2Ta1/2)O3 in back-scattering geometry. The frequency of the longitudinal acoustic (LA) phonon begins to show marked softening followed by an increase in its width below the intermediate temperature T* = 450 K. The gradual increase in the width of the LA phonon below T* is attributed to the electrostrictive coupling between the local polarization and strain. The frequency of the LA phonon mode exhibits anomalous behavior around 295 K, the phase transition temperature. The width of the LA phonon exhibits a sharp Landau-Khalatnikov-like maximum at 295 K. A central peak begins to appear around T* and exhibits critical slowing down upon further cooling. The relaxation times calculated for the LA phonon and central peak indicate the order-disorder nature of the phase transition.
著者
Maeshima Nobuya Hino Ken-ichi
出版者
American Physical Society
雑誌
Physical review B (ISSN:10980121)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.85, no.20, pp.205305, 2012-05
被引用文献数
6 2

An excitonic Floquet state in semiconductor superlattices (SLs) driven by an intense monochromatic laser is examined based on multichannel scattering theory, where this state is supported by a photon sideband attributed to a SL joint miniband. It is shown that the excitonic Fano resonance (FR) is caused by the coupling between photon sidebands, and thus one obtains the possibility of dynamic quantum control of this exciton state by means of laser tuning. This FR differs from the conventional FR observed in the original SLs without laser irradiation in that the latter FR results from the static Coulomb coupling between different SL joint minibands. Both the q parameter and the spectral width Γ associated with the excitonic FR of concern vary notably with a change of laser strength. In particular, it is found that the FR is made stable, that is, 1/
著者
Tomimoto Shinichi Kawana Keisuke Murakami Akira Masumoto Yasuaki
出版者
American Physical Society
雑誌
Physical review B (ISSN:10980121)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.85, no.23, pp.235320, 2012-06

We have experimentally studied the spin dynamics of excitons, electrons, and trions in charge-tunable InP/InGaP quantum dots (QDs) excited by picosecond resonant laser pulses by observing the time-resolved Kerr rotation. In singly charged QDs, inversion of the spin polarization direction of doped electrons is found to be caused simply by variation in the pulse intensity, which is accompanied by an abrupt change of the spin coherence time. This phenomenon is reproduced by density-matrix calculations allowing for the reaction on the QD electron-trion four-level system during its coherent radiation emission. This result means that the optical coherence is another critical factor affecting electron spin coherence.
著者
Feng Xu Aoki Sinya Fukaya Hidenori Hashimoto Shoji Kaneko Takashi Noaki Jun-ichi Shintani Eigo JLQCD Collaboration
出版者
American Physical Society
雑誌
Physical Review Letters (ISSN:00319007)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.109, no.18, pp.182001, 2012-11
被引用文献数
20 8

We perform a nonperturbative calculation of the π0→γγ transition form factor and the associated decay width using lattice QCD. The amplitude for a two-photon final state, which is not an eigenstate of QCD, is extracted through a Euclidean time integral of the relevant three-point function. We utilize the all-to-all quark propagator technique to carry out this integration as well as to include the disconnected quark diagram contributions. The overlap fermion formulation is employed on the lattice to ensure exact chiral symmetry on the lattice. After examining various sources of systematic effects, except for a possible discretization effect, we obtain Γπ0→γγ=7.83(31)(49)  eV for the pion decay width, where the first error is statistical and the second is our estimate of the systematic error.
著者
Konabe S. Matsuda K. Okada S.
出版者
American Physical Society
雑誌
Physical review letters (ISSN:00319007)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.109, no.18, pp.187403, 2012-10
被引用文献数
9 4

We theoretically study the phase relaxation of excitons in doped single-walled carbon nanotubes caused by elastic scattering between an exciton and an electron. Our calculation of the spectral linewidth, that is the inverse of the scattering rate, demonstrates that this dephasing process is unexpectedly suppressed in doped single-walled carbon nanotubes, giving rise to anomalous nonlinear behavior as a function of the electron density. A detailed investigation reveals that the logarithmic correction of the exciton self-energy plays a critical role in the exciton-carrier scattering dynamics.
著者
Yamazaki Takeshi Ishikawa Ken-ichi Kuramashi Yoshinobu Ukawa Akira
出版者
American Physical Society
雑誌
Physical review D (ISSN:15507998)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.86, no.7, pp.074514, 2012-10
被引用文献数
92

We calculate the binding energies for multinucleon bound states with the nuclear mass number less than or equal to 4 in 2+1 flavor QCD at the lattice spacing of a=0.09  fm employing a relatively heavy quark mass corresponding to mπ=0.51  GeV. To distinguish a bound state from attractive scattering states, we investigate the volume dependence of the energy shift between the ground state and the state of free nucleons by changing the spatial extent of the lattice from 2.9 to 5.8 fm. We conclude that 4He, 3He, deuteron and dineutron are bound at mπ=0.51  GeV. We compare their binding energies with those in our quenched studies and also with several previous investigations.
著者
Yoshinobu Jun Kawai Maki Imamura Issei Marumo Fumiyuki Suzuki Ryochi Ozaki Hiroyuki Aoki Masaru Masuda Shigeru Aida Misako
出版者
American Physical Society
雑誌
Physical Review Letters (ISSN:00319007)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.79, no.20, pp.3942-3945, 1997-11-17
被引用文献数
29

Evidence for a molecule-substrate hybridized state near the Fermi level EF is presented for Pd(110)- c(4x2)-benzene. Observed images of adsorbed benzene near EF by scanning tunneling microscopy consist of two elongated protrusions separated by a single nodal depression with C2 symmetry. The existence of a benzene derived state near EF is also observed by metastable atom electron spectroscopy, and it is assigned to the antibonding states between the 1e1g molecular orbital of benzene and the Pd 4d orbitals by ab initio molecular orbital calculations.
著者
Kawamoto Tadashi Mori Takehiko Takimiya Kazuo Kataoka Yoshiro Aso Yoshio Otsubo Tetsuo
出版者
American Physical Society
雑誌
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (ISSN:01631829)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.65, no.14, pp.140508-1-140508-4, 2002-03-28
被引用文献数
7 42

The degree of charge transfer and the upper critical field of the organic superconductor (MDT-TSF)(AuI2)x have been investigated (MDT-TSF: methylenedithio-tetraselenafulvalene). The x-ray oscillation photograph indicates that the anion lattice is incommensurate with the donor lattice, and the chemical composition is (MDT-TSF)(AuI2)0.44 . The charge-transfer degree of this salt is 0.44. The electrical resistivity and the Seebeck coefficient indicate that this salt is a good Fermi liquid above the superconducting transition temperature. The upper critical fields show anisotropic three-dimensional character in spite of the complicated incommensurate structure, and are within the Clogston-Chandrasekhar paramagnetic limit in all directions.