Fast-ion conduction and flexibility of glassy networks

We observe two thresholds in the variations of electrical conductivity of dry (AgI)_{x}(AgPO3)_{1-x} solid electrolyte glasses, when the AgI additive concentration x increases to 9.5% and to 37.8%. Raman scattering complemented by calorimetric measurements confirms that these thresholds are signatures of the rigidity phase transitions at x=9.5% from a stressed rigid to an isostatically (stress-free) rigid phase, and at x=37.8% from isostatically rigid to a flexible phase. In the flexible phase, the electrical conductivity seems to increase as a power of x. This is in good agreement with the theoretical prediction based on 3D percolation.     

Solvent-localized NMR spectroscopy using the distant dipolar field: a method for NMR separations with a single gradient

Solvent-localized NMR (SOLO) is a new method which allows the separation of NMR spectra of substances dissolved in different solvents. It uses the selective HOMOGENIZED pulse sequence to produce a two-dimensional NMR spectrum resulting from intermolecular zero-quantum coherences in one distinct solvent. The detected signal is locally refocused by the action of the distant dipolar field, which is created by a frequency selective pulse only in regions containing the selected solvent. The prerequisites are that the different solvents have sufficiently different chemical shifts to be excited separately and that compartments with different solvents are spatially separated by more than the typical diffusion distance. Here, the method is demonstrated for the solvents water and DMSO on a length scale of 0.5 mm. Because signal in the spectra is refocused locally, SOLO is insensitive to variations in the magnetic field which may result from inhomogeneities or structures in the sample. This makes applications in strongly structured samples possible. SOLO is the first method that achieves localization of NMR signal with a single gradient pulse. Therefore, it can be used in conventional NMR spectrometers with one-axis gradient systems and lends itself to a wide range of applications including in vivo NMR.     

Permittivity of liquid crystals of the alkylcyanobiphenyl group in a decimeter wavelength range

The high-frequency dielectric spectra of liquid crystals of the alkylcyanobiphenyl group with various length of the mobile alkyl chain C_nH_2n+1 (n=5–8) are experimentally studied. It is established that a resonance feature is observed in the frequency range of 300 MHz for all the crystals on the high-frequency branch of the orientational part of dielectric spectra. It is shown that the position of the dielectric resonance is virtually independent of the temperature and the degree of crystal dilution by benzene, but its intensity essentially depends on both factors. The nature of the dielectric resonance found is probably caused by the intramolecular motion of methylene fragments, which are strongly bound with a rigid core of molecules.     

Effect of the structure of solid compounds on the shape of their NMR spectra and manifestations of dynamic chaos in paramagnetic spin systems

The shape of NMR absorption line for typical ionic crystals, molecular crystals, and glasses is studied. The proposed theory and available experimental results suggest that the shape of NMR spectra of conventional dielectric crystals (and even molecular) is the convolution of a frequency-truncated nearly-rectangle-shaped function (characteristic oscillations in free precession signals) and a Gaussian-like function. A Gaussian-like shape of the spectra of glasses with a rigid structure (no oscillations in the free precession signal) is probably associated with a random scatter of interatomic distances. The results are interpreted within the framework of the proposed theory. It is demonstrated that, at least for solids the lattice of which contains no isolated groups of nuclei and are not quasi-one-dimensional, the structure only weakly affects the shape of the spectrum, which in turn is associated with the onset of dynamic chaos in the spin system.     

Scalar observations from a class of high-dimensional chaotic systems: Limitations of the time delay embedding

The time delay embedding for the reconstruction of a state space from scalar data introduces strong folding of the smooth manifold in which a chaotic attractor is embedded, which is absent in some more natural state space. In order to observe the deterministic nature of data, the typical length scale related to this folding has to be resolved. Above this length scale the data appear to be random. For a particular model class we prove these statements and we derive analytically the dependence of this length scale on the complexity of the system. We show that the number of scalar observations required to observe determinism increases exponentially in the product of the system's entropy and dimension. (c) 1997 American Institute of Physics.     

The Influence of the Molecular Structure of Cyanine Dye on the Component Composition of Molecular Layers

The formation of the component composition of symmetric cationic cyanine dyes on glass is studied. The absorption spectra of layers of three homologous series of dyes with end heterocyclic groups of different spatial and chemical compositions are measured, and the absorption spectra of monomer components and aggregates are separated. The component compositions of layers of different thicknesses are compared. It is shown that the widening of the absorption spectra of molecular layers against the spectra of ethanol solutions of these compounds is caused mainly by the formation of various monomer stereoisomers and molecular aggregates and their interaction with the substrate surface and the neighborhood. The number of isomer forms and their relative concentrations depend on the layer thickness, the electron donor ability and spatial structure of end groups, and the cation conjugation chain length. The influence of the anion manifests itself only in the concentration ratio of the formed monomers and a small shift of the maxima of their absorption bands. The increase in the number of monomer forms produced in the layer corresponds to the increase in the conjugation chain length. Spatial obstacles created by heterocyclic groups inhibit the formation of definite stereoisomers, which reduces the number of components of the layer.     

Coulomb repulsion versus Hubbard repulsion in a disordered chain

We study the difference between on site Hubbard and long range Coulomb repulsions for two interacting particles in a disordered chain. The system size L (in units of the lattice spacing) is of the order of the one particle localization length and the energies are taken near the band center. In the two cases, the limits of weak and strong interactions are characterized by uncorrelated energy levels and are separated by a crossover regime where the states are more extended and the spectra more rigid. U denoting the interaction strength and t the kinetic energy scale, the crossovers take place for interaction energy to kinetic energy ratios U/t and U/(2tL) of order one, for Hubbard and Coulomb repulsions respectively. While Hubbard repulsion can only yield weak critical chaos with intermediate spectral statistics, Coulomb repulsion can drive the two particle system to quantum chaos with Wigner-Dyson spectral statistics. The interaction matrix elements are studied to explain this difference. Received 21 March 2000 and Received in final form 5 February 2001     

Plastic shear response of a single asperity: a discrete dislocation plasticity analysis

We investigate the plastic shear response during static friction of an asperity protruding from a large FCC single crystal. The asperity is in perfectly adhesive contact with a rigid platen and is sheared by tangentially moving the platen. Using discrete dislocation plasticity simulations, we elucidate the plastic shear behaviour of single asperities of various size and shape, in search for the length scale that controls the plastic behaviour. Since plasticity can occur also in the crystal, identification of the length scale that controls a possible size-dependent plastic behaviour is far from being trivial. It is found that scaling down the dimensions of an asperity results in a higher contact shear strength. The contact area is dominant in controlling the plastic shear response, because it determines the size of the zone, in and below the asperity, where dislocation nucleation can occur. For a specific contact area, there is still a dependence on asperity volume and shape, but this is weaker than the dependence on contact area alone.     

Perturbational study of a model of chemisorption including dynamic image effects

Recent calculations of the effects of dynamic screening on the valence spectra of adsorbates, based on the rigid Fermi sea approximation, are criticized as inadequate. A new perturbational scheme which takes into account the interplay between one-electron scattering and many-body screening processes is presented and used for a model calculation of the spectra of occupied adsorbate levels. The results for the shape and the shift of the first plasmon satellite obtained in the adiabatic limit are shown to be different from those obtained by the convolution procedure of the rigid Fermi sea approximation.     

Strong scintillation spectra behind a phase screen containing large-scale anisotropic irregularities

Using the approximation of an anisotropic statistically-homogeneous phase screen, we consider spectra of strong scintillations. Numerical calculations are made for the model of large-scale anisotropic inhomogeneities typical of the Earth’s stratosphere. The spectrum transformation is studied for the transition from weak scintillations to the asymptotic regime of strong scintillations. We show that with increasing level of the scintillations, their spectra rapidly broaden to the region of large wave numbers which exceed both the inverse internal scale of the irregularities and the inverse radius of the Fresnel zone by orders of magnitude. Notable deviations of the two-dimensional spectra from the predictions based on perturbation theory are shown to occur for scintillation variance exceeding 0.1. The obtained two-dimensional spectra of scintillations give a complete picture of the behavior of one-dimensional spectra which can be retrieved from satellite observations made for different angles between the orbit plane and the direction to the source. Vertical and horizontal one-dimensional spectra are studied in detail. Approximate algebraic formulas are derived and their validity is proved by applying them to the calculation of spectra of strong scintillations for a wide (several decades) range of the wave number values. __________ Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 50, No. 9, pp. 747–765, September 2007.     

温度对鱼鳞胶原蛋白二级结构的影响

从草鱼鱼鳞中提取酶溶性胶原蛋白(PSC),通过SDS-PAGE电泳分析为典型Ⅰ型胶原蛋白且达到电泳纯。在此基础上利用傅里叶变换红外光谱(FTIR)、拉曼光谱(Raman)和圆二色谱(CD)研究了温度对鱼鳞胶原蛋白二级结构的影响。FTIR分析表明：鱼鳞胶原蛋白具有典型的胶原蛋白特征吸收带,酰胺Ⅰ、酰胺Ⅱ和酰胺Ⅲ带的特征吸收频率分别出现在1658,1552和1238cm-1处。随温度升高,酰胺A和酰胺B峰位向低波数移动,1658cm-1处吸收峰裂解成多个吸收峰;1552cm-1处的吸收峰在35℃微略红移,随后发生明显蓝移;1238cm-1处吸收峰随温度升高向低波数移动。在拉曼光谱中,胶原蛋白的酰胺Ⅰ、酰胺Ⅱ和酰胺Ⅲ带的特征吸收频率分别出现在1669,1557和1245cm-1处,都较红外光谱的波数高;此外,921和855cm-1处脯氨酸的特征谱峰在拉曼光谱中体现出来。圆二色谱分析表明,胶原蛋白溶液在221.6和204.4nm分别有一正、负峰,具有典型胶原蛋白三螺旋结构的特征圆二色谱峰型。胶原蛋白冻干品的FTIR光谱和Raman谱线大都在35～60℃时发生波数和强度改变,而胶原蛋白乙酸溶液的CD谱线在20～35℃之间发生剧烈改变。由此可以判断胶原蛋白在固态和溶液状态下,变性温度存在一定差异,胶原蛋白冻干品比其乙酸溶液更稳定。     

Absorption of a rigid frame porous layer with periodic circular inclusions backed by a periodic grating

The acoustic properties of a periodic rigid frame porous layer with multiple irregularities in the rigid backing and embedded rigid circular inclusions are investigated theoretically and numerically. The theoretical representation of the sound field in the structure is obtained using a combination of multipole method that accounts for the periodic inclusions and multi-modal method that accounts for the multiple irregularities of the rigid backing. The theoretical model is validated against a finite element method. The predictions show that the acoustic response of this structure exhibits quasi-total, high absorption peaks at low frequencies which are below the frequency of the quarter-wavelength resonance typical for a flat homogeneous porous layer backed by a rigid plate. This result is explained by excitation of additional modes in the porous layer and by a complex interaction between various acoustic modes. These modes relate to the resonances associated with the presence of a profiled rigid backing and rigid inclusions in the porous layer.     

Electronic speckle pattern interferometry deformation measurement on lightweight structures under thermal load

We report on the application of ESPI to measure deformations induced by thermal load on lightweight honeycomb panels for space applications. The panel was mounted isostatically onto a vibration isolated table. A housing for temperature stabilisation was constructed enclosing the panel, heating elements, fans and the ESPI-head made of Invar. Emphasis is put on the quantitative analysis of the deformation of this large object (0.8×0.8 m²) viewed from a relatively short distance of 1.1 m and illuminated sequentially from three non-orthogonal directions. Influences of laser stability, rigid body displacements, temperature inhomogeneities as well as possible deformations of the measurement head are discussed in order to derive the measurement uncertainty and to estimate corrections. Beside the sensitivity vector analysis it is important to take into account the optical light path changes due to temperature changes. Out-of-plane deformation fields of the panel are presented.     

Nonlinear cyclotron resonant wave-particle interaction in a nonuniform magnetic field

Quasilinear analysis of wave-particle interactions is presented for plasma flowing in a weakly nonuniform magnetic field configuration. The method presented is based on a scale separation between the length scales of quasilinear relaxation and the magnetic field inhomogeneity, allowing one to obtain large scale solutions for both particle distribution functions and wave spectra, without going into the details of the small scale quasilinear relaxation. The numerical example shows the existence of a secondary instability for an initially stable particle distribution function.     

An experimental study of sound generated by flows around cylinders of different cross-section

The sound radiated by rigid cylinders placed transversely in a uniform stream has been measured in an anechoic wind tunnel over a range of Mach numbers (M=0.09-0.2). The cylinders have different cross-sections, e.g., circular, square, rectangular, elliptic, and circular with lateral ribs or knurled surfaces. Different length to diameter ratios of the cylinders are also investigated. Results are presented as narrow band spectra, measured in the far field (acoustic as well as geometric). All spectra are presented with dimensionless (scaled) axes, as well as the original dimensional scales. It is shown that elliptic cross-sections are less noisy, compared to all other cylinders, but noise abatement techniques such as lateral ribs and knurled surfaces can also reduce tonal radiated noise. Two practical applications of these experiments are the reduction of radiated noise from pantographs of high-speed railway trains, and from the landing gear of modern passenger aircraft.     

Scale and conformal invariance in quantum field theory

We study the relation between invariance under rigid and local changes of length scale. In two dimensions, we complete an argument of Zamolodchikov showing that the rigid invariance implies the local under broad conditions. In three or more dimensions we are unable to find either a general proof or a counterexample, but we find some new conformally invariant systems.     

Density-functional based modeling of the intermediate in the water production reaction on Pt(111)

A model based on density-functional calculations has been developed for the overlayer formed by dissociation of water on an oxygen covered Pt(111) surface. The directional dependent interaction within the overlayer is treated by means of a lattice model of Ising type. Stable large length scale structures are found for two compositions proposed in the literature: a hydroxyl-water and a hydroxyl-hydrogen mixed composition, respectively. The water containing composition produces an overlayer structure in very good agreement with the structures seen in scanning tunneling microscopy experiments.     

各向同性紊流能量衰减的大涡模拟

在多重网格驱动的,高效且得到充分验证的有限体积方法的基础上发展了可压缩流大涡模拟的方法.空间离散采用Jameson的中心格式附加二阶和四阶耗散的方法,时间推进则采用了双时间步长的方法.亚格子剪切应力张量和亚格子热通量用Smagorinsky模型进行模拟.通过对各向同性紊流能量衰减的模拟来验证本方法的准确性和高效性,模拟得到的能量谱和紊流动能衰减历程与过滤后的CBC实验数据吻合良好.     

On variable length induced vibrations of a vertical string

The purpose of this paper is to study the free lateral responses of vertically translating media with variable length, velocity and tension, subject to general initial conditions. The translating media are modeled as taut strings with fixed boundaries. The problem can be used as a simple model to describe the lateral vibrations of an elevator cable, for which the length changes linearly in time, or for which the length changes harmonically about a constant mean length. In this paper an initial-boundary value problem for a linear, axially moving string equation is formulated. In the given model a rigid body is attached to the lower end of the string, and the suspension of this rigid body against the guide rails is assumed to be rigid. For linearly length variations it is assumed that the axial velocity of the string is small compared to nominal wave velocity and the string mass is small compared to car mass, and for the harmonically length variations small oscillation amplitudes are assumed and it is also assumed that the string mass is small compared to the total mass of the string and the car. A multiple-timescales perturbation method is used to construct formal asymptotic approximations of the solutions to show the complicated dynamical behavior of the string. For the linearly varying length analytic approximations of the exact solution are compared with numerical solution. For the harmonically varying length it will be shown that Galerkin?s truncation method cannot be applied in all cases to obtain approximations valid on long timescales.     

Optical properties of individual GaAs quantum dots embedded into AlGaAs nanowires

The photoluminescence (PL) spectra of semiconductor structures, namely, Al_0.3Ga_0.7As-based quasi-one-dimensional cylindrical nanowires (nanowhiskers), are measured. The diameter of a typical nanowire is 20–50 nm, and its length was 0.5–1.0 μm. Samples containing one or several GaAs-based quantum dots at the center of the quantum wire are studied. The dot thickness is 2 nm, and the dot diameter is 15–40 nm. Individual nanowhiskers, several nanowhiskers (3–4), and ensembles consisting of many nanowhiskers are studied. The PL spectra are measured for different optical-excitation intensities and in magnetic fields of up to 11 T.