Hiroshi Shinaoka

Bending experiment on pentacene field-effect transistors on plastic films

We have fabricated very flexible pentacene field-effect transistors with polyimide gate dielectric layers on plastic films with a mobility of 0.3cm2∕Vs and an on/off ratio of 105, and have measured their electrical properties under various compressive and tensile strains while changing the bending radius of the base plastic films systematically. We have found that the change in source-drain current with bending radius is reproducible and reversible when the bending radius is above 4.6mm, which corresponds to strains of ∼1.4±0.1%. Furthermore, the change in source-drain current does not depend on the direction of strain versus direction of current flow.

Soft hubbard gaps in disordered itinerant models with short-range interaction.

We study the Anderson-Hubbard model in the Hartree-Fock approximation and the exact diagonalization under the coexistence of short-range interaction and diagonal disorder. We show that there exist unconventional soft gaps, where the single-particle (SP) density of states (DOS) A follows a scaling in energy E as A(E) proportional, variantexp[-(-gammalog|E-E_{F}|);{d}] irrespective of electron filling and long-range order. Here, d is the spatial dimension, E_{F} the Fermi energy and gamma a nonuniversal constant. We propose a multivalley energy landscape as their origin. Possible experiments to verify the present theory are proposed.

Noncollinear magnetism and spin-orbit coupling in 5d pyrochlore oxide Cd2Os2O7.

We investigate the electronic and magnetic properties of the pyrochlore oxide Cd2Os2O7 using the density-functional theory plus on-site repulsion (U) method, and depict the ground-state phase diagram with respect to U. We conclude that the all-in-all-out noncollinear magnetic order is stable in a wide range of U. We also show that the easy-axis anisotropy arising from the spin-orbit coupling plays a significant role in stabilizing the all-in-all-out magnetic order. A pseudogap was observed near the transition between the antiferromagnetic metallic and insulating phases. Finally, we discuss possible origins of the peculiar low-temperature (T) properties observed in experiments.

Spin-Glass Transition in Bond-Disordered Heisenberg Antiferromagnets Coupled with Local Lattice Distortions on a Pyrochlore Lattice

Motivated by puzzling characteristics of spin-glass transitions widely observed in pyrochlore-based frustrated materials, we investigate the effects of coupling to local lattice distortions in a bond-disordered antiferromagnet on the pyrochlore lattice by extensive Monte Carlo simulations. We show that the spin-glass transition temperature T(f) is largely enhanced by the spin-lattice coupling and, furthermore, becomes almost independent of Δ in a wide range of the disorder strength Δ. The critical property of the spin-glass transition is indistinguishable from that of the canonical Heisenberg spin glass in the entire range of Δ. These peculiar behaviors are ascribed to a modification of the degenerate manifold from a continuous to semidiscrete one by spin-lattice coupling.

Single-Particle Excitations under Coexisting Electron Correlation and Disorder: A Numerical Study of the Anderson–Hubbard Model

Interplay of electron correlation and randomness is studied using the Anderson–Hubbard model within the Hartree–Fock (HF) approximation. Under the coexistence of short-range interaction and diagonal disorder, we obtain the ground-state phase diagram in three dimensions (3D), which includes an antiferromagnetic insulator, an antiferromagnetic metal, a paramagnetic insulator (Anderson-localized insulator), and a paramagnetic metal. Although only the short-range interaction is present in this model, we find unconventional soft gaps in the insulating phases irrespective of electron filling, spatial dimensions, and long-range order, where the single-particle density of states (DOS) vanishes with a power-law scaling in 1D or even faster in 2D and 3D toward the Fermi energy. We call such a gap a soft Hubbard gap . Moreover, exact-diagonalization results for 1D support the formation of a soft Hubbard gap beyond the mean-field level. The formation of the soft Hubbard gap cannot be attributed to the conventional th...

Mott Transition and Phase Diagram of κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2 Studied by Two-Dimensional Model Derived from Ab initio Method

We present an ab initio analysis for the ground-state properties of a correlated organic compound

Sparse modeling approach to analytical continuation of imaginary-time quantum Monte Carlo data

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Updated core libraries of the ALPS project

-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2. First, we derive an effective two-dimensional low-energy model from first principles, having short-ranged transfers and short-ranged Coulomb and exchange interactions. Then, we perform many-variable variational Monte Carlo calculations for this model and draw a ground-state phase diagram as functions of scaling parameters for the onsite and off-site interactions. The phase diagram consists of three phases; a paramagnetic metallic phase, an antiferromagnetic (Mott) insulating phase, and a charge-ordered insulating phase. In the phase diagram, the parameters for the real compound are close to the first-order Mott transition, being consistent with experiments. We show that the off-site Coulomb and exchange interactions affect the phase boundary; (i) they appreciably stabilize the metallic state against the Mott insulating phase and (ii) enhance charge fluctuations in a wide parameter region in the metallic phase. We observe arc-like structure in Fermi surface around the region where the charge fluctuations are enhanced. Possible relevance of the charge fluctuations to the experimentally observed dielectric anomaly in the

Compressing Green's function using intermediate representation between imaginary-time and real-frequency domains

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Phase Diagram of Pyrochlore Iridates: All-in-All-out Magnetic Ordering and Non-Fermi-Liquid Properties.

-BEDT-TTF family compounds is also pointed out.