Study of local magnetic fields and magnetic ordering in fluid and solid matrices containing magnetite nanoparticles using TEMPOL stable radical

The stable nitroxide radical 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-hydroxy-piperidin-1-oxyl (TEMPOL) has been applied as a sensor to study magnetite nanoparticles both in water suspension and in dried gelatin films. g-values and line widths of ESR spectra of the probe were found to be sensitive to the local magnetic fields of magnetic nanoparticles. Calculated on the basis of the sensor ESR spectra, local magnetic fields are stipulated by linear aggregates of magnetite nanoparticles formed in applied outer magnetic fields and are significantly lower than local magnetic fields estimated from the static magnetic measurements data.     

The influence of small magnetic fields on the Mössbauer relaxation spectra of Au: Yb alloys

The influence of an external magnetic field on the hyperfine structure of the Γ₇ CEF ground state of dilute Yb impurities in Au is investigated through the Mössbauer effect. Strong changes in the shape of the hyperfine spectra are observed when small magnetic fields (?1 kG) are applied. The dependence of the hyperfine structure on applied magnetic fields is shown through a Breit-Rabi diagram. The electronic relaxation rate for this system is found to be independent of the fields applied. The nature of polarized radiation emitted by such sources is discussed.     

Calculation of critical states of superconducting multilayers based on numerical solution of the Ginzburg-Landau equations for superconducting plates

Numerical methods are used to analyze the Ginzburg-Landau equations for a superconducting plate carrying transport current in a magnetic field. Critical current is calculated as a function of the applied magnetic field strength for superconducting plates with different thicknesses. The relations between the field dependence of critical current and the distributions of order parameter, magnetic field, and supercurrent in a plate are analyzed. The field-dependent critical currents computed for plates are used to determine the critical current as a function of the applied magnetic field strength and local magnetic field and current distributions for multilayers in parallel magnetic fields. The constituent superconducting layers are assumed to interact only via magnetic field. A simple method is proposed for analyzing the critical states of multilayers in magnetic fields of arbitrary strength, based on elementary transformations of the critical current-density distribution over individual layers in zero applied magnetic field. The method can be used to analyze experimental results.     

Extraordinary THz transmission through subwavelength semiconductor slits under antiparallel external magnetic fields

We theoretically study the resonant transmission of electromagnetic waves at the THz frequencies through subwavelength semiconductor slits under external static magnetic fields. The dispersion relations of the surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) inside a subwavelength slit are analytically derived. It is found that the SPPs propagating along one direction and its reverse are symmetric when parallel external magnetic fields are applied, but are asymmetric when antiparallel external magnetic fields are applied. The transmission properties of periodic subwavelength semiconductor slit arrays with the antiparallel magnetic fields in each unit cell are investigated by the mode expansion technique. The two significant transmission characteristics are observed: (i) The resonant peaks are redshifted with increasing external magnetic fields; (ii) The transmissions in the two opposite directions through the slit arrays are asymmetric. The origin of the transmission asymmetry is reasonably explained by the magnetic-field induced asymmetric SPP propagation losses.     

Effects of Crossed Electric and Magnetic Fields on Shallow Donor Impurity Binding Energy in a Parabolic Quantum Well

We have calculated variationally the ground state binding energy of a hydrogenic donor impurity in a parabolic quantum well in the presence of crossed electric and magnetic fields. These homogeneous crossed fields are such that the magnetic field is parallel to the heterostructure layers and the electric field is applied perpendicular to the magnetic field. The dependence of the donor impurity binding energy to the well width and the strength of the electric and magnetic fields are discussed. We hope that the obtained results will provide important improvements in device applications, especially for a suitable choice of both fields in the narrow well widths.     

Strain engineering of graphene nanoribbons: pseudomagnetic versus external magnetic fields

Bandgap opening due to strain engineering is a key architect for making graphene’s optoelectronic, straintronic, and spintronic devices. We study the bandgap opening due to strain induced ripple waves and investigate the interplay between pseudomagnetic fields and externally applied magnetic fields on the band structures and spin relaxation in graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). We show that electron-hole bands of GNRs are highly influenced (i.e. level crossing of the bands are possible) by coupling two combined effects: pseudomagnetic fields (PMF) originating from strain tensor and external magnetic fields. In particular, we show that the tuning of the spin-splitting band extends to large externally applied magnetic fields with increasing values of pseudomagnetic fields. Level crossings of the bands in strained GNRs can also be observed due to the interplay between pseudomagnetic fields and externally applied magnetic fields. We also investigate the influence of this interplay on the electromagnetic field mediated spin relaxation mechanism in GNRs. In particular, we show that the spin hot spot can be observed at approximately B = 65 T (the externally applied magnetic field) and B₀ = 53 T (the magnitude of induced pseudomagnetic field due to ripple waves) which may not be considered as an ideal location for the design of straintronic devices. Our analysis might be used for tuning the bandgaps in strained GNRs and utilized to design the optoelectronic devices for straintronic applications.     

A different algebraic method for the fifth-order combined geometric-chromatic aberrations of practical magnetic electron lenses

In this paper, differential algebraic (DA) method is applied to fifth-order combined geometric-chromatic aberrations of practical magnetic electron lenses. The magnetic fields of magnetic electron lenses, which are computed by FEM or FDM method, are in the form of discrete arrays. Thus the developed new DA method is applicable to engineering design and programs were written for computing the fifth-order combined geometric-chromatic aberrations of practical magnetic electron lenses. An example is given. The combined geometric-chromatic aberrations up to fifth order are calculated. It is proved that the numerical results for the magnetic fields in the form of discrete arrays have good accuracy compared with the results computed by using the magnetic fields expressed in analytical form. The accuracy is limited only by the accuracy of the numerical computation of the fields and the arithmetic errors. Finally, a practical magnetic electron lens is analyzed and discussed as an example.     

Magnetic fields and the stability of charge-density-wave ground-states in silicon inversion layers

Earlier work on the stability of charge-density-wave (CDW) ground-states in stressed silicon inversion layers is extended to incorporate the effects of the high magnetic fields normally used in acquiring experimental data. By comparison with the effects of stress, low magnetic fields affect the stability of the CDW only marginally. In the extreme quantum limit, i.e. high magnetic fields and low carrier concentrations, CDW states can be stabilised at significantly lower applied stresses.     

Heat capacity of the hexagonal praseodimium compound PrNi5 in high magnetic fields

The CEF contribution to the heat capacity of PrNi₅ in high magnetic fields is calculated. It is shown that the Schottky anomaly in high magnetic fields splits up into two parts. This is a consequence of the level crossing expected in this compound for magnetic field applied along the [1000] direction.     

Anomalous hysteretic phenomena in cyclotron resonance spectra of GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well under tilted magnetic fields of short pulse up to 150 T

We observed a new type of hysteresis in cyclotron resonance spectra of two-dimensional electron gas confined in GaAs/AlGaAs multi quantum wells when we applied high magnetic fields tilted from the growth direction. Pulsed high magnetic fields up to 150 T were generated by the single turn coil technique. We investigated in detail the condition for the occurrence of the hysteresis which is a disagreement between two traces in the up- and down-sweeps of the pulsed magnetic fields. The dependencies of the hysteresis on the wavelength, sweep rate of the fields and temperature has led to the conclusion that the hysteresis is due to inequilibrium states in the up-sweep of tilted magnetic fields. The relaxation time from inequilibrium to equilibrium states was revealed to be of the order of microsecond.     

Phase diagram of diluted magnetic semiconductor quantum wells

The phase diagram of diluted magnetic semiconductor quantum wells is investigated. The interaction between the carriers in the hole gas can lead to first-order ferromagnetic transitions, which remain abrupt in applied fields. These transitions can be induced by magnetic fields or, in double-layer systems, by electric fields. We make a number of precise experimental predictions for observing these first-order phase transitions.     

Transcranial stimulability of phosphenes by long lightning electromagnetic pulses

The electromagnetic pulses of rare long (order of seconds) repetitive lightning discharges near strike point (order of 100 m) are analyzed and compared to magnetic fields applied in standard clinical transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) practice. It is shown that the time-varying lightning magnetic fields and locally induced electric fields are in the same order of magnitude and frequency as those established in TMS experiments to study stimulated perception phenomena, like magnetophosphenes. Lightning electromagnetic pulse induced transcranial magnetic stimulation of phosphenes in the visual cortex is concluded to be a plausible interpretation of a large class of reports on luminous perceptions during thunderstorms.     

On the Mössbauer spectrum of γ-Fe2O3

High quality Mössbauer spectra of γ-Fe₂O₃ particles have been analyzed in detail to determine the effects of overlapping patterns, quadrupole splitting, and applied magnetic fields. The results are discussed with regard to the use of Mössbauer spectroscopy to measure particle and magnetic moment orientation. Data were collected from two samples at 4.2–315K and with 6.1T longitudinal and 1.65T transverse magnetic fields applied. It is shown that electric field gradient effects alone are insufficient to account for the presence of Δm_I=0 lines when a large longitudinal field is applied.     

Filtration of submicron particles by spheres in HGMS

We present a theory for the diffusive capture of submicron-size magnetic particles by a sphere assemblage operating as a high-gradient magnetic separator. The carrier fluid is modeled in the laminar flow approximation. With the restriction to large Peclet numbers and relatively weak magnetic fields (up to several kOe), approximate analytical methods are introduced and applied to study the single sphere capture efficiency as a function of magnetic field strength, flow rate, and particle size. Although sphere efficiency increases in stronger fields, there is no indication of the high-field saturation which marked our between diffusion enhancement and the magnetic force is observed.     

Spin-canting and transverse relaxation in maghemite nanoparticles and in tin-doped maghemite

The magnetic properties of maghemite nanoparticles and tin-doped maghemite have been studied by ⁵⁷Fe and ¹¹⁹Sn Mössbauer spectroscopy at temperatures from 6 to 300 K with and without applied magnetic fields. The low-temperature ⁵⁷Fe spectra of both samples, obtained in a field of 4 T, can be described in terms of A-site and B-site components with perfect ferrimagnetic order and a strongly canted component, which seems to have its main contribution from B-site ions. At higher temperatures, the components with strong canting are influenced by transverse relaxation, which results in significant line broadening, a reduction of the magnetic hyperfine splitting and a reduction in the relative areas of lines 2 and 5. The ¹¹⁹Sn spectra show a very broad distribution of magnetic hyperfine fields at low temperatures. When the sample was exposed to applied magnetic fields the distribution became narrower. The spectra show that the direction of the hyperfine field of a large fraction of the tin ions in maghemite is antiparallel to the applied field, but a minor fraction of the tin ions have canted hyperfine fields.     

Magnetic-field enhancement of superconductivity in ultranarrow wires

We study the effect of an applied magnetic field on sub-10-nm wide MoGe and Nb superconducting wires. We find that magnetic fields can enhance the critical supercurrent at low temperatures, and do so more strongly for narrower wires. We conjecture that magnetic moments are present, but their pair-breaking effect, active at lower magnetic fields, is suppressed by higher fields. The corresponding microscopic theory, which we have developed, quantitatively explains all experimental observations, and suggests that magnetic moments have formed on the wire surfaces.     

Magnetic study of iron-containing carbon nanotubes: Feasibility for magnetic hyperthermia

We present a detailed magnetic study of iron containing carbon nanotubes (Fe-CNT), which highlights their potential for contactless magnetic heating in hyperthermia cancer treatment. Magnetic field dependent AC inductive heating experiments on Fe-CNT dispersions show a substantial temperature increase of Fe-CNT dispersions in applied AC magnetic fields. DC and AC magnetization studies have been done in order to elucidate the heating mechanism. We observe a different magnetic response of Fe-CNT powder compared to Fe-CNT dispersed in aqueous solution, e.g., ferromagnetic Fe-CNT in powder do not show any hysteresis when being dispersed in liquid. Our data indicate the motion of Fe-CNT in liquid in applied magnetic fields.     

Effects of inhomogeneous magnetic fields on the electron transport through a quantum-wire system

The electron transport through a quantum-wire system in the presence of inhomogeneous magnetic fields is investigated theoretically. The system consists of two parallel quantum wires coupled by two ballistic windows, while the magnetic fields applied are uniform and equal in the two wires but vanishing in the two coupling windows and everywhere between the wires. Various transmissions of the system are calculated. It is found that the inhomogeneous magnetic fields induce irregular transmission oscillations in the low and moderate magnetic-field regions, and regular ones in the high field region. These transmission oscillations are due to interference between the electron waves traveling through different coupling windows and can be interpreted in terms of a semiclassical model. The Hall resistance of the system is also calculated and is found to show similar regular oscillations at high magnetic fields.     

Analysis of the Zeeman effect on the energy spectrum in graphenes

An analysis of the Zeeman effect with a strong external magnetic field on the energy spectrum in graphene is presented. In general, the Hamiltonian of graphene in applied electric and magnetic fields is not of SO(1, 2) invariance even in the nearest-neighbor approximation because of the Zeeman coupling. But an approximate SO(1, 2) invariance can be obtained when the applied magnetic field is very strong. This approximate invariance can be used to relate the energy structure of graphene in the presence of both electric and magnetic fields to that when there is only magnetic field. Therefore, it can help explain the recently found quantum Hall conductance (4q ²/h)L for L = 0.1.     

Tunneling magnetoresistance in Ag/Co nanoparticle composites

Nanocomposite materials, consisting of ensembles of Ag and Co nanoparticles, have been successfully fabricated, with various compositions and packing densities. The transport and magnetic characteristics of the compounds were studied. In particular, a crossover from a positive magnetoresistance (MR) at low applied magnetic fields to a negative magnetoresistance at high applied magnetic fields was observed. The behaviors could be understood by the spin-dependent tunneling mechanism, known as tunneling magnetoresistance.