{"title":"Short notes: Inversion of exchange interaction sign of Nd3+ excited states and its manifestation in optical absorption spectra of NdFe3(BO3)4 crystal","authors":"I. Kachur, V. S. Kurnosov, V. G. Piryatinskaya","doi":"10.1063/10.0025636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/10.0025636","url":null,"abstract":"Experimental studies and group-theoretical analysis of low-temperature optical absorption spectra of neodymium ferroborate crystal NdFe3(BO3)4 were carried out. It was shown that the sign of exchange interaction with the iron subsystem in an excited state of Nd3+ can be different from that in the ground state.","PeriodicalId":18077,"journal":{"name":"Low Temperature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141051800","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":"Manifestation of the Aharonov–Bohm effect in hydrodynamic instability of an electron beam moving along a semiconductor nanotube","authors":"Y. Averkov, Yu. V. Prokopenko, V. Yampol’skii","doi":"10.1063/10.0025623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/10.0025623","url":null,"abstract":"We theoretically study a manifestation of the Aharonov–Bohm effect in hydrodynamic instability of a tubular nonrelativistic electron beam moving along a semiconductor nanotube with dielectric filling placed in a coaxial dc magnetic field. The calculations are performed with taking into account the retardation effect for electromagnetic fields. The dispersion equation for the coupled waves of the structure under study and the electron beam, as well as the expression for the increment of the hydrodynamic instability have been derived and numerically analyzed. The mechanism of nonlinear stabilization of the hybrid bulk-surface and surface electromagnetic waves is studied by the method of slowly varying in time amplitudes and phases. The physical cause of excitation of such waves is the Cherenkov resonance, and the nonlinear stabilization mechanism is based on the trapping of beam particles by the field of the excited wave. The numerical analysis shows that the time of saturation of the instability and the maximum field amplitudes depend on the number of magnetic flux quanta in the nanotube and changes with the period equal to one magnetic flux quantum. These dependences are the result of the Aharonov–Bohm effect.","PeriodicalId":18077,"journal":{"name":"Low Temperature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141038919","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}
A. Andrino-Gómez, M. Moratalla, A. Redondo-Cubero, N. Gordillo, M. A. Ramos
{"title":"Low-temperature electrical conductivity of ion-beam irradiated Bi–Sb films","authors":"A. Andrino-Gómez, M. Moratalla, A. Redondo-Cubero, N. Gordillo, M. A. Ramos","doi":"10.1063/10.0025622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/10.0025622","url":null,"abstract":"Bismuth-antimony alloys are among the most studied topological insulators and also have very promising thermoelectric properties. In addition, in the amorphous state they exhibit superconductivity with critical temperatures in the range 6.0–6.4 K. In this work, we have prepared and studied different polycrystalline films of Bi100–xSbx (x = 0, 5, 10, 15), and we have induced, through ion beam irradiation, significant damage in their internal structure with the aim of amorphizing the material. Specifically, we have irradiated Bi ions in the 10–30 MeV range, exploiting the capabilities of a 5 MV ion beam accelerator of tandem type. We have characterized the Bi–Sb films before and after irradiation from a morphological and structural point of view and measured their electrical resistivity from room temperature to near 2 K, to evaluate the influence of the preparation method and degree of disorder. We have found that the studied Bi–Sb system always behaves as a small energy gap semiconductor that follows the empirical Meyer–Neldel rule, which correlates the conductivity prefactor with the exponential value of the energy gap.","PeriodicalId":18077,"journal":{"name":"Low Temperature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141028747","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}
E. V. Petrenko, K. Rogacki, A. V. Terekhov, L. V. Bludova, Yu. A. Kolesnichenko, N. V. Shytov, D. M. Sergeyev, E. Lähderanta, A. L. Solovjov
{"title":"Evolution of the pseudogap temperature dependence in YBa2Cu3O7–δ films under the influence of a magnetic field","authors":"E. V. Petrenko, K. Rogacki, A. V. Terekhov, L. V. Bludova, Yu. A. Kolesnichenko, N. V. Shytov, D. M. Sergeyev, E. Lähderanta, A. L. Solovjov","doi":"10.1063/10.0025295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/10.0025295","url":null,"abstract":"The evolution of the temperature dependence of the pseudogap Δ*(T) in optimally doped (OD) YBa2Cu3O7–δ (YBCO) films with the superconducting critical temperature Tc = 88.7 K under the influence of a magnetic field B has been studied in detail. It has been established that the shape of Δ*(T) for various B over the entire range from the pseudogap opening temperature T* to T01, below which superconducting fluctuations occur, has a wide maximum at the BEC-BCS crossover temperature Tpair, which is typical for OD films and untwinned YBCO single crystals. T* was shown to be independent on B, whereas Tpair shifts to the low-temperature region along with the increase in B, while the maximum value of Δ*(Tpair) remains practically constant regardless of B. It was revealed that as the field increases, the low-temperature maximum near the 3D-2D transition temperature T0 is blurred and disappears at B > 5 T. Moreover, above the Ginzburg temperature TG, which limits superconducting fluctuations from below, for B > 0.5 T, a minimum appears on Δ*(T) at Tmin, which becomes very pronounced with a further increase in B. As a result, the overall value of Δ*(T) decreases noticeably most likely due to the pair-breaking effect. A comparison of Δ*(T) near Tc with the Peters–Bauer theory shows that the density of fluctuating Cooper pairs actually decreases from ⟨n↑n↓⟩ ≈ 0.31 at B = 0 to ⟨n↑n↓⟩ ≈ 0.28 in the field of 8 T. The observed behavior of Δ*(T) around Tmin is assumed to be due to the influence of a two-dimensional vortex lattice created by the magnetic field, which prevents the formation of fluctuating Cooper pairs near Tc.","PeriodicalId":18077,"journal":{"name":"Low Temperature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140800401","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":"Features of nanocontact formed using point electrical breakdown of a niobium oxide nanolayer","authors":"S. I. Bondarenko, A. V. Krevsun, V. P. Koverya","doi":"10.1063/10.0025302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/10.0025302","url":null,"abstract":"The electrical characteristics of a point section of niobium oxide between a massive cathode made of a superconducting indium-tin alloy and a niobium film before the oxide breakdown and the nanocontact that appears after the breakdown of the oxide at room temperature have been studied. The dependencies of the point breakdown voltage of the oxide and the resistance of nanocontacts on the method of breakdown and the thickness of the oxide in the range of 15–60 nm have been established. In particular, a minimum value of the breakdown current has been established (about 1 μA), below which breakdown does not occur. The voltage-current characteristic (VCC) of the oxide has a semiconductor character and indicates the dependence of the breakdown voltage of the oxide on its polarity. The VCC of the nanocontact is nonlinear, which is associated with phase transitions in the nanocontact material caused by its heating by the transport current.","PeriodicalId":18077,"journal":{"name":"Low Temperature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140800402","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":"Effective cross-plane thermal conductivity of metal-dielectric multilayers at low temperatures","authors":"A. I. Bezuglyj, I. V. Mironenko, V. A. Shklovskij","doi":"10.1063/10.0025298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/10.0025298","url":null,"abstract":"Heat transfer in layered metal-dielectric structures is considered theoretically based on an analytical solution of the Boltzmann transfer equation for the phonon distribution function. Taking into account the size effect, the problem of effective cross-plane thermal conductivity of structures containing two metal layers is analyzed in detail. If the thickness of the metal layers is less than the phonon mean free path, interlayer heat transfer is carried out predominantly by phonons, and the effective cross-plane thermal conductivity is determined by the reflection of phonons from the metal/dielectric interfaces. In the opposite case of thick metal layers, the effective cross-plane thermal conductivity is determined both by the thermal conductivity of the metal layers and by the thermal resistance of the dielectric layers. The results obtained are generalized to multilayer structures and superlattices.","PeriodicalId":18077,"journal":{"name":"Low Temperature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140800403","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":"On the specific behavior of the work function and surface potential of an asymmetric metal-dielectric nanosandwich","authors":"V. Pogosov","doi":"10.1063/10.0025300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/10.0025300","url":null,"abstract":"We examine thin film on a dielectric substrate (vacuum/Al/SiO2) in the stabilized jellium model and the Kohn–Sham method. We investigate surface and size effects on the effective potential and the electron work function, and analyze the spatial distributions of electrons and potentials. It is found that a dielectric environment generally leads to a decrease in the work function. The effect of dielectric confinement for the electron work function of the asymmetric metal-dielectric nanosandwiches is reduced only by the surface area weighted average value of the dielectric constants. This conclusion follows from the application of the Gauss theorem for a conducting sphere with an inhomogeneous dielectric coating. The flow of electrons from the dielectric face to the vacuum one due to the contact potential difference manifests itself in the appearance of an additional dipole between the left and right face within the spatial distributions of ions. This leads to the fact that in a vacuum the electrostatic and effective potentials change sign twice, as a result of which a potential barrier appears above the vacuum level. We introduced the position of an electron conduction band in the dielectric as the input parameter in the self-consistency procedure for one of the sandwich approximations. As it turned out, the barrier height depends only on the used local or non-local approximation of the exchange-correlation energy. The nontrivial origin and behavior of the calculated effective potential on the vacuum side of the film, as well as the reasons for it, are discussed.","PeriodicalId":18077,"journal":{"name":"Low Temperature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140779920","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":"Electric and elastic characteristics of the orthorhombic paramagnet after the quantum quench","authors":"A. A. Zvyagin, G. A. Zvyagina","doi":"10.1063/10.0025296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/10.0025296","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum quench (the sudden change) of the magnetic field in the orthorhombic and monoclinic paramagnets yields the renormalization of the spin quadrupole moment of the system. In the closed system, the renormalized spin quadrupole moment oscillates with the frequency, determined by the final value of the magnetic field. In the open system, these oscillations are damped in the steady-state regime. The renormalization of the electric permittivity, piezoelectric modulus, and elastic modulus of the system are dependent on both initial and finite values of the magnetic field via the spin quadrupole susceptibility demonstrating features at the critical values of the magnetic field, at which crossover of the energy levels of the paramagnet takes place.","PeriodicalId":18077,"journal":{"name":"Low Temperature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140762035","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":"Empirical universal approach to describing the thermal conductivity of amorphous polymers: Effects of pressure, radiation and the Meyer–Neldel rule","authors":"A. Krivchikov, O. A. Korolyuk","doi":"10.1063/10.0025299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/10.0025299","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we propose and validate a universal temperature-dependent model for characterizing the thermal conductivity of amorphous polymers over a wide temperature range. Our approach captures key features in the thermal conductivity data, including a plateau, an inflection point, and the subsequent increase and saturation with rising temperature. Importantly, this model proves effective not only for pristine amorphous polymers but also for polymers subjected to external influences. We investigate the temperature-dependent thermal conductivity of amorphous polymer materials under various external conditions, such as hydrostatic pressure, radiation exposure, and the incorporation of fillers. Our analysis reveals novel insights into the dual-channel heat transfer mechanisms within amorphous polymers. Specifically, we observe a linear relationship between the logarithm of the “coherence” conductivity pre-factor and the characteristic energy, consistent with the Meyer–Neldel rule governing thermal conductivity. This research advances our understanding of thermal transport in amorphous polymers and underscores the applicability of the proposed universal model in describing complex thermal behavior across different conditions.","PeriodicalId":18077,"journal":{"name":"Low Temperature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140777256","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":"Strong zero modes and edge states in the interacting fermion chain without pairing","authors":"A. A. Zvyagin","doi":"10.1063/10.0025297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/10.0025297","url":null,"abstract":"The operator of the strong zero mode for the one-dimensional system of interacting fermions without pairing is presented. It is conjectured that the strong zero mode is related to the Majorana edge eigenstate, which is shown to exist (using the exact Bethe ansatz study) in this system. The results are robust with respect to the sign randomness of hopping amplitudes (and if the pairing amplitudes are nonzero, similar results exist for equal sign randomness of hopping and pairing amplitudes).","PeriodicalId":18077,"journal":{"name":"Low Temperature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140762586","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}