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Analysis of numerical limits in 2-D simulations of a ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic interface using the random field Ising model

Tomasz Błachowicz

Page range: 147-162

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This paper explains the Random Field Ising Model simulations of a two-dimensional ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic interface, influenced by the exchange-bias interaction. Exchange-biased shifts, coercivity fields, the number of unreversed spins as well as the numerical errors are provided. These were tested for different structure dimensions and boundary conditions in order to find limitations of the method. The algorithm developed is simple, very effective, and provides deeper insight into the nature of the exchange-bias phenomenon.

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Multilayer mirror systems to form hard X-ray beams

Anton Akhsakhalyan, Aram Akhsakhlyan, Alexander Kharitonov, Eugenie Kluenkov, Vladimir Murav’ev, Nikolay Salashchenko

Page range: 163-177

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This paper is an overview of the research activities carried out in the past five years at the Institute for Physics of Microstructures RAS and “X-ray” Company towards the manufacture of multilayer mirror systems capable of forming X-ray beams in the subnanometer range of wavelengths. The systems fabrication technology is presented, including techniques for producing supersmooth surfaces of specified shape, methods of graded multilayer structure deposition on such surfaces, and the principles of designing optimal mirror parameters. The characteristics of a quadrelliptical reflector—a novel high light-gathering power four-corner focusing system—are reported.

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Pulsed laser deposition of a PBN:65 morphotropic phase boundary thin film with large electrostriction

Xi Yang, Andrew Beckwith, Mikhail Strikovski

Page range: 178-185

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We deposited epitaxial thin films of Morphotropic Phase Boundary (MPB) Pb0.65Ba0.35Nb2O6 (PBN:65) on MgO substrates using pulsed laser deposition. Afterwards, a novel transmission optical experiment was developed to measure the electric field-induced bending angle of the thin film sample using a divergent incident light. From which the electric field-induced strain was obtained, and it was used to calculate the electrostrictive constant of the PBN thin film. The result is 0.000875 μm2/V2, and it is consistent with what we measured in the reflection experiment

Open Access June 1, 2005

Theoretical calculations of the temperature dependence of the electrical and thermal conductivities of liquid gallium

M. El-Daher, Richard Murphy

Page range: 186-189

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The electrical and thermal resistivities of liquid gallium are calculated over a range of temperatures above the melting point using the solutions of the Boltzmann equation. The experimental x-ray structure factor of Waseda and the form factor derived using the Heine-Abarenkov model potential are used in these calculations. The ratio of the electrical and thermal conductivities is calculated and compared to experimental values and to the theoretical Lorenz number.

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Some examples of negative feedback in the Earth climate system

Olavi Kärner

Page range: 190-208

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Temporal variability of daily time series for total solar irradiance at the top of the atmosphere, the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) based global, hemispherical and zonal average temperature for the lower troposphere and stratosphere together with 5 surface air temperature data, measured at various meteorological stations have been studied by means of the structure function. From the growth rate of the structure function in the time interval between 32 and 4096 days it follows that the variability of the series represents an anti-persistent (AP) behavior. This property in turn shows a domination of negative feedback in the physical system generating the lower tropospheric temperature variability. Distribution of the increments over various ranges and correlations between them are calculated in order to determine the quantitative characteristics describing temporal variability.

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Classical simulations of magnetic structures for chromium clusters: Size effects

Ana Proykova, Dietrich Stauffer

Page range: 209-220

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Classical (Heisenberg) simulations show that the total magnetization of the lowest-energy states of clusters made of antiferromagnetically coupled chromium atoms is planar, rather than collinear, depending on the arrangement of the atoms. Although the model Hamiltonian is not restrictive, many cluster configurations of various numbers of atoms do not use all three directions for the spins. This result confirms the conclusion drawn from the local-spin DFT calculation by Kohl and Bertsch that clusters of N≤13 have non-collinear magnetic moments. The present simulations show non-collinear spin ordering also for bigger clusters, designed to be as spherical as possible following the bcc arrangement, when atoms interact both with the nearest and next-nearest neighbours. Depending on the signs of the coupling constants frustration appears. The advantage of the discrete model, despite the simplicity, is that very large clusters and magnetization at finite temperatures can be studied. This model predicts that clusters with specific numbers of atoms interacting only with the nearest neighbours have collinear spins as in the bulk. We also apply the model to simulate the destruction of the anti-ferromagnetic ordering by thermal fluctuations. This model shows no unique magnetization of mixed Fe 0.33 Cr 0.67, which is consistent with experimental observations.

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f-symbols in Robertson-Walker space-time

Florian Popa, Ovidiu Tintareanu-Mircea

Page range: 221-228

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In a Robertson-Walker space-time, a spinning particle model is investigated. It is shown that in a stationary case a class of new structures called f-symbols exists ¢ Central European Science Journals. All rights reserved.

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Transverse magnetic scattering of two incident plane waves by a dielectric coated cylindrical reflector

Muhammad Mushref

Page range: 229-246

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Scattering characteristics of two plane waves are investigated for a circular cylinder covered by a dielectric substance. Fields are assumed to be transverse magnetic (TM) and represented in an exponential series form. The diffracted radiations are found by applying the boundary conditions to the wave functions. The wave transformation method and the orthogonality of the exponential functions are respectively employed to obtain an infinite series in the solution. Numerical results are evaluated by reducing the infinite series to a finite number of terms and comparing estimates with the single plane wave scattering situation.

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On the size dependence of surface tension in the temperature range from melting point to critical point

Nickolay Sdobnyakov, Vladimir Samsonov

Page range: 247-257

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The problem of size dependence of surface tension was investigated in view of a more general problem of the applicability of Gibbs’ thermodynamics to nanosized objects. For the first time, the effective surface tension (coinciding with the specific excess free energy for an equimolecular dividing surface) was calculated within a wide temperature range, from the melting temperature to the critical point, using the thermodynamic perturbation theory. Calculations were carried out for Lennard-Jones and metallic nanosized droplets. It was found that the effective surface tension decreases both, with temperature and particle size.

Open Access June 1, 2005

Super-energy and Killing-Yano tensors

Ovidiu Tintareanu-Mircea, Florian Popa

Page range: 258-269

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In this paper we investigate a class of basic super-energy tensors, namely those constructed from Killing-Yano tensors, and give a generalization of super-energy tensors for cases when we start not with a single tensor, but with a pair of tensors.

Open Access June 1, 2005

An explanation of optical phenomena in non-crystalline semiconductors

Ivan Banik

Page range: 270-302

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Barrier model of a non-crystalline semiconductor is described in this article. The most important optical phenomena, which are typical for this group of materials, are explained on the base of this model. The model assumes that in non-crystalline semiconductors the potential barriers exist, which separate certain microscopic areas from each other, assuming barriers possess a parabolic profile. This conception explains the rise of exponential tails of optical absorption at the end of optical edge as well as electroabsorption, photoelectric conductivity, photoluminescence, and others. Using this model, many electric transport properties of non-crystalline semiconductors can be explained successfully.

Open Access June 1, 2005

Solutions of the Schrödinger equation for Dirac delta decorated linear potential

Haydar Uncu, Hakan Erkol, Ersan Demiralp, Haluk Beker

Page range: 303-323

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We have studied bound states of the Schrödinger equation for a linear potential together with any finite number (P) of Dirac delta functions. Forx where 0f; 0x 1x 2x P , theσ i are arbitrary real numbers, and the potential is infinite forx

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