Tunneling of magnetic domain walls in the quasirelativistic limit

An additional mechanism which increases the probability of tunneling of magnetic domain walls through defects of a crystal is discussed. In contrast to the thermally stimulated tunneling mechanisms described previously (c.f. Refs. 7 and 8), which arise when the wall acquires additional energy from the thermal system of the crystal, the latter mechanism is produced by the change in the structure of the walls themselves at high energies, which changes the character of their interaction with defects. The results of analytic and numerical analyses of this effect are reported. A discussion and an interpretation of existing experimental results. Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 41, 1264–1266 (July 1999)     

Molecular Dynamic Simulation of High Speed Deformation Effect on Microstructure Change in Thermal Heated Metals

In the present paper computer simulation of high-speed deformation (shock wave propagation) by molecular dynamic method is performed in thin copper sample, having the form of rectangular parallelepiped (10 a ‐ 10 a ‐ 20 a , where a is the lattice constant) with 8000 atoms. On the surfaces Z 0 =0 and Z max =20 a the mirror boundary conditions with rigid walls and the periodic boundary conditions along X and Y directions corresponding to short sides of deformed crystal are used, which allows to investigate the reflection of shock wave from the surfaces in Z direction. The changes of microstructure have been investigated up to 12 ps. The numerical calculations of microstructure changes have been performed here taking into account the effect of thermal heating of crystal lattice before shock wave front. The numerical results show that comparing with the propagation of shock waves under room temperature in thermal heated structure additional displaced atoms (vacancies and interstitials) are produced. The obtained results show that the production of point defects during high-speed deformation is determined by the thermal softening of microstructure and generation rate of point defects very strong increases with an increasing of high speed deformation rate. The peculiarities of microstructure changes in deformed copper are analyzed here at the different initial temperatures and various high-speed deformations (average ion velocities behind shock wave).     

Enhanced reactivity of domain walls in with sodium

A possible new high temperature superconducting phase was recently reported in WO ₃ :Na. We have examined the reaction between sodium vapour and WO ₃ , and compared the phases formed by the reaction to previously known WO ₃ phases. By using light microscopy and electron microprobe analysis, domain walls from the interior of the crystal are shown to have a much higher Na content than bulk material after reaction with Na vapour. This indicates preferential transport along the domain walls. The result is very similar to a reduction reaction of WO ₃ crystals in which twin walls lose oxygen preferentially. Oxygen deficient twin walls are superconducting with . Received 3 September 1999 and Received in final form 15 December 1999     

Reversible changes in the structure of zinc sulfide crystals during elastic deformation

EPR is used to detect the effect of a reversible decrease of the number of stacking faults during elastic uni-axial compression of microtwin zinc-sulfide crystals. The result is explained by the behavior during deformation of the crystal of incoherent twin boundaries consisting of sloped walls formed by ensembles of partial dislocations. Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 39, 1230–1233 (July 1997)     

Analysis of the ferroelastic domains and phase transition in the K2SO4 crystal

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The domain structures of the β-K₂SO₄ crystal were analyzed by group theory. We obtained the permissible kinds of domain association and domain walls from the results of the group theory. It is suggested from the analysis that the (110) and (130) planes are W_mb walls. The value of the spontaneous strain of K₂SO₄ wast = 6.32 × 10^?3 at room temperature and also its temperature dependence was observed.     

Thermal conductivity of gallium sulfide

The results of investigating of the thermal conducitivity of a GaS single crystal in directions parallel and perpendicular to the c axis in the temperature interval 5–300 K are reported. The investigations show that the degree of anisotropy of the thermal conductivity of GaS decreases with temperature. Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 41, 24–25 (January 1999)     

Thermal expansion of crystal lattices of germanium with different isotopic compositions

The linear thermal expansion coefficient of crystal lattices of germanium with different isotopic compositions is analyzed. Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 40, 1829–1831 (October 1998)     

Intrinsic coercive field in cubic intermetallic compounds. II: TbxGd1−xAl2 and ErAl2

The thermal dependence of the coercive field in the pseudobinary cubic Laves phase compounds Tb_xGd_1−xAl₂(0 ⩽ x ⩽1.0) and ErAl₂ has been measured from 3.7 K up to de Cirie temperatures. The coercive field has two contributions: one from the intrinsic pinning of narrow domain walls in the Peierls crystal potential wells; this contribution is preponderant at low temperatures, decaying exponentially with the domain walls width. The other, which for x ⩾ 0.4 is dominant, comes out from the pinning of domain walls by defects (Kersten mechanism). The domain walls seem very narrow in those materials, between 2 and 5 interlayer atomic spacings.     

Two forms of polarization relaxation in polydomain ferroelectrics in an electric field

The characteristic features of the polarization and depolarization kinetics of polydomain ferroelectrics with square and narrow “extended” dielectric hysteresis loops are investigated for the model of TGS and Rb₂ZnCl₄ crystals. It is shown that for the second crystal, in contrast to the first crystal, the local free energy is asymmetric relative to the direction of polarization, the coercive field does not have a definite value, and only part of the crystal volume participates in the slow thermoactivational relaxation. The slow relaxation follows a universal empirical power law in all cases. The distribution functions of the relaxation times in crystals are constructed on the basis of experimental data, and comparative estimates are made of the relaxation parameters and the parameters of the energy barriers for domain walls. Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 41, 499–504 (March 1999)     

Formation of x-ray images by the action of an optical image on a diffracting lithium niobate crystal

A possible mechanism for the formation and processing of an x-ray image using a corresponding optical image as a template is considered. The method is based on the thermal influence of light on the x-ray diffraction parameters of an LiNbO₃ crystal. A mechanism for the influence of the gradients of the temperature fields formed in the crystal on the x-ray structural parameters of the crystal is proposed. Information which permits the evaluation of some practical aspects of the application of the observed effect in technology is given. Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 67, 76–79 (September 1997)     

Superconducting resonator in strong microwave fields: Thermal domain, nonlinear thermal effects

The thermal nonlinearity of superconducting films in an electromagnetic field is investigated theoretically. It is shown that the transition of the superconductor from the superconducting to the normal state as a result of Joule heating exhibits hysteresis, corresponding to the onset of a bistable state in the film. It is shown that as a result of the nonuniformity of the amplitude of the electromagnetic field along the surface of the superconducting film, above some threshold a normal-phase domain forms in the superconductor. It is ascertained that the temporal evolution of the domain walls exhibits the character of thermal autowaves of heating or cooling. The nonlinear radio-frequency characteristics (reflection and transmission coefficients and frequency responses) of a stripline resonator under conditions of thermal nonlinearity are calculated. Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 67, 81–89 (October 1997)     

Effect of isotopic disorder on the thermal conductivity of germanium in the region of the maximum

This paper discusses the question of how isotopic disorder affects the position of the thermal-conductivity maximum of germanium. The discussion is in terms of a Callaway-type model. Experimental data on the thermal conductivity of a natural Ge crystal and of highly enriched Ge⁷⁰ crystals are analyzed. Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 41, 1185–1189 (July 1999)     

The influence of thermal processing on the relative mobility of edge and screw dislocations in NaCl crystals

The effect of thermal processing on the mobility of dislocations is investigated in NaCl crystals doped with impurities of various types—high-solubility impurities (Ca²⁺) and low-solubility impurities (Pb²⁺). The results obtained after aging and thermal processing indicate that the type of impurity and its state (e.g., level of aggregation) in the crystal have a strong effect on the relative mobility of edge and screw dislocations, and also on the parameters of double transverse slip. Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 41, 1041–1043 (June 1999)     

Intrinsic coercive field in pseudobinary cubic intermetallic compounds. I: DyxY1−xAl2 and Dy1−δAl2

The thermal variation of the coercive field in pseudodobinary Laves phase compounds Dy_xY_1−xAl₂ (0.10 ⪯ x ⪯ 1.10) and Dy_1−δAl₂ (δ = 0.025 and 0.048) has been measured from 3.7 K up to the Curie temperatures. It turns out the coercive field has two contributions: one from the intrinsic pinning of narrow domain walls in the Peierls crystal potential wells of the anisotropy energy; this contribution dominates at low temperatures and decays exponentially with the narrow domain wall width. The other comes from the pinning of the domain walls by deflecs, being explained by the Kersten theory of critical domain wall bowing. The domain walls seem very narrow in these materials, the widths estimated from the coercive field being between two and three atomic spacings.     

Creating primary defects in calcium fluoride crystals with various prehistories, using pulsed electron irradiation

Optical spectroscopy with nanosecond resolution has been used to study how the prehistory (the presence of impurities, heat treatment) of CaF₂ crystals affects the processes of creating autolocalized excitons (AEs) under the influence of a pulse of accelerated electrons. The breakdown of the dispersivity condition for the creation of AEs is detected in a nominally pure, nonheat-treated crystal. It is shown that the initial structural defects play a defining role in creating the initial defect density. A model of the radiation disordering of an actual fluorite crystal is constructed. An analogy is traced to the processes of impurity and thermal disordering. Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 41, 442–450 (March 1999)     

Strongly correlated bistable sublattice and temperature hysteresis of elastic and thermal crystal properties

It is shown that in crystal lattices with a basis the cooperative behavior of a certain type of atoms performing optical long-wavelength vibrations in a double-well potential of the field of the matrix lattice may lead to the formation of a bistable sublattice. As a result of the interaction of the metastable states of such a sublattice with the vibrational states of the matrix lattice, the elastic and thermal properties of the crystal acquire anomalous, hysteresis-like, temperature curves. The concepts developed in the paper make it possible to obtain a qualitative interpretation, which agrees with the experimental data, of the hysteresis-like temperature dependence of the speed and absorption of ultrasonic waves, the specific heat, and the thermal conductivity in superconducting yttrium and bismuth cuprates. Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 116, 168–193 (July 1999)     

Effect of isotopic composition on the linear thermal expansion coefficient of a germanium crystal lattice

Features of the thermal expansion coefficient α(T) of crystal lattices with different isotopic compositions have been analyzed. The case of germanium lattices has been studied in detail. Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 114, 654–668 (August 1998)     

Dy(Fe0.8Al0.2)2单晶体的宏观量子效应

测量了Dy(Fe_0.8Al_0.2)₂单晶体在[100],[110]和[111]方向上的退磁曲线、内禀矫顽力和磁黏滞性系数随温度的变化.认为退磁曲线出现台阶和大跳跃、内禀矫顽力随温度变化存在峰值、磁黏滞性系数与温度无关等都是畴壁隧穿能垒的宏观量子效应的反映.实验上得出由经典热激活到量子隧穿的交界温度约为5.5K. 关键词：     

Effect of a periodic temperature variation on the properties of TlGaSe2 crystals

It is shown experimentally that thermal cycling of TlGaSe₂ crystals does not result in appreciable disruption of the stacking of layered units along the C axis. The integrated intensities of (310), (221) reflections from this crystal change anomalously with temperature. These changes relax to their original values at room temperature over times in excess of 17 hours, which coincides with the time for recovery of the original properties of TlGaSe₂ samples investigated previously. Such behavior of the integrated intensity is connected with thermal migration of Tl⁺ ions over possible crystallographic sites within a unit cell. Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 39, 1652–1653 (September 1997)     

Magnetoelastic contribution to the thermal expansion of the rare-earth phosphates TbPO4 and TmPO4

The thermal expansion of the rare-earth phosphates TbPO₄ and TmPO₄ having zircon structure has been investigated experimentally and theoretically. Significant magnetoelastic anomalies of the thermal expansion have been identified and the magnetoelastic contributions have been isolated allowing for corrections to the variation of the phonon contribution along the rare-earth ion series. It is shown that the magnetoelastic contribution to the thermal expansion of terbium and thulium phosphate is well described by the temperature dependence of the quadrupole moments of the rare-earth ions. The fully symmetric magnetoelastic coefficients for Tb³⁺ and Tm³⁺ are determined and a comparison is made of the magnetoelastic anomalies of the thermal expansion and the magnetoelastic coefficients of rare-earth phosphates and vanadates allowing for the differences in the crystal fields of the two isomorphic groups of zircons. Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 39, 106–111 (January 1997)