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Coexistence of antiferromagnetic order and superconductivity in CeRh[sub 1[minus]x]M[sub x]In[sub 5](M=Ir and Co) (open access)

Coexistence of antiferromagnetic order and superconductivity in CeRh[sub 1[minus]x]M[sub x]In[sub 5](M=Ir and Co)

We report a systematic neutron diffraction study on the coexistence of long-range magnetic order and superconductivity in heavy fermion compounds CeRhl-,M,Ins (M=Ir,Co). In addition to the incommensurate antiferromagnetic component in pure CeRhIn5, new type of antiferromagnetic component is found to concur with appearance of superconductivity in the Ir and Co alloy series. There is no detectable effect of the superconducting transition on magnetic order parameters. We compare those results with similar studies we performed on CeRhIn:, under pressure. We also discuss possible theoretical scenarios.
Date: December 4, 2002
Creator: Llobet-Megias, A. (Anna); Christianson, A. D. (Andrew D.); Bao, W. (Wei); Gardner, J. S.; Pagliuso, P. J. (Pascoal J.); Moreno, N. O. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Light-Front Quantization of Gauge Theories (open access)

Light-Front Quantization of Gauge Theories

Light-front wavefunctions provide a frame-independent representation of hadrons in terms of their physical quark and gluon degrees of freedom. The light-front Hamiltonian formalism provides new nonperturbative methods for obtaining the QCD spectrum and eigensolutions, including resolvant methods, variational techniques, and discretized light-front quantization. A new method for quantizing gauge theories in light-cone gauge using Dirac brackets to implement constraints is presented. In the case of the electroweak theory, this method of light-front quantization leads to a unitary and renormalizable theory of massive gauge particles, automatically incorporating the Lorentz and 't Hooft conditions as well as the Goldstone boson equivalence theorem. Spontaneous symmetry breaking is represented by the appearance of zero modes of the Higgs field leaving the light-front vacuum equal to the perturbative vacuum. I also discuss an ''event amplitude generator'' for automatically computing renormalized amplitudes in perturbation theory. The importance of final-state interactions for the interpretation of diffraction, shadowing, and single-spin asymmetries in inclusive reactions such as deep inelastic lepton-hadron scattering is emphasized.
Date: December 1, 2002
Creator: Brodskey, Stanley
System: The UNT Digital Library