We investigate the interplay between the magnetic and the superconducting degrees of freedom in unconventional multi-band superconductors such as iron pnictides. For this purpose a dynamical mode-mode coupling theory is developed based on the coupled Bethe-Salpeter equations. In order to investigate the region of the phase diagram not too far from the tetracritical point where the magnetic spin density wave, (SDW) and superconducting (SC) transition temperatures coincide, we also construct a Ginzburg-Landau functional including both SC and SDW fluctuations in a critical region above the transition temperatures. The fluctuation corrections tend to suppress the magnetic transition, but in the superconducting channel the intraband and interband contribution of the fluctuations nearly compensate each other.
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Soft Matter
January 2025
Department of Physics, Central University of Karnataka, Kadaganchi, Kalaburagi, Karnataka-585367, India.
The isomerization kinetics of a liquid crystalline azobenzene dimer, comprising cyanoazobenzene and naphthalene (NAZ6), were investigated at the air-water interface. The Langmuir monolayers of NAZ6 in both its and states were analyzed using surface manometry techniques. The results revealed that NAZ6 molecules in the -state displayed the coexistence of a disordered liquid-expanded phase and an ordered liquid-condensed phase, whereas no such phase transition was observed in the -state.
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January 2025
School of Chemistry, University of Lincoln, Brayford Pool, LN6 7TS Lincoln, United Kingdom.
We analyzed the thermal, structural, and dynamic properties of maghemite using classical molecular dynamics, focusing on bulk and nanoparticle systems. We explored their behavior when heated to high temperatures (above the melting point) and during cooling, as well as under thermal cycles ending at intermediate temperatures. Our findings show that in the bulk system, both the tetrahedral and octahedral iron sub-lattices undergo a phase transition prior to melting.
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Institute of Metal Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences-Ural Division, 620990 Yekaterinburg, Russia.
The crystal and electronic structure of ZrxTi1-xSe2 (0 < x < 1) compounds and their electrical resistivity have been studied in detail for the first time. A combination of soft x-ray spectroscopic methods (XPS, XAS, and ResPES) was used to investigate the electronic structure. The lattice parameters as a function of the metal concentration x obey Vegard's law.
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CNR-Istituto Officina dei Materiali, TASC, Trieste, Italy.
The CO oxidation reaction on (Co,Mg,Mn,Ni,Zn)(Al,Co,Cr,Fe,Mn)O and (Cr,Mn,Fe,Co,Ni)O high entropy spinel oxides was studied for what concerns its mechanism by means of soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy. In the (Cr,Mn,Fe,Co,Ni)O high entropy spinel, CO oxidation starts at 150 °C, and complete conversion to CO is obtained at 300 °C. For the (Co,Mg,Mn,Ni,Zn)(Al,Co,Cr,Fe,Mn)O spinel oxides, in contrast, the reaction starts at 200 °C, and complete conversion needs temperatures of the order of 350 °C.
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January 2025
Department of Orthopaedics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA, The Netherlands.
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