Interface Instability of Diamond Crystals at High Temperature and High Pressure

Diamond growth instability at high temperature and high pressure (HPHT) has been elucidated by observing the cellular interface in diamond crystals.The HPHT diamond crystals grow layer by layer from solution of carbon in the molten catalyst.In the growth of any other cyrstals from solution,the growth interface is not stable and should be of the greatest significance to understand further the diamond growth mechanism.During the diamond growth,the carbon atoms are delivered to the growing diamond crystal by diffusion through a diamond crystal-solution boundary layer.In front of the boundary layer,there is a narrow constitutional supercooling zone related to the solubility difference between diamond and graphite in the molten catalyst.The diamond growth stability is broken,and the flat or planar growth interface transforms into a cellular interface due to the light supercooling.The phenomenon of solute trails in the diamonds was observed,the formation of solute trails was closely associated with the cellular interface.     

Elastic Properties of Rutile TiO2 at High Temperature

Dependence of elastic properties on temperature for rutile TiO2 is investigated by the Cambridge Serial Total Energy Package （CASTEP） program in the frame of density function theory （DFT） and the quasi-harmonic Debye model The six independent elastlc constants of rutile TiO2 at high temperature are theoretically obtained for the first time. It is found that with increasing temperature, the elastic constants will decrease monotonically. Moreover, we successfully obtain the polycrystalline moduli BH and GH, as well as the Debye temperature ⊙D.     

Chemical Synthesis and Characterization of Flaky h-BCN at High Pressure and High Temperature

Hexagonal boron carbonitrogen （h-BCN） compound is synthesized from a mixture of boron powder and CNH compound prepared by pyrolysis of melamine （CaH6N6） under high temperature （1400-1500℃） and high pressure （5.0-5.5 GPa）. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and Raman spec- troscopy are used to determine the chemical composition and bonds of the product. The results show that the product has composition of B0.18C0.64N0.16 （near BC4N） and atomic-level hybrid. X-ray diffraction analysis indicates that the powder has a hexagonal network structure. Scanning and transmission electron microscopy results suggest that h-BCN compound morphology is mainly flaky in width about 1 μm and thickness 200nm.     

In-Situ Measurement of Electrical Character of PbTe at High Pressure and High Temperature

There is a widespread interest in lead telluride (PbTe) as a good thermoelectric material. We report the temperature dependence of thermopower S(T) and resistance R(T) for PbTe at the different pressures of from 1.8GPa to 5 GPa obtained by using the cubic anvil high pressure apparatus. With increasing pressure, R(T) and S(T) decrease. The effect of pressure on R(T) is larger than that on S(T). The power factor that is determined by thermopower and resistivity increases with increasing pressure. This method is an efficient tool for synthesizing good thermoelectric materials at high pressure and high temperature.     

Twin diamond Crystals Grown at High Temperature and High Pressure from the Fe-Ni-C System

Twin diamond crystals grown at high temperature and high pressure (HPHT) in the presence of FeNi catalyst have been examined by transmission electron microscopy(TEM).Direct observation by TEM shows that there are a large amount of twins which lie on the {111} planes in the HPHT-grown diamonds.The twins in the diamond may be formed and may extend into the inner crystal from the twin nucleus formed in the nucleation process.The twins can be formed due to the carbon atoms falling mistakenly into positions where a twin crystal can form during diamond growth,or condensation of supersaturated vacancies on the {111} plane.some hexagonal dislocation loops related to supersaturated vacancies are found on the twins.The Moire fringe image reveals that stacking faults terminate on the intersecting twin boundary.This suggests that,at the temperature that the HPHT diamond is grown,the bordering partial has propagated by gliding up to the twin interface,which can be described by the reaction of a Shockley partial dislocation with a twin on the {111} plane.     

Why Do Deconfinement and Chiral Restoration Coincide at High Temperature？

The global colour model in free space is extended to finite temperature to study the deconfinement and chlral phase transitions at high temperature T and zero chemical potential in the mean field approximation. Both possibilities of coincidence and non-coincidence of the two distinct phase transitions are found when the model     

Phase Transition and EOS of Cinnabar （α-HgS） at High Pressure and High Temperature

Phase relations and equation of state （EOS） of natural cinnabar （α-HgS） are investigated by high-pressure and high-temperature synchrotron x-ray powder diffraction. The unambiguous cinnabar-rocksalt structure phase boundaries are determined to be PI （GPa）=15.54- 0.014T（℃） and Pupper（GPa）= 23.84- 0.014T（℃） at 300-623K. With K1 fixed at 4, we obtain K0 = 37（4） GPa, （aK/aT）p= -0.025（2） GPaK-1, and α0 = 3.79（20） × 10-5 K-1 for the cinnabar phase of α-HgS. The （aK/aT）p and α0 of cinnabar phase are obtained for the first time. A nearly isotropic compression of cinnabar phase is observed by linear regressions.     

Dielectric Properties of Nuclear Matter with the ωNN Interaction at High Temperature

Based on the QHD-1 field equation, the dielectric constant of nuclear matter with the ωNN interaction has been obtained in the framework of kinetic theory. Furthermore, the characters and physical background of the dielectric constant at high temperature is analyzed in detail.     

Decay of the Bethe–Salpeter Kernel and Bound States for Lattice Classical Ferromagnetic Spin Systems at High Temperature

We consider lattice classical ferromagnetic spin systems at high temperature (1) with nearest neighbor interactions and even single-spin distributions (ssd). Associated with each system is an imaginary time lattice quantum field theory. It is known that there is a particle of mass m–ln in the energy-momentum spectrum. If s ⁴–3s ²²<0, where s ^k is the kth moment of the ssd, and is sufficiently small, we show that in the two-particle subspace there is no mass spectrum up to 2m. For >0 we show that the only mass spectrum in (m, 2m) is a bound state of mass m _b=2m+ln(1–)+O(), where =(+2s ²²)^–1. A bound on the decay of the kernel of a Bethe–Salpeter equation is obtained and used to prove these results.     

“Free” Evolution of Multi-particle Excitations in the Glauber Dynamics at High Temperature

The paper is devoted to the spectral properties of the Glauber dynamics for the Ising model at high temperature 1/. It is proven that for sufficiently small || there is an invariant subspace, in which the dynamics can be described as a free multi-particle evolution, provided that the one-particle subspace is singled out. The proof is based upon the Haag–Ruelle scattering theory.     

A Calculation Approach to Elastic Constants of Crystallines at High Pressure and Finite Temperature

Elastic constants of Na and Li metals are calculated successfully for temperatures up to 350K and pressures up to 30GPa using a scheme without involving any adjustable parameter.Elastic constants are assumed to depend only on an effective pair potential that is only determined by the average interatomic distance.Temperature has an effect on elastic constants by way of charging the equilibrium.The elastic constants can be obtained by fitting the relationship between total energy and strain tensor using the new set of lattice parameters obtained by calculating displacement of atoms at the finite temperature and at a fixed pressure.The relationship between the effective pair potential and the interatiomic distance is fitted by using a series of data of cohesive energy corresponding to lattice parameters.     

Effect of Temperature on the Void Growth in Pure Aluminium at High Strain-Rate Loading

With the environment temperature varying from 273 K to 773 K, the dynamic process of void growth in pure aluminium at high strain-rate loading is calculated based on the dynamic growth equation of a void with internal pressure. The result shows that the effect of temperature on the growth of void should be emphasized. Because the initial pressure of void with gas will increase and the viscosity of materials will decrease with the rising of temperature, the growth of void is accelerated. Furthermore, material inertia restrains the growth of void evidently when the diameter exceeds 10 μm. The effect of surface tension is very weak in the whole process of void growth.     

Boron–Carbon Nanocomposites Fabricated at High Pressures and Temperatures

Interaction of amorphous boron and C₆₀ fullerite is analyzed at pressures of 2.0 and 7.7. GPa and temperatures of 600–1800°C. Effect of pressure and temperature on the material structure is studied, temperatures for synthesis of boron carbide and diamond are found, and the sequence of transformations of the carbon component is determined. Ultrasonic method is used to measure elastic moduli of the samples, and the dependences of the moduli on the structure are analyzed. It is demonstrated that the boron–carbon nanocomposite synthesized at relatively low pressure (2.0 GPa) and temperature (about 1000°C) exhibits high elastic parameters (bulk modulus, B ≈ 75.3–84.0 GPa; Young modulus, E ≈ 108–119 GPa; and shear modulus, G ≈ 43–47 GPa at a density of about 2.2 g/cm³). The results can be used for development of novel nanocomposite materials.     

Painlevé Representation of Tracy–Widom{_\beta} Distribution for {\beta} = 6

In Rumanov (J Math Phys 56:013508, 2015), we found explicit Lax pairs for the soft edge of beta ensembles with even integer values of \({\beta}\). Using this general result, the case \({\beta = 6}\) is further considered here. This is the smallest even \({\beta}\), when the corresponding Lax pair and its relation to Painlevé II (PII) have not been known before, unlike cases \({\beta = 2}\) and 4. It turns out that again everything can be expressed in terms of the Hastings–McLeod solution of PII. In particular, a second order nonlinear ordinary differential equation (ODE) for the logarithmic derivative of Tracy–Widom distribution for \({\beta = 6}\) involving the PII function in the coefficients is found, which allows one to compute asymptotics for the distribution function. The ODE is a consequence of a linear system of three ODEs for which the local singularity analysis yields series solutions with exponents in the set 4/3, 1/3 and ?2/3.     

Nonmonotonic Behavior in Hard-Core and Widom–Rowlinson Models

We give two examples of nonmonotonic behavior in symmetric systems exhibiting more than one critical point at which spontanoous symmetry breaking appears or disappears. The two systems are the hard-core model and the Widom–Rowlinson model, and both examples take place on a variation of the Cayley tree (Bethe lattice) devised by Schonmann and Tanaka. We obtain similar, though less constructive, examples of nonmonotonicity via certain local modifications of any graph, e.g., the square lattice, which is known to have a critical point for either model. En route we discuss the critical behavior of the Widom–Rowlinson model on the ordinary Cayley tree. Some results about monotonicity of the phase transition phenomenon relative to graph structure are also given.     

Experimental Study of High Temperature Fracture Behavior of A286 Superalloy at 650°C

In this paper an experimental work is done for investigation of high temperature fracture properties of A286 superalloy at 650°C. Stress intensity factor K and parameter C* for this superalloy are determined experimentally. For estimation of these parameters, an instrument is developed for investigation of high temperature fracture properties. For estimation of stress intensity factor, compliance method is used. For this purpose four different compact tension specimens are tested and the parameter K is estimated. Creep tests are done for the selected specimens and parameter C* is determined by semiempirical relationships at 650°C. In these tests it is concluded that the specimens are placed near the plane stress condition. Crack growth behavior of this alloy is also studied. High incubation time (600 h) leads to overaging and therefore this alloy after this time showed very ductile creep properties, and fast creep crack growth was the major result of this overaging phenomenon. Finally the obtained results are compared with well-known nonexperimental methods for determination of these parameters. The obtained results showed that the results are in good agreement with each other.     

Electrical Conductivity of Synthetic Quartz Crystals at High Temperature and Pressure from Complex Impedance Measurements

An electrical conductivity measurement system under high-pressure conditions with a multi-anvil high-pressure apparatus by an ac complex impedance method was set up.With this system,we have successfully measured the electrical conductivity of synthetic quartz under pressure up to approximately 1.0GPa in the temperature range 661-987K.The values of electrical conductivity decrease with the increasing pressure and increase with the increasing temperature.The activation enthalpies for the α-quartz crystals are 1.10-1.28eV.The electrical conductivity of α-quartz is ionic,with Na ions moving in channels parallel to the c-axis being the predominant current carrier.     

Semiconductor–Metal Transition in Magnetic Semiconductor Compounds at High Pressure

Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics - The magnetic, transport, and magnetotransport properties of ferromagnetic Zn0.1Cd0.9GeAs2 + 10% MnAs and Zn0.1Cd0.9GeAs2 + 15% MnAs nanocomposites...     

A Note on the Quantum Widom–Rowlison Model

Using the renormalization methods we show that the symmetry breaking in the quantum Widom–Rowlison model of particles obeying Boltzmann statistics occurs at any value of the inverse temperature >0 once the activity of the particles is sufficiently large.     

Effect of Metallic Film in Diamond Growth from an Fe—Ni—C System at High Temperature and High Pressure

The metallic film surrounding a diamond single crystal,which plays an important role the diamond growth from and Fe-Ni-C system,has been successfully investigated by using transmission-electron microscopy(TEM),Raman layer(near diamond)of the film by TEM and Raman spectroscopy,but a parallel relationship exists between the(111) plane of γ-(Fe,Ni) and the (100) plane of (Fe2Ni)3C in this region.Compared with that of the film has an increase of 0.9V.According to the microstructures on the film obtained by the TEM.Raman spectra,and XPS,the catalytic mechanism of the film may be assumed as follows.In the surface layer of the film,iron and nickel atoms in the γ-(Fe,Ni) lattice can absorb carbon atoms in the (Fe,Ni)3C lattice and make them transform to an sp^3-like state.Then carbon atoms with the sp^3-like structure are separated from the (Fe,Ni)3C and stack on the growing diamond crystal.This study provides a direct evidence for the diamond growth from a metallic catlayst-graphite system under high temperature and high pressure.