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Phenomenological theory of phase transitions in epitaxial BaxSr(1-x)TiO3 thin films
A phenomenological thermodynamic theory of BaxSr(1-x)TiO3 (BST-x) thin films
epitaxially grown on cubic substrates is developed using the Landau-Devonshire
approach. The eighth-order thermodynamic potential for BT single crystal and
modified fourth-order potential for ST single crystal were used as starting
potentials for the end-members of the solid solution with the aim to develop
potential of BST- solid solution valid at high temperatures. Several
coefficients of these potentials for BT were changed to obtain reasonable
agreement between theory and experimental phase diagram for BST-x (x > 0.2)
solid solutions. For low Ba content we constructed the specific phase diagram
where five phases converge at the multiphase point (T_N2 = 47 K, x = 0.028) and
all transitions are of the second order. The "concentration-misfit strain"
phase diagrams for BST-x thin films at room temperature and "temperature-misfit
strain" phase diagrams for particular concentrations are constructed and
discussed. Near T_N2 coupling between polarization and structural order
parameter in the epitaxial film is modified considerably and large number of
new phases not present in the bulk materials appear on the phase diagram.Comment: 8 pages 5 figure
Bifurcations and a chaos strip in states of long Josephson junctions
Stationary and nonstationary, in particular, chaotic states in long Josephson
junctions are investigated. Bifurcation lines on the parametric bias
current-external magnetic field plane are calculated. The chaos strip along the
bifurcation line is observed. It is shown that transitions between stationary
states are the transitions from metastable to stable states and that the
thermodynamical Gibbs potential of these stable states may be larger than for
some metastable states. The definition of a dynamical critical magnetic field
characterizing the stability of the stationaryComment: 13 pages, 6 Postscript figures, uses revtex.st
New solutions of relativistic wave equations in magnetic fields and longitudinal fields
We demonstrate how one can describe explicitly the present arbitrariness in
solutions of relativistic wave equations in external electromagnetic fields of
special form. This arbitrariness is connected to the existence of a
transformation, which reduces effectively the number of variables in the
initial equations. Then we use the corresponding representations to construct
new sets of exact solutions, which may have a physical interest. Namely, we
present new sets of stationary and nonstationary solutions in magnetic field
and in some superpositions of electric and magnetic fields.Comment: 25 pages, LaTex fil
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