热膨胀法原位观测SrCoO_(3-δ)材料的一级相变

在相变点处,若两相化学势的一阶导数不连续则为一级相变.材料发生一级相变时,必定伴随着体积的变化.用热膨胀方法原位观测了SrCoO_(3-δ)材料的一级相变过程.结果表明:SrCoO_(3-δ)材料在920℃时出现体积突变现象,对应六角相到立方相的转变.原位观测结果也进一步确认了多晶材料可通过测量其线膨胀来反映其体膨胀变化规律.     

MnFeP_(0.45)As_(0.55)材料中的相变研究

利用不同的测量方法,研究了MnFeP1-xAsx(0·32相似文献   

MnFePo.45Aso.55材料中的相变研究

利用不同的测量方法,研究了MnFeP1-xAsx(0.32＜x＜0.66)材料巡游电子变磁性转变附近一级相变与其他物理性质变化的关系.可以发现,材料的一级相变是一个温度滞后为10K,但持续发生在至少66K的一个很大的温度区间的结构相变.磁性相变与一级相变的温度点并不对应.晶格突变与居里温度和一级相变温度点并不一一对应,属于磁致伸缩的机制,来源于磁弹性耦合.实验指出,顺磁-铁磁转变是在一级相变的过程中,由于晶格的连续变化,导致了a-b面内最近邻Fe-Fe原子间的距离增大,而非观察到的晶格突变所引起.     

动力学自发破缺的模型在有限温度和密度下的状态方程和相结构

本文在Lurie模型的基础上,建立了一种近似计算状态方程的方法.得到了Lurie模型的状态方程所满足的参数方程.该模型的手征相变的相图表明:存在一个临界点c将一级相变和二级相变分开.仔细分析压强对净重子数密度的等温线,其结果表明:发生一级相变时,有过冷和过热的亚稳态,存在有自发破缺的破缺相和无自发破缺的正常相的两相共存.     

MnFeP0.45As0.55材料中的相变研究

利用不同的测量方法，研究了MnFeP_１-xAs_x（0.32关键词： MnFePAs 磁致伸缩 巡游电子变磁性 一级磁相变     

早期宇宙相变机制的讨论

对理想的一级相变和非理想的有过冷夸克相存在的相变机制进行了分析.并分别给出了宇宙在这两种情况下所经历的时间.     

一级相变磁制冷材料的基础问题探究

由于一级相变磁制冷材料发生磁相变时有晶胞体积的突变,相变过程中有相变潜热存在,其磁化过程中有许多磁学问题有待于进一步探究.本文以LaFe13-xSix合金为研究对象,在现有对磁一级相变基础问题的分析基础上,对一级相变材料中系统熵变、等温熵变、绝热温变、热滞、磁滞、铁磁与顺磁态两相共存的温度区间和磁场区间、制冷能力的计算等磁学基础问题进行了较为细致的探究.分析表明,在忽略完全铁磁态和顺磁态对磁热效应的贡献时,Maxwell方程和Clausius-Clapeyron方程计算熵变的值具有等效性.等温磁化过程中升温和降温曲线包围的面积SABCE(磁滞的大小),实际上是升温过程和降温过程中磁场做的净功,等于相变潜热之差.磁滞和热滞的大小与磁化过程数据测量的时间有关,测量时间越长则滞后越小,当相变是平衡相变则滞后为零.另外,对温度和磁场诱导磁相变过程进行了分析,提出了一级相变磁制冷材料制冷能力的不同计算模型.本文对一级相变磁制冷材料的磁学基础问题研究有一定的参考价值.     

动力学自发破缺的模型在有限温度和密度下的状态方程和相结构

本文在Lurie模型的基础上,建立了一种近似计算状态方程的方法。得到了Lurie模型的状态方程所满足的参数方程。该模型的手征相变的相图表明:存在一个临界点c将一级相变和二级相变分开。仔细分析压强对净重子数密度的等温线,其结果表明:发生一级相变时,有过冷和过热的亚稳态,存在有自发破缺的破缺相和无自发破缺的正常相的两相共存。     

双柱胶体粒子与管状生物膜的相互作用

本文采用Helfrich理论模型研究双柱胶体粒子与管状生物膜的相互作用.通过对柱状粒子与不同半径的管状膜吸附时的自由能分析发现,该体系存在具有较小包络角的弱吸附相以及具有较大包络角的深度吸附相.进一步研究发现体系从解吸附相到弱吸附相的相变是二级相变,而从弱吸附相到深度吸附相的相变是一级相变.双柱粒子与管状膜相对位置的不同会影响体系相变和结构.     

有伴随表示的SU(3)纯规范场格点模型相结构的变分研究

本文报告了有伴随表示的SU(3)纯规范场格点模型相结构的变分研究. 所求得的相变都是一级相变. 相变线的形状与Monte Carlo方法给出的结果也大致符合.     

梳型高分子聚合物向列相液晶的相变

本文根据Freiser关于向列相液晶分子相互作用模型,利用平均场理论,建立了梳型高分子聚合物向列相液晶分子的哈密顿量,导出序参数自洽方程,得到各向同性相至单轴向列相以及单轴至双轴向列相的相变,结果表明,当分子主、侧链耦合项中排斥作用及主、侧链中较强向列相场的场强增大时,单轴至双轴向列相相变温度升高,并从一级相变逐渐变为二级相变。 关键词：     

Thermotropic biaxial nematic phase in liquid crystalline organo-siloxane tetrapodes

Infrared absorbance measurements have been carried out on two liquid crystalline organo-siloxane tetrapodes. Results unambiguously show the existence of a biaxial nematic phase below a uniaxial nematic phase. The three components of IR absorbance are used to calculate the various order parameters. On cooling, a weak first-order transition from isotropic to nematic is observed, followed by a second-order phase transition to biaxial nematic where the biaxiality parameters are found to be significantly large. Results are supported by observations from conoscopy and texture. Temperature dependences of the order parameters are well explained by the mean-field model for a biaxial phase.     

Depletion-induced biaxial nematic states of boardlike particles

With the aim of investigating the stability conditions of biaxial nematic liquid crystals, we study the effect of adding a non-adsorbing ideal depletant on the phase behavior of colloidal hard boardlike particles. We take into account the presence of the depletant by introducing an effective depletion attraction between a pair of boardlike particles. At fixed depletant fugacity, the stable liquid-crystal phase is determined through a mean-field theory with restricted orientations. Interestingly, we predict that for slightly elongated boardlike particles a critical depletant density exists, where the system undergoes a direct transition from an isotropic liquid to a biaxial nematic phase. As a consequence, by tuning the depletant density, an easy experimental control parameter, one can stabilize states of high biaxial nematic order even when these states are unstable for pure systems of boardlike particles.     

The elastic anisotropy of nematic elastomers

We examine the robustness of order in nematic elastomers under mechanical strains imposed along and perpendicularly to the director when director rotation is prohibited. In contrast to electric and magnetic fields applied to conventional nematics, mechanical fields are shown theoretically and experimentally to greatly affect the degree of nematic order and related quantities. Unlike in liquid nematics, one can impose fields perpendicular to the director, thereby inducing biaxial order which should be susceptible to experimental detection. Nematic elastomers with unchanging director and degree of order should theoretically have the same elastic moduli for longitudinal and transverse extensions. This is violated when nematic order is permitted to relax in response to strains. Near the transition we predict the longitudinal modulus to be smaller than the transverse modulus; at lower temperatures the converse is true, with a crossover a few degrees below the transition. The differences are ascribed to the different temperature dependence of the stiffness of uniaxial and biaxial order. We synthesised side chain single-crystal nematic polymer networks, performed DSC, X-ray, birefringence, and thermo-mechanical characterisations, and then obtained linear moduli from stress-strain measurements. Received 29 September 2000     

Monte Carlo simulations of biaxial structure in thin hybrid nematic film based upon spatially anisotropic pair potential

Hybrid nematic films have been studied by Monte Carlo simulations using a lattice spin model, in which the pair potential is spatially anisotropic and dependent on elastic constants of liquid crystals. We confirm in the thin hybrid nematic film the existence of a biaxially nonbent structure and the structure transition from the biaxial to the bent-director structure, which is similar to the result obtained using the Lebwohl--Lasher model. However, the step-like director's profile, characteristic for the biaxial structure, is spatially asymmetric in the film because the pair potential leads to K₁ ≠ K₃. We estimate the upper cell thickness to be 69 spin layers, in which the biaxial structure can be found.     

Effects of fields and anchoring on biaxial nematic ordering

Symmetry of a nematic liquid crystal phase is broken by an anchoring wall and also by an external field. Nematic system sandwiched between biaxial anchoring walls is introduced as a correspondent to a bulk nematic system exposed to a couple of fields, an electric field and a magnetic one in directions perpendicular to each other, and thermal behaviours of the system are studied. The crossover between a homeotropic structure and homogeneous one occurs, similarly to the bulk system in the fields, in which the anchoring condition of coexistence is shown to have the same expression as the one at the bulk. As to a characteristic phenomenon at the sandwiched system, it is proved that an appearance of a biaxial nematic order suppresses a uniaxial nematic order. A surface transition, i.e., a wetting phenomenon is shown to occur also in the biaxial nematics, even though the uniaxial order is suppressed therein.     

Deuterium NMR investigation of the biaxial nematic phase in an organosiloxane tetrapode

Deuterium NMR is used to examine the molecular order exhibited by an organosiloxane tetrapode giving the first experimental evidence, using a bulk sample, for the existence of a biaxial nematic phase in this type of compounds. The temperature dependence of the averaged quadrupolar coupling constant and asymmetry parameter was determined in the compound's nematic phase. Two distinct regimes could be identified, one with a vanishing asymmetry parameter corresponding to a uniaxial nematic phase and another with a significant temperature dependent asymmetry parameter, corresponding to a biaxial nematic phase. The high values obtained for the asymmetry parameter at the lower end of the nematic range are well above experimental error and constitute a definite proof of the biaxial nature of the nematic phase exhibited by the studied compound for those temperatures.     

双轴性向列相液晶的相变理论

假设一双轴性向列相液晶分子简单相互作用模型，利用平均场理论，得到从各向同性相至单轴向列相、单轴向列相至双轴向列相的相变. 结果表明，在一定温度范围内，分子形状的非轴对称性可导致系统双轴向列相的产生. 在核磁共振实验中，导出双轴向列相序参数与谱线分裂频率间的一般关系，并讨论序参数测量性的可能性. 关键词： 向列相液晶 相变     

A TWO PARTICLE CLUSTER THEORY FOR UNIAXIAL NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS FORMED BY BIAXIAL MOLECULES

A two-particle cluster theory is presented to study uniaxial nematic liquid crystals formed by biaxial molecules, which interact with each other via dispersion forces. The equation for the molecular orientational distribution functions in two-particle cluster approximation is obtained and is solved by an terativemethod. The temperature dependences of the order parameter and of the internal energy per particle are calculated, and the values of the relevant quantities at the nematic isotropic phase transition are given. The present theory, by taking into account the short range correlations between molecules , yields improved results compared with the mean field theory.     

Fluctuations of orientational order in a uniaxial nematic liquid crystal with biaxial molecules and its response to an external field

Homogeneous thermal fluctuations of the orientational order parameters S and G of biaxial molecules in a uniaxial nematic liquid crystal are investigated in the framework of the molecular-statistical theory. It is demonstrated that the molecular biaxiality significantly affects the order parameters S and G, their temperature dependences in the nematic phase, the amplitude and the temperature dependence of the order parameter fluctuations in the nematic and isotropic phases, and the character of the transition from the nematic phase to the isotropic liquid phase. It is established that the fluctuations of the parameters S and G in the nematic phase are related to the temperature dependences of S and G and the susceptibilities χ_S and χ_G of the nematic liquid crystal to external fields, which leads to a change in the parameters S and G at a fixed director orientation. Explanations are offered for the known experimental data on the orientational ordering of biaxial molecules under the action of external fields in the isotropic phase of nematic liquid crystals.