Sn2+ transferred hyperfine fields in the Europium monochalcogenides doped with tin monochalcogenides

EuS, EuSe, and EuTe (but not EuO) are found to form solid solutions with the corresponding tin monochalcogenides. Transferred hyperfine fields (≈ 50 kOe) observed at the tin nuclei in dilute solid solutions using Mossbauer spectroscopy are shown to be supertransferred from the 2nd Eu neighbors. Experiments are indicated in which the Sn²⁺ fields can be utilized for testing zero-point spin deviation predictions and the theory of the Heisenberg non-magnetic impurity problem.     

Biquadratic exchange in the diluted Ising ferromagnet

Effects of biquadratic exchange on Curie temperature and specific heat have been studied in the light of a new effective field theory for the Ising Spin System. The nearest neighbour interaction is taken into account.     

Reply to “comments on the paper ‘anti-stokes luminescence in Europium monochalcogenides’”

We discuss the assignment made in a previous paper by D. Hulin and C. Benoit à la Guillaume concerning one of the lines observed in the photoluminescence of EuO. We present further experimental evidence which discards the involvement of magnons in the luminescence process.     

Anti-stokes luminescence in europium monochalcogenides

Anti-Stokes luminescence or up-conversion has been observed in the europium monochalcogenides. The emission occurs from localized regions in the crystals and may be assigned to transitions within the 4f⁶ configurations of Eu³⁺. In addition, we have studied the temperature and magnetic field dependence of the previously reported luminescence within the 4f⁷ configurations of Eu²⁺. The data show that its previous interpretation in terms of magnon sidebands is questionable. A mechanism requiring the presence of impurities or defects is proposed for the spin-flip transitions involved in both luminescence processes.     

ESR study of exchange parameters in praseodymium monochalcogenides and monopnictides: Correlation with a pressure experiment

The exchange interaction between gadolinium ions and the host praseodymium ions in praseodymium monochalcogenides does not vary considerably across the chalcogenide series as it does in the case of the Van Vleck pnictides. The existence of a correlation between these results and a previous pressure study by Guertin et al. is pointed out.     

Magnetic properties of the cerium monochalcogenides

Single crystals of CeS, CeSe and CeTe have been investigated by means of measurements of the specific heat, the thermal expansion, the magnetic susceptibility and the magnetization at low temperatures. Crystal-field effects on some of these properties are used to derive the crystal-field splitting of the 4f electron ground state. It is found that chemical composition and crystal perfection strongly influence the magnetic properties of these compounds.     

Ultrasonic wave propagation in rare-earth monochalcogenides

The ultrasonic attenuation in thulium monochalcogenides TmX (X=S, Se and Te) has been studied theoretically with a modified Mason’s approach in the temperature and range 100 K to 300 K along 〈100〉, 〈110〉 〈111〉 crystallographic directions. The thulium monochalcogenides have attracted a lot of interest due to their complex physical and chemical characteristics. TmS, TmSe and TmTe are trivalent metal, mixed valence state, and divalent semiconductor, respectively. Coulomb and Born-Mayer potential is applied to evaluate the second- and third-order elastic constants. These elastic constants are used to compute ultrasonic parameters such as ultrasonic velocities, thermal relaxation time, and acoustic coupling constants that, in turn, are used to evaluate ultrasonic attenuation. A comparison of calculated ultrasonic parameters with available theoretical/experimental physical parameters gives information about classification of these materials.      

Propagation of ultrasonic waves in neptunium monochalcogenides

The ultrasonic attenuation and acoustic coupling constants due to phonon–phonon interaction and thermoelastic relaxation mechanisms have been studied for longitudinal and shear waves in B₁ structured neptunium monochalcogenides NpX (X: S, Se, Te) along 〈1 0 0〉 direction in the temperature range 100–300 K. The second and third order elastic constants (SOEC and TOEC) of the chosen monochalcogenides are also computed for the evaluation of ultrasonic parameters. The ultrasonic attenuation due to phonon–phonon interaction process is predominant over thermoelastic relaxation process in these materials. The ultrasonic attenuation in NpTe has been found lesser than other materials NpS, NpSe and GdY (Y: P, As, Sb and Bi). The semiconducting or semimetallic nature of neptunium monochalcogenides can be well understood with the study of thermal relaxation time. Total ultrasonic attenuation in these materials is found to be quadratic function of temperature. The nature of NpTe is very similar to semimetallic GdP. The mechanical and ultrasonic study indicates that NpTe is more reliable, perfect, flawless material.     

Inelastic light scattering in the Eu and Yb monochalcogenides

Multiphonon inelastic light scattering has been investigated in the magnetically ordering Eu and in the diamagnetic Yb monochalocogenides. All aspects of this scattering suggest that the multi-phonon lines results from recombination during time resolved relaxation ot the excited “hot” electron. The multiphonon scattering in these compounds is therefore interpreted by a two-step process of absorption followed by emission (hot luminescence). The observation of zone-center and zone-boundary multiphonon scattering is related to the electron-phonon coupling which is dependent on the kinetic energy of the excited photo-electron. Hence, with excitation into the bottom of the conduction band the coupling to the phonon system is dominated by the Fröhlich polaron concept, leading to zone-center LO scattering, whereas at higher excitation energies the electron-phonon coupling is no longer selective and is dependent primarily on the LO phonon density of states. The relaxation process and the electron-phonon coupling are strongly dependent on magnetic order. However, by comparison of the Eu monochalcogenides with the corresponding Yb compounds it is evident that the general phenomenon of multiphonon scattering in these compounds is independent of a spin system and is determined alone by the unique band structure.     

Competing exchange interactions in magnetic multilayers

We have studied alloying of the nonmagnetic spacer layer with a magnetic material as a method of tuning the interlayer coupling in magnetic multilayers. We have specifically studied the Fe/V(100) system by alloying the spacer V with various amounts of Fe. For some Fe concentrations in the spacer, it is possible to create a competition between antiferromagnetic Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yoshida exchange and direct ferromagnetic exchange coupling. The exchange coupling and transport properties for a large span of systems with different spacer concentrations and thicknesses were calculated and measured experimentally and good agreement between observations and theory was observed. A reduction in magnetoresistance of about 50% was observed close to the switchover from antiferromagnetic to ferromagnetic coupling.     

Strangeness exchange in high energy interactions

The average strangeness transfer computed for the K^±p interactions on the basis of the existing experimental data does not change appreciably in the 4 to 16 GeV/c beam momentum range, being negative for K⁺p and positive for K^?p interactions. Comparison with the electric charge transfer is made.     

High pressure structural phase transition in uranium monochalcogenides

The pressure induced phase transition in uranium monochalcogenides, UX (X = S, Se, and Te) is studied by two-body potential approach. It is found that US, USe and UTe undergo a structural phase transition from NaCl (B1) type to CsCl (B2) type at 78.5, 21 and 9.5 GPa, respectively, which is in good agreement with the recent experimental data. In addition, second-order elastic constants (SOECs) (C ₁₁, C ₁₂ and C ₁₄) have been calculated which can be used to establish the nature of the forces in these materials. The present study shows that the considered two-body potential model can be used to predict the phase transition pressure in UX compounds provided the strength and hardness parameters in B1 and B2 phases are different.     

Hadron-Hadron interactions from meson exchange

Several recent developments in the meson exchange theory of hadronic interactions are reviewed. After some introductory remarks about the relevance of the meson exchange concept in the era of QCD we will describe a dynamical model for correlated 2-exchange in the NN as well as the N interaction; for the NN system, it should replace the (sharp mass) and exchange used in the Bonn potential. Next we turn our attention to the interaction. A recently proposed meson exchange model can resolve in a natural way apparent discrepancies occurring in the analysis of different experiments in connection with the A₁ meson and leads to an appreciable softening of the NN form factor.Lecture presented at the Indian-Summer School on Interaction in Hadronic Systems, Praha (The Czech Republic), 25–31 August 1993.     

Manifestation of exchange effects in heavy-ion interactions

Three different approaches to taking into account exchange effects in heavy-ion collisions are studied. Within the first of them, the lowest eigenstates of the Hamiltonian are treated as forbidden states. In the second approach, the eigenstates of the normalization kernel of the resonating-group model that correspond to zero eigenvalues are treated as forbidden states. The third approach takes additionally into account semiforbidden states. The ¹⁶O + ¹⁶O system is considered. A hybrid approach that combines the methods of discrete and continuous mathematics is developed for calculating the widths of narrow resonance states. The resonance width calculated within the approach that takes into account semiforbidden states proves to be sharply different from the widths obtained within traditional approaches.     

Acoustic wave propagation in barium monochalcogenides in the B1 phase

Temperature dependence of ultrasonic attenuation due to phonon-phonon interaction and thermoelastic loss have been studied in (NaCl-type) barium monochalcogenides [BaX, X = S, Se, Te], in the temperature range 50–500 K; for longitudinal and shear modes of propagation along 〈100〉, 〈110〉, 〈111〉 directions. Second and third order elastic constants have been evaluated using electrostatic and Born repulsive potentials and taking interactions up to next nearest neighbours. Gruneisen parameters, nonlinearity constants, nonlinearity constants ratios and viscous drag due to screw and edge dislocations have also been evaluated for longitudinal and shear waves at 300 K. In the present investigation, it has been found that phonon-phonon interaction is the dominant cause for ultrasonic attenuation. The possible implications of results have been discussed. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

Theoretical studies on the high pressure phases of Lanthanum monochalcogenides

We report total energy and electronic structure calculations for lanthanum monochalcogenides in B1 (NaCl) and B2 (CsCl) crystal structures over a range of unit cell volumes. We employed the tight binding linear muffin-tin orbital approach to density functional theory within the local density approximation to expand the crystal orbitals and periodic electron density. In agreement with the experiment we find that B1 phase is lower in energy than B2 phase, and that the compounds transforms to B2 structure under applied pressure. This is the first qualitative prediction of the transition in La monochalcogenides and should be testable with diamond-anvil technique.     

Fault-tolerant quantum computation via exchange interactions

Quantum computation can be performed by encoding logical qubits into the states of two or more physical qubits, and control of effective exchange interactions and possibly a global magnetic field. This "encoded universality" paradigm offers potential simplifications in quantum computer design since it does away with the need to control physical qubits individually. Here we show how encoded universality schemes can be combined with fault-tolerant quantum error correction, thus establishing the scalability of such schemes.     

Magnetic ion exchange interactions in NiO-MgO solid solutions

In this work, a review of recent experimental data and their interpretation for Ni_cMg_1?cO solid solutions is given. In particular, the influence of exchange interactions between Ni²⁺ ions on the structural, optical, magnetic, and vibrational properties is discussed.