Free electron in compressed inert gases

The behavior of excess and intrinsic free electrons inside compressed inert gases is described as a function of pressure by using a pairwise approximation for the electron interaction with atomic surroundings. The change of sign from negative to positive for the xenon atom electric potential inside condensed xenon is predicted to occur at a pressure around 3 GPa, preventing slow electron embedding into solid xenon from the gas phase at higher pressure. To overcome this difficulty, the electrons should be injected into a solid sample just before its pulsed shock loading. The ionization of xenon by pressure and its further metallization are described by decreasing the forbidden gap at the expense of increasing the xenon ground electronic term and simultaneous splitting of the upper ionized electronic state. A good coincidence between the calculated and measured pressure of the dielectric-metal transition in xenon is demonstrated. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

The tube character of electron drift in condensed inert gases

The behavior of an excess electron in condensed inert gases in an external electric field is considered at densities and temperatures at which the mobility of a slow electron is relatively high. On the basis of experimental data and a model of a pair electron interaction with atoms, an effective potential energy surface is constructed for an excess electron inside a dense inert gas. The region available for a slow electron consists of many intersecting channels that form a Delaunay network located between atoms. A drifting electron, as a quantum object, propagates along these channels (tubes), and electron transition between intersecting potential energy tubes of different directions provides an effective electron scattering. This mechanism of electron drift and scattering differs from that in gases and crystals. Peculiarities of electron drift inside dense inert gases are analyzed within the framework of this mechanism of electron scattering, leading to a moderate change of the electron mobility upon melting.     

On the surface energy of crystals of inert gases

The dependences of the specific surface energy (σ) and its isochoric temperature derivative (?σ/?T) _V on the degree of compression (V/V ₀) of the crystal are calculated on the basis of the Mie-Lennard-Jones pair potential of interatomic interaction. The calculations are performed for all face-centered cubic crystals of inert gases (from Ne to Rn) to the degree of compression V/V ₀ = 0.016 along three isotherms: 1K, T _m and 300 K, where T _m is the melting temperature at zero pressure (V/V ₀ = 1). The activation processes such as the creation of vacancies and self-diffusion are taken into account in the calculations. It is shown that the isotherm σ(V/V ₀) reaching its maximum at (V/V ₀)_max sharply decreases upon further compression. The surface energy becomes negative (σ(V/V ₀) _fr =0) at V/V ₀ ≤ (V/V ₀) _fr < (V/V ₀)_max which should stimulate the process of crystal fragmentation, i.e., an increase in the specific (per atom) intercrystallite surface. It is shown that at high temperatures the condition of fragmentation holds in the crystal in the case of uniform tension, but it is already in the region of the liquid phase. The values of σ, (?σ/?T) _V , the vacancy concentration and the fraction of the diffusion atoms are estimated at the points: V/V ₀ = 1, (V/V ₀)_max and (V/V ₀) _fr at 1 K, Tm and 300 K. The size evolution of the surface and activation parameters is studied using neon as an example.     

Electron clusters in inert gases

This Letter addresses the counterintuitive behavior of electrons injected into dense cryogenic media with negative scattering length L. Instead of strongly reduced mobility at all but the lowest densities due to the polaronic effect involving the formation of density enhancement clusters (expected in the theory with a simple gas-electron interaction successfully applied earlier to electrons in helium where L>0) which should substantially decrease the electron mobility, an opposite picture is observed: with increasing |L| (the trend taking place for inert gases with the growth of atomic number) and the gas density, the electrons remain practically free. An explanation of this behavior is provided based on consistent accounting for the nonlinearity of the electron interaction with the gaseous medium in the gas atom number density.     

Melting of the condensed inert gases

The melting of a macroscopic system of bound atoms with a pairwise interaction is examined as a vacancy formation process. It is found that the existence of a liquid state is related to a double-humped dependence of the partition function on the number of vacancies, where the peaks correspond to the solid and liquid states and the heights of the peaks are equal at the melting point. In order for the liquid state to form, the derivative of the vacancy interaction with respect to energy must have a maximum. The vacancies are compressed as a result of the interaction. In the condensed inert gases, the specific energy of vacancy formation is proportional to the resulting empty space per atom. Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 112, 1847–1862 (November 1997)     

Defects in room temperature solid inert gases

We report on the use of high resolution electron microscopy and optical processing techniques to study defects in solid inert gas precipitates (bubbles) formed by ion implantation into aluminium. Faceted precipitates, of the order of 5 run in length and epitaxial with the aluminium, in some cases exhibit a high degree of crystalline perfection but in others departure from the regular atomic arrangement is evident in the lattice images. Optical processing techniques have been applied to enhance the lattice images and in some cases to colour encode the aluminium and inert gas spacings present in the micrograph, with the aim of indentifying specific defect structures in the inert gas solid. We demonstrate that the solid “bubble”, formed in a metal by ion implantation, provides a means of studying defects in a simple insulator, the rare gas solid.     

Anomalous transition to turbulence in inert gases

It is found experimentally that the critical Reynolds numbers for the transition to turbulence are different for He, Ar, and Kr flows. Pis’ma Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 68, No. 7, 557–559 (10 October 1998)     

Beam instability of afterglow plasma in inert gases

The paper considers the conditions under which the development of beam instabilities of the after-glow plasma in inert gases is possible. The validity of assumptions has been experimentally confirmed.     

Processes in condensed inert gases involving excess electrons

Drift of an excess electron in dense and condensed inert gases in external electric field and excitation of atoms by electron impact in these systems are analyzed. The effective potential energy surface for an excess electron at a given electric field strength consists of wells and hills, and the actions of neighboring atoms are therefore separated by saddles of the potential energy. At such atomic densities that the difference of interaction potentials for an excess electron between neighboring wells and hills of the potential energy surface becomes small, the electron mobility is large. This is realized for heavy inert gases (Ar, Kr, Xe) with a negative scattering length of an electron on individual atoms. In these cases, the average potential energy of the electron interaction with atoms corresponds to attraction at low atomic densities and to repulsion at high densities. The transition from attraction to repulsion at moderate atomic densities leads to a maximum of the electron mobility. A gas model for electron drift in condensed inert gases is constructed on the basis of this character of interaction. Due to high electron mobility, condensed inert gases provide high efficiency of transformation of the electric field energy into the energy of emitting photons through drifting electrons. It is shown that, although the role of formation of autodetaching states in the course of electron drift is more important for condensed inert gases than for rare gases, this effect acts weakly on exciton production at optimal atomic densities. The parameters of a self-maintained electric discharge in condensed inert gases as a source of ultraviolet radiation are discussed from the standpoint of electron drift processes.     

Nonlinear pressure shifts of alkali-metal atoms in inert gases

Precise measurements show that the microwave resonance frequencies of ground-state Rb or Cs atoms have a nonlinear dependence on the pressure of the buffer gases Ar and Kr. No nonlinearities were observed in the gases He or N(2). These observations strongly suggest that the nonlinearities are due to the van der Waals molecules that form in Ar and Kr, but not in He or N(2). The nonlinear part of the shifts is largest in the pressure range of a few tens of torr, similar to the operating pressures of gas-cell atomic clocks. The observed shifts are very well described by a simple function, parametrized by the effective three-body formation rate of molecules and by the effective product of the collisionally limited lifetime times the shift of the hyperfine coupling coefficient in the molecule.     

Calculation of radiant energy in free electron lasers without inversion

The equations of motion of particles in free electron lasers without inversion (FELWI) were obtained using the Hamilton formalism. An one-dimensional decoupled phase equation of the type of mathematical pendulum equation was derived in the case of weak signal. For practical estimates, this equation was solved together with the equation of electron energy change within the frameworks of perturbation theory, and expressions for gain were obtained in FEL regime and for the output angle from the first undulator. Expressions for the gain coefficient, the phase and the energy change were found as functions of the parameters of beam and of the device.     

Vacuum ultraviolet spectra of heteronuclear dimers of inert gases in a direct-current discharge

The emission bands appearing near the resonance lines of Kr and Xe in the spectra of the gas-discharge plasma of binary Xe-X and Kr-Y mixtures (X is He, Ne, Ar, or Kr; Y is He, Ne, or Ar) are experimentally studied. It is concluded that the emission bands investigated are related to electronic transitions in hetero-nuclear dimers. The mechanisms of formation of the spectra under study are analyzed.     

Formation of monochlorides of heavy inert gases in a high-frequency transverse discharge plasma

Emission characteristics of a high-frequency transverse discharge plasma in mixtures of argon and xenon with chlorine molecules are presented. It is shown that the discharge in xenon-chlorine mixtures is a source of broadband radiation in the spectral region 220–450 nm, while in argon-chlorine mixtures, it emits in the region 150–270 nm. Double mixtures with a partial pressure of inert gases ranging within 300–400 Pa and a chlorine partial pressure of 30-40 Pa are found to be optimal. The mean output discharge power ranges within 15–50 W.     

New method for energy compensation of free electron laser

In this paper the theory of FEL operation in a longitudinal uniform magnetic field integrated with a synchronous precessing electro-magnetic field is expounded in view of the main problems in FEL development. A new energy compensation method is suggested as a new way and basis for the development of FEL research.     

钚气溶胶环境中惰性气体氪迁移过程研究

放射性气体的安全性问题是涉及反应堆运行中必需研究的重要问题.因此在钚气溶胶环境中,对钚材料裂变产生的放射性气体裂变产物,需要研究其在钚气溶胶环境中的迁移过程.对放射性惰性气体Kr87,Kr88的实验测量数据进行了具体分析.依据它们具有钚材料直接裂变和作为固体裂变产物子体两种来源这一物理特性,在不同的制样时间对Kr87/Kr88比值变化规律进行分析.确立了这两种来源的在钚气溶胶环境中的物理图像和迁移过程的物理模型,并与实验数据进行比较以验证模型的正确性. 关键词： 钚气溶胶 气体裂变产物 放射性Kr87/Kr88 迁移过程     

One-body electron dynamics in a free electron laser

The free electron laser is analyzed by solving the one-body classical Lorentz force equation in the presence of periodic magnetic field and a plane electromagnetic wave. Phase space paths for electrons are related to those of a simple pendulum and describe laser gain, saturation, and coherent electron beam modulation.