{"title":"Possible Unconventional s-Wave Pairing with Point-Node–Like Gap Structure in UTe2","authors":"Shingo Haruna, Takuji Nomura, Hirono Kaneyasu","doi":"10.7566/jpsj.93.063701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7566/jpsj.93.063701","url":null,"abstract":"We explore the pairing state and gap structure of UTe<sub>2</sub> using a six-orbital model which we call the <i>f</i>–<i>d</i>–<i>p</i> model. Our model accurately reproduces the quasi-two-dimensional Fermi surfaces, agreeing with recent de Haas–van Alphen oscillation measurements and <tex-math space=\"preserve\" version=\"MathJax\">((0, pm pi ,0))</tex-math> antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations observed through neutron scattering. We incorporate on-site Coulomb repulsion for <i>f</i> electrons and solve the linearized Eliashberg equation within the third-order perturbation theory to investigate the superconducting symmetry in UTe<sub>2</sub>. An <i>s</i>-wave state featuring a highly anisotropic superconducting gap structure and a point-node–like behavior of the specific heat at low temperatures is identified as the most probable state.","PeriodicalId":17304,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Physical Society of Japan","volume":"106 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140841568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Md Asif Afzal, Yoshichika Ōnuki, Dai Aoki, Hisatomo Harima, Ryuji Higashinaka, Yuji Aoki, Tatsuma D. Matsuda
{"title":"Large Cyclotron Effective Masses in Antiferromagnet SmTi2Al20 Compared with Conventional Masses in Ferromagnet SmNi2Cd20 and Antiferromagnet SmPd2Cd20","authors":"Md Asif Afzal, Yoshichika Ōnuki, Dai Aoki, Hisatomo Harima, Ryuji Higashinaka, Yuji Aoki, Tatsuma D. Matsuda","doi":"10.7566/jpsj.93.054710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7566/jpsj.93.054710","url":null,"abstract":"We grew high-quality single crystals of a ferromagnet SmNi<sub>2</sub>Cd<sub>20</sub>, an antiferromagnet SmPd<sub>2</sub>Cd<sub>20</sub>, and an antiferromagnet SmTi<sub>2</sub>Al<sub>20</sub> with the cubic cage structure by the self-flux method and carried out the de Haas–van Alphen experiment to detect the large cyclotron effective masses of the main Fermi surfaces. This is because these compounds are reported to possess large electronic specific heat coefficients of 100–200 mJ/(K<sup>2</sup>·mol). We have succeeded in detecting the main Fermi surfaces. The corresponding cyclotron mass of a so-called valence-fluctuating compound SmTi<sub>2</sub>Al<sub>20</sub> is surprisingly large, revealing 26 <i>m</i><sub>0</sub> (<i>m</i><sub>0</sub>: rest mass of an electron). In SmTi<sub>2</sub>Al<sub>20</sub>, no Curie–Weiss term is found in the magnetic susceptibility, and the −log <i>T</i> dependence of the electrical resistivity is observed at low temperatures. On the other hand, the conventional masses of 2.1 <i>m</i><sub>0</sub> are obtained in SmNi<sub>2</sub>Cd<sub>20</sub> and SmPd<sub>2</sub>Cd<sub>20</sub>, following the Curie–Weiss law in the magnetic susceptibility.","PeriodicalId":17304,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Physical Society of Japan","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140799037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vanishing of Resistivity upon Freezing of Vortex Liquid in Clean Superconductors","authors":"Naratip Nunchot, Ryusuke Ikeda","doi":"10.7566/jpsj.93.054712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7566/jpsj.93.054712","url":null,"abstract":"Superconducting transition, defined as vanishing of the resistivity, under a magnetic field in a clean bulk type II superconductor with weak sample disorder is believed to be a reflection of freezing of the vortex liquid to a kind of vortex solids. This fundamental issue on superconductivity is examined in detail. Based on the Ginzburg–Landau fluctuation theory for a three-dimensional (3D) system and through a supplementary study in 2D case, we find that the resistivity in the weakly disordered 3D case vanishes in a nearly discontinuous way, reflecting growth of the Bragg peaks on approaching the vortex lattice melting transition. In contrast, such a sharp decrease of the resistivity does not clearly appear in the corresponding 2D case. The consequences of this difference in the vanishing behavior of the resistivity between the 2D and 3D systems are discussed in relation to available experimental facts.","PeriodicalId":17304,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Physical Society of Japan","volume":"229 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140798846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Noriaki Hamada, Satoshi Nakamura, Kenta Takahashi, Mario Okawa, Tomohiko Saitoh
{"title":"Realistic Simulation of Valence-Band Photoemission Spectra by Using First-Principles Calculations on the Basis of FLAPW Method","authors":"Noriaki Hamada, Satoshi Nakamura, Kenta Takahashi, Mario Okawa, Tomohiko Saitoh","doi":"10.7566/jpsj.93.054709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7566/jpsj.93.054709","url":null,"abstract":"In order to reproduce experimental photoemission spectroscopy (PES) data by using band structure calculations with linearized augmented-plane-wave method, we developed a new method to calculate the atomic-subshell photoelectron differential cross section (PE-DCS) of the valence band. PE-DCS was calculated to be the sum of the products of the partial density of states (PDOS) and the photoionization differential cross section (PI-DCS) of each atomic subshell. To construct an appropriate PDOS beyond the conventional muffin-tin sphere (MTS) PDOS, we proposed a “nearly-neutral atomic sphere”, which can be defined as a natural extension of MTS. Although the calculational method for atomic-subshell PI-DCS was the standard Hartree–Fock–Slater method, we developed a new computer code in order to deal with the unoccupied electron shells in the ground state of isolated atoms up to ∼10 keV. Details of the PE-DCS calculations were examined by using two simple examples of Na metal and NaCl, and then, the method was applied to hard x-ray PES (HX-PES) data of CuAlO<sub>2</sub>. The experimental spectra were satisfactorily reproduced, demonstrating the potential applications of our method to HX-PES spectra of many compounds.","PeriodicalId":17304,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Physical Society of Japan","volume":"83 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140798913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RKKY Interactions and Multipole Order in Ab initio Wannier Model of CeCoSi","authors":"Takemi Yamada, Yuki Yanagi, Keisuke Mitsumoto","doi":"10.7566/jpsj.93.053703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7566/jpsj.93.053703","url":null,"abstract":"We calculate the RKKY interactions derived from ab initio calculations for the intermetallic compound CeCoSi exhibiting the hidden nonmagnetic order at <i>T</i><sub>0</sub> and examine the instability towards possible multipole orders within the random phase approximation. All 36 multipole interactions up to rank 5 are investigated, and the maximum susceptibility exhibits an antiferro order with <b><i>q</i></b> = <b>0</b> for nonmagnetic multipoles of monopole <i>I</i> and hexadecapole <i>H</i><sub>0</sub>, yielding a charge imbalance of <i>f</i> electrons at two Ce atoms in the unit cell. The obtained order can explain some experiments.","PeriodicalId":17304,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Physical Society of Japan","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140636523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kai Ito, Hironori Shimakura, Shuta Tahara, Koji Ohara, Akihide Koura, Kohei Shimamura, Fuyuki Shimojo
{"title":"Intermolecular Correlations in Liquid Lactic Acid Based on ab initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations Combined with High-Energy X-ray Diffraction Measurements","authors":"Kai Ito, Hironori Shimakura, Shuta Tahara, Koji Ohara, Akihide Koura, Kohei Shimamura, Fuyuki Shimojo","doi":"10.7566/jpsj.93.054601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7566/jpsj.93.054601","url":null,"abstract":"The structural and bonding properties of liquid L-lactic acid were investigated through ab initio molecular dynamics simulations, leveraging on the agreement between the static structure factors obtained from high-energy X-ray diffraction (HEXRD) measurements. It has been demonstrated that predominant intermolecular interactions arise from hydrogen bonding. Hydrogen atoms in two hydroxy groups tend to form hydrogen bonds with two of the three oxygen atoms in neighboring molecules. This results in the presence of an oxygen atom in the hydroxy group of the carboxy group that does not significantly contribute to hydrogen bond formation with neighboring hydrogen atoms. This is consistent with the behavior observed in the crystalline phase. However, in the liquid state, four types of intermolecular hydrogen bonds are primarily formed, whereas in the crystal, only two types are observed. We show that the directionality of hydrogen bonds determines the intermolecular orientation. We thoroughly studied the structural properties and covalent bonding between atoms and charged states of atoms.","PeriodicalId":17304,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Physical Society of Japan","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140636904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-Triplon Excitations of Hubbard Ladders with Site-Dependent Potentials","authors":"Nobuya Maeshima, Ken-ichi Hino","doi":"10.7566/jpsj.93.054707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7566/jpsj.93.054707","url":null,"abstract":"We study low-lying spin-singlet excitations of two-leg Hubbard ladders with site-dependent potentials. Using general formulas of the charge disproportionation induced by the site-dependent potentials, we derive the contributions of spin degrees of freedom to the spectral functions such as the dynamical charge structure factor <tex-math space=\"preserve\" version=\"MathJax\">(N(boldsymbol{k},omega ))</tex-math> and the optical conductivity <i>σ<sub>γ</sub></i>(<i>ω</i>) along the <i>γ</i> (<tex-math space=\"preserve\" version=\"MathJax\">( = x,y)</tex-math>)-direction of the two-leg ladders. Numerical results obtained by the Lanczos diagonalization method have clarified that the multi-triplon singlet states, including two- and three-triplon excitations, can be detected by observing these quantities. Furthermore, we have found that ladders with random potentials also have non-negligible contributions of these excitations to <i>σ<sub>x</sub></i>(<i>ω</i>).","PeriodicalId":17304,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Physical Society of Japan","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140636537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hongkun Guo, Huili Fan, Hui He, Liwen Cheng, Huibo Fan
{"title":"Investigation of Vibration and Sensing of Chalcogenide Microfiber Integrated with Hollow-core Fiber","authors":"Hongkun Guo, Huili Fan, Hui He, Liwen Cheng, Huibo Fan","doi":"10.7566/jpsj.93.054401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7566/jpsj.93.054401","url":null,"abstract":"We propose and investigate a fiber-optic sensor of As<sub>2</sub>Se<sub>3</sub> chalcogenide (ChG) microfiber laterally adhered on the hollow-core fiber (HCF) end face. HCF is fused with a single-mode fiber to form Fabry–Perot interferometer (FPI) between single-mode fiber (SMF) end face and ChG microfiber. ChG microfiber is ultra-sensitive to the small perturbations in the surroundings, because of its high refractive index and small Young’s modulus. Furthermore, relative to traditional fiber-optic FPI comprised by thin film, our proposed FPI with thin-diameter ChG microfiber could respond to mechanical vibrations over a broad range of frequencies. Based on finite-element simulation, ChG microfiber has ultra-broadband dynamic frequency response, up to several hundreds of megahertz accompanied by a very small response strength decay, in comparison to the frequency response of ChG film which is typically less than 30 MHz. ChG microfiber-based FPI is also used in the static refractometric sensing with sensitivity of 1563 nm/RIU. Such a novel fiber-optic sensor offers excellent potential for the nondestructive detection and advanced biomedical sensing.","PeriodicalId":17304,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Physical Society of Japan","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140615465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. O. Ajeesh, Joe D. Thompson, Eric D. Bauer, Filip Ronning, Sean M. Thomas, Priscila F. S. Rosa
{"title":"Hydrostatic Pressure Studies on Non-Superconducting UTe2","authors":"M. O. Ajeesh, Joe D. Thompson, Eric D. Bauer, Filip Ronning, Sean M. Thomas, Priscila F. S. Rosa","doi":"10.7566/jpsj.93.055001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7566/jpsj.93.055001","url":null,"abstract":"We report the temperature–pressure phase diagram of a UTe<sub>2</sub> single crystal that does not undergo a bulk superconducting transition but shows filamentary superconductivity with a critical transition temperature of 1 K at ambient pressure. Electrical-resistivity measurements reveal that the evolution of the filamentary superconducting state under pressure resembles the behavior observed in previous reports on bulk superconducting samples. AC calorimetry, however, does not show evidence for either bulk superconductivity or magnetism for pressures up to 1.6 GPa. Our results highlight the role of inhomogeneity in chemical-vapor-transport-grown UTe<sub>2</sub> samples and serve as a cautionary tale when probing electrical resistivity alone.","PeriodicalId":17304,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Physical Society of Japan","volume":"89 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140576339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of the Exchange Stiffness Constants of Itinerant Magnets at Finite Temperatures from the First-Principles Calculations","authors":"Akimasa Sakuma","doi":"10.7566/jpsj.93.054705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7566/jpsj.93.054705","url":null,"abstract":"We attempted to evaluate the exchange stiffness constant, <i>A</i>(<i>T</i>) of fcc-Fe<sub>0.2</sub>Ni<sub>0.8</sub> and <i>L</i>1<sub>0</sub>-type FePt at finite temperatures employing the first-principles calculation. The spin fluctuation at a finite temperature was handled using the coherent potential approximation under the disordered-local-moment picture, and the <i>A</i>(<i>T</i>) was evaluated based on the free energy of spin spiral structure created in the effective medium representing the fluctuating spins. For fcc-Fe<sub>0.2</sub>Ni<sub>0.8</sub>, calculated <i>A</i>(0) was approximately 10 meV/Å. With increasing temperature, <i>A</i>(<i>T</i>) exhibits a linear-like decrease and becomes approximately 7 meV/Å at around room temperature which is in the range of experimentally expected value. This behavior somewhat deviates from the theoretical prediction considering a magnon–magnon scattering in the Heisenberg model. For FePt, we found a considerable anisotropy between <i>A</i><sub>001</sub>(<i>T</i>) and <i>A</i><sub>100</sub>(<i>T</i>) for spiral wave vectors along the directions of 〈001〉 and 〈100〉, respectively.","PeriodicalId":17304,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Physical Society of Japan","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140576441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}