Counterflow-Driven Textural Phase Transitions in Superfluid 3He-A1

We have studied second sound propagation through superftuid ³ He-A ₁ filling a rectangular resonator equipped with 3 pairs of transducers. The -texture was manipulated using one transducer to drive an oscillatory counterflow while measuring the resonant response of an orthogonal transducer pair. We observed abrupt signal changes and hysteresis effects depending on drive frequencies and amplitudes. We analyzed our experiments by examining planar -textures strongly coupled to the linear second sound wave equation. Evidence of first-order phase transitions was obtained numerically. The results are qualitatively consistent with the experimental findings. Our physical intuition did not anticipate these striking discontinuous phenomena.     

μ+SR Study on Bi2Sr2Ca1−x Y x (Cu1−y Zn y )2O8+δ around the Hole Concentration of \frac{1} {8} per Cu

In order to study the effect in different high-T _c oxides from the La-system, muon spin relaxation measurements were applied to the Zn-substituted Bi-2212 system, Bi ₂ Sr ₂ Ca _1–x Y _x (Cu _1–y Zn _y ) ₂ O ₈₊ , around the hole concentration p= per Cu. It has been revealed that the magnetic correlation between Cu spins is anomalously enhanced in the Zn-substituted samples at per Cu, proving the existence of the effect" in the Bi-2212 system as well.     

Experimental Observation of 2 – Anion and its para → ortho Conversion in Solid para hydrogen Using High–Resolution ESR Spectroscopy

We present experimental observations and study of in solid parahydrogen. Since the parahydrogen molecule does not produce local magnetic fields, high–resolution ESR spectra of trapped radicals can be observed in the solid parahydrogen matrices. Using this high–resolution ESR spectroscopy, new quartet ESR signals were observed in –rays irradiated solid parahydrogen and assigned as In addition, para– was observed to convert into ortho– on the storage at 4.2 K. On the other hand, ortho–H ₂ molecule converts into para– at cryogenic temperatures. The difference in the conversion between the H ₂ molecule and the anion is explained by the parity conservation law of wavefunctions on exchanging the protons in homonuclear diatomic molecules such as the anion and H ₂ molecule.     

Spin Degree of Freedom and Tunneling through a Quantum Dot

A review is given on theoretical studies of roles of the spindegree of freedom in transport through a quantum dot with thetotal spin S for N electrons and for N+1electrons in the ground state. The conductance and the phasecoherency are expressed in terms of universal functions ofS, , and the spin splitting at small tunnelingrates in the absence of spin-orbit interactions and are shownto exhibit the correlation between tunnelings of electronswith opposite spins and the dephasing due to spin flips.     

4He Confined in 0.0483 μm Planar Geometry, Specific Heat and Scaling Near Tλ

The phonon diffusiveness coefficient D related to scattering of phonons by point mass defects embedded in cubic crystalline media can be written as product of diffusiveness coefficient for a corresponding reference isotropic medium D _is , and the dimensionless coefficient which depends on two dimensionless elastic parameters s ₂ , s ₃. This coefficient is studied in the triangle–shaped region of plane (s ₂ ,s ₃ ) in which cubic elastic crystalline media are mechanically stable. As a function of s ₂ and s ₃ the coefficient is nonmonotoneous and behaves singularly on the line s ₂ = s ₃. The underlying physical mechanism is considered.     

Fermi surface and extended van Hove singularity in the non-cuprate layered perovskite superconductor Sr2RuO4

With high-resolution (22 meV) angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, the Fermi surface of the first copper free layered-perovskite superconductor, Sr₂RuO₄, was determined. We observed three bands to cross the Fermi energy in qualitative agreement with LDA band structure calculations; one electron-like surface encircling the point in the projected Brillouin zone, and two hole-like surfaces around the point. The most striking aspect of the measurements is the observation of an extended van Hove singularity. It is located 17 meV below the Fermi energy and extends around the point for about 0.2 Å^–1 along both the — — and the — — directions.These observations demonstrate that van Hove singularities near the Fermi surface are a more generic feature of layered oxides, and call for a clarification of their exact role in oxide superconductivity.We are grateful to D. Singh for making available his band structure calculations. D. H. Lu thanks the VW Foundation for financial support.     

Anomalous Depression of the Debye-Waller Factor and Observations of the Laue Spots Only at Forward X-ray Diffraction in the Light Atom Crystals as Quantum Solid

The ratio of 6·(1/2m)·(E ₀/c)² of 12.9 meV at E ₀=4 keV to k _{B D} of 2.27 meV for hcp-⁴He in the exponent 2M=[6·(1/2m)·(E ₀/c)²/k _{B D} ]·(t)sin² _B of the Debye-Waller factor D=exp(–2M) becomes 5.7, because of the small atomic mass m and the low Debye temperature _D . Conversely that of the heavy atom crystals becomes smaller than 1. An experiment on hcp-⁴He as an example of a light atom crystal at low temperature limit of (t)1 reveals that not only the maximum value of D is significantly reduced below 0.249 (=e ^–1.395) but also the values of D for all other Laue spots except the following observed six spots are crowded into a range of D<0.05. Therefore, only the six Laue spots of at 11.2 keV, (0002) at 20.3 keV, and at 14.4 keV and and at 23.9 keV in a low angular range of _B10.22° were observed over low values of e ^–1.395>De ^–3. At high angle of _B 45°, the values of E ₀ for the above six Laue spots are assigned to the region below 4.07 keV from the Bragg condition under constant values of D. Therefore, detection of them over the higher angular range of _B 45° is not impossible but quite difficult at low temperature X-ray diffraction, considering X-ray absorption by multi-thermal shields of the refrigerator, the thick sample holder as a pressure vessel and massive air in space. Generally this means that the large reduction of the Debye-Waller factor of hydrogen and helium drastically encloses the diffraction intensity and the number of observable Laue spots within lower bounds. This is the reason why definite Laue spots in the light atom crystals of hcp-⁴He could be observed only by forward X-ray diffraction. Conversely the recoil fraction of the diffuse scattering expressed by 1–D concomitantly increases as a major part of the total scattering. A proposal to measure thermal diffuse scattering as well as pressure experiments will provide insight into the wave-like character of constituent atom in solid helium.     

The Orientational Ordering of Molecular Hydrogen in 2D

The orientational ordering of ortho-hydrogen molecules on a triangular lattice is calculated as a function of ortho concentration using the method of restricted traces. The calculated temperatures for the transitions from the disordered phase to the long range pinwheel ordered phase show a strong concentration dependence with a critical concentration X _c=73% below which the long range ordering is not realized in this model. The results are consistent with recent NMR studies of ortho-para hydrogen mixtures adsorbed as a commensurate × structure on hexagonal boron nitride for which X _c=69±4%. The values of the observed transition temperatures can only be understood if there is a large renormalization of the effective quadrupolar interaction constant in 2D.     

Static recrystallization kinetics of 304 stainless steels

Static restoration mechanism during hot interrupted deformation of 304 stainless steel was studied in the temperature range from 900 to 1100°C, various strain rate from 0.05 to 5/sec and pass strain of 0.25–3 times peak strain. It was clarified that the static recrystallization was happened after 3–10 seconds at first deformation. The static restoration was depended on the pass strain, deformation temperature and strain rate and fractional softening (FS) values increased with increasing strain rate, deformation temperature and pass strain. Recystallization kinetics was explained with Avrami equation and Avrami constant was 1.113. This value was independent of deformation variables significantly. The time of 5, 50, 95% recrystallization was evaluated using such equations: t _0.05 = 2.9 × 10^{–12 –1.17 –0.94} D exp(222000 J/mol/RT), t _0.5 = 2.0 × 10^{–10 –1.56 –0.81} D exp(197000 J/mol/RT), t _0.95 = 1.9 × 10^{–8–1.63 –0.76} D exp(173000J/mol/RT). The predicted values by use of upper equations had a good agreement with a measurement.     

A Monte Carlo Study of Disorder in the High Pressure Mixed Crystal N2-Ar

In order to obtain a better notion of the experimental results in our laboratory, Monte Carlo calculations have been performed of the N ₂-Ar crystal on the N ₂-rich side, in the p-T region where the and phases exist in pure N ₂. Considering the enthalpy, the system prefers the Ar atoms to be located on the sphere positions. The * phase is present for mixtures down to but is most likely metastable. The *-* transition shifts to lower temperatures with decreasing . The 2 ^nd order transition within the phase continues to exist to even smaller . In contrast to the * -* transition, the transition temperature for the 2 ^nd order transition does not shift to lower temperatures. For a mixture of it is within 5 K from the pure 2 ^nd order transition at a pressure of 7.0 GPa.     

Ultra-Low Temperature Thermometry Using Zeeman Perturbed NQR

We report the results of measurements of the magnetic field perturbed nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) lines of powdered Sb immersed in liquid ³He at low temperatures. The magnetic field was used to separate the frequencies of the allowed transitions between the and levels that correspond to the zero field NQR absorption at 11.5289 MHz for¹²¹ Sb. The spectrum for the powder sample consists of two sharp lines with known separation. The ratios of the intensities of these two lines depends only on the difference in thermal population of the nuclear spin levels and can be used for thermometry at very low temperatures. Pulsed NQR measurements of this intensity ratio from 0.25 to 1.45 mK were in good agreement with the expected Boltzmann distributions. Temperature resolutions of 20% could be achieved for signal integration times of 1 hour.     

Hole Density in Charge Stripes and Effect of Next-Nearest-Neighbor Transfer

By applying a variational Monte Carlo method to the two-dimensional t-J model, a couple of properties of striped states are studied. In the charge domain walls vertical (or horizontal) to the lattice (VDW), the hole density is favorable in energy similarly for 0.5 , whereas in the diagonal domain walls (DDW) the stable hole density is limited to = 1. Negative next-nearest-neighbor transfer (t/t < 0) further stabilizes VDW with = 0.5 and DDW with = 1 against the -wave superconducting state.     

Field Dependence of the Superfluid 3He A 1 and A 2 Transitions

We present new results on the magnetic field dependence of the superfluid transition temperatures of the A ₁ and A ₂ phases of ³He. The transition temperature has been measured up to 15 T, the up to 12 T, at the melting pressure. The temperature was measured by an in situ field independent glass thermometer. The results are in agreement with extrapolations from earlier experiments, and with calculations of the splitting versus magnetic field. We were also able to obtain an estimate of the quadratic terms of the splitting, and of each of the transition temperatures. The measured quadratic terms are smaller than calculated, the negative coefficient for the quadratic term being quite unexpected.     

Relaxation Jumps and Hot Luminescence of Excitons in Rare Gas Crystals

A nonperturbative theory of anharmonic multiphonon decay of strong local vibrations in crystals is presented. The theory predicts a slow–down of the decay at large amplitudes, and its jump–like acceleration near the critical amplitudes of 0.3 Å. Local vibration with such or larger amplitude is created e.g. on exciting quasi–molecules (localised excitons) in solid Xe. The time evolution of this vibration manifests itself in the hot luminescence of Xe crystal. A comparison between the calculated and the observed spectra allows one to conclude that the relaxation rate of in solid Xe has indeed a strong maximum at the amplitude of 0.3 Å.     

Phonon Thermal Conductivity of Stripe Ordering La2–x Sr x NiO4

We have studied the thermal conductivity of stripe ordering La _2–x Sr _x NiO ₄. In particular, long range stripe order is well established for x = 1/3. For this composition is enhanced in the charge ordering phase and exhibits a clear maximum at low T. Even small deviations from this stochiometry cause a strong change of : the low T-maximum is suppressed and no anomaly is observed at high T. Our data confirm that the stripe phase is most stable for x = . Moreover, we find clear differences in the thermal conductivity for x > and for x < , respectively, which indicates different properties of the stripe ordered phase in these two regions of the phase diagram.     

Hot Photo–Carriers, Excitons, Desorption, and Surface Diffusion in Rare Gas Solids

The dynamics of valence excitations of rare gas solids were studied with time–and spectrally resolved luminescence experiments. From the decay curves of the free–exciton luminescence in solid X _e , information concerning exciton transport and electron–hole recombination was deduced. The peculiar role of excitons stimulating the luminescence of surface centers and of desorption phenomena was analysed in a simple model system (Kr doped solid Ar). From a time–resolved analysis of the luminescence of surface centers, thermally activated lateral diffusion of Kr* metastables on the surface of the Ar host was established.     

Tunneling with very long relaxation times in glasses,organic materials,and Nb-Ti-H (D)

The long-time (t=10–200 h) heat release from glasses, from organic materials, and from Nb-Ti-H (D) was measured at 30T70 mK. For Suprasil W glass, Dimethyl-Siloxan, Stycast 1266, Stycast 2850 FT, Vespel, and for Nb-Ti-H (D) with various Ti and D concentrations, we found . Typical values are = 0.05 nW/g for the organic materials and for Nb-Ti-H (D) and = 0.005 nW/g for the glass att=100 h after cooldown from room temperature. For charging temperaturesT _i <5 K, we find the predicted dependence (investigated for Suprasil W glass and for Nb-Ti-D). The observed time and temperature dependences agree with predictions of the conventional two-level tunneling model for amorphous materials even at these very long times. No heat release was observed for Teflon, graphite, and Al₂O₃.     

Thermal diffusion ratio of a3He/4He mixture near its λ transition: The onset of heat flush

We present experimental data on the thermal diffusion ratioK _T for a 15 molar % mixture near its transition obtained from measurements of the convection velocity of a mixture contained in a vertical column. The physical nature of the normal modes of heat and mass transfer near the transition is discussed. One possibility that arises from this discussion is that the temperature dependence ofk _T may be such that , where is the value ofk _T at the transition andD is the mass diffusion coefficient. There is limited support for this conjecture by the data over a restricted temperature range.     

In–Plane and Out–of–Plane Optical Properties of NdBa2Cu3Ox Single Crystals Close to x = 7.0

We present results of reflectivity measurements with EcandE c on NdBa ₂ Cu ₃ O _x (Nd123) single crystals close to full oxygen doping. Along the c–axis the optical conductivity shows a well developed absorption band around 450 cm ^–1 at all temperatures. The in–plane optical properties are dominated by crystal–field excitations at low energies, a prominent step at 400 cm ^–1 and a weaker feature between 500 - 550 cm ^–1. A comparison of and the in–plane scattering rate _ab () with neutron scattering derived spin susceptibility spectra suggests that the in–plane and out–of–plane anomalies are caused by the same mechanism, probably electron–spin scattering.     

Metadynamic recrystallization of austenitic stainless steel

Interrupted torsion tests were performed in the temperature range of 900–1100°C, strain rate range of 5.0 × 10^–2–5.0 × 10⁰/sec and interpass time range of 0.5–100 seconds to study the characteristics of metadynamic recrystallization (MDRX) for austenitic stainless steel. To compare the MDRX with static recrystallization (SRX), the pass strain was applied above the critical strain (_c) (_c = 2.2 × 10^–3 D^1/2 ₀ Z ^0.089, where Z is Zener-Hollomon parameter, Z = exp((380000 J/mol)/RT) and D ₀ is as-received grain size) to obtain the MDRX during interpass time. It was found that the kinetics of MDRX were dependent of the strain rate and deformation temperature but were nearly independent of the change in pass strain after the peak strain. The time for 50% metadynamic softening, t ₅₀, was determined as follows: t ₅₀ = 1.33 × 10^{–11 –0.41} D ₀ exp((230000 J/mol)/RT) and this calculated value was consistent with the measured value. The Zener-Hollomon parameter was impossible to evaluate the MDRX fraction, because the fractional softening values were different at the same Z values. The new parameter (MDRX parameter) considering deformation temperature, strain rate and interpass time was proposed to evaluate the MDRX fraction. The MDRX-parameter was determined as 3.25 × 10^{–19 0.3} t _i ^0.6 T ¹².