Compressibility of MBBA

Three isotherms p-V slightly above the nematic-isotropic transition temperature of 46.6°C at p = 1 atm and one at 60°C are reported. The compressibility of the isotropic phase of p-methoxybenzylidene-(p-n-butyl) aniline is very small and comparable to that for liquids close to their resp. triple points. Constancy of pressure in the two-phase region is found to be a very sensitive indication of purity.     

Compressibility of Nickel Nanoparticle Chain

We perform the high-pressure energy dispersive x-ray diffraction experiments of nickel nanoparticle chain using a synchrotron source under quasi-hydrostatic compression up to 44.7GPa. There is no phase transition over the pressure range. The bulk modulus Ko, the first pressure derivative of bulk modulus K＇0 and the volume Vo are calculated from the pressure-volume data using the Birch-Murnaghan equation of state. A decrease of compressibility is observed, in agreement with the Hall-Perch effect.     

Compressibility of the cerium monopnictides

Compressibilities of CeSb, CeAs and CeP have been obtained at room temperature from the pressure variation up to 41 kbar of the lattice parameters using neutron diffractometry.     

Compressibility measurements of quasi-one-dimensional quantum wires

We report measurements of the compressibility of a one-dimensional quantum wire, defined in the upper well of a GaAs/AlGaAs double quantum well heterostructure. A wire defined simultaneously in the lower well probes the ability of the upper wire to screen the electric field from a biased surface gate. The technique is sensitive enough to resolve spin splitting of the subbands in the presence of an in-plane magnetic field. We measure a compressibility signal due to the 0.7 structure and study its evolution with increasing temperature and magnetic field. We see no evidence of the formation of the quasibound state predicted by the Kondo model, instead our data are consistent with theories which predict that the 0.7 structure arises as a result of spontaneous spin polarization.     

Compressibility of hexagonal selenium to 45 kbar

Compression data to 45 kbar have been obtained for hexagonal selenium by static methods in a piston-cylinder apparatus. Cylindrical samples (1 cm dia. and 1·2 cm length) of polycrystalline hexagonal selenium, with a bulk density close to the X-ray density, were prepared by pressing the samples at 7 kbar and 170°C. The compression data are described by a third degree polynomial,

$?\left(\frac{\Delta V}{V_O}\right)=?64·14\times {10}^{?4}P+109·9\times {10}^{?6}{P}^2?96·77\times {10}^{?8}{P}^3$

,where P is pressure in kbar. The zero pressure bulk modulus and the pressure derivative of the bulk modulus are 156 ± 10 kbar and 4·33 respectively.     

Compressibility in solar wind plasma turbulence

Incompressible magnetohydrodynamics is often assumed to describe solar wind turbulence. We use extended self-similarity to reveal scaling in the structure functions of density fluctuations in the solar wind. The obtained scaling is then compared with that found in the inertial range of quantities identified as passive scalars in other turbulent systems. We find that these are not coincident. This implies that either solar wind turbulence is compressible or that straightforward comparison of structure functions does not adequately capture its inertial range properties.     

Compressibility of hadrons from operator sum rules

Monopole sum rules for ar ² transition operator are discussed for baryons and mesons. From these, the energy of the compression modes can be directly related to the hadronic compressibility. From the systematics of excited hadrons the compressibility of baryons is found to be in the order of 1.3 GeV, quite close to that of mesons in the light and strange quark sector. Experiments will be very important to study the compression modes in different hadron systems.The author is indepted to the Institute of Nuclear Theory (INT Seattle) for the invitation to the program N ^* Excitations and the Structure of the Nucleon where basic ideas of the paper have been discussed. In particular, discussion with O. Bohigas, B.K. Jennings, and J. Wambach is gratefully acknowledged.     

Longitudinal Inverted Compressibility in Super-strained Metamaterials

We develop a statistical physics theory for solid-solid phase transitions in which a metamaterial undergoes longitudinal contraction in response to increase in external tension. Such transitions, which are forbidden in thermodynamic equilibrium, have recently been shown to be possible during the decay of metastable, super-strained states. We present a first-principles model to predict these transitions and validate it using molecular dynamics simulations. Aside from its immediate mechanical implications, our theory points to a wealth of analogous inverted responses, such as inverted susceptibility or heat-capacity transitions, allowed when considering realistic scales.     

Compressibility and isotope effect of fluid hydrogen

The calculations of the P-V isotherms, Hugoniots, dissociation and ionization degrees of fluid (liquid) hydrogen isotopes have been performed by using the self-consistent fluid variational theory under isothermal and shock compression. The isotope effect of fluid hydrogen was discussed. The present results are compared with the available experiments and calculations.     

Compressibility of Lattice Parameters of Several Layered Compounds

The lattice parameters of AlB2, MgB2 and TiB2 under pressures are determined with a high-energy synchrotron source in a diamond anvil cell. The experimental results indicate that these three compounds have different mechanical behaviour under pressures, TiB2 is the hardest and MgB2 is the softest among the three materials. The phenomena are explained in terms of bonding strength in the crystal. Our results may be helpful for understating the decrease of the superconducting transition temperature of MgB2 under pressures.     

Raman spectrum of graphene and graphene layers

Graphene is the two-dimensional building block for carbon allotropes of every other dimensionality. We show that its electronic structure is captured in its Raman spectrum that clearly evolves with the number of layers. The D peak second order changes in shape, width, and position for an increasing number of layers, reflecting the change in the electron bands via a double resonant Raman process. The G peak slightly down-shifts. This allows unambiguous, high-throughput, nondestructive identification of graphene layers, which is critically lacking in this emerging research area.     

Compressibility of copper via the self-consistent APW method

The self-consistent APW method was used in determining pressure as a function of volume for f.c.c. copper. The results are in excellent agreement in the range 0 to 600 kbar.     

Compressibility of a zinc single crystal under confining pressure

Abstract

In the present study, the two compressibility moduli of a zinc single crystal were measured at room temperature up to 18 GPa. The results are compared with those obtained by Bridgman from a different experimental method. This study required a gaseous hydrostatic confining pressure, and then it has been necessary to develop an original diamond anvil cell with a large optical aperture allowing the use of sophisticated video imaging and image analysis techniques. A model is proposed for the zinc volume-pressure relation.     

Compressibility and sound velocity of some liquid rare earths

We report the first measurements of the sound velocity in liquid La, Ce, Pr and Yb and deduce the adiabatic and isothermal compressibilities. The temperature coefficient of the sound velocity in liquid Ce is positive, which we interpret as support for the suggestion that there is increasing delocalization of the 4f electrons in the liquid state.     

Compressibility divergence and the finite temperature Mott transition

In the context of the dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) of the Hubbard model, we study the behavior of the compressibility near the density driven Mott transition at finite temperatures. We demonstrate this divergence using DMFT and quantum Monte Carlo simulations in the one-band and the two-band Hubbard model. We supplement this result with considerations based on the Landau theory framework, and discuss the relevance of our results to the alpha-gamma end point in cerium.     

Echoes of relativistic Landau levels in graphene and bilayer graphene

The problem of echo effects that can originate in graphene and bilayer graphene upon the generation of relativistic Landau levels in a quantizing magnetic field is considered. Graphene (bilayer graphene) is considered in a long-wave approximation near the Dirac points. It is proposed that the echo effect be used for the quantum memory of optical states in the far infrared.