Weak Coupling Effect on the Magnetic Freedericksz Transition in a Ferronematic Liquid Crystal

Physics of the Solid State - The magnetic Freedericksz transition in a ferronematic representing a diluted suspension of magnetic nanoparticles in an N-(4-methoxybenzylidene)-4-butylaniline (MBBA)...     

弱磁场中向列相液晶的磁光效应

当外磁场强度比较小时,液晶不会发生Freedericksz转变.利用介电张量分析了扭曲型向列液晶在弱磁场中的旋光效应.通过理论分析表明,线性偏振光经过磁场中的扭曲型向列液晶,会产生左右两束椭圆偏振光.这两束椭圆偏振光在该液晶中的传播速度不同,导致光经过液晶盒后光电场振动面发生偏转.进一步分析表明,对于同一种波长的光,磁场强度越大,其电场振动面旋转角度越大.在相同的磁场强度下,光波长越短,其电场振动面旋转角度越大.如果加上高的偏置电压,使向列型液晶分子长轴方向与外磁场方向平行,线性偏振光经过磁场中的该扭曲型向列液晶,其振动面会也发生偏转.     

Orientational Order in Liquid Crystal Complexes Based on Lanthanides

In this study, we have for the first time determined the degree of an orientational order S for a series of liquid-crystal complexes based on lanthanides (Eu⁺³, Gd⁺³, Tb⁺³, Dy⁺³) with the same ligand composition in the temperature range of existence of the nematic phase by using experimental refractometry results. We have also found an even-odd alternative S as number of protons in the ions complexing agent has consecutively increased. The obtained values of S have been compared with the corresponding degrees of order of the calamite organic liquid crystals.

     

Hydrodynamic Flows in Microsized Liquid Crystal Cells with Orientational Defects

The effect of the orientational defect (OD) on the formation process of a vortical flow v(t, r), emerging in a microsized liquid crystal (LC) cell under the action of a focused laser radiation, was studied within the nonlinear generalization of the classical Ericksen–Leslie theory by numerical methods, considering the thermomechanical contributions to both the stress tensor and viscous torque, that acts on the unit volume of the liquid crystal phase (LC phase). The analysis of the obtained results showed that the vortical flow, rotating clockwise, is generated in a “defect” LC cell close to the OD, with the OD, placed on the lower bounding surface, on which the laser radiation was focused. The rotational velocity of this flow is two orders of magnitude greater than the rotational velocity of the vortex, which is generated in a “pure” LC cell at the same conditions and rotates anticlockwise.

     

Orientational Ordering of a Liquid-Crystal Suspension of Carbon Nanotubes in a Magnetic Field

A statistical theory is proposed to describe a suspension of carbon nanotubes in a nematic liquid crystal. The mean-field approach is used, and dispersion attraction, the excluded volume effects, the diamagnetism of liquid crystal molecules, and the strong diamagnetism of nanotubes are taken into account. The influence of the volume fraction of impurity, temperature, and magnetic field on the orientational ordering of a liquid crystal matrix and carbon nanotubes is studied. The concentration and temperature phase transitions in the suspension are investigated for various magnetic fields. The concentration and field shifts of the point of the phase transition between nematic and isotropic or paranematic phases are studied.     

Condensation Instability in Partially Ionized Plasma in a Magnetic Field

The occurrence conditions of the condensation instability in heat-releasing partially ionized plasma in an external magnetic field with an induction vector normal to the direction along which a perturbation occurs are considered. Linear equations describing isobaric perturbation dynamics in the two-liquid plasma model are derived. Using these equations, a dispersion relation for condensation modes is derived and their time increments are calculated for various degrees of plasma ionization and magnetic fields.     

Electromagnetic Instability in Counterstreaming Collisional Plasmas in a Magnetic Field

The stability of low frequency electromagnetic waves is studied for collisional, counterstreaming plasmas situated in a steady magnetic field. Based on the cold fluid equations, it is found that obliquely propagating waves are unstable when the parallel component of the phase velocity is smaller than the electron streaming velocity. The frequency of the instability is of the order of but always smaller than the ion cyclotron frequency. The growth rate is proportional to the electron-ion collisional frequency.     

Jumplike Magnetic Disordering Processes Stimulated by a Magnetic Field in Systems with Structural Instability

Physics of the Solid State - A theoretical analysis of the features of first-order structural and magnetostructural transitions in magnetocaloric helimagnetic alloys of the...     

Anisotropy of Isobaric Instability in a Partially Ionized Plasma in a Magnetic Field

Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute - Linear equations describing the dynamics of small perturbations in partially ionized heat-releasing plasma in an external magnetic field with an...     

Capillary Instability of a Cylindrical Ferrofluid Jet in a Uniform Longitudinal Magnetic Field

Technical Physics - The formulated problem makes it possible to study the influence of magnetic forces on capillary instability of a ferrofluid jet with given physical characteristics in both weak...     

Gravitational Instability of a Thermally Conducting Plasma in an Oblique Magnetic Field

The combined influence of the effects of Hall currents, magnetic resistivity and viscosity have been studied on the gravitational instability of a thermally conducting homogeneous unbounded plasma in an oblique magnetic field. The solution has been obtained through the normal mode technique and the dispersion relation has been derived. It is shown that the Jeans' criterion for gravitational instability remains unchanged. Solving numerically the dispersion relation, the dependence of the growth rate of the gravitational unstable mode on the considered physical effects has been obtained for an astrophysical situation. For conditions prevailing in the magnetized collapsing clouds, the numerical calculations for the plot of growth rate against wave number has been obtained for several values of the parameters characterizing Hall currents magnetic resistivity viscosity thermal conductivity. It is found that magnetic resistivity and thermal conductivity have destabilizing influence while viscosity has stabilizing influence on the instability of the plasma of disturbance m(ϱ) = 9 × 10⁻³ kg.     

Surface Instability of Thermodynamically Non-equilibrium Liquid Metal in Electric Field

Russian Physics Journal - The mathematical theory of stability requires the analysis of the time evolution of arbitrary perturbations of the initial conditions in the system. However, in real...     

等效磁场与弯晶沟道辐射

引入场指标和等效磁场概念,把粒子在弯晶沟道中的运动行为等效为回旋加速器中的粒子运动.结果表明,描写粒子的运动方程是一个非线性薛定谔方程.在小振幅近似下找到了系统的严格解和粒子振动周期,导出了瞬时辐射强度和最大辐射频率. The sine-squared potential and the equivalent magnetic field intensity have been introduced, the motion equation of the particle in bent crystal has been derived, the motion equation and the oscillation period of the particle have been solved exactly by Jacobian elliptic fuanction and the first kind of complet elliptic integrals, the intensity and the spectral properties of channelling radiation in bent crystal discussed.     

Quantum Effects on Rayleigh–Taylor Instability of Incompressible Plasma in a Vertical Magnetic Field

Quantum effects on Rayleigh-Taylor instability of a stratified incompressible plasmas layer under the influence of vertical magnetic field are investigated. The solutions of the linearized equations of motion together with the boundary conditions lead to deriving the relation between square normalized growth rate and square normalized wave number in two algebraic equations and are numerically analyzed. In the case of the real solution of these two equations, they can be combined to generate a single equation. The results show that the presence of vertical magnetic field beside the quantum effect will bring about more stability on the growth rate of unstable configuration.