Dynamic evolution of the short laser-induced inclusion plasma explosion

When femtosecond laser irradiates materials, plasma with high electronic temperature and low lattice temperature will form due to very high laser power density. This plasma with high electronic temperature cannot exist stably, and it has a trend to expand. If the plasma inclusion is initialized, it will be confined by outer layers when it expands. In this paper, the energy conservation rule was used to analyze the mechanical evolution of inclusion of plasma explosion. An inequality for judging whether the film can be damaged has been deduced.     

Plasma model of carrier transportation in photoelectric semiconductor detectors

A new model, called the plasma model, describing carrier transportation in photoelectric semiconductor detectors is proposed. Semiconductor material under laser irradiation is regarded as a plasma of low temperature with high carrier density, and it is considered that the carrier temperature is different from the lattice temperature when the irradiating laser power is high but lower than the damage threshold of the detectors. Equations for the carrier density, velocity and temperature are established. According to the model, numerical simulations of a photoconductive semiconductor detector were carried out by programming. The instantaneous change behaviors of the photoconductive detector are obtained. The results of the numerical calculation match well with the experimental results. PACS 42.65.Sf; 85.60.Gz     

Temperature dependence of the near-infrared and visible reflectance spectrum of TTF-TCNQ

The near-infrared and visible reflectance spectrum was measured on TTF-TCNQ single crystal at temperatures in the range of 30–300 K, and near-infrared reflectance data were analysed by means of the Drude model. The plasma frequency was found to increase significantly on lowering the temperature. From the comparison with the pressure dependence of the plasma frequency, it is concluded that the observed temperature dependence of the plasma frequency arises not only from the change of the lattice constants but also from the change of the charge-transfer degree. The inverse of the electronic relaxation time was found to depend linearly on the temperature, suggesting that it is dominantly determined by the electron-phonon scattering.     

30CrMnSiNi2A晶格参量的测量及回复规律研究

针对X射线衍射领域中晶面衍射峰重叠问题,提出一种新的重叠峰分离方法.采用RU-200V转靶衍射仪对30CrMnSiNi2A晶格参量及其回复规律进行研究,得出不同回火温度下晶格参量与碳含量的变化关系.研究结果发现:由于碳的过饱和度不同以及合金元素的影响,30CrMnSiNi2A与高碳马氏体晶格参量的变化规律虽基本符合,但其变化速率存在差异.在不同回火温度下晶格参量a基本与碳含量无关,随着回火温度升高,a值略有下降.晶格参量c则随碳含量的变化幅度较大,从淬火态到180℃回火态出现一个陡降过程,随着回火温度升高,其变化幅度又趋于平缓.     

Revisiting the quasi-particle model of the quark–gluon plasma

The quasi-particle model of the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) is revisited here with a new method, different from earlier studies, one without the need of a temperature dependent bag constant and other effects such as confinement, effective degrees of freedom etc. Our model has only one system dependent parameter and shows a surprisingly good fit to the lattice results for the gluon plasma, and for 2-flavor, 3-flavor and (2+1)-flavor QGP. The basic idea is first to evaluate the energy density ε from the grand partition function of quasi-particle QGP, and then derive all other thermodynamic functions from ε. Quasi-particles are assumed to have a temperature dependent mass equal to the plasma frequency. Energy density, pressure and speed of sound at zero chemical potential are evaluated and compared with the available lattice data. We further extend the model to a finite chemical potential, without any new parameters, to obtain the quark density, quark susceptibility etc., and the model fits very well with the lattice results on 2-flavor QGP. PACS 12.38.Mh; 12.38.Gc; 05.70.Ce; 52.25.Kn     

皮秒激光烧蚀Al膜的理论分析与实验验证

为研究Al膜受短脉冲激光作用时的能量传输过程,建立了一维半经典双温热传导模型。根据材料加工过程的熔化现象,对模型的相变区域进行有效设置。通过有限元法求解,得到晶格温度随时间分布的规律。根据自由电子气理论优化了模型,得到Al膜表面反射率和热吸收系数随时间的分布图。得到了激光辐照所产生热电场的分布规律,并分析了电子温度梯度对其影响。描绘出电子漂移运动速度的分布规律,证实激光作用产生的热电场是电子漂移运动的主导因素,发现最大漂移速度位置随时间的延长而加深。对激光作用后的晶格温度进行了区域性分析,定义了过热加热区,并得到激光烧蚀深度随时间的变化关系。实验结果表明,不同功率皮秒激光烧蚀Al膜的深度接近于理论计算结果。     

Heat transfer in a two-dimensional crystalline complex (dusty) plasma

Heating and heat transfer were studied in a two-dimensional crystalline complex plasma at the kinetic level. The lattice was formed of microspheres levitated in a plasma sheath. One half of the crystal was heated anisotropically to obtain higher kinetic temperatures in one direction and heat conduction was observed in real time. It was found that the longitudinal phonons conduct heat better than the transverse. The thermometric conductivity coefficient was measured to be 53 mm2/s for longitudinal heating and 30 mm2/s for transverse heating. Heat decay lengths and energy exchange times between the temperature components were determined.     

Properties of quark gluon plasma from lattice calculations

I discuss lattice QCD calculations of the properties of strongly interacting matter at finite temperature, including the determination of the transition temperature T_c, equation of state, different static screening lengths and quarkonium spectral functions. The lattice data suggest that at temperatures above 2.0T_c many properties of the quark gluon plasma can be understood using weak coupling approach, although non-perturbative effects due to static magnetic fields are significant in some quantities.     

On a non-perturbative pressure effect in lattice QCD

We analyse Monte-Carlo data for the thermodynamical functions in lattice QCD. The linear in temperature non-perturbative contribution into the pressure of quark-gluon plasma is found.     

Structural properties of complex (dusty) plasma upon crystallization and melting

A change in the local order of a bounded complex (dusty) plasma in the process of its crystallization and melting has been examined by molecular dynamics simulations. The dynamics of microparticles is considered in the framework of a Langevin thermostat, the pair interaction between charged particles is described by a screened Coulomb potential (Yukawa potential) with the hard wall potential as a confinement. It has been shown that the beginning of the crystallization of such a system is accompanied by the formation of clusters with the hexagonal close packed (hcp) structure; a noticeable number of these clusters are then transformed to the face centered cubic (fcc) phase. A plasma crystal formed after crystallization consists of the metastable hcp phase, fcc clusters, and a small number of clusters with a body centered cubic (bcc) crystal lattice. Beginning with a certain threshold value of the thermostat temperature, the number of fcc/bcc clusters decreases sharply with increasing temperature, which is an important signature of the beginning of the melting of the plasma crystal.     

QCD thermodynamics from the lattice

We review the current methods and results of lattice simulations of quantum chromodynamics at nonzero temperatures and densities. The review is intended to introduce the subject to interested nonspecialists and beginners. It includes a brief overview of lattice gauge theory, a discussion of the determination of the crossover temperature, the QCD phase diagram at zero and nonzero densities, the equation of state, some in-medium properties of hadrons including charmonium, and some plasma transport coefficients.     

Stimulated Raman scattering of lattice translational modes in liquid heavy water

A study was conducted on stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) when laser-induced plasma is formed in heavy water by focusing an intense picosecond pulsed Nd:YAG laser beam with wavelength 532 nm at room temperature. An unexpected 280 cm(-1) low frequency SRS line attributed to the lattice translational modes is observed. This SRS line and the internal-mode SRS lines indicate that the ice VII structure is formed in heavy water under the condition of laser-induced shockwave production.     

Observation of self-organized square lattice pattern formation in surface barrier discharge plasma

The experimental observation of a two-dimensional self-organized square lattice pattern in a planar surface barrier discharge is reported. The discharge was operated near atmospheric pressure in helium gas. The transition from irregular plasma spot pattern to a square lattice pattern is achieved by reducing the discharge driving frequency. On increasing the driving frequency the regular lattice pattern is destroyed and again transforms to an irregular plasma spot pattern. Dielectric degradation and powder formation is also observed after discharge process. Spatio-temporal behavior of observed plasma pattern is presented.     

Dependence of limited radiative recombination rate of InGaN-based light-emitting diode on lattice temperature with high injection

It is observed that the radiative recombination rate in InGaN-based light-emitting diode decreases with lattice temperature increasing.The effect of lattice temperature on the radiative recombination rate tends to be stable at high injection.Thus,there should be an upper limit for the radiative recombination rate in the quantum well with the carrier concentration increasing,even under the same lattice temperature.A modified and easily used ABC-model is proposed.It describes that the slope of the radiative recombination rate gradually decreases to zero,and further reaches a negative value in a small range of lattice temperature increasing.These provide a new insight into understanding the dependence of the radiative recombination rate on lattice temperature and carrier concentration in InGaN-based light-emitting diode.     

Analytic methods in nonperturbative QCD

Recently developed analytic methods in the framework of the Field Correlator Method are reviewed in this series of four lectures and results of calculations are compared to lattice data and experiment. Recent lattice data demonstrating the Casimir scaling of static quark interaction strongly support the FCM and leave very little space for all other theoretical models, e.g. instanton gas/liquid model. Results of calculations for mesons, baryons, quarkgluon plasma and phase transition temperature demonstrate that new analytic methods are a powerful tool of nonperturbative QCD along with lattice simulations.     

A lattice test of strong coupling behaviour in QCD at finite temperature

We propose a set of lattice measurements which could test whether the deconfined, quark–gluon plasma, phase of QCD shows strong coupling aspects at temperatures a few times the critical temperature for deconfinement. The measurements refer to twist-two operators which are not protected by symmetries and which in a strong-coupling scenario would develop large, negative, anomalous dimensions, resulting in a strong suppression of the respective lattice expectation values in the continuum limit. Special emphasis is put on the twist-two operator with lowest spin (the spin-2 operator orthogonal to the energy–momentum tensor within the renormalization flow) and on the case of quenched QCD, where this operator is known for arbitrary values of the coupling: this is the quark energy–momentum tensor. The proposed lattice measurements could also test whether the plasma constituents are pointlike (as expected at weak coupling), or not.     

Optical study on intermediate-valence compounds Yb_(1-x)Lu_xAl_3

We report an optical spectroscopy study on intermediate valence system Yb_(1-x)Lu_xAl_3 with x = 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, and 1. The Kondo temperature in the system is known to increase with increasing Lu concentration. Therefore, it is expected that the energy scale of the hybridization gap should increase with increasing Lu concentration based on the periodic Anderson model. On the contrary, we find that the spectral structure associated with the hybridization effect shifts monotonically to lower energy. Furthermore, the Lu substitution results in a substantial increase of the free carrier spectral weight and less pronounced plasma frequency reduction upon lowering temperature. We attribute the effect to the disruption of the Kondo lattice periodicity by the random substitution of Yb by Lu. The work highlights the importance of the lattice periodicity of the rare earth element for understanding the Kondo lattice phenomena.     

Lattice QCD at finite temperature and density

QCD at finite temperature and density is becoming increasingly important for various experimental programmes, ranging from heavy ion physics to astro-particle physics. The non-perturbative nature of non-abelian quantum field theories at finite temperature leaves lattice QCD as the only tool by which we may hope to come to reliable predictions from first principles. This requires careful extrapolations to the thermodynamic, chiral and continuum limits in order to eliminate systematic effects introduced by the discretization procedure. After an introduction to lattice QCD at finite temperature and density, its possibilities and current systematic limitations, a review of present numerical results is given. In particular, plasma properties such as the equation of state, screening masses, static quark free energies and spectral functions are discussed, as well as the critical temperature and the QCD phase structure at zero and finite density.     

Experimental study of cyclic action of plasma on tungsten

We report on experimental results on multiple action of hydrogen, deuterium, and helium plasmas produced by a plasma gun and the Globus-M tokamak on tungsten. The surface temperature in the course of irradiation is measured with a bichromatic pyrometer with a time resolution of ?1 μs. The morphology of the surface layer is investigated and X-ray structure analysis of tungsten exposed to multiple radiations by the plasma under various conditions is carried out. A slight decrease in the lattice parameter in the sample subjected to the maximal number of irradiation cycles is detected. It is shown that the morphology of the tungsten surface irradiated by the hydrogen plasma from the gun and by the deuterium plasma from the Globus-M tokamak changes (the structure becomes smoother). The characteristic depth of the layer in which impurities have been accumulated exceeds 0.5 μm. This depth was the largest for the sample exposed to 1000 shots from the gun and 2370 shots from the tokamak. It is shown that the helium jet from the plasma gun makes it possible to simulate the action of helium ions on the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) diverter, producing a layer of submicrometer particles (bubbles).     

Optically pumped,indirect-gap Al_{\rm x}Ga_{1-{\rm x}}As lasers

We demonstrate optically pumped lasers with active layers of indirect-gap AlGaAs operating up to room temperature. The emission wavelength is 609 nm at 20 K and 639 nm at 300 K, respectively. The laser threshold shows a weak sensitivity on the lattice temperature. The relevant parameters of the lectron-hole plasma close to threshold are determined from gain spectroscopy using the variable stripe-length method. Received: 20 June 1996 / Accepted: 14 August 1996