The Properties of Light Pressure Force with High Order in Laser Fields

In this paper, the light pressure force in low and high intensity laser fields is derived. The exact numerical results of forces Fn∥(n=0,1,2,3,4,5,6…) through the matrix continued fraction method are presented. At low intensity field (G=1), the spatially averaged force F0∥ gives a cooling effect at the negative detuning. At high intensity (G=64), the effects of the forces with higher order (n≥2) appear and the contributes of the forces with odd or even order are opposite. It is great different from no high order force at low intensity.     

Resonant gradient force on atom interacting with laser field

The gradient force, as a function of position and velocity, is derived for a two-level atom interacting with a standing-wave laser field. Basing on optical Bloch equations, the numerical solutions for the gradient force f⊥,n (n = 0,1, 2,3,4, …) pointing in the direction of the transverse of the laser beam are given. It is shown the higher order gradient force plays important role at strong intensity (G = 64), the contribution of them can not be neglected.     

The secondary structure of RNA under tension

We study the force-induced unfolding of random disordered RNA or single-stranded DNA polymers. The system undergoes a second-order phase transition from a collapsed globular phase at low forces to an extensive necklace phase with a macroscopic end-to-end distance at high forces. At low temperatures, the sequence inhomogeneities modify the critical behaviour. We provide numerical evidence for the universality of the critical exponents which, by extrapolation of the scaling laws to zero force, contain useful information on the ground-state (f = 0) properties. This provides a good method for quantitative studies of scaling exponents characterizing the collapsed globule. In order to get rid of the blurring effect of thermal fluctuations, we restrict ourselves to the ground state at fixed external force. We analyze the statistics of rearrangements, in particular below the critical force, and point out its implications for force-extension experiments on single molecules. Received 18 June 2002 and Received in final form 23 September 2002 RID="a" ID="a"e-mail: muller@ipno.in2p3.fr     

剪切振动下湿颗粒的力学谱

在恒温25 ℃剪切振动条件下,测量不同水分含量的NaCl湿颗粒体系的力学谱（能量耗散tanφ和剪切模量G）.研究发现,随着剪切振幅增大,NaCl湿颗粒体系的剪切模量G和能量耗散tanφ都表现出类似于干颗粒体系的阻塞（Jamming）转变行为.随着体系中水含量的增大,湿颗粒体系的剪切模量G和能量耗散tanφ在质量分数约等于11%的临界水浓度下均出现一个峰值,且峰位与应变振幅无关,表明此时颗粒之间主要的作用力发生了变化.     

Jamming as a critical phenomenon: a field theory of zero-temperature grain packings

A field theory of frictionless grain packings in two dimensions is shown to exhibit a zero-temperature critical point at a nonzero value of the packing fraction. The zero-temperature constraint of force balance plays a crucial role in determining the nature of the transition. Two order parameters, , the deviation of the average number of contacts from the isostatic value, and , the average magnitude of the force per contact, characterize the transition from the jammed (high packing fraction) to the unjammed (low packing fraction state). The critical point has a mixed character with the order parameters showing a jump discontinuity but with fluctuations of the contact force diverging. At the critical point, the distribution of phi shows the characteristic plateau observed in static granular piles. The theory makes falsifiable predictions about the spatial fluctuations of the contact forces.     

双三角翼非定常俯仰运动实验与数值模拟

文章针对双三角翼大振幅正弦俯仰运动过程中的非定常载荷和流动特性开展了实验与数值模拟研究，并与相同主翼后掠角的单三角翼进行了对比.实验研究在低速回流式水槽中开展，所采用的实验模型为边条后掠角为75°，主翼后掠角为50°的双三角翼全模，俯仰运动的旋转轴位于主翼弦长的2/3处，振幅为0~60°，运动的缩减频率k=0.03，0.06，0.12，0.24，0.48.实验Reynolds数以主翼弦长为参考Re=1.69×104.在水槽的测力实验中，发现非定常流动力的迟滞现象，并且随着非定常运动缩减频率的增大，流动的迟滞效应也随之增大.与相同主翼后掠角的单三角翼相比，双三角翼的迟滞环在低缩减频率下更小，但随着缩减频率的增大，这种差距逐渐减小.在数值模拟研究中，采用DDES湍流模型对俯仰双三角翼的流场进行了数值模拟.流场结果表明，在较低的缩减频率下，主翼吸力面的前缘涡是影响气动力的主要因素，非定常流动力的迟滞效应主要与前缘涡在上仰过程中的延迟破裂和下俯过程中的延迟恢复有关；在较高的缩减频率下，机翼前缘涡对气动力的影响减小，由机翼俯仰角速度而产生的环量力成为了气动力的主导因素，因此在较高缩减频率下，单三角翼与双三角翼的升力特性趋于一致.      

Polyhedra formation and transient cone ejection of a resonant microdrop forced by an ac electric field

New deformation or fission phenomena are reported for microdrops driven by an ac electric field at their resonant frequencies. The Maxwell forces that pull out the vertices from a drop can be enhanced when the ac frequency is comparable to both the drop resonant frequency and the inverse charge relaxation time of the diffuse layer. The selected polyhedra possess symmetries that ensure a global force balance of the Maxwell forces and a linear dimension consistent with a sphere whose nth harmonic (n is up to six in the observation) coincides with the applied ac frequency. At high voltages, the resonant focusing of charges by the vibration modes produces evenly distributed and transient Taylor cones that can eject charged nanodrops.     

Fluctuations in granular media

Dense slowly evolving or static granular materials exhibit strong force fluctuations even though the spatial disorder of the grains is relatively weak. Typically, forces are carried preferentially along a network of "force chains." These consist of linearly aligned grains with larger-than-average force. A growing body of work has explored the nature of these fluctuations. We first briefly review recent work concerning stress fluctuations. We then focus on a series of experiments in both two- and three-dimension [(2D) and (3D)] to characterize force fluctuations in slowly sheared systems. Both sets of experiments show strong temporal fluctuations in the local stress/force; the length scales of these fluctuations extend up to 10(2) grains. In 2D, we use photoelastic disks that permit visualization of the internal force structure. From this we can make comparisons to recent models and calculations that predict the distributions of forces. Typically, these models indicate that the distributions should fall off exponentially at large force. We find in the experiments that the force distributions change systematically as we change the mean packing fraction, gamma. For gamma's typical of dense packings of nondeformable grains, we see distributions that are consistent with an exponential decrease at large forces. For both lower and higher gamma, the observed force distributions appear to differ from this prediction, with a more Gaussian distribution at larger gamma and perhaps a power law at lower gamma. For high gamma, the distributions differ from this prediction because the grains begin to deform, allowing more grains to carry the applied force, and causing the distributions to have a local maximum at nonzero force. It is less clear why the distributions differ from the models at lower gamma. An exploration in gamma has led to the discovery of an interesting continuous or "critical" transition (the strengthening/softening transition) in which the mean stress is the order parameter, and the mean packing fraction, gamma, must be adjusted to a value gamma(c) to reach the "critical point." We also follow the motion of individual disks and obtain detailed statistical information on the kinematics, including velocities and particle rotations or spin. Distributions for the azimuthal velocity, V(theta), and spin, S, of the particles are nearly rate invariant, which is consistent with conventional wisdom. Near gamma(c), the grain motion becomes intermittent causing the mean velocity of grains to slow down. Also, the length of stress chains grows as gamma-->gamma(c). The 3D experiments show statistical rate invariance for the stress in the sense that when the power spectra and spectral frequencies of the stress time series are appropriately scaled by the shear rate, Omega, all spectra collapse onto a single curve for given particle and sample sizes. The frequency dependence of the spectra can be characterized by two different power laws, P proportional, variant omega(-alpha), in the high and low frequency regimes: alpha approximately 2 at high omega; alpha<2 at low omega. The force distributions computed from the 3D stress time series are at least qualitatively consistent with exponential fall-off at large stresses. (c) 1999 American Institute of Physics.     

Direct measurement of contraction force in human cardiac tissue model using piezoelectric cantilever sensor technique

A proof-of-concept method for measuring cardiac tissue contraction force using an in-house-developed piezoelectric cantilever sensor system is demonstrated. Contracting forces of 7.2–16.6 μN (n = 5) were measured from a human cardiac tissue construct. Beating cardiac tissue constructs were monitored in-situ under a microscope during the contraction force measurements. Development of the measurement method allows very low forces such as the ones that appear in biological small scale systems to be determined.     

On the contribution of circumferential resonance modes in acoustic radiation force experienced by cylindrical shells

A body insonified by a constant (time-varying) intensity sound field is known to experience a steady (oscillatory) force that is called the steady-state (dynamic) acoustic radiation force. Using the classical resonance scattering theorem (RST) which suggests the scattered field as a superposition of a resonance field and a background (non-resonance) component, we show that the radiation force acting on a cylindrical shell may be synthesized as a composition of three components: background part, resonance part and their interaction. The background component reveals the pure geometrical reflection effects and illustrates a regular behavior with respect to frequency, while the others demonstrate a singular behavior near the resonance frequencies. The results illustrate that the resonance effects associated to partial waves can be isolated by the subtraction of the background component from the total (steady-state or dynamic) radiation force function (i.e., residue component). In the case of steady-state radiation force, the components are exerted on the body as static forces. For the case of oscillatory amplitude excitation, the components are exerted at the modulation frequency with frequency-dependant phase shifts. The results demonstrate the dominant contribution of the non-resonance component of dynamic radiation force at high frequencies with respect to the residue component, which offers the potential application of ultrasound stimulated vibro-acoustic spectroscopy technique in low frequency resonance spectroscopy purposes. Furthermore, the proposed formulation may be useful essentially due to its intrinsic value in physical acoustics. In addition, it may unveil the contribution of resonance modes in the dynamic radiation force experienced by the cylindrical objects and its underlying physics.     

Field gradient CPMG applied on postmortem muscles

As a new approach, Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (CPMG) experiments were performed in vitro on porcine muscles (n = 10) during the period from 15 min to 85 min postmortem and again at 24 h postmortem in the absence (G = 0) and the presence of an external field gradient (G = 0.5*10(-3) T/m), which was applied throughout the CPMG sequence. The experiments were performed on low-field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) equipment (0.47 T). Due to the inclusion of different pre-slaughter treatments (adrenaline treatment and pre-slaughter exercise/electrical stunning), the muscles could be divided into (I) a group (n = 5) characterized by a reduced decrease in pH postmortem and a high water-holding capacity and (II) a group (n = 5) characterized by an increased rate of pH decrease postmortem and a low water-holding capacity. Distributed analysis of the CPMG data revealed two major relaxation populations with relaxation times about 30-40 and 200-500 ms, respectively, and comparison of data obtained with G = 0 and G = 0.5*10(-3) T/m revealed effects of the external gradient on the relaxation time of both the two relaxation populations, which implies that both diffusion and relaxation contributes to the relaxation of the two populations. At 24 h postmortem the effect of the external field gradient on the relaxation time was significantly affected by muscle group (I vs. II), which reveals local differences in water diffusion in the two meat qualities. Finally, the discriminatory power with regard to muscle group (I vs. II) was investigated for data acquired with G = 0 and G = F = 0.5*10(-3) T/m, and both the two types of data were found highly suitable for separation of muscles according to meat quality.     

Effects of a parallel magnetic field on the metal-insulator transition in a dilute two-dimensional electron system

The temperature dependence of conductivity sigma(T) of a two-dimensional electron system in silicon has been studied in parallel magnetic fields B. At B = 0, the system displays a metal-insulator transition at a critical electron density n(c)(0), and dsigma/dT>0 in the metallic phase. At low fields ( B < or approximately equal to 2 T), n(c) increases as n(c)(B)-n(c)(0) proportional, variant Bbeta ( beta approximately 1), and the zero-temperature conductivity scales as sigma(n(s),B,T = 0)/sigma(n(s),0,0) = f(B(beta)/delta(n)), where delta(n) = [n(s)-n(c)(0)]/n(c)(0) and n(s) is electron density, as expected for a quantum phase transition. The metallic phase persists in fields of up to 18 T, consistent with the saturation of n(c) at high fields.     

Optical investigation of cavitation erosion by laser-induced bubble collapse

By means of a new force sensor based on optical beam deflection (OBD), the mechanical effects of laser-matter interaction underwater at different incident laser energy are investigated in detail. The experimental results show that a target underwater is impacted in turn by laser-plasma ablation force and high-speed liquid-jet impulse induced by bubbles collapse in the vicinity of a solid boundary. Furthermore, the amplitudes of the two forces increase monotonously with laser energy. According to the ablation force detected by the experiment and the theoretical relationship between laser intensity and ablation pressure, the value of liquid-jet impact against a solid boundary can be easily obtained. In addition, based on the model of a collapsing bubble, some characteristic parameters, such as the liquid-jet impact velocity, the maximum bubble radius, the bubble energy can also be obtained at different laser energy, which are valuable in the corresponding research fields.     

Theoretical estimates of radial electric fields and plasma rotation induced in H-1NF by RF waves

The purpose of this study is to estimate, for planned experiments at the H-1NF heliac, nonlinear variations of the stationary radial electric field, and poloidal and toroidal plasma rotation, that result from ponderomotive forces exerted by large amplitude RF waves in the H-1NF. Similarly as in the previous studies of nonlinear transport effects induced by RF waves, the nonlinear ponderomotive force effects on the radial electric field, toroidal and poloidal plasma rotation become important for dissipated powers of the order of 1 MWm^–3 for RF waves with frequency of about 10 MHz. At these high RF powers, the nonlinear ponderomotive force effects might therefore result in important changes in plasma confinement and RF wave coupling in H-1NF.This work has been partially supported by the Australian National University, by the DIST Department of the Australian Government, by the Czech Grant Agency grants No. 202/96/1355 and 1350, and by the Queen Elisabeth II grant administered by G.G. Borg. The author is grateful to G.G. Borg and R.L. Dewar for many stimulating discussions.     

Einfluss adsorbierter wasserfilme auf die Van der Waals kraft zwischen quarzglasoberflächen

A method to determine Van der Waals forces at low distances is described. Results of experiments carried out with adsorbed water films are in excellent agreement with the theory of Dzyaloshinski. The thickness of adsorbed water films has been varied by changing the vapour pressure of the surrounding atmosphere. The influence of thickness of adsorbed water films has been studied. At high relative humidities the attractive force can be calculated with the help of Dzyaloshinskiis theory by using the dielectric properties of water. The experimentally determined Van der Waals force is discussed in relation to the surface energy of the interface.     

Can quantum gravitational forces stop gravitational collapse?

We consider, in lowest order of the gravitational coupling constant G, the gravitational potential between two neutrons. As we have previously pointed out [1],the quantum (including spin) contributions to the gravitational field dominate for distances smaller than the Compton wavelength of the neutron. At such distances the gravitational force between two neutrons may be repulsive. In particular, the gravitational forces which are analogous to the familiar Darwin and Fermi forces of quantum electrodynamics are capable of stopping gravitational collapse. Our discussion is within the framework of Einstein's theory, but on a microscopic level. We conclude that gravitational collapse may be halted without the necessity of extending Einstein's theory à la Cartan or otherwise.     

The second plateau in the distribution of high harmonics generated in plasma torches

The second plateau in the intensity distribution of high harmonics generated in cadmium, chromium, manganese, and vanadium plasmas is observed. The characteristic plateau-like distribution of harmonic intensities, which was observed at comparatively low excitations of surface plasma, changes at higher energies of a prepulse that generates the plasma torch. The appearance of the second plateau is associated with harmonic generation due to the interaction with doubly charged plasma ions. The intensity of harmonics of the second plateau is either somewhat lower or comparable with the intensity of harmonics of the first order. The observed modification of the generated radiation spectrum caused by changes in the laser plasma characteristics allowed us to increase the maximum order of generated harmonics such that they fall into the far ultraviolet region. In particular, harmonics up to the 73rd (Cd), 75th (V), 83rd (Cr), and 95th (λ = 8.3 nm, Mn) orders are obtained.     

On the variable order dynamics of the nonlinear wake caused by a sedimenting particle

In this work we develop a variable order (VO) differential equation of motion for a spherical particle sedimenting in a quiescent viscous liquid. In particular, we examine the various force terms in the equation of motion and propose a new form for the history drag acting on the particle. We show that the variable order formulation allows for an effective way to express the dynamic transition of the dominant forces over the entire time of the motion of the particle from rest to terminal velocity. The use of VO operators also allows us to examine the evolving dynamics of the wake during sedimentation. Using numerical data from a finite element simulation of a sedimenting particle, we first solve for the order of the derivative that returns the correct decay of the history force. We then propose a relatively simple expression for the history force that is a function of the Reynolds number and particle-to-fluid density ratio. The new history drag expression correlates very well (R²>0.99) with the numerical data for terminal Reynolds numbers ranging from 2.5 to 20, and for particle-to-fluid density ratios of interest in practice (1<β<10).     

基于密度泛函理论的SinCN团簇结构及稳定性的研究

利用密度泛函理论(DFT)中的B3LYP/6-311G*方法,对SinCN(n=2-6)团簇的几何结构、振动频率和基态能量等性质进行了研究,分别讨论了其基态和亚稳态结构的能量及自旋多重态。振动频率和振动强度被用来判断体系的稳定性。结果表明,随着Si原子数的增加,零点振动能、热容量和熵近似线性增长,其平均增幅分别为0.80 kcal/mol、5.20 cal/mol•K和12.72 cal/mol•K。n为偶数的SinCN团簇比m为奇数的更为稳定。     

SinC2N团簇结构及稳定性的密度泛函理论研究

利用密度泛函理论(DFT)中的B3LYP/6-311G*方法,对SinC2N(n=2-6)团簇的几何结构、振动频率和基态能量等性质进行了研究,分别讨论了其基态和亚稳态结构的能量及自旋多重态。振动频率和振动强度被用来判断体系的稳定性。结果表明,随着Si原子数的增加,零点振动能、热容量和熵近似线性增长,其平均增幅分别为1.03kcal/mol、4.84cal/mol•K和11.96cal/mol•K。n为奇数的SinC2N团簇比n为偶数的更为稳定。