Longitudinal nuclear spin relaxation in solids in a triply rotating coordinate system: Selective observation of the multispin dipole contribution

The longitudinal nuclear spin relaxation in an effective magnetic field H _e3 acting in a triply rotating coordinate system is recorded. Rotating and doubly rotating coordinate systems are employed for strong suppression of the secular nuclear dipole interactions in the first two orders and for separation of higher-order interactions (four-and five-spin). Experiments on protons in polycrystalline benzene showed that the contribution of such multispin dipole interactions to this relaxation can be observed selectively as a pronounced local minimum in the temperature dependence of the relaxation time. This contribution correponds to ultraslow molecular motions with rates ≃ γH _e3≃2π(10¹−10³) s⁻¹ and can be employed to study such motions in detail, including for purposes of identification of the form of the motion. Pis’ma Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 64, No. 5, 335–340 (10 September 1996)     

Dynamical coupling in the differential equations approach to atom-diatom exchange reactions

The atomic exchange reaction A + BC → AB + C is investigated quantum mechanically employing a coupled differential equations approach. The relative motion in reactant and product channels is described in the common coordinate R ₃ (the AC nuclear separation) and is developed in three-dimensional space. The total wave functions of the system are expressed as a superposition of valence bond electronic states of the initial (A, BC) and final (AB, C) configurations, with the coefficients describing the relative and internal (vibrational, rotational) nuclear motions. Choosing convenient trial functions with the appropriate boundary conditions and using the Kohn variational principle, a set of differential (rather than the usual integro-differential) equations is obtained for the relative motion wave functions in R ₃. The potential matrix elements turn out to be dynamical in that they depend on the initial k ₁ and final k ₂ wave vectors. Two-state coupled channel calculations of the differential and integral cross sections for the isotopic species D + H₂, H + H₂ and D + D₂ are presented for collision energies up to 0·8 eV.     

Nuclear spin–lattice relaxation and complex motion of macromolecules in solution

The NMR spectral densities of a complex motion consisting of a combination of anisotropic overall motion and internal motion have been derived. Two approximations of the equations derived for the cases of slow, J_slow (ω), and fast, J_fast (ω), internal motions are presented. These equations imply that reduction in spectral density of overall motion can be observed if the maxima of internal and overall motions spectral densities versus temperature are well separated, as for fast internal motion. Slow intramolecular motion influences the values of spectral densities of the overall motion if one of the two spins performs a motion, for example a proton in double minimum of the ¹⁵N-H?···?N hydrogen bond. The analysis presented reveals small differences between the temperature dependencies of spectral densities of the isotropic and anisotropic overall motions. The theory is illustrated by the ¹³C protonated carbon spin-lattice relaxation of α-cyclodextrin macromolecule, using the expected motional parameters: D _∥/D _⊥?≈?5 at room temperature and for a fast or slow internal motion.     

Application of energy and angular momentum balance to gravitational radiation reaction for binary systems with spin-orbit coupling

We study gravitational radiation reaction in the equations of motion for binary systems with spin-orbit coupling, at order (v/c)⁷ beyond Newtonian gravity, or O(v/c)² beyond the leading radiation reaction effects for non-spinning bodies. We use expressions for the energy and angular momentum flux at infinity that include spin-orbit corrections, together with an assumption of energy and angular momentum balance, to derive equations of motion that are valid for general orbits and for a class of coordinate gauges. We show that the equations of motion are compatible with those derived earlier by a direct calculation.     

Higher equations of motion in the N = 1 SUSY Liouville field theory

As in the ordinary bosonic Liouville field theory, in its N = 1 supersymmetric version, an infinite set of operator valued relations, the “higher equations of motions,” hold. The equations are in one to one correspondence with the singular representations of the super Virasoro algebra and enumerated by a pair of natural numbers (m, n). We explicitly demonstrate these equations in the classical case, where the equations of type (1, n) survive and can be interpreted directly as relations for classical fields. The general form of higher equations of motion is established in the quantum case, both for the Neveu-Schwarz and Ramond series. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

对气象常用坐标系中位涡形式的探讨

气象常用垂直坐标系中的位涡方程及位涡形式是位涡理论及位涡诊断技术的基础.本文依据坐标转换的观点,分别用两种不同的方法推导出等压坐标和等熵坐标中的位涡方程及相应的位涡表达式.一是从三维矢量运动方程出发,由三维涡度方程、连续方程和热力学方程推导位涡方程;二是直接从等压坐标和等熵坐标中的标量运动方程组出发推导位涡方程.结果表明,用两种方法所得到的等压坐标中的位涡方程和位涡表达式形式有所不同,而等熵坐标中用两种方法所得到的位涡方程和位涡形式相同.对垂直坐标系的物理本质分析表明,采用第一种方法时尽管矢量运动方程中的 关键词： 位涡 坐标转换 等压坐标 等熵坐标     

Distinguishing the transition to chaos in a spherical pendulum

Complex responses are studied for a spherical pendulum whose support is excited with a translational periodic motion. Governing equations are studied analytically to allow prediction of responses under various excitation conditions. Stability for certain cases of damping is predicted by means of existing analysis and compared with experimental data. Numerical time-step integration of the governing equations is developed to predict responses for various types of excitation and damping conditions. Predicted results are compared with corresponding motions measured in an experimental spherical pendulum system. A data acquisition system is included whereby detailed digitized time histories of the pendulum motion can be established and various parameters can be computed to characterize the type of motion present. Two new vector spaces are defined for describing complex responses which occur for certain specified excitation conditions. It is shown in these parameter spaces that the transition from quasiperiodic to chaotic motions can be carefully quantified in systems with very light damping. This discovery provides a convenient means for comparison of complex motions in the numerical and experimental air pendulum systems. The implications of the results are important for dynamic response in various applications, including fluid motions in satellite tanks and other nonlinear time-dependent physical processes which include very light damping. (c) 1995 American Institute of Physics.     

Quasi-elastic neutron scattering study of dynamics in condensed matter

Quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) technique, known to study stochastic motions has been successfully used to elucidate the molecular motions and physical properties related to them, in a variety of systems. QENS is a unique technique that provides information on the time-scale of the motion as well as the geometry of the motions. In this paper, results of some of the systems studied using the facility available at Dhruva, Trombay and other mega-facilities are discussed. Emphasis is given on the results obtained from three different systems studied using QENS, namely, (1) alkyl chain motions in monolayer protected metal clusters, (2) molecular motions of propane in Na-Y zeolitic systems and (3) the study of reorientational motions of liquid crystal innO.m series in different mesophases.     

Collective coordinate theory for light pulses in fibers: The reduced projection operators

We consider optical waveguides in which light pulses may execute complex dynamical behaviors including translational motions accompanied with strong internal vibrations. Such systems necessarily generate various types of collective motion, in which each collective mode is describable by a collective coordinate. We present a novel projection operator formalism for deriving the equations of motion of the collective coordinates and coupled fields. This formalism is built up by treating separately the dynamics of the pulse phase and that of its amplitude, that is, by using two distinct projection operators (one for the amplitude, and the other one for the phase). This new pair of operators, which we call reduced projection operators, has as main virtue of having dimension reduced by half as compared to that of the conventional operators that includes both pulse amplitude and phase together. The main interest of the reduced projection operators lies in the ease with which the equations of motion are derived when compared with the amount of algebra needed to obtain the same equations from the conventional projection operators. We provide examples of concrete situations that illustrate the effectiveness of the collective-coordinate approach based on the reduced projection operators.     

Transient chaos in optical metamaterials

We investigate the dynamics of light rays in two classes of optical metamaterial systems: (1) time-dependent system with a volcano-shaped, inhomogeneous and isotropic refractive-index distribution, subject to external electromagnetic perturbations and (2) time-independent system consisting of three overlapping or non-overlapping refractive-index distributions. Utilizing a mechanical-optical analogy and coordinate transformation, the wave-propagation problem governed by the Maxwell's equations can be modeled by a set of ordinary differential equations for light rays. We find that transient chaotic dynamics, hyperbolic or nonhyperbolic, are common in optical metamaterial systems. Due to the analogy between light-ray dynamics in metamaterials and the motion of light in matter as described by general relativity, our results reinforce the recent idea that chaos in gravitational systems can be observed and studied in laboratory experiments.     

Two-phase MFD flows in orthogonal curvilinear coordinate system

Steady flow of an inviscid, incompressible two-phase magnetofluid with infinite electrical conductivity is treated. With one ignorable coordinate in a general orthogonal curvilinear system, general solutions of the equations, considering number densityN constant throughout the motion, are obtained.     

The forms of three-order Lagrangian equation in relative motion

In this paper, the general expressions of three-order Lagrangian equations in a motional coordinate system are obtained. In coordinate systems with some specific forms of motion, the expressions corresponding to these equations are also presented.     

Quantum Hamilton mechanics: Hamilton equations of quantum motion, origin of quantum operators, and proof of quantization axiom

This paper gives a thorough investigation on formulating and solving quantum problems by extended analytical mechanics that extends canonical variables to complex domain. With this complex extension, we show that quantum mechanics becomes a part of analytical mechanics and hence can be treated integrally with classical mechanics. Complex canonical variables are governed by Hamilton equations of motion, which can be derived naturally from Schrödinger equation. Using complex canonical variables, a formal proof of the quantization axiom p → pˆ = −i, which is the kernel in constructing quantum-mechanical systems, becomes a one-line corollary of Hamilton mechanics. The derivation of quantum operators from Hamilton mechanics is coordinate independent and thus allows us to derive quantum operators directly under any coordinate system without transforming back to Cartesian coordinates. Besides deriving quantum operators, we also show that the various prominent quantum effects, such as quantization, tunneling, atomic shell structure, Aharonov–Bohm effect, and spin, all have the root in Hamilton mechanics and can be described entirely by Hamilton equations of motion.     

Comparison between the discrete and finite element methods for modelling an agricultural spray boom—Part 2: Automatic procedure for transforming the equations of motion from force to displacement input and validation

This paper validates the discrete element method for linear flexible multibody systems, elaborated in Part 1 of the paper, of which the flexible bodies are a composition of flexible beams. An automatic procedure is developed to convert the linear equations of motion of a multibody system from force to displacement input. By this procedure, support motions and displacements of actuators between the bodies can be employed as an input to the system. Furthermore, using this procedure, the methodology explained in Part 1, which was valid for tree structured systems can be extended to systems containing closed kinematic chains. The methodology of Part 1 is applied for the discrete and finite element approximations to model the horizontal behaviour of an agricultural spray boom. As the inputs to the spray boom are known under the form of positions, the equations of motions are converted from force to position inputs. The discrete and finite element approximations are compared based on accuracy and the complexity of the resulting models.     

A geometric generalization of classical mechanics and quantization

A geometrization of classical mechanics is presented which may be considered as a realization of the Hertz picture of mechanics. The trajectories in thef-dimensional configuration spaceV _f of a classical mechanical system are obtained as the projections onV _f of the geodesics in an (f + 1) dimensional Riemannian spaceV _{f + 1}, with an appropriate metric, if the additional (f + 1)th coordinate, taken to be an angle, is assumed to be “cyclic”. When the additional (angular) coordinate is not cyclic we obtain what may be regarded as a generalization of classical mechanics in a geometrized form. This defines new motions in the neighbourhood of the classical motions. It has been shown that, when the angular coordinate is “quasi-cyclic”, these new motions can be used to describe events in the quantum domain with appropriate periodicity conditions on the geodesics inV _{f + 1}.     

A discrete model exhibiting successive bifurcations leading to the onset of turbulence

A simple discrete model which consists ofN limit-cycle oscillators interacting with a linear coupling is numerically investigated in order to study the sequence of oscillatory states leading to the onset of turbulence. The systems withN=2 and 3 are studied. The system ofN=2 does not exhibit a nonperiodic motion, whereas the system ofN=3 does exhibit a nonperiodic motion. It is shown that, as an external parameter changes, the system ofN=3 undergoes a sequence of bifurcations, exhibiting the singly periodic, doubly periodic and nonperiodic motions, successively. This is similar to the bifurcation scheme for the onset of turbulence proposed by Ruelle and Takens and experimentally shown by Gollub and Swinny in a rotating Couette flow. The successive bifurcations are investigated in details and new features are reported.     

An application of functional equations to the analysis of the invariance identities of classical gauge field theory

The equations of motion for a particle in a classical gauge field are derived from the invariance identities ² and basic assumptions about the Lagrangian. They are found to be consistent with the equations of some other approaches to classical gauge-field theory, and are expressed in terms of a set of undetermined functions E. The functions E are found to satisfy a system of differential equations which has the same formal structure as a system of equations from Yang-Mills theory. ³ These results are obtained by a new method which applies techniques from the theory of functional equations to deduce the way in which the arguments of the Lagrangian must combine. The method constitutes an aid for obtaining the equations of motion when a non-gauge-invariant Lagrangian is chosen, and it is assumed that the equations of motion can be written in a gauge-invariant manner.     

On the definition of the natural frequency of oscillations in nonlinear large rotation problems

Computational multibody system algorithms allow for performing eigenvalue analysis at different time points during the simulation to study the system stability. The nonlinear equations of motion are linearized at these time points, and the resulting linear equations are used to determine the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the system. In the case of linear systems, the system eigenvalues remain the same under a constant coordinate transformation; and zero eigenvalues are always associated with rigid body modes, while nonzero eigenvalues are associated with non-rigid body motion. These results, however, cannot in general be applied to nonlinear multibody systems as demonstrated in this paper. Different sets of large rotation parameters lead to different forms of the nonlinear and linearized equations of motion, making it necessary to have a correct interpretation of the obtained eigenvalue solution. As shown in this investigation, the frequencies associated with different sets of orientation parameters can differ significantly, and rigid body motion can be associated with non-zero oscillation frequencies, depending on the coordinates used. In order to demonstrate this fact, the multibody system motion equations associated with the system degrees of freedom are presented and linearized. The resulting linear equations are used to define an eigevalue problem using the state space representation in order to account for general damping that characterizes multibody system applications. In order to demonstrate the significant differences between the eigenvalue solutions associated with two different sets of orientation parameters, a simple rotating disk example is considered in this study. The equations of motion of this simple example are formulated using Euler angles, Euler parameters and Rodriguez parameters. The results presented in this study demonstrate that the frequencies obtained using computational multibody system algorithms should not in general be interpreted as the system natural frequencies, but as the frequencies of the oscillations of the coordinates used to describe the motion of the system.     

Review: Kerr-Schild and Generalized Metric Motions

In this work we study in detail new kinds of motions of the metric tensor. The work is divided into two main parts. In the first part we study the general existence of Kerr-Schild motions — a recently introduced metric motion. We show that generically, Kerr-Schild motions give rise to finite dimensional Lie algebras and are isometrizable, i.e., they are in a one-to-one correspondence with a subset of isometries of a (usually different) spacetime. This is similar to conformal motions. There are however some exceptions that yield infinite dimensional algebras in any dimension of the manifold. We also show that Kerr-Schild motions may be interpreted as some kind of metric symmetries in the sense of having associated some geometrical invariants. In the second part, we suggest a scheme able to cope with other new candidates of metric motions from a geometrical viewpoint. We solve a set of new candidates which may be interpreted as the seeds of further developments and relate them with known methods of finding new solutions to Einstein's field equations. The results are similar to those of Kerr-Schild motions, yet a richer algebraic structure appears. In conclusion, even though several points still remain open, the wealth of results shows that the proposed concept of generalized metric motions is meaningful and likely to have a spin-off in gravitational physics. We end by listing and analyzing some of those open points.     

Matrix Computations for the Dynamics of Fermionic Systems

In a series of recent papers we have shown how the dynamical behavior of certain classical systems can be analyzed using operators evolving according to Heisenberg-like equations of motions. In particular, we have shown that raising and lowering operators play a relevant role in this analysis. The technical problem of our approach stands in the difficulty of solving the equations of motion, which are, first of all, operator-valued and, secondly, quite often nonlinear. In this paper we construct a general procedure which significantly simplifies the treatment for those systems which can be described in terms of fermionic operators. The proposed procedure allows to get an analytic solution, both for quadratic and for more general hamiltonians.