566 research outputs found
Efficient spin control in high-quality-factor planar micro-cavities
A semiconductor microcavity embedding donor impurities and excited by a laser
field is modelled. By including general decay and dephasing processes, and in
particular cavity photon leakage, detailed simulations show that control over
the spin dynamics is significally enhanced in high-quality-factor cavities, in
which case picosecond laser pulses may produce spin-flip with high-fidelity
final states.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
Spin susceptibility in superconductors without inversion symmetry
In materials without spatial inversion symmetry the spin degeneracy of the
conduction electrons can be lifted by an antisymmetric spin-orbit coupling. We
discuss the influence of this spin-orbit coupling on the spin susceptibility of
such superconductors, with a particular emphasis on the recently discovered
heavy Fermion superconductor CePt3Si. We find that, for this compound (with
tetragonal crystal symmetry,) irrespective of the pairing symmetry, the stable
superconducting phases would give a very weak change of the spin susceptibility
for fields along the c-axis and an intermediate reduction for fields in the
basal plane. We also comment on the consequences for the paramagnetic limiting
in this material.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figure
Investigation of coaxial laser cladding process parameters influence onto single pass clad geometry of tool steel
ArticleThis paper is devoted to the investigation of the influence of technological parameters
on the single pass clad geometry and quality as well as elemental composition in the clad after
coaxial laser cladding (CLC). The objects of the investigation are components of expensive
machines and tools for presswork needed to be repaired, i.e. refurbished for the future application
with the goal of effective using of material resources in production. Nowadays such repair of
worn tools is an actual task due to tendency for thrifty management of resources at affordable
cost. Experimental work was carried out using CLC system, which consists of industrial robot
and a ytterbium fiber laser with a core diameter of 100 μm, integrated to the coaxial powder
supplying cladding head. During research separate cladding tracks of metal powder AISI М2
(particle size 53–150 μm) were deposited on the top surface of steel plates, which were grinded
before treatment. This work’s highlighted parameters for variation were laser scanning speed and
laser beam focus plane distance. The clad geometry was examined on cross-sections with SEM.
Elemental composition was determined by the X-ray spectroscopy analysis. Gladding beads with
good surface quality were achieved. Cross-sectional observation presented that clads has a good
fusion with the base material without exfoliation. Keyhole shape of molten substrate area was
achieved, which leads to increase of the dilution value. The future research is needed to achieve
stable quality of cladding, which is extremely necessary for industry
Can Hall drag be observed in Coulomb coupled quantum wells in a magnetic field?
We study the transresistivity \tensor\rho_{21} (or equivalently, the drag
rate) of two Coulomb-coupled quantum wells in the presence of a perpendicular
magnetic field, using semi-classical transport theory. Elementary arguments
seem to preclude any possibility of observation of ``Hall drag'' (i.e., a
non-zero off-diagonal component in \tensor\rho_{21}). We show that these
arguments are specious, and in fact Hall drag can be observed at sufficiently
high temperatures when the {\sl intra}layer transport time has
significant energy-dependence around the Fermi energy . The
ratio of the Hall to longitudinal transresistivities goes as , where
is the temperature, is the magnetic field, and .Comment: LaTeX, 13 pages, 2 figures (to be published in Physica Scripta, Proc.
of the 17th Nordic Semiconductor Conference
Frictional drag between quantum wells mediated by fluctuating electromagnetic field
We use the theory of the fluctuating electromagnetic field to calculate the
frictional drag between nearby two-and three dimensional electron systems. The
frictional drag results from coupling via a fluctuating electromagnetic field,
and can be considered as the dissipative part of the van der Waals interaction.
In comparison with other similar calculations for semiconductor two-dimensional
system we include retardation effects. We consider the dependence of the
frictional drag force on the temperature , electron density and separation
. We find, that retardation effects become dominating factor for high
electron densities, corresponding thing metallic film, and suggest a new
experiment to test the theory. The relation between friction and heat transfer
is also briefly commented on.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figure
Search for double beta decay of Ce and Ce with HPGe gamma detector
Search for double decay of Ce and Ce was realized
with 732 g of deeply purified cerium oxide sample measured over 1900 h with the
help of an ultra-low background HPGe detector with a volume of 465
cm at the STELLA facility of the Gran Sasso National Laboratories of the
INFN (Italy). New improved half-life limits on double beta processes in the
cerium isotopes were set at the level of ~yr;
many of them are even two orders of magnitude larger than the best previous
results.Comment: 21 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables; version accepted for publication on
Nucl. Phys.
New limits on , and decay of Ce and Ce with deeply purified cerium sample
A search for double electron capture (), electron capture with
positron emission (), and double positron emission
) in Ce and Ce was realized with a 465 cm
ultra-low background HP Ge spectrometer over 2299 h at the Gran Sasso
underground laboratory. A 627 g sample of cerium oxide deeply purified by
liquid-liquid extraction method was used as a source of quanta
expected in double decay of the cerium isotopes. New improved half-life
limits were set on different modes and channels of double decay of
Ce and Ce at the level of yr.Comment: 19 pages, 6 figures, 2 table
Coulomb Drag at the Onset of Anderson Insulators
It is shown that the Coulomb drag between two identical layers in the
Anderson insulting state indicates a striking difference between the Mott and
Efros-Shklovskii (ES) insulators. In the former, the trans-resistance
is monotonically increasing with the localization length ; in the latter,
the presence of a Coulomb gap leads to an opposite result: is enhanced
with a decreasing , with the same exponential factor as the single layer
resistivity. This distinction reflects the relatively pronounced role of
excited density fluctuations in the ES state, implied by the enhancement in the
rate of hopping processes at low frequencies. The magnitude of drag is
estimated for typical experimental parameters in the different cases. It is
concluded that a measurement of drag can be used to distinguish between
interacting and non-interacting insulating state.Comment: 15 pages, revte
Influence of Different Catalysts and Solvents on the General Base Catalytical Esterification of Polyoxyethylene Sorbitan Trioleate with Maleic Anhydride and Styrene-Co-Maleic Anhydride
The general base catalitycal esterification of Polyoxyethylene sorbitane Trioleate with maleic anhydride (Ma) and styrene-co-maleic anhydride (Sma) using pyridine as catalyst is described. We investigated the effect of different factors on the yield of reaction product. The analysis of the effect of different factors on the process of catalytical esterification showed that the catalysts and solvents can be arranged by their activity in the following order: sulfuric acid > toluene sulfonic acid > triethylamine > pyridine > without a catalyst and dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) > O-xylene > dimethylformamide (DMF), respectively. It should be noted that pyridine to its activity is not significantly inferior to the traditional catalysts and with DMSO using the yield of product is increasing. It is concluded that the reaction proceeds by 2nd order. It was found that decreasing the temperature of reaction to a lower temperature, where there is an intensive incubation period, leads to decreasing of yield of polyesters. The rate constant and activation energy were calculated. It was found that the process occurred on 98% at 130 °С and 80 minutes for PoesTo/Ma and on 88% at 150 °С and 40 minutes for PoesTo/Sma. For preparation of reaction product to analysis new methods were developed. It was shown, that on 1H and 13C spectra an overlap of the individual peaks or their close concentration in one area is observed, which makes it not possible to complete the analysis of the spectra. 1H and 13C spectra give a preliminary idea of the structure of the reaction products. It is concluded that 2-D NMR measurements more useful for further confirming of structure of PoesTo/Ma and PoesTo/Sma. HLB shown that we obtained two different surfactants where by catalytical esterification the hydrophilic part of Tween in PoesTo/Ma and the lipophilic part in PoesTo/Sma was increased
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