Liquid–gas critical phenomena under confinement: small-angle neutron scattering studies of CO2 in aerogel

Small angle neutron scattering (SANS) is a well-established technique for investigating the behavior of confined binary liquid solutions, as it can probe the correlation length and susceptibility in pores on length scales 1 – 100 nm. We applied SANS to explore the influence of confinement on critical behavior of an individual fluid carbon dioxide (CO₂) in a highly porous aerogel. The results demonstrate that quenched disorder induced by aerogel significantly depresses density fluctuations. Despite the negligible volume occupied by aerogel (< 4%), the macroscopic phase separation of confined CO₂ into coexisting liquid and gaseous phases is suppressed and below the critical temperature of the bulk fluid frozen methastable microdomains are formed. Experimental data show that critical adsorption is as important as the effect of confinement in defining the behavior of confined fluids.     

Critical Slowing Down in One-Dimensional Maps and Beyond

This is a brief review on critical slowing down near the Feigenbaum period-doubling bifurcation points and its consequences. The slowing down of numerical convergence leads to an “operational” fractal dimension D=2/3 at a finite order bifurcation point. There is a cross-over to D ₀=0.538... when the order goes to infinity, i.e., to the Feigenbaum accumulation point. The problem of whether there exists a “super-scaling” for the dimension spectrum D _q ^W that does not depend on the primitive word W underlying the period-n-tupling sequence seems to remain open     

Characterization of the smectic-A-hexatic-B transition in 65OBC by adiabatic scanning calorimetry

We investigated the smectic-A-hexatic-B (SmA-HexB) transition in the liquid-crystal n-hexyl-4-n-pentyloxybiphenyl-4-carboxilate (65OBC) with adiabatic scanning calorimetry. We were able to prove in a direct way that this transition is indeed very weakly first order, as was already suggested in the literature. The latent heat at the transition was determined to be H_L = 0.04±0.02 J/g. Our experiments confirm the high value for the heat capacity critical exponent earlier reported, yielding = 0.64±0.05.     

Open critical area model and extraction algorithm based on the net flow-axis

In the integrated circuit manufacturing process, the critical area extraction is a bottleneck to the layout optimization and the integrated circuit yield estimation. In this paper, we study the problem that the missing material defects may result in the open circuit fault. Combining the mathematical morphology theory, we present a new computation model and a novel extraction algorithm for the open critical area based on the net flow-axis. Firstly, we find the net flow-axis for different nets. Then, the net flow-edges based on the net flow-axis are obtained. Finally, we can extract the open critical area by the mathematical morphology. Compared with the existing methods, the nets need not to divide into the horizontal nets and the vertical nets, and the experimental results show that our model and algorithm can accurately extract the size of the open critical area and obtain the location information of the open circuit critical area.     

Evidence of pressure dependence tricritical point at the nematic–smectic-A transition

We examine the effect of pressure on the nematic to smectic-A N–SmA) transition within the Landau phenomenological theory. The influence of pressure on the N–SmA transition is discussed by varying the coupling between the orientational and translational order parameters. The possibility of the tricritical point at the N–SmA transition is discussed in a phenomenological way. The theoretical predictions are found to be in good qualitative agreement with experimental results.     

Subtleties in data analysis related to the size of critical region

We comment on the analysis of the critical behavior of a layered driven diffusive system recently done by Achahbar and Marro. We discuss why we believe their method of taking the thermodynamic limit and determining the order-parameter exponent leads to unreliable estimates.     

预平衡裂变

实验证明,重离子熔合裂变与入射道的质量不对称有关,说明对于某些反应体系,熔合形成的复合体系,裂变时未忘记其形成的历史.在实验观察的基础上,我们提出了预平衡裂变模型,解释了重离子垒下熔合裂变碎片角分布各向异性异常.     

甲烷-空气最小点火能量预测理论模型

 最小点火能是可燃气体危险性辨识的重要参数之一。为从理论上得到混合气体的最小点火能,建立了可燃气体火花点火的物理模型,给出了通过数值模拟得到的可燃气体最小点火能量的预测方法,采用该方法得到了甲烷-空气混合气火花点火的临界温度及最小点火能量。结果表明：甲烷-空气混合气的最小点火能量与浓度呈U型关系,浓度为8.5%的预混气的最小点火能量计算值为0.39 mJ,与实验值0.4 mJ吻合较好。     

自对耦无序分布随机链Potts模型的临界普适性研究

以蒙特卡罗模拟方法对自对耦分布二维随机链q态Potts模型的短时临界行为进行了数值研究.利用初始非平衡演化阶段存在的普适幂指数和有限体积标度行为，数值模拟了在不同形式随机分布时q＝3和q＝8态Potts模型磁临界指数η和动力学临界指数z.计算结果发现η不依赖于自对偶无序分布的具体形式， 从而以数值方法给出了一个关于淬火掺杂自旋系统的临界普适行为的验证. 关键词： 随机链Potts模型 动力学蒙特卡罗模拟 临界普适性     

Bi-2223/Ag高温超导带临界电流各向异性的实验测量及分析

本文介绍了Bi-2223/Ag高温超导带临界电流各向异性的实验测量方法及原理,指出了在不同磁场方向(与超导带面夹角)下,Bi-2223/Ag带临界电流随直流背景磁场的变化规律以及实验应注意的问题.Bi-2223/Ag带材的各向异性决定了其临界电流对垂直于带材表面的磁场非常敏感,这是该带材在高温超导磁体等强电应用方面的不利因素.