We study the mechanism of orbital or spin fluctuations due to multiorbital Coulomb interaction in iron-based superconductors, going beyond the random-phase approximation. For this purpose, we develop a self-consistent vertex correction (VC) method, and find that multiple orbital fluctuations in addition to spin fluctuations are mutually emphasized by the "multimode interference effect" describe...

Ground-state properties of the two-dimensional S = 1/2 random Heisenberg models are investigated by the exact-diagonalization method. The phase diagram of the bondrandom model (the ±J model) is the same as that of the corresponding Ising spin glass model, in spite of quantum fluctuation. In the site-random model, the spin glass phase exists at least in the ferro-rich case. In comparison with th...

Here we present a novel and extremely simple method that can manipulate magnetic label-free nanoliter water-drops using micro-nanoliter magnetically controlled hydrophobic ferro-drops used as magnetic mediators. Water-drops and ferro-drops can be dynamically connected under interface force of water/oil, allowing water-drops to be rapidly motioned on threedimensional open platforms and transferr...

Statistical analyses of geochemical data from ferromanganese nodule samples representing a broad area of the southeast Pacific Ocean indicate nodule compositions are controlled by four factors: (1) suboxic diagenesis; (2) oxic diagenesis; (3) hydrogenous precipitation; and (4) hydrothermal precipitation. The first three are identical to those identified in studies of nodules from the North Paci...

Magnetite (Fe304) nanoparticles stabilised by sulfonatocalixarene macrocycles are readily accessible by a rapid in situ co-precipitation, and exhibit ferro-fluidic and superparamagnetic behaviour.

We discovered ferromanganese nodules that measure up to 46 cm in diameter with stromatolitic growth patterns in the western central near-shore portion of Second Connecticut Lake, Pittsburg, New Hampshire. They occur as four distinct morphotypes: irregular laminated convex plates that form concentric rings around a nucleating center ("domed-plate"), continuous pustular pavements that extend >10 ...