Spin-orbit-induced spin splitting of surface states has attracted great interest in recent years because of the high potential for technological applications associated with this phenomenon. This ...Rashba physics is found in a variety of systems ranging from simple metals like Ag or Au to the so-called topological insulators which are of special interest in spintronics. A very special and unique case is found at the W(110) surface. In this metal d-like surface resonances exhibit energy dispersions and spin-polarization structures which are reminiscent of topological surface states. In our theoretical study, we present a complete analysis of the surface electronic structure of W(110) and show that the atypical linear-shaped dispersion behavior is triggered by the amount of charge transfer from the bulk into the first few vacuum layers. Furthermore, we compare our theoretical spectra with experimental photoemission data on W(110) and demonstrate that our state-of-the-art photoemission theory is able to deal with these peculiar surface features in a quantitative way. Our analysis is based on a generalization of the relativistic one-step model of photoemission, recently extended by us to study photoelectron spectroscopy at high photon energies. This theoretical approach was realized in the full spin-density matrix formulation for the photocurrent, which allows for an unrestricted calculation of the spin-polarization vector of the photoelectron. As an additional result we predict very peculiar behavior of these surface features showing up even at soft and hard x-ray energies. This observation is very surprising, unprecedented for ordinary surface features on simple metal surfaces.
Objectives
Extending healthy life expectancy (HALE), defined as the average number of years that a person can expect to live in “full health” by taking into account years lived in less than full ...health due to disease and/or injury, is a common topic worldwide. This study aims to clarify the relationships between the Mediterranean diet score (MDS) and life expectancy (LE) and HALE globally using publicly available international data.
Setting
Analyses were conducted on 130 countries with populations of 1 million or more for which all data were available. Individual countries were scored from 0 to 9 to indicate adherence to the Mediterranean diet according to the MDS scoring method. The supply of vegetables, legumes, fruits and nuts, cereals, fish, and olive oil per 1,000 kcal per country was calculated based on the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database, with a score of 1 for above the median and 0 for below. The same method was used to calculate scores of presumed detrimental components (meat and dairy), with consumption below the median given a value of 1, and consumption above the median given a value of 0. For ethanol, a score of 1 was given for 10g to 50 g of consumption. We investigated the cross-sectional associations between the MDS and LE and HALE at birth in 2009, and the longitudinal associations between the MDS in 2009 and LE and HALE between 2009 and 2019, controlling for covariates at baseline using linear mixed models.
Results
In the cross-sectional analysis, the MDS was significantly positively associated with LE (β=0.906 95% confidence interval, 0.065–1.747, p=0.037) and HALE (β=0.875 0.207–1.544, p=0.011) after controlling for all covariates. The longitudinal analysis also revealed significantly positive associations between the MDS and LE (0.621 0.063–1.178, p=0.030) and HALE (0.694 0.227–1.161, p=0.004) after controlling for all covariates.
Conclusion
The present study, based on an analysis using 10 years of international data, showed that countries with a higher MDS showed a positive association with HALE.
Spin-orbit interaction and structure inversion asymmetry in combination with magnetic ordering is a promising route to novel materials with highly mobile spin-polarized carriers at the surface. ...Spin-resolved measurements of the photoemission current from the Si-terminated surface of the antiferromagnet TbRh2Si2 and their analysis within an ab initio one-step theory unveil an unusual triple winding of the electron spin along the fourfold-symmetric constant energy contours of the surface states. A two-band k ⋅ p model is presented that yields the triple winding as a cubic Rashba effect. The curious in-plane spin-momentum locking is remarkably robust and remains intact across a paramagnetic-antiferromagnetic transition in spite of spin-orbit interaction on Rh atoms being considerably weaker than the out-of-plane exchange field due to the Tb 4 f moments.
Abstract
Sequences of hydrogen (H) and deuterium (D) experiments have been done by NIFS research and development negative ion source (RNIS) for the deuterium NBI development. In the experiments, the ...co-extracted electron current with the negative ions and the electron density in the plasma generation region in the D experiment have been around three times higher than that in the H experiment. To explain the difference of the electron density in the RNIS driver region, a zero-dimensional numerical model is developed in the present study. The model only focuses on the isotope effect for vibrationally excited level of electronically grounded state molecules and its relevant cross-sections. The calculation results show that difference of the ionization channel numbers via molecular vibrationally excited states could be a reason to enhance ionization rate in D plasma.
The surface of W(110) exhibits a Dirac-cone-like state with d character within a spin-orbit-induced symmetry gap. As a function of the wave vector parallel to the surface, it shows a nearly massless ...energy dispersion and a pronounced spin polarization, which is antisymmetric with respect to the Brillouin zone center. In addition, the observed constant energy contours are strongly anisotropic for all energies. This discovery opens new pathways to the study of surface spin-density waves arising from a strong Fermi surface nesting as well as d-electron-based topological properties.
We classify Morita equivalence classes of indecomposable self-injective cellular algebras which have polynomial growth representation type, assuming that the characteristic of the base field is ...different from two. This assumption on the characteristic is for the cellularity to be a Morita invariant property.
Abstract Temporal oscillation of the negative hydrogen ion (H − ) beam in the Radio Frequency (RF) ion source is investigated by a simple 3D3V Particle-In-Cell (PIC) model. The model solves electron, ...proton, and H − transport processes in the extraction region. The calculation domain is from the vicinity of the beam aperture to the ground electrode. To understand the relation between the plasma density oscillation and the extracted H − beam characteristics, the input electron and proton fluxes from the driver region are varied parametrically with the fundamental J-PARC RF frequency (2 MHz). The numerical results give an idea of the main physical processes between the oscillations of the plasma parameters and the extracted H − ion trajectories depending on the plasma meniscus shape in the different RF phases.
We have performed scanning tunneling microscopy and differential tunneling conductance (dI/dV) mapping for the surface of the three-dimensional topological insulator Bi(2)Se(3). The fast Fourier ...transformation applied to the dI/dV image shows an electron interference pattern near Dirac node despite the general belief that the backscattering is well suppressed in the bulk energy gap region. The comparison of the present experimental result with theoretical surface and bulk band structures shows that the electron interference occurs through the scattering between the surface states near the Dirac node and the bulk continuum states.
Chronic inflammation is frequently associated with tumorigenesis in elderly people. By contrast, young people without chronic inflammation often develop tumors considered independent of chronic ...inflammation but driven instead by mutations. Thus, whether inflammation has a significant role in tumor progression in tumors driven by mutations remains largely unknown. Here we show that TNFα is required for the tumorigenesis of osteosarcoma, the most common tumor in children and adolescents. We show that transplantation of AX osteosarcoma cells, which harbor mutations driving c-Myc overexpression and Ink4a-deficiency, in wild-type mice promotes lethal tumorigenesis accompanied by ectopic bone formation and multiple metastases, phenotypes seen in osteosarcoma patients. Such tumorigenesis was completely abrogated in TNFα-deficient mice. AX cells have the capacity to undergo osteoblastic differentiation; however, that activity was significantly inhibited by TNFα treatment, suggesting that TNFα maintains AX cells in an undifferentiated state. TNFα inhibition of AX cell osteoblastic differentiation occurred through ERK activation, and a pharmacological TNFα inhibitor effectively inhibited both AX cell tumorigenesis and increased osteoblastic gene expression and increased survival of tumor-bearing mice. Lethal tumorigenesis of AX cells was also abrogated in IL-1α/IL-1β doubly deficient mice. We found that both TNFα and IL-1 maintained AX cells in an undifferentiated state via ERK activation. Thus, inflammatory cytokines are required to promote tumorigenesis even in mutation-induced tumors, and TNFα/IL-1 and ERK may represent therapeutic targets for osteosarcoma.
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