Deformation of NaCl crystals under combined action of magnetic and electric fields

The paper reports observation of a strong macroplastic effect of weak magnetic and electric fields (B≤0.4 T, E～1 kV/m) when applied simultaneously to NaCl samples in the course of their active deformation at constant rate ?=const. In the absence of magnetic field, electric effects in the macroplasticity of the same crystals become manifest at fields E≥10³ kV/m. Quantitative dependences of the macroplasticity on magnetic and electric fields and on the strain rate have been measured. A physical interpretation of the observed phenomena is proposed.     

Electron velocity distribution in a fully ionized plasma under the action of crossed electric and magnetic fields

A fully ionized spatially homogeneous plasma is subjected to weak constant crossed electric and magnetic fields, and the velocity distribution function for the electrons is studied. The Fokker-Planck type expression for the Lorentz gas is employed for the collision term in the Boltzmann equation. This equation is solved by direct expansion and some conditions of convergence of this expansion are obtained.The author wishes to express his thanks to Prof. J. Kracík, DrSc., for valuable advice and suggestions.     

Theory of electronic light scattering in lateral superlattices with Rashba spin–orbit coupling under quantizing electric and magnetic fields

The influence of an in-plane electric and out-of-plane magnetic field on the electronic light scattering is calculated for a lateral semiconductor superlattice within Rashba spin–orbit interaction. Sharp resonances are predicted to appear when the Raman shift matches one frequency of the Wannier–Stark ladder. The spin–orbit interaction gives rise to a dispersion of the exact one-particle eigenstates and an associated finite width of the Raman line, which can be tuned by the electric and magnetic field. When the Bloch frequency is located in this Raman line, a Fano resonance is observed.     

Measuring magnetic fields in plasmas by means of light scattering

The theory of light scattering in plasmas containing a magnetic field yields the special case of modulated scattering spectra. The modulation frequency is governed by the field in the plasma and is equal to the electron cyclotron frequency. In this investigation magnetic fields in a plasma were determined by a laser scattering experiment. The experimental data were: electron densityn _e=10¹⁶cm^?3, electron temperatureT _e=3.2 eV, scattering angle θ=90 °, scattering parameter α=0.6, and a maximum field in the plasma of 125 kG. The spectrum measured at the maximum magnetic field was modulated with 3.6 × 10¹¹ Hz. In scattering experiments with a field reduced by about 20% the observed modulation frequency was 2.8 × 10¹¹ Hz. A thermal spectrum with a smooth profile was found when no field was present in the plasma. Applying the theory of cyclotron modulated spectra one obtains from the scattering experiment magnetic fields of 128, 100, and 0 kG. Within the experimental accuracy these values agree well with the fields determined by means of magnetic probes. Other possible interpretations of the measured deviations from thermal spectra (modulation with the plasma frequency or additional cold electron components in the plasma) are discussed, but they afford no explanation. This experiment has domonstrated that magnetic fields in plasmas can be measured locally and almost without disturbance by means of light scattering.     

红外区磷化稼散射强度的计算与分析

根据Mie散射理论,对磷化稼粒子光散射特性进行了数值计算与理论分析,得到了散射强度与散射角、入射波长以及偏振度与散射角的关系。研究表明,红外波段光散射很小,前向散射占有优势,粒子半径越大,前向散射越强,并且在散射角900方向上能观测到线偏振光,对研究GaP红外光学特性提供了理论参考。     

Multiphonon absorption of light in quantum-well systems in uniform electric and magnetic fields

The effect of a transverse electric field on the multiphonon absorption of light in quantum-well systems in a uniform magnetic field aligned parallel to the spatial quantization axis is investigated. It is shown that, when the interaction of an electron with long-wavelength vibrations is taken into account, the half-width of the absorption line does not depend on the electric-field vector E. As the electric field strength increases, the maximum of the light absorption shifts toward the long-wavelength range and decreases. The effect of the electric field on the shape of the zero-phonon line and first vibrational satellites is analyzed with due regard for the interaction of charge carriers with optical phonons. It is demonstrated in particular that the half-width of the zero-phonon line substantially depends on the electric-field vector E and can reach several millielectron-volts at the electric field strength E = 2 × 10⁴ V/cm.     

Destruction of tunneling in superlattices under the action of square-wave electric fields

The problem of coherent motion of an electron in a long period superlattice driven by a square-wave electric field is studied. Exact solutions for the amplitude propagators, the field-induced polarization, the mean-square displacement, and the quasi-energy spectrum are obtained generally, from which the results for any special initial distribution and for any long range hopping coupling can be deduced. The field-induced destruction of tunneling is found to appear in the cases of the ratio of the field period to the Bloch period being an even number.     

Light scattering by aggregates of magnetite nanoparticles in a magnetic field

The effect of variation of the scattered light intensity in a magnetic fluid with aggregates of magnetite particles several microns in size under the action of a magnetic field is studied. The effect relaxation times are determined when the magnetic field is turned on and off. This effect is found to be caused by the orientation of anisotropically magnetized aggregates. Experimental data are used to calculate the average anisotropy of the magnetic susceptibility of the aggregate and estimate its magnetic permeability.     

Impurity-related electronic properties in quantum dots under electric and magnetic fields

This paper presents a systematic study of the ground-state binding energies of a hydrogenic impurity in quantum dots subjected to external electric and magnetic fields.The quantum dot is modeled by superposing a lateral parabolic potential,a Gaussian potential and the energies are calculated via the finite-difference method within the effectivemass approximation.The variation of the binding energy with the lateral confinement,external field,position of the impurity,and quantum-size is studied in detail.All these factors lead to complicated binding energies of the donor,and the following results are found:(1) the binding energies of the donor increase with the increasing magnetic strength and lateral confinement,and reduce with the increasing electric strength and the dot size;(2) there is a maximum value of the binding energies as the impurity placed in different positions along the z direction;(3) the electric field destroys the symmetric behaviour of the donor binding energies as the position of the impurity.     

Directional temperature of hot electrons in InSb under electric and magnetic fields

Directional differences in electron temperature are observed in n-type indium antimonide between E ∥ H and E ⊥ H geometries of electric and magnetic fields. Effects are reported in far-infrared cyclotron resonance for electrons at the donor level as well as the conduction band.     

Nonlinear refractive index and light scattering due to fluctuations of molecular multipole electric fields

Statistical fluctuations of multipolar electric molecular fields, leading to variations of isotropic and anisotropic light scattering, are moreover shown to give rise to a temperature-dependent nonlinear refractive index of dense fluids. Some selected models of dipolar and quadrupolar molecules, linearly and nonlinearly polarizable and correlated in binary as well as ternary assemblages, are discussed. The formulae derived for the isotropic and anisotropic scattering constants are applicable to one-and many-component fluids, consisting of atoms and polar molecules, and provide the basis for a deeper interpretation of the latest experimental results.     

Effect of higher-order electric and magnetic multipolar transitions on Rayleigh light scattering in liquids

We calculate the effect of magnetic dipolar transitions, related with the polarizabilities B″, ′, and ″ and electric-quadrupole transitions, related with the polarizabilities C′, ″, and ′, on dynamical Rayleigh light scattering by isotrophic media. To this aim, we introduce molecular scattering factors of the fourth, fifth and sixth orders related with these polarizabilities. For molecules with 76 magnetic point group symmetries these transitions are found to affect the time-dependent intensities and depolarization ratios of scattered light. Among the 76 groups, the molecules belonging to 23 groups exhibit natural (transmission and Rayleigh) optical activity, whereas the point group m shows Rayleigh activity only. The effects in question result moreover from the contribution of magnetic-dipole and electric-quadrupole transitions. For isotropic molecules, the above transitions lead to partial depolarization of the scattered light wave. Our use of i- and c-tensors as well as Hermitian and anti-Hermitian components permits the extension of our discussion to regions of absorption as well as cases of full symmetry of the molecules.     

Dynamical localization in aperiodic 1D systems under the action of electric fields

In this work we have considered the propagation of carriers in aperiodic systems in the tight-binding single-band model under the action of electric fields. We present a method that allows us to evaluate the mean-square displacement (MSD) for: (a) a single impurity in an otherwise perfect crystal; (b) a quasiperiodic Harper model and (c) Fibonacci and Thue-Morse lattices. We show that the effect of the electric field on localization is much stronger than disorder is.     

Deformation of germanium under the joint action of an electric current and a magnetic field

The specific features in the behavior of deformation characteristics of low-ohmic p-type germanium single crystals subjected to different types of combined plastic deformation and the anisotropy of the electrical resistance of specimens in the longitudinal and transverse directions have been investigated. Both the acceptor and donor actions of dislocations have been observed in the motion of charge carriers along the direction of compression of the specimen. Under conditions of the joint action of a weak magnetic field and a combined plastic deformation, a decrease in the macroplasticity effects has been revealed. Anisotropy of the electrical resistance of p-Ge specimens in the longitudinal and transverse directions has been found. A possible explanation of the observed effect is given.     

Hofstadter spectrum in electric and magnetic fields

The problem of Bloch electrons in two dimensions subjected to magnetic and intense electric fields is investigated. Magnetic translations, electric evolution, and energy translation operators are used to specify the solutions of the Schrödinger equation. For rational values of the magnetic flux quanta per unit cell and commensurate orientations of the electric field relative to the original lattice, an extended superlattice can be defined and a complete set of mutually commuting space-time symmetry operators is obtained. Dynamics of the system is governed by a finite difference equation that exactly includes the effects of: an arbitrary periodic potential, an electric field orientated in a commensurable direction of the lattice, and coupling between Landau levels. A weak periodic potential broadens each Landau level in a series of minibands, separated by the corresponding minigaps. The addition of the electric field induces a series of avoided and exact crossing of the quasienergies, for sufficiently strong electric field the spectrum evolves into equally spaced discreet levels, in this “magnetic Stark ladder” the energy separation is an integer multiple of hE/aB, with a the lattice parameter.     

Semiconductor electrons in electric and magnetic fields

Optical properties of semiconductors in the simultaneous presence of electric and magnetic fields are reviewed, with particular emphasis on the possibilities of modulation techniques. First, the problem of an electron in crossed and parallel fields is solved in the one-level effective mass approximation (EMA), and the results are used to interpret the experimental interband transitions in Ge, with due account of the degenerate character of the valence band in this material. The limitations of the one-level EMA are discussed, and the two-level model is introduced, which correctly describes the experimentally observed transition from a magnetic type to an electric type of motion in increasing transverse electric field. Possibilities to observe electric field effects in cyclotron resonance transitions are discussed in this approximation. Finally, the three-level model is used to describe properly both orbital and spin properties of conduction electrons. It is demonstrated that in a small-gap semiconductor with large spin-orbit interaction a sufficiently strong transverse electric field destroys the Landau orbital quantization but not the Pauli spin quantization. Possible experimental consequences of this situation are discussed. Influence of finite dimensions of the sample on the character of the electron motion in crossed and parallel fields is examined. A possibility to achieve the semiconductor-semimetal transition in a symmetryinduced zero-gap semiconductor in crossed field configuration is predicted and described, taking into account the Luttinger effects in the magnetic level structure.