Received 10 April 2015 Accepted 11 October 2015 Available online 30 September 2015 In this work, structural and magnetic properties of the LaMnO3+δ compound prepared by citrate precursor method and annealed in the presence of oxygen are investigated. The structural characterization of LaMnO3+δ by X-ray powder diffraction and X‟pert package and Fullprof program provides evidence for a rhombohedr...

In disordered superconductors, the local pairing field fluctuates in space, leading to the smearing of the BCS peak in the density of states and the appearance of the subgap tail states. We analyze the universal mesoscopic contributions to these effects and show that they are enhanced by the Coulomb repulsion. In the vicinity of the quantum critical point, where superconductivity is suppressed ...

The temporal shift in the near-IR absorption peak of myoglobin (Mb) following flash photolysis of MbCO at cryogenic temperatures appears to be due largely to an inhomogeneous reactive process rather than to relaxation. This conclusion, which follows from a new analysis of the experimental data, is based on the following three points: First, at very low temperatures (60 K) a transient line-narro...

We measured Raman scatterings from various single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) samples over a wide temperature range (4-1000 K). The G-band peaks showed clear temperature dependence, namely decrement in the Raman shift frequency and broadening of the peak width as temperature increases. The main G-band peak (G peak) showed universal temperature dependence in Raman shift for the various SWNT sa...

The effect of aberrations in the recording beams of a holographic setup is discussed regarding the deterioration of properties of a reflecting volume Bragg grating. Imperfect recording beams result in a spatially varying grating vector, which causes broadening, asymmetry, and washed out side lobes in the reflection spectrum as well as a corresponding reduction in peak diffraction efficiency. Th...

We investigate collective emission from coherently driven ultracold (88)Sr atoms. We perform two sets of experiments using a strong and weak transition that are insensitive and sensitive, respectively, to atomic motion at 1 μK. We observe highly directional forward emission with a peak intensity that is enhanced, for the strong transition, by >10(3) compared with that in the transverse directio...

An envelope function is derived which multiplies the pair distribution function (PDF) of an infinite solid to obtain that of a spherical particle with the same crystal structure. Distributions of particle sizes are then considered, and the analytical results are used to predict the distribution from a PDF obtained experimentally. The peak broadening for the associated structure factor, expresse...

An extraordinary temperature dependence of the resonant Andreev reflection via discrete energy level in a normal-metal / quantum-dot / superconductor (N-QD-S) system is predicted theoretically by using Green function technique. The width of zero bias conductance peak in N-QD-S is about √ ΓL + Γ 2 R and does not exhibit thermal broadening, where ΓL and ΓR are the coupling strength between QD and...

Surfactant-templated layered silicates are shown to possess complex compositional, structural, and dynamic features that manifest rich and interrelated order and disorder at molecular length scales. Temperature-dependent 1D and 2D solid-state 29Si NMR measurements reveal a chemical-exchange process involving the surfactant headgroups that is concomitant with reversible broadening of 29Si NMR li...