Molecular dynamics simulations of quadrupolar relaxation of 131Xe in carbon tetrachloride,acetonitrile, and methanol

The nuclear relaxation of ¹³¹Xe in different solvents (carbon tetrachloride, acetonitrile and methanol) has been studied by means of molecular dynamics simulations. The solvation structure around xenon is examined with radial and angular distribution functions. Electric field gradient time correlation functions (EFG-TCF) have been calculated for the electric field gradient at the site of xenon, and are discussed in terms of molecular self- and cross-correlations. The amplitudes of total EFG-TCF for acetonitrile are comparable for the two potentials, a 3-site and a 6-site model, although the self- and cross-correlation EFG-TCF differ significantly between the models. For all solvents, the simulations give quadrupolar relaxation rates close to the experimental results.     

Simulations of plasma formation in the cathode sheath of an efficient excimer lamp

Based on the available experimental data and computer simulations, analytical approximations of the quantities characterizing electron multiplication in the cathode sheath are proposed. The critical electric field is found above which runaway electrons are observed. Using the approximations proposed, the dependences of the plasma parameters (the electron and ion densities and currents and the electric field strength) on the distance from the cathode are analyzed. Simple formulas for the total current, the cathode sheath thickness, and the cathode potential drop as functions of the electric field on the cathode surface are derived.     

漂移区表面阶梯掺杂LDMOS的击穿电压模型

提出表面阶梯掺杂(SD：Step Doping on surface)LDMOS的二维击穿电压模型.基于求解多区二维Poisson方程,获得SD结构表面电场的解析式.借助此模型,研究其结构参数对击穿电压的影响;计算优化漂移区浓度和厚度与结构参数的关系,给出获得最大击穿电压的途径.数值结果,解析结果和试验结果符合较好.漂移区各区和衬底电场相互调制,在漂移区中部产生新的峰值,改善电场分布;高掺杂区位于表面,降低了正向导通电阻.结果表明：SD结构较常规结构击穿电压从192V提高到242V,导通电阻下降33%. 关键词： 阶梯掺杂 模型 优化 调制     

Calculation of I–V curves in narrow-gap semiconductors with symmetric electron and hole energy dispersion laws

The hot electron phenomena are considered in the narrow-gap semiconductors with Lax band structure. Methods for calculation of I–V curves are developed in the case when only the quasielastic scattering processes occur. The following factors are taken into consideration: Bloch structure of wave functions; electron-electron interaction; change in concentration of carriers due to the warming of electrons in the electric field; anisotropy and many-valley character of band spectrum. Results obtained here may be useful for the interpretation of experimental data for alloys Bi_1-xSb_x, lead and tin chalcogenides.     

Mössbauer effect and first principle calculations of the electronic structure and hyperfine interaction parameters of Hf2Fe

A detailed theoretical study of the structure, electronic properties and the electric field gradients of the Hf₂Fe intermetallic compound is presented. Using all-electron full-potential linearized augmented plane wave (FP-LAPW) formalism the equilibrium volume, bulk modulus and electric field gradients are calculated. The obtained results are compared with EFG values inferred from measurements performed using Mössbauer spectroscopy and the earlier reported time differential perturbed angular correlation (TDPAC) measurements. The lattice relaxation and the supercell calculations are found to be essential for the correct interpretation of the experimental results.     

Theoretical Study of the Structure of the Electric Field in Helical Toroidal Plasmas

A set of transport equations is analyzed, including the bifurcation of the electric field. The structure of the electric field is studied by use of the theoretical model for the anomalous transport diffusivities. A steep gradient of the radial electric field (E _r) is obtained at the electric domain, where the electric domain is the structure of the electric field in which the ambipolar E _r spatially changes from the electron root (E _r>0) to the ion root (E _r<0). The suppression of the anomalous transport diffusivity is studied in the presence of a strong shear of the electric field. The hard transition between the multiple ambipolar solutions in the structure of the radial electric field is examined. The details of the structure of the electric domain interface are investigated.     

Effect of an electric field on the orientation of a liquid crystal in a cell with a nonuniform director distribution

The electric field-induced reorientation of a nematic liquid crystal in cells with a planar helicoidal or a homeoplanar structure of a director field is studied theoretically and experimentally. The dependences of the capacitances of these systems on the voltage in an applied electric field below and above the Fréedericksz threshold are experimentally obtained and numerically calculated. The calculations use the director distribution in volume that is obtained by direct minimization of free energy at various voltages. The inhomogeneity of the electric field inside a cell is taken into account. The calculation results are shown to agree with the experimental data.     

A new electrostatic field measurement method: The coherent-notch field mill

Conventional electric field mill designs are not able to measure quasi-static atmospheric electric fields in the vicinity of high-voltage power systems. The electric fields generated by such power systems produce severe perturbations to the quasi-static background electric field. Filtering of these perturbations by the field mill circuitry seems to be easy because of their periodically alternating character. However, the operation of a field mill involves an effective signal filtering method, as presented in this paper. Because field mill operation gives rise to amplitude modulation of the incident electric field under measurement, a new technique based on coherent demodulation and notch filtering is proposed. Simulation and experimental results validate the excellent performance of the proposed method for measuring sudden step functions in electric field in presence of a severely perturbed ambient.     

Effects of an alternating electric field on the transparency of a thin field of the smectic phase of p-type n-Octylhydroxybenzoic acid

An experimental study was made of the transparency of the smectic phase of p-type n-octylhydroxybenzoic acid as a function of the intensity and frequency of an electric field. A significant thermal hysteresis was found: at a given temperature, the smectic phase obtained by heating from the solid crystalline state is less sensitive to the electric field than the phase produced by cooling from the isotropic liquid. The transparency changes are explained on the basis of the appearance, growth, and destruction of domain structure in the electric field.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 9, pp. 22–26, September, 1970.     

Correlation between the intensities of intermultiplet electric dipole transitions and the fine features of the stark structure of multiplets of Pr3+ ions in the LaCl3 compound

The Stark structure of the multiplets of Pr³⁺ ions in the LaCl₃ compound is described and the even and odd parameters of the crystal field, as well as the covalency parameters, are determined in the approximation of an intermediate interconfiguration interaction. The covalency parameters thus obtained agree well with the parameters calculated in the framework of microscopic models. The intensity parameters of intermultiplet electric dipole transitions are calculated using the odd parameters of the crystal field and the covalency parameters. The results of the calculations are in satisfactory agreement with the experimental data. This allows the conclusion that there is a correlation between the fine features of the Stark structure of the multiplets and the intensities of the intermultiplet electric dipole transitions.     

Microwave spectroscopy of the Zeeman effect in Rydberg atoms of sodium

Experimental results of studying the spectrum of the microwave 37P-37S transition of Rydberg sodium atoms in a weak magnetic field (≤7 G) are reported. The populations of the Rydberg states were measured using the method of selective ionization with a pulsed electric field. When the magnetic field was parallel to the ionizing electric field, a good agreement between the calculated and experimental spectral shapes was observed, making it possible to determine the unknown polarization of the microwave radiation. In the case of the orthogonal configuration of the fields, the resonance structure was suppressed in the field ionization signals due to the strong influence of the magnetic field on the electron trajectories in the detection system.     

Molecular-statistical approach to a behavior of ferroelectric,antiferroelectric and ferrielectric smectic phases in the electric field

The fundamental theoretical approach derived in A.V. Emelyanenko et al., Phys. Rev. E 74, 011705 (2006) is complemented by a consideration of the influence of the homogeneous electric field on Sm- C _A ^* , biaxial intermediate phases, and Sm-C ^* . The crucial role of the induced polarization is investigated for the first time. The evolution of any tilted smectic phase in the electric field is found to meet the two thresholds. The first threshold corresponds to the unwinding process, and the second one corresponds to the phase transition into the bi-domain structure of Sm-C ^* , where the tilt plane has some contribution either along or against the electric field, while the average direction may still be perpendicular to the electric field. The tilt plane in the monodomain (conventional) structure preceding the second threshold is the same in every unwound phase, and is perpendicular to the electric field. No 3D distortion in Sm- C _A ^* is predicted on application of the electric field. The entire electric-field-temperature phase diagrams including the possibility of existence of the maximal number of tilted smectic phases are plotted and compared with the experimental ones. The numerical calculations in the framework of this fundamental study are done with help of AFLC Phase Diagram Plotter software developed by the author and available at his web page.     

Experimental investigation of the transverse electric field in charge-coupled devices

We report a detailed experimental study of the transverse electric, field in charge-coupled devices. Using a gate-controlled photodiode structure, the effects of doping density, oxide thickness, gate length and gate voltage on the transverse electric field are examined and compared with theoretical calculations. It is found that the existing theoretical model tends to overestimate the transverse field in samples of high doping density and large gate length, or when the gate voltage difference is large.     

Regular Electric Field in Electromagnetic Coupled to a Scalar Field

In the framework of an electromagnetic field coupled nonminimally with a scalar field in flat spacetime, the existence of a non-singular electric field is proved for a point electric charge or electric monopole. In analogy with the Maxwell-dilaton system introduced by Gibbons and Wells, first, a Maxwell-anti-dilaton system is constructed where the radial electric field of a static electric monopole is coupled to an anti-dilaton. The field equations are solved analytically for the electric and dilaton fields and observe the nonsingular electric field. Also, the self-energy of the electric monopole is found to be finite. Furthermore, the formalism to a Maxwell-scalar field is generalized where a mechanism is introduced upon which the coupled regular-electric field and scalar field is obtained. The formalism shows that for a given regular electric field there are two supersymmetric coupling functions corresponding to a scalar and a phantom field.     

The break of L-S coupling and the double Stark resonance in the spectrum of 36P → 37P two-photon transition in Rydberg atoms of sodium

New results are presented of an experimental investigation of the spectrum of 36P → 37P two-photon microwave transition in Rydberg atoms of sodium in a constant electric field. Depending on the conditions of excitation of the initial 36P state (the constant electric field is switched on either before or after the exciting laser pulse) and polarization of laser radiation, a strong variation is observed of the amplitudes of individual two-photon transitions between the fine-structure Stark components of the 36P and 37P states. This effect is an analog of the Paschen-Back effect in a strong magnetic field and is due to the break of L-S coupling and to the variation of the wave functions of Rydberg electrons in an electric field. It is also found that the break of L-S coupling affects considerably the shape of double Stark resonance arising upon intersection of the virtual intermediate level of two-photon transition with the real intermediate 37S level.     

Self-organization of the channel structure of a nanosecond diffuse discharge in a wire-plane electrode system

The results of an experimental study of the spatial structure of a high-voltage diffuse discharge in a wire-plane electrode system are presented. Self-organization of the discharge current channels into regular cells is observed in the plane perpendicular to the electric field vector. The dependences of the structural parameters of the discharge in centimeter-sized gaps on the interelectrode distance are studied at air pressures within the range 220–760 torr. Self-organization of the discharge structure is explained in terms of the electric interaction among charges of the diffuse channel heads during bridging of the gap.     

介质壁加速腔加速结构优化

为了在介质壁加速器中增大轴向加速电场, 提高加速梯度的同时抑制径向电场对束包络的扩张, 提出了在每个加速电极上添加金属栅网结构。采用基于粒子云网格方法的电磁粒子模拟软件对不加栅网与添加栅网的电极结构进行了数值仿真, 分析了不同结构下加速管道中的电场分布和束包络变化。通过实验对比了两种不同结构下经过相同的加速长度获得的粒子能量。结果表明:添加金属栅网结构相对于不加栅网的金属小孔式结构, 轴向加速电场强度提高20%, 同时径向电场得到有效抑制;栅网结构下, 被加速的粒子束在自由漂移空间中的径向发散基本得到抑制;在相同的加速长度下加速H3+粒子, 栅网结构得到的能量增益提高了一倍。     

A Charged Particle in an Electric Field in the Probability Representation of Quantum Mechanics

The Green's function and linear integrals of motion for a charged particle moving in an electric field are discussed. The Wigner functions and tomograms of the stationary states of the charged particle are obtained. The relationship between the quantum propagators for the Schrödinger evolution equation, the Moyal evolution equation, and the evolution equation in the tomographic-probability representation for a charged particle moving in an electric field is discussed.     

鈰铕铌酸锂的双光束耦合异常温度特性与结构相变

报道铕铌酸锂晶体双光束耦合在５５，７０和１１０℃附近出现的异常温度现象，该现象与晶体在这些点发生了结构相变有关，相变诱发出内电场，改变了空间电荷场的结构，影响了双光束耦合。采用唯象的办法给出相变电场随温度的变化公式，结合一能级单载流子带导模型给出了理论曲线，能很好地解释实验。推算出相变电场的数量级介于扩散电场和最大空间电荷场之间，为１０^５Ｖ·ｍ^-1。 关键词：     

Gyrocenter shift of low-temperature plasmas and the retrograde motion of cathode spots in arc discharges

The gyrocenter shift phenomenon explained the mechanism of radial electric field formation at the high confinement mode transition in fusion devices. This Letter reports that the theory of gyrocenter shift is also applicable to low temperature high collisional plasmas such as arc discharges by the generalization of the theory resulting from a short mean free path compared with the gyroradius. The retrograde motion of cathode spots in the arc discharge is investigated through a model with the expanded formula of gyrocenter shift. It is found that a reversed electric field is formed in front of the cathode spots when they are under a magnetic field, and this reversed electric field generates a rotation of cathode spots opposite to the Amperian direction. The ion drift velocity profiles calculated from the model are in agreement with the experimental results as functions of magnetic flux density and gas pressure.