High-spin states in 44Ca

High-spin states of the ⁴⁴Ca nucleus populated in the 68 MeV ¹⁸O + ³⁰Si reaction have been studied in a γ-γ-recoil coincidence experiment. The level scheme of ⁴⁴Ca has been extended up to 12.2 MeV. In particular, the negative-parity band has been identified with the highest I = 13^- level at 10.6 MeV. This state is interpreted as the band-terminating state for the ( d _3/2 ^-1 f _7/2 ⁵) configuration. Received: 7 November 2001 / Accepted: 3 December 2001     

Cluster calculations of the electronic structure of Fe4C

The electronic structure and magnetic properties of Fe₄C are investigated with the first-principles discrete variational method (DV) in spin-polarized case. It is used for the local spin density approximation of the density functional theory. Clusters of 21 and 27 atoms were adopted to represent the two non-equivalent iron sites in this compound. The calculated magnetic moments for the corner and face centered iron sites are 2.63\mu_B and 1.77\mu_B, respectively, which are in very good agreement with the experimental results. A collapse of the magnetic moment for both inequivalent iron sites was verified above 12% of contraction of the lattice spacing. The C atom acts as an acceptor for electrons in this host. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Low-Temperature Anti-Stokes Luminescence in Zn1-xMgxSe Mixed Crystals

Investigations of photoluminescence and Raman scattering in the ternary Zn_1-xMg_xSe compounds at 4.2 K were performed both in the Stokes and anti-Stokes regions using cw laser excitation with various wavelengths within the transparency band of the crystals. The anti-Stokes luminescence was observed for the first time in the ternary Zn_1-xMg_xSe compounds. We have found variations in the shape and position of the Stokes and anti-Stokes luminescence bands with an increase in the band gap energy, which depends on magnesium content. We assume that the anti-Stokes emission is generated by two-step excitation via deep-level centers. It is shown that the low-temperature anti-Stokes photoluminescence can probe the spatial distribution profiles of impurities in the bulk of crystals.     

Magnetic nanoscale aggregates of cobalt and nickel in MgO single crystals

The magnetic properties of Co and Ni nanosized aggregates formed after implantation of nickel and cobalt ions in magnesium oxide single crystals were investigated. The influence of the implantation energy and annealing treatments was characterized. The particle size distribution was determined from the combined analysis of the magnetic moment dependence on both magnetic field and temperature, and used to determine the magnetic anisotropy constant of the aggregates. The results for nickel aggregates indicate the presence of an antiferromagnetic layer after the annealing treatments.     

Static observers in curved spaces and non-inertial frames in Minkowski spacetime

Static observers in curved spacetimes may interpret their proper acceleration as the opposite of a local gravitational field (in the Newtonian sense). Based on this interpretation and motivated by the equivalence principle, we are led to investigate congruences of timelike curves in Minkowski spacetime whose acceleration field coincides with the acceleration field of static observers of curved spaces. The congruences give rise to non-inertial frames that are examined. Specifically, we find, based on the locality principle, the embedding of simultaneity hypersurfaces adapted to the non-inertial frame in an explicit form for arbitrary acceleration fields. We also determine, from the Einstein equations, a covariant field equation that regulates the behavior of the proper acceleration of static observers in curved spacetimes. It corresponds to an exact relativistic version of the Newtonian gravitational field equation. In the specific case in which the level surfaces of the norm of the acceleration field of the static observers are maximally symmetric two-dimensional spaces, the energy?Cmomentum tensor of the source is analyzed.     

Ferroelectricity in antiferromagnetic phases of Eu1−xY xMnO3

This work reports an experimental investigation of the ferroelectric character of magnetic phases of the orthorhombic Eu_1−xY _xMnO₃ system at low temperatures. The temperature dependence of the polarization curves clearly reveals the existence of a re-entrant improper ferroelectric phase for x=0.2, 0.3 and 0.5. A ferroelectric phase is also stable for x=0.4, and we have no experimental evidence for its vanishing down to 7 K. From these and early results obtained using other experimental techniques, the corresponding (x,T) phase diagram was traced, yielding significant differences with regard to the ones previously reported.     

Surface tension in field theory at finite temperature: Semiclassical fermionic plus bosonic contributions

We compute, within the one loop approximation, the temperature dependent surface tension for a model involving a scalar field coupled to a fermionic field. The fermionic and bosonic contributions have been computed in this approximation by evaluating explicitly the determinants in the presence of a domain wall.     

Geodesic motion in the neighbourhood of submanifolds embedded in warped product spaces

We study the classical geodesic motions of nonzero rest mass test particles and photons in (3 + 1 + n)- dimensional warped product spaces. An important feature of these spaces is that they allow a natural decoupling between the motions in the (3 + 1)-dimensional spacetime and those in the extra n dimensions. Using this decoupling and employing phase space analysis we investigate the conditions for confinement of particles and photons to the (3 + 1)- spacetime submanifold. In addition to providing information regarding the motion of photons, we also show that these motions are not constrained by the value of the extrinsic curvature. We obtain the general conditions for the confinement of geodesics in the case of pseudo-Riemannian manifolds as well as establishing the conditions for the stability of such confinement. These results also generalise a recent result of the authors concerning the embeddings of hypersurfaces with codimension one.     

H2O2–Ng dynamics predictions using an accurate potential energy surface

ABSTRACT

Based on ab initio calculations, our research group has built an analytical ground-state potential energy surface (PES) for hydrogen peroxide– noble gas (Ng) interactions, such as H₂O₂–He, H₂O₂–Ne, H₂O₂–Ar, H₂O₂–Kr, and H₂O₂–Xe complexes. From this PES, it was verified that the Ng presence does not affect the equilibrium values of the H₂O₂ dihedral angles. This happens because the H₂O₂ intramolecular barriers have much higher energies than the atom–bond interaction within these complexes. From this point of view, it is indeed reasonable to consider the H₂O₂ system as a rigid rotor, frozen at its equilibrium configuration. We present in this work the torsional motion for the H₂O₂ isolated system, the vibration–rotation energy levels and spectroscopic constants for hydrogen peroxide–noble gas by using the aforementioned PES. The predicted H₂O₂ torsional motions are in good agreement with both theoretical and experimental results available in the literature. Regarding H₂O₂–Ng ro-vibrational energies and spectroscopic constants, it is the first time that these calculations are presented in the literature. The current theoretical predictions are expected to be useful in the future experimental investigations.