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The currents and field distributions of a vortex in a thin superconducting strip of a width $W$ is considered. It is shown that unlike infinite films where the vortex field crosses the film only in one direction (say, from the half-space under the film to the half-space above it), in strips (as well as in finite size film samples of any shape) the field lines go back to the lower half-space not only out of the sample but also through certain strip parts. The strip patches where the magnetic lines ``dive" back to the space under the strip are situated mostly near the strip edges at the strip and out of it. The magnetic flux through the strip associated with the vortex is shown to be less than the flux quantum and depends on the vortex position. The suppression of the vortex flux is strong in narrow strips with $W<<\Lambda=2\lambda^2/d$ where $\lambda$ is the bulk London penetration depth and $d$ is the film thickness. The vortex energy scales roughly with $W/\Lambda$ and depends on vortex position., Comment: 7 pages, 8 figures

Moving vortices in thin superconducting films are considered within the time-dependent London description. The dissipation due to out-of-core normal excitations for two vortices moving together turns out to have a minimum for the separation vector $\bm a$ parallel to the velocity and equal to $a_m \approx 2.2\, \Lambda$, where $\Lambda $ is the Pearl length. The minimum entropy production suggests that moving vortices should have a tendency to form chains along the velocity with a period of the order $a_m$., Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures

The magnetic field of vortices in anisotropic superconducting films is considered in the framework of anisotropic London approach. It is found that at distances large relative to the core size, the magnetic field normal to the film surface may change sign. We find that the magnetic field attenuates at large distances as $1/r^3$ as it does in isotropic films, but the anisotropy induces an angular dependence to the supercurrents which causes the sign of the field to change for anisotropy parameters $\gamma=\lambda_2/\lambda_1>\sqrt{2}$ in some parts of the $(x,y)$ plane., Comment: 8 pages, 12 figures

The magnetic field of moving vortices in anisotropic superconductors is considered in the framework of time-dependent London approach. It is found that at distances large relative to the core size, the field may change sign that alludes to a non-trivial intervortex interaction which depends on the crystal anisotropy and on the speed and direction of motion. These effects are caused to the electric fields and corresponding normal currents which appear due to the moving vortex magnetic structure. We find that the motion related part of the magnetic field attenuates at large distances as $1/r^3$ unlike the exponential decay of the static vortex field. The electric field induced by the vortex motion decreases as $1/r^2$., Comment: 9 pages, 10 figures

We take account of normal currents that emerge when vortices move. Moving Abrikosov vortices in the bulk and Pearl vortices in thin films are considered. Velocity dependent distributions of both normal and persistent currents are studied in the frame of time-dependent London equations. In thin films near the Pearl vortex core, these distributions are intriguing in particular., Comment: 8 pages,10 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2102.00073

The magnetic field $h_z$ of a moving Pearl vortex in a superconducting thin-film in $(x,y)$ plane is studied with the help of time-dependent London equation. It is found that for a vortex at the origin moving in $+x$ direction, $h_z(x,y)$ is suppressed in front of the vortex, $x>0$, and enhanced behind ($x<0$). The distribution asymmetry is proportional to the velocity and to the conductivity of normal quasiparticles. The vortex self-energy and the interaction of two moving vortices are evaluated., Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2004.03663

The mechanism of the high temperature hole-doped superconductivity was investigated by Raman scattering. The Raman selection rule is unique, so that anisotropic magnetic excitations in a fluctuating spin-charge stripe can be detected as if it is static. We use different Raman selection rules for two kinds of magnetic Raman scattering processes, two-magnon scattering and high-energy electronic scattering. In order to confirm the difference, the Raman spectra of striped La2-xSrxCuO4 (LSCO) and non-striped Nd2-xCexCuO4 (NCCO) were compared. The main results in LSCO are (1) magnetic excitations are presented by individual energy dispersions for the k\parallel stripe and the k\perp stripe, (2) the charge transfer is allowed only in the direction perpendicular to the stripe. The direction is the same as the Burgers vector of an edge dislocation. Hence we assume that a charge moves together with the edge dislocation of the charge stripe. The superconducting coherence length is close to the inter-charge stripe distance at x < 0.2. Therefore we propose a model that superconducting pairs are formed in the edge dislocations. The binding energy is related to the stripe formation energy., Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, International Conference on Superstripes 2012: Phase Separation and Superstripes in High Temperature Superconductors and Related Materials, 11-17 July, 2012, Erice-Sicily, Italy

We have found that the current- voltage characteristics of La0.7Sr0.3MnO3(-delta)/Nb:SrTiO3 rectifying junctions are quantitatively well-described by (thermally-assisted) tunneling with an effectively temperature-independent Schottky barrier under no magnetic field, while those of the oxygen deficient junction remarkably deviate from such a simple behavior as magnetic field is applied. These results indicate a new form of magnetoresistance arising from magnetic field changes of the interface band diagram via the strong electron-spin coupling in manganites., Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures

We present a rectifying manganite-titanate heterojunction exhibiting a magnetic field tunable depletion layer. This creates a large positive magnetocapacitance, a direct measure of the field-induced reduction of the effective depletion width across the junction. Furthermore, the reduction of the junction barrier shifts the forward bias characteristics, giving exponentially-enhanced differential magnetoresistance, occurring despite the absence of a spin filter. These results provide a unique probe of a Mott insulator/band insulator interface, and further suggest new electronic devices incorporating the magnetic field sensitivity of these strongly correlated electron materials., Comment: 14 pages with 4 figures

We have investigated change in the electronic structures of atomically-controlled La$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$MnO$_3$ (LSMO) thin films as a function of hole-doping level ($x$) in terms of {\it in situ} photoemission spectroscopy (PES) and x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) measurements. The {\it in situ} PES measurements on a well-ordered surface of high-quality epitaxial LSMO thin films enable us to reveal their intrinsic electronic structures, especially the structure near the Fermi level ($E_F$). We have found that overall features of valence band as well as the core levels monotonically shifted toward lower binding energy as $x$ was increased, indicating the rigid-band like behavior of underlying electronic structure of LSMO thin films. The peak nearest to $E_F$ due to the $e_g$ orbital is also found to move toward $E_F$ in a rigid-band manner, while the peak intensity decreases with increasing $x$. The loss of spectral weight with $x$ in the occupied density of states was compensated by simultaneous increment of the shoulder structure in O 1$s$ XAS spectra, suggesting the existence of a pseudogap, that is depression in spectral weight at $E_F$, for all metallic compositions. These results indicate that the simple rigid-band model does not describe the electronic structure near $E_F$ of LSMO and that the spectral weight transfer from below to above $E_F$ across the gap dominates the spectral changes with $x$ in LSMO thin films., Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures

We report $^{11}$B-NMR study on Al-doped MgB$_2$ that addresses a possible mechanism for a high superconducting (SC) transition temperature ($T_c$) of $\sim 40$ K in recently discovered MgB$_2$. The result of nuclear spin lattice relaxation rate $1/T_1$ in the SC state revealed that the size in the SC gap is not changed by substituting Al for Mg. The reduction on $T_c$ by Al-doping is shown to be due to the decrease of $N(E_F)$. According to the McMillan equation, the experimental relation between $T_c$ and the relative change in $N(E_F)$ allowed us to estimate a characteristic phonon frequency $\omega \sim 700$ K and an electron-phonon coupling constant $\lambda \sim 0.87$. These results suggest that the high-$T_c$ superconductivity in MgB$_2$ is mediated by the strong electron-phonon coupling with high-frequency phonons., Comment: 6pages, 3figures

Interferometric gravitational wave detectors use mirrors whose substrates are formed from materials of low intrinsic mechanical dissipation. The two most likely choices for the test masses in future advanced detectors are fused silica or sapphire. These test masses must be coated to form mirrors, highly reflecting at 1064nm. We have measured the excess mechanical losses associated with adding dielectric coatings to substrates of fused silica and calculate the effect of the excess loss on the thermal noise in an advanced interferometer., Comment: Submitted to LSC (internal) review Sept. 20, 2001. To be submitted to Phys. Lett. A

We calculate the thermal noise in half-infinite mirrors containing a layer of arbitrary thickness and depth made of excessively lossy material but with the same elastic material properties as the substrate. For the special case of a thin lossy layer on the surface of the mirror, the excess noise scales as the ratio of the coating loss to the substrate loss and as the ratio of the coating thickness to the laser beam spot size. Assuming a silica substrate with a loss function of 3x10-8 the coating loss must be less than 3x10-5 for a 6 cm spot size and a 7 micrometers thick coating to avoid increasing the spectral density of displacement noise by more than 10%. A similar number is obtained for sapphire test masses., Comment: Passed LSC (internal) review. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D. (5/2001) Replacement: Minor typo in Eq. 17 corrected

We discovered numerically a scaling law obeyed by the amplitude of collective mo tion in large populations of chaotic elements. Our analysis strongly suggests that such populations generically exhibit collective motion in the presence of interaction, however weak it may be. A phase diagram for the collective motion, which is characterized by peculiar structures similar to Arnold tongues, is obtained., Comment: 6 pages, 9 Postscript figures, uses revtex.sty