Effect of intraband Coulomb repulsion on the excitonic spin-density wave

We present a study of the magnetic ground state of a two-band model with nested electron and hole Fermi surfaces and both interband and intraband Coulomb interactions. Our aim is to understand how the excitonic spin-density-wave (ESDW) state induced by the interband Coulomb repulsion is affected by the intraband interactions. We first determine the magnetic instabilities of our model in an unbiased way by employing the random-phase approximation (RPA) to calculate the static spin susceptibility in the paramagnetic state. From this, we construct the mean-field phase diagram, demonstrating the robustness of the ESDW against the intraband interaction. We then calculate the RPA transverse spin susceptibility in the ESDW state and show that the intraband Coulomb repulsion significantly renormalizes the paramagnon line shape and suppresses the spin-wave velocity. We conclude with a discussion of the relevance of this suppression for the commensurate ESDW state of Mn-doped Cr alloys.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figure

Beam Dynamics Studies and Design Optimisation of New Low Energy Antiproton Facilities

Antiprotons, stored and cooled at low energies in a storage ring or at rest in traps, are highly desirable for the investigation of a large number of basic questions on fundamental interactions. This includes the static structure of antiprotonic atomic systems and the time-dependent quantum dynamics of correlated systems. The Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN is currently the worlds only low energy antiproton factory dedicated to antimatter experiments. New antiproton facilities, such as the Extra Low ENergy Antiproton ring (ELENA) at CERN and the Ultra-low energy Storage Ring (USR) at FLAIR, will open unique possibilities. They will provide cooled, high quality beams of extra-low energy antiprotons at intensities exceeding those achieved presently at the AD by factors of ten to one hundred. These facilities, operating in the energy regime between 100 keV down to 20 keV, face several design and beam dynamics challenges, for example nonlinearities, space charge and scattering effects limiting beam life time. Detailed investigations into the low energy and long term beam dynamics have been carried out to address many of those challenges towards the design optimisation. Results from these studies are presented in this contribution, showing some examples for ELENA.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, 12th International Conference on Low Energy Antiproton Physics, LEAP 2016. Submitted to JPS Conference Proceeding

Magnetic near fields as a probe of charge transport in spatially dispersive conductors

We calculate magnetic field fluctuations above a conductor with a nonlocal response (spatial dispersion) and consider a large range of distances. The cross-over from ballistic to diffusive charge transport leads to reduced noise spectrum at distances below the electronic mean free path, as compared to a local description. We also find that the mean free path provides a lower limit to the correlation (coherence) length of the near field fluctuations. The short-distance behavior is common to a wide range of materials, covering also semiconductors and superconductors. Our discussion is aimed at atom chip experiments where spin-flip transitions give access to material properties with mesoscopic spatial resolution. The results also hint at fundamental limits to the coherent operation of miniaturized atom traps and matter wave interferometers.Comment: 11 page