The disposition of defects in metal oxides is a key attribute exploited for applications from fuel cells and catalysts to superconducting devices and memristors. The most typical defects are mobile excess oxygens and oxygen vacancies, and can be manipulated by a variety of thermal protocols as well as optical and dc electric fields. Here we report the X-ray writing of high-quality superconducting regions, derived from defect ordering 1 , in the superoxygenated layered cuprate, La 2 CuO 4+y . Irradiation of a poor superconductor prepared by rapid thermal quenching results first in growth of ordered regions, with an enhancement of superconductivity becoming visible only after a waiting time, as is characteristic of other systems such as ferroelectrics 2,3 where strain must be accommodated for order to become extended. However, in La 2 CuO 4+y , we are able to resolve all aspects of the growth of (oxygen) intercalant order, including an extraordinary excursion from low to high and back to low anisotropy of the ordered regions. We can also clearly associate the onset of high quality superconductivity with defect ordering in two dimensions. Additional experiments with small beams demonstrate a photoresist-free, single-step strategy for writing functional materials.

The Ettore Majorana paper "Theory of incomplete P' triplets", published in 1931, focuses on the role of selection rules for the non-radiative decay of two electron excitations in atomic spectra, involving the configuration interaction between discrete and continuum channels. This work is a key step for understanding the 1935 work of Ugo Fano on the asymmetric lineshape of two electron excitations and the 1958 Herman Feshbach paper on the shape resonances in nuclear scattering arising from configuration interaction between many different scattering channels. The Feshbach resonances are today of high scientific interest in many different fields and in particular for ultracold gases and high T c superconductivity.

It is shown that dimers is Yang-Baxter integrable as a six-vertex model at the free-fermion point with crossing parameter λ = π 2 . A one-to-many mapping of vertex onto dimer configurations allows the freefermion solutions to be applied to the anisotropic dimer model on a square lattice where the dimers are rotated by 45 • compared to their usual orientation. This dimer model is exactly solvable in geometries of arbitrary finite size. In this paper, we establish and solve inversion identities for dimers with periodic boundary conditions on the cylinder. In the particle representation, the local face tile operators give a representation of the fermion algebra and the fermion particle trajectories play the role of nonlocal (logarithmic) degrees of freedom. In a suitable gauge, the dimer model is described by the TemperleyLieb algebra with loop fugacity β = 2 cos λ = 0. At the isotropic point, the exact solution allows for the explicit counting of 45 • rotated dimer configurations on a periodic M × N rectangular lattice. We show that the modular invariant partition function on the torus is the same as symplectic fermions and critical dense polymers. We also show that nontrivial Jordan cells appear for the dimer Hamiltonian on the strip with vacuum boundary conditions. We therefore argue that, in the continuum scaling limit, the dimer model gives rise to a logarithmic conformal field theory with central charge c = −2, minimal conformal weight ∆ min = −1/8 and effective central charge c eff = 1.

The dimer model on a strip is considered as a Yang-Baxter integrable six vertex model at the free-fermion point with crossing parameter λ = π 2 . A one-to-many mapping of vertex onto dimer configurations allows for the solution of the free-fermion model to be applied to the anisotropic dimer model on a square lattice where the dimers are rotated by 45 • compared to their usual orientation. In a suitable gauge, the dimer model is described by the Temperley-Lieb algebra with loop fugacity β = 2 cos λ = 0. It follows that the dimer model is exactly solvable in geometries of arbitrary finite size. We establish and solve inversion identities for dimers on the strip with arbitrary finite width N . In the continuum scaling limit, in sectors with magnetization S z , we obtain the conformal weights ∆ s = (2 − s) 2 − 1 /8 where s = |S z | + 1 = 1, 2, 3, . . .. We further show that the corresponding finitized characters χ (N ) s (q) decompose into sums of q-Narayana numbers or, equivalently, skew q-binomials. In the particle representation, the local face tile operators give a representation of the fermion algebra and the fermion particle trajectories play the role of nonlocal (logarithmic) degrees of freedom. We argue that, in the continuum scaling limit, there exists nontrivial Jordan blocks of rank 2 in the Virasoro dilatation operator L 0 . This confirms that the dimer model gives rise to a logarithmic conformal field theory with central charge c = −2, minimal conformal weight ∆ min = − 1 8 and effective central charge c eff = 1. Our analysis of the structure of the ensuing rank 2 modules indicates that the familiar staggered c = −2 modules appear as submodules.

Tartaglia and Pearce have argued that the nonunitary n × n fused Forrester-Baxter RSOS(m, m ′ ) models are described, in the continuum scaling limit, by the minimal models M(M, M ′ , n) constructed as the higher-level conformal cosets (A