The effects of dominant sequential interactions are investigated in an exactly solvable feedforward layered neural network model of binary units and patterns near saturation in which the interaction consists of a Hebbian part and a symmetric sequential term. Phase diagrams of stationary states are obtained and a phase of cyclic correlated states of period two is found for a weak Hebbian term, i...

Full-field quantitative strain maps of phase transformation and plasticity in Nitinol under large sheardominated deformation are presented. To achieve a sheardominated deformation mode with relatively uniform stresses and strains, a shear compression specimen (SCS) geometry was utilized. Shear deformation appears to impede the development of the strain localization during phase transformation t...

We report 75As NMR measurements in CaFe2As2, made under applied pressures up to 0.83 GPa produced by a standard clamp pressure cell. Our data reveal phase segregation of paramagnetic and antiferromagnetic (AFM) phases over a range of pressures, with the AFM phase more than 90% dominant at low temperatures. In situ rf susceptibility measurements indicate the presence of superconductivity. 75As s...

Two chains of Luttinger liquids coupled by both interchain hopping and interchain interaction are investigated. A degeneracy of two kinds of dominant states with in phase and out of phase ordering in the absence of the hopping is removed since the transverse fluctuation of charge density is completely gapful and that of spin density has two kinds of excitation with and without gap. The crucial ...

Sulfurized BiFeO3 (BFO) thin films have been investigated with the purpose of reducing their band gap for photovoltaic applications. A strong dependence of the degree of sulfurization on the structure and optical properties of the BFO thin films was observed. The sulfurization process substantially reduced the optical band gap from 2.83 eV for the reference sample to ∼1.90 eV in a sample sulfur...