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Generation of low-temperature plasma by low-pressure arcs for synthesis of nitride coatings
Experiments were performed to study gas, metal, and mixed metal-gas plasmas. The plasmas were generated with the use of an arc evaporator and a gas-plasma source with a hot filament and hollow cathode that were operated independently or simultaneously. It has been revealed that the arc current of gas-plasma source affects the parameters of the metal-gas plasma and the element concentrations in the coatings. It has been demonstrated that the characteristics of the nitride coatings produced by plasma-assisted vacuum-arc deposition can be controlled by varying the parameters of the arc in the gas-plasma source
On Lagrangian formulations for arbitrary bosonic HS fields on Minkowski backgrounds
We review the details of unconstrained Lagrangian formulations for Bose
particles propagated on an arbitrary dimensional flat space-time and described
by the unitary irreducible integer higher-spin representations of the Poincare
group subject to Young tableaux with rows. The procedure
is based on the construction of Verma modules and finding auxiliary oscillator
realizations for the symplectic algebra which encodes the second-class
operator constraints subsystem in the HS symmetry algebra. Application of an
universal BRST approach reproduces gauge-invariant Lagrangians with reducible
gauge symmetries describing the free dynamics of both massless and massive
bosonic fields of any spin with appropriate number of auxiliary fields.Comment: 8 pages, no figures, extended Contribution to the Proceedings of the
International Workshop "Supersymmetry and Quantum Symmetries" (SQS'2011, July
18- July 23, 2011, Dubna, Russia), v.2: 9 pages, 2 references with comments
in Introduction adde
Instanton approach to the Langevin motion of a particle in a random potential
We develop an instanton approach to the non-equilibrium dynamics in
one-dimensional random environments. The long time behavior is controlled by
rare fluctuations of the disorder potential and, accordingly, by the tail of
the distribution function for the time a particle needs to propagate along the
system (the delay time). The proposed method allows us to find the tail of the
delay time distribution function and delay time moments, providing thus an
exact description of the long-time dynamics. We analyze arbitrary environments
covering different types of glassy dynamics: dynamics in a short-range random
field, creep, and Sinai's motion.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur
Suppression of superconductivity in granular metals
We investigate the suppression of the superconducting transition temperature
due to Coulomb repulsion in granular metallic systems at large tunneling
conductance between the grains, . We find the correction to the
superconducting transition temperature for 3 granular samples and films. We
demonstrate that depending on the parameters of superconducting grains, the
corresponding granular samples can be divided into two groups: (i) the granular
samples that belong to the first group may have only insulating or
superconducting states at zero temperature depending on the bare intergranular
tunneling conductance , while (ii) the granular samples that belong to the
second group in addition have an intermediate metallic phase where
superconductivity is suppressed while the effects of the Coulomb blockade are
not yet strong.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Measurement of Inverse Pion Photoproduction at Energies Spanning the N(1440) Resonance
Differential cross sections for the process pi^- p -> gamma n have been
measured at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Alternating Gradient Synchrotron
with the Crystal Ball multiphoton spectrometer. Measurements were made at 18
pion momenta from 238 to 748 MeV/c, corresponding to E_gamma for the inverse
reaction from 285 to 769 MeV. The data have been used to evaluate the gamma n
multipoles in the vicinity of the N(1440) resonance. We compare our data and
multipoles to previous determinations. A new three-parameter SAID fit yields 36
+/- 7 (GeV)^-1/2 X 10^-3 for the A^n_1/2 amplitude of the P_11.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures, submitted to PR
Thermal transport in granular metals
We study the electron thermal transport in granular metals at large tunnel
conductance between the grains, and not too low a temperature , where is the mean energy level spacing for a single grain.
Taking into account the electron-electron interaction effects we calculate the
thermal conductivity and show that the Wiedemann-Franz law is violated for
granular metals. We find that interaction effects suppress the thermal
conductivity less than the electrical conductivity.Comment: Replaced with published versio
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