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Phys Rev Lett ; 122(11): 116101, 2019 Mar 22.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30951360

ABSTRACT

We report inelastic He atom scattering measurements of the (001) surface phonon dispersion of the topological crystalline insulator Pb_{0.7}Sn_{0.3}Se. This material exhibits a temperature-dependent topological transition, so we measure the surface dispersion curves in both the trivial and nontrivial phases. We identify that, peculiarly, most surface modes are resonances, rather than pure surface states. We find that a shear vertical surface resonance branch around 9.0 meV dramatically changes on going from the trivial to the topological phase. We associate this remarkable change with the emergence of surface Dirac fermions. We use the measured dispersion of this resonance branch to determine the corresponding mode-dependent electron-phonon coupling λ_{ν}(q).

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J Fish Biol ; 92(2): 438-451, 2018 Feb.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29349782

ABSTRACT

A new species of Spectracanthicus is described from the Rio Javaés, Rio Araguaia basin. The new species is distinguished from its congeners (except Spectracanthicus immaculatus) by colour pattern: body dark grey to dark brown without dots or blotches (v. body colour with yellowish small dots in Spectracanthicus murinus, Spectracanthicus punctatissimus and Spectracanthicus tocantinensis and large white dots in Spectracanthicus zuanoni). It can be further distinguished from S. immaculatus by having thicker and less numerous teeth, with up to eight premaxillary and 20 dentary teeth (v. teeth thinner and more numerous with up to 22 premaxillary and 30 dentary teeth); dorsal and caudal fins without curved spines (v. dorsal and caudal fins with curved spines). Other osteological characters can also diagnose the new species from its congeners. In addition, a gross brain description and brief comments on the new species' ecological habitat are given.


Subject(s)
Brain/anatomy & histology , Catfishes/anatomy & histology , Animals , Biodiversity , Brazil , Color , Ecosystem , Tooth
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Nat Commun ; 8: 15303, 2017 05 12.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28497790

ABSTRACT

Mappings of classical computation onto statistical mechanics models have led to remarkable successes in addressing some complex computational problems. However, such mappings display thermodynamic phase transitions that may prevent reaching solution even for easy problems known to be solvable in polynomial time. Here we map universal reversible classical computations onto a planar vertex model that exhibits no bulk classical thermodynamic phase transition, independent of the computational circuit. Within our approach the solution of the computation is encoded in the ground state of the vertex model and its complexity is reflected in the dynamics of the relaxation of the system to its ground state. We use thermal annealing with and without 'learning' to explore typical computational problems. We also construct a mapping of the vertex model into the Chimera architecture of the D-Wave machine, initiating an approach to reversible classical computation based on state-of-the-art implementations of quantum annealing.

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J Fish Biol ; 90(1): 356-369, 2017 Jan.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27774597

ABSTRACT

The genus Pseudacanthicus comprises six valid species distributed in the Amazon basin and Caribbean coastal drainages from Guyana to French Guiana: P. serratus, P. fordii, P. histrix, P. spinosus, P. leopardus and P. pitanga. A new species of Pseudacanthicus is described from the Rio Xingu Basin, distinguished from its congeners by the following combination of characters: presence of anastomose dark blotches forming continuous zigzag bands alongside longitudinal keels; presence of dark blotches on ventral surface of body and head; all fins with orange to red colour on unbranched rays and sometimes subsequent branched rays. Brief comments on ornamental fisheries and conservation of the new species are also provided.


Subject(s)
Catfishes/classification , Animal Distribution , Animals , Brazil , Catfishes/genetics , Species Specificity
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Phys Rev Lett ; 108(18): 185501, 2012 May 04.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22681089

ABSTRACT

In this Letter, we report measurements of the coupling between Dirac fermion quasiparticles (DFQs) and phonons on the (001) surface of the strong topological insulator Bi2Se3. While most contemporary investigations of this coupling have involved examining the temperature dependence of the DFQ self-energy via angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements, we employ inelastic helium-atom scattering to explore, for the first time, this coupling from the phonon perspective. Using a Hilbert transform, we are able to obtain the imaginary part of the phonon self-energy associated with a dispersive surface-phonon branch identified in our previous work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186102 (2011)] as having strong interactions with the DFQs. From this imaginary part of the self-energy we obtain a branch-specific electron-phonon coupling constant of 0.43, which is stronger than the values reported from the angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements.

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Phys Rev Lett ; 107(18): 186102, 2011 Oct 28.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22107648

ABSTRACT

We report the first measurements of phonon dispersion curves on the (001) surface of the strong three-dimensional topological insulator Bi2Se3. The surface phonon measurements were carried out with the aid of coherent helium beam surface scattering techniques. The results reveal a prominent signature of the exotic metallic Dirac fermion quasiparticles, including a strong Kohn anomaly. The signature is manifest in a low energy isotropic convex dispersive surface phonon branch with a frequency maximum of 1.8 THz and having a V-shaped minimum at approximately 2kF that defines the Kohn anomaly. Theoretical analysis attributes this dispersive profile to the renormalization of the surface phonon excitations by the surface Dirac fermions. The contribution of the Dirac fermions to this renormalization is derived in terms of a Coulomb-type perturbation model.

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J Chem Phys ; 121(20): 10120-37, 2004 Nov 22.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15549887

ABSTRACT

In this paper we extend the earlier treatment of out-of-equilibrium mesoscopic fluctuations in glassy systems in several significant ways. First, via extensive simulations, we demonstrate that models of glassy behavior without quenched disorder display scalings of the probability of local two-time correlators that are qualitatively similar to that of models with short-ranged quenched interactions. The key ingredient for such scaling properties is shown to be the development of a criticallike dynamical correlation length, and not other microscopic details. This robust data collapse may be described in terms of a time-evolving "extreme value" distribution. We develop a theory to describe both the form and evolution of these distributions based on a effective sigma model approach.

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Phys Rev Lett ; 87(9): 096401, 2001 Aug 27.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11531585

ABSTRACT

We study two different parametric pumps--one for pumping spin currents, the other for charge currents--in interacting quantum wires. We find that, as a function of pumping frequency, the spin or charge pumped per cycle has a nonuniversal crossover--depending on pumping details--between two universal fixed point values of 0 and twice the electronic spin or charge quantum number. The direction of flow between these two fixed points depends on whether the interactions are repulsive or attractive, while the quantization itself is a signature of interactions.

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Nature ; 413(6853): 282-5, 2001 Sep 20.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11565024

ABSTRACT

The parent compounds of the copper oxide high-transition-temperature (high-Tc) superconductors are unusual insulators (so-called Mott insulators). Superconductivity arises when they are 'doped' away from stoichiometry. For the compound Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x, doping is achieved by adding extra oxygen atoms, which introduce positive charge carriers ('holes') into the CuO2 planes where the superconductivity is believed to originate. Aside from providing the charge carriers, the role of the oxygen dopants is not well understood, nor is it clear how the charge carriers are distributed on the planes. Many models of high-Tc superconductivity accordingly assume that the introduced carriers are distributed uniformly, leading to an electronically homogeneous system as in ordinary metals. Here we report the presence of an electronic inhomogeneity in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x, on the basis of observations using scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy. The inhomogeneity is manifested as spatial variations in both the local density of states spectrum and the superconducting energy gap. These variations are correlated spatially and vary on the surprisingly short length scale of approximately 14 A. Our analysis suggests that this inhomogeneity is a consequence of proximity to a Mott insulator resulting in poor screening of the charge potentials associated with the oxygen ions left in the BiO plane after doping, and is indicative of the local nature of the superconducting state.

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Phys Rev Lett ; 86(8): 1622-5, 2001 Feb 19.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11290208

ABSTRACT

We study the long time dynamics of a quantum version of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model. Time reparametrizations of the dynamical equations have a parallel with renormalization group transformations; in this language the long time behavior of this model is controlled by a reparametrization group ( R(p)G) fixed point of the classical dynamics. The irrelevance of quantum terms in the dynamical equations in the aging regime explains the classical nature of the out of equilibrium fluctuation-dissipation relation.

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Phys Rev Lett ; 85(19): 4128-31, 2000 Nov 06.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11056641

ABSTRACT

We formulate the problem of adsorption onto the surface of a carbon nanotube as a lattice gas on a triangular lattice wrapped around a cylinder. This model is equivalent to an XXZ Heisenberg quantum spin tube. We find density plateau structures for armchair, zigzag, and chiral nanotubes. The zigzags are special and have extensive zero temperature entropy plateaus in the classical limit. Quantum effects lift the degeneracy, leaving gapless excitations described by a c = 1 conformal field theory with compactification radius quantized by the tube circumference.

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Phys Rev Lett ; 85(26 Pt 1): 5607-10, 2000 Dec 25.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11136058

ABSTRACT

We find a nonperturbative saddle-point solution for the nonlinear sigma model proposed by Finkelstein for interacting and disordered electronic systems. Spin rotation symmetry, present in the original saddle-point solution, is spontaneously broken at one loop, as in the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism. The new solution is singular in both the disorder and triplet interaction strengths, and it also explicitly demonstrates that a nontrivial ferromagnetic state appears in a theory where the disorder average is carried out from the outset.

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Phys Rev B Condens Matter ; 53(12): R7638-R7641, 1996 Mar 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9982286
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Phys Rev B Condens Matter ; 53(7): 4033-4053, 1996 Feb 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9983959
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Phys Rev Lett ; 70(17): 2605-2608, 1993 Apr 26.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10053605
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