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cond-mat.str-el2011★ 175 cited

Ultrafast Magneto-Acoustics in Nickel Films

Ji-Wan Kim, Mircea Vomir, Jean-Yves Bigot

We report about the existence of magneto-acoustic pulses propagating in a 200-nm-thick ferromagnetic nickel film excited with 120 fs laser pulses. They result from the coupling bet…

cond-mat.str-el2011

How do spins interact coherently with ultrashort laser pulses ?

Hélène Vonesch, Jean-Yves Bigot

We investigate the interaction of femtosecond laser pulses with spins including relativistic corrections. The time-ordered magneto-optical signals corresponding to a pump-probe con…

physics.atom-ph2011★ 35 cited

Atomic Rydberg Reservoirs for Polar Molecules

Bo Zhao, Alexander Glätzle, Guido Pupillo +1

We discuss laser dressed dipolar and Van der Waals interactions between atoms and polar molecules, so that a cold atomic gas with laser admixed Rydberg levels acts as a designed re…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 16 cited

Quenched Slonczewski-Windmill in Spin-Torque Vortex-Oscillators

Volker Sluka, Attila Kákay, Alina M. Deac +3

We present a combined analytical and numerical study on double-vortex spin-torque nano-oscillators and describe a mechanism that suppresses the windmill modes. The magnetization dy…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 31 cited

Engineering Negative Differential Conductance with the Cu(111) Surface State

B. W. Heinrich, M. V. Rastei, D. -J. Choi +2

Low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy are employed to investigate electron tunneling from a C60-terminated tip into a Cu(111) surface. Tunneling between a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 60 cited

Conductance-Driven Kondo Effect in a Single Cobalt Atom

D-J. Choi, M. V. Rastei, P. Simon +1

A low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope is employed to build a junction comprising a Co atom bridging a copper-coated tip and a Cu(100) surface. An Abrikosov-Suhl-Kondo res…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 7 cited

Investigation of the thermal stability of Mg/Co periodic multilayers for EUV applications

M. -H. Hu, K. Le Guen, Jean-Michel André +11

We present the results of the characterization of Mg/Co periodic multilayers and their thermal stability for the EUV range. The annealing study is performed up to a temperature of…

physics.atom-ph2011★ 134 cited

Supersolid Vortex Crystals in Rydberg-dressed Bose-Einstein Condensates

N. Henkel, F. Cinti, P. Jain +2

We study rotating quasi-two-dimensional Bose-Einstein-condensates, in which atoms are dressed to a highly excited Rydberg state. This leads to weak effective interactions that indu…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 18 cited

Scattering phase of quantum dots: Emergence of universal behavior

Rafael A. Molina, Rodolfo A. Jalabert, Dietmar Weinmann +1

We investigate scattering through chaotic ballistic quantum dots in the Coulomb blockade regime. Focusing on the scattering phase, we show that large universal sequences emerge in…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 2 cited

Understanding the Electronic Transport Through Single Noble Gas Atoms

L. A. Zotti, M. Bürkle, Y. J. Dappe +2

We present a theoretical study of the conductance of atomic junctions comprising single noble gas atoms (He, Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe) coupled to gold electrodes. The aim is to elucidate…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 92 cited

Spin-orbit interaction in a two-dimensional electron gas: a SU(2) formulation

R. Raimondi, P. Schwab, C. Gorini +1

Spin-orbit interaction is usefully classified as extrinsic or intrinsic depending on its origin: the potential due to random impurities (extrinsic), or the crystalline potential as…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 51 cited

Observation of Electronic Raman Scattering in Metallic Carbon Nanotubes

Hootan Farhat, Stéphane berciaud, Martin Kalbac +4

We present experimental measurements of the electronic contribution to the Raman spectra of individual metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes (MSWNTs). Photoexcited carriers are i…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 76 cited

High-resolution spatial mapping of the temperature distribution of a Joule self-heated graphene nanoribbon

Young-Jun Yu, Melinda Y. Han, Stephane Berciaud +5

We investigate the temperature distributions of Joule self-heated graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with a spatial resolution finer than 100 nm by scanning thermal microscopy (SThM). The…

cond-mat.str-el2011★ 2 cited

Tri-critical point and suppression of the Shastry-Sutherland phase in CePdSn by Ni doping

J. G. Sereni, G. Schmerber, M. Gómez Berisso +2

Structural, magnetization and heat capacity measurements were performed on Ce(PdNi)Sn () alloys, covering the full range of the MoFeB$_2…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 4 cited

Parametric amplification of magnetoplasmons in semiconductor quantum dots

Guillaume Weick, Eros Mariani

We show that the magnetoplasmon collective modes in quasi-two-dimensional semiconductor quantum dots can be parametrically amplified by periodically modulating the magnetic field p…

cond-mat.dis-nn2011★ 47 cited

Meeting experimental challenges to physics of network glasses: assessing role of sample homogeneity

S. Bhosle, K. Gunasekera, P. Chen +3

We introduce a Raman profiling method to track homogenization of GeSe melts in real time, and show that 2 gram melts reacted at 950°C in high vacuum homogenize in 168…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 4 cited

Cotunneling, current blockade, and backaction forces in nanobeams close to the Euler buckling instability

Guillaume Weick, Dominique M. -A. Meyer

Single-electron transistors embedded in a vibrating nanoresonator such as a doubly-clamped carbon nanotube exhibit effects stemming from the coupling between electronic and vibrati…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 133 cited

All-optical trion generation in single walled carbon nanotubes

Silvia Santos, Bertrand Yuma, Stéphane Berciaud +5

We present evidence of all optical trion generation and emission in undoped single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). Luminescence spectra, recorded on individual SWCNTs over a larg…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 71 cited

Temperature dependence of the anharmonic decay of optical phonons in carbon nanotubes and graphite

Ioannis Chatzakis, Hugen Yan, Daohua Song +2

We report on the temperature dependence of the anharmonic decay rate of zone-center (G mode) optical phonons in both single-walled carbon nanotubes and graphite. The measurements a…

cond-mat.str-el2011★ 18 cited

Ferromagnetic frustrated spin systems on the square lattice: a Schwinger boson study

H. Feldner, D. C. Cabra, G. L. Rossini

We study a ferromagnetic Heisenberg spin system on the square lattice, with nearest neighbors interaction J_1 frustrated by second J_2 and third J_3 neighbors antiferromagnetic int…

cond-mat.quant-gas2011★ 36 cited

Trimer liquids and crystals of polar molecules in coupled wires

M. Dalmonte, P. Zoller, G. Pupillo

We investigate the pairing and crystalline instabilities of bosonic and fermionic polar molecules confined to a ladder geometry. By means of analytical and quasi-exact numerical te…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 1 cited

Influence of the spin-orbit interaction in the impurity-band states of n-doped semiconductors

Guido A. Intronati, Pablo I. Tamborenea, Dietmar Weinmann +1

We study numerically the effects of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction on the model of electrons in n-doped semiconductors of Matsubara and Toyozawa (MT). We focus on the analysis o…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 30 cited

Spin relaxation near the metal-insulator transition: dominance of the Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling

Guido A. Intronati, Pablo I. Tamborenea, Dietmar Weinmann +1

We identify the Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling as the source of the dominant spin-relaxation mechanism in the impurity band of doped semiconductors. The Dresselhaus-type (i.e. all…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 337 cited

Magnetoresistance through a single molecule

Stefan Schmaus, Alexei Bagrets, Yasmine Nahas +6

The use of single molecules to design electronic devices is an extremely challenging and fundamentally different approach to further downsizing electronic circuits. Two-terminal mo…