Effect of magnetic field decay on the chemical heating of cooling neutron stars

The effect of magnetic field decay on the chemical heating and thermal evolution of neutron stars is discussed in this paper. Our main goal is to study how the chemical heating mechanism and thermal evolution are changed by the field decay and how the magnetic field decay is modified by the thermal evolution. We compare stars cooling with chemical heating with one without chemical heating and find that the decay of the magnetic field is delayed significantly by the chemical heating. We find that the effect of chemical heating has been suppressed through the decaying magnetic field by the spin-down of the stars at a later stage. Compared with typical chemical heating, we find the decay of the magnetic field can even cause the surface temperature to turn down at an older age. When we discuss the cooling of neutron stars, we should consider the coupling effect of the magnetic field and the rotational evolution of neutron stars on the heating mechanisms.     

Two-component cosmological models with a variable equation of state of matter and with thermal equilibrium of components

A class of models describing the evolution of the homogeneous and isotropic spatially flat Universe filled with a scalar field and matter and changing the equation of state during its evolution from a vacuum-like form to an ideal liquid is proposed under the assumption that both components of matter are in thermal equilibrium. The main characteristics of such models are analyzed and their asymptotic behavior in the vicinity of a cosmological singularity and at the postinflation stage is investigated. It is shown that the thermal equilibrium condition and the requirement of asymptotic decrease of the field with time unambiguously lead to secondary inflation at the final stage of evolution, which is accompanied by accelerated expansion of the Universe and an increase in the temperature of matter.     

多聚磷酸铵对再造烟叶热解行为与CO释放量的影响

应用热重分析研究多聚磷酸铵(APP)对再造烟叶热解行为的影响．热分析结果表明,APP降低再造烟叶热降解速率及其热释放量、促进了碳的形成,对再造烟叶的热降解起一定的阻碍作用．此外APP显著影响再造烟叶的热解过程中的气相产物,再造烟叶的CO单支释放量与单口释放量随着APP含量的增加快速下降．慢速热解与闪解实验结果显示升温速率是APP降低CO释放的关键因素．     

Thermal Field and Intrinsic Decoherence Effects on the Dynamics of N-level Moving Atomic System

Dynamical behaviour of Quantum Entanglement (QE) and atomic Quantum Fisher Information (AQFI) for a moving N-level atomic system is studied in a thermal environment. Time evolution of state vector of the entire system interacting with thermal field is calculated numerically in the presence of intrinsic decoherence. It is observed that intrinsic decoherence and thermal environment play dominant role during the time evolution of the quantum system. AQFI and entanglement show an opposite behaviour during its time evolution in the presence of thermal environment. AQFI is observed to be more prone to intrinsic decoherence as compared to the entanglement in a thermal environment. AQFI is found to be more prone to intrinsic decoherence as compared to the QE in a thermal environment. QE is found decaying when the parameter of intrinsic decoherence is increased in the absence of atomic motion. The damping behaviour of QE is observed for longer time-scales. The periodic response of entanglement due to atomic motion becomes moderate under the influence of these environments. The intrinsic decoherence and thermal environment are found to suppress the nonclassical effects of the quantum system. QE and AQFI saturate to a lower level for larger time-scales under the influence of these environments. Furthermore, the dynamics of AQFI and von Neumann entropy (VNE) changes remarkably by changing the mean number of photons.

     

Application of the flash method to rods and tubes

The flash method is the most used technique to measure the thermal diffusivity of solids. It consists of heating the front face of an opaque slab by a short light pulse and detecting the temperature evolution at its rear surface, from which the thermal diffusivity is retrieved. In this paper we extend the classical flash method to be used with rods and tubes. First, the temperature evolution of the surface temperature of solid and hollow cylinders is calculated. Then, experimental measurements of a set of stainless steel samples using an infrared camera confirm the validity of the method.     

Effect of Young's modulus evolution on residual stress measurement of thermal barrier coatings by X-ray diffraction

Subjected to thermal cycling, the apparent Young's modulus of air plasma-sprayed (APS) 8 wt.% Y₂O₃-stabilized ZrO₂ (8YSZ) thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) was measured by nanoindentation. Owing to the effects of sintering and porous microstructure, the apparent Young's modulus follows a Weibull distribution and changes from 50 to 93 GPa with an increase of thermal cycling. The evolution of residual stresses in the top coating of an 8YSZ TBC system was determined by X-ray diffraction (XRD). The residual stresses derived from the XRD data are well consistent with that obtained by the Vickers indention. It is shown that the evolution of Young's modulus plays an important role in improving the measurement precision of residual stresses in TBCs by XRD.     

Interaction d'un écoulement de thermosiphon avec un panache thermique à symétrie axiale: étude expérimentale

The present work reports an experimental study of a thermosiphon effect on an axisymmetric thermal plume. An experimental apparatus composed of a circular disc heated at constant temperature was set up. The disc is placed at the entrance to an open-ended vertical cylinder of larger diameter. Thermal radiation emitted by the hot disc heats the cylinder wall. The heating of fluid to the cylinder-inlet is the cause of the thermosiphon effect around the thermal plume. First, we studied the flow generated by the thermal plume. The analysis of the average fields of velocity and temperature shows that the structure of a thermal plume generated by a hot obstacle is affected by the characteristics of the main flow around this obstacle. Furthermore, these results allowed us to rediscover the two classical zones which constitute a thermal plume. Secondly, we studied the thermosiphon effect on the thermal plume development. The average fields evolution of velocity and temperature as well as the flow visualization show the existence of three different zones. The first zone of the plume air feeding is characterized by the dynamic and thermal profiles in three extrema structures. These extrema disappear in the second zone where the profiles present only one maximum. In the last zone, the profiles are flattened and self-similar. Thus, the turbulence is fully developed. However, one observes an improvement in the amount of energy absorbed by the fluid and an increase in the flow rate inside the cylinder. A flow visualization with laser plan allowed us to show that the position of the vertical cylinder around the hot disc affects the flow structure plume and causes the appearance of a new zone at the entrance to the system. However, the analysis of the fluctuating fields related to two studied cases shows that the thermosiphon effect has an important influence on the turbulent intensity structure of the flow evolution.     

Film growth mechanisms in pulsed laser deposition

This paper reviews our recent studies of the fundamentals of growth morphology evolution in Pulsed Laser Deposition in two prototypical growth modes: metal-on-insulator island growth and semiconductor homoepitaxy. By comparing morphology evolution for pulsed laser deposition and thermal deposition in the same dual-use chamber under identical thermal, background, and surface preparation conditions, and varying the kinetic energy by varying the laser fluence or using an inert background gas, we have isolated the effect of kinetic energy from that of flux pulsing in determining the differences between morphology evolution in these growth methods. In each growth mode analytical growth models and Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations for thermal deposition, modified to include kinetic energy effects, are successful at explaining much of what we observe experimentally.     

Thermo-field dynamics and quark–hadron phase transition in QCD

Based on the topological structure of gauge theory, an effective dual version of QCD has been reviewed and analyzed for the phase structure and color confining properties of QCD by invoking the dynamical magnetic symmetry breaking. The multi-flux-tube configuration of condensed QCD vacuum has been explored and associated glueball masses and inter-quark potential have been derived. Thermal response of QCD vacuum has been analyzed using path-integral formalism alongwith the mean-field approach and associated thermodynamical potential is used to derive thermal form of glueball masses, monopole condensate, inter-quark potential and monopole density which then lead to an estimate of the critical temperature of QCD phase transition. During its thermal evolution, a smooth transition of hadronic system via a weakly bound QGP phase to the fully deconfined phase is established and the thermal evolution profiles of various parameters are shown to indicate a second-order deconfinement phase transition and the restoration of magnetic symmetry. Monopole density calculations have been shown to lead to gradual evaporation of magnetic condensate into thermal monopoles during QCD phase transition.     

New approach for deriving the exact time evolution of density operator for diffusive anharmonic oscillator and its Wigner distribution function

Using the thermal entangled state representation, we solve the master equation of a diffusive anharmonic oscillator (AHO) to obtain the exact time evolution formula for the density operator in the infinitive operator-sum representation. We present a new evolution formula of the Wigner function (WF) for any initial state of the diffusive AHO by converting the calculation of the WF to an overlap between two pure states in an enlarged Fock space. It is found that this formula brings us much convenience to investigate the WF's evolution of any known initial state. As applications, this formula is used to obtain the evolution of the WF for a coherent state and the evolution of the photon-number distribution of the diffusive AHO.     

Laser-induced thermal lens study of the role of morphology and hydroxyl group in the evolution of thermal diffusivity of copper oxide

The paper explores the evolution of thermal behavior of the material by studying the variations in thermal diffusivity using the single beam thermal lens (TL) technique. For this purpose, the decomposition of Cu(OH)₂ into CuO is studied in a time range up to 120 h, by subjecting the sample to morphological, structural, and spectroscopic characterizations. The time evolution of thermal diffusivity can be divided into three regions for demonstrating the dynamics of the reaction. When the reaction is complete, the thermal diffusivity is also found to be saturated. In addition to the morphological modifications, from rods to flakes, the variations in the amount of hydroxyl group are attributed to be responsible for the enhancement of base fluid's thermal diffusivity by 165%. Thus the study unveils the role of hydroxyl groups in the thermal behavior of CuO.     

Evolution processes of coupled thermal qubits

We investigate the quantum speed limit time (QSLT) of quantum evolution before thermal equilibrium of two coupled qubits each of which is coupled to a separate thermal bath at the same temperature within the Born-Markov approximation. The evolution process in one particular initial state can change between speed-up and speed-down two times before reaching equilibrium. We call this double cusp behaviour. This behaviour is an anomalous phenomenon in evolution processes in the weak-coupling Markovian regime. We study QSLT corresponding to all pure initial energy eigenstates and categorise them. In addition, we also display the conditions for double cusp behaviour in terms of temperature, qubit interaction and frequency.     

New approach for deriving the exact time evolution of the density operator for a diffusive anharmonic oscillator and its Wigner distribution function

Using thermal entangled state representation,we solve the master equation of a diffusive anharmonic oscillator(AHO) to obtain the exact time evolution formula for the density operator in the infinitive operator-sum representation.We present a new evolution formula of the Wigner function(WF) for any initial state of the diffusive AHO by converting the WF calculation into an overlap between two pure states in an enlarged Fock space.It is found that this formula is very convenient in investigating the WF’s evolution of any known initial state.As applications,this formula is used to obtain the evolution of the WF for a coherent state and the evolution of the photon-number distribution of diffusive AHOs.     

Multiple size group analysis for transient radiative heating of particle polydispersions

The transient radiative heating of particle polydispersions initially at uniform temperature is numerically analyzed. Due to the different radiative heating characteristics between particles, the temperature evolution of particle changes with particle diameter. To take local thermal nonequilibrium between particles into consideration, the particles are discretized into several size groups. The radiative transfer equation in particle polydispersions and the transient energy equation for each particle group are solved by the discrete ordinates method and an implicit finite difference method, respectively. The effects of the standard deviation of particle diameter and the emissivity of particle surface on the thermal evolution of particle polydispersions are analyzed. The results show that, omitting thermal nonequilibrium of particles will result in significant errors in the calculation of radiative heat transfer, especially when the nonuniformity of particle diameter is large.     

TDPAC study of the thermal evolution of the quadrupole parameters in NiTiF6·6H2O between 30 and 400 K

The thermal evolution of the quadrupole parameters determined using the time differential perturbed angular correlation technique at titanium sites, in NiTiF₆·6H₂O is presented. The study of the thermal behavior of the hyperfine quadrupole interaction allows one to observe the occurrence of a structural phase transition around 140 K. The thermal evolution of the hyperfine quadrupole frequency of the high temperature phase was interpreted in terms of the flip motion of the water molecules through an ad hoc model. Parameters associated with the model are in good agreement with independent data obtained by Raman scattering. The agreement gives support to the model to be a valuable tool to study the dynamics of molecular groups in crystalline hydrates.     

Thermal effects on saxion in supersymmetric model with Peccei–Quinn symmetry

We consider supersymmetric model with Peccei–Quinn symmetry and study effects of saxion on the evolution of the universe, paying particular attention to the effects of thermal bath. The axion multiplet inevitably couples to colored particles, which induces various thermal effects. In particular, (i) saxion potential is deformed by thermal effects, and (ii) coherent oscillation of the saxion dissipates via the interaction with hot plasma. These may significantly affect the evolution of the saxion in the early universe.     

TG and DSC studies of natural and artificial aging of polypropylene

We study the evolution of thermal degradation of samples of polypropylene (PP), during their aging for two periods of 60 and 80 days. The study, using thermogravimetric analysis (TG) and differential scanning calorimetric (DSC) analyses, focused on two types of aging: the natural one under the impact of the solar environment and the artificial one which was carried out by exposing the sample to radiations of a 100 W commercial lamp.The comparative study of these two types of aging shows that the thermal degradation of the PP increases as a function of time of aging. Indeed, for a same duration, this thermal degradation is more important in the artificial aging case than it is in the natural one and is an increasing function of aging. The prolonged and continuous thermal effect produced by the lamp, in the case of the artificial aging, weakened the polymer and implies very important acceleration of the process of degradation.The results obtained during heating and cooling of the samples, using the DSC, show an evolution of the phase transition temperatures and the corresponding enthalpies of melting and crystallization.     

Thermal analysis of intense femtosecond laser ablation of aluminum

This paper numerically simulates the process of ablation of an aluminum target by an intense femtosecond laser with a fluence of 40 J/cm 2 based on the two-temperature equation,and obtains the evolution of the free electron temperature and lattice temperature over a large temporal and depth range,for the first time. By investigating the temporal evolution curves of the free electron temperature and lattice temperature at three representative depths of 0,100 nm and 500 nm,it reveals different characteristics and mechanisms of the free electron temperature evolution at different depths. The results show that,in the intense femtosecond laser ablation of aluminum,the material ablation is mainly induced by the thermal conduction of free electrons,instead of the direct absorption of the laser energy; in addition,the thermal conduction of free electrons and the coupling effect between electrons and lattice will induce the temperature of free electrons deep inside the target to experience a process from increase to decrease and finally to increase again.     

Dynamics of the Thermal Instability Evolution in Dielectric Breakdown

A mathematical model of the dynamics of temperature, electric field strength, and charge density in thermal dielectric breakdown is examined. The characteristics of the evolution of a thermal instability initiated by a local temperature disturbance are studied by numerical modeling. The conditions of initiation and growth of an electrothermal structure resulting in the formation of a highly conductive channel and shunting of the dielectrics current are identified.