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Tasinkevych M Silvestre NM Patrício P Telo da Gama MM 《The European physical journal. E, Soft matter》2002,9(4):341-347
The interaction between two disks immersed in a 2D nematic is investigated i) analytically using the tensor order parameter
formalism for the nematic configuration around isolated disks and ii) numerically using finite-element methods with adaptive
meshing to minimize the corresponding Landau-de Gennes free energy. For strong homeotropic anchoring, each disk generates
a pair of defects with one-half topological charge responsible for the 2D quadrupolar interaction between the disks at large
distances. At short distance, the position of the defects may change, leading to unexpected complex interactions with the
quadrupolar repulsive interactions becoming attractive. This short-range attraction in all directions is still anisotropic.
As the distance between the disks decreases, their preferred relative orientation with respect to the far-field nematic director
changes from oblique to perpendicular.
Received 1 October 2002 and Received in final form 12 November 2002
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2.
H. Stark J. Stelzer R. Bernhard 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》1999,10(3):515-523
Recently, it was observed that water droplets suspended in a nematic liquid crystal form linear chains [Poulin et al., Science 275, 1770 (1997)]. The chaining occurs, e.g., in a large nematic drop with homeotropic boundary conditions at all the surfaces. Between each pair of water droplets a
point defect in the liquid crystalline order was found in accordance with topological constraints. This point defect causes
a repulsion between the water droplets. In our numerical investigation we limit ourselves to a chain of two droplets. For
such a complex geometry we use the method of finite elements to minimize the Frank free energy. We confirm an experimental
observation that the distance d of the point defect from the surface of a water droplet scales with the radius r of the droplet like .When the water droplets are moved apart, we find that the point defect does not stay in the middle between the droplets,
but rather forms a dipole with one of them. This confirms a theoretical model for the chaining. Analogies to a second order
phase transition are drawn. We also find the dipole when one water droplet is suspended in a bipolar nematic drop with two
boojums, i.e., surface defects at the outer boundary. Finally, we present a configuration where two droplets repel each other without a
defect between them.
Received 11 December 1998 相似文献
3.
K. Blagoev R. Roussev A. Morozov K. Iskra L. Windholz 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》2001,13(2):159-163
Radiative lifetimes of 7d, 8d 1
D
2 excited states of Hg I are measured using pulsed two-photon excitation from the ground [Xe]5d
106s
2
1
S
0 mercury state, detecting the decay of the laser-induced fluorescence. The results are compared with theoretical values, obtained
by means of a Hartree-Fock single configuration method, taking into account electron configuration interaction. The radiative
lifetime value dependence on the effective principal quantum number for the nd 1
D
2 series is analyzed and compared with the quantum defect dependence.
Received 25 February 2000 and Received in final form 26 July 2000 相似文献
4.
J.C. Loudet O. Mondain-Monval P. Poulin 《The European physical journal. E, Soft matter》2002,7(3):205-208
We study experimentally the dynamics of a topological defect located around a colloidal particle suspended in a thermotropic
nematic liquid crystal. The considered defect consists of a disclination loop encircling the particle at the equator. Under
specific conditions, it is shown that this disclination continuously shrinks to a hedgehog defect located in the immediate
vicinity of the particle. This phenomenon corresponds to a transition between an elastic quadrupolar configuration and an
elastic dipolar configuration. We performed a basic numerical calculation to get an estimate of the dissipated energy during
the transition; we compare the results with theoretical predictions that describe the elastic energy of particles surrounded
by defects.
Received 21 December 2001 相似文献
5.
T. Emig T. Nattermann 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》1999,8(4):525-546
The simultaneous effect of both disorder and crystal-lattice pinning on the equilibrium behavior of oriented elastic objects
is studied using scaling arguments and a functional renormalization group technique. Our analysis applies to elastic manifolds,
e.g., interfaces, as well as to periodic elastic media, e.g., charge-density waves or flux-line lattices. The competition between both pinning mechanisms leads to a continuous, disorder
driven roughening transition between a flat state where the mean relative displacement saturates on large scales and a rough
state with diverging relative displacement. The transition can be approached by changing the impurity concentration or, indirectly,
by tuning the temperature since the pinning strengths of the random and crystal potential have in general a different temperature
dependence. For D dimensional elastic manifolds interacting with either random-field or random-bond disorder a transition exists for 2<D<4, and the critical exponents are obtained to lowest order in . At the transition, the manifolds show a superuniversal logarithmic roughness. Dipolar interactions render lattice effects
relevant also in the physical case of D=2. For periodic elastic media, a roughening transition exists only if the ratio p of the periodicities of the medium and the crystal lattice exceeds the critical value . For p<p
c
the medium is always flat. Critical exponents are calculated in a double expansion in and and fulfill the scaling relations of random field models.
Received 28 August 1998 相似文献
6.
P. Nozières F. Pistolesi S. Balibar 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》2001,24(3):387-394
We consider the shape of crystals which are soft in the sense that their elastic modulus μ is small compared to their surface
tension γ, more precisely μa < γ where a is the lattice spacing. We show that their surface steps penetrate inside the crystal as edge dislocations. As a consequence,
these steps are broad with a small energy which we calculate. We also calculate the elastic interaction between steps a distance
d apart, which is a 1/d
2 repulsion. We finally calculate the roughening temperatures of successive facets in order to compare with the remarkable
shapes of lyotropic crystals recently observed by Pieranski et al. [#!Pieranski!#,#!EPJ!#]. Good agreement is found.
Received 25 June 2001 相似文献
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O.K. Moune Y. Rabinovitch D. Tétard M. Pham-Thi E. Lallier M.D. Faucher 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》2002,19(3):275-291
This paper presents an investigation of Pr3+ doped in the D2 site of Y3Al5O12 (YAG), for the first time on a translucent ceramic sample free of spurious phases, impurity or pair sites. The optical study
is carried out by optical absorption, excitation, and emission by selective excitation into 1D2 and 3P0, at different temperatures between 20 K and 60 K, in the 4 300-23 000 cm-1 range. A detailed account of the line assignments is given. 67 over 91 levels of the 4f2 configuration are determined. Several crystal field calculations within the ground configuration 4f2 and the larger matrix 4f2+4f6p are carried out. The energy level fit is slightly improved by configuration interaction. The 3P2 and 1I6 levels are strongly mixed together by the large 6th order crystal field parameters. In sintered samples with different Pr3+ concentrations, satellite lines with intensities increasing quadratically with the concentration are observed. A few weak
lines forbidden in D2 site symmetry are observed.
Received 9 November 2001 and Received in final form 8 February 2002 相似文献
8.
S. Kutter E.M. Terentjev 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》2001,21(3):455-462
Twist-storing polymers respond with elastic energy penalty to coherent or random twisting along the local chain axis away
from its equilibrium, which can be straight (as in “ribbons”) or helical (as in DNA and other biopolymers). Here we study
the equilibrium conformation of such polymers, focusing on the thermodynamic balance between twist and writhe, resulting from
the competition between the random coil entropy and the potential energy stored in superhelical portions of the polymer chain.
Two macroscopic variables characterise such a chain, the end-to-end distance R and the link number Lk, which is a topological invariant of a given polymer with clamped ends. We find that with increasing link number Lk, the chain accommodates its excess twist in growing plectonemes, unless forced out of this state by stretching its end-to-end
distance R. We calculate the force-extension relation, which exhibits crossovers between different deformation regimes.
Received 16 November 2000 and Received in final form 6 February 2001 相似文献
9.
R. Mélin D. Feinberg 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》2002,26(1):101-114
We derive a microscopic transport theory of multiterminal hybrid structures in which a superconductor is connected to several
spin-polarized electrodes. We discuss the non-perturbative physics of extended contacts, and show that such contacts can be
well represented by averaging out the phase of the electronic wave function. The intercontact Andreev reflection and elastic
cotunneling conductances are identical if the phase can be averaged out, namely in the presence of at least one extended contact.
The maximal conductance of a two-channel contact is proportional to (e
2/h)(a
0/D)2exp[-D/ξ(ω*)], where D is the distance between the contacts, a0 the lattice spacing, ξ(ω) is the superconducting coherence length, and ω* is the cross-over frequency between a perturbative regime ( ω < ω*) and a non perturbative regime ( ω* < ω < Δ).
Received 18 June 2001 and Received in final form 17 January 2002 相似文献
10.
A. Bringer E. Eisenriegler F. Schlesener A. Hanke 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》1999,11(1):101-119
The attractive depletion interaction between a spherical particle and a planar wall in a dilute solution of long flexible
nonadsorbing free polymer chains is found to depend crucially on the particle to polymer size ratio . While the polymer-induced force between particle and wall decreases monotonically with increasing distance for large , for small it has a maximum at a distance of the order of the polymer size. For ideal chains we study the crossover from large to small behavior in full quantitative detail. Besides the free energy of interaction and the force, we also discuss the spatial variations
of the densities of chain-ends and chain-monomers near the wall and particle. Two independent procedures, (1) solving directly
the diffusion equation for the density of ends in terms of planar and spherical waves and (2) minimizing the Ginzburg-Landau
functional of the “magnetic analog” of the polymer problem, are used to obtain results numerically for a broad range of ratios of the three lengths particle size, polymer size and distance of particle from the wall. Besides
previously known cases, we find two more interesting limiting regions of the length ratios for which analytical results can be obtained. [2mm]
Received 11 December 1998 相似文献
11.
N. Jaritz H. Jäger L. Windholz 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》2002,18(3):267-276
We have classified about 200 new lines and have discovered 13 energy levels with even parity and 1 level with odd parity by
means of the systematic hyperfine structure investigation of a large number of spectral lines of the neutral tantalum atom.
For the new levels we deduced their angular momenta, parity and magnetic hyperfine interaction constants A as well as the electric quadrupole interaction constants B.
Received 8 August 2001 相似文献
12.
S. Aumaître S. Fauve J.F. Pinton 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》2000,16(3):563-567
We report an experimental study of large scale correlations in the power injected in turbulent swirling flows generated in
the gap between two coaxial rotating disks. We measure the pressure fluctuations on the blades of one disk, as well as the
pressure drop between the leading and the trailing edges of the rotating blades, i.e. the local drag force. Measurements at different positions on one blade and on two successive blades display a correlation
length much larger than the ones usually expected in turbulent flows. The time lag for which the correlation between two points
is maximum, strongly depends on the global flow configuration. These results help us to understand the statistical properties
of the injected power fluctuations in turbulent swirling flows.
Received 2 September 1999 相似文献
13.
An extensive and systematic study of the recent η photo-production data up to 1.2 GeV is presented within a chiral constituent
quark model. A model embodying all known nucleonic resonances shows clear need for a yet undiscovered third S11 resonance in the second resonance region, for which we determine the mass (1.729 GeV) and the total width (183 MeV). Furthermore,
we extract the configuration mixing angles, an important property of the quark-quark interaction in the quark model, for the
resonances S
11(1535) and S
11(1650), as well as for the resonances D
13(1520) and D
13(1700). Our results agree well with the quark model predictions. In addition, the partial ηN decay widths and/or the photo-excitation helicity amplitudes for the nucleonic resonances S
11(1535), S
11(1650), P
11(1710), P
13(1720), D
13(1520), D
13(1700), D
15(1675), and F
15(1680) are also obtained in this approach.
Received: 14 February 2001 / Accepted: 22 June 2001 相似文献
14.
C. Caroli P. Nozières 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》1998,4(2):233-246
Velocity independent dry friction of a slider upon a base is due to an hysteretic response of relative displacement to a tangential driving force F. We show that the purely elastic model for multistability considered in a previous publication is in no way essential: multistability
arises just as well from adhesion. We emphasize the physical consequences of multistability for dynamic/static, a.c./d.c.
friction. When the slider is moved from rest by an amount the transition from the zero force static configuration to dynamic behaviour is progressive, spreading on a range equal to
the width of the hysteresis cycle. When is small, an elastic restoring force ensues, in agreement with observations. The competition of that elastic pinning with
bulk elasticity generates a screening length which we believe is the natural size of Burridge Knopoff blocks. We then study the effect of elastic interactions between
asperities: it is weak for dilute asperities, but its long range makes it important. In lowest order the interaction mediated
displacement of a given asperity has logarithmically divergent fluctuations: they become comparable to the asperity radius
when the slider size reaches another characteristic “Larkin length”, which for dilute micronic asperities is exponentially large. We give arguments suggesting that individually monostable asperities
display collective multistability on scales larger than . For individually multistable sites we show that elastic interactions give rise to cascade processes in which the spinodal
jump of a given asperity triggers the jump of others. We estimate the size of these cascades that should show up in the noise
spectrum.
Received: 3 February 1998 / Accepted: 19 March 1998 相似文献
15.
V. L. Okulov I. V. Litvinov I. V. Naumov R. Mikkelsen 《Journal of Engineering Thermophysics》2017,26(2):154-159
In this work we used digital particle image visualization (PIV) to experimentally establish the self-similarity of far wake behind a tandem of two disks of a diameter D (300 mm) with a common axis along the incident flow. The research was performed in a water flume (Re ≈ 2 · 105) with variation of L, the longitudinal dimension of the tandem. The self-similarity of the velocity profile in the wake behind the tandem has been established; the level of turbulent fluctuations of the profile has been measured. Due to the influence of the second disk, the velocity deficit in the wake behind the tandem exceeded the corresponding value for a single disk, being independent of the distance between the disks (L = 4–8D). The velocity fluctuations behind the tandem did not differ much from the level of fluctuations in the case of a single disk up to a distance of forty calibers downstream, where the wake ceased to differ from the background of natural turbulent fluctuations of the incident flow. It has been found that the position of the second disk in the tandem affects the energy loss in the wake due to its expansion but does not influence the decay. The revealed patterns in the wake development behind tandems of bodies will enable optimization of construction of systems of repetitive elements and their movement in different flows. 相似文献
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A. Hazareesing J.-P. Bouchaud 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》2000,14(4):713-724
We reconsider the problem of the static thermal roughening of an elastic manifold at the critical dimension d=2 in a periodic potential, using a perturbative Functional Renormalization Group approach. Our aim is to describe the effective
potential seen by the manifold below the roughening temperature on large length scales. We obtain analytically a flow equation
for the potential and surface tension of the manifold, valid for low temperatures. On a length scale L, the renormalized potential is made up of a succession of quasi parabolic wells, matching onto one another in a singular
region of width for large L. For strong periodic potential, the perturbation theory breaks down, and we argue, based on a variational calculation, that
the transition becomes first order. We also obtain numerically the step energy as a function of temperature, and relate our
results to the existing experimental data on 4He. Finally, we examine the case of a non local elasticity which is realized physically for the contact line.
Received 16 April 1999 and Received in final form 11 October 1999 相似文献
17.
W. Ryba-Romanowski S. Gołvab G. Dominiak-Dzik P. Solarz 《Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing》2002,74(4):581-586
Polycrystalline samples of europium-doped K5Li2GdF10 have been obtained by a slow cooling of melted compound and investigated using spectroscopy methods. Luminescence from the
5
D
2 level of Eu3+ is found to be weak. Intense visible emission upon excitation into the 5
D
2 or higher energy levels has been attributed to overlapping transitions from long-lived 5
D
1 and 5
D
0 levels. A strong increase of the 5
D
0 emission at the expense of the 5
D
1 emission occurs between 5 K and 25 K without significant change of the 5
D
1 lifetime. To account for this, it is supposed that both the radiative and the nonradiative transition rates are temperature-dependent.
Efficient energy transfer from the 6
G
J levels of Gd3+ to Eu3+ ions has been evidenced by excitation spectra in the VUV region and VUV-excited luminescence. It has been concluded that
the cross relaxation contributes to the energy-transfer process.
Received: 8 May 2001 / Accepted: 11 May 2001 / Published online: 25 July 2001 相似文献
18.
J.M. Polson I. Vattulainen H. Zhu M.J. Zuckermann 《The European physical journal. E, Soft matter》2001,5(4):485-497
We employ off-lattice Monte Carlo simulations to study lateral diffusion in lipid-sterol bilayers using a two-dimensional
model system which has been designed to simulate the experimental phase diagrams of both lipid-cholesterol and lipid-lanosterol
systems. We focus on the effects of varying sterol concentration and temperature on the tracer diffusion coefficient, D, which characterizes the lateral motion of single tagged lipids in a bilayer. Generally, we find that increasing the cholesterol
concentration suppresses D due to an increased conformational ordering of lipid chains. We argue that this effect competes with an increase in the average
free area per lipid, which favours an increase in D. At temperatures close to the main transition temperature, the competition between the two effects leads to intriguing behavior
of D. Overall, the model results are in excellent qualitative agreement with available experimental results for lipid-cholesterol
mixtures. Additional studies of a model lipid-lanosterol system, for which experimental diffusion results are not available,
predict that the presence of lanosterol has a smaller effect than cholesterol on reducing D relative to the pure lipid system. We conclude that the molecular model employed contains the essential features required
to describe many of the qualitative features of the lateral diffusion behavior in lipid-sterol systems.
Received 24 November 2000 and Received in final form 30 April 2001 相似文献
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G. Parisi M. Ratiéville 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》2001,22(2):229-237
We consider a class of random matching problems where the distance between two points has a probability law which, for a small
distance l, goes like lr. In the framework of the cavity method, in the limit of an infinite number of points, we derive equations for pk, the probability for some given point to be matched to its kth nearest neighbor in the optimal configuration. These equations are solved in two limiting cases: r = 0 -- where we recover p
k = 1/2k, as numerically conjectured by Houdayer et al. and recently rigorously proved by Aldous -- and r→ + ∞. For 0 < r < + ∞, we are not able to solve the equations analytically, but we compute the leading behavior of pk for large k.
Received 14 February 2001 相似文献
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The energy of elastic interaction between a point defect and the (0001) surface of a hexagonal crystal is calculated, as well as the energy of the elastic interaction between two defects near such a surface. The defects are represented by the superposition of three mutually perpendicular double forces without moment. The calculation is done by means of a Green function method. As for an isotropic medium, the energy of a point defect presents a variation in x3?3 with the distance x3 to the surface. On the other hand, the mutual interaction between two defects depends upon different geometric parameters, and not simply on an image factor. We also study the effect of a thin adlayer on these elastic interactions. This is done by showing that the presence of the adlayer is equivalent to effective boundary conditions at the surface of the substrate. We derive these conditions and then the elastic energies to the first order in the thickness h of the layer. Finally we present the mean square displacements of atoms in the presence of a clean or adsorbed surface. 相似文献