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This report documents the technical progress in investigations. The first investigation is concerned with the measurement of magnetic fields in support of epidemiogical and in vitro studies of biological field effects. NIST cohosted a workshop on exposure and biological parameters that should be considered during the vitro studies with extremely low frequency (ELF) magnetic and electric fields. Also, equations were developed to predict the magnetic field in a parallel plate magnetic field exposure system. The second investigation is concerned with two different activities: the detection of trace levels of S{sub 2}F{sub 10} in SF{sub 6} and the development of an improved stochastic analyzer for pulsating phenomena (SAPP). The detection of S{sub 2}F{sub 10} in the presence of SF{sub 6} using mass-spectrometric detection coupled to a gas chromatograph is difficult because of the similar mass spectra. A technique is described that enables the detection of S{sub 2}F{sub 10} in gaseous SF{sub 6} down to the ppb level using a modified gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer. The new system was applied to an investigation of the stochastic behavior of negative corona (Trichel pulses) and the effect of a dielectric barrier on these discharges. The third investigation is concerned with breakdown and prebreakdown phenomena in liquid dielectrics. The activity reported here was a study of negative steamers preceding electric breakdown in hexanes. Using the image preserving optical delay, the growth of the streamers associated with partial discharges at a point cathode are photographed at high magnification. The last investigation is concerned with the evaluation and improvement of methods for measuring fast transients in electrical power systems such as might be associated with an electromagnetic impulse. A compact resistive divider, NIST4, was designed. It is anticipated that this divider together with some Kerr electro-optical devices will be used as the reference system at NIST
Titanium additions to MgB2 conductors
A series of doping experiments are reported for MgB2 conductors that have
been synthesized using doped boron fibers prepared by chemical vapor
deposition(CVD) methods. Undoped MgB2 samples prepared from CVD prepared fibers
consistently give critical current densities, Jc, in the range of 500,000
A/cm^2 in low field at 5K. These values fall by a factor of about 100 as the
magnetic field increases to 3T. For heavily Ti-doped boron fibers where the
B/Ti ratio is comparable to 1, there is a substantial suppression of both Tc,
superconducting volume fraction, and Jc values. If, however, a sample with a
few percent Ti in B is deposited on a carbon coated SiC substrate and reacted
at 1100 degrees C for 15 min, then Tc is suppressed only a couple of degrees
Kelvin and critical current densities are found to be approximately 2-5 x 10^6
A/cm^2 for superconducting layers ranging from 4-10 micrometers thick. These
materials show Jc values over 10,000 A/cm^2 at 25K and 1.3 T.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figure
Phoretic Motion of Spheroidal Particles Due To Self-Generated Solute Gradients
We study theoretically the phoretic motion of a spheroidal particle, which
generates solute gradients in the surrounding unbounded solvent via chemical
reactions active on its surface in a cap-like region centered at one of the
poles of the particle. We derive, within the constraints of the mapping to
classical diffusio-phoresis, an analytical expression for the phoretic velocity
of such an object. This allows us to analyze in detail the dependence of the
velocity on the aspect ratio of the polar and the equatorial diameters of the
particle and on the fraction of the particle surface contributing to the
chemical reaction. The particular cases of a sphere and of an approximation for
a needle-like particle, which are the most common shapes employed in
experimental realizations of such self-propelled objects, are obtained from the
general solution in the limits that the aspect ratio approaches one or becomes
very large, respectively.Comment: 18 pages, 5 figures, to appear in European Physical Journal
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Electronic structure study of double perovskites FeReO (A=Ba,Sr,Ca) and SrMoO (M=Cr,Mn,Fe,Co) by LSDA and LSDA+U
We have implemented a systematic LSDA and LSDA+U study of the double
perovskites FeReO (A=Ba,Sr,Ca) and SrMoO
(M=Cr,Mn,Fe,Co) for understanding of their intriguing electronic and magnetic
properties. The results suggest a ferrimagnetic (FiM) and half-metallic (HM)
state of FeReO (A=Ba,Sr) due to a pdd- coupling between the
down-spin Re/Fe orbitals via the intermediate O
ones, also a very similar FiM and HM state of SrFeMoO.
In contrast, a decreasing Fe component at Fermi level () in the
distorted CaFeReO partly accounts for its nonmetallic behavior,
while a finite - coupling between the down-spin
Re/Fe orbitals being present at serves to
stabilize its FiM state. For SrCrMoO compared with
SrFeMoO, the coupling between the down-spin Mo/Cr
orbitals decreases as a noticeable shift up of the Cr 3d
levels, which is likely responsible for the decreasing value and weak
conductivity. Moreover, the calculated level distributions indicate a
Mn(Co)/Mo ionic state in SrMnMoO
(SrCoMoO), in terms of which their antiferromagnetic insulating
ground state can be interpreted. While orbital population analyses show that
owing to strong intrinsic pd covalence effects, SrMoO
(M=Cr,Mn,Fe,Co) have nearly the same valence state combinations, as accounts
for the similar M-independent spectral features observed in them.Comment: 21 pages, 3 figures. to be published in Phys. Rev. B on 15th Se
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Phase diagrams of in Double Exchange Model with added antiferromagnetic and Jahn-Teller interaction
The phase diagram of the multivalent manganites , in
space of temperature and doping , is a challenge for the theoretical
physics. It is an important test for the model used to study these compounds
and the method of calculation. To obtain theoretically this diagram for
, we consider the two-band Double Exchange Model for manganites with
added Jahn-Teller coupling and antiferromagnetic Heisenberg term. In order to
calculate Curie and N\'{e}el temperatures we derive an effective Heisenberg
model for a vector which describes the local orientation of the total
magnetization of the system. The exchange constants of this model are different
for different space directions and depend on the density of electrons,
antiferromagnetic constants and the Jahn-Teller energy. To reproduce the well
known phase transitions from A-type antiferromagnetism to ferromagnetism at low
and C-type antiferromagnetism to G-type antiferromagnetism at large , we
argue that the antiferromagnetic exchange constants should depend on the
lattice direction. We show that ferromagnetic to A-type antiferromagnetic
transition results from the Jahn-Teller distortion. Accounting adequately for
the magnon-magnon interaction, Curie and N\'{e}el temperatures are calculated.
The results are in very good agreement with the experiment and provide values
for the model parameters, which best describe the behavior of the critical
temperature for .Comment: 13 pages, 5 figure
Transverse optical Josephson plasmons, equations of motion
A detailed calculation is presented of the dielectric function in
superconducttors consisting of two Josephson coupled superconducting layers per
unit cell, taking into account the effect of finite compressibility of the
electron fluid. From the model it follows, that two longitudinal, and one
transverse optical Josephson plasma resonance exist in these materials, for
electric field polarization perpendicular to the planes. The latter mode
appears as a resonance in the transverse dielectric function, and it couples
directly to the electrical field vector of infrared radiation. A shift of all
plasma frequencies, and a reduction of the intensity of the transverse optical
Josephson plasmon is shown to result from the finite compressibility of the
electron fluid.Comment: 17 pages, ReVTeX, 7 figures in eps forma
Anisotropic optical properties of single-crystal GdBa2Cu3O7-delta
The optical spectrum of reduced-T(c) GdBa2Cu3O7-delta has been measured for polarizations parallel and perpendicular to the ab plane. The sample was an oxygen-deficient single crystal with a large face containing the c axis. The polarized reflectance from this face was measured from 20-300 K in the spectral region from 30-3000 cm-1, with 300 K data to 30 000 cm-1. Kramers-Kronig analysis was used to determine the spectral dependence of the ab and the c components of the dielectric tensor. The optical properties are strongly anisotropic. The ab-plane response resembles that of other reduced-T(c) materials whereas the c axis, in contrast, shows only the presence of several phonons. There is a complete absence of charge carrier response along c above and below T(c). This observation allows us to set an upper limit to the free-carrier spectral weight for transport perpendicular to the CuO2 planes
Spin state and phase competition in TbBaCo_{2}O_{5.5} and the lanthanide series LnBaCo_{2}O_{5+\delta} (0<=\delta<=1)
A clear physics picture of TbBaCoO is revealed on the basis of
density functional theory calculations. An antiferromagnetic (AFM)
superexchange coupling between the almost high-spin Co ions competes
with a ferromagnetic (FM) interaction mediated by both p-d exchange and double
exchange, being responsible for the observed AFM-FM transition. And the
metal-insulator transition is accompanied by an xy/xz orbital-ordering
transition. Moreover, this picture can be generalized to the whole lanthanide
series, and it is predicted that a few room-temperature magnetoresistance
materials could be found in LnBaACoO
(Ln=Ho,Er,Tm,Yb,Lu; A=Sr,Ca,Mg).Comment: 13 pages, 2 figures; to be published in Phys. Rev. B on 1st Sept.
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