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Transient phenomena in magnetars have been considered as possible acceleration sites of ultrahigh-energy cosmic-rays (CRs), whose energy reaches ~200 EeV, such as the Amaterasu particle. However, the process of CR acceleration and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-29 Jiro Shimoda , Tomoki Wada

We observe a new type of magneto-oscillations in the photovoltage and the longitudinal resistance of a two-dimensional electron system. The oscillations are induced by microwave irradiation and are periodic in magnetic field. The period is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. V. Kukushkin , M. Yu. Akimov , J. H. Smet , S. A. Mikhailov , K. von Klitzing , I. L. Aleiner , V. I. Falko

In conventional metals, modification of electron trajectories under magnetic field gives rise to a magnetoresistance that varies quadratically at low field, followed by a saturation at high field for closed orbits on the Fermi surface.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-06-06 Q. Niu , W. C. Yu , K. Y. Yip , Z. L. Lim , H. Kotegawa , E. Matsuoka , H. Sugawara , H. Tou , Y. Yanase , Swee K. Goh

A change of orbital state alters the coupling between ions and their surroundings drastically. Orbital excitations are hence key to understand and control interaction of ions. Rare-earth (RE) elements with strong magneto-crystalline…

A new regime of fast magnetic reconnection with an out-of-plane (guide) magnetic field is reported in which the key role is played by an electron pressure anisotropy described by the Chew-Goldberger-Low gyrotropic equations of state in the…

The physics of an electron solid, held on a cryogenic liquid surface by a pressing electric field, is examined in a low-density regime that has not been explored before. We consider the effect of the pressing field in distorting the surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masudul Haque , Indranil Paul , Sergey Pankov

We investigate the self-organization of a binary mixture of similar sized rods and dipolar soft spheres by means of Monte-Carlo simulations. We model the interparticle interactions by employing anisotropic Gay-Berne, dipolar and soft-sphere…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-04-17 Stavros D. Peroukidis , Ken Lichtner , Sabine H. L. Klapp

Rare-earth iron garnets $R_{3}$Fe$_{5}$O$_{12}$ are fascinating insulators with very diverse magnetic phases. Their strong potential in spintronic devices has encouraged a renewal of interest in the study of their low temperature spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-13 Bruno Tomasello , Dan Mannix , Stephan Geprägs , Timothy Ziman

We calculate the interaction kernel K for two-dimensional diffusive electrons. The screening of the Coulomb interaction together with the Fermi statistics induces a spin selection rule for electron-electron scattering so that in leading…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philippe Jacquod

Non-cubic crystals exhibit anisotropic physical and functional properties. Microscopic crystallites as constituents of polycrystalline materials are randomly oriented, thus polycrystalline ceramics lack the anisotropic properties of their…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-07-20 Alexander S. Sokolov , Vincent G. Harris

Magnetars can accelerate cosmic rays to high energies through the unipolar effect, and are also copious soft photon emitters. We show that young, fast-rotating magnetars whose spin and magnetic moment point in opposite directions emit high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bing Zhang , Z. G. Dai , P. Meszaros , E. Waxman , A. K. Harding

To characterize the possible magnetic structures created on magnetic multilayers a model has been formulated and studied. The interlayer inhomogeneous structures found indicate either (i) a regular periodic, (ii) a quasiperiodic change in…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 F. V. Kusmartsev , H. S. Dhillon , M. D. Crapper

Electrides are special ionic solids with excess cavity-trapped electrons serving as anions. Despite the extensive studies on electrides, the interplay between electrides and magnetism is not well understood due to the lack of stable…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-22 Xuelei Sui , Jianfeng Wang , Wenhui Duan

The Nd-langasite compound contains planes of magnetic Nd3+ ions on a lattice topologically equivalent to a kagom\'{e} net. The magnetic susceptibility does not reveal any signature of long-range ordering down to 2 K but rather a correlated…

Understanding magnetocrystalline anisotropy (MCA) is fundamentally important for developing novel magnetic materials. Therefore, clarifying the relationship between MCA and local physical quantities observed by spectroscopic measurements,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-19 Yoshio Miura , Jun Okabayashi

Context: The importance of magnetic fields at the onset of star formation related to the early fragmentation and collapse processes is largely unexplored today. Aims: We want to understand the magnetic field properties at the earliest…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 H. Beuther , J. Soler , W. Vlemmings , H. Linz , Th. Henning , R. Kuiper , R. Rao , R. Smith , T. Sakai , K. Johnston , A. Walsh , S. Feng

The effects of high magnetic fields applied perpendicular to the spontaneous ferroelectric polarization on single crystals of BiFeO$_3$ were investigated through magnetization, magnetostriction, and neutron diffraction measurements. The…

Particle acceleration and pitch-angle anisotropy resulting from magnetic reconnection are investigated in highly magnetized ion-electron plasmas. By means of fully kinetic particle-in-cell simulations, we demonstrate that magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-26 Luca Comisso

The magnetization reversal of Stoner particles is investigated from the point of view of nonlinear dynamics within the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert formulation. The following results are obtained. 1) We clarify that the so-called…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Z. Z. Sun , X. R. Wang

Strong magnetic fields quench the kinetic energy of electrons, leading to the formation of flat energy bands, known as Landau levels (LLs). In this situation, even weak interactions can drive the emergence of various ordered phases. The…