Selection of optical radiation in scattering in partially ordered disperse media

Results of theoretical studies of the interaction between optical radiation and partially ordered disperse media are reported. In terms of the amplitude-phase screen model consideration is given to the concentration effects of whitening and darkening in random close-packed systems of optically soft particles. The concentration dependence of transmission of close-packed systems of coarse particles is described with the use of a small-angle solution of the stochastic finite-difference transfer equation. The effects of coherent reirradiation occurring in close-packed monolayers of highly refracting particles are analyzed using a quasicrystalline approximation of the theory of multiple wave scattering and the radial particle distribution function obtained from a solution of the Percus-Yevick equation. This approach extended to multilayer systems is used to describe formation of forbidden photon zones in transmission spectra of one- and three-dimensional disperse systems with a high degree of ordering. Results of quantitative calculations are shown to agree well with experimental data. The possibility of using established regularities for optimization of spectral characteristics of selective elements based on spatially ordered disperse systems with different structural organization is discussed. Institute of Molecular and Atomic Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 70, F. Skorina Ave., Minsk, 220072, Belarus. Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 65, No. 5, pp. 721–733, September–October, 1998.     

ADBD plasma surface treatment of PES fabric sheets

Plasma treatment of textile fabrics is investigated as an alternative to the environmentally hazardous wet chemical fabric treatment and pretreatment processes. Plasma treatment usually results in modification of the uppermost atomic layers of a material surface and leaves the bulk characteristics unaffected. It may result in desirable surface modifications, e.g. surface etching, surface activation, cross-linking, chain scission and oxidation. Presented paper contains results of the applicability study of the atmospheric pressure dielectric discharge (ADBD), i.e. dielectric barrier discharge sustaining in air at atmospheric pressure and ambient temperature for synchronous treatment of several sheets of fabric. For tests sheets of polyester fabric were used. Effectivity of the modification process was determined with hydrophilicity measurements evaluated by means of the drop test. Hydrophilicity of individual sheets of fabric has distinctly increased after plasma treatment. Plasma induced surface changes of textiles were also proven by identification of new functional groups at the modified polyester fabric surface. Existence of new functional groups was detected by ESCA scans. For verification of surface changes we also applied high-resolution microphotography. It has shown distinct variation of the textile surface after plasma treatment. Important aspect for practical application of the plasma treatment is the modification effect time-stability, i.e. time stability of acquired surface changes of the fabric. The recovery of hydrophobicity was fastest in first days after treatment, later gradually diminished until reached almost original untreated state.     

Fluorescence of free complex molecules

A number of phenomena that determine the nature of the fluorescence of free complex molecules and the possibility of its analytical application are considered. Attention is specially paid to the specific features of the energetics of radiationless transitions, the role of statistical factors in the formation of spectral properties and the interrelationship among the luminescence-spectrum characteristics of rarefied vapors of complicated molecules, and the processes of energy transfer in collisions. The properties of polarized fluorescence of hot and jet-cooled vapors, the processes of relaxation of anisotropy in time and during collision reorientation, and transfer of anisotropy in photodisintegration are analyzed. Institute of Molecular and Atomic Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 70, F. Skorina Ave., Minsk, 220072, Belarus. Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 65, No. 5, pp. 620–634, September–October, 1998.     

Effects of linear absorption on the steady-state behavior of a photorefractive phase-conjugate mirror

A photorefractive phase-conjugate mirror with linear absorption is examined. An objective of this study is to identify possible effects of absorption on the self-oscillation conditions of the mirror and the properties of the excited conjugate wave. It has been found that self-oscillation is still possible in the presence of absorption. However, the coupling coefficient required for self-oscillation must increase in magnitude with increasing absorption coefficient to counteract the depressing effects of absorption. A consequence of self-oscillation in the presence of absorption is enhancement of the mirror reflectivity. A parametric study of the absorption-enhanced mirror is presented.The authors wish to acknowledge the contributions of Dai Sieh during the initial phase of this study. The work that he completed as part of his Master of Science thesis was an important element in our study of PCM reflectivity enhancement. The authors also acknowledge the assistance of Sahaid Rauf in carrying out some of the numerical solutions of Eq. 10, the governing equation of the self-oscillatory modes.     

On classification and special features of motion of dynamic systems

A number of debatable problems of modern nonlinear physics are discussed. A classification of deterministic systems with chaotic behavior by the degree of openness and type of motion is suggested. Examples of dynamic systems illustrating the consistency of this classification are presented, and special features of functioning of these systems and problems of quantitative estimation of the degree of randomness are considered. A strict definition of quasi-deterministic chaos is given. __________ Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 11, pp. 49–58, November, 2006.     

Representations of Lie algebras and the problem of noncommutative integrability of linear differential equations

An algorithm is proposed for integrating linear partial differential equations with the help of a special set of noncommuting linear differential operators — an analogue of the method of noncommutative integration of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems. The algorithm allows one to construct a parametric family of solutions of an equation satisfying the requirement of completeness. The case is considered when the noncommutative set of operators form a Lie algebra. An essential element of the algorithm is the representation of this algebra by linear differential operators in the space of parameters. A connection is indicated of the given method with the method of separation of variables, and also with problems of the theory of representations of Lie algebras. Let us emphasize that on the whole the proposed algorithm differs from the method of separation of variables, in which sets of commuting symmetry operators are used.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 4, pp. 95–100, April, 1991.     

Modern aspects of plastic deformation in metals

After a historical survey of crystal plasticity the rôle of dislocations in plastic deformation of metals is outlined. The theory of plastic deformation in metal single crystals before the impact of transmission electron microscopy is described. Recent experimental results on glide and workhardening in single crystals of b.c.c. metals are reviewed and explained by a simple dissociation model of the screw-dislocation cores. A relative success of this explanation together with calculations of atomic structure of dislocation cores support the conclusion that different structures of screw dislocation cores are responsible for both differences and similarities between plastic behaviour of f.c.c. and b.c.c. metals. Further developments in the field of metal crystal plasticity by modern experimental techniques (transmission electron microscopy of deformed crystals in the stress-applied state, magnetic studies of dislocations in ferromagnetic crystals) and by atomic calculations of defect configurations are discussed.Na Slovance 2, Praha 8, Czechoslovakia.Invited paper presented on a plenary session of the First European Conference on the Physics of Condensed Matter organized by the Board of the Condensed Matter Division of E.P.S., in Florence on 14–17 September 1971 (Chairman: Prof. S. F. Edwards; Schuster Laboratory, University of Manchester).     

Interval of equilibrium for the logarithmic potential of an extremal measure with a constraint, and the continuum limit of the Toda lattice

The equilibrium set, in the form of an interval on the real line, of the potential of an extremal measure for some energy minimization problem is studied for the energy functional with the logarithmic kernel provided that the external field exists. The minimum of the functional is sought on a set of measures bounded by a given measure. In particular, we prove that, under a special dependence of the external field on time, the ends of the interval of equilibrium satisfy a system of partial differential equations, the so-called continuum limit of the Toda lattice. Another result of the paper is a system of integral equations for the ends of the interval of equilibrium. Dedicated to the memory of B. M. Levitan Supported by RFBR grants nos. 05-01-00522 and NSh-1551.2003.1, by Program No. 1 of the Branch of Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, and by INTAS project no. 03-51-6637.     

Mössbauer study of the separation of the rf sideband and collapse effects in invar

This report describes an investigation of the influence of coating of invar foil with various materials on the sideband and collapse effects caused by an applied r.f. magnetic field. It is shown that coating of invar foil with nonmetallic materials causes a decrease of the r.f. sideband effect without affecting the r.f. collapse effect. Coating with metallic materials reduces both r.f. effects because of screening due to the r.f. field. The separation of the r.f. sideband and collapse effects due to coating allows us to distinguish the different origins of these effects, and suggests that the r.f. sidebands are of magneto-acoustic origin, while the r.f. collapse is of purely magnetic origin.     

Broadening and collisional interference of lines in the IR spectra of ammonia. Theory

The general theory of relaxation spectral shape parameters in the impact approximation (M. R. Cherkasov, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 141, 73 (2014)) is adapted to the case of line broadening of infrared spectra of ammonia. Specific features of line broadening of parallel and perpendicular bands are discussed. It is shown that in both cases the spectrum consists of independently broadened singlets and doublets; however, the components of doublets can be affected by collisional interference. The paper is the first part of a cycle of studies devoted to the problems of spectral line broadening of ammonia.     

The formation of molecular hydrogen through photolysis of water vapor in the presence of oxygen

1. A light source was constructed for the investigation of the photolysis of water vapor. A xenon discharge arc of a pressure of about 50 mm in a thin wall quartz tubing was used. 2. Molecular hydrogen formed from water vapor in the presence of other gases was measured by employing tritium as a tracer. A vacuum system was constructed, allowing the separation of water vapor from hydrogen to better than 10^?8 parts, and the counting of tritiated hydrogen in a Geiger counter. All measurements were carried out in a semi-quantitative way and it was found that the light source and the technique of measuring small amounts of free hydrogen by employing a tritium tracer can be used effectively for further studies of the reactions involving hydrogen and water. 3. Self-decomposition of tritiated water vapor with and without addition of oxygen was measured and was found to be negligible under the particular conditions of the experiments over periods of several months. 4. The photochemically induced exchange of tritium between tritiated water vapor and molecular hydrogen was studied. The quantum yield of this exchange was found to be under the conditions of the experiments of the order of one and probably slightly larger than one. 5. It was possible to demonstrate the formation of free hydrogen from the photolysis of water vapor in the presence of oxygen and to measure these amounts as a function of oxygen pressure. The steady state concentrations of H₂ formed from water vapor by irradiation in the presence of oxygen under the influence of UV light were found to be smaller than expected. 6. Photochemical oxidation of H₂ by O₂ under the particular conditions of the experiments and at pressures of about one millimeter was found to have a quantum yield of the order of magnitude of one.     

Photomagnetism of metals. first observation of dependence on polarization of light

We report the first observation of the polarization dependence of the d.c. photocurrent induced by illumination in Cu. The dependence of a d.c. photocurrent on the direction of the plane of light polarization is measured. In agreement with the theoretical considerations, the current parallel to the plane of light incidence is a symmetric function of the angle between this plane and the plane of light polarization. The angular-dependent part of the current perpendicular to the plane of light incidence is an antisymmetric function of the angle.     

On the most accurate measurements of the wavelengths of X-ray spectral lines

The paper discusses the influence of statistical errors in measuring the intensity of a spectral line on the exact determination of its wavelength. Using simplifying assumptions, it is shown that the relative error in measuring the wavelengths of spectral lines of the same type, caused by the statistical character of X-ray intensity measurements and by the influence of the true width of the spectral line, is practically constant under the same conditions, i.e. it is independent of the lattice parameters of the crystals used and of the wavelength of the spectral line. It seems that the latest exact measurements of Bearden confirm this result.The greatest care should therefore be devoted to the neighbourhood of inflection points of the curve representing the spectral line profile when making exact measurements of the spectral position of the lines.The author heartily thanks Professor M. A. Blochin for valuable remarks on this work.     

Scattering of electromagnetic waves by traveling-wave structures in the ionosphere

The diffraction of electromagnetic waves, incident obliquely on an ionospheric layer with density inhomogeneities of the traveling-wave type, is investigated by S. M. Rytov's method of smooth perturbations. The spatial dependencies of the properties of the ionosphere and of the wavelike inhomogeneities are taken into consideration. The diffraction patterns are analyzed for several variants of height profiles of the wave perturbations. The solutions obtained make it possible to estimate the effect of the form of ionospheric profile and the distribution of the level of disturbance of the wavelike inhomogeneities with respect to altitude on the diffraction effects.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 21, No. 12, pp. 1717–1727, December, 1978.The author expresses his appreciation to V. N. Krasil'nikov for attention and advice.     

Semiempirical calculation of the peroxide bridge in glassy silicon dioxide

The characteristics of a peroxide bridge are studied by the quantum-mechanical semiempirical method MPNDO/3 in the model of a molecular cluster. The geometry of the cluster was optimized for different distances between silicon atoms. The coordinates of the two oxygen atoms forming the peroxide bridge were employed as the optimization parameters. The minimum total energy of the cluster was sought. The scheme of single-electron levels was found. The effect of the peroxide bridge on the electronic structure of v-SiO₂ reduces to splitting of shallow levels from the edges of allowed bands, corresponding to strongly localized states. The energy of formation of a cluster in the presence of a peroxide bridge is close to the energy of formation of a cluster without defects.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 4, pp. 35–38, April, 1987.The authors thank Professor V. L. Bonch-Bruevich and the participants of his seminar at Moscow State University for their interest in this work and for useful discussions.     

Theory of spatiotemporal characteristics of laser emission. IV. Methods of controlling the spatial structures of laser beams in linear and nonlinear media

Part IV of the study continues the treatment of the theory of formation of laser beams with smooth spatial distribution, and of their conservation as they are transported in linear and nonlinear media. An exact solution is obtained for the problem of development of a small perturbation with an arbitrary amplitudephase distribution against the background of a plane wave with cubic nonlinearity. Self-consistent (waveguide) solutions of the nonlinear parabolic equation are obtained. The solutions demonstrate the effectiveness of suppression of small-scale self-focusing of diverging beams. The project of a high-aperture single-lens objective with aberration correction is developed and the relevant calculations are made.Quantum Radiophysics Division, Lebedev Physics Institute. Translated from Preprint No. 94 of the Lebedev Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, 1990.     

Thermodynamics and structural aspects of grain boundary segregation

Physical and chemical properties of solid materials are strongly. influenced by the chemical composition of internal interfaces, One of the crucial parameters affecting interfacial chemistry is the atomic structure of the interface. Due to its importance. a considerable amount of work was done to elucidate the relationship between structure and chemical composition of interfaces. This article reviews the present understanding of an important and fundamental part of this relationship, namely, the structural aspects of grain boundary segregation. After a brief outline of grain boundary structure and geometry. thermodynamic approaches to describe grain boundary segregation are summarized and their application to materials is discussed. covering particular sites at a single grain boundary as well as the role of interfaces in polycrystals. Both the experimental evidence of grain boundary segregation anisotropy and the theoretical results of computer simulations of grain boundary segregation are summarized. Useful methods of predicting grain boundary segregation are presented. Finally, segregation behavior of solutes at grain boundaries is compared with that at free surfaces, and examples of chemical composition of intexphase boundaries are given.     

Chromosomal differentiation of populations of Lysapsus limellus limellus, L. l. bolivianus, and of Lysapsus caraya (Hylinae, Hylidae)

Cytogenetic analysis were done on specimens from two populations of Lysapsus limellus limellus, three of L. l. bolivianus and of one of Lysapsus caraya. All animals showed a diploid chromosomal number of 2n=24. The karyotypes of the two L. limellus subspecies were very similar, differing only by the larger amount of telomeric heterochromatin and a small pericentromeric C-band on the short arms of pair 2 in L. l. limellus specimens. The karyotype of L. caraya differed from those of the two L. limellus subspecies in terms of chromosomal morphology, C-banding pattern and location of the main NOR on chromosomes 7 and 6, respectively. The karyotype of the L. l. bolivianus population from Guajará-Mirim/RO differed from those of the other populations of the same subspecies in morphology and heterochromatin pattern of chromosomes 7 and 8. Additional NORs were detected by silver staining and confirmed by FISH in one of the homologues of pairs 1 and 8 in L. l. bolivianus and in pair 7 in L. caraya. These results suggest that a reassessment of the taxonomic status of L. limellus subspecies, especially of the L. l. bolivianus populations, may be necessary.     

线型分子的电子能级之Λ分裂的新解释

认为电子态能级发生Λ分裂虽然是角动量引起的,但不是耦合而是运动牵连作用的结果.从这一认识出发,利用欧拉方程和拉格朗日方程分别得到了包含Λ分裂的分子转动哈密顿函数和哈密顿算符,所得结果与Van.Vleck的著名结论完全一致 关键词： Λ分裂 线型分子 欧拉方程 哈密顿算符     

Low-frequency noises as a tool for UV detector characterisation

Ultraviolet (UV) semiconductor detectors are mainly made of materials with wide energy gap, i.e., of AlGaN, GaP, SiC, and diamond. The article describes methodology of measurements of characteristics of low-frequency noises of UV detectors and presents the developed measuring system. Basing on analysis of noise characteristics of detectors, an optimal working point of detector can be determined. The results of measurements of noise characteristics of UV detectors made of AlGaN are shown. The measurements have been carried out in wide range of temperatures for several values of a detector supply voltage.